Get students excited about the writing journey they are about to embark on with this complete list of mentor texts for launching writing workshop! These mentor texts for launching writer's workshop will help build writing confidence in your kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students. Integrate any of these writing mentor texts into your writing lessons. These writing workshop mentor texts will help with generating writing ideas, being confident writers and so much more! Grab the list!

15 of the Best Mentor Texts for Launching Writing Workshop

Want to know the key to successfully launching writing workshop in kindergarten, first, and second grade? Mentor texts! Mentor texts…

Strengthen fine motor skills with these no prep, fine motor sight word activities that you can use with any high frequency words or spelling words! These fine motor word work activities can also be used to practice heart words or any other sight words. Prep once and use these sight word activities for kindergarten for the whole year! Plus, these fine motor activities for kids use common classroom supplies! Perfect for sight word practice during your word work centers or sight word centers!

15+ Fine Motor Sight Word Activities

Practicing sight words is an important part of any primary classroom literacy block. With so many new words for students…

Add these stuff the turkey fine motor activities to your Thanksgiving math centers! These turkey math centers are great for practicing 1:1 counting, subitizing, adding, and making 10. Plus, strengthen fine motor skills, as you build number sense, with these stuff the turkey math games and fine motor activities for Thanksgiving. These turkey math activities can be played independently or with a partner during math workshop, morning work, or as an early finishers activity!

Stuff the Turkey Math Games for Centers

Get ready to gobble up some festive fun with our FREE “Stuff the Turkey” math games! During these Thanksgiving centers,…

Celebrate Thanksgiving, as you review math and literacy skills, with these engaging Thanksgiving centers for kindergarten & first grade. These Thanksgiving Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Thanksgiving Party or turkey math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables, rhyming words, decomposing five and more. They will enjoy finding out which turkey in disguise stole the pumpkin pies with these Thanksgiving math centers and Thanksgiving literacy centers!

Thanksgiving Centers for Kindergarten

I love teaching my students all about turkeys during the last week leading up to Thanksgiving, but I also like…

Students will gobble up these fiction and nonfiction turkey books throughout the month of November! These turkey books for kids are great for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students! Students will learn all about turkeys with these engaging turkey read alouds. Integrate math, science, literacy, and social studies with the turkey activities and turkey crafts found in this post. Great for Thanksgiving math centers or Thanksgiving literacy centers!

Turkey Books for Kids at Thanksgiving

With a blink of an eye, it’s already November which means it’s time to swap out those Halloween books for…

Make parent teacher conferences a more enjoyable experience with these fun parent pride shout out notes! These parent pride notes are a great way to help build student confidence. These free parent teacher conference printables can easily be set up in the hallway during parent teacher conference night or open house night. Students will love reading these positive notes from their parents. Download your free printable today!

Parent Teacher Conferences Parent Pride Shout Out

Parent teacher conferences are among us! For some, parent teacher conferences are held only once a year. Whereas in other…

Add this masking tape mummy craft to your list of Halloween party activities! This Halloween craft is a great opportunity to enhance fine motor skills as your students tear and stick masking tape to their FREE mummy template. This mummy craft is perfect for your Halloween centers during your classroom Halloween party in preschool, kindergarten, or first grade. Pair this Halloween craft with your favorite Halloween books this October. Plus, this fall craft makes a cute Halloween bulletin board!

Masking Tape Mummy Halloween Craft for Kids

With easy prep and quick assembly, this masking tape mummy is one of my favorite Halloween crafts to create during…

Halloween Play Dough Kits Student Gift Idea

Unleash your students’ creativity and boost their fine motor skills with these Halloween play dough kits! These kits offer endless…

This simple Room on the Broom craft for sequencing is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade! This sequencing activity is great for sequencing events of the story while working on fine motor skills, including scissor cutting skills and gluing. After reading Room on the Broom, practice using your Room on the Broom craft for retelling the story. This is a great Halloween activity to add to your October lesson plans or Halloween Party. It also makes a cute Halloween bulletin board!

Room on the Broom Craft for Sequencing

“Room on the Broom” is one of my favorite October read alouds! I love it so much that I have…

Celebrate Halloween, as you review math and literacy skills, with these highly engaging Halloween centers for kindergarten and first grade. These Halloween Escape Room activities can be used for a classroom Halloween Party or Halloween math and literacy centers. Students will practice CVC words, syllables and rhyming words. They will also practice decomposing five, patterns and building number sense with subitizing. Students will love these Halloween math centers and Halloween literacy centers!

Halloween Centers for Kindergarten

Ghosts, goblins, and witches, oh my! The countdown to Halloween is on and what better way to celebrate than with…

Celebrate Fire Prevention Month with this comprehensive list of fiction and nonfiction fire safety books for kids. Pair these first safety books for preschool, kindergarten or first grade with your favorite fire safety activities and fire safety crafts. There are 25 books about fire safety, including books about firefighters, books about fire drills, books about fire trucks and more. Read these fire books, firefighter books and fire truck books during your morning meeting or reading block!

Fire Safety Books for Fire Safety Week

Fire safety is such an important topic for our young learners. Over the years, I have had so much fun…

September is the perfect time for apple crafts, apple books and apple activities! This paper plate apple craft for preschool, kindergarten and first grade comes with a free apple labeling printable. Learn all about apples, and then let your students complete this adorable apple paper plate craft. This fall craft allows students to work on fine motor skills, as well as labeling. You can complete this apple activity during your apple investigation week. Grab your free apple label printable now!

Paper Plate Apple Craft for Labeling

I live in the Midwest, which means apple orchards are EVERYWHERE! My love for apples and apple week is something…