Teaching Ideas & Activities

  • Spring Butterfly Bulletin Board

    4 Tips for Creating a Butterflies Bulletin Board

    If you are looking to create a spring display in your kindergarten or first grade classroom, this blog post is for you!  This Word Families Butterflies Bulletin Board is one of my favorite spring activities.  It integrates fine motor skills, art, writing, phonics, and even math into one hands-on, purposeful lesson.  The best part is […]

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  • Kindergarten Poetry

    Poem in Your Pocket Day Activities

    In this post, I’ll share Poem in Your Pocket Day Activities for our youngest poets in kindergarten. What is National Poem in Your Pocket Day? Have you heard of National Poem in Your Pocket Day?   Since it was created in 2002 by the Office of the Mayor in New York City, Poem in Your Pocket […]

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  • March Craft Ideas

    March Craft Ideas for Kindergarten

    It’s almost March.   If you’re feeling teacher tired, let me take the burden of lesson planning for the month off your hands!  Awhile back, I began creating monthly bundles of all the resources that I use in my kindergarten classroom each month.  Little did I know that these bundles would literally save my life during […]

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  • Valentine's Day Math

    Valentine’s Day Math Activities for Kindergarten

    I love incorporating the holidays into purposeful curricular activities.  In this post, I will share my favorite Valentine’s Day math activities for kindergarten or first grade.     Valentine’s Day Math Activities: “Heart-Heart-Whole” This “Heart-Heart-Whole” Valentine’s Day themed resource was created to introduce students to number bonds, or part-part-whole.   Use it for a math center […]

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  • classroom decor

    5 Best Classroom Transformations for Elementary

    I asked, and you answered!  I recently polled my Instagram viewers and asked them to vote on their favorite classroom makeover that I have done using products from Carson Dellosa Education.  Here are the top 5 of the best classroom transformations ranked in order by fan-favorites… ~This post contains affiliate links.   Shop these Schoolgirl […]

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  • Valentine’s Day FREEBIE Valentines Holder

      Here’s a Valentine’s Day FREEBIE just for you!  Are you looking for a cute Valentine’s Day holder for your students to collect their Valentines? I use these Heart Holders each year in lieu of creating bags or boxes. Parents love it because it’s one less thing they have to do, and the kids have so […]

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