Creative Tips & Resources for Busy Teachers
Whether you are moving classrooms, or just packing up for the summer, end of the year clean up can be a stress-filled experience. The year always starts out so organized, but before you know it stuff just piles up. There are all those centers materials the kids didn’t quite put
Classroom management, classroom environment, and classroom games are not something that I thought went together. I had once thought that only Mary Poppins could get children excited about cleaning. Then I met my mentor teacher, Lynn Price. She taught me the most amazing way to get children excited to clean
I must admit that I have a love-hate relationship with Word Walls. What’s not to love about how students can use the word walls to assist in writing, and practice reading high frequency words? Nothing! Except how much room they take up. I have one large bulletin board in my classroom
Teaching may be one of the only professions where it can be more work to stay home sick, than to just suffer through and go to work. Writing good plans for a substitute teacher can feel like an impossible task when you are sick. Today I’m going to share
In your well managed classroom you won’t hear: Because, you have a plan for classroom supplies, and students know how to get them because you have cute labels on everything. In my classroom we have bins in the center of their tables with community supplies, and every morning it
Classroom organization is one of those things that can really make you or break you this year, and yet we often neglect to organize the most important aspect of our students’ experience in our classroom this year, our teaching. Every year it is so easy to become a Pinterest and
Whew – only 6 weeks left of school! Yeah we almost made it. Every year is different but no matter how great my class is, once the weather gets good I can’t wait for it to be done for a while. The kids always seem to feel that way too.
I personally have a love/hate relationship with biographies. I love that reading biographies with my students can encourage them to dream big, about what they might do with their lives. I saw this in my classroom in the inner city. Before starting my biographies unit with First graders I would
If you are a classroom teacher, reading that post title most likely made you go “huh? What’s a lap book.” Or perhaps you know what a lap book is and thought, “it’s that thing that homeschoolers do.” For those of you who have already used a lap book in your
At risk of hurting my sales this weekend, I wanted to share a little story with you. Getting ready for teaching a new grade level in a new classroom this year I have spent many hours pouring over Pinterest searching for inspiration on how to set up my classroom. There
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