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"I'm Done! Now What!" Discover how to assemble & use early finisher activities in your kindergarten classroom so you never hear that phrase again! These fast finisher activities are perfect for your preschool and kindergarten students. With 240 file folder games, students will be fully engaged when they finish a task early. There are 10 literacy activities and 10 math activities for each month! Students can use these early finisher activities for morning work or centers as well. Learn more!

3 Key Steps for How to Easily Use Early Finisher Activities in Your Kindergarten Classroom

“I’m Done! Now What?” As an early elementary teacher, I am sure you hear this phrase at least once (if…

Gobble up this turkey life cycle craft for kindergarten and first grade! This life cycle of a turkey craft is a great center activity leading up to Thanksgiving break. This turkey craft for kids is perfect for your Thanksgiving centers and Thanksgiving bulletin board. Pair this Thanksgiving craft for kids with your favorite fiction or nonfiction turkey books! Integrate science into your Thanksgiving unit, Thanksgiving activities, and Thanksgiving lessons by downloading this turkey activity!

Interactive Turkey Life Cycle Craft for Kids

November is all about turkeys! I love to incorporate a variety of turkey activities, leading up to Thanksgiving break. We…

Tame the morning chaos and engage your kindergarten students, as they build fine motor skills, with these 20 math and ELA November fine motor activities! These fall fine motor activities are great for fine motor centers, morning tubs, morning work, fall centers, or early finisher activities. Practice 1:1 counting, subitizing and more with these Thanksgiving fine motor activities. Plus, use these fall activities for kids to practice CVC words, letter recognition, sight words and syllables!

20 November Fine Motor Activities for Morning Tubs

November is always a bit of a crazy month! The honeymoon phase of a new school year has ended, the…

Celebrate Halloween with this ultimate list of Halloween activities, Halloween crafts, and Halloween games for kindergarten and first grade! Your elementary students will have a spooktacular time playing the Halloween math games, rotating between the math and literacy Halloween centers, and engaging in the Halloween science experiments. These Halloween activities for kids are great for Halloween centers and your Halloween classroom party! Find Halloween books for kids, Halloween gifts and more!

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Celebrating Halloween isn’t just a one day thing… it’s a holiday that is celebrated the entire month of October! These…

Learn all about spiders as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive spider activities and spider craft! These spider activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these spider activities and spider craft for kids with your favorite spider books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

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Nothing embodies the spirit of Halloween quite like spiders! While some kids think they are creepy, others think they are…

Learn all about bats as you integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with these 25 interactive bat activities and bat craft! These bat activities for kindergarten or first grade are a great addition to your Halloween activities and Halloween crafts for kids! Pair these bat activities and bat craft for kids with your favorite bat books for kids. Use the math activities, science activities, social studies activities and literacy activities for whole group or Halloween centers!

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Ghosts, pumpkins, witches… when our students think about Halloween, these three words typically come to mind first. But let’s not…

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Hey, teacher friend! I’m Ashley, a passionate Kindergarten teacher dedicated to creating an enriching and playful learning experience for our littlest learners.

Since beginning my teaching career in 2004, I’ve become a connoisseur of teacher pens and markers, as well as a master actress, turning ordinary moments and objects into extraordinary teaching experiences and tools.

To me, the best learning involves integrated activities and, of course, a cute craft with a purpose. I believe the words “fun, play, and creativity” can sit right alongside the words “developmentally appropriate, engaging, and rigorous.” Learning is meant to be fun and messy!

So, whether we’re knee-deep in glitter or orchestrating a symphony of giggles during story time, let’s keep our little learners SHARP together!

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Here’s a fun fine motor center for Halloween or

Here’s a fun fine motor center for Halloween or the month of October! Just add some spooky spider rings, and you’re all set!

You could even use this spider race game as a Halloween party game….

Are you having a classroom party this year?

Drop the word HALLOWEEN in the comments for the link to my favorite Halloween activities!

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Sequencing the events in a story is an important s

Sequencing the events in a story is an important skill for our little learners to develop! To help retell the story Room on the Broom, I like to have my students create an interactive broomstick retelling craft!

While completing the craft, they also practice making simple cuts… curves, straight lines and zig zags… which is a very important skill for our young learners.

