Christmas will be here before you know it, and one of our favorite ways to celebrate the holiday season in the classroom is by doing a few fun Christmas crafts for kids. Get into the spirit this December with these festive Christmas Crafts For Kids! As a parent, I always loved getting handmade gifts from my kids when they were at school. So as a Teacher I always made some time in the busy December calendar to get the kids to create a Christmas keepsake to take home! You don't have to be super crafty to make these gorgeous tree ornaments, Christmas Cards and decorations. So if you are looking for some great Christmas crafts, don’t look any further than this list for ideas! Here are 25…
Spooky Marshmallow Eyeballs for Halloween are one of our favourite Easy Halloween Recipes! Your kids will love making these ever so easy yet totally gross Halloween eyeballs this October! Our marshmallow eyeballs are a spooky Halloween treat that your kids will totally love making and eating! This easy 3 step Halloween recipe is also just perfect for introducing simple sequencing and procedure writing to Kindergarten and Preschool kids, so it's the perfect classroom Halloween treat to make this October. With just 3 ingredients and NO COOKING, marshmallow eyeballs are an excellent Halloween classroom activity. Make these fun spooky treats this Halloween and try them with our FREE pumpkin number tracing cards! Please scroll to the end of the post for the free recipe and the FREE Eyeball Counting Number mats…
24 Christmas Picture Books For Kids and a Jolly Holiday Countdown Calendar! From funny to traditional or something totally different this list has it all wrapped up! Create the magic of Christmas with 24 Of The Best Christmas Story Books For Kids. Traditional, Fun, Surprising, and Heartwarming stories of the season. These gorgeous kids' Christmas picture books are a mixture of funny, religious and more traditional books. There's something for everyone! There are even some Christmas Books for older children - Check out Father's Christmas's Fake Beard! But what is certain is that both adults and kids will love these Festive Fun Christmas read alouds, and they are a MUST for your children's books classroom library collection. Related Post: Start A Tradition With A Christmas Books Advent Calendar For Kids…
Looking for Free Christmas Resources For Teaching? Then download these Math and Literacy Teaching Resources to keep your kids engaged during the Holiday season! Here's a list of our Christmas Freebies available on our website! We hope you and your kids enjoy them. Please tag us @aplusteacheroz if you want to share them with us and our teaching community! Free Christmas Resources For Teaching Christmas Books Printable List - Download this handy Free Christmas Picture Books List for 24 of the Best Christmas Picture Books for Kids From traditional, modern and very Jolly Stories for the Holiday Season! Christmas Printable Numbers 1-100 - Try these FREE Christmas Fractions Printables Teacher Resources in the run-up to Christmas. They’re an engaging and motivating pack, perfect for math warm-ups, a sensory play…
Check out these Gorgeous Australian Christmas Picture Books. They're perfect for your classroom library & daily read alouds to get everyone in the Holiday Season Spirit! Being an “Aussie” means things are a little hotter at Christmas for us! So it's nice to have some Australian Christmas Picture books to share with your kids that don't contain SNOW and log fires! Although we still love to read the old favourites, we have done some searching to find some Australian Christmas Picture Books that we think you and your kids will love. After some internet searching, we found a bunch of children's picture books for your classroom that are perfect to read aloud or to use as part of your Christmas Literacy lessons. There's Christmas magic, and rollicking rhyme, and a…
Discover our Huge list of Free Math printables for Kindergarten, Elementary & Primary Grade Kids. There's so many fun printables and activities for K-5 math students from multiplication, addition and fractions to place value and number recognition. Start Downloading today! You can never have enough math printables, especially if they're FREE! All our math printables are created by highly trained math coaches with years of experience in schools, so you know they're going to be good! Check out this handy list of our awesome free printable math games and worksheets to make math fun and engaging! Free Kindergarten Math Games We have so many Free Kindergarten Math Games available to download now. Take your pick from Subitizing Robot Number Colouring Math Game For Kids which is a fun…
Our FREE Letter Playdough Mats are a must have printable for any teacher and homeschooling parent looking to add some play based learning to their classroom. Download your Free set for some uppercase and lowercase letter matching fun! I have said it before and I'll say it again... The educational benefits of using playdough are underrated. Playdough with playdough mats in the classroom works for any age, not just early years; and it's one of the best ways to engage & motivate students to learn. Using playdough and these free teacher resources printables are guaranteed to help your students build strong conceptual understandings and language skills about uppercase and lowercase letters. Don't have Playdough? Then check out some more ideas on how to use these letter printables below. Or try…
Teaching measurement is so more fun when you use picture books. Check out this handy list of the BEST Children's Books For Teaching Measurement and get your kids hooked into learning all about measuring! Are you teaching your kids measurement? Try introducing this math concept with children's books. Your kids will love learning about measurement and be super engaged and ready to learn. Our Big list of books about measurement includes a mountain of measuring concepts including length, weight (mass), time, perimeter and area. Grab these children's books for your classroom to make the perfect classroom library collection! Related Post: Children's Books For Teaching Volume and Capacity Measurement can be really fun and hands-on but understanding how to measure is quite complicated. There's so many different things to think about which…
Our Egg Carton Maths Activities are eggcellent, motivating and fun math games for teaching number recognition. Your kids will love counting, adding, subitizing and more with our egg box math! These Egg Carton Maths Activities are a fun and engaging way for kids to learn and practice a range of early childhood number recognition Number Sense concepts. Using this everyday item makes math rotations fun and hands-on for preschoolers, kindergarten, foundation years and Year 1 kids. In this post we show you how to prepare your egg carton math games and the educational benefits of each math activity. Make number recognition fun with these egg box maths activities in a matter of minutes. All you need are some everyday objects including, egg cartons, dice, counters and pompoms. We have got…
Five 10 Minute Easy Dinner Recipes You Can Whip Up On a School Night! If you want cordon bleu recipes then this is NOT for you! These dinner ideas are quick, simple and will get dinner on the table in under fifteen minutes. When you get home after a long day at work you've probably got a hundred and one things still left to do for school tomorrow? In an amongst the lesson planning, marking, prepping and laminating, there's getting dinner on the table. Here's 5 very simple, but delicious dinner ideas to see you through a busy week at school. There's nothing like making your own meals at home. It's a win-win when it comes to your health, and your wallet too! But if your work schedule is super…
Our place value dice activity is an absolutely brilliant hack for teaching place value! It will completely change how you teach big numbers to your kids! Genius Place Value Dice Activity This fun place value dice activity is one of the most effective teaching hacks I have ever used! It is perfect for building place value understandings and improving your students' ability to recognise, read, and say BIG numbers! Place value dice games are so much fun and perfect for math rotations and practice centers. Your kids will be reading 5, 6, 7 digit numbers in no time! Scroll to the end of the post to download and print your own place value dice template and instructions. Make sure you visit our other fun & free resources on our teaching numeracy page! Related…
If you're looking for some WOW factor classroom decor or back-to-school bulletin board ideas for teachers, try these AH-MAZING Teacher Created Ideas! So Creative! Get the most creative back-to-school bulletin board ideas for teachers right here from around the web. We have put together a ton of clever ideas that will make you feel relaxed and happy and may even inspire and motivate your students to ENJOY learning! There are also 6 different FREE Class charts as well as awesome Bulletin Board ideas throughout the post... Don't forget to grab them! AH-Mazing Back-To-School Bulletin Board Ideas For Teachers Although making beautiful classrooms can take a lot of time there is actual research that proves that the classroom environment has a impact on student achievement levels, so creating back to…
This painted rock snowman is quick, easy and so much fun to make. Use them in your classroom math centers or for a simple gift idea. Try it with your Kids for a Jolly Holly-day this December! Painted rock craft is BIG at the moment and we just love it! Don't you? As Christmas is right around the corner we wanted to get a head start on planning our Christmas Classroom Activities. After consulting everyone's favourite reference... Pinterest, for inspiration, we decided on this cute snowman painted rocks set! We have quite a few FREE Christmas Resources for Teaching on the site. Check them out! We really loved how easy this snowman rock painting craft project is to make, especially for kids. And that it can be used for…
These Festive Fun Christmas Math Games Printables are just what you need to keep your kids engaged and motivated to learn math this December! Jolly good Christmas Resources For Teachers and little Elves! Keeping kids on task and learning math in the Holiday Season can be tricky. There’s so much chatter and excitement about the BIG DAY! But you still have to teach educational curriculum right? These Festive Fun Christmas Math Games Printables are just what you need to keep your kids engaged and motivated to learn math this December! There's lots of fun worksheets and activities for Kindergarten and preschool to middle school and grade 5 and 6th. We've got you covered! Don't forget to bookmark this page as we will keep adding new resources every…
If you need cute, EASY Gingerbread House Activities for kids give our mini gingerbread house alternatives a go! They are just the perfect low mess, NO BAKE alternative to traditional 'gingerbread' houses and so much fun to make! Gingerbread houses are a fun and delicious way to decorate for the Christmas holidays. But baking your own gingerbread and building the houses can be tricky! It can even end in tears if it collapses! We tested every aspect of this gingerbread house recipe and tested out some ideas to keep it simple for kids and came up with a fun recipe for the classroom. There's No baking, cutting or rolling and assembly is easy because we used Nice biscuits (Graham Crackers). It's the perfect gingerbread house alternative. Ther's also…
Christmas will be here before you know it, and one of our favorite ways to celebrate the holiday season in the classroom is by doing a few fun Christmas crafts for kids. Get into the spirit this December with these festive Christmas Crafts For Kids! As a parent, I always loved getting a handmade gifts from my kids when they were at school. So as a Teacher I always made some time in the busy December calendar to get the kids to create a Christmas keepsake to take home! You don't have to be super crafty to make these gorgeous tree ornaments, Christmas Cards and decorations. So if you are looking for some great Christmas crafts, don’t look any further than this list for ideas! Here are 25…
This Hands-On Multiplication as repeated addition lesson plan is perfect for your math rotations for grade 1 and grade 2 students. Your kids will love these fun math printables & Teachers will love the Free lesson plan for teaching early multiplication, arrays & groups. If you want to help your kids with multiplication and are wondering how to introduce it then you're in the right place! According to research, the best way to introduce multiplication is to start by teaching your kids the repeated addition strategy. To help you we have put together a Multiplication as repeated addition lesson plan and printables to get you and your kids started. (It's at the end of this post). Related Post: The Guide To Teaching Multiplication How To Introduce Multiplication…
This Christmas Book Advent Calendar idea is a wonderful alternative to any store bought Christmas Calendars. Make it for your classroom and build some Christmas magic and love of books with your students this December! Christmas Book Advent Calendar We love adding some Christmas magic and festive fun to our classroom so we turned our Christmas Picture Books For Kids Collection into an Countdown To Christmas Calendar. Creating a Christmas Book Advent Calendar is so simple to do. The hardest part is deciding which Christmas Read Alouds to include! Once you have your favs just wrap them up in Christmas paper and you're all set. The Calendar works just like a traditional calendar, open a book every day in December & read it with your class. Continue opening the books…
