Sunday, January 21, 2024

5 fun Valentine's Day activities- no preparation needed!

 Sending you all some love this Valentine's Day! What a busy time of year and to make your lives a little easier and to help you feel the love, we're bringing 5 no prep, ready to go Valentine's Day teaching activities to warm your student's hearts this February. This selection includes Language Arts and Math practice for a variety of levels and age groups! Click the pictures to check them out and use them today. 

1. Valentine's Day Parts of Speech


Make reviewing nouns, verbs, adjective, adverbs and more fun with this parts of speech pack! Your students will love our color by codes, word searches, mad libs and word sort to broaden their vocabularies and get some extra grammar practice! 

2. Valentine's Numbers 1 to 10 counting worksheets


For Kindergartners and Pre-schoolers looking for some cute counting practice activities- this pack is so much more. There's coloring and cut and paste activities to build fine motor skills too! 

3. Valentine's Day common core math color by codes


For a variety of practice- we've got you covered. This pack includes place value, addition/ subtraction and more. We have two versions first grade math and second grade math versions to challenge all your learners.

4. Valentine's Day Spot the Difference


These adorable visual perception puzzles are much loved by all of our students! They work well as warmers, small group activities or for speech therapy- they are sure to keep your learners talking! There are 10 Valentine's scenes with 5 differences per picture! 

5. Valentine's Day Phonics Crafts


We're very proud of this resource and the 6 cute phonics crafts it contains- skills practiced include CVC words, blends, double consonants, ending blends and more. With sweet Valentine's themed vocabulary and adorable pictures, your learners are certain to enjoy making these.


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We hope you enjoy these 5 activities and have a wonderful and productive Valentine's Day.
Which activity is your favorite? 
We look forward to your feedback and we'll speak pretty soon in our next blog post!

Take care and have a sweet Valentine's Day.

Sunday, January 14, 2024

A cute place value freebie for your classroom :)

If you're looking for a fun and free way to brighten up your math classroom, I have the solution! This cute freebie will be loved by your visual learners. As a cute, artistic math practice it will create a cute teddy bear to decorate your bulletin board or be brought home by your learners.


Included are two versions- for 2 digit numbers or 3 digit numbers. They are one page per student to cut down on printing.


This freebie also includes a cute color by code to complement the teddy bear craft. This worksheet practices adding/subtracting 1 & 10 to 2 digit numbers or adding/subtracting 10 & 100 to 3 digit numbers.


The activity is very easy to introduce and simple for students to follow! 


About this product:

  • No preparation required- print and go
  • Black and white so your students can have fun coloring them in.
  • Examples and tips pages showing final products
  • The craft will look great displayed in your classroom/on bulletin boards
  • The code is great for review, fast finishers, math centers, homework, sub tub, distance learning and independent practice.

If you're looking for more similar practice we've got you covered with these 15 cute seasonal crafts. These are super simple and ready to go. Click the picture below to check them out!


We also have a pack of 12 codes to practice various skills- odd//even numbers, 100 charts, adding 10/100 to numbers, skip counting and more. Click below to check it out:


 Click the picture below to get the freebie now from our TPT store! Ready to use in your classroom today!



Saturday, January 13, 2024

Sight Words Crafts- fun, editable crafts!

We're really excited about this new addition to our tPt store as it's our first time doing something like this! Our new sight word activities give power to teachers to really personalize our crafts and adapt them to fit exactly what their learners need to practice. Without further adieu, I introduce you to these  new crafts that your students are bound to love:


This pack comes with several pre-made worksheets for each craft, that are completely ready to go with no preparation necessary as well as templates that are easy to edit and adapt to fit your chosen sight words.

I've included different versions of the templates to allow educators to personalize these in any way that is comfortable for them- PDF, PNG and editable PowerPoint files! Quickly make these crafts and have them ready for your students to make today! :)

About these crafts:

  • Black and white so your students can have fun coloring them in.
  • Easy to follow. Examples included showing final product
  • Use supplies that you already have in your classroom (colored pencils, scissors and glue).
  • Require very little preparation.
  • All crafts require one A4 page per student to cut down on printing!
  • Includes blank versions for your students to write their own words or for you to edit!
  • Make beautiful additions to bulletin boards

Our Winter Sight Word crafts and Spring Sight Words crafts are available now! Click the images below to get these now :)




Coming soon:

SUMMER SIGHT WORDS CRAFTS: coming by April 2024


SIGHT WORDS VARIETY PACK: coming by May 2024


FALL SIGHT WORDS CRAFTS: coming by June 2024


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