We read the book Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert this week and after finishing the book, we let the students create their own leaf creations. They could make whatever they wanted (they mostly wanted to make dragons) and use whatever materials they wanted. After finishing their creations, we had them write a story about their …
I made some brand new centers for Halloween this year. I know I’m late posting this so I am going to offer it as a freebie…. For now! If you wait until next Halloween to download it, it will be too late and it will only be for sale in my Teachers pay Teachers store! …
The beautiful fall leaves have inspired our students to ask a lot of questions about the colour changing process. To help them learn and explore the different parts of leaves and why that happens, we created a fall leaves inquiry center. It was easy to set up: an information book about leaves, some nice leaves …
In science, we have started discussing seasons. It’s a great time to start teaching about the different seasons since we are about to switch over to fall. Before that happens, we wanted to have our students write about what their favourite part of summer is. We didn’t want them to tell us an activity they …
In my last post I talked about how we are focusing on getting our students to write their names. We have set up some centers to help them work on getting them to spell their names correctly and to use uppercase and lowercase letters appropriately. For this center, the letter beads and pipe cleaners were …
As the end of one school year approaches, I am already thinking about next year. I like to start planning and thinking about what we are going to be doing differently, what worked, what didn’t work. I also like to start prepping the things we are going to need at the start of the new …
Last week we were learning the sight word ‘about’, and our class seemed to have a bit of difficulty with that one, so I made a writing prompt to help them along. This ‘All About Me’ writing sheet gives the students a space to draw a picture of themselves and some lines to write a …
Yes, I know Easter has already come and gone… it went by so fast I wasn’t able to get this post out in time! I still want to share with you this sensory bin idea for Easter. We filled it up with some plastic ‘grass’, plastic eggs and some Easter characters. I also cut out …
As we have moved into learning about 3D shapes, the students have been experimenting with making their own shapes. I put together this invitation to play to get them thinking about the different shapes, and to see if they could build their own. I included: Popsicle sticks Pipe cleaners (cut in half) Tooth picks Modeling …
Here is a quick and fun math center that requires hardly any prep (just some photocopying) and will keep your students busy! Send your students on a 3D shape hunt. Give them the recording sheet and a pencil and they do the rest of the work! The goal is for them to find everyday objects …
