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School Closing? Read On…
If you find out your school is closing on Monday for two weeks, and you need to come up with work for your students, you're probably going to panic. Here are some things that I hope will help you out, particularly if you are a first grade teacher. Everything on this page is FREE - there are no links to paid items.
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Fancying Up Your Bulletin Board Letters
I know you’ve seen them on your social media feeds. And I know you are thinking, these are adorable but I don’t have a cricut® and I am not going to buy a cricut® and so I will never be able to make these beautiful bulletin board letters. And then you hang your head and think about all the other things that you don’t have in your life, like a Ford Mustang convertible, an Instapot, a private jet and Tieks. (I really want a pair of Tieks). (Disclosure: Some of links below are affiliate links, which means that at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if…
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Black Pioneers You Should Know: Madam CJ Walker
Sarah Breedlove, better known as Madam CJ Walker, is America's first female self-made millionaire. She grew up in poverty and by the age of 20 was a widowed woman bringing up a two year old daughter alone. To try to make money she took in laundry. Due to a scalp condition, Sarah began to lose her hair so she started experimenting with some of the laundry chemicals she has used, hoping to find a cure.
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Black Pioneers You Should Know: Dr. Mae Jemison
Mae Jemison seems to be one of those kind of cool people that you wish you could've met when you were younger. She is inspirational to me now as an adult, and I think as I child learning about her and her achievements may have led me down a different path, one which I thought was unattainable.
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Camping Themed Classroom
(Disclosure: Some of links below are affiliate links, which means that at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.) Every summer I would spend hours perusing pinterest for the perfect classroom theme for the school year. So different choices, from llamas to cacti and even farmhouse! (I’m not sure that a Chip and Joanna Gaines shiplap classroom is particularly inspiring for students, but then again, each to their own!) But the themes I love are the ones that have legs and can be revisited year after year. And the decor that I always come back to is camping. Here…
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Kindergarten Addition and Subtraction
What are some ways of practicing with addition and subtraction that you use in your classroom? Using hands-on manipulatives are the most concrete way of showing addition and understanding that combinations of numbers equal a new total. (Disclosure: Some of links below are affiliate links, which means that at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.) Manipulatives that my students always enjoy counting with include mini erasers, beans, counters, compare bears and candy corn or popcorn (I give each student their individual bag of the latter and they are allowed to eat at the end!) I love open-ended opportunities…
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Easy Father’s Day Craft
I always feel that dads and other important males in our students lives get a little bit left out of the parenting celebration. In my school district school is out roughly two weeks before Father's Day, and it ended up being forgotten in the hustle and bustle of field day and parties for many years. But then I realized that this craft was the perfect activity for the last days of school when you are scratching your head to find engaging assignments for your students.
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Kindergarten Name Activities
Looking for inspiration for a first week of school craft that involves practicing cutting skills, name recognition and coloring and goes along with the BEST first week of school book, then look no further! This coconut tree is editable and personalized to make the first craft your students create in school one they are sure to keep forever!
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Staying in Touch with Families
Looking for ways to stay in touch with your students? Now that schools are all distance learning with students, I thought it would be nice to look at using Facebook groups as a way of staying in touch with your students and their families. Click to learn more!
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Fairy Tale Sequencing
Looking for different ways for students to retell favorite fairy tales? These retell crowns and character hats give students the opportunity to retell the story to adults. Click to learn more!
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Name Rainbows!
Adorable rainbow craft with name practice that is EDITABLE and can be personalized for each student! Click to learn more!
