Classroom Ideas

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Simple DIY Pool Noodle Playing Card Holder for Kids. This is brilliant.

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Your child will love creating with these alphabet lego cards, they are a free printable download.

My elementary school is really big into the Accelerated Reading program more than any other school I've been to. Being a librarian, I'm in charge of keeping track of every students A.R. points. The teachers set the students' A.R. goal each six weeks. Usually third through fifth, is 6 points, and kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd range from 1 to 5 points. I noticed that third and fourth grade were not motivated at all to meet their goal of 6 points and a 85 percent average. I needed something to...

It's time for another year! Another art teacher gave me this idea- take photos of how the supplies are supposed to look so that it's easier during cleanup! I found these art star rules on Pinterest [and tweaked them to work for me]. We have a detective theme this year at school, so I decided to embrace it with this mystery artist board. There are 3 suspects with some information about each one and a few clues. I took some of my bulletin boards for my "Art Around the World" board and the...

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{Click to download and access the FREE RESOURCE: Classroom Theme Planning Pages}Let's be honest. Student academic success is not determined by a colorful classroom or a classroom theme. Classroom or

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A R T I S T Rules

Question stems can be used as thinking prompts for class discussions, prompting, and various forms of assessment.

Need a digital way to organize all of that student data and assessments? Do you have data records crawling out of your ears?? :) These digital student data tracking sheets are the perfect templates for organizing all of your data in one teacher data binder. No more flipping through a gazillion documents to find that one piece of RTI data on a student! This document works great for tracking RTI data on Tier 2 or Tier 3 kiddos also! INCLUDED IN THESE DIGITAL STUDENT DATA TRACKING SHEETS A data...

This poster will help maintain structure for students while setting expectations when using Zoom for distance learning.

Wow, it's been three weeks since I've been here on the blog. What's happened in the last three weeks? For starters, I have hardly sat down this whole time!! It has been quite the whirlwind. Zoe started daycare (and loves it!), I moved my entire classroom from my old room to the science lab (plus some stuff from home), set up my entire classroom, had Meet the Teacher night, a few meetings, and started teaching 16 sweet, little first graders. They are seriously a super sweet bunch. We are...