Inside: Celebrate the 100th Day of School with 100 acts of kindness with this free printable: 100th Day of School Kindness Activities. When I taught my younger elementary school students, we all loved counting down to the 100th Day of School. It was always something we looked forward to celebrating in February. So when the […]
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Year Long Emergent Reader Bundle to Teach SEL Each Month
Inside: Use this year long Emergent Reader Bundle to tie in reading, writing, holidays and social emotional skills each month. Elementary schools revolve around the holidays. Yes, we teach reading, writing, and ‘rithmatic, but we infuse the holidays into almost everything we teach. Since our students are excited about the pumpkins and the bats and […]
Martin Luther King Jr Day Emergent Reader for Learning About Kindness
Inside: Use this Martin Luther King Jr Day Emergent Reader to celebrate MLK’s Legacy and his kindness. When we learned about Martin Luther King Jr. when I was a student, we listened to his I Have a Dream Speech and colored in a picture of his face. But we didn’t really get to the meat […]
Winter Kindness Bucket List Activity to Spread Kindness through
Inside: Use this Winter Kindness Bucket List Activity to help kids spread kindness throughout the winter months with easy, kid-friendly activities. Some people love the beginning of winter with Christmas and the lights and the novelty of snow, but by the end of winter, many people are “over it.” I grew up in Los Angeles, […]
Winter SEL Bundles of Activities to Teach Character Education
Inside: Use this Winter SEL Bundle to teach social-emotional learning and character education during the winter months. We used to live in a part of the country where there was really only one season. So when we taught the seasons to students, we really had to read a lot of books and bring in realia […]