Easy and Fun Thanksgiving Turkey Dot Marker Art
Thanksgiving is just a few days away and I think we all can agree that this one feels different from any Thanksgiving that any of us can remember. My husband and I are planning to stay home and prepare an intimate family dinner for ourselves and the kids. The stakes
Easy Preschool Fall Tree Art Project
Fall has arrived in Michigan! The days are getting shorter, temperatures are dropping, and the leaves are changing color. Peak color in our area has recently passed, but I am clinging to every beautiful moment of this season. Right now is the perfect time to be out for a walk
Big Green Monster Kindergarten Watercolor Paintings
My students had a BLAST in our kindergarten classroom for Halloween last week, yet they were amazingly well behaved. We didn’t have a week full of candy and silliness. We had fun, but it was more academic in nature and it really helped my students to remain in control of
Pumpkin Window Decorations Tutorial
Halloween is almost here and I have a super-simple craft you can create inside the classroom or at home with your little ones! The best part is that pumpkins are in-season all through the fall so this cute window decoration can stay up right through Thanksgiving. This post contains affiliate
Stained Glass Apple Craft + Free Template
During our apple study, my kindergarten students made the cutest apple window decorations with clear contact paper, tissue paper squares and a little construction paper. I make many of these “stained glass” decorations throughout the year and I love how festive they make my classroom feel! These decorations are also very
Free Apple Number Writing Book to Master Number Formation
In addition to all of the usual apple activities, I wove the apple theme in to my math and handwriting lessons. In math, my students are working on counting and number recognition. Most of my students can easily count objects and recognize numbers 0-10, but forming those numbers correctly is a different story. I created a free apple theme book to provide extra number writing practice for my students.
Thanksgiving Feast Color by Number
Kindergarten and First Grade teachers have been praising my color by number pages. Have you found this gem yet? This Time to Feast page was one of the first color by number pages I created. It’s an oldie but a goodie! Stop by my TpT store to grab this great
Interactive Readers for Thanksgiving and Late Fall
Are you looking for ways to get into the Thanksgiving spirit without sacrificing any instructional time? Interactive Sight Word Readers are here to help! All of my Interactive Sight Word Readers are 6-page booklets that get students reading and using sight words in a way that is engaging, fun, and
Halloween Monster Mania (Plus a FREEBIE!)
Whew! What a week. Halloween has left me completely exhausted, but boy did we have fun! Our Halloween festivities revolved around the theme of “Monster Mania”. I am a little big obsessed with all things monster at the moment. There is something that is so perfectly kindergarten about monsters. It’s