Earth Day is one of my favorite themes to use in the spring. It is celebrated on April 22nd but I love to do activities related to this for...

Don't you love this time of the year? The weather is getting warmer (okay I live in Southern California) and your students are actua...

Can your students blend and segment?  Sorry that I have not been blogging lately but with report cards and conferences I was busy with sc...

VIVA LAS VEGAS!!   Can you picture it now?   YOU in LAS VEGAS? The “Primary Chalkboard” Team of Bloggers Wants to Send You ...

Have you seen plastic eggs just about everywhere you look and wondered what you can do with them in the classroom. I posted about this last...

What? What are you talking about? Is it really true? Is it really happening? Where did you hear that? Yup, TpT is honoring teachers by ...

My students have loved reading these 2 emergent readers about Lincoln and Washington. They are right at their level and they feel so prou...

Do you have the Winter Blues right now? I am offering a little freebie for all my Open Court buddies. It looks like this. I use this game wi...

We have worked on those "mean teens" all week and the kids loved this Sparkle Reader so much. They actually stamped into a ten f...

So we made a cloud in our classroom and the children loved putting this together. They learned how to fan fold paper which they loved doin...