It’s Back to School Season… Dun, dun, DUNNNN! The combination of Reward Tags and this Star Tag bulletin board with unlockable achievements have seriously transformed my classroom management! That being said, I have been in my classroom for a total of 3 days – 36+ hours already (and they say teachers spend regular work week […]
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Bulletin Board Tips and Tricks
So, raise your hand if this is you… 🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️🙋🏻♀️ Well, this was is me as well. Thankfully my lack of ability in leveling bulletin board letters has helped me to become a master at scrounging together helpful tips and tricks to make bulletin board life a little easier! If you have this same kind […]
The BEST Word Wall
One of the best things that I have done for my classroom was to transform my word wall. I changed it from the typical 1 MILLION words all SPREAD OUT on a board to a compact, portable and VERY WELL USED word wall. In my teaching career I have seen the impact that […]
Teacher Approved STRUCTURE Videos for Science!
One of my favourite subjects to teach is Science! In my province, grade 3 is lucky enough to get to teach all about structures! All those awesome STEM activities, hands on building projects are all a part of the curriculum that I get to teach! If you are one of the lucky ones that gets […]
Flexible Seating in the classroom – Part 1
Flexible Seating in the classroom – Assisting Student Success Part 1 Flexible seating and assisting students success in the classroom is something that I wanted to do, but it was something that I kept going back and forth on. Did I want to get rid of the safety net of my simple chairs and tables […]
Breakout Games and Inquiry in the Classroom – Part 2
If you have not yet checked out part 1 of my breakout game blog posts, CLICK HERE to be redirected! Aaah, breakout games. The love of my teaching life. Breakout games really are all that, AND a bag of chips! If you have not heard of breakout games, you really are missing out on some […]
Breakout Games and Inquiry in the Classroom — Part 1
As many of you know, there is a great desire for teachers to implement inquiry based learning in their classrooms. Watching your students come up with questions, find solutions and solve problems is what inquiry is all about. Having a fun hands on approach to inquiry based learning is both fun for teachers to watch […]
How to Keep Track of Completed Student Work
As a Third Grade teacher, I am caught in a place between overflowing paperwork and the struggle to keep track of it all. I don’t love to give worksheets to my students all the time, but to be honest there are just some things that work better with a piece of paper in front of […]
Multiplication Fact Fluency – 5 EASY Ways to Encourage Student Success
Who loves it when their students know their multiplication facts by heart? ?????????????? We all want to see our students being successful in the memorization of their facts and learning the strategies to help them to learn. Here are a few ways that we practice fact fluency and how I have helped my students to […]
How to Print EVERYTHING in Color while on a Teacher Budget!
If you are anything like me, you like to print your games, centers, posters and other amazing teaching resources in COLOR! The problem that we usually face as teachers is that ink is EXPENSIVE! It’s way too costly for us to print everything that we want to in color. Right? WRONG! What if I told […]