Celebrate Fire Safety Week with your preschool and kindergarten students, while integrating literacy, with this adorable fire truck craft for kids! Students can form a sentence or label the fire truck. This simple fire truck craft is also great for practicing fine motor skills, scissor skills and gluing skills. Hang this Fire Safety Week craft on your Fire Prevention bulletin board display. Remember to include these fire safety crafts in your fire safety activities during Fire Prevention Week!

Simple Fire Truck Craft for Kids: The Easiest Way to Integrate Literacy During Fire Safety Week

Fire Safety Week is not only a fun celebration, but it is also a very important and informative week for…

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…

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…

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…

Learn all about apples during apple week! Pair this apple paper craft with your favorite apple books or apple activities during the month of September. This simple apple craft for kids is perfect for the beginning of the school year. Work on fine motor skills, as your preschool and kindergarten students tear and glue pieces of paper. This fall craft makes a perfect apple bulletin board. You can complete this apple craft after your apple investigation!

Torn Paper Apple Craft for Kids

Apple Week is one of my favorite September themes! This simple torn paper apple craft is perfect for the beginning…

Back to school crafts are a great way to kickoff the new school year! Today, I am sharing some of my favorite back to school crafts for preschool, kindergarten and first grade. You will find a David Goes to School craft, an all about me craft, a first day feelings craft and more. These crafts are great for teaching rules and expectations, as well as building a strong classroom community from day one. You will also find name crafts, including a Chrysanthemum craft and alphabet name soup craft.

Back to School Crafts for Kids

The start of a new school year can be very overwhelming for our young learners. Getting used to a new…

Teaching students about classroom rules & classroom routines and procedures just got a whole lot easier with this ultimate list of back to school books about rules! These read alouds will help with classroom management as you review classroom procedures with your elementary students. You can pair these back to school books for kids with your favorite back to school activities. Students learn how to take care of classroom supplies, kindness, and all about following directions and listening.

Books to Teach Rules for Back to School

Building classroom community and establishing clear routines, expectations and procedures are my main focus during the first few weeks of…