Another year has come to an end. Thank you for supporting Teach Junkie! As we look back at the year of 2014, it was full of success and joy for the Teach Junkie community.
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In 2014, we wrote many useful teaching tutorials. We thought we should compile a list of our favorite ones. Let’s take a look at the year.
Top Primary Resources – Collections
12 Easy Cause and Effect Activities and Worksheets – Focusing on how there is a connection between a cause and the effect, this collection of worksheets and activities was designed for first through third grade.
19 Fun Ideas & Resources for Force and Motion – Experiments, free printable and resources like a song are fun ways to teach the science concepts related to force and motion. This collection helps cover the basics of texture, gravity, incline and a few basic machines.
21 Classroom Organization Labels and Tags – If you’re wanting to add organization to your classroom, then here is a great place to start. Printable labels and tags help make the teacher organization process easier on you!
25 Easy Frog and Toad Ideas and Activities – A cross-curriculum collection of the best science and reading resources for teaching all about frogs, toads and the life cycles. Plus, you’ll notice the most popular Frog and Toad make their appearance too.
Rocks for Kids – 15 Fun Activities and Ideas – There are teaching ideas for the rock cycle, types of rocks and even a rock recipe to hook kids into phsycial science. This collection includes worksheets, activities and journal ideas.
Top Community Tips
Superhero Hundreds Chart Game {Free Printable} – A simple game to count by ones or to add 10. It’s a game design for kindergarten and first grade. Shared by fellow teach junkie Danielle Collins.
Brown Bear Shapes Game – This game works on colors, shapes and comes with a spinner to give two different game options.
Reading Strategy File Folders {Comprehension} – Here is an activity to build independence with reading strategies. Fellow teach junkie Eclectic Educating shares how she uses a simple file folder to help students work through what they think they know about a topic, work through misconceptions and reflect as they read.
These were some of the best and most popular primary resources of Teach Junkie in 2014. We hope that you liked them.
We would like to thank you for supporting us throughout the year by offering feedback, sharing articles, suggesting topics, etc. We are really very thankful! We hope to add more useful collections, tips and lesson plans in 2015.
Leslie {aka the original Teach Junkie} loves learning new things to make teaching easier and more effective. She enjoys featuring creative classroom fun when she's not designing teacher shirts, making kindergarten lesson plans or planning her family's next trip to Disney World.