Check out these tips and tricks for creating engaging and effective anchor charts to use in your K-2 classroom! What are Anchor Charts? Anchor charts are tools to support learning in the classroom, they "anchor student learning". Have you ever purchased an 'awesome' chart for students to reference throughout the year, only to discover it tends to be invisible to students? Anchor charts are the solution! Students should be included in the creation of anchor charts. This involvement ... Read the Post
Tips and Tricks for Creating Anchor Charts in the K-2 Classroom
Phonics Made Fun with Videos
Make phonics learning fun using these engaging videos in the classroom! Here are some captivating videos to help keep phonics lessons interesting for young learners! Get kids singing and dancing the letters of the alphabet along with their sounds with these fun videos! Alphabet Videos These phonics videos include the entire alphabet. Scroll down for videos that target individual letters and their corresponding letter sounds. Alphabet Song - Have Fun Teaching The name says it ... Read the Post
Free Math Videos for Counting Practice
Captivating free interactive Math videos for both teaching and practicing counting by ones, fives, and tens in Kindergarten and First Grade! Practice makes progress! These entertaining free math videos incorporate both music and dance into daily Math practice. These videos will keep kiddos motivated when practicing counting! Counting to 20 Math Videos Workout 1-20 Kids have fun exercising both their body and brain while working out with Jack Hartmann as they practice counting to 20 ... Read the Post
Sight Words – Free Interactive Videos
Did you know that about 75% of what we read is comprised of sight words? These free interactive sight word videos will aid in building this all-important reading foundation. It is imperative that kids master reading sight words with automaticity. There are tons of interactive educational videos to aid with teaching these all-important sight words. It is imperative that students commit these words to memory. The quicker they can recall these words when reading the more ... Read the Post
Free Teaching Resources for Primary Grades
Free teaching resources have thankfully become more widely available over the years. The issue however is that while they are plentiful, so many of those sites only offer a single freebie or two. Those are great, free is always greatly appreciated! These sites below are quite unique in that they have both a very wide variety of free resources and an endless number of activities to fit almost any skill taught in the primary grades. These sites provide an almost ... Read the Post
5 Apps for Virtual Teaching
Apps for virtual teaching are a necessity in modern education. The classroom environment has radically changed due to the new requirements imposed upon education for the safety of both students and teachers. We began with and continue learning to navigate the uncharted waters of 'virtual learning' and now educators are learning to navigate the 'socially distanced' classroom. Not only are we navigating both, but we are teaching in both environments simultaneously! The 5 apps and games that ... Read the Post
