Activities for elementary students

Get your students reading and writing this summer with these fun and engaging enrichment activities for elementary grades.

Fun Friday in the classroom is a great way to celebrate the week of hard work! Find 6 tips and free resources for having your own Fun Friday!

How to Make a Pom Pom Shooter. This is a fun STEM activity for preschool and kindergarten kids to make. #stem #preschool #kindergarten

One of my favorite things about back to school, is knowing that I get to meet and love on a brand new bunch of kids for the school year. I’m sure you feel the same way, and have your lesson planner packed to the max with different “get-to-know-you activities.” I want to share with you […]

Engaging STEM Activities, Math resources, and Escape Rooms will help fill up your month of March! As teachers, we know the longest month of the year is March. I know many of you think it is January or May. But I think it's March. March often brings Spring Break, which is typically the

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This is a simple but fun activity for all elementary ages. For the younger ones I like to just let them be creative and work out the complexities of designing a puzzle that can be successfully put together by friends. If done the right way, it can really invoke higher-order thinking. For older students, it can be a great extension activity to show reading comprehension through drawing. Or, it can be used as a "thinking" activity when students are brainstorming for creative writing. I hope…

I have put together 50+ arts, crafts and activities to do with kids at home. Perfect for summer or even in the middle of a long winter. So many fun craft ideas for kids. I have been slowly putting together a list of arts, crafts and activities to do with kids at home. Some of these could totally be done outside or for a break from the hot days of summer or even during the long days of winter. Either way, so many great and fun options for all sorts of different ages. I have included a few…

Teaching Second Grade's students absolutely love to work on STEM projects. This week’s stem activity was to build a house, or a structure, of cards. I got this activity from Brook Brown ~ Teach Outside the Box. It’s currently my favorite STEM project for elementary grades.

Thanksgiving Activities for Elementary Students - Raise the Bar Reading