Once the craft is complete, the students can lift the flaps as they retell the story!

Head to my stories for a peek at our other Room on the Broom activities… anchor charts, emergent readers, pocket chart sentences and centers!

Drop the word BROOM in the comments, and I’ll send you the direct link to the craft and activities!

What’s one of your favorite October read alouds?

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When is your Pumpkin Week? Some years, we will com

When is your Pumpkin Week? Some years, we will complete our pumpkin investigations before Halloween. Other years (read… when we run out of time 🤪), we complete them just before Thanksgiving.

That’s the beauty of pumpkin season… It really lasts all fall long!

Normally, I’ll have my students rotate through several different pumpkin stations. However, these activities can also be completed whole group.

On Friday, we will finish cutting out the pages and cover for our “All About Pumpkins” book!

Head to my stories for a closer look at all 20 interactive activities!

Drop the word PUMPKIN in the comments for the direct link!

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Fire Safety Week creeps up on me every year! You t

Fire Safety Week creeps up on me every year! You too?! Just an FYI… it’s next week!

Drop the word HELMET in the comments for the free Fire Safety Expert crown!

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On Mondays, we always begin with a new poem for th

On Mondays, we always begin with a new poem for the week. Poems are a great way to build oral language and vocabulary, fluency, sight word recognition, concepts of print, comprehension, and phonics and phonemic awareness skills!

Each day, we’ll read the poem during our shared reading time and complete a different activity. Of course, we make up hand motions to go along with each line!

For our firefighter poem, we’ll find our new word wall word “my,” identify any other words on the word wall, practice naming and supplying words that rhyme, as well as locate the commas.

I thought about singing this one for you all in a reel, but I think you get the idea! Sing it to the tune of “I’m a Little Teapot.” If you really want me to sing it, let me know!

Drop the word FIREFIGHTER in the comments to see more of my favorite fire safety activities!

Also, what’s on tap next? Pumpkins 🎃, bats 🦇, or spiders 🕷?

And, I did not draw this cute picture! Project and trace, friends! It’s a beautiful thing!

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🚨FREEBIE ALERT! 👩‍🚒🧑‍🚒 Do you v

🚨FREEBIE ALERT! 👩‍🚒🧑‍🚒 Do you visit the fire station or have firefighters come to school for Fire Safety Week? Tell them thank you with these free firefighter thank you cards!

Head to my stories, or drop the word CARD in the comments, for the link to the thank you cards!

We also learn a poem all about firefighters! Is this something you would like to see? Let me know in the comments!

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Providing opportunities for our little learners to

Providing opportunities for our little learners to craft is a hill I’m willing to stand firm on… the benefits are huge! Check out my recent posts for a more detailed explanation of these benefits!

I’m always sure to integrate one of our core subjects! Sometimes, it’s math. Sometimes, it’s science or social studies. For this particular craft, it’s literacy.

Head to my stories for a peek at our Fire Safety Week activities!

Which fire truck is your favorite? Labels, or sentences?

Also, drop a 🚒 in the comments for the link to the fire truck crafts!

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To kick off Fire Safety Week, we label our fire tr

To kick off Fire Safety Week, we label our fire truck anchor chart. I’m just going to say that project and trace is the most incredible hack for drawing on anchor charts, but shhhh… 🤫 don’t go telling my secret to anyone!

First, we label each part of the truck with just words. Once we’ve labeled all of the parts of the fire truck, I model how to write a sentence using the words we have learned from our word wall. I demonstrate how to begin with a capital letter, how to put spaces between the words, how to use the labels on our anchor chart to spell the last word in the sentence, and how to end with a period.

Then, I group the students and give them each one part of the fire truck to label with a sentence. Each person in the group writes one word in the sentence.

When everyone is finished, I hold up a sentence to read. After we have read that sentence, we add it to our anchor chart.

Head to my stories to see how we practice these same sight words using our weekly emergent reader and pocket chart sentences!

Raise your hand 🙋‍♀️ if you use the project and trace hack for anchor charts too!

You better believe that I laminated this fire truck, so I can use it year after year!

Drop a 🚒 in the comments, and I’ll send you the link to the fire truck craft that goes along with this anchor chart!

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