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Qwirkle, Our New Favorite Math Station Game!

Qwirkle, Our New Favorite Math Station Game!

Qwirkle. It’s such a great word to say and such a FUN game to play!! We’ve been using Qwirkle from MindWare all year in our math stations. By now you might be asking, what is Qwirkle??!  It’s a game that helps my students with their colors and shapes! It’s like playing Dominos + Scrabble combined! Qwirkle requires players to match the tiles… Read More

Filed Under: colors, games, math games, math stations, MindWare, Qwirkle, shapes, Uncategorized

A Cornucopia of Classroom FREEBIES!

A Cornucopia of Classroom FREEBIES!

Do you celebrate Friendsgiving? This year I am having a virtual Thanksgiving Potluck with some of my teacher besties! We have so much to be thankful for, and we wanted share our blessing with you! We created a FREE Classroom Cornucopia of our best selling resources! These are some of our favorite classroom creations that can be used throughout the… Read More

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Halloween Goody Bag FREEBIE & Safety Tips!

Halloween Goody Bag FREEBIE & Safety Tips!

Halloween is upon us!! Our day will start off with Book-o-Ween, and then I have some fun crafts planned! We’ll wrap up our day by talking about how to be safe during trick-or-treating (see the graphic below). Goody Bags I love giving my students a little treat bag, but with Halloween being on a Monday this year, I decided to… Read More

Filed Under: freebie, gifts, goody bags, halloween, halloween safety, october, Uncategorized 1 Comment

Oriental Trading Wishlist Goodies!

Oriental Trading Wishlist Goodies!

Raise your hand if you love Oriental Trading!!! I know I do!!  I love looking through the Oriental Trading catalogs that I get at school and my students do too! I usually order arts and crafts projects and student gifts for the holidays and end of the year. When Oriental Trading contacted me about making a wishlist, I had the opportunity… Read More

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Fun Activities for Color Words (and a FREEBIE!)

Fun Activities for Color Words (and a FREEBIE!)

This post contains an affiliate link for your shopping convenience. Any purchases made through one of our links earns us a small commission, at no extra cost to you, which helps to support the blog so we can continue sharing content like this with you. All views and opinions expressed are purely our own. It’s been almost 20 days of… Read More

Filed Under: back to school, beginning of the year, color words, colors, emergent reader, freebie, handwriting, read-trace-write-glue sentences, sight words, Uncategorized, write the room, writing Leave a Comment

Best. Pencil. Sharpener. Ever!

Best. Pencil. Sharpener. Ever!

Hey all!! I’m coming to you today with a bit of advice for a school supply that I think you’ll absolutely LOVE!! You may have already heard of the Quiet Sharpener from Classroom Friendly Supplies, and I’m here to tell you that it really is the BEST!! I’ve been back in school for a couple weeks already, so I brought… Read More

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Our favorite craft supply is definitely @kwikstixp Our favorite craft supply is definitely @kwikstixpaint!! Quick dry, no mess paints are perfect for me.

I let my daughter pick out a few wood crafts from Target a couple weeks ago and she's been working on this treasure chest.

She finally decided it's finished and now it's in her room with all sorts of random treasures inside!
One of my absolute favorite resources is this part One of my absolute favorite resources is this parts of a plant notebook activity! 🌱

I always brought in the food items for my students to build all of the plant parts and then taste each part. Then they would match up and label the parts of a plant and draw/write the food for each part.

Have you tried doing this with your students??
Need a little break from planning? Spring themed p Need a little break from planning? Spring themed printables for the win!

Get ready for spring with 2️⃣5️⃣ printables for reading, phonics, writing and math. There's no prep here - just print and GO! 🌸

Practice and review these skills!
💧 CVC words
💧 CVCe words
💧 plural words
💧 how to writing
💧 graphic organizers 
💧 read-trace-write-glue sentences

🌎 addition & subtraction 
🌎 hundreds chart
🌎 patterns
🌎 counting on, counting backwards 

Comment with a ☔ if you think your students would like these. I may just end up choosing someone to send them to!!

Let me know if you want the link or find these in my bio.
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My daughter's preschool is having a PD day so she has no school but her teachers will be working.
》》WRITE THE ROOM These 3 write the room activ 》》WRITE THE ROOM

These 3 write the room activities always made their appearance during February!

✏ Valentine's Day
✏ Dental Health
✏ Presidents' Day

Write the room is the perfect addition to your literacy centers. It gets students up and moving around the room while they learn vocabulary and practice writing.

》Leave a comment if you'd like a link to any of these!
Have you had your 100th day of school yet?? This Have you had your 100th day of school yet??

This blog post is an oldie but a goodie with tons of activities, ideas, and freebies to help plan a fun 100th day!

Leave a 💯 in the comments and I'll send you the link.
💲 D E A L S are here! 🎉 Just search: #Terr 💲 D E A L S  are here! 🎉

Just search: #Terrific22 and you'll find lots of resources! I highly suggest narrowing down the search by the grade level(s) or subject area you are looking for.

》Leave a comment and I'll send you the link to mine or it'll be in my bio.
Hanukkah presents from last week for my girl's pre Hanukkah presents from last week for my girl's preschool teachers!! Really loving how my tags turned out! 🤩

Giving teachers presents as a teacher mom was such a new and interesting experience. I really wanted it to be perfect and for them to love it all - but I know it's truly the thought that counts and they'd appreciate that.

She ran into school swinging the gift bags so who knows what it all looked like once they opened it anyways 😅
It's almost December which means... a NEW READING It's almost December which means... a NEW READING LOG!!!

My students and parents seriously loved these! It holds the students accountable for reading, but in a fun way!

I built in different incentives for them to fill them out each month's log and it always worked. Quite possibly my favorite resource!

This link will be in my bio so you can see more or DM me for a direct link!
http://bit.ly/readinglogsallyear

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One of my absolute favorite resources is this parts of a plant notebook activity! 🌱I always brought in the food items for my students to build all of the plant parts and then taste each part. Then they would match up and label the parts of a plant and draw/write the food for each part.Have you tried doing this with your students??bit.ly/plantsnotebook ... See MoreSee Less

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Drop an emoji and let me know!❤ 》working💙 》offMy daughter's preschool is having a PD day so she has no school but her teachers will be working. ... See MoreSee Less

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》》WRITE THE ROOMThese 3 write the room activities always made their appearance during February!✏ Valentine's Day✏ Dental Health✏ Presidents' DayWrite the room is the perfect addition to your literacy centers. It gets students up and moving around the room while they learn vocabulary and practice writing.》Leave a comment if you'd like a link to any of these! ... See MoreSee Less

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Have you had your 100th day of school yet?? What do you do on your 100th day?!This blog post is an oldie but a goodie with tons of activities, ideas, and freebies to help plan a fun 100th day!》》http://bit.ly/100daysschool ... See MoreSee Less

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💲 D E A L S are here! 🎉》Just search: #TERRIFIC22 on TpT and you'll find lots of resources! I highly suggest narrowing down the search by the grade level(s) or subject area you are looking for.Find these two here!www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/A-Is-For-Apples/Search:%23terrific22 ... See MoreSee Less

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