Audiobooks: Powerful Self Care for Teachers, your own Read Alouds
Audiobooks might be the perfect indulgence for you. It’s a great option for self care. As a primary teacher, you spend your days: planning, teaching all the subjects, and keeping everyone focused and happy…while using all of your energy. Counting down to winter break is the light at the end of the long hallway (oops, […]
10 Must Have Items Teachers Put on their Classroom Wish List
What are the 10 Wish List gift items first grade teachers want for their classroom. Check out these 10 classroom must haves. Whether it’s back to school or Christmas, you can donate to your favorite first grade teacher’s classroom.
Celebrate Reptile Awareness Day with 9 Fun Facts (Free File)
Teach your primary students about reptiles as you celebrate Reptile Awareness Day in October. Read the fun facts and get the free file to use in your science lessons.
3 Easy Ways to Make St. Patrick’s Day Activities More Fun for your 2nd Grade Kids
Need activities and classroom ideas to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with your 2nd grade students? Here’s how to have fun on the special day besides just wearing green. Keep your kids happy as you keep the academics flowing. Make this St. Patrick’s Day more fun.
Compare Animals and Offspring: Alike, But not Exactly
These science materials go beyond traditional worksheets by using maze activities that get students thinking critically while having fun. As they navigate each maze, students will uncover how baby animals are very much like, but not exactly like, their parents. Make science more fun using mazes to teach the concept of “inherited traits”.
How to Use Groundhog Day to Teach an Animal Adaptations Science Lesson
Discover a fun and engaging Groundhog Day science lesson for first grade students! Teach animal adaptations and explore how groundhogs use thick fur, sharp claws, a tail, and hibernation to survive winter. Includes writing prompts, a hands-on craft, and ready-to-use materials. Perfect for science and cross-curricular learning.
How I Don’t Save Shoe Boxes for Diorama Projects Now
Not all science diorama projects need to involve saving shoe boxes. Read how you can create a habitat project without using the traditional shoe box diorama. Your students will design the habitat and add the animals in this amazing alternative. Read how you can do it too.
How to Select Worksheets that Keep 2nd Grade Students Hooked
What is the secret to finding worksheets your second grade students won’t groan about? Get them hooked and build interest with the right types of worksheets. Read the blog post and learn what makes a worksheet not a traditional and boring worksheet. It’s a win-win. Your students benefit and you see more smiles as you pass out the worksheets.
Valentine’s Day Activities for 1st & 2nd Grade
Valentine’s Day Activities for 1st and 2nd grade. Teachers looking for crafts, writing prompts, persuasive or sequence writing ideas, scrambled sentences, math practice worksheets, or grammar review will find ideas here. Free writing activity included.
All About My Teaching Adventure
Learn about the teaching experience and background of the teacher behind Wendy Wished.