It’s great when a teacher can incorporate holiday-themed activities into lesson plans and have students engaged and interacting. And what better holiday than Thanksgiving and this easy-to-use WATCH & LISTEN resource? With Thanksgiving around the corner, we have found some engaging Thanksgiving-themed readlouds, that teachers can use in their classrooms.
Tis the season for pumpkins, skeletons, bats, spiders, candy, black cats, witches, ghosts, and haunted houses. We have put together a list of some good books for Halloween to listen to all week long!! In an effort to maintain a little bit of sanity…… at least until the class party….
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
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
Teachers strive to make their activities content-rich. So how do we as educators cover content while letting our students have fun learning? There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Turkey is a great book to go along with a lesson to teach in the month of November. We created
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. Reading
Compound words are a staple standard skill of learning in 1st and 2nd grade. In 1st grade, students are learning and beginning to recognize and understand simple compound words, such as airplane and toothbrush. Then in 2nd grade, students progress to more complex compound words by learning that they are
Want to get your students excited with learning vowels and consonants? Here are some surefire exciting activities to incorporate into your everyday lessons.
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