Students need phonemic awareness lessons because phonemic awareness and phonological awareness are the foundation of learning to read. Phonological awareness is knowing that language
Our school hosts a meet-the-teacher night a few days before the first day of school. This allows students and families to meet me, see the
Do you use flexible seating? Are you looking for information, tips, and routines for bringing flexible seating into your classroom? This blog post explains how
Classroom management strategies can be more than routines and procedures. In fact, creating a comfortable learning environment is part of successful classroom management. If you’ve
Apparently, there’s this thing in politics, government, and business called a document dump. And you use it when you want to put a bunch of
This post is to show classroom organization for small groups and explain why we set them up the way we do and how they work.
These are the first-day-of-school procedures that I must teach on day 1! We all know that the first day of school can be insanely hectic,
See how this classroom utilizes their whole group instruction area to maximize learning!
We get lots of questions about our flexible seating student work areas and about our classroom design. Specifically, how and why of each area of
One of the first classroom snack ideas is Friendship Salad! Every Friday in our classroom, we have Foodie Fun Friday, where we cook or make
