Popcorn Math Activities What seems like many moons ago, I wrote a guest for post the wonderful Aussie blog, Learn with Play at Home. The post was full of all kinds of ideas related to popcorn. Since then, I have … Continue reading
100s Chart Math: Creating a Class Chart I love teaching with a 100s chart. For those of you who do not know what a 100s chart is- it is basically a grid with 100 spaces numbered 1-100. There are all … Continue reading
Popsicle Stick Sunflowers I get so excited when I receive my arts and crafts package from CraftProjectIdeas.com. It’s always full of such fun things and my mind starts to spin with ideas the minute I open the box! This time … Continue reading
Mother’s Day Portraits Every year while teaching first grade, I have done Mother’s Day portraits with my class and this year was no exception. The portraits themselves are really quite simple, but the product, I find, is gorgeous, timeless and … Continue reading
A Very Hungry Caterpillar Pinata With Cinco de Mayo fast approaching, we whipped up a pinata in anticipation of the big day. Well, maybe whipped up is not the best word since it is quite a process from start to … Continue reading
Crazy Hat Day Tomorrow is Crazy Hat Day at school. I was so excited to help my boys create crazy hats, but it turns out neither one of them want to wear anything more than the baseball cap hanging in … Continue reading
Activities for The Donut Chef I discovered a new book at the library the other day. I was actually looking for another book by author, Bob Staake (LOVE his books!), and came across, The Donut Chef, instead. The minute I … Continue reading
Books about Zero We don’t spend much time thinking or talking about the number zero or the concept of zero with very young children mainly because zero is not a counting number. And, many adults simply assume that children have … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Earth! We are not done with Earth Day just yet! In fact, we have made Earth Day into Earth Week in our school. Today, we wrote birthday cards to the Earth. The students had two tasks. The first … Continue reading
Garden Cupcakes I offered to make an Earth Day treat for our first graders. I saw several ideas I liked online, but felt like creating something that was my own. So, I came up with these Garden Cupcakes. I did … Continue reading