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7 Affordable Ways to Help You Love Your Teacher Desk Space

March 16, 2022 by carrberrycreations Leave a Comment

Your teacher desk is your mini-sanctuary. You should treat yourself to an organized and efficient workspace to add calm and focus to your workday. These Amazon items are a must-have to transform your teacher desk into an orderly oasis of calm in your otherwise busy day. First up a cute desk organizer in a refreshing

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Filed Under: Back to School, Classroom Organization, Lesson Planning Tagged With: Back to School, Classroom Organization

How to Engage Students with Distance Learning

July 21, 2020 by carrberrycreations

When schools closed in March and we quickly switched to digital learning, many teachers reported struggling to keep students engaged during digital instruction. Students were often absent, or did not complete or turn in assignments. Some students even devised crafty ways of pretending to have connection issues during a live lesson so they could check

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Filed Under: Back to School, Distance Learning, Featured Posts Tagged With: Classroom Management, distance learning

How to Create Routines that Will Transform Distance Learning

July 13, 2020 by carrberrycreations

Many schools around the world will be going back to school with distance learning. This was a huge learning curve for many teachers. This summer I was fortunate to have the opportunity to teach summer school for incoming 4th graders. During summer school, I built connections with students, taught whole group lessons live, recorded instruction,

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Unexpected Homeschoolers Here is Your PD

March 18, 2020 by carrberrycreations Leave a Comment

Due to the spread of Coronavirus, we are facing an unprecedented time in the history of our planet, and many of us have found ourselves suddenly in charge of our children’s education. Fortunately, I have some experience with this, and today I will pass on some of this advice to you. Set a schedule for

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Filed Under: Back to School, Distance Learning Tagged With: Coronavirus, Covid19, homeschool

How to Create Lapbooks for Easy Projects that Stand Out

April 5, 2019 by carrberrycreations Leave a Comment

lapbooks for classrooms

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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Filed Under: Classroom Organization, Lap Books, Literacy Tagged With: Back to School, lap book, lap books, lapbooking, lapbooks

4 Simple Strategies for bringing out the Best in Your Students

November 15, 2018 by carrberrycreations 2 Comments

hy spend time teaching “Soft Skills” to my students? If you haven’t heard the phrase “soft skills” basically it means, how to teach that stuff students aren’t assessed in standardized assessments. We used to call them social skills, manners, etc… Now it includes a bit more like how to handle a bully, and what to

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Filed Under: Back to School, Classroom Management, FREEBIE Tagged With: Classroom Rewards, soft skills

Anyone Can Be a Classroom Organization Boss in 3 Easy Steps

July 30, 2018 by carrberrycreations 6 Comments

Back to School Classroom Organization

Classroom organization is one of those things that can really make you or break you this year. Too often teachers neglect to organize the most important aspect of our students’ experience in our classroom, our teaching. Every back to school season it is so easy to become a Pinterest and Facebook stalker of other people’s

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10 Ways to Prevent Summer Learning Loss!

May 30, 2017 by carrberrycreations 1 Comment

Prevent Summer Learning Loss

Preventing the summer learning loss known as “The Summer Slide”, is a tremendous issue  for teachers and schools. Personally, I hate sitting down with parents at beginning of the year conferences and informing them that their child has a lower reading level at the start of the year than they had at the end of the previous

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Filed Under: End of the Year Activities, FREEBIE Tagged With: Summer Learning, summer learning loss

How to Rock the End of the Year Clean Up

April 27, 2017 by carrberrycreations Leave a Comment

How to Rock the End of 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 away correctly the first time.

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Need a Fresh and Inexpensive Idea For Mother’s Day?

March 23, 2017 by carrberrycreations Leave a Comment

A few years ago for Mother’s Day it seemed like every student brought home a marigold for their mom. In fact each of my 3 children brought home one too. While I love the marigolds, it seems a wasted learning opportunity if they plant the same things every year. That is why in my classroom we plant our

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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 the classroom at the end

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Don't you just love an organized desk? I certainly Don't you just love an organized desk? I certainly do!  This article chalk full of my favorites for desk organization and stress reduction. Check it out! https://bit.ly/3LXhI33
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How do you keep students motivated? I find that th How do you keep students motivated? I find that this digital leaderboard keeps my students motivated to reach their weekly goals. Once they do their monster appears for the week and they move up the leader board. We re-set the board every 9 weeks to give everyone a fresh opportunity to make it to the top! Do you use iReady in the classroom? https://bit.ly/3Pit3wt
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Are you team "I don't want the year to end", team Are you team "I don't want the year to end", team "Send this kids home!" or "It's complicated"? The end of the year is always emothional for me.... and I usually cry. I love my students but I am so so tired and ready for a break!

One way I make it through is about 3 weeks before the end I sit down, write all my plans for the rest of the year, and make all my copies. That way I can just enjoy my students for the last few weeks of schoool without having all those tasks still over my head.

How do you make it through? I'd love to know! Leave a comment below and join in the conversation. 😁

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One of my favorite ways to connect with students i One of my favorite ways to connect with students is through a handwritten note. I print a set of these at the beginning of the year, address one to each student, and add a stamp. Each week during the school year I add a personal note to 2-3 cards and drop it in the mail. Once I have sent a card I print a new set and start again. It is such an easy way to encourage students. Have you tried this before?
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I'm trying to get up a bit earlier so I do not sta I'm trying to get up a bit earlier so I do not start my Mondays so rushed. So far it is helping me start the week fresh.
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This is so often the truth. I try to make a consci This is so often the truth. I try to make a conscious effort to provide opportunities for students to express their needs in a positive way in my classroom. One of my favorite ways it to have free journaling as morning work. It allows student to tell me what they need me to know about them, while working on their writing. How do you help meet your students needs in your classroom? #teacher #teachersofinstagram
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