
Focus and Reduce Stress with 30 Breathing Exercises
Talk about stress… we just finished our first marking period, report cards are due, I have parent-teacher conferences coming up, and oh yeah…just dealt with

Talk about stress… we just finished our first marking period, report cards are due, I have parent-teacher conferences coming up, and oh yeah…just dealt with

Teachers have been using focus walls in their classrooms for a very long time. But, if you are anything like me, all of the choices

“Every sentence begins with a _____ and ends with a ______.” I repeated for the tenth time within a 30 minute writing lesson. Before I

We all have been there. The thirty-minute lesson we planned went much faster than expected, and now we have time to fill before the next

It’s that time again for most of us…completing Progress Reports! I don’t know about you, but it is a struggle sometimes to capture the correct

BOO!  It’s finally spooky season and that means it’s time to bring out all of the cutest spooky season must-haves! Yes, we are talking about

Are you starting to see some behaviors in your classroom, such as non-stop talking, bullying, and problems with sharing and staying kind? Me, too!!! Well,

I’ll admit… I wasn’t on the interactive notebooks train when it was presented to me (read: mandated with zero background or functional description for how

What’s on your must-have list for Second Grade? By this time students have had experience writing and reading. They are comprehending things at a higher

Guided reading and math groups are where all of the magic ? happens. You get to hone in on the specific skills your students in

I may not be at the level of Marie Kondo or The Home Edit, but I am an obsessive neat-freak. Everything has its place and

What is one area of the classroom that you can spend hours and days creating and organizing, only to have it look like a tornado