Do you teach color words in kindergarten? If you do, poetry is a perfect way to make those color words stick! Each year, I create a color words poetry journal with 11 color word poems. As we learn how to spell and write each color word, we also learn a new poem from the journal. In each poem, we highlight the color words and color the pictures of each "colored object." After reading them several times, we use these poems during our guided reading sessions as a familiar read. We also use them as a resource for writing because they are filled...

One of my favorite units to teach during the school year is the Ocean! I usually teach this unit at the end of the school year right before summer break. The kids LOVE learning about ocean animals, and it is a great way to keep them engaged all the way up to the end of school when they are more difficult to keep focused. I am going to share with you some of the activities that we complete during our study of the ocean. They are all available in my Ocean Unit on TPT.  We begin our ocean unit with a focus on ocean animals. We focus on o...

Do your kids love learning about animals as much as mine do? The month of April is the perfect time to learn about rabbits, because it is so close to Easter! Here are a few rabbit activities that are included in my rabbit unit. Check it out here if you plan on teaching rabbits in your class this year! We start most of our nonfiction units by looking at some informational slides. I pull up these rabbit fact slides with the projector to keep the kiddos engaged. The kids love the pictures along with all of the fun facts that they lear...

Spring is only a few weeks away! I love all of the themes that we teach each spring. A few of those themes include life cycles, plant life, Easter, and more. Here are a few of my spring resources. Click each link to grab any of them in my tpt store. Plant Parts Poster The kiddos will each create one of these plant parts posters. They can either use the labels that I have created that explain the function of each plant part, or they can write their own information on the second set of labels. Frog Life Cycle Craft ...