Well, it really doesn’t get much better than the 100th day in kindergarten. It’s kind of like Christmas, Valentine’s Day (coming Thursday!), and the Fourth of July wrapped into one.  Well, it is in my class anyway.   I used an entire bottle of glitter to make this for the doorway: We sang our hearts [...]

Yesterday we kicked off our next PBL (Project Based Learning) Project – ‘Peace Week!’  We’re going to study the life of Dr. King and learn why his work was so important to our world and lives today.  Once we learn about his work, we’ll take that knowledge and design a ‘Peace Week’ for our school. Today I [...]

Seriously, I don’t get a cut of profits from the sale of Run, Turkey, Run books. It’s just one of those rare books children are taken with – they beg to read it over and over.  This year, my class has asked me to read it so much that they’ve actually almost memorized the entire [...]

By Deb Chitwood from Living Montessori Now   I LOVE a non-scary Halloween! When Halloween isn't frightening, it's a great way to add excitement to learning. Today, I'm sharing ideas using some fabulous free ghost printables. I used the printables to create hands-on activities for preschoolers through first graders.  Of course, ghosts aren't a ...

So excited to share this freebie with all my reader joining us from Empowering Little Learners and all of our new readers to Simply Primary! Included in this exclusive freebie is four different themes: school children, monkeys, dinosaurs, and owls!  Each book contains these pages as well as several others.  About 40 pages total! So head on over ...

Just posted my Earth Day Freebie!   I have done this project in previous years those fun stickers that you get with helium tanks.  In the spirit of sharing I went ahead and found / created the face pieces!  The kids will love being able to pick out eyes and a mouth.  I also provided several writing prompts but you could easily pair it up with a ...

I love to make hats out of sentence strips.. so here is a freebie I just threw together!  Start by writing the letter Rr or Rr words on a sentence strip.  Then color and cut the pieces.  Glue the face and tail on the front and back.  The ears are probably most easily stapled to the sides and flopped down or to the back standing up, facing forward! ...

One last freebie for Valentine's Day for you!  Again, another favorite project this time of year (and really all year!)  It's two versus from Woodie Guthrie's song Mail Myself To You.  Follow the directions in the poem and literally mail your student's to someone they love (thier parent's of course!)  Kid's will love this project and I hope you ...

Just added a couple Ground Hog Poems!  Sorry sorry so late but at least they will be out there!  =)  Click to grab it for free!  Eventually I hope to have a full years worth of Poems and Fingerplays!  [IMG]http://i1024.photobucket.com/albums/y302/MickeyD13/signature-8.png[/IMG]

So every Tuesday night about 10pm I realize... ''Oh man.. I have kindergarten buddies tomorrow and nothing planned.''  We do them during our 'recess' time so it has just not made it into my lesson plans just yet (that would be too easy right!) I have seen all sorts great Ground Hog writing activities on  Pinterest but none had a template... so ...