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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
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All About Math Focus Walls
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
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Anchor Charts For Your Primary Classroom
“Every sentence begins with a _____ and ends with a ______.” I repeated for the tenth time within a 30 minute writing lesson. Before I
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30 Quick and Easy Time-Fillers
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
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66 Fantastic Teachers Comments on Students’ Progress Reports
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
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Spooky Season Must-Haves for Teachers
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
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Over 45 Books to Teach Social Skills
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,
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9 Reasons Your Students Will Love Interactive Notebooks
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
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Second Grade Teacher Must-Haves
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
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20 Tools to Include in Your Guided Reading & Math Baskets
Guided reading and math groups are where all of the magic ? happens. You get to hone in on the specific skills your students in
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A Dive Into the C.O.R.E. Binder
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
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Setting Up Your Classroom Library
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