I love teaching math with a deck of cards! It is simple, the games are usually a lot of FUN, and a deck of cards is accessible to almost every child out there. I have shared plenty of card games in the past, but today I wanted to share two more of my favorites for […]

Choice boards are great for fostering student independence at all times of the school year, but they may be even more important now during distance learning. Each student has a completely different family situation going on at this time and students may not be able to complete the same types of assignments. I took this […]

I have been creating and using phonics poetry for K-2 classrooms for almost a decade now! I just find that fun, rhythmic phonics poems are a great way to practice so many different skills. For one, we practice decoding many different phonics patterns by reading words with those patterns within a text. We practice fluency […]

Earth Day is coming up next week and while our students are at home, it can be a great time to focus on a little bit of nature. Specifically, I like to talk with my students about the importance of trees. In this blog post, I wanted to share some of my favorite books to […]

Tons of people all around the country are embarking on this new work-from-home adventure and in the teacher world, it’s not something we even really thought was possible. Teachers get their joy and their excitement from being face-to-face with their learners. In the primary grades, teachers and students alike thrive with hands-on learning. There are […]