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Behavior Management / September 4, 2023

Classroom Management

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Every year classroom management looks different to me. Sometimes I find amazing ideas from other colleagues and other times it’s from Pinterest or trying things that have worked in the…

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Behavior Management / August 27, 2023

Early Finishers

What do we do with students that are early finishers? In all grades, you will have students who can finish the work quicker than others. Especially in primary because a…

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Back To School / August 12, 2023

Getting To Know You Game

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Getting to know your students is number one, but what if you could do that while practicing phonics, reading, and writing? The beginning of the year is A LOT, right?…

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Back To School / August 5, 2023

Classroom Tour

Welcome to my 2023 Classroom Tour. Who is ready to be back??? This is always like Christmas morning for me. I love being able to go back, start fresh, and…

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For Students / July 27, 2023

Classroom Library Organization

The number one topic I have seen on lots of posts this summer classroom library organization. I completely get it. Every year I tell myself I need to find something…

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For Students / July 16, 2023

STEM Bins

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4 years ago I tried out morning tubs/STEM bins instead of morning work.  You know when we have to go back to work and we have meetings and lots of…

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Back To School / July 7, 2023

Meet and Greet

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Does your school do a Meet and Greet, Meet the Teacher, or Open House before school starts? We have ours the last day of our Teacher week. In years past,…

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Back To School / June 26, 2023

Back to School-The First 9 Days

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So, each year when teachers go back that first week, I pull out my back-to-school folder and sift through the random copies and try to remember what I did the…

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Holidays & Fun Days / June 15, 2023

Summer Prep

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Okay it is summer break fiiiiinnnnaaallllyyy! WOOHOO! I am not the teacher to just say forget school I’m on vacation. If you are that teacher that is awesome!! I love…

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For the Teacher / June 4, 2023

Top 10 On TEMU For The Classroom

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Okay if you haven’t heard of TEMU you are missing out. It is a website like SHEIN, but in my opinion, it is way better! I have ordered many times,…

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