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12 Books that Feature Black Characters for Little Learners

It is essential that our students feel loved and welcomed in our classrooms. It’s one of our most important jobs as an educator. If a child doesn’t feel included and welcomed and part of our classroom and school community, they won’t be able to learn.  One simple way we can do that is to ensure there is a wide variety…
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Best Multicultural Teaching Tools for Little Learners

Since we live in a diverse world and our multiple heritages and cultures are reflected in our students’ faces, as teachers we need to intentionally make sure we have supplies and multicultural teaching tools in our classroom so our students feel represented. We want them to know we see them, we appreciate them, and we celebrate them. And just as…
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Different is Beautiful Emergent Reader to Celebrate Diversity

As educators, one of our main jobs besides teaching to the state standards is making everyone feel welcome in our classrooms. Welcomed, appreciated, and celebrated. One of the easiest ways to do that is to celebrate our differences. We can and should teach our students that our differences are not only okay, they’re beautiful. To celebrate our students’ diversity, we…
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Kite Addition Freebie

While we’re out enjoying some fun in the sun, we start thinking about all the ways we can still learn things while having a great time. So if we’re able to make a connection between kites and math, our students will find learning interesting and find a love of addition with this Kite Addition freebie. We count down the days until…
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June Science Experiments

June is such a beautiful time of year. We’re all in the full swing for summer, which means lots of time to explore the world around us. We want to spend more and more time outdoors. So we find interesting ways to incorporate fun in the sun into our curriculum. We love showing off our math skills with our Insect…
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Educational Websites for Kids For Distance Learning

With the Coronavirus/CLOVID-19, schools everywhere have started making the super difficult (or not so difficult) decision to send our students home. Distance learning, at-home learning, homeschooling…call it what you will. Our students will most likely be home all day with not a whole lot to do. And no one knows when we’ll be back up and running. Distance Learning Educational…
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