This year Groundhog Day is on a Monday. As a classroom teacher, I always loved Groundhog Day during the week. It’s just a fun little day to talk about traditions with the kiddos! The excitement is just grand for them. This year I created a little Groundhog Day unit to learn about the holiday! You can make […]
President’s Day lines up PERFECTLY with our curriculum. It’s not every day that a holiday is included in our standards. We spent some time on both Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. Here is a peek at our Presidents’ Day activities! We started off with reading several non-fiction books throughout the week about Abraham Lincoln […]
As we approach the holidays, one unit we always get to do is Holidays Around the World. To get started, we’re going to dive into all about Kwanzaa. I love getting to expose my students to holidays that they may not be familiar with. Plus, it helps build a strong, solid classroom community with empathy […]
WARNING…this first part is NOT teaching related! 🙂 I can officially play my Christmas music without my hubs saying, “ugh…again? Poor Thanksgiving…” Here’s the obvious truth. I love it. I love every bit of it. The crazy shopping. The hustle and bustle. The red Starbucks cups. The music. The decorations. The extra kindness that people […]
September 17th is Constitution Day. This year Constitution Day happens to fall on a teaching day so I have been working on just a few ways to integrate it. **Amazon affiliate links are used below at no cost to you. We will start with a poem. I wrote this little poem with rhyming words […]
