Read how this homeschooling staple can be easily adapted for the regular classroom. Turn long units of study into beautiful projects with lapbooks!
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The Top 5 School Supplies You Need To Complete Your List
It’s that time of year again. Back to school is both fun and stressful when you are the teachers trying to do #allthethings. Let’s me help you cross off 1 thing by sharing with you my 5 favorite school supplies for my back to school shopping list. * BONUS* I’ve
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How to Rock the End of the Year Clean Up
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
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Magic Scrap: a Fun Idea for Classroom Games
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
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Save Classroom Wall Space With Word Wall Books!
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
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How You Can Leave Sub Plans and Actually Stay Home
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
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5 Phrases You Wont Hear in Your Well Managed Classroom
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
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How to Get Organized for a Successful School Year
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
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We Are Almost There!
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.
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Tips For Your Next Biography Project
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
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