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Compound Words Activities

Hey, hey! Hope you are having a wonderful start to a new week. I recently released a new resource that I want to share with y'all: compound words activities. Before I jump in on sharing everything, I wanted to let you know that there are both printable and digital activities available for compound words. COMPOUND WORDS ACTIVITIES When introducing a new skill, I like to have some sort of anchor chart or poster to use.  Anchor charts/posters … [Read more...]

Summer Writing Activities and Crafts

Whew.  It's been a while.  Between creating digital resources and navigating the remainder of my daughter's school year, I have been super MIA from sending out weekly posts.  I hope that you doing well and finally getting a chance to catch your breath! Ok, let's get started with today's post.  Summer Writing Activities and Crafts! I am so excited about these.  Write-Tivities are one of my favorite resources.  Whether you're teaching poetry, … [Read more...]

FREE Leprechaun Craftivity

I've got another FREEBIE to share with you today.  This one is from my March PreK/K centers that The Stay at Home Teacher and I created.  It's a FREE leprechaun craftivity that can be used with just about any subject or skill! Let's take a look! FREE LEPRECHAUN CRAFTIVITY This is a wreath made out of a paper plate.  These are seriously so simple to create and are too stinkin' cute! If you teach little ones (preschool through kindergarten) … [Read more...]

Pot of Gold Fractions Free Craftivity

Happy Wednesday! I wanted to *reshare* this Pot of Gold Fractions FREE craftivity from several years ago just incase you're working on fractions this time of year.  I shared several fraction activities here that are lots of fun! My students always loved making these.  A fun way to amp up the engagement for this is to color in the fraction pieces yellow to represent gold prior to the activity.  Afterwards, you hide the fraction "gold" around … [Read more...]

Cloud and Weather Activities

Happy Wednesday!  It's been raining cats and dogs here pretty much nonstop.  One day it's humid and the next it's super cold.  Welcome to Texas, ha!  I am so ready for sunny skies and warmer weather. Speaking of weather, I want to show you some cloud and weather activities! Cloud and Weather Activities Weather Journal: students create a weather journal and record the weather for one week by gluing the matching weather and recording the … [Read more...]

Long A Vowel Teams ai ay Phonics Activities and Games

Have you tried Phonics Friends yet? If you aren't familiar with them you can read about them here. GAME CHANGER in my room years ago!  I wanted to share one of my newer ones with y'all: The A Team Cheerleaders! They help teach about the long a (ai ay) sound and spelling skill. Let's take a look. LONG A VOWEL TEAMS AI AY PHONICS ACTIVITIES AND GAMES  Before starting, I want to let y'all know that the weekly and daily lesson plans that are … [Read more...]

Place Value and Number Sense Math Game

Happy Friday! If you follow my on Instagram or Facebook then I am sure you have seen this place value and number sense math game shared a bazillion times on my feed.  It is so much fun and super engaging!  I also shared it 3 years ago on my blog here. I'll link a video at the end of this post! Place Value and Number Sense Math Game We played this game so many times in my classroom over the years. We played it with math, phonics, sight word … [Read more...]

February STEM Activities

Happy Monday! Popping in to share my February STEM activities from last year.  These are set up like my other monthly STEM activities as well as my 100th/120th Day STEM activities.  You can find all of those here! February STEM activities There are 7 stations/STEM activities included.  Each one comes with a "challenge mat" that states the challenge as well as the materials needed.  There are both color and black/white versions available … [Read more...]

February Writing Activities and Crafts

Happy Tuesday!  I hope you all had a great and restful weekend.  I wanted to share some February writing activities and crafts with y'all. The best part: they're currently ON SALE for the TPT Site Wide Sale! February Writing Activities and Crafts Write-Tivities are one of my favorite resources.  Why?  Because whether you're teaching poetry, narrative, descriptive, expository, or any type of writing, there is an option for all! Along with a … [Read more...]

PrePrimer Sight Word Activities

Hello and happy Friday!  I wanted to show you these PrePrimer sight word activities that I have been doing with my youngest.  He is loving them and is doing so well recalling the words we have learned so far. PrePrimer Sight Word Activities Each week we learn a new word.  This of course could be done differently in your classroom; this is just what works for us.  Each day we will do 1 - 2 pages to practice that week's word. For example, … [Read more...]

100th Day Activities

Happy Wednesday!  I hope you are all having a great week; it's almost to Friday!  Whoohoo! I want to share my favorite 100th Day activities with y'all.  If you've got your big day coming up, I hope these are helpful. 100th Day Activities -STEM ACTIVITIES- First up are STEM activities!  These are just that - STEM activities in a station. One thing that I love about these is that they are so simple to prep. All you need is that materials … [Read more...]

Martin Luther King Jr activities

Happy Wednesday! I hope y’all are having a great week. I wanted to share several Martin Luther King Jr activities + free anchor chart and free craft with you all! Hopefully these activities are all helpful to you and make your lesson planning a little easier. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR ACTIVITIES First up, are these MLK write-tivities.  If you've been here for a while, then you know how much I love me some Write-tivities!  What I love about these is … [Read more...]

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