For K-1 students, centers are one of the most developmentally appropriate things that you can do for them. Let me give you the break down on each of my 5 centers, and how I manage them!

Discover active and alternative ideas to morning work to create a soft start to your day. Use a morning choice board during arrival time to give preschool, kindergarten, and first grade children open-ended choices to start their day. Activities include building, sketching, yoga, writing news, reading books, puzzles, writing in a journal, telling a story and more. For easy set up, place materials in tubs or bins and set them on tables for kids to enjoy upon entering the classroom each…

Beginning your day with a soft start allows for more choice, creativity, and engagement as students arrive each morning.

Leisure time choice board

In my first fews years of teaching if you would have asked me what my favorite part of the day was I would have never said the morning. My morning routine used to be the opposite of calm with worksheets for morning work and kids constantly getting up to ask me to read them the directions. Once I shi

These brain breaks for primary school are perfect for those times in your classroom when your students need to get their wiggles out or give their brains a rest! With these brain break ideas, you can even provide some student choice for different fun brain break activities.

Time always appears as if it’s flying on by! Boy does time fly in my opinion—especially when it comes to the little kids. I still remember teaching my kids how to walk and hearing their first giggle. Good times… Ah, there it goes again! Time.

Are you needing some new classroom ideas on how to make teaching time fun for your elementary classroom? Today I talk about fun telling time activities for kids that you can use in your lesson plans. I include classroom activities for teaching time to the hour and half hour, give multiple telling time games and recommendations for books about telling time. You won’t want to miss the Spring activity I include that is perfect for math centers, math workshop or guided math.