I don't start school until September 2nd, but I thought I would share with you what I normally do the first two weeks of school! I start the year by celebrating the students with an All About Me unit. I take tons of pictures of my students. We use these photos for their student ...
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TpT Download Technical Difficulty Help
I wake up to about 6 questions a day in my TpT store. Most of these questions are related to some sort of technical difficulty. I created this post to help. I hope it will give easy visual answers to your questions. Feel free to pin this post and refer to it in the future or ...
Classroom Door Decor Ideas
Your door is the first thing your students will see on the first day of school. Make them feel welcome and help them find your room by placing their names on your door. My students use the door decor to easily find our room. It is very rare that a stray student wanders ...
GoNoodle is Hoppin’ – Using GoNoodle with Special Needs Students
My students and I use GoNoodle! Do you? GoNoodle.com is a website with a compilation of FREE brain breaks. The energy levels of the brain breaks range from calming yoga style to get your heart rate going Zumba. As you can see above my students REALLY get into it. They loved ...
New Blog Design and a MixedBag Designs Giveaway!
I love changing things up. I loved my old blog design, but I was wanting something a bit BOLDER! After seeing what Parker Jones did for Blog Hoppin', I decided to to got to PJ's Design Laboratory for my blog redesign. I love it! I hope you do, too! To celebrate my ...
Check Out What I Bought!
Have you been shopping? I just spent a small fortune during the TpT Back to School Sale. I'm joining the "Show Us What You Bought Linky" on Blog Hoppin' to... you guessed it, show you what I bought! Hope King's: Set the Stage to Engage Susan Jones': Quick Checks for 1st Grade Michelle ...
Student Scrapbooks and a HUGE BACK To School SALE
As part of the Michaels #create2educate #sweepstakes, I decided to finally finish and post my Student Scrapbooks. I make these every year with my students and both the parents and the students love them! Supplies Needed from Michaels: 8.5 x 10 Colored Card-Stock Paper 8.5 x10 ...
First Grade Words of the Week & a FREE YEAR LONG SCOPE & SEQUENCE
I know many of you have been waiting for this! It is finally done. After years of an outdated phonics scope and sequence, my colleague, Janine, and I decided to create a new scope and sequence. Our old one was based on an outdated Harcourt series we no longer used. We came up with this first ...
Grand Prize! The Ultimate Bash Basket
Hey there teacher friends! We so hope that you are all enjoying the B2S Bash 2014 blog hop. We know how hard teachers work all year long, so we hope that some of these prizes will make your classroom life a little easier. We have one more HUGE Bash Basket that will go to one lucky winner. We ...
Michaels #Create2Educate Sweepstakes and a Free Center Download
I have always wanted to create a sand center for my students and Michaels was there to help me out with the supplies I needed! I am so excited to be participating in the #Create2Educate Sweepstakes. I hope you read on for directions on how to create your own Sand Center and enter the ...
