A list of 18 virtual field trip ideas for kindergarten and first-grade students. This collection of ideas consists of videos and interactive virtual tours. Virtual Field Trip Ideas Here are a few ideas for you to send home to students or show your own kiddos at home! Have fun with these virtual field trip ideas for early learners. #1 San Diego Zoo Check out live videos of animals. There are games, coloring sheets, and craft ideas, too! #2 Polar Bear ... continue reading...
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Lunar New Year
If teachers ask students to name a favorite holiday, responses often include Christmas, Halloween, and the Fourth of July. Indeed, holiday celebrations are a significant focus in the United States. However, students often do not realize how countries worldwide celebrate holidays. As the Lunar New Year approaches, it is the perfect time to show students how a well-known country rings in their new year. The Lunar New Year Packet will be an excellent way to ensure students have everything they need ... continue reading...
Butterfly Lesson Plans | Digital & Printable Reading Response for K-2
Butterfly lesson plans. Students respond to literature using the story, The Very Impatient Caterpillar and also learn about the butterfly life cycle and migration using nonfiction text. Engaging Butterfly Lesson Plans Learning about butterflies is always a fun Spring lesson, or really at any time of the year! Students can easily get excited about these fun insects because they see them in everyday life. There are so many great pieces of children's literature that represent ... continue reading...
Digital Phonological Awareness Slides for Literacy Instruction
Digital phonological awareness slides to use in your PreK, K, or 1st grade classroom or through a video conferencing platform for distance learning. Digital Phonological Awareness Phonological Awareness is the foundation for reading and writing success. Students who have phonological awareness know that language is made up of words, rhymes, syllables, and sounds. Within this resource, students identify rhyming words, onset and rime, syllables, and phonemes. You can use these digital slides ... continue reading...
Digital Learning Reading Lessons for K-2 | Giraffe Problems
Digital learning reading lesson plans that work great for distance learning. This unit features the story, Giraffe Problems by Jory John. Reading response and nonfiction activities, too! Digital Learning Reading Lesson Plans Giraffe Problems by Jory John is a story about a giraffe who doesn't like his long neck. He meets a turtle who is having neck problems, too! The two become friends and learn to appreciate what they have. Students will love this story and will have fun responding to ... continue reading...
5 Math Games You Can Make From the Dollar Store
This week I had 13 of my sweet friends staying at my house for the Teachers Pay Teachers conference, and we had a blast!! Some of my friends went home on Friday morning so the rest of us decided to hit the Dollar Tree to see what we could find!! We decided to do our very first Facebook live video and share what we found. Many of you asked us to do a follow-up blog post so you could grab the pictures of our ideas, so we decided to do a blog hop. Be sure and visit all five blogs to see all 15 ... continue reading...
Calendar Time: Building Math and Literacy Skills!
Building math and literacy skills takes time and LOTS of practice. So I like to build in practice during our calendar time. We know when we start the year, our students come in with a variety of skills and prior experience. Some students start kindergarten with a year of "school" already under their belt ready to hit the ground running. While others start the year a bit overwhelmed. I love seeing all of my students progress, but it is especially exciting to see my little newbies take ... continue reading...
Phoneme Segmentation! Make and Take Freebie and Book Talk Tuesday
Segmenting words is an important skill that we work on throughout the year. Kids need a variety of hands on ways to work on this skill in order to make it more concrete. We use a variety of manipulatives to work on phoneme segmentation. Building words with unifix cubes as we say each sound, stretching the words with a slinky, sliding a pony bead for each sound and using our stretchy the word stretcher (as seen above). To make the word stretchers you need the template (below) ... continue reading...
Five Little Monkeys
Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed Math & Literacy Fun! I just uploaded my newest unit to TPT and I'm so excited because it comes with a song and video by Jack Hartmann. You can click on the image above to view the unit on TPT. Here's What's Included: *Five Little Monkeys Song AND Video by Jack Hartmann *Five Little Monkeys Big Book *Five Little Monkeys Interactive Pocket Chart Set *Monkey Story pieces to act out the story *Story response sheets *Five Little ... continue reading...
Ideas for a Kindergarten Earth Day Lesson Plan
We know how much kindergarteners love holidays! We can almost feel the excitement in the room as the calendar inches closer to holidays like Halloween or Christmas. However, there are other holidays that our young kindergarten students likely haven’t heard of before. Earth Day is one of these important holidays! I’ve put together a list of ideas for a kindergarten Earth Day lesson plan to help you introduce this holiday to your class. What is Earth Day? Earth Day is celebrated every ... continue reading...
Catch That Cookie Lesson Ideas
Second Grade Reading Lessons for Catch That Cookie! This fun gingerbread version of the book provides an excellent and engaging close read and writing response activity for your 2nd-grade classroom. Fun craft too! Catch That Cookie by Hallie Durand is a great book about a boy who doesn't believe that gingerbread men can run away. Check out this fun book and second grade reading lessons found in Engaging Readers 2nd Grade. Second Grade Reading Lessons: Catch that Cookie Day 1 Start your ... continue reading...
Nerdy Birdy Tweets Close Reading
Second Grade Close Reading for Nerdy Birdy Tweets by Aaron Reynolds. Reading comprehension ideas with student response activities. Grammar, vocabulary, and a cute craft too! Nerdy Birdy Tweets by Aaron Reynolds is a new favorite of mine! Nerdy Birdy discovers the world of Tweetster and quickly learn a good lesson about friendship. Take a look at the five-day lesson plan for 2nd grade in our Engaging Readers Unit for January. Second Grade Close Reading Lessons: Nerdy Birdy Tweets Problem ... continue reading...
Crazy Hair Day Reading Lesson Ideas
Crazy Hair Day Reading Lesson Ideas for 2nd grade. Reading comprehension strategies and responding to literature with these fun activities. Crazy Hair Day Reading Lesson Ideas Your second grade students will love the book, Crazy Hair Day by Barney Saltzberg. We've planned out a five-day lesson plan that follows this book. Through fun activities, students will synthesize, analyze characters, summarize, make connections, and more! Have fun teaching with these Crazy Hair Day Reading Lesson ... continue reading...
10 End of the Year Read Alouds
10 end of the year books for kindergarten and first grade. These sweet picture books make great read alouds to help you say goodbye to your students. End of the Year Books The end of the school year is almost here! I always loved reading sweet stories at the end of the year to help us reflect on all that we did throughout the school year. Here is a list of 10 great, end of the year, books! #1 Only One You by Linda Kranz This is a good story to remind students to be unique and help make ... continue reading...