Help kids express back-to-school feelings with this fun emotions sensory bin using oats and emoji erasers. Supports emotional awareness and more!| Growing Hands-On Kids
Inside you'll find an easy step-by-step How to Draw a Beetle Tutorial Video and Beetle Coloring Page. Stop by and grab yours today.| Art Projects for Kids
Inside you'll find an easy step-by-step how to draw a Star of David tutorial video lesson for elementary students. Stop by and grab yours now.| Art Projects for Kids
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Inside you'll find an easy step-by-step How to Draw Tutorial Uncle Sam Tutorial Video and Coloring Page. Stop by and grab yours today.| Art Projects for Kids
Find 30 easy trading card ideas for kids that spark creativity in your art room. Simple, fun, and standards-aligned art projects for your students.| Art Projects for Kids
Try these fun and easy gross motor activities that support strength, coordination, and school readiness—perfect for home, therapy, or outdoor play!| Growing Hands-On Kids
Gross motor warm-ups are a vital foundation for successful handwriting when children are learning to write. Not only do they help build up the muscles that children need for handwriting, but they also help support motor planning and can even build confidence when they do pick up a pencil to write. Let's take a look... The post 5 Gross Motor Warm-Ups for Cursive Handwriting appeared first on Growing Hands-On Kids.| Growing Hands-On Kids
Build a Robot Sensory Tray: A hands-on activity that boosts fine motor skills, creativity, and sensory exploration using everyday craft supplies.| Growing Hands-On Kids
Looking for effective reading support for your child? Read this honest parent review of the Reading Eggs app.| Growing Hands-On Kids
Did I teach an entire division lesson focused on just one problem? Yes! From giving many hundreds of interviews where students solve problems mentally, we’ve learned that solving 100 ÷ 3 is often a challenge. After recently interviewing and hearing two answers for 100 ÷ 3 that I’d never heard before, I taught this lesson.| MARILYN BURNS MATH
The fifth-grade class I’m working with this year is studying addition and subtraction of fractions, and I asked to “borrow” the class to see how they would view Amber’s solution. I describe how I structured the lesson and have also included students’ writing. The post How Was Amber Reasoning? appeared first on MARILYN BURNS MATH.| MARILYN BURNS MATH
Have you ever engaged students with a Card Sort? I’ve known about Card Sorts for quite a while, but this was my first go with it. The students were engaged and the experience was useful for building their understanding of division. For sure, I’ll do more. The post My First Ever Card Sort . . . And I’ll Do More appeared first on MARILYN BURNS MATH.| MARILYN BURNS MATH
In my previous blog, I described a lesson I taught based on measuring the area and perimeter of my foot. Here I describe what happened when I returned to the class to have the students think more about the data they recorded and the mathematics it revealed. The post Part 2: Untangling Area and Perimeter appeared first on MARILYN BURNS MATH.| MARILYN BURNS MATH
This is a lesson that I’ve taught for many years when teaching about area and perimeter. I recently revised the lesson and I think my changes were an improvement. How did I change the original plan? What was my thinking behind the changes? How did the students respond?| MARILYN BURNS MATH
Looking for a military-related lesson plan to spice up social studies? MWDTSA volunteer Wendy Sotos is studying to become a Certified Humane Education Specialist. As part of her coursework, she has developed a lesson plan about military working dogs for 3rd and 4th graders. It’s free, and any interested teacher or home-school parent can download […] The post Military working dog lesson plan for 3rd and 4th graders appeared first on MWDTSA.| MWDTSA
After teaching this lesson, I taught it to another class to work out some of the kinks. My, it’s hard and time-consuming to prepare for and plan lessons. I hope my story makes the lesson accessible for other teachers and students to enjoy.| MARILYN BURNS MATH
In my last blog, I describe how I planned a lesson about number lines. In this blog, I describe what actually occurred when I taught the lesson to a class of fourth graders. Read about which parts of my plan I followed, when and why I made some changes, and what the students did on the assignment I gave them.| MARILYN BURNS MATH