I have been in education for over 10 years. I have taught in a traditional setting and in a nature-based classrooms. I love to use natural elements in my teaching. I enjoy teaching outside and creating resources to use outside or to teach outdoor safety.
Send home this home learning choice board with your students in case you have a no-school day because of snow, ice, or cold. These activities make distance learning hands-on and fun. There are activities that include writing, math, science, and literacy. You can edit the description of the activity to assign how many activities you want your students to do and the due date to turn in the choice board back to school.
These activities use hands on and nature based learning to practice letter, number, and shape recognition. Use these cards for centers, small group learning, or early finishers. Included in this bundle: -Building shapes with sticks -Building numbers 1-20 with rocks and sticks -Building capital letters with sticks and rocks -Building lowercase letters with sticks and rocks
Help get your learners outside, moving, and having fun this summer! These activities cover math, phonics, reading, time, money, and life skills. If you use hands-on learning during the school year, it makes sense to continue that during the summer. Print out these sheets and send them home with your students to do over summer vacation. These learning activities hit on key literacy and math skills that students will need going into 1st grade. The best part is, they can be done almost anywhere an
Help your learners with shape recognition and formation with hands-on and nature-based learning. Take this activity outside or bring nature into your classroom. Use these cards for centers, small group learning, early finishers, or outside free play. Great for nature-based classrooms, forest schools, daycares, home school families, preschool, kindergarten, and classrooms that love the outdoors! There are two shape cards on each page in full color. You can print and laminate these cards to help t
Help your students with shape identification with these shape songs. Shapes included are circle, rectangle, square, triangle, hexagon, trapezoid, octagon, and rhombus. The songs are two to one page and full color.
Nature-based learning! Want to take your learning activities outside for some active learning? These color windows will allow students to explore the outdoors while practicing their color skills. Take your color study outside! Great for outdoor classrooms, forest schools, daycares, classrooms with an outdoor focus, or any person that enjoys bringing natural elements into their learning. Skills being practiced: Identifying and matching colors. Advantages of doing this activity outside or with nat
Are you looking for a number sense review activity that can be easily differentiated? These review sheets cover numbers 1-30. This activity has a nature theme and rocks can be used as manipulatives to add nature to your learning. Skills worked on in this activity: •Identifying the number that is one more and one less than a particular number on a number line. •Breaking a number apart into groups of 10s and 1s. •Representing numbers on a 10s frame. This activity can be done in small group or larg
Keep your students learning and active when they are not in school over winter break or on the weekends. These activities cover literacy, math, art, and science standards for kindergarten.
Keep your students learning and active when they are not in school over winter break or on the weekends. These activities cover language literacy communications, mathematics cognitive, art, social-emotional, and physical movement standards found in the Early Childhood Indicators of Progress published by the Minnesota Department of Education.
Help your learners with number recognition and letter formation with hands-on and nature-based learning. Take this activity outside or bring nature into your classroom. Use these cards for math centers, small group learning, early finishers, or outside free play. Great for nature-based classrooms, forest schools, daycares, home school families, preschool, kindergarten, and classrooms that love the outdoors! There are two number cards on each page in full color. You can print and laminate these c
I know how hard it is to find blank learning tools that can be used in many ways. These resources can be printed and used in large group, small group, or independent learning. These blank math tools can be laminated or put into a sheet protector to be used with many different math lessons and with many different manipulatives. I bring mine outside to use natural elements as manipulatives. Included in this product: -0-11 number line -0-21 number line -10-31 number line -blank 10s frame -two blan
This activity is meant to be done outside! Laminate these pages and let your learner hunt to find sticks to make each shape. Shapes included: -Rectangle -Triangle -Square -Trapezoid -Hexagon -Triangle -Pentagon -Octagon Count how many sides each shape has and write that number in the box with dry-erase markers.
Learn by playing with nature with a fun heart activity! This heart activity works on fine motor and spatial awareness skills. Great for sensory play, math stations, free play, preschool, kindergarten, daycare, nature schools, or homeschools. Print and Laminate these sheets or use sheet protectors. Give your learners multiple sizes of rocks. Your learners will fill in the hearts with the rocks, picking the rocks that fit the space the best.
Help your students work with numbers 1-10 with these no-prep math mats that use nature as manipulatives. Students will practice number formation, writing numbers, using a number line, solving addition problems, and representing numbers on a tens frame and in different shapes. These math mats are great for bringing nature into the classroom or learning outdoors. You can use these mats in many different ways. You can laminate them and use them for centers, independent practice, or have them outsi
It is so exciting to look out the window and see the first snowflakes of the season falling down. Students' attention is on the snow and not the classroom. Use these activities to allow students to enjoy the snow and learn at the same time. These activities work on writing, math (shapes), and communication skills.
Combine learning the math standard of decomposing teen numbers into groups of tens and ones into a nature-based game. Use nature to represent numbers. A stick represents a group of 10. A rock represents 1. This must be taught before playing this matching game. This game can be played in three ways. This game can be used for large group, small group, and math stations.
Add hands-on learning and natural elements to your color studies. These activity sheets combine literacy and math elements into learning each color! Use these sheets outside or bring natural elements, like sticks and rocks, into your classroom. These activities get your learners up and moving while learning and exploring each color. You can print one sheet for each student or laminate enough for a small group and use them with whiteboard markers. Includes activities for the colors: Red, yellow,
I have been in education for over 10 years. I have taught in a traditional setting and in a nature-based classrooms. I love to use natural elements in my teaching. I enjoy teaching outside and creating resources to use outside or to teach outdoor safety.
Teaching style
My teaching style includes hands-on learning and nature-based exploration. Learning through play, especially outdoor play, is a natural way of learning for kids.
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