Our Holidays Around the World unit is in full swing! Today we learned all about Sweden and the focus was Santa Lucia Day. This is one of my favorite lessons to do with my students because they are always SO fascinated with the Santa Lucia traditions. I always use informational text articles to base our lessons around. I have written a Santa Lucia version for K-1 and a differentiated ... read more
Holidays Around the World – Videos, Songs & LOTS of Links
Can you feel the excitement in the air? It's quickly becoming that magical time of year... the time when all your classroom routines are on auto-pilot. Your students are making progress... you've built relationships... you are FINALLY ready to sit back and enjoy the fruits of your labor. Then someone says the word "Christmas" and your students look like this... via GIPHY Yup. Every. ... read more
Transition Magicians
This is my 18th year teaching. Wow, that makes me sound old! (Notice I said that makes me sound old... not that I am old... ;) ) Anyway, in all those years I have had just about every "kind of class" you can imagine. I have taught pre-k, kindergarten, first grade, second grade and ESE. I have taught in Title I schools, inner city schools, a professional development school on a university ... read more
Flexible Seating – Answers to All Your Questions – Including How I Found Funding for My Flexible Seating!
Welcome back! Hopefully you have been with me since the beginning of this "blog series journey"! This is the fifth and final (for now) post in this series. You can catch up on the series by reading: Post 1 HERE - Post 1 was all about exactly what flexible seating is and why it is so great for kids. (This post really breaks down some of the research on flexible seating and gives you lots ... read more
When Flexible Seating Goes Wrong
So, if you are reading this, I am really hoping that you have read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of my Flexible Seating blog series. In those posts I talk about what flexible seating is and why it is so valuable for students, the research that supports flexible seating, how to roll out flexible seating to your students, the rules I use for my flexible seating classroom and the different management ... read more
Flexible Seating – How Students Make Seating Choices
Welcome back to Part 3 of my Flexible Seating Blog Series! If you are just starting with us today you can catch up by reading Part 1 HERE. In Part 1 I talked about what flexible seating is and why it is good for kids. I gathered and explained a lot of research that supports flexible seating and gave lots of links in case you want to go deeper with research. Part 2 can be found HERE. In Part ... read more
How to Get Started With Flexible Seating
Today I want to talk about getting started with flexible seating in primary classrooms. Specifically, how I introduced this new concept to my students. If you haven't read Part One of my Flexible Seating series you can find it HERE. Part One talks about what exactly flexible seating is and why is it is good for students. I listed the benefits and provided links to supporting research. In ... read more
Flexible Seating in Primary Classrooms: What it Looks Like & Why it is Important
Earlier last week I got together after school with some of my long-time "teacher besties". We have spread out to different schools & grades over the years, had babies, bought houses... even started a book club! ...But somehow when we get together the conversation always makes its way back to school at some point. (...You can take the teacher out of the school, but you can't take the 'school' ... read more
Back to School Tips for Teachers & $100 TPT Giveaway!
So, my "tip" is actually a 2-parter... This is my 18th year teaching and I have finally narrowed down my biggest priorities during the craziness of Back to School. It all comes down to connections and copies. It is really that simple. Of course all the other stuff matters... You should still teach procedures all day, everyday. You need to think out your organizational ... read more
Dear Debbie Downer, (The Teacher Edition)
Dear Debbie Downer (a.k.a. My teacher friend/Colleague/Teammate/Nice Teacher I Met at a Training/Teacher in my Facebook Group/Girl I Went to College With Who is Now a Teacher... ETC...), Let me start by saying, I get it. Seriously, I get it. Sometimes it is all just too much. TOO MUCH, I tell you! Too many mandates, too many complaints, too many problems to solve all day long. There ... read more
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