Unplugged coding activities: Map out routes, choreograph dance moves, and graph pixel letters. These printable activities and games will help your kids learn and enjoy fundamental coding skills. Read more…
These daily skills practice templates as completely adaptable to meet the current needs of your learners. These are meant to serve as quick and simple review practice for skills that need daily attention, or to help teach skills that can be worked on 5-to 10 minutes at a time. You can use all these templates with multiple kids at different levels simultaneously! Enjoy! Read more…
This blank comic strip template printable is a great out-of-the-box way to ignite kids’ enthusiasm for writing and story-telling. Share this with your young artists and writers and watch them create sagas to display in their own library and proudly share with others. Even if they’re too young to write, they’ll enjoy this free-style opportunity […] Read more…
Have you used manipulatives in math? What have you found to be the most successful? Here’s a simple addition activity that makes use of 3 different types of math manipulatives: dominoes, ten frames, and an abacus. Read more…
I believe that a unit study on Inventors is one of the best ways to instil a serious and healthy growth mindset in our children.Through reading these stories, doing hands-on science experiments to re-create these discoveries, studying the engineering behind these inventions, and overall, being impressed with the effort it took at every stage to break through and succeed, our children will learn in a deep and fundamental way that the learning, practising, and questioning process is a vital part of life, and will be encouraged to persevere in the face of difficulty. Read more…
10 tips for shopping on TPT
Here are 10 tips for shopping on TPT and getting the most benefit out of the site. TPT stands for TeachersPayTeachers and is an online marketplace where educators around the world upload high quality resources they’ve created for use in their own classrooms or homes. These products are great ready-to-go teaching/learning resources for almost any topic you’d ever want to cover. Read more…
As a middle and high school math teacher with a Masters in Teaching, now homeschooling my own children, I am passionate about creating enjoyable and authentic learning experiences to make Math fun for kids and to help students understand this too-often-feared subject in a thorough way. Read more…
Geometry Activities: A Geoboard Geometry Lapbook Unit
As I watched my kids play with geoboards, I realized that a large portion of any Geometry course could be taught using this hands-on math manipulative. Based on my experience as a former Geometry teacher, I created a lapbook built around a set of geometry activities that could be used by students at multiple grade and ability levels. Students can understand and learn fundamental math concepts using a very hands-on “toy” combined with fun, creative, organized activities that go beyond a typical worksheet or textbook. Read more…
Download a set of free vocabulary cards and activities to teach several fundamental Geometry concepts using a geoboard. Read more…
Car Games for Kids (…that are travel-friendly but can be played anywhere!) As we are preparing for a cross-country move, with a 2 week road trip between locations, we’ve been gathering travel-friendly items to keep the kids busy. I made up a kid-friendly adapted version of the popular “Guess Who” game that will work great […] Read more…