This is the freebie teacher celebration for PreKindergarten and Kindergarten teachers. We know you'll find a free download (or perhaps even a hundred) that is just right for you that need PreKindergarten activities and teach kindergarten. Welcome to TBA's Birthday Party. We are hosting the ultimate freebie celebration this week... Continue ...

St. Patrick's Day can still help you teach your standards when you bring in quality, free printables. With St. Patrick's Day themed printables to cover math, language arts, treats and make it all feel fun - you can bring St. Patrick's Day green into your classroom. Here are 26 free downloads for primary grades on bringing the Luck o' the ...

In Kindergarten we eventually will learn to tell time on the hour but for the moment teachers are working on your child’s sense of time.  Does your child understand about the passing of time?  Is your child able to correctly distinguish between yesterday and tomorrow?  In my Kindergarten classroom we wrote in journals every Monday about what we ...

When most parents think of the readiness skills needed for Kindergarten, they immediately think of reading readiness skills.  Well that is only the half of it.  Let’s not forget about math skills.  Many children arrive in Kindergarten and are very proud of their counting skills.  Children love to be able to say “I can count to 100!”  Now most ...

Playing cards can be a great deal of fun for young children.  Many reasoning, mathematical and social interaction skills can be developed and reinforced by playing cards.  Simply buy a deck of playing cards (the kind adults use to play cards) and teach your child a few simple games. He/she can sort the cards, by color, by shape or by ...

Here is a wonderful site from PBS that will help you to track the skills your child should possess for his/her age. Take a look at how your child should be functioning in the following areas according to his age: Approach to Learning Creative Arts Language Literacy Math Physical Health Social and Emotional ...

Your child will encounter many teachers in his/her lifetime. Not only will there be teachers in the classroom, but there will be just as many outside of the classroom.  He/she will have teachers in sports, after school activities, music lessons, girl/boy scouts etc.  Your child will have to listen and learn from many adults but the most important ...

Children can never have enough math practice. They should be practicing math skills over and over and over until they are like second nature.  Here is a site that has almost 80 different math games that your child can play online.  Check it out, you be certain to find a game that is just right for continued math practice for your ...

Here's a simple game of rolling the dice, and counting the dots.  Children then cover it with a counter.  After all numbers are covered the child with the most numbers covered is the winner!  It works well with Kindergarten Common Core Standards.  Click the picture to download it for free, I appreciate kind feedback and ratings! Thanks for ...

Happy Sunday, everybody! It's becoming crunch time for those of us whose summer is coming to an end. I've started on all of those projects I've been putting off since May! Here is one I started and will finish sometime this week.....I think. At Math Camp we used response boards quite a bit during activities to respond to questions, ...