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Get ready to start the school year with confidence! This page is packed with everything you need for a smooth and successful first week, including a free first-week lesson plans, must-read blog posts, and our best back-to-school resources. Whether you’re looking for inspiration, planning tools, or ready-to-use materials, we’ve got you covered! Explore now and set the stage for your best year yet.

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Classroom Prep

  • Here are my favorite smart classroom purchases that maximize the impact of every cent you have to spend as a teacher.

    8 Types of Smart Classroom Purchases

  • These tips will help you minimize missing assignments and develop a time-saving system for organizing student work in upper elementary.

    Tips for Organizing Student Work

  • Use this bundle to prepare upper elementary emergency sub plans. Also includes practical tips to help you prepare for a guest teacher.

    Emergency Sub Plans and Guest Teacher Tips

  • These Amazon classroom favorites for teachers and students will make your teacher life easier and more organized!

    Amazon Classroom Favorites

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    Low Prep Resources: Simple solutions that save time all year!

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    Practical Classroom Decor Tips

  • Tips for organizing your upper elementary literacy block. Includes daily routines, whole group lessons, and literacy rotations.

    Smooth Sailing Back to School Tips: Preparing for the New School Year

Prepping for the Academic Year

  • Simple upper elementary activities, lesson ideas, and book suggestions you can use to increase student engagement mid-year.

    4 Easy Activities to Increase Student Engagement

  • Learn how to integrate daily grammar practice into your routines to save valuable time and strengthen grammar skills too.

    6 Ways To Integrate Daily Grammar Practice Into Your Routines

  • Math tips and activities to start the year strong in upper elementary. Includes ideas for morning work, centers, and review.

    Math Tips To Start The Year Strong

  • Literacy tips and activities to start the year strong in upper elementary. Includes ideas for morning work, centers, and review.

    Literacy Tips To Start The Year Strong

Building Community

  • These practical strategies and resources help you build a classroom that values connection, self-awareness, and emotional growth by naturally integrating SEL.

    Naturally Integrating SEL Into Your Classroom Routines

  • Learn how to build connections and student relationships with success stickers. These have quickly become one of my favorite traditions!

    How To Build Connections and Student Relationships with Success Stickers

  • Incorporating Classroom Traditions to Build Classroom Community

    Incorporating Classroom Traditions to Build Classroom Community

  • Weekly Letter Writing to Build Community

    Weekly Letter Writing to Build Community

The First Few Weeks of School

  • These practical strategies and resources help you build a classroom that values connection, self-awareness, and emotional growth by naturally integrating SEL.

    Naturally Integrating SEL Into Your Classroom Routines

  • FREE first day of school lesson plans: After many first days of school over the years, here are my tried and true tips for a successful first day of school. 

    What To Teach On The First Day of School: FREE First Day of School Lesson Plans

  • 5 back-to-school activities that have a BIG impact on student learning throughout the year. Learn to cultivate a growth mindset, community, and more.

    5 Simple Back-To-School Activities That Make A BIG Impact

  • These sweet school-themed books are the perfect tools for this back to school reading lesson that introduces comparing texts and characters.

    Back to School Reading Lesson

  • Best Back to School Picture Books

    Best Back to School Picture Books

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    Free First Week of School Plans

Building Routines

  • If you’ve ever found yourself looking around your classroom in the morning and thinking things are a little chaotic, then this post of morning work activities is for you!

    The Best Morning Work Activities