Monthly Archives: October 2014

Well, it’s official!  I’ve been “The Teaching Zoo” for 1 year!  I’d like to have a celebration for all of you to show how much I appreciate your continued support!  There will be fun stuff on each of my sites.  I will be having giveaways, freebies, sales and new products…with giveaways of those too!  PleaseContinue reading “1 Year Anniversary of Becoming The Teaching Zoo CELEBRATION!!”

I’m a little late…but a few weeks ago, my school had Open House at for Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd Grade.  I just want to share some pictures and FREEBIES of what I did in my classroom.  Click the images of the water bottles and the bookmarks to get the freebies! Enjoy! When the parents cameContinue reading “Open House”

I am constantly providing new ways for my students to practice writing their letters in our writing center.  Here are a few of the ideas that I have done so far this year. I use these ABC Trace & Write cards with a dry erase marker.  My kiddos love this because they get to useContinue reading “Writing Centers for Kindergarten and Pre-K”

I’m a little behind on posting, but here’s a look at what we did for the letter C.  I didn’t focus on a theme this week.  We just learned about many different things that begin with the letter C.   Our craft for uppercase C this week was a cat.  C is for Cat.  Here’sContinue reading “What Begins with C? {and 2 freebies!}”

Are you using interactive notebooks in your classroom yet?  They are AMAZING! I’m teaching ages 3-5 this year, so I wasn’t quite sure how I would make an interactive notebook fit into my curriculum or how I would go about using one, but then it hit me.  The littlest learners would benefit from using an alphabet notebook.  It’s greatContinue reading “ABC Interactive Alphabet Notebook”

This will be a double post weekend…I was crazy busy this week and didn’t get a chance to update my blog with what we did last week…and I have this week’s activities to post too!  As you can probably tell from my pictures that I post, I LOVE getting crafty!  I spent most of my freeContinue reading “Bugs, Bees, & Bears – Oh My!”