Colorful Resources & Ideas for Teachers with a Teaching Heart
Need to work on letter sounds, rhyming, or sight words? Need to work on other Phonemic Awareness Activities – Phonemic awareness describes the awareness skills used to detect, blend, segment and manipulate individual sounds in words. Here’s a sure way to get your PreK to first grader excited about these tasks… Make a Sound Muncher… Meet Munchy, he’s […]
Here’s to what’s around the corner when all the snow melts! Spring and Summer Learning! Sidewalk Chalk =’s learning… Did you realize all the fun that could be had with a box of chalk from the dollar store? Better yet, did you ever think of the summer learning you could trick your kids into with […]
Christmas is a time of giving and one thing website owners love to give out over the Holiday is Free winter printable. Here you will find some of my favorite free sheets that could be done at home or at school. Also these make good fillers for a Christmas Eve craft for the kids in […]
I am bummed, I did not win the parent choice awards… Losing is no fun (unless I am losing weight)! Burgh Baby won. Congrats to that site! I know many of the 6,000 plus members on my mailring had been voting daily and many of my personal friends and family had been voting too. Thank […]
I love to party!!! All good parties have to end and this is it folks. Our back to school party has been tons of fun. I have had a blast reading your comments and posting some awesome giveaways. I look forward to many happy, happy people on the 17th of August. One last giveaway and […]
Sidewalk Chalk =’s learning… Did you realize all the fun that could be had with a box of chalk from the dollar store? Better yet, did you ever think of the summer learning you could trick your kids into with a box of sidewalk chalk. Counting and Sorting: First, you can count the pieces of […]
I am very much into tricking my kiddos into learning. I did it when I was a teacher and I continue to do it with my own children. My job today is to create standard based activities that make learning those state standards fun! I love creating these fun activities for my kiddos and students […]
Here is a great way to get to know your students… Either send them this form to fill out before school starts or have them fill it out on the first day of school. Display these on a bulletin board with the title… “Look who is online?” Click here to print the form for Back […]
Are you on Facebook??? Do you LIKE Teaching Heart? If you do, you may have seen the picture below on the Facebook Page yesterday. It was a hit… So, if you did not see it, what do you think? Have you said anything similar during the summer? Ok, I was asked to rewrite the First Day […]
O, I love the dollar store all year long… but during the Holidays you can find the best stuff for learning. Here is a simple hands-on counting idea. Grab a pack of small pumpkin containers and a pack of pumpkin erasers. On the outside of each pumpkin write a number. The student must count out […]
