Category: Teaching Resources
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Halloween ABC Games That Make Learning Letter and Sounds Spooktaculary Fun

🎃 Halloween ABC Games That Make Learning Letters and Sounds Spooktacularly Fun October is the perfect time to mix a little seasonal excitement into your literacy lessons. Kids love Halloween. Teachers love when students are learning while having fun! If you’re looking for a classroom resource that combines early phonics…
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Bring Winter Magic to Your Classroom

Looking to add a touch of seasonal charm to your classroom? The Winter Wonderland Village of Smarties bulletin board or door décor packet is the perfect way to transform your space into a cozy, winter-themed haven. Designed with elementary teachers in mind, this resource makes planning easy, fun, and engaging…
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Solar Eclipse Fun for Kids

Solar Eclipse What is a solar eclipse. A solar eclipse happens when the moon comes between the Earth and the Sun and blocks the Sun’s light for a few minutes. There are two main types of solar eclipses: partial and total. During a partial solar eclipse, only a portion of…
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Getting Young Learners Writing Daily

Themed Journal Writing Tips for Effective Daily Writing Writing is something we do every day. We don’t give it a thought. If we need to write something down we grab a pen and paper and write. It has become an automatic skill. Our young writers are not at this stage,…
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Planning Your Class Fall or Halloween Party

Planning Fall/Halloween Parties To keep you from dreading having classroom parties and to have them go smoothly you must plan for it. Planning your Fall/Halloween party will lead you to having a successful fun time! Organize the Party Decide on a date and time that your party will held. Knowing…
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Topic-Based Journal Writing

I am in the process of creating a set of topic-based Daily Journal Writing resources for Kindergarten and 1st-grade students. I’ve just completed one about Car Wash. On Amped Up Learning On Teachers Pay Teachers Do you use daily writing…
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Writing Sentences Using Sight Words

Our students need to learn sight words and improve their writing. Why not have them work on both skills? Combining Sight Words with Sentence Writing What do you think? This sounds like a good idea! If there were a teaching resource that did just this, would you use it?…
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Using Sight Words to Strengthen Sentence Writing

Teaching Early Learners to Write Teaching early learners to write is one of the most challenging tasks a teacher has. When you consider what these kids will have learned to do by the end of the school year, you know that the teacher has done an amazing job! We also…
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Using Daily Nonfiction Journal Writing to Strengthen Sentence Writing

Learning to Write is Hard Work Kindergarten and 1st-grade students need to learn to write. They have a difficult time learning to write a sentence. So as teachers, we figure out how to entice them to do this. There is so much they are learning. They have to take the…
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Teaching Dental Health in the Classroom

Dental Health Activities-February It is so important to teach dental health to our students at any age. Learning about this at school only emphasizes the importance of taking care of our teeth. I have some easy and fun activity ideas you can do in your classroom related to dental…