Are you new to Kinder, 1st, or 2nd grade? Are you feeling overwhelmed to start the new school year and don’t know where to start organizing your classroom or what to teach for the first 10 days of school? I’ve got some exciting news for you! Join me and my

More Than Pretend: How My Dramatic Play Kitchen Center Builds Readers, Writers, Creators, and Problem Solvers…. but it’s not all puppets and a theater! When many people think of a dramatic play kitchen center, they picture children pretending to cook meals, serve food, and play house. While those experiences are

How to Host a Fairy Tale Ball Have you ever wanted to host a Fairy Tale Ball but didn’t know exactly how to do it? Check out this blog post about how to prepare your students, how to publish a Fairy Tale story, what materials you will need, how the

Do you LOVE having your students make Mother’s Day gifts, arts and crafts? Do you love incorporating special holidays and celebrations within your classroom? How about adding some Mother’s Day fun? I’m always looking for new ways to spice up my Mother’s Day celebrations so here are some of my

Do you love teaching about life cycles? I sure do! In this blog post, I give a lot of different examples of research and writing with frogs, chickens, praying mantis, butterflies, bumble bees, and ladybugs.  Here is a great learning goal: By the end of this lesson, students will be

If you LOVE having a 120th Day celebration with your students, you’re in the right place! We dressed up as cowboys/cowgirls and had a Texas-themed celebration. We also asked some parents to help out with our stations. We are fortunate enough to have a big neighborhood around our first-grade classes,

Making Connections Teaching cross curricular in first grade just comes naturally to me. I know I was meant to be a first-grade teacher. Teaching cross curricular is the best way I know how to make better connections with my students. It really makes me proud when my students connect science

As a teacher, one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned is this: when students are given the freedom to write their own stories, their own genres, and their own ideas, their writing blossoms in ways no daily prompt could ever capture. I used to think prompts were the way to

If you’ve ever wanted to start Math Workshop with math stations but didn’t know where to start…you’re in luck! I hope this blog post will help you gain the confidence, organization and tools to help you succeed! Are You Ready to Get Started? Here are some questions that you need

Having literacy centers in your classroom is a wonderful and exciting thing! This is an easy way to spiral skills that you’ve already taught in your lessons and continue a love of learning through all the subjects. First, you need to see the layout of your classroom to see where