Last night, was my 13th Meet the Teacher Night. I have been teaching first grade for 12 years and yet I still update and come up with new ideas every year. This year, I decided to give the parents water bottles as welcome gifts. You can snag the tags for free {here}. I get asked all the time ...
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Visual Plans for the First Full Week of School – With Links to Lots of Freebies
This is my first full week of first grade this year! Our theme is apples and we are diving right into centers and writing! Click the images to download my plans or the covers to check out the products I use this week. If you like my plan book style, check out my plan book ...
The Night Before School Starts…My First Currently!
I have known Farley for years and never got around to joining her September Currently Linky. It is 3 am the night before school starts and I cannot sleep. I went to sleep at 10 pm and I guess my mind is over nervous that I am going to oversleep!....so of course I get up and blog. When I ...
First Day of First Grade Student Gifts
As I was setting up my classroom this week, I looked at the other done classrooms and noticed they had little bags on the students' desk for first day gifts. Ahh, I totally forgot to get first day gifts. Back when I started teaching, no one even thought of giving gifts. Now, it seems to be the ...
Teacher Week: When & What (Free Phonics Scope & Sequence)
I am linking up with Blog Hoppin' for "When" of teacher week. Here is my plan book. I am still working figuring out what my schedule will be for next school year. We have a changed lunch and prep. I will still be teaching the same things, I just need to work out the ...
Teacher Week: Organization – My Top Four Tips
Organization is my forte! If you read my last post, you know that my classroom is more organized than my own home. Why? Why be organized? I like to be organized because, I spend a lot of time in my classroom. I feel stressed or frazzled when I cannot find things. ...
Teacher Week: Who
I am linking up with Blog Hoppin' for our annual Teacher Week! I have been blogging for quite some time. You probably already know that I love shoes, animals, and my blogging friends. Here are a few more things about me. I have enjoyed spending time with my nephew ...
Back to School Plans for the First Week of First Grade
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 ...
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 ...
