Pastel colors, bunnies and eggs… keep your students engaged with Easter filled fun!
I found the perfect Easter activity for the second graders in my long-term subbing class. We have just started persuasive writing, and on Pinterest I found the cutest Easter Bunny Application and thought that would work just perfectly! And boy did it! I fed the students a background story to set the scene, and they …
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Shake it up long after Easter is over by using Easter Eggs for lots of lesson plans. Here are 9 ways you can use those eggs on sale to work on math and reading. You’ll love this hack to keep your hard work in tact if you’re going to write on Easter eggs. Keep students engaged …
Let spring into your classroom despite the weather with these 5 spring writing templates. Perfect for matching your ela standards, you’ve now got the perfect choice of backdrops for your writing lesson plans. Spring Writing You’ll find writing templates for exploring the five senses, including multiple steps in a prompt, and themed stationary. This list also …
Organize a classroom by getting your calendar numbers ready to go for the whole year. Here are 13 printable sets (all free downloads) that will help you set up your calendar dates for the whole year including fall, spring and holidays! I hope you can choose from your favorites or spice up your current calendar …
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Roll and cover games for math are a hit for helping students practice a multitude of math skills. Cool math games like all of these compiled here are dice games that help practice addition and subtraction with fun themes. You’ll find themed games by character, season and inspiring variations on this classic game. To make …
Ever feel like your classroom Pinterest DIY was more flop than fabulous? Here is one teacher’s solution to making Easter egg learning activities written in Sharpie marker last in the hands of her students. There are many different ways you can use Easter egg learning activities. Add a thin coat of clear nail polish to seal in what you …
Graphing is a key part of Common Core measurement and data standards. Here are 5 free graphing activities that teach filling in a graph and help students learn how to make a graph by seeing various examples. You’ll find a mustache class questionnaire, a monster spinning printable and 3 edible treat graphs. Have you seen? The Teach Junkie measurement …
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Spring is just around the corner and its a great time to practice alphabetical order in first grade. Here are 3 spring and Easter themed worksheets that will give your students practice on putting words in abc order. Want to do more with spring words? Use any of these spring words to create a writing …
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With my energy for recycling, our school saved plastic bottle caps. I thought it would be fun for my 5th graders to use these bottle caps and make little gifts for their 1st-grade buddies. Since it was spring and before Easter, bunnies, chicks, ducks, and frogs came to mind. We combined colored foam shapes and …
Make working on understanding the digits in place value fun. Here are Easter themed color by code place value worksheets. Students have to identify where the digits are located in regards to their place value and color according to the key. These bunnies driving Easter eggs are a great themed way to check in on how students …
Adding integers just got yummy for spring! Here is a free printable cool math game for practicing adding integers and for teaching how to subtract integers using Easter peep marshmallows. Since students will already know how to play using the familiar memory game format or using the rules for “Go Fish,” they will be able to …
Ignite the math spark in your classroom with these activities for math that are Easter and spring themed . Students enjoy sorting, graphing, adding, ordering, journaling and more since many of these math activities have a free download. With this range of inspiring ideas, your primary mathematicians will definitely enjoy the colors of spring as they work on …
Bring on the ELA Common Core standards this spring. These 5 spring word work activities will cover ELA standards like snyonyms/synonyms using Easter eggs, building CVC fluency, sorting digraphs and decoding words with consonant blends. Doesn’t the fact that these ideas are free just make it all the better? You’ll see that I’ve labeled the …
Emergent readers play a big role in learning how to read. These 52 emergent readers are all free and all teacher-created! There are Holiday emergent readers, alphabet and sight words, themed printable readers, non-fiction, book based and vocabulary readers too! How wonderful to be able to work on reading comprehension along with emerging reading skills all …
The month of March can be a busy one in the classroom. Here is a mega list of free March activities, printables and classroom resources. Looking for what to teach in the month of March? You’ll need materials for holidays like: Easter and St. Patrick’s Day. Plus – we know that somehow Dr. Seuss themed activities always seem to …
These free Easter rhyming cards are great for use as a partner game or individual practice. Students find the rhyming pair that matches. It is a free download that includes 30 cards for 15 matches. You could also create a matching worksheet with similar pictures to check for mastery if you wanted to create more …
Learning how to read is something that every student in kindergarten and first grade focuses on as they work on the fundamentals They learn how to read CVC words as a reading strategy and teachers create fun reading activities and games to help students work on this important skills. Here are four games that can make …
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