Make Your Classroom Door Look Inviting This Winter!!

I've compiled some of my favorite WINTER CLASSROOM DOORS!!  Who wouldn't want to walk into one of these rooms!?!?

Last, but not least, The Ugly Christmas Sweater Door!!

Special Visitor! The Sock Monkey Turkey!

A very special visitor came to our classroom to wish us a very Happy Thanksgiving!  If we actually ATE the Sock Monkey Turkey at our Thanksgiving Feast . . . would be be putting our foot in our mouth!?!?!?!

Healthy School Halloween Party Treats!

It's that time of year again!  Parents want to bring a healthy treat to the yearly Classroom Halloween Party for all the little goblins to enjoy!  So, I've compiled a pictorial list of easy, fun ideas!!

What to do with Autumn Leaves?

What to do with all those leaves my students find on the way to school during autumn?  Well . . . children who love to use bright colors love to create Warhol inspired artwork.  So, what you’ll see below are leaf rubbings turned into an Andy Warhol Inspired Art Piece.

Click the Rake for this Great Learning FREEBIE!!!

USE IT OR LOSE IT!! Summer Tune-up!!

Here is a fantastic resource to keep those math and literacy skills sharpened all summer long!!

These activities are Common Core Aligned and will reinforce what you spent all year teaching so your students will not regress throughout the summer months.  There are 50 literacy and 50 math activities designed so that one literacy and one math activity are completed per weekday.  I’ve also included a daily calendar so that families can keep track and organized of what to do when!  There is a letter to parents you may want to use to explain how to use Summer Tune-up packet.  You could also use this packet to cover Common Core Standards throughout your whole teaching year!!! Click on the pics below!!!

Literacy Activities

5 Sentence Writing and Building Printables

5 Word Family Sorts

5 Attending to Correct Spelling

5 Isolating Beginning, Middle and End

2 Initial Letter Scavenger Hunt

3 Rhyming activities

2 Opposites

3 Color by Sight Word

5 Isolating Sounds in Words Focusing on Letters and Blends

2 Short and Long Vowel Sound Sorts

3 Missing Vowels

5 Word Building CVC

2 Word Building CVCC

3 Spelling with Letter Boxes

Math Activities

3 Counting Scavenger Hunts

5 Working Base Ten Blocks

5 Addition with Dominos, Dice and Objects

5 Subtraction with Objects

3 Skip Counting

2 Odd and Even

5 Counting On

3 Shapes

3 Patterns

5 More and Less

5 Count and Write

3 Shortest and Longest

3 Decomposing 10 with Addition

5 Count and Write

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Whatcha Doing, Stink Bug?

Do you have stink bugs in YOUR classroom?  I do!  My students are really into catching these pesky little critters.  When caught, they emit a really stinky spray - thus the name STINK BUG!!!  I love teaching in the moment, so I used this opportunity to help my students delve into the world of "RESEARCH."  We used the library, books, the internet, and a local university entomologist speaker. We learned that the stink bug was apparently accidentally introduced into easter Pennsylvania.  The first stink bug was collected in Allentown  in 1998.  We were so fascinated by all we learned we wanted to present our knowledge in some fashion.  So, I combined by passion for Reader's Theater with our stink bug research project am presenting the following . . .

New Martin Luther King Jr. Reader's Theaters!!

Martin Luther King Jr. Day was created to celebrate the life and work of the Civil Rights Era leader. Dr. King's work was instrumental in helping African-Americans secure their rights.  These Reader’s Theaters are PERFECT to help celebrate this holiday!

Click Here For Young Martin Luther King Jr.

Click Here For The Life of Martin Luther King Kr.