Monthly Archives: December 2013

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates!  I hope you are all having a great day with your families.  I haven’t had a chance lately to post, but I have sooo much to share!  Here are some candy canes that we made in class.  🙂  I love that my little ones had skills to practice while makingContinue reading “Beaded Candy Canes”

Playdough mats are so much fun for the littles!  I’ve just uploaded a free Christmas playdough mats pack to my Teachers Pay Teachers store!  In the pack are a tree to decorate, a gingerbread person, a candy cane, and a stocking!  Fun sensory play learning!  I hope you enjoy!  🙂  Click the picture of theContinue reading “Christmas Playdough Mats Freebie!!”

Yay!  It’s official…The Teaching Zoo now has a Facebook page!  Visit: https://www.facebook.com/TheTeachingZoo and like the page for exclusive freebies and to get even more great classroom ideas!  🙂

Gingerbread is one of my favorite themes.  There is so much you can do to teach a unit on gingerbread and the kiddos absolutely love it!  Here’s a gingerbread girl we made…tutu and all!   First, we painted the gingerbread girl with brown paint, then we glued google eyes, a pom pom nose, and aContinue reading “Gingerbread!”

Today, I finally got to return to my fabulous job of teaching the best class in the world!  It was a great day!  I had missed those smiling little faces so much!  Tired tonight, so this will be short, but I’m glad to be back!!  🙂

I just love this time of the year!  I also LOVE crafting with the littles.  Here’s  a Christmas footprint & fingerprint craft that we did together.  I made this one with my own two kiddos.  We did green paint on the feet, red on the toes and one foot at a time to form theContinue reading “Mistletoes!”

For the past 3 months, I’ve actually been home on my couch, with a broken shoulder and torn rotator cuff.  I tripped over a chair at work and fell with my arm out in front of me.  I’ve NEVER broken any bones in my whole life…until that Friday the 13th.  Ironic, I know.  I learnedContinue reading “A little about my situation… and a GREAT day for me!”

I love little readers for my students.  The one’s I’m creating could be used in a few grade levels (pre-k to first).  I love to use them for my pre-kers this year.  For them, I love that there are so many skills…cutting, tracing, coloring, identifying colors, counting, identifying letters, etc…the list goes on!  They loveContinue reading “Little Readers!”

Happy Friday Everyone! I hope everyone is having a great day!  I can’t believe it is already December 6!  Where has the time gone??? Are you ready for the upcoming holidays? I’m almost ready…I’m an Amazon Prime girl!  My friends all joke about it because I even have the app on my phone and I’llContinue reading “Happy Friday!”

I just LOVE teaching the ABCs.  As I said in my other ABC post, I love picking a theme and completely doing everything for the week in that theme to match our Letter of the Week. One thing I love doing with my students each week is letting them use a Bingo dauber to findContinue reading “More ABC Fun!”