Little Learners, Big Ideas
While we’re out enjoying some fun in the sun, one of our favorite activities is strawberry picking. To connect learning to that fun activity, we created our Strawberry Long and Short Vowels Freebie. During the summer, we’re always looking for ways to sneak in learning while we’re having fun. We love our say and spray activity that helps kids practice…
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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 watermelons and rhyming, our students will find learning interesting and find a love of words with this Watermelon Rhyming freebie. We celebrate everything summer by reading…
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Colors and Rainbows are all around us this time of year. Whether we are heading off to play in the yard or our students are bringing them into class to decorate, the chatter is all about rainbows. Our kids love learning about colors with our Color Puzzles. And we bring colors into our alphabet lessons with this Say and Spray…
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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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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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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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