Establish classroom routines and procedures for how to use school supplies during the first week of school with these school supplies activities and back to school crafts! Preschool and kindergarten students will learn how to use classroom supplies as they complete these back to school activities and interactive digital slides. Plus, practice fine motor skills, including scissor cutting, gluing, tracing and more with these fine motor activities and no prep back to school printables.

5 How to Use School Supplies Activities to Easily Establish Clear Expectations

Back to school season is all about setting clear expectations, rules, routines and procedures! One important expectation to establish during…

Kick off the school year with this simple first day of school pencil craft and self-portrait drawing activity for preschool and kindergarten! This adorable back to school craft is great for practicing fine motor skills, including scissor cutting skills and gluing skills. This first day of school craft features easy to cut lines, making it the perfect craft for back to school. Add these back to school crafts for kids to your first week of school activities and back to school bulletin board!

Super Simple Pencil First Day of School Craft

Back to school season is upon us! The first week of school is all about building classroom community, teaching classroom…

Establish classroom rules and classroom management during the first week of school with this David Goes to School craft! This back to school craft is a great way to teach classroom routines and procedures. Use these David Goes to School activities to practice reading comprehension and text-to-self connections. These back to school activities are perfect for your first week of school lesson plans and back to school centers. Plus, this kids craft makes a cute back to school bulletin board!

Adorable David Goes to School Craft for Making Good Choices

Introducing classroom rules, routines, and procedures at the start of the school year can be quite the adventure, especially in…

Looking for name activities that will allow your students to practice sequencing and comparing the letters in their name? These name train activities are great for building letter recognition. Students will determine the number of letters, consonants, vowels and syllables with these hands-on name activities. Incorporate math and name practice with this name train name activity. These name practice activities are no prep, making them perfect back to school activities for name recognition!

Simple Name Train Name Activity for Kindergarten

Name trains are one of my most favorite name practice activities to help students learn the letters of their name!…

There are many benefits of crafts for kids! In this post, I'm revealing my top 10 benefits of crafts for kindergarten. Kindergarten crafts and back to school crafts are great for strengthening fine motor skills, improving scissor skills, supporting hand-eye coordination and more! Learn how kids crafts foster language development and vocabulary development. Use these preschool crafts to teach shapes and colors. I also share some easy to assemble crafts for kids to use with your thematic units!

Top 10 Benefits of Crafts for Kindergarten

Engaging children in crafts offers a wide range of benefits! From fostering creativity to strengthening fine motor control, the impact…

Help students generate ideas and zoom in on one small moment with this complete list of personal narrative mentor texts for kindergarten! This list of mentor texts for personal narratives are great for generating story ideas and adding details to small moment stories. Use these writing mentor texts within your writing lesson plans. Refer back to these writing workshop mentor texts throughout the personal narrative writing process. Learn about my favorite personal narrative activities now!

15 of the Best Personal Narrative Mentor Texts for Kindergarten

Personal narrative stories are all around us, but helping young writers discover this can be a challenge! One of my…

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

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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…