I do the same as the above poster....no hand raising necessary, kids! Except I write their names on a deck of cards and just pick a card when i am...
These are so adorable! THIS is why we teach! I teach second grade and I always love yard duty on the first day of the new school year because...
Hello! Looking for ideas on easy but fun art lessons to go with our English Language rotations. I am NOT an art teacher but have volunteered to...
I think that is the same series--it is called Treasures? Full of social studies and science articles? I have used it in the past but find it can...
Wonders from the Treasures series?
I use a balance/scale to show how you can either ADD to one side or SUBTRACT from the other.
3 second grade teachers for 95-100 students....
Wow!!! Departmentalizing kinder??? Part of kinder is developing a solid and trusting relationship with one or two teachers...really, planning for...
August 5th for me, August 7th for the kids... Kids finished right before Memorial Day, hence the early start date. (Although I worked through the...
Inspiring posts here, for sure...and heartbreaking as well, some of them:(
We use (high quality) page protectors...with whatever you want on the inside (lined, unlined, graph, thinking maps, etc,). Cheap version of white...
I was a kinder teacher for 8 years and HATED the partner teacher thing...hence the reason I left kinder 11 years ago!
That is so funny--"man journals" !! Love it!:lol:
^^so cute!!!^^ I forget in the hustle and bustle of the school year that the young kids really crave a few simple, positive words from their...
I bought packs of small cards ($1.50/pack) at Michaels and wrote a personal message for each child from me...it was the first time I had ever done...
We did 5 buy back days...we had 5 days furloughed about 3 years ago so this year our union negotiated these 5 days of "PD" at the end of the...
2 schools, 19 years...4 classroom changes, 3 grade level changes.
Yup, California is my state...I had 33 most of the year. Our kinders were at 32-36, first grade at 30, and second about 32-33. It is...
5!!! I am retaining 5! With large class sizes, there are more and more kids who are falling behind academically and socially because their...
we had a celebratory end of year breakfast, movie of charlotte's web, letters to their third grade teachers, washing desks with shaving cream:),...
