Back to School with 10 First Week Lessons
The first week of school is unlike any other week of the school year. We are tasked with getting to know 20+ students and establishing a classroom community while still teaching them classroom and...
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How to Use Student Data Notebooks to Boost Your Classroom Culture
I’ve had such a love-hate relationship with data notebooks over the years. I’ve always worked in “Baldrige” schools that have required every teacher to have a data wall and every student to have a...
Homework Part 2: Study Guides
Happy Summer! This is the first post I’m writing since officially being on Summer Break and I already knew the topic I wanted to tackle. Homework! My “Homework, Homework, Homework” post from 2014 has...
5 Ways to Make Them Love Reading in Time for Summer
Let’s Get Real I don’t know about your students, but after prepping for the state reading test for weeks and then taking two full days to test, my kids were just about done with...
Will it BEE a boy or girl? Classroom Gender Reveal
It’s a girl! My sweet teacher bestie, Mrs. Le, is expecting and today we did a gender reveal with our students. They were so excited! When the students came in for the day, I...
3 Fun & Easy Ways to End the School Year
It’s that time of year again! The weather is getting warmer and everyone (including myself) is getting squirrely. As teachers, we juggle so many balls during this time. We want to celebrate our students...
TeacherBoss Hacks: Labeling
I am all about front loading my work! One of the first things I do when I get my class list is print name labels. I have a template in a word document for...
Nonfiction TEI SCOOT Fun!
One of my all time favorite products in my TPT store is my Nonfiction TEI (technology enhance item) SCOOT bundle. I love this product so much because it is the number one resource that...
My Top 5 Whole Group Test Prep Strategies
I’ve been blogging recently about how I prepare my students for the end of year reading test during small groups (you can read more about this here and here), so I thought that today...
Jumanji Themed Test Prep: Part 2
We officially have 14 days before our Reading test and our test prep centers are in full swing! You may have read here about how I transformed my “Reading Boot Camp” into a “Test...
