By LAURIN BRAINARD Updated June 26, 2024 When I think back on our childhood favorites, dinosaurs are always top of the list! This theme is one of our absolute favorites and I can’t wait to share all about it with you!! Included Activities in this Dinosaur Toddlers Theme In this post, I’m sharing 5 of my favorite types of dinosaur toddler acti... Read more 08 Jan 2021 - 4 minute read
This year, my students will be starting the school year virtually so I have been thinking a lot this summer about how I will best deliver my phonics instruction. I will be having daily Zoom meetings with my class where we will work on phonetic awareness, segmentation, blending, decoding, and other phonics skill practice. In addition to live teac... Read more 30 Jul 2020 - 2 minute read
Now that I finished our first year of distance learning, I just can’t stop creating Boom Cards™ and other digital resources for students to use this coming school year. I am sure that my students will love learning through Boom Cards and I hope your students or children do as well! I just finished working on a full year of First Grade Math CCSS... Read more 24 Jun 2020 - less than 1 minute read
We are in full summer mode here at home so what could be more fun than a sand and sea sensory bin! In this bin, you will go on a letter hunt to find the letters under the sea! All the letter tiles are face down, so my kids had so much fun guessing the letter they would draw next and then turning over a letter tile. Setting Up Your Sensory Bin ... Read more 16 Jun 2020 - 1 minute read
I am so excited to begin sharing preschool lessons with you! So many of you joined my little family through our Toddler School lessons over the past two years, and I can’t wait to see where this preschool journey takes us. I watched my son grow in his love of learning, develop fine motor skills, learn the alphabet, and learn to count to 10. As w... Read more 31 May 2020 - 5 minute read