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<p>March is on its way out the door and April is ready to bloom! What does this mean? It is time to break out the new picture books and their corresponding April Picture Book Pals! Using Picture Book Pals with these four amazing books is a great way to help students boost their reading skills &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/4-amazing-april-picture-book-pals-books/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about 4 Amazing April Picture Book

<p>I wanted to find a way to easily teach six and seven year old children how to Journal write.&nbsp; We often expect our children to free write in their Journals (or notebook, or writing book or whatever you want to call it).&nbsp; Children often struggle with the expectations of this.&nbsp; Which lines do they write &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/i-wanted-to-find-way-to-easily-teach/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Introd

<p>Welcome to my blog series on STEAM STORIES CLICK HERE  to get your own copy of this week So this week started off with the children already knowing the book.  They read it to their big buddies on the Friday prior.  I decided to spread out the study of this book over 2 weeks.  The &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/week-2-of-steam-stories-little-red-apple/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Week 2 of STEAM STORIES &#8211; Little

<p>Welcome to my blog series on STEAM STORIES. CLICK HERE to get your own copy of this week This week we started off the whole lesson series.  This curriculum is designed to be used all year.  It&#8217;s ideal for a Grade 2 curriculum in Canada which is more aligned with a 1st Grade curriculum in &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/welcome-to-my-blog-series-on-steam/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Week One of STEAM STORIES &#82

<p>So I found these cute characters at the dollar store and I was totally inspired to create a descriptive writing activity. So what the kids do is they get a character and a sheet of stickers and they add the details to their character.  Below you will find some of their creations.  If you can&#8217;t &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/halloween-descriptive-writing/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Halloween descriptive writing

<p>I’ve been using STEM and STEAM activities in my classroom for a while now.  And I absolutely LOVE how they work.  In fact I wrote down all the things I love about STEM.  You can find that HERE if you’re interested. I love reading non-fiction and fiction books when I’m teaching a Science concept to &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/integrating-steam-and-ela/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about How you can easily integrate STEAM

<p>This time of year, it&#8217;s always perfect to start teaching about the life cycle of plants. This year I have been really focusing on non-fiction reading and writing with my class and I wanted to come up with a cute way to display their learning to their parents. &nbsp;This is when I came up with &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/science-write-im-so-excited-about-this/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about SCIENCE WRITE &#8211;

<p>Here&#8217;s another look at my Spring Poetry project. The image above is from one of my students this year. I used a die cutter to cut out the flowers and the kids made their own leaves.  I&#8217;m really happy with how they turned out. CLICK HERE if you are interested in your own FREE copy</p>

<p>Here&#8217;s a sampling of some of my Easter products. First up, the latest addition to my Class Book series is an Easter book called My Bunny. Here&#8217;s a no-prep class book activity to work on descriptive writing. There are 10 pages of brainstorming templates, and writing frames as well as blank lined pages for differentiated &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/interested-in-easter-products/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">abou

<p>I really love the book I&#8217;m Bored.  CLICK HERE to go to my store and get your own freebie.</p>

<p>So this past week we&#8217;ve been working hard on Christmas ideas.  This first one uses the templates from the package below from Little Red&#8217;s Schoolhouse.  I modified the template and added the thick black lines.  Then I used one of the free blank writing papers from Whimsy Workshop.       We also made these &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/peek-at-last-week-2/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Some cute Christmas ac

<p>So I&#8217;m trying something new this week.  I&#8217;ve been working on using Instagram more and more.  So I&#8217;m going to share with you some highlights from my Instagram feed once a week. If you want to check out my Instagram feed &#8211; click on the camera icon on my blog header above. Here is my &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/peek-at-last-week-3/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Some ideas you&#8217;ll love from

<p>Ever feel overwhelmed and in over your head?Well this has been my life lately.  And I have actually been on summer vacation.  Is vacationing too hard just as rough as partying too hard? Never mind, that sounded better in my head. My tip for the first day of school, might seem a bit obvious.  In fact, &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/back-to-school-blog-hop/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Engaging Back to School Activity f

<p>I created this product to stimulate the brain cells and get kids thinking about writing.  And what’s better than writing about something fun that they have done? CLICK HERE This activity is called Summer Snaps, short for Summer Snapshots.  And what I ask the kids to do is create a camera as a fun motivational &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/tried-and-true-linky-party/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Kids will love Summer

<p>Phew!  It&#8217;s finally done. I&#8217;m totally excited to show you my latest unit. It&#8217;s part two of my three part Science pack on Air, Water, and Soil. You can pick up SOIL, HERE. You can pick up WATER, HERE. and AIR will be in my store soon. I&#8217;m totally excited to share with you my &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/soil-primary-science-unit/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about SOIL &#8211; A Science Unit for K t

<p>So I had all the extra paper plates and decided to try a Spring Wreath with a poem inside.  I came up with this cute Spring Poetry lesson  and it&#8217;s FREE CLICK HERE to get your own copy. Here&#8217;s my attempt at Photoshopping a few photos together to show of my bulletin board.  I know &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/welcome-spring-free-poetry-and-art/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Welcome Spring &#8211; a free po

<p>I have revamped my St. Patrick&#8217;s Day unit.       CLICK HERE to check out your own copy.   My original freebie is still available HERE   I&#8217;ve included the full-colour class book in my new unit, PLUS a blackline master version for your students and&#8230; tons of activities for ELL. like&#8230;   making &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/st-patricks-day-unit-now-available/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about St. Patric

<p>I&#8217;m super excited to introduce my latest unit. Everything you need to teach about Chinese New Year. CLICK HERE to get your own copy . This is a comprehensive Social Studies Unit for Primary Students. Scroll down for detailed images of all the pages.  This unit contains tons of activities and lessons which are not &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/chinese-new-year-everything-you-need/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-reader-text">about Ch

<p>I revamped an old unit of mine just in time for Valentine&#8217;s Day     This unit has tons of Language Arts activities for Valentine&#8217;s Day.   Lots of songs and poems A classification activity Story starters Making words Secret messages A pop-up card activity Valentine&#8217;s phonics More valentine sentence starters Blank writing forms Primary &#8230; <a href="https://savvyteachingtips.net/valentines-day-is-coming/" class="more-link">Read More <span class="screen-r

<p>  Here&#8217;s my latest unit &#8211; perfect for Remembrance Day or Veteran&#8217;s Day. I just added a few Poppy crafts &#8211; check these out.   CLICK HERE to get your own copy   And here&#8217;s a closeup of the rest of the unit.</p>