Google Earth™ is an invaluable tool in the classroom and at home. It allows you to take your students to any location in the world in seconds! When planning our social studies curriculum, our favorite activity is creating a Google Earth™ field trip and exploring landforms virtually. Seeing pictures in textbooks just doesn’t compare to…
One great way to build a classroom community is to have a star of the week program! You can have your students take turns being the star by giving them a fun poster to decorate at home. Then, they bring it back to school when it is their turn to be featured as the star…
Spring time is the PERFECT time to introduce your students to the world of butterfly & frog life cycles! Children always seem so amazed by the magnificent transformation that each of these animals go through during their lifetime. Butterflies and frogs can be spotted more frequently in nature as the weather starts warming up. By…
We feel that teaching syllables is often overlooked but oh so important when developing fluent readers. The act of dividing words into smaller chunks is important because it helps to speed the process of decoding words quickly and fluently. Understanding syllables also helps your students learn to spell words with better accuracy. To give students…
This is the perfect time of year to explore expository writing using a fun and easy winter activity that makes one of the cutest crafts to display in your classroom! Students use prior knowledge (or you can even brainstorm as a class) to correctly sequence the steps of how to build a snowman. To get…
Let’s bake up a fun gingerbread sight words activity! This play dough center has become a favorite during the Christmas season with our little learners. The prep part of this center is just as fun as the activity itself because it begins with making your own gingerbread play dough. Of course, you can always make…
