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Teaching CVCe Words
Plenty of printable activities to add to literacy rotations to help teach CVCe words - those tricky to spell words with a final silent 'e'.Many young children will fly along with their spelling until...
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Building Fine Motor Skills This Christmas
Use this one FREE printable to build fine motor skills this Christmas season.As educators working in Early Years settings, we all know how important fine motor skills are in early childhood. Without...
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Initial Sounds Alphabet Circles
Ready to print, these alphabet wheels are perfect for preschoolers or primary aged children learning their beginning letter sounds.Working in an Early Years classroom, hands-on materials are a must....
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50+ Tremendous Christmas Tree Crafts + Activities
This collection of more than 50 different delightful Christmas tree activities and crafts is sure to fill your holidays with joy.When I was little, my most favourite thing about the holiday season was...
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How and Why I Teach Sight Words
Why teaching high frequency words to beginning readers and writers is so important and how to best teach them sight words.We've all met the beginning reader struggling with their fluency. They stop at...
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Learning To Read CVC Words
Use these ready to print resources in class to help support young children learning to read simple CVC words.One of the first literacy skills young children must have as they start to read and spell...
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How To Teach Telling Time - Days + Months
Teaching young children about the days of the week or months of the year won't be dull with these engaging ideas and printables for the Early Years!With lots of teaching time dedicated to reading...
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How To Best Teach Beginning Letter Sounds
How to best teach initial sounds - teaching ideas and printable resources ideal for young children learning beginning letter sounds.Learning to tell sounds apart is a key literacy skill in the Early...
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MAKE LEARNING TO WRITE INFORMATION REPORTS EASIER
Use our ready to print resources to help make learning to write informational text for early elementary students easier to teach!Some genres like recounts and narratives can seem easier to teach as our...
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HOW TO PROMOTE RICH STORYTELLING BY YOUNG CHILDREN
Useful, actionable ways to prompt rich storytelling in your Early Years classroom.There are many different ways to encourage rich storytelling in early childhood. Studies show the development of strong...
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CLEVER WAYS TO PICK PARTNERS IN CLASS
Make picking student partners or small groups in class quick, easy and painless with these fun pick a partner cards while learning at the same time!It should be easy to partner up students or put them...
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USING PICTURE BOOKS TO IMPROVE READING SKILLS
Teachers are constantly trialing and testing new ways of doing things in the classroom, trying to find the best ways to engage and teach the children in our care for the school year.Many teachers have...
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USING A BIRTHDAY CHART IN CLASS
Want to create a sense of belonging in your classroom? Add a birthday chart to help everyone feel included and valued.There's no more exciting day in a child's calendar than their birthday. Not even...
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2D SHAPE GAMES - DOMINOES
Looking for a fun way to learn to recognize 2D shapes? Try this game of dominoes featuring 2D shapes as words, clip art and real world examples to match.Some math concepts and language take longer for...
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LEARNING ABOUT SHAPES THROUGH PLAY
Learn how to create playful hands-on invitations to play to learn about 2D shapes and 3D shapes and their properties.Hands down one of of my favourite maths topics to teach would have to be shapes and...
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20 OF THE BEST RESOURCES FOR TEACHING SHAPES
A collection of the must have resources for teaching young children about 2D shapes!Exploring shapes with children can be so much fun! Having access to quality toys and resources that invite hands-on...
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CHRISTMAS TREE STEM CHALLENGE FOR CLASS
Recreate this Christmas STEM challenge in your classroom this festive holiday season with materials you might already have at school!Looking for a simple to prep STEM challenge for the countdown to...
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USING CARS TO TEACH CORRECT NUMBER FORMATION
Hands-on resources for car loving preschoolers wanting to learn how to recognize, quantify and write numbers to 10.It's seems to be universal ➡ cars + preschoolers = engaged play. Utilizing a child's...
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PARTS OF SPEECH - INTRODUCING + TEACHING NOUNS
Teaching ideas and resources to use in class when introducing nouns in Kindergarten and First Grade.When starting to teach the different parts of speech, most programs start by teaching common nouns as...
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SYLLABLE BINGO GAME
Being able to break words into syllables and correctly count the number of syllables is one of the first phonological awareness skills young children master.It is a early literacy skill earmarked as a...
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