Nurturing Kindness in Today’s Classroom
In the stressed out climate of today’s world, it is more important than ever to find ways to start nurturing kindness in today’s classroom! Today’s blog post has a few suggestions for you, so let’s get
Management Tips for Interactive Notebooks
Hey teachers!! Are you using Interactive Notebooks or planning to? I used them for years with my second graders so I definitely developed some management tricks for interactive notebooks over time. Here are some tips for you! (and if you’re wondering why you should try INBs check out my blog post here
Building Home School Connections During Remote Learning
It’s tough to do everything else you’re supposed to be doing as teacher right now, as well as building home -school connections during remote learning. Here are some ideas that you can implement. They will help to nurture relationships and connections with students’ parents and family members/guardians when you
Time Management Tips for Remote Teaching
This school year is NO JOKE. At my school some teachers are doing hybrid teaching, but two at each grade level are teaching fully remotely. After doing fully remote teaching last spring, I have done a lot of troubleshooting with how to manage my time. To help, I have some
Books to use for Teaching Immigration
I’m here today to share with you some wonderful books for teaching immigration! Immigration is a dense topic but at my school in Massachusetts, it is required to be taught in second grade. I spent many years looking for high quality, helpful trade books to support my students. Here are
What are Digital Task Cards?
Task cards, the classroom favorite for many teachers during the last 5-7 years, have gone digital. I have actually been creating and using Digital Task Cards for several years but with the school closures in March, teachers everywhere have been trying them. But what if you aren’t familiar with them
Ten Tips for Teaching Reading Online
Well, the pandemic is still in full force! Most of us are teaching online, at least to some students or on some days. Let me help by sharing ten tips for teaching reading online with you! GENERAL TIPS 1. Go Old School Yes, there are tons of technology that you
Books to Use When Teaching Parts of Speech
Books to Teach Parts of Speech I like to find as many ways as possible to make things fun in school. Teaching some topics can be a little blah, so I love using books to teach parts of speech! The following images can all be clicked on and you can
How do Interactive Notebooks Keep Students Engaged?
How Interactive Notebooks Keep Students Engaged INTERACTIVE It’s in the title! They are interactive and kids are not just reading and checking things off or writing a one word answer. Let’s peek at an example. Here in this activity for types of sentences, students cut out the flap
Dos and Don’ts of Teaching Phonics
Teaching phonics can be overwhelming, especially for newer teachers, those of you who just changed grade level, or if you don’t have a program in place. So, to help, let’s talk the do’s and don’t of teaching phonics! DON’TS WHEN TEACHING PHONICS Let’s go over the don’ts first! Don’t be
