Christmas is a favorite time of year! I love doing Christmas activities. I also have a few favorite themes. And this year’s theme has been gingerbread! It is a great themed and I can’t believe I’ve never done anything with it! I have two new no-prep math packs today. They are for addition & subtraction…
Every year we make new wreaths to hang around the house. They are loads of fun to have. This year we change it up and went with a favorite at our house of torn paper wreaths. Even with older kids, I love having fine motor activities that don’t look like we are working on a…
Winter always gets colder and I can tell you that we go outside but sometimes we like to stay inside and get our wiggles out! Today I have a great story tie-in for a gross motor activity with the Gingerbread Man, the free Gingerbread Man Story gross motor dice! This is one of our favorite…
I love clip cards and we have done a few other the years. I love having early learning to read activities as well. We are always working on rhyming skills. CVC word family words are one of the most basic to start with. There are so many great CVC words that you can use. Today…
I have an easy reader book about gingerbread men. It is a free my gingerbread man easy reader book. It is a fun way to read and have a little fun with the season. You can see many different ways the gingerbread men are dressed up. Easy reader books are always a great way for…
I know that skip counting is a skill we start early in 1st grade and keep working on for a while after that. It is easy to see where skip counting comes into so many math skills. Today I have a fun skip counting printables that have a fun gingerbread theme. The free gingerbread themed…
I never get tired of easy reader books. They are great for kids, teachers, and parents. They are always great to bring out something in a story or work on a theme. Today I have some a free ABC lowercase easy reader book for the Gingerbread Man story. These make a great way to review…
Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year! We are always doing loads of fun activities for it. And this year is off to a great start. Another love of mine is doing gross motor. We love doing gross motor activities. Plus when it gets colder outside it is hard to get out…
Christmas time is a favorite for me and it has been a bit since I did a themed week. Well, I’m somewhere never done anything with the gingerbread man story! I guess that this week is to help with that! This is going to be a fun-filled week with loads of printables to help with…
I know that you can never have enough variety in your ABC printables that you use. I love having fun tracing pages that kids can use. Plus you can never have enough variety of these types of pages to help kids out. These free ABC handwriting printables are a good no-prep printable to work on…
Because we are headed into winter it is time for new school lunch planning menus. We love these during the fall and want to keep using them. I love having seasonal changes for us to do. The menus are a great way for kids to keep track of what they need to help make their…
Picture books are something all ages can enjoy! We always love reading them. I’m always enjoying looking through them. Plus we love seeing what new books we can find. This month we have a collection of books from the library. Yes, we visit the library often. Most times at least once or twice a week….
During Hanukkah, there is loads of dreidel spinning. I thought it would be fun to change it up this year and add something fun. Today I have a free Hanukkah spin and trace ABCs set in print and cursive to use with a dreidel. Something fun and different while learning and having fun. The Hanukkah…
Hanukkah is a great time for kids to do some simple math with a dreidel! We love spinning the dreidel the 8 nights of Hanukkah. It is always fun to play the game but this year I wanted to have some fun with some graphing. It is a fun to see the graph fill up…
Hanukkah is coming up and it is always fun to have something to count the 8 nights with. Plus I love easy reader books. Today I have a fun new free easy reader book to count the 8 night of Hanukkah. It is a simple and easy book to use. The Hanukkah Counting Candle Book…
Numbers have to be one of the most basic math skills that kids work on. I love having different ways to work with them. These free number color pages are a great way to work on number counting, number digit, and number word altogether. Plus, these number coloring worksheets are simple and easy no-prep work…
We have the next set of the free Romping & Roaring Second grade Sight Word Packs out! Once of a month, four words from the Romping & Roaring Second Grade Sight Word Packs come out free. This month’s words are: fast, first, five, found. These are great activities to work on learning sight words. When…
I have just loved the different interactive books you can use with kids. I wanted to do some for learning to read. I have a great set of CVC Interactive Word Books! These CVC Word books are great for beginner readers. They have simple sentences with CVC words and matching pictures. Each of the books…
A great theme for the fall is leaves. They start off at the beginning of the season and stay around for a while. That means them a fun theme to use in the fall. I wanted to make a new set of ABC clip cards and I thought to have some seasonal ones would be…
Thanksgiving is just around the corner. A lot of people have already made plans or are making plans for Thanksgiving dinner. When I asked what people made for the meal and the other everyone had something different to say. It is fun to see how different we all are. I still wanted to make a…
I love having themed sets to work with. The newest set is a Thanksgiving theme. With pilgrims, turkeys and Thanksgiving food! All put in an easy to use no-prep printable for addition and subtraction or multiplication and division. Loads of practice while having an easy to use theme for the month of November. Each of…
Easy reader books have always been one of my favorite learning to read activities. I love having new books for kids to read. Plus there are so many themes you do with books. Thanksgiving is coming up and we have always loved the book Turkey Trouble. I wanted a fun easy reader book to go…
November has always been a month about being thankful for who we are and what we have. The month of October we spent our free time sending pictures to a friend suffering from cancer. We made it our goal to let him know he was thought about. It was amazing how much it made him…
We have the next set of the free Romping & Roaring Second grade Sight Word Packs out! Once of a month, four words from the Romping & Roaring Second Grade Sight Word Packs come out free. This month’s words are: call, cold, does, and don’t. These are great activities to work on learning sight words….
Every month we look for fun picture books. We search the bookstores and library. It is fun to see what books we can find. We all look for them and read them together. Yes, we read picture books beyond preschool and kindergarten. I like that picture books teach us so much and we can enjoy…
The themed finds have always been a favorite for us. They work on so many skills and I love changing them up for the different seasons. Today I have some spider themed finds that work great for a spider or bug them or even Halloween. They are good to use to work on the tracing…
It always seems that we are always looking for new ABC ideas! Plus, with Halloween, spiders are a great theme. Today I have some fun Spider ABC finds for print and cursive! I know that we love dot marker finds, and these are loads of fun. You have uppercase and lowercase letters with print and…
The no-prep math pages have been so much fun. Plus kids love having different themes. Around this time of year, Halloween and candy are big themes. I wanted to make some math printables that were great for Halloween or anytime. I know that not everyone uses Halloween. These are a mix of addition and subtraction…
Halloween is so much fun with so many different themes. I know we enjoy black cats as a theme and so do many other people! Today I have some free black cat array cards and worksheets. I love changing up the themes as kids learn. There are so many ways to use arrays. This mini…
Bats are one of our favorite subjects at this time of the year. We are always watching movies, reading books and learning about them. Plus they are always cool to see at night as well. We wanted to have some fun with bats this year for Halloween. So we picked out our favorite bat book…