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Whooo’s Your Sweetheart?

Looking for an idea for a classroom bulletin board? Trying to be festive and fun for your classroom and kiddos for Valentine’s Day?          Our bulletin board is made from tissue paper and cut out hearts. We wrote the names of the students on each heart. It’s

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Thanksgiving Hundreds Charts Mystery Pictures

Learning numbers to 120 is essential in 1st and 2nd grade. These Mystery Hundred Charts sheets are a fun way to practice number order in an effort to memorize and recall number order quickly and easily. They are also a great NO PREP option for teachers! Please use this image

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2nd Grade Common Core Math Assessments

As teachers ourselves, we have made it our mission to help other teachers find exactly what they need when they need it. Having great assessments at your fingertips is a must. As teachers, you want to spend your time teaching not hours and hours on the web looking for exactly

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First Grade Common Core ELA Assessments

As teachers, we need easy go-to assessments!! Trying to find the right assessment for a specific standard can sometimes take hours to find. I know being a First Grade Teacher myself the mundane task of finding just the right one that you can use year after year for the standard

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2nd Grade Common Core ELA Assessments

I have taught 2nd grade for 20 years and I know that having great assessments at your fingertips is a must. As teachers, you want to spend your time teaching not hours and hours on the web looking for exactly the right assessment or review practice for your students. Our

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Exciting Winter & New Year’s Activities for K-2

Are You Yeti For This? These Yeti’s always make the cutest bulletin board display, plus they just make our classroom happy! The mouth and eyes template for these are in our free resource library you can find HERE!  The white paint is put on with the back of a plastic

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New Years Day Activities and Celebration for K-2

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!! Happy New YEAR everyone!!!! Need some fun and meaningful New Years Day activities? We’ve got you covered! There are so many fun activities to do with your class for the new year and we are sharing our favorites with you below! New Year’s Activity Packet & Ball

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Polar Express Freebie Fun

Each year our classes enjoy a cup of hot cocoa with marshmallows- they wear their pj’s and we watch the movie Polar Express- We give each student the day before a golden ticket which is their movie pass. Ms. Kristy makes it a prize for one of their A.R. goals to earn a highly

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Characters and Setting- Engaging Lesson Ideas

I love teaching story elements like characters and settings in first grade. Why are story elements so key at this age? Well, I have come to realize over the years that if I want to make good writers, learning story elements along the way helps them bloom into wonderful authors.

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Leaf Graphing- Great Hands-on Fun!!

Trying to come up with hands-on activities for graphing can be challenging- so we wanted to create something that would be easy, fun, and engaging for our students and yours. Our kiddos loved this activity and yours will too. Leaf graphing is fun and engaging for all ages.   Leaf

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