Ok, so I’m two days early, but this gives you time to prep your lessons, right? Here are some of my favorite teaching ideas for St. Patrick’s Day! St. Patrick’s Day is a super fun, easy holiday to celebrate in the classroom. It brings multiculturalism, color study (green, white, and orange), folklore (hello, leprechauns!), nature […]
Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
Today is a day for us to play with words that often are fun to say. Like Lorax, Cindy Loo Hoo, and all of the other ones, too! It’s Dr. Seuss’s birthday today!
Skip the Valentine's Day Candy, Please!
So, Valentine’s Day is this weekend. And if your child is part of the PK-5 set, chances are that there will be a class “celebration” on Friday. Can I make a plea? Skip the Valentine’s Day candy, please!
Stop Learning Loss with 5 Ways to Keep Learning Over Winter Break
It’s (almost) Winter Break! That glorious week plus reprieve from school for kids, and added entertaining responsibilities for parents. Teachers will tell you that kids will forget a few things over winter break, but there are easy ways to keep learning over winter break.
Make Reading Fun with a Books Made into Movies Marathon
So snuggle up, grab the popcorn, and cue up the DVD player. Here are my TOP children’s and classic books that were made into movies.
Games Every Teacher Needs
Games. Only useful for indoor recess and those endless days before a school vacation, right? Wrong.
Sow the Seeds of Caring with the 5 Easy Ways to Give as a Family
Today is Giving Tuesday, a day devoted to charitable giving of all kinds and to all places. And the time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Eve is full of opportunities, both big and small, to give to others and give back to our communities or to a favorite cause.
The Absolute Top 10 Things Teachers are Thankful For
What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving?
Celebrate All the Holidays!
Holidays are super fun. For almost every person and religion that I have encountered, these special times revolve around food, family, traditions, and community. Yet, we don’t take the time to honor or teach these very important aspects of life, or we focus on only one particular culture’s traditions. As teachers, and families, we can turn holidays into learning experiences.
Why You Should Take a Family Field Trip ASAP
Trip are awesome, and that’s a (mostly) fact! Taking a trip to anywhere gets you out of the house and experiencing something new. When you make a trip something that is educational, everyone in the family benefits!
Teaching through Deployment
It’s no joke: deployments suck. Suddenly a two parent house is a one parent show, the kids miss their deployed mom or dad, and learning can suffer. But you can use a deployment to help your children learn new skills and build global knowledge.
The Teacher Gift Guide
Every year, the struggle is real: what to get for the teachers in your life. Seriously, this is tough. There is a ton of stuff out there that is marketed at teachers, but most of it is actually useless or will just take up valuable space. So here’s what teachers really want (and need from you) for any gift giving occasion, straight from this teacher to you!
The First Thanksgiving, Live and in Person
You can visit colonial Plymouth, or Plimoth Plantation, circa 1627. How? Through the magic of virtual field trips.
How to Celebrate Halloween at School
But there are ways to mark this special day, arguably one of the the most important dates of the year for the elementary school crowd. You have opportunities here to make Halloween an academic experience. So use it!
How to Turn Pumpkins into Math
Math can be kind of boring, if we’re honest with ourselves. There are formulas, strategies, and all of those facts to memorize. Which is why using pumpkins is way cool.