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If you teach 2nd through 5th grades, this blog is for you. You’ll find teaching strategies, organizational tips, classroom management ideas, engaging resources, teacher self-care, and more!
Keeping students engaged during learning activities can be a challenge. In some cases, students have not developed the stamina to stick with a paper-and-pencil activity,
Hands-on centers are part of every primary classroom, but how can you be sure your students are actually completing them in the way you intend?
Celebrating the 100th Day of School is an exciting event in elementary classrooms, and this post rounds up some classroom-tested activities that your students will
At this time of the year, survival mode kicks in, and we are all looking for fun AND easy activities to get through each day.
The holiday season is the perfect time to bring thematic activities into your classroom and what better topic than the fun of gingerbread?! Check out
I love to read to my students. Like most children, they LOVE to listen to me read. What children typically don’t love to do is
Learning to retell a fictional story doesn’t come easily to students in the detail we’re expecting as educators. I’ve tried many different strategies for teaching
In my classroom, we don’t fill imaginary buckets. We tend and cultivate self-esteem, confidence, and positive attitudes. We grow Heart Gardens. Early in the school
We all have students who struggle and require differentiated activities to access grade-level concepts, but how many of you put the same attention into differentiating
Most of us have a pile of them kicking around our houses and classrooms, but what do you really do with them?! Here are 5 creative
I’ve been using the Notebook software for several years and have become somewhat of a go-to person on my staff for newer users. There are
Let’s talk about one of my FAVORITE picture books… The Day The Crayons Quit. If you haven’t read it, you absolutely must! It is the
