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These favorite classroom management ideas and tools are easy, inexpensive and effective classroom management solutions for any classroom.
Learn what a sensory diet is, how it can benefit your child's learning, focus, behavior, and emotional regulation, and discover which activities should be part of your child’s individual sensory diet.
Sometimes just painting with regular paint on regular flat paper is boring. Sometimes you want to create something different, something cool, something EPIC! That's what my kids told me the other day. Boring old painting
Set up a fun phonics activity for preschoolers and school aged children with this sorting objects into baskets game! Easy, low-preparation and adaptable
FREE printable puzzles to teach preschoolers about antonyms and opposites. Includes 12 self-correcting puzzles with visual cues to find the matching pair of antonyms.
Learn how to practice rhythms with this budget-friendly and fun rhythm game in your elementary music classroom.
Kids and young adults need social-emotional skills to be successful at school, home, and for the rest of their lives. These are the skills that help kids build confidence, understand their own strengths and weaknesses, collaborate with others, navigate social situations, develop strong relationships
Science and art combine in this amazing and simple rainbow experiment. The kids will love to make, explore and paint rainbows,
If you have learners who struggle to isolate beginning sounds, these free phonemic awareness games are the perfect fit! Use them in preschool or kindergarten. Use them in literacy centers or small groups. #phonemicawareness #preschool #kindergarten
Teaching a farm-themed lesson? Check out these cute farm animal pattern block cards for kids! They are a fun activity for teaching math and shapes.
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Build a marshmallow and toothpick tower for a fun and budget-friendly way to explore STEM with kids. Free printable.
Follow these five steps to teach a child to read. Helpful for parents, homeschoolers, and teachers that are teaching beginning readers.
No study of architecture and engineering would be complete without talking about the Great Pyramids. Egyptian architecture is as mesmerizing in the 21st century as it must have been mystifying when they were constructed. And thanks to Bubble Guppies, a subject of great fascination to my preschool and toddler too! Egyptian Architecture…
Need an easy activity to target phonemic awareness that you can DIY today? This Onset and Rime Flip Book is perfect. PLUS there are 5 ideas for using them
Prepping your toddler for early reading lessons at home? These 13 fun phonics games and activities will keep your kids having fun as they're learning to read! Teaching phonics to toddlers can be fun and creative!
Item description A worksheet for the famous song: head, shoulders , knees and toes.
Free Printable preposition game for toddlers and preschoolers to help develop gross motor skills, fine motor skills, vocabulary and visual discrimination.
Teaching Phonics Phonics gives us the tools to sound out and learn thousands of words without depending upon memorization. Phonics is simply the relationship between the letters of the alphabet and…
Teach your child to recognize and read consonant digraphs /th/, /sh/, and /ch/ with a digraph garden!
Have a chatty class? Do your talkative students get louder and louder during small groups until it feels like chaos? Do they talk when you'r...
We got new books today! That's like Christmas at my house...lol! Every time the UPS truck pulls up my girls start jumping and shouting wondering what books I've gotten for them. (Serious letdown for them when it's our monthly Amazon delivery...) Today we were adding to our easy reader collection. One of my favorite books
These crossing midline activities support development of crossing the midline plays in functional tasks like learning and self care.
This is a fun worksheet to practice the weather with your beginner ESL students. Have your students read the sentence and draw the correct weather accordingly.
Figuring out how to balance objects is something that fascinates children. Whether it is trying to balancing the same type of objects on either side of a
Your kids will be amazed by this simple burning candle in water science experiment. This rising water experiment will teach your kids the effect of air pressure.
If I Were a Superhero Identify a few well-known superheroes with your students and brainstorm adjectives that describe these superheroes and their actions. After reviewing the list, ask students to identify people in their real lives that possess these characteristics. Ask students to complete this thinksheet and describe what kind…
Autism activities to help increase communication, fine motor skills, sensory play skills, interaction & more in your home or autism classroom!
Crack the Code – Penguin Facts – Codebreaker Worksheet Going along with the Cold theme, I thought we could learn a little more about some of the animals from the colder regions, specifi…
Kids and young adults need social-emotional skills to be successful at school, home, and for the rest of their lives. These are the skills that help kids build confidence, understand their own strengths and weaknesses, collaborate with others, navigate social situations, develop strong relationships
I’m in the market for a another work space. Our makeshift dinning room office is not only driving Abe crazy, it just isn’t sustainable anymore. And now that Coco is just half a year away…
This rainbow exercise is a deep breathing exercise for kids that can be used as a mindfulness activity, coping tool, or meditation.
If you will make it, they will play it and they will learn it! Sometimes you just need some easy, low prep activities, but ones the students will enjoy and be engaged in so learning
I swear I must get this question no less than 50 times a day. I got it that much when I taught first grade and it was occasionally asked in...
Teach your child to recognize and read consonant digraphs /th/, /sh/, and /ch/ with a digraph garden!
This free printable Do Re Mi staircase is a brilliant visual aid and teaching tool for introducing small children to Do Re Mi and interval recognition.
This Magic Toothpick Star Experiment is such a fun experiment for the kids. It's a super simple way to have the kids create magic on their very own.
How to bring STEM to your English Lesson in the Early Years - introduce coding in kindergarten during play. FREE printable coding cards to download | you clever monkey
Working with kids and young adults who are oppositional can be challenging. Being oppositional might mean refusing to do work, breaking rules, and engaging in other challenging behaviors. The truth is, many kids can be oppositional from time to time, so many of these strategies work with all learner
If you have a child that has trouble controlling their temper, you know exactly how hard it can be to calm them down. These 10 Sensory Hacks are perfect!
One effective way of checking how you feel everyday is by tracking it. Use any of these free feelings charts for adults and get to know yourself better.
Music class is an active, engaging, and joyful experience! This is especially true when our musical activities are grounded in creative and intentional teaching strategies. One of the most important teaching strategies has to do with teaching the difference between steady beat and the rhythm of
Energetic activities are important for gross motor skills development in any child, and even more so for kids with high energy! Try one today.