We have been searching for an easy way to share pictures with parents and we are in love with smilebox! It’s an incredible website that lets you fill cute scrapbook, slide show, and photo album templates with your own photos and share them through email. Smilebox also lets you print your creations so we always print ours to have in the classroom as class books. Smilebox also has templates for newsletters, invitations, and stationary, and teachers can use it for FREE! It doesn’t get better than that! www.smilebox.com

Finding new materials to use on the light table is something that I always have a hard time with, but when I saw some gorgeous shadow puppets on pinterest I was psyched to try shadow puppets on the classroom. Some of my children have been talking about their own shadows, now that we have some spring sunshine, and I remember enjoying shadow play myself when I was very young. If you search shadow puppets on pinterest you will find some very beautiful examples, but they were a bit too elaborate for my needs. I made these by printing some clip art animal shapes and tracing them onto black card stock.…

Here is a great idea for you after Easter clearance finds! We used our plastic eggs to make math matching game. Here are the super simple instructions: take two sets of plastic eggs, one large size and one mini size, match up the colors and place number stickers, matching numbers on matching colors. This is an amazingly easy game that can be played in a number of different ways1. Matching the large number eggs with the small number eggs, when you make a match you get to put the small egg inside the bigger one.2. For your younger children just have them match the colors.3. Add a smaller manipulative (ex:plastic…