Teaching Fractions with Pizza This month during our student-led conferences, my students set 2 goals- a behavior goal and a learning goal. One of my student’s goals was to learn about fractions. In past years, I always made “fraction pizzas” … Continue reading
Spring Word Family Game Unlike flowers, word families are always in season. I created this spring flower word family game for one of my fellow kindergarten teachers. It took a long time to get the ladybugs just the way … Continue reading
What’s the Number? A Place Value Guessing Game This is a fantastic game to help children with place value. Here’s how…. Materials templates (click here for more details or to purchase templates) scissors glue contact paper or lamination dry erase … Continue reading
Casey at the Bat “The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day: The score stood four to two, with but one inning more to play. And then when Cooney died at first, and Barrows did the same, A … Continue reading
Books about Baseball Opening day has come and gone and baseball season is in full swing. If you have a baseball fan in your house, here are some must read baseball book for your home library. H is for Homerun: … Continue reading
FREE Earth Day Activities Earth Day is a little less than a month away, Tuesday, April 22, 2014 to be exact and I am trying to be ahead of the game by preparing for Earth Day. I have gathered all … Continue reading
Books for Earth Day I have been collecting books for Earth Day. I have come across some fantastic books (and some not so great ones). Here are a handful of good ones! Enjoy! Books for Earth Day Earth Day, … Continue reading
Number of the Day Activity Pack UPDATED!!! A few years ago, BMTM shared Number of the Practice Sheets for Second Graders. Today we are sharing another Number of the Day Activity Set for First Graders although it could be used … Continue reading
Circus Craft: Trapeze Artist I found this awesome trapeze artist craft on Pinterest when we were doing our circus unit. The idea comes from the site, Use Your Colored Pencils. I followed the basic instructions from Use Your Colored Pencils, … Continue reading
Tiny Little Fly, Back Again Michael Rosen’s book, Tiny Little Fly, has made a come back in our house. My youngest fell in love with this book a few years ago and, as often happens, he moved onto another favorite. … Continue reading
Books about the Circus We just finished our circus unit at school and I will tell you it was phenomenal. I could write a series of posts on all the things we did including creating our own circus, but will … Continue reading
Help for Letter Reversals Letter reversals are on my mind right now as I just finished writing report cards for my first graders. I thought it may be on some of your minds as well this week! So, here is … Continue reading
