End of the Year Math Games for First Grade
The end of the year can make any classroom feel like a zoo. As a primary teacher, I’ve learned to embrace this busy season and try my best to go with the flow. This helps ensure I can keep my…
The end of the year can make any classroom feel like a zoo. As a primary teacher, I’ve learned to embrace this busy season and try my best to go with the flow. This helps ensure I can keep my…
One of the best ways to keep students engaged in learning all year long is with fun, seasonal activities. If things have been feeling a little dreary in your classroom lately, try adding a bit of winter sparkle! This is…
Kindergarten is a jam-packed year of learning! If you teach this rambunctious and enthusiastic grade level, you know there are SO many foundational skills covered throughout the year. One of which is beginning number sense and counting. Before you dive…
I love teaching my students all about data and graphing. This is such a fun lesson in kindergarten, first, or even second-grade classrooms! I like to approach this topic from a variety of angles with lots of different activities. If…
If you’re a teacher in the primary grades, I’m betting you spend a fair bit of your time teaching spelling and phonics. I know this is certainly true for my own classroom, as we devote daily time to focusing on…
Do your 1st graders struggle with proper sentence structure? This was definitely true for my kiddos! Over the years I’ve learned that first-grade students need LOTS of practice correcting sentence structure, spelling, and punctuation. To help ensure they get the…
Do you struggle to find spelling activities that are engaging for your first-grade students? This was a huge problem for me! It seemed like there was no way to get the repetitive practice of all the spelling concepts we cover…
Teaching rhymes in kindergarten is a lot of fun! If you work with littles, you probably already know that this is a big part of our curriculum. As a key component in early reading skills, we focus on rhyming all…
Depending on where you are from and when you started school, January usually marks a big milestone, the 100th Day of School! 100 days of learning, growing and thriving (and let’s be honest, just surviving some days!) It is a…
Have you heard all the teacher chat surrounding Boom Cards? If that sounds completely new to you then this post will teach you all about these interactive, digital task cards that teachers are quickly becoming OBSESSED with. If you are…