I love doing multi-step art projects with my students. They allow us to explore different materials and techniques. This winter tree art project was perfect for my students! I was inspired by Natalie Lynn Kindergarten’s Easy Winter Tree Art Project, but I did it in a slightly different way. Materials I used a few different …
International Dot Day takes place on September 15th of each year. The day is a celebration of creativity, courage, and collaboration. I love giving my students different opportunities to be creative and work together on that day. This post contains affiliate links. Read The Book Of course, you need to start your day off by reading …
There are so many fun ways to celebrate Lunar New Year with your classroom. Here are some ideas that I’ve done: (this post contains affiliate links) Paper Lanterns Students decorated pieces of yellow and red construction paper with gold glitter, then we cut them to make lanterns. I used some string to hang them from …
My students love doing directed drawings every year. They are basically step-by-step directions that students follow to make a picture. I like doing them as whole group kindergarten art activities that students do with me. I do each step of the drawing on our projector, and my students follow along. We do one about every …
Next week we are on our March break, and our students are so excited to be off for a week (and so are we!) We had plenty of fun this week though, so take a look back with me at some of the centers we did: Painting with Cars A super simple, but super fun …
This has been a busy few weeks in kindergarten! We had our electives day (students pick from a variety of activities, and our whole school goes on a field trip at the same time), 100th day of school, and Valentine’s Day! So many great things happening, but it was tiring. Here are some activities we …
We are one day away from winter break, and I didn’t think I was going to make it for a moment. I’m am looking forward to having two weeks off to relax and hit the reset button. Here are few activities from our past week in kindergarten: Penguin Art We did a winter art rotation …
kindergarten activities for fall: a collection of different activities that are perfect for fall. Reinforce literacy and fine motor skills with these hands-on and engaging centers. It officially became fall this week, and our classroom has definitely been a reflection of that. We have been learning about apples and their life cycles, and we have …
Going into my second full week off of school and I am enjoying this time to relax! I thought I could share with you a few more pictures from our last week of school: Teen Number Stack ‘Em Our students needed a challenge in the last weeks of school, and these teen number subitizing mats …
Spring does not seem to want to come this year. The warm weather teased us last month, but now it has been cold and grey for the past few weeks. You wouldn’t know it by looking at our classroom though! We have had some really fun spring-themed activities and centers. Take a peek at what …
