No pun intended, but we love celebrating Valentine's Day in our classroom. Here are a few of our favorite ways to celebrate Love Day with the Littles... We throw a Red Party every Valentine's Day in our classroom. From red foods to wearing red, we embrace the color of love all day long. As you can see, we try to keep it somewhat healthy with bagels, strawberry cream cheese, and red fruits. The kids are so excited and don't even notice the donuts are missing. We sneak in a little reading and ... VIEW POST
Valentine’s Day in the Classroom
Message Center Kindness Cards with Treat by Shutterfly
What a treat to learn that one of our favorite photo sites, Shutterfly, has a sister site called Treat Greeting Cards! What a treat to be given creative carte blanche by Treat to create a class set of greeting cards! The possibilities are endless...But, we were super excited with our choice! Totally perfect for first grade! Don't you think? We found a similar picture of kids' hands in the shape of a heart on Pinterest. The image led to nowhere, so if it's yours please let us ... VIEW POST
Kindness Activity for Kids Compli-Mats
Teaching our primary students about compliments is highly important in our classroom. Of course it's always easier to point out what we don't like...But, we have found we have to purposefully teach our first graders how to see the good in one another by pointing out what they do like. So, we came up with an idea to teach our kids how to pay compliments to their classmates. Introducing...Compli-Mats! Get it? Compliments written on a 12x18 piece of construction paper, about the size of a place ... VIEW POST
Teaching Tolerance to Young Children…
There are very few textbooks that we actually kept from college, but this book, "Starting Small: Teaching Tolerance in Preschool and the Early Grades" was one that we've hung onto tightly from our teaching credential class days. It's stayed on our nightstands for bedtime reading. It's journeyed to soccer practices while we watch our kids and from home to school and back again. It moved us before we became teachers and has stuck with us over the years. It's not a ... VIEW POST
