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Presidents Day activities

Happy Tuesday! I hope y'all are having a great week. I wanted to share several FREE Presidents Day activities + anchor chart goodies with you all...as well as some other favorites! Hopefully these are all helpful to you and make your planning time easier. PRESIDENTS DAY ACTIVITIES First up, are these write-tivities! What I love about these is that they hit those writing standards + double as a cute bulletin board display! They could be completed … [Read more...]

Groundhog Day activities and read alouds

Happy Tuesday, y'all! Today, I'm sharing several Groundhog Day activities and read alouds. Also, some freebies!  I hope that these help make your planning a little easier. Groundhog Day activities and read alouds First up are these prediction hats.  These could be a follow up to a read aloud or to a graphing activity. Students could create the hat that matches their prediction on whether or not they think the groundhog will see his shadow. … [Read more...]

100th Day Activities (Weekly Recap!)

Hey, hey! I hope you've had a wonderful week. Today, I am sharing a weekly recap of the activities, books, ideas, etc. that I've shared on Instagram this week.  I'll do a little recap every week and send it out on Friday mornings.  Do you remember Five for Fridays? Y'all, I LOVED reading those! These recaps will be very similar. If you're a subscriber then you'll get this delivered straight to your inbox on Friday mornings. There will be links … [Read more...]

The Snowy Day activities

post contains Amazon affiliate link I love . I used it every year in first grade to teach cause and effect.  I've got a fun follow up activity that I want to share with y'all... THE SNOWY DAY ACTIVITIES If you do not have the book, you can find the read aloud online here or on Amazon Prime Video. I always liked having my students listen to the story twice. The first time, we just listened to the story all the way through. The second … [Read more...]

Cyber Monday Sale

Cyber Monday is here and I am so excited!  I skipped out on the Black Friday shopping just so I could stay in my jammies and shop online instead.  There are so many great sales, but one that I am anxiously awaiting is the Teachers Pay Teachers sale.  I will definitely grab some items that I've had on my wish list.  I hope that you can snag a few on yours too! Below are links to some of my favorite resources in my store that I think you will enjoy … [Read more...]

Short vowel o phonics activities and games

I am back with another Phonics Friends blog post. Today, it's all about short o! These short vowel o activities and games bring engagement through interactive, hands on, and fun ways to practice the short o sound! I hope that you will find this helpful when you sit down to plan out your short o learning! Alright, let's get started! Side note: If you aren't familiar with Phonics Friends, you can read more about them and what they are … [Read more...]

Short vowel a phonics activities and games

I have several different short a phonics activities and games to share with you. These short vowel a activities and games engage your students through interactive, hands on, and fun ways to practice the short a sound! I hope that you will find this helpful when you sit down to plan out your short a learning! Alright, let's start planning! Over the past several years I incorporated Phonics Friends into my phonics instruction.  Phonics … [Read more...]

Earth Day Free Activity

Needing an Earth Day FREE activity? EARTH DAY FREE ACTIVITY  This Earth Day free activity hat is a great independent activity for students.  Students simply sort items by reduce, reuse, and recycle and glue the items under the correct column.  You can download the hat here. You may also like these Earth Day writing prompts. These prompts are available in 3 different lined versions making it easy to differentiate for your students … [Read more...]

Sticking With Kindness :: FREEBIE

Guess what?! It's [almost] Friday + I have a F R E E B I E for you all! Who's excited?! This craftivity is great for this month! It is a great follow up activity when talking to your class about kindness and what that looks like within and outside of the classroom room. Students will write about why they choose to "stick with kindness" and then create their band-aid using these templates. They make such a great bulletin board display. … [Read more...]

Elf FREEBIE

It's that time of year - THE best time of the year!  I love celebrating Christmas and the holidays in the classroom annnnd I like to find just about any way possible to incorporate it into content areas.  Today, I am sharing a fun directed drawing freebie with you all. You can find the step by step directions to draw the elf here. You can use this elf freebie after your classroom elf makes his/her grand appearance, as an extension activity … [Read more...]

Johnny Appleseed FREEBIE

But for real though....give me A L L things apple and I am one happy teacher!  I love this time of year, especially in the classroom!  Apples, scarecrows, pumpkins, bats, and then turkeys, and all things holiday and winter! So much fun! I wanted to share this super-duper easy to make Johnny Appleseed activity with you all. All you need are sentence strips and these templates to create it. Each student will need 2 sentence strips.  Staple the … [Read more...]

Growth Mindset activities

Whoohooo!! It's finally here! Launch day for my new site! I am so excited about the new look - it was long overdue.  I've been working with Becca, from Jumping Jax Designs, and I just canNOT say enough amazing things about her.  If you're looking for a blog/site makeover, I highly suggest using her.  She's the real deal. Ok, so let me just tell ya'... I was a nervous wreck about switching from Blogger to Wordpress.  Like way nervous.  I … [Read more...]

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