When we decided to be teachers, we knew we would be working long hours, taking work home, and having to juggle family, friends, and other outside interests (ranging from sports watching to reading to gardening to running to Netflix binging) with the little time left over. It’s hard not to
Welcome to our Back to School blog hop & giveaway! Read this post and then see the bottom for the next post in the hop and the giveaway 🙂 I openly admit I am easily distracted. And a procrastinator. It’s taken me years to figure out how to manage myself,
Teachers spend an average of $500 on their classrooms every year. That’s crazy. And I’m totally one of those people who has done this, but I decided I really needed to cut back where possible so I could budget wisely. Where could I stop spending money? One place was rewards. My first year
You know what’s amazing about social media? I have learned some amazing new things from people I wouldn’t even know existed. Can’t even describe how many things I’ve learned and how many amazing people I’ve connected with. Some teachers have been doing some amazing things- even during their summer break.
There are so many different classroom jobs- messenger, paper passer, milk/cafeteria duty, line leader, caboose, paper collector, homework checker, table captain, board eraser, schedule changer…I could go on and on. Some teachers have a system and they switch out these various jobs once a week, once a month, or once
The year is almost over. The range of emotions run from some bittersweet sorrow to jumping for joy. We made it! The teachers, the kids, & the parents- go us! Before I take a much-needed, much-deserved break for the summer, I need to reflect. Why would I do this
This is the most satisfying step in the writing process- publishing! And we made it!Missed our earlier steps? Check my earlier posts for how to engage students and get them excited about writing using pre-writing organizers (free!) all about writing conference I’m so excited for this part- and your kids are excited too!
This post may contain some affiliate links, which means if you click on one of the links and make a purchase, I’ll receive a small commission. You will never incur a fee or charge for this. It’s spring time and the weather is starting to look beautiful. As soon as
Can you believe it? The end of the year is soooooooooo soon. We came back from spring break (which was earlier than usual this year) and I was shocked to find there were less than 50 teaching days left. How am I going to fit it all in? What can
So far, we’ve gotten students engaged here and we’ve done all of the pre-writing organizing here…now it’s time for writing conferences. You as the teacher need to meet with students and the students need to meet with their peers also. Here’s the thing about writing conferences…they take time. Some are longer
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