Hi guys! We are ahead of the game for once so I wanted to share with you what we are doing for Mother’s Day gifts this year! Scroll to the end of the post to grab the free printables! THE CARD First, I had the kids colour the bouquet for the poem that goes on…
Hi everyone! I’m back today to link up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday and share 5 things from my week. 1. Earth Day Art My teammate shared this awesome idea with us and the kids loved it! To tie in with the reduce-reuse-recycle vocabulary we have been talking about in…
Hi guys! I’m linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday to share 5 things from my week! 1. Building Shapes & Figures with Sight Words I got this activity from Coffee Cups & Crayons. I printed sight words on popsicle sticks and set them out with brown clay. I encouraged…
Hi guys! Today I’m sharing my subtraction lesson plans & activities from this year. I hope this can give you some ideas for planning your subtraction unit! Day 1: On the first day we introduce the word “subtraction” and define it as “when you take away from a number and get a smaller number”. I…
Hi everyone! I’m linking up with Kacey from Doodle Bugs Teaching to share 5 things from this week! 1. Introduction to Story Writing We introduced story writing this week. I saw @ourkindergartenfamily post this picture on Instagram and knew I had to copy their idea! I whipped up a quick cover for our “A Wordless…
Hi guys 🙂 I’m blogging today about how I taught Super E or CVCe words this year! I started by showing them this YouTube video by Harry Kindergarten: I love this video and so do the kids! We made 2 anchor charts. In one I showed them how super e changes CVC words into a…
Hi guys! I’m linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching to share 5 things from my week! 1. Math Bulletin Board: Decomposing Numbers This one has been up for a while but it is one of my favourite math boards this year. I was happy to be able to represent the success criteria and…
Hi everyone! I’m linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching to share 5 things from this week! 1. Easter Egg Sight Word Flip & Trace This one was a surprising hit this week! I wrote the sight words on the back of these foam easter eggs and set them out on a table with…
*This post has been updated with new photos + freebies on June 10, 2024* Wow the year is flying by! I can’t believe we are working on addition already! Read on to grab some ideas for teaching addition 🙂 Addition Lessons: Day 1: On the first day I just introduce addition and tell them that…
Hi guys 🙂 I’m sharing some fun, hands-on St. Patrick’s Day themed activities today! I hope you can use them in the upcoming weeks! LITERACY ACTIVITIES: 1. End of the Rainbow Find and Trace I threw in multi coloured magnetic letters (lowercase a-z) into a bin filled with black beans and had the students find…
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