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Junk Mail Treasure Hunt

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ If your house is anything like mine, there is always an endless stream of junk mail. Here are three great ways to put that trash to work! Seek and Find You know how much we love our hidden word worksheets . Have your super sleuth students search out sight words , numbers or letters in junk adds. 1. Assign a sight word, number, or letter for participants to find. 2. Provide each participant with a sharpie and a stack of junk ...
   

What Do Children Learn From Nursery Rhymes? And Two Free Mother Goose Bulletin Board Crafts!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Children learn many things from nursery rhymes , and the benefits of learning with them as young children can last a lifetime!  Keep reading to find out just a few of them, and then download my free Mother Goose and baby gosling craft to make with your children! Infographic: What Do Children Learn from Nursery Rhymes? Download and share with parents.  Permission granted to reproduce and share, as long as copyright and we...
   

It's Farm Week- (Get Your Freebies!)

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Does your class study the farm?  Mine does!  Here are the best ideas from my Farm Unit for Pre-K, Kindergarten, and First Grade.  There are some freebies in there, too!  Enjoy! Below are the books we read during farm week.  I always try to include one non-fiction and one fiction book about each animal that we study. We always make our HeidiSongs "Singable Book" on the farm, too!  This one is called...
   

Don't Let the Pigeon Do Guided Drawing!!!!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Last week at the International Reading Association Conference , I  had the wonderful privilege and pleasure of hearing Mo Willems speak, since he was the keynote speaker for the last general session of the conference on Monday morning. In case you are not familiar with his work, Mo Willems is the author of Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus ! and Don’t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!   He also writes the “Elephant and Piggie” b...
   

Thirty Quick Ideas For Valentine's Day Mailboxes

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Hello, friends!  Today I am going to give you a quick run down of thirty different ideas for using those cute little metal mailboxes that you can usually find for one dollar around this time of year!  I saw a whole shelf full of these mailboxes in the dollar section at Target, and immediately began wondering how many teaching ideas there were out there for those things!  So I snapped a picture and posted it on my HeidiSongs Fac...