Countdown to summer with this ultimate list of end of the year activities! These countdown to summer activities are perfect for your ABC countdown! Discover end of the year theme days, end of the year memory books for kids, end of the year crafts, and more! Your students will love the end of the year centers, end of the year books, and end of the year student gifts! Throw a Glow Day party, host an end of the year awards ceremony, or complete an escape room during your end of the year countdown!

The Best 30+ End of the Year Countdown to Summer Activities

It’s almost time to trade pencils for pool days! Keep your classroom lively, focused, and full of fun as the…

Celebrate St. Patrick's Day with your kindergarten and 1st grade students with this ultimate list of St. Patrick's Day activities for kids! Students will have a blast with the math and literacy St. Patrick's Day centers including the St. Patrick's Day escape room activities! They will also love the St. Patrick's Day crafts including the How to Catch a Leprechaun craft and rainbow craft! Don't forget to explore the fine motor activities and St. Patrick's Day games for kids!

The Ultimate List of St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Kids

St. Patrick’s Day is just around the corner, and it’s time to get ready for some shamrockin’ fun! Celebrate this…

Explore this ultimate list of Valentine's Day books for kids, celebrating themes of love, friendship, and kindness. This list of Valentines books for preschool, kindergarten, and first grade is perfect for February! Pair any of these books for Valentine's Day with your favorite Valentine's Day centers, Valentine's Day crafts, or Valentine's Day activities! These Valentine books for kids are perfect for your classroom Valentine's Day party! Discover the full list of Valentine's books here!

25 Best-Selling Valentine’s Day Books for Kids

Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to nurture love, friendship, and kindness in the classroom! Reading a variety of Valentine’s…

Countdown to Christmas with these fiction and nonfiction reindeer books for kids! Learn all about reindeer with the list of nonfiction books, or enjoy a whimsical holiday story about reindeer with the fiction reindeer read alouds. This list of reindeer books is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade and second grade students. Add these books about reindeer to your collection of reindeer activities, reindeer crafts for kids, Christmas crafts, Christmas books and caribou books for kids!

20 Magical Reindeer Books for Kids at Christmas

As the holiday season approaches, I love to swap out our turkey books for Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah, and many more…

Celebrate the diverse holidays and traditions around the world with these must-read holidays around the world books for kids! These holiday books for kids are great for fostering an inclusive classroom around the holiday season. Discover Hanukkah books for kids, Kwanzaa books for kids, Las Posadas books for kids, Diwali books, and St. Lucia's books. Christmas books for kids, Ramadan books and Chinese New Year books can also be found on this ultimate list of holidays around the world activities!

The Best 60 Holidays Around the World Books for Kids

As the holiday season quickly approaches, I am always on the hunt for ways to bring a bit of magic…

Incorporate writing into your Thanksgiving activities with these How To Catch a Turkey activities and turkey crafts! Using one of the best turkey books for kids and these procedural writing activities, students will devise a turkey trap for catching the turkey in disguise. They will also use transition words from the how to writing anchor chart to create their procedural writing and Thanksgiving crafts. This How to Catch a Turkey craft for Thanksgiving makes a cute Thanksgiving bulletin board!

The Best How to Catch a Turkey Activities and Craft

A turkey is on the loose! How can you catch it? Have some fun this Thanksgiving devising a plan to…

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!

The Best 20+ Halloween Activities for Kindergarten

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!

25 Fun All About Spider Activities and Spider Craft for Kids

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

Get ready to engage your little learners with these 10 Room on the Broom Halloween center activities, including 5 Halloween math centers & 5 Halloween literacy centers! These Room on the Broom activities allow students to work on rhyming words, counting syllables, CVC words and more! With these Halloween activities, also practice sequencing numbers, making five, identifying shapes, and 1 to 1 counting. Set up these Halloween centers during the month of October or your classroom Halloween party!

10 Not So Scary Room on the Broom Halloween Center Activities

Room on the Broom is one of my favorite Halloween read alouds! Throughout the month of October, I introduce a…

Celebrate back to school, Fire Safety Week, Halloween and Thanksgiving with these 35+ fall crafts for kindergarten! The back to school crafts for kids are great for learning classroom rules, as well as classroom routines and procedures. Use the Halloween crafts at your classroom Halloween party. The Thanksgiving crafts are perfect for math centers or literacy centers, while the fire safety crafts are a fun way to celebrate Fire Safety Week! Discover the full list of kids crafts for fall!

The Best 35+ Fall Crafts for Kindergarten

Fall is a busy season! From back to school, to Halloween, to Thanksgiving, and football games in between, there is…

Kick off your name unit with this simple Chrysanthemum name craft for back to school! These Chrysanthemum activities are a great way to celebrate your students’ names. These name activities not only help with name recognition but also make an adorable back to school bulletin board. Name practice activities and name crafts, like this Chrysanthemum craft, are the best back to school activities for the first week of school. Include this back to school craft in your first week of school activities!

The Best Chrysanthemum Name Craft for Back to School

Chrysanthemum…a name that is likely familiar if you are an early elementary teacher! I personally LOVE to read “Chrysanthemum” during…

Help ease those first day of school feelings, while integrating math, with this back to school The Kissing Hand craft for kindergarten! This first day of school craft and back to school read aloud are great for building classroom community and making connections! These back to school The Kissing Hand activities allow students to practice graphing and analyzing data. Plus, practice scissor cutting skills with this back to school craft. Hang the raccoon craft as a back to school bulletin board!

The Kissing Hand Craft for Kindergarten to Graph First Day Feelings

The first day of school is filled with so many emotions for both students and teachers! While many feel excited,…