Solve the hunt for a fun and easy Valentine’s Day craft with these adorable robots, tailored for pre-K, kindergarten, and first-grade students. Foster creativity and fine motor skills as kids assemble charming robots, making learning a blast.
Creating a cute, colorful bulletin board has never been easier. These sweet and shapely reindeer are super easy and fun for young learners. Combine them with a cute printable banner and this display will stop traffic in your hall! This set includes the template to print off the reindeer craft and banner. In this set…
Does it feel like there’s never enough time for fine motor practice? Fine Motor Activities can fix that. Engage your kindergarten students with these WINTER-themed, fine motor-focused, fine motor games and activities that explore familiar concepts and offer valuable practice through play for essential skills in both Math and ELA. In this set, 19 activities….
Welcome to Our Snowman Gang craft and banner! Creating a cute, colorful bulletin board has never been easier. These shapely snowmen are super easy and fun for young learners. Combine them with this cute printable banner and this display will cause a traffic jam in the hall with all the sightseers taking in all the…
Welcome To Our Flock! Turkey craft and banner! Creating a cute, colorful bulletin board has never been easier. These quirky, shape-turkeys are super easy and fun for young learners. Combine them with this cute printable banner and this display will cause a traffic jam in the hall with all the sightseers taking in all the…
These Halloween Dough Mats will make a great addition to your morning work bins, fine motor tubs, or as a fun Halloween Holiday Station activity. All you have to do is print off the pages on cardstock, laminate, and cut them apart. Then add them to your classroom. If you would like to extend this…
Get ready for some Monsterously good fun with this adorable monster craft and bulletin board banner! Your students will love making their own unique monster and you’ll love how easy this craft is to prep and complete. Included in this set: Monster heads with mouths Monster heads without mouths Bulletin Board Letters for: Kindergarten Is…
Please enjoy these editable Heart Word Cards. As a teacher who is in the classroom every day, I realized that some of you may find these useful. If you want to see how I map sight words and use these heart word cards in my classroom, please check out my blog post HERE. You can…
When students are engaged in playing games, their memory and their motivation to learn increase. These 11 St. Patrick’s Day games for Math and ELA are a perfect way to keep kindergarten students engaged while practicing essential skills.
This is a fun, engaging whole group game that is sure to please. Teachers will love having the opportunity to select the words students practice and students will love having the chance to ‘play.’ Read words and collect gold, but be careful, there are some special slides that can change the game. You never know what that lucky leprechaun will do.
Need a way for students to INDEPENDENTLY practice mapping high frequency words? This is IT!!! The Science of Reading supports Orthographic Mapping as an essential tool in building fluent readers. This process helps students connect the sounds that they hear in words to the spelling that those sounds make. Mapping out sounds makes words more easily recognizable, and the words become part of a reader’s long-term memory.
When students have the opportunity to practice this mapping process hands-on, their neural connections become stronger, and they can then read and write words more fluently.
This March – St. Patrick’s Day Themed Independent Mapping Words Centers make reading FUN and the self-correcting cards give students immediate feedback!!!
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A fun, engaging and independent way to add Mapping CVC, Blends and Digraph Words to your literacy centers is here! The Science of Reading supports Orthographic Mapping as an essential tool in building fluently readers. This process helps students connect the sounds that they hear in words to the spelling that those sounds make. Mapping out sounds makes words more easily recognizable, and the words become part of a reader’s long-term memory. When students have the opportunity to practice this mapping process, their neural connections become stronger, and they can then read words more fluently.
Mapping Words Self-Correcting Center Can Make It FUN and the Self-Correcting Cards give students immediate feedback!!!
With nearly 20 years of experience as a full-time kindergarten teacher, I’m committed to creating a classroom where learning is joyful, engaging, challenging, and fun. Each day, I work to ensure that my students feel successful through instruction that considers their unique interests, learning profiles, and readiness levels. I believe that students should be excited to come to class and enjoy a myriad of hands-on activities that encourage exploration and discovery.
While I continue to teach full-time, I find so much joy in connecting and building friendships with teachers worldwide. It’s why I started this blog back in 2012. My hope has become a reality as I have been able to forge relationships with teachers, sharing ideas and building friendships beyond my little neck of the woods through professional development sessions and this blog.
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