What Black History Month Looks Like in My Classroom
It’s Black History Month! Now, I realize that Black History should be celebrated all year long and not just in the shortest month, and in my classroom it is, but I love Black History...
It’s Black History Month! Now, I realize that Black History should be celebrated all year long and not just in the shortest month, and in my classroom it is, but I love Black History...
I look forward to student orientation every year! In my county, we call it “Meet the Teacher Day”! It is a 3 hour span the day or two before school starts where students and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...