As a part of our writing program, Write From the Beginning, the students are learning to write about objects using descriptive language. The...

Since we are learning more about additive patterns and Thanksgiving, we made additive pattern headbands. We discussed the type of clothes th...

To introduce the conept of doubles, the students created dominoes out of graham crackers, vanilla icing, and milk chocolate morsels. They fi...

In the computer lab, the students brainstormed people, places, and things that they are thankful for on a Circle Map. They then typed those ...

You can now download the gumball machine and recording sheet that I created for my Gumball Machine Graphing lesson . You can download th...

I realize it is not Thanksgiving yet, but it is not too early to start planning Christmas-themed lessons for our students. Are you looking...

In order to help keep up with the requests for the Place Value Initials file request, I have added the template along with printable Base...

Fellow teachers, several of you have asked for printable Base Ten Blocks so I created a set. The set includes a full page of ones, a fu...

  To help the students in my class build fluency and see the spelling patterns among words, I created a set of Word Family Buildings . T...

Here is a fact families activity that I created to help my students identify related math facts. The students sort the fact family card ...

A common strategy to help students with learning math facts is to teach them to make ten. These posters help the students visualize, on ...

Fellow teachers, I created an extensive set of  Base Ten Flashcards to 100 . The set includes five different ways to represent the number...

  To help my students review place value,  created these Base Ten Posters with Expanded Notation . These posters represent numbers to 30...

Fellow teachers, I created two sets of ten frame posters that you might be interested in. The first set of posters includes the numeri...

Here are a few of my favorite lessons for Thanksgiving. Several of the ideas come from other blogs so be sure to follow the links to thei...

The students worked together to create skip counting number lines for 2s and 5s using their handprints and socks. The number lines are curre...

In reading we are working on making connections and the phonics sounds for /ch/, /sh/, /wh/, and /th/. To help the students make connections...

Friday we had a field trip to the district's Nature Center. The students participated in four outdoor learning lessons. We visited the p...