Colorful Resources & Ideas for Teachers with a Teaching Heart
Online learning got you missing your peeps? Share a little kindness and send them a peeps card with this fun craft great for preschool and on. My middle school child will be making one today for her grandmother. Many moons ago when I taught preschool I did this craft with my class… It was a […]
Hello Friends. Besides being a Public School Third Grade Teacher I also have taught Faith Formation at my church for over 10 years. I wanted to repost some Holy Week resources. Many are free and some link to resources I love. I hope you can use them with your own children this week. Resurrection Eggs […]
My school district in PA closed all schools for at least two weeks. Many of the parents of my students asked for resources of online activities and books that would be good for their students to use during this break. I came up with a list of ideas and resources that I thought would be […]
It’s been a nice two weeks off of school and now we must head back and start 2020 with our favorite students! One thing that has really made the start of the year in my classroom run smoothly is giving students time to reflect and share about their winter break. They have so much to […]
Looking for a fun activity for the last few days of school before winter break? Want to practice friendly writing? I bet your student want to know what their elf name would be? This will help them find the answer to this question… I have the perfect craft and writing activity for you to make […]
I created this class game for IXL to motivate my students and to make IXL more engaging for them. As they get a 90 smart score on assigned task, they sign a graphic. Once all the graphics are signed we open the mystery envelope to see who won what. One of their favorite prizes is […]
Just finished teaching compound and complex sentences to my third graders. The lessons were out of this world since they were space and star themed. My students learned all about sentences through engaging activities that are centered around a sentence space wars theme. These lessons are fun to teach and the students are engaged and […]
I created this to use in my third grade classroom to help students write their own addition and subtraction story problems. I combined it with Envisions Math Topic 3. Page 4 of the PDF has three digit addition with regrouping. However all the other pages could be used to write easier story problems or more […]
I had so much fun teaching about nouns last year and look forward to teaching about nouns again this year!!! I used the theme traveling the world when I taught all about the different kinds of nouns. The students even got to take a pretend airline ride around the world as they learned. They loved […]
One of the things I ask the parents of my new students to do is to write a letter to their student. I give them the forms before school starts at an informational meeting and they take a minute to write the letter and stick it in their child’s desk. The kids are always excited […]