Father's Day is right around the corner and our class loves showing appreciation for all the special men in their lives. Since they had such a blast creating Spa Mom for Mother's Day, we couldn't leave the Dads out! So, we created Tie-rific Dad for all the TOP guys in our students' lives. Putting Tie-rific Dad together is pretty simple. The templates are easy to copy directly onto colored construction paper, then just cut and glue. We have them use markers for the nose and mouth too. We ... VIEW POST
Father’s Day Craft: Tie-rific Dad
Summer Reading Logs
Summer is right around the corner, and parents everywhere are starting to ask teachers can you PLEASE keep them longer?! what they can have their students do over the summer to keep their school skills solid? We're so glad they ask! One of easiest answers we give is, have them read. One of the easiest things we give them to encourage reading is a Summer Reading Log. There's just something about copying and folding activities into booklets that bait our students time and again...Case in point - ... VIEW POST
Read Across America Activities for the Primary Classroom
Many primary classrooms love celebrating Read Across America week. Although our class celebrates Literacy each and every day, we like to get extra wild and wacky during Reading Week each year. Here are a few of our favorite activities to celebrate literacy and Read Across America in the primary classroom. Got Books? From Costco to Target. Garage sales to dumpster diving (True story, not proud.)...We've got a ridiculous amount of Dr. S books for Read Across America Week! Before we gathered our ... VIEW POST
Valentine’s Day in the Classroom
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
Vocabulary Activities for Little Learners ~ Big Brain Words
A few years ago, we sat in a Professional Development meeting faced with the challenge of bringing robust vocabulary to the forefront of our primary classroom. It seemed such a BIG task for such little brains, but one that we agreed was imperative to teaching today’s learners. We spent over a year planning, creating, testing, editing, and analyzing the implementation of our program, Big Brain Words, with our own students. What we discovered was, not only was implementing a purposeful, ... VIEW POST
100th Day of School
Hip, Hip, Hooray...It's FINALLY the 100th Day of School! Which we all know is "teacher code" for "More than halfway to summer!" Here are a few of our favorite first grade ways to celebrate the 100th day. Everyone needs a party hat, so we created these 100th Day of School crowns for our class kings and queens. We leave one of our Hip Hip Hooray, It's the 100th Day desk mats at each of their places to greet them at the start of our 100th day. They love coloring them to kick off the 100th day of ... VIEW POST
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