December means colder weather and holiday excitement! And we love when we can find new ways to connect the winter season and December holidays across all of our curriculum areas. So we talk about reindeer and show what we’ve learned with our reindeer facts animal study. As the weather starts getting chilly, our little learners […]
Christmas Editable Name Activity
Christmas is a wonderful time of year! Our littlest learners love talking about all the exciting things they want to do during the holiday season: seeing Santa, what new toy they are hoping to get this year, and decorating the classroom and their home. We enjoy visiting the Christmas tree farm and of course decorating […]
Gingerbread Addition Mats
Adding up numbers can be a lot of fun for our littlest learners… especially when it involves yummy candy and cookies! We are always looking for ways to connect what our students are learning to things that matter to them, like with games they play, adding up money, adding blocks, and even adding each other up […]
Christmas Lights Addition Printable Math Worksheets
Ready or not, Christmas is almost here. It’s the most wonderful time of the year, right? I honestly could not agree more. We enjoy everything about Christmas and our little learners get so excited about our Christmas activities they don’t even realize how much they are learning. What better way to introduce and review math then […]
Turkey Editable Sight Word Activity
As Thanksgiving is approaching and all through fall, we love activities with turkeys. We talk about the different sizes and shapes of turkeys. Students are fascinated when we dive into our study about turkeys. We find out so many things we never knew about our feathered friends, like what that red little thingy is called. […]
Pumpkin Editable Name Activity
Classrooms are filled with EVERYTHING pumpkins this time of year! Our youngest learners love talking about all the fun things we can do with pumpkins: decorating them, making pumpkin goodies and roasting pumpkin seeds. Pumpkins come in so many different shapes and sizes kids can’t help but be fascinated with them. Students are over the […]
Pumpkin Editable Sight Word Activity
We have a fondness for everything pumpkin this time of year! We bring in real pumpkins for our youngest learners so they can see the different sizes and shapes. Visiting the pumpkin patch is one of our favorite fall activities. We love reading the stacks and stacks of pumpkin books in our library and have […]
Apple Blends Match-Up
At the beginning of the school year and all through fall, we love activities with apples. Students are engaged when we bring in real apples so they can touch, smell, feel, and taste them. Our little learners use apples in our writing centers and build their names using apples. Students make decorations like a paper plate apple, […]
Shapes Puzzles Freebie
Shapes! They’re everywhere! And going on a shape hunt for real life things makes learning about shapes jump off the worksheet and come to life. When students can connect what they’re learning to things that matter to them, like round balls and square pieces of candy and triangular pizza slices, they will retain and really […]
