One area of weakness for me as a teacher is family involvement in our classroom. It’s something that I want to improve but it’s also something I’ve shied away from…
Happy New Year! 2016 is gone and 2017 has arrived. A new year full of new hope and new possibilities. New challenges and new frustrations. In the spirit of…
This blog post is something I’ve wanted to talk about for a while. I hope this post will encourage or inspire you to overcome fear in the classroom. I hope…
So, I don’t know if ya’ll know this. But I have a best friend. She used to have this TV show and after 25 years she gave up the show.…
I get asked a lot of questions about classroom management and what I do to keep my classroom running smoothly. Well honestly, I think it’s a lot of luck!…
There is nothing more powerful than experiencing our classroom and teaching from the student perspective. We all know how much we can learn from watching ourselves on video. Imagine how…
This morning meeting greeting is a fun and easy way to review numbers! Simply write numbers to 20 on address labels. Stick the labels on the kids shirt. When they…
Today’s SmorgieVision video is one of our beginning of the year morning meeting greetings. This one is great for listening and learning names! It’s very simple and goes like this”…
Center management can be a for real challenge in any classroom. It took me years and years to find a system that worked for me and the kids. Ya’ll…centers used…
On our second day of introducing hippopotamuses, we do a mini lesson on using ZipLoc bags because all of our hippopotamuses are kept in ZipLoc bags. We also review our…
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