As spring breathes new life into the world, it’s the perfect time to rejuvenate your classroom and spark student engagement. This blog post is your guide to easy and creative teaching strategies focused around a spring theme. We’ll explore creative, fun, and engaging teaching ideas designed to harness the energy of the season and ignite a passion for learning among your students.
My no prep Spring Themed Google Slides are a great place to start. Build your students’ schema and boost engagement with these digital slides. I have created five days worth of no prep slides, which work great for morning meetings. Each day include a spring themed morning message, a greeting activity, social-emotional check in, phonics or grammar review, math talk, video of the day slide with link, read aloud slide with link, reading response slide, brain break slide with link, and a snack timer slide with link. These spring themed slides are great for a sub or just to keep your students engaged and your morning running smoothly. I use these type of slides every morning with my students.
The slides above have links and reading response activities taylored to specific spring books like: The Spring Book by Todd Parr, Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring by Kenard Pak, When Spring Comes by Kevin Henkes, and Frog and Toad All Year: The Corner by Arnold Lobel. However, you can use the slides with any spring themed books! I have curated a list of spring themed books for the classroom for you below.
Every season, my students complete a banner writing prompt, usually after reading a picture book. We save the banners to compile into a book/banner portfolio for the end of the year. These spring banners are super cute and super easy to do and off course they are added to my students’ portfolios.
You can grab a free sample version of the spring banner on the left by clicking HERE or check out the Deluxe version HERE.
Do your students love to vote for their favorites of things? My students do! They love to see which one “wins.” These spring themed, gardener, math crafts come with an option for a whole class graphing exercise, where the students vote for their favorite flowers! Then they make a gardener page topper craft of themselves. If you are in a pinch for time, I have also included a one sheet color and graph printable in the resource. You could use one or the other, or both spring themed math graphing sheets!
Your students will love these bunny art projects…I originally found this funky bunny craft from TeachStarter many years ago via Pinterest. The bunny craft has become a favorite activity of mine over the years. I am so happy to let you know that TeachStarter offers the craft templates and tutorial video for FREE! You can hop over to their website to grab them. This year I used pastel background papers and I am in love with how they came out.
I created a simple and free writing prompt that would compliment the bunny art project or any spring themed project of your choice. It is an “I Spy Spring When….” writing prompt. You can grab it for free by clicking below!
Support your students’ writing with file folder word walls with pictures!
I hope these spring teaching ideas help inspire you!
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