This Week, On the Blog
How to Assess Sight Words
Back to school is filled with community building activities and assessments. You can use this sight word assessment to collect data on how well your students know pre-primer through third grade sight words.
How to Assess Letters and Sounds
Are you looking for a new way to collect beginning of the year data quickly and efficiently? Use this resource to collect data on how well your students know capital and lowercase letters and letter sounds.
How to Make Personal Word Wall Folders
Using personal word walls is a great way to engage students during writing time. Follow these steps to learn how to make personal word walls that you can differentiate for your students. Your students will love getting to use the names of important people and places in their writing.
4 Reasons to Ditch Your Word Wall
Word walls are an important tool that students use to work independently during writing time. Help your students get more out of writing workshop by using a personal word wall folder. No matter if your students are writing independently or conferring with the teacher, they will always have the tools that they need to work independently.
Student Teacher Information Binder
Help your student teacher get the most out of their time in your classroom with this all in one information binder. Your student teacher will be ready to work in your classroom with pages teaching them about important people that work in your school and how to use technology in your classroom. The most valuable resources in this information binder are the feedback forms.
4 Tools to Help Students Regulate Their Emotions
Studies show that students are stressed and anxious have a more difficult time focusing on their academic goals. Learn how you can work with your students to teach them how to manage their emotions in a positive and healthy way. Learn how I use a Calm Down Caddy and the 4 tools that my students use to develop their social-emotional learning.
How to Make Sensory Bottles to Manage Student Emotions
Students are coming into our classrooms with undeniable stress and anxiety. It is important that teachers help students manage their emotions. Learn how to create sensory bottles to help your students calm down after a stressful situation. Sensory bottles are the perfect addition to your Calm Down Caddy. Simply follow these step-by-step directions to personalize your own glitter bottles.
Strategies for Teachers Struggling with Morning Anxiety
Education is a career with many stressful responsibilities. Many teachers find themselves with anxiety that can be difficult to work through. Learn how you can start off your morning with good thoughts and positivity by following a morning routine. You will learn how to brainstorm morning routine activities, ideas and resources to add to your routine.
Manage Student Behavior with a VIP Table
Learn all about how I rein in problem behaviors in my classroom with a VIP table. The VIP table is a reward system that I use with my students to encourage positive choices. Students are excited to work hard and meet their goals so that they get to spend time working at the VIP table!
3 Reasons to Add a Morning Meeting to Your Classroom Routines
Learn how I start my morning off with a quiet classroom while helping my students make personal connections. My students have the opportunity to voice their opinions every day through our morning meeting circle time. During our daily meeting, students are challenged to grow academically and socially each day.
First Grade How to Writing - How to Make Pizza
If you need an engaging way to teach your students procedural how to writing, teach your students how to make pizza. These simple tips will help students master other challenging material like fractions. Your students will love making pizza fractions to learn all about equal fractional parts.
End of the Year Camping Activities for First and Second Grades
These classroom camping activities can keep your students engaged and learning until the last day of school. Plan a week of camping fun in your own classroom with camping themed books, crafts and classroom transformation ideas that students and teachers will love.
4 Steps to Design Your Flexible Seating Classroom
Want to start using flexible seating in your classroom but not sure where to begin? After reading these 4 easy steps, you will be well on your way to designing your flexible seating classroom with ease!
How to Start Flexible Seating on a Budget
Teachers love a good deal! Follow these easy steps to turn your primary classroom into a flexible seating classroom while spending less. Learn what tools you can use to help simplify the planning of your classroom. Get inexpensive ideas for how you can make your classroom flexible for all learning styles!
3 Benefits of Flexible Seating
When we introduce hot new learning styles into our classroom, it's important to understand the research behind why these changes are good for our students. Learn about the researchers say about flexible seating benefits that you can see in your classroom. You can share your flexible seating research with your administrators and student's parents.
How to Start Flexible Seating
It can be difficult to know how to roll out flexible seating in elementary school. Read to find out how I’ve introduced flexible seating in my primary classrooms.