Bat lesson plan ideas with engaging activities to support reading comprehension. Math & literacy centers, crafts, videos, and yummy snacks, too! Bat Lesson Plan Ideas Teaching about bats is so much fun! It is a perfect Fall theme to incorporate into your classroom. Here are some fun lesson ideas for your week (or two) of…
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19 Ocean Videos for Kids that are Teacher Approved
Ocean videos for kids that are perfect for your study of the ocean in kindergarten and first grade. Learn about the five different oceans, coral reefs, and ocean animals with these teacher-approved videos. 19 Ocean Videos for Kids Teaching about the ocean is so fun! Check out this list of 19 teacher-approved videos to show…
7 Classroom Friendly Videos for Studying the Arctic
Classroom friendly videos Arctic Animals. These teacher-approved videos are great for your January units of study. Polar bears, penguins, and other animals in winter! Kindergarten and first-grade appropriate videos for your classroom. Classroom Friendly Videos: Arctic Animals It’s almost January! That means our study of Arctic animals is coming soon! Check out these classroom-friendly videos for…
City Dog, Country Frog Activity Ideas and more
City Dog Country Frog Activities and Mentor Text lesson ideas are here! Find reading comprehension and writing ideas to use with this amazing book by Mo Willems. City Dog, Country Frog Mentor Text I don’t remember the exact moment I fell in love with City Dog, Country Frog by Mo Willems. I think it was…
What if You Had Animal Parts Lesson Plans.. Looking at text details
What if you had animal parts lesson plans for kindergarten and first grade! My students have always loved these books and we are really excited to that we are creating a new Engaging Reader series for these an awesome read aloud! What if you had animal parts books! If you are not familiar with these…
Zoo Lesson Plans
Zoo Lesson Plans for the book A Sick Day for Amos McGee! This is one of my favorite books, so when Deanna Jump and I were putting our reading comprehension units together, I KNEW we needed this sweet story. A Sick Day for Amos McGee is the story of one zookeeper who takes fantastic…
Ocean Week Lesson Plans (AKA Shark Week)
Do you love ocean week as much as me? Here is a little ocean week AKA Shark WEEK flashback. This might be my favorite theme to teach all YEAR! I can’t get enough! Perhaps it is because I lived the majority of my life in San Diego or I first considered a career as a…
Retelling with Tacky the Penguin
Here are some kindergarten penguin lesson plans! We have always loved learning about these funny little creatures! Tacky the Penguin We are able to pair informational text with narrative text perfectly with this favorite book! We sure love this book! Tacky the Penguin: Making Predictions During the reading of the book, we paused to…
Owl Lesson Plans ~ Peek at my Week
Owls are fascinating and this informational text, White Owl, Barn Owl by Nicola Davies, is spectacular. Check out how we spent the week learning about owls. Owl Lesson Plans: Read Aloud Texts Just like her other texts, she has both a narrative and informational text in one! Just like the rest of our engaging readers,…
Peek at my Week – Kindergarten Farm Activities
Here is a peek at my week filled with kindergarten farm activities! Farm Themed Sentence Work Each morning we start our day with these Read, Trace, Glue, and Draw pages. There are two levels so you can differentiate the work. Some students write the sentence… and some students trace the sentence. I always love to…
Peek at my Week-Groundhog Week!
He’s back! I sort of love the non-pressure of Groundhog’s Day! A new month means it is time of me to swap out my monthly staples! Our writing station is up and ready for February! I am ready for President’s Day… Knock on wood… we will not have a snow make-up day that day. We…
The Emperor’s Egg Unit of Study
The Emperor’s Egg Unit of Study: Kindergarten Penguin Resources for informational text study makes penguin week was pretty spectacular! Penguin Informational Texts The Emperor’s Egg by Martin Jenkins is a fantastic book! This book pairs informational text with narrative texts! Love it! Here are a few pages of the book. We also have this book…
Peek at my Week-Bats! (and a Giveaway)
Last week was a busy week. On Wednesday we celebrated Missouri Day at our school. We kicked our day off with some square dancing. Yes, that is me Do-Si-Doing with the 4th graders. They needed a stand in, so I was it! They kept me straight, nothing got broken… I call that a WIN! We…
Peek at my Week (week 5)
Fall is in the air. This weekend is downright chilly! This week we’re working with these kindergarten farm lesson plans! Last week we really zeroed in on rhyming. I used the cute Show and Tell Apron to play a little “odd man out” with rhyming cards {unit coming soon.} I love the apron that I got while…