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PLANNING

Planning can take up a lot of a teacher’s time, but it doesn’t have to. Let me help you plan quality lessons that will meet your students’ needs and engage them. This section is here to help you so you can get back to your personal life.

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Have you ever struggled with predicting how long a lesson takes? Have you sometimes ran out of time during a lesson and not finished everything you needed to do, or ended up having too much time left over? This post covers how to estimate the time you need for each lesson.

Gauging How Long a Lesson Will Take

If you're bored with the same informal assessments such as the ticket out the door, check out this list of assessment ideas that are low prep and engaging for your classroom. This blog post includes an A to Z list of ideas for informal assessments with a FREE printable.

Informal Assessments A to Z: A list of Ideas

It is absolutely possible to facilitate learning in any subject with the six tips listed in this post. These suggestions are all based on foundational teaching practices and not on specific course curriculum. Click through to get these tips and save this post to reference later!

How to Facilitate Learning in ANY Subject

Create an adorable bulletin board with this gift of learning activity for the holidays. This blog post has the present printable freebie to get started!

Gift of Learning Bulletin Board for Christmas

A while back I saw on Pinterest a bulletin board for Thanksgiving where students wrote on a slip of paper what they were thankful for.

Engage students in learning about earth changes such as earthquakes and volcanoes with these hands-on elementary science experiments and activities. And this post even has a FREEBIE!

Teaching Earth Changes, with a Freebie!

Our planet is an amazing place and is so much fun to teach about! I hope your students will love the “earth changes” activities planned

Engage your students this Thanksgiving with these fun activities while practicing cause and effect! Grab a freebie too!

Gobble Up Some Thanksgiving Fun

I love Thanksgiving! It is the first major break since the start of the year, and the time after always rushes right up to the

Do you have students who struggle with reading fluency and decoding? Use these ideas and strategies for reading interventions to help your reader move up in reading levels!

Ideas for Reading Interventions

When I first started teaching third grade, I discovered a whole new world when it came to teaching reading and reading interventions. It was interesting,

Have your students compare how a spider web is similar to our thinking. Check out this higher order thinking activity we did in the classroom!

Higher Order Thinking with Spider Webs

This year my students and I have been doing a lot of talking about just how important it is to be doing thinking (especially higher-order

Are you looking for a quick and easy Halloween or fall craft you can implement in your classroom? Check out this easy paper pumpkin activity!

Quick & Easy Paper Pumpkin Craft

With Halloween around the corner, why not get a bit festive? However, there are many children who do not participate in Halloween or anything related.

Help your students become fluent with their multiplication facts with these 5 tips and tricks! Plus, a math game freebie!

Multiplication Facts Tricks: Achieve Fact Fluency!

It’s October, that time of the year when the air starts to smell crisp, the leaves change colors, and the stores fill up with every

Save money and create your own DIY easel for your teaching classroom! This blog post tells you step by step how to DIY easel for very little money!

DIY Easel for Your Classroom: Simple & Effective!

I inherited a wooden easel long ago when I first began teaching. It was fabulous and worked well, but after many years of use, it

Speaking and Listening are important common core reading skills that MUST be implemented in your reading lessons. The best way to do that is by using these FREE conversation cards!

Speaking & Listening Conversation Cards

We have several Common Core Standards that require students to practice their speaking and listening skills. If your students are like mine, they tend to

Looking for some cute ideas and crafts that can be used in your elementary classroom - all while saving you money? Look no further. I have a few DIY teacher hacks just for the elementary teacher!

DIY Teacher Hacks: 4 Hacks to Make Your Life Easier

We all know teachers aren’t exactly made of money, time, and, well… energy. Thankfully, these DIY (Do-It-Yourself) teacher hacks don’t require a whole lot of