Do your students read Stone Soup around Thanksgiving?! I love these activities to go along with some versions of Stone Soup. I have done this unit 4 of the 5 years I taught first grade and both my students and I L-O-V-E it! I always complete this literacy unit the week before Thanksgiving and we […]

Apple cider donuts, picking pumpkins off the vine, hayrides… that is what Fall is all about, right?!   I am feeling oh, so in the season and thought I would make this free math center for your younger students to practice their number sense!   Students simply count up the seeds (or better yet, identify […]

Last fall I was inspired by a field trip to the pumpkin patch to make some math games that I “creatively” called Pumpkin Math. They were a fun way to tie in pumpkins to our math block and they were a big hit in my classroom. Thinking along those same lines, I wanted to make […]

Halloween season is among us! Honestly, we don’t spend TOO much time on this holiday in the classroom, but I find the best way to get this seasonal fun in is through centers!  Here are a few of the fun things we do the few days leading up to Halloween:  Trick or treat math sort! […]

Fall is here folks! My oh, so FAVE season is in full swing. Unfortunately, I live in Vegas now… and there is no such thing as Fall… no cool crisp nights, no orange, red, and yellow leaves, no raking and jumping in leaf piles! Oh well…  I do love getting to show pictures and share […]

I am in awe…  Last Saturday around 2:00pm I reached 500 followers!!! I am so thrilled and I love all of you ladies n gents so much that I went all out for this giveaway! Seeing as we are getting into the Fall season, and being that I am from Salem, MA, I thought it […]