HeidiSongs Teaching Resource

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! __________________________________________________________________________ Differentiating homework assignments easily and efficiently may seem like something that cannot be done, but I have actually figured out a system for doing just that!   And it's not that hard!  I've been doing it for the last few weeks in my first and second grade combination class.  It's MUCH easier than creating, grading, and keeping track of two totally separate homework packets, too!  This could work within one si...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ Here is a fun bulletin board that I put together to showcase my students' progress and motivate them academically. I use mine to show progress in Accelerated Reader (AR), but it could be used for any subject, such as sight words, math facts, alphabet letters learned, etc.  I'm going to share how I put it together and give you the masters as a free download so that you can make one, too!  My students are really enjoying it and love c...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ In this post, I am going to tell you about a really fun and EASY seasonal STEM challenge that worked GREAT with my first and second graders!  We decided to call this activity "Apple Jenga!"  My students just LOVED this, and have been begging me to do it again ever since!  I know that this would also work well with Kindergartners, too, because it is just a block building challenge with an apple theme and some measurement.  ...

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! __________________________________________________________________________ Here are my first day of school lesson plans for my first and second grade combination (split grade) class! I have written everything out that I plan to do, minute by minute, (yikes!) and I have listed it all out below, just in case anyone would like to use my lesson plans as a reference. Much of the activities will be the same for both grade levels, but some of them will be a little bit different for each grade. First, let me tell yo...