journaling

  • Friday Freebie – Summer Writing Prompts

    Happy Friday! I have such a great idea for you today – I did a training last week and one of the participants was sharing that she is doing summer journals with all of her students.  She thought that this would be a good way to continue the writing and language work that they started during the school year, without really feeling like they were doing “work”.  She is planning on having them take their journals along with them on all of their fun summer trips so that they can write or draw what they learned and how they felt about the experience.  These Summer Writing Prompts from Kinder Molly,…

  • Classroom Gratitude Journal

    The easiest way to help children understand gratitude is to talk about it over and over again.  I’ve created a really cute freebie that will help your students put practice their thankfulness, while recording what happens each day. These pages can be used to create a classroom gratitude journal.  Each day ask your students what they are thankful for, or grateful for.  In the beginning you’ll likely get the same answers again and again – “I’m thankful that we got to play outside” and “I’m thankful for snack time.” You may need to set an example by telling the class what you are thankful for each day, but with practice…