ALL ABOUT EARTH Get ready for a month filled with so many fun activities to teach your kiddos all about our planet Earth . I teach this unit in April so it coincides with Earth Day. I’ve loaded up this blog post post with read aloud book ideas, free videos you can share with your students,
Learn all about volcanoes, how they are formed, why they erupt, parts of a volcano and more with this fun Volcano Unit.
The Unit Circle Hand Trick - This is one of the most difficult lessons to teach. Most students try to memorize the entire thing. Bad idea! Here's a Tip!
Here are some free resources and activities to help you teach your lesson on Macromolecules. Most kids have heard of counting macros.
Spelling Made Fun is a new and innovative fun, multi-sensory spelling programme developed specifically for Primary schools and has been extensively reviewed by practising teachers nationwide. Features: 18 weekly units of work which include fun activities to reinforce the spellings, wordsearches, phonic activities, cloze procedure exercises, opportunities for colouring, drawing and generating their own sentences using the words in the spelling units. Spelling lists with practice sheets for each unit. Using the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check technique. Spelling lists include words relevant to the pupil writing. CVC words, high frequency words, word families – old, -ing, -and, -ent, -ook, - all, -ill, -ive, -ike, -eep, -een. Self-evaluation weekly record sheets. Revision sheets. Tricky word bank to record pupils’ own personal errors. An overall record grid to record scores for each unit for both teachers and pupils to monitor and track progress.
From reading fun books to STEM projects, this Viking Unit gave us a vast insight to where exploration began and helped set the stage for the Age of Exploration.
Get your kids up and moving with positional words activities! This unit is full of activities from mini lessons to a quick assessment!
A step-by-step approach on how to create a unit plan and its various components. Keeping things practical and manageable for busy teachers.
Spelling Made Fun is a new and innovative fun, multi-sensory spelling programme developed specifically for Primary schools and has been extensively reviewed by practising teachers nationwide. Features: 18 weekly units of work which include fun activities to reinforce the spellings, wordsearches, phonic activities, cloze procedure exercises, opportunities for colouring, drawing and generating their own sentences using the words in the spelling units. Spelling lists with practice sheets for each unit. Using the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check technique. Spelling lists include words relevant to the pupil writing. CVC words, high frequency words, word families – old, -ing, -and, -ent, -ook, - all, -ill, -ive, -ike, -eep, -een. Self-evaluation weekly record sheets. Revision sheets. Tricky word bank to record pupils’ own personal errors. An overall record grid to record scores for each unit for both teachers and pupils to monitor and track progress.
Last week we started opinion writing! It’s my FAVORITE genre to teach, and typically, the one my sweet seconds like best too! I thought I’d share how I launch opinion writing! I spend an entire week launching this particular writing genre – I want my kids to feel comfortable sharing their opinion, as well as ... Read more
Spelling Made Fun is a new and innovative fun, multi-sensory spelling programme developed specifically for Primary schools and has been extensively reviewed by practising teachers nationwide. Features: 18 weekly units of work which include fun activities to reinforce the spellings, wordsearches, phonic activities, cloze procedure exercises, opportunities for colouring, drawing and generating their own sentences using the words in the spelling units. Spelling lists with practice sheets for each unit. Using the Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check technique. Spelling lists include words relevant to the pupil writing. CVC words, high frequency words, word families – old, -ing, -and, -ent, -ook, - all, -ill, -ive, -ike, -eep, -een. Self-evaluation weekly record sheets. Revision sheets. Tricky word bank to record pupils’ own personal errors. An overall record grid to record scores for each unit for both teachers and pupils to monitor and track progress.
ALL ABOUT EARTH Get ready for a month filled with so many fun activities to teach your kiddos all about our planet Earth . I teach this unit in April so it coincides with Earth Day. I’ve loaded up this blog post post with read aloud book ideas, free videos you can share with your students,
This week in my classroom it’s been all about SUFFIXES!! We started out with an anchor chart and some fun puzzles! Pinterest My students worked with partners to solve a set of puzzles… Pinterest I used the second set of puzzles as a center/literacy station. I printed on colored paper and laminated. I’m not going […]
Include these animal themed pattern block puzzles in your preschool unit study! This listing is for 49 printable animal themed patterns that you can use the available cutout tangram to make the animals. 1 page of tangram shapes to cutout and if you like laminating would make them very nice and reusable. There is also 3 pages that have the solutions to all 49 animals. If you have the wooden blocks in tangram shape those are also very fun to make all these awesome animals. To make your puzzles more durable, I suggest you print on card stock and laminate them. Block pattern puzzles are a classic math manipulative and learning activity. Great for spatial awareness, hand-eye coordination, and problem solving. They also teach children three and older matching and sorting skills, color recognition, geometric shapes, counting, and beginning math skills. Fitting the pieces onto the puzzles helps develop fine motor skills, concentration, and memory. Animals that are included are camel, swan, bird, cat, pig, dog, penguin and a lot more that your child can have fun making. Blacked out animals are how the puzzle looks . The colored animals are the solved version of the puzzle. Blacked out and Colored animals are for reference and are not the same size as the puzzle pieces. Shapes include triangles, trapezoids, and squares. Also included is my newest version of the animal tangrams that are in black and white so printing will be a lot friendlier and tangram pieces that are closer to size of the animals. Print as many times as you'd like!
A sorting activity from the Self-Control Unit of the Social Emotional Learning curriculum. Work through these scenarios as a group to help build valuable skills. This curriculum is flexible, no prep, and easy to implement.
Hatching Chicks in the Classroom Hatching chicks in the classroom is probably my favorite activity every year! Not only is it a wonderful hands-on life science lesson, but hatching chicks in the classroom also creates the perfect stage for you to teach concepts across the curriculum because your students are so engaged! You can […]
Find out how to get students interested in Greek Mythology gods and goddesses analysis excercise by using the biography project. This is an engaging and memorable student-collaboration activity. You can use this for The Odyssey, The Lightning Thief, Hercules, ancient history, Greek theater, Greek civilization, or for a fun mythology unit.
Hello Everyone! What a great day to start a study on clouds!! Dark clouds this morning releasing a deluge of rain! By 1:00 beautiful clear sky with just a few cirrus clouds! Perfect example of our ever changing skies. I'll share our Cloud Unit in a second, but first I wanted to show some pics of our whole group math lesson. We are continuing our study of place value. After all the activities we did last week, it was time to see how all of this fits in relationship to other numbers. I pulled out our bigger than life 100 board and handed out some mystery picture clues. Each clue described a number in place value (tens and ones). The kids took turns putting their cards on the number for which their clue stood. When we finished putting all the clues down, a cloud was revealed! Use your imagination! It looks like a cloud, right??? The kids loved working together to create it!! I'm not even sure they realized they were growing their number sense!!! I did put together a little integrated cloud unit. We are going to try to get most of this in this week!! The unit also includes some poetry, another science activity and more!! You can get it if you click HERE!! Stay tuned for more cloud fun later in the week! Until then, have a wonderful week!! Thanks for stopping by for a peek!! Joyfully! Nancy
Help your students understand the effects of earthquakes during your changes of the earth unit! These hands-on, engaging earthquake experiments are perfect!
