Fancy Ideas for the Everyday Classroom
I posted all about my cactus classroom make over, over at Oriental Trading education blog. You can check out the post on their new Learn 365 platform and shop all the looks in the room. Here are some sneak peeks of them! Our new library- printed with super cute water color cactus labels that you can find here. The view… Read More
This year I am teaching 5th grade and six of my #Schenrysclass veterans will be looping with me. So besides redoing my entire room (classroom reveal post coming soon), I also needed to come up with a new first week activity so that my six returning students would be engaged. I fell onto the llama train, because I mean, how… Read More
So, I found out on my first day of Summer Vacation that I am moving to a different grade level next year. The very FIRST thing that I thought about was I need to redecorate my room. New grade level, new team, new curriculum, new students… it just made sense. I needed a fresh start. Does anyone else get the 3 year,… Read More
This being my ninth year teaching, and teaching with one of my best friends in the entire world, Michelle from Apples and ABCs, I knew this year’s Open House would be one for the books. I am so excited to share some of the things we did with our students this year. Enjoy the show! Here is a view from… Read More
The past two months of school my partner teacher and I started noticing an increase of missing, broken and extremely short pencils floating around the classroom. This phenomenon is an all too common classroom conundrum and though I have dealt with this in the past, I have never had a group of students lose, break, forget their pencils…and BTW, I want… Read More
November is a month filled with so many fun activities to do inside the classroom. We always start the month off by celebrating Dia de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead. I love using Sailing into Second’s Day of the Dead brochure as a little opening activity give the students some specific information about this holiday. There are also a lot of cute… Read More
