100 Fun End of the School Year Activities Your Students Will Love

100 Fun End of the School Year Activities Your Students Will Love

It’s officially spring, which means most teachers are heading into the end of the school year! Cue the confetti and dust off those sunglasses – summer is nearly here, which means it’s time to celebrate. But, we still need to keep these kiddos engaged and challenged. So, if you’re looking for some fun ideas to…

5 Differentiated Instruction Strategies for Elementary Classrooms
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5 Differentiated Instruction Strategies for Elementary Classrooms

If you’re looking for more differentiated instruction strategies that you can use in your elementary classroom, you’re in the right place! Differentiated instruction can feel super overwhelming when you already have a million other things to juggle during your school day. So, here are easy-to-implement differentiated instruction strategies that you can use TODAY! What Is…

What are Enrichment Activities? 15+ Easy Ideas And Examples For Your Classroom
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What are Enrichment Activities? 15+ Easy Ideas And Examples For Your Classroom

Do you have students who would benefit from enrichment activities? But, do you feel overwhelmed with figuring out what that even means? If so, you’re in the perfect place! Because the good news is that quick and challenging enrichment activities are easier to implement than you might think. And… perhaps the best part… they do…

5 Simple Ways to Encourage Summer Reading
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5 Simple Ways to Encourage Summer Reading

Being a parent is tough! Now that children are done with the school year, we have to worry about how to foster all of the excellent progress they’ve made. It can be difficult to strike the balance between wanting your children to have a fun, ‘work-free’ summer, while also making sure that they are learning…

Sight Words: What are they & why do they matter?
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Sight Words: What are they & why do they matter?

Sight words. If you’re an early childhood educator you are extremely familiar with sight words and their importance. If you are a new-to-homeschool parent or the parent of a child in early elementary, you may not be as familiar with what they are and why they are important. What ARE sight words? They’re exactly what…

Teaching Young Children about Diversity and Inclusion
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Teaching Young Children about Diversity and Inclusion

Inclusion and diversity are subjects that can be daunting. Whether as adults, or when we think about how to introduce them to young children. As parents and teachers know by now, children’s filters between their brains and their mouths are very limited. (Or sometimes seemingly non-existent, haha!) So talking about people that are different from…

Growth Mindset for Kids
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Growth Mindset for Kids

Growth mindset… You might have heard this term thrown around, and heard people explain the importance of embracing a growth mindset. But what does a “growth mindset” ACTUALLY entail? How can we foster it in our own children or students? Growth Mindset: A Definition One of the most famous books (and some may argue the…

5 Free Math Activities To Boost Early Skills
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5 Free Math Activities To Boost Early Skills

Teaching math seems overwhelming… but it can actually be really fun! Math does not necessarily mean boring worksheets or endless repetition. Learning math means recognizing patterns, order, and systems. The earlier we can establish these fundamentals in our children, the more ingrained and ‘natural’ they become. So, here are some basic concepts you can focus…

Effectively Develop Early Math Skills To Raise Amazing Mathematicians

Effectively Develop Early Math Skills To Raise Amazing Mathematicians

How many of us might say, “I’m just not a math person.” Probably a lot! But, when we are trying to develop early math skills in our children, it can feel daunting when we don’t love math ourselves. Here are some essential concepts you can focus on with young children to help foster a love…