Listen, Decode, Solve! There’s something about a mystery that instantly makes learning more exciting. A cookie has disappeared, three suspects are waiting, and young detectives have a case to solve. But there’s a catch—they’ll need to use their beginning-sound skills to crack the code and discover who ate the cookie! Who Ate the Cookie? turns […]
Have you ever been physically present somewhere while your mind is everywhere else? Part of you is replaying yesterday. Another part is already in tomorrow—planning, anticipating, worrying, or running through everything still waiting to be done. And whatever attention is left is trying to handle what is right in front of you. We are present,
“Get the inside right, the outside will fall into place. Primary reality is within; secondary reality is without.” — Eckhart Tolle, Power of Now It’s easy to believe that peace will come when everything around us finally settles down. When the classroom runs smoothly.
Find a Word, Start the Fun! Who says sight-word practice has to happen inside a boring little box? These Cute Animal-Shaped Sight Word Search Puzzles turn familiar word-search practice into something young learners can actually get excited about. Instead of searching through a traditional square grid, children hunt for sight words hidden inside adorable animal
Shh!! The Secret is in the Sounds! There’s something about a secret code that makes learning feel a little more exciting. Give children a page of letters to practice, and it may feel like work. Give them a mystery to solve, and suddenly they have a mission! These Crack the Code worksheets turn early literacy
Learning to hear and identify the first sound in a spoken word is an important phonemic awareness skill and an early building block for learning to read. When children recognize that ball begins with /b/, sun begins with /s/, or fish begins with /f/, they are learning to isolate beginning phonemes—the individual sounds they hear
The right technology can do something wonderful in a classroom: make the complicated simpler, the ordinary more engaging, and a busy teacher’s day just a little easier. But with an endless stream of websites, apps, AI tools, and digital resources appearing every day, finding the right ones can feel like a job of its own.
Welcome to My Perch! Teaching is made up of a thousand little moments, some carefully planned, some completely unexpected, and many that teach educators just as much as they teach students. This cozy perch is for sharing ideas, insights, and everyday discoveries that can make classroom life a little brighter, and more meaningful. Stick around! You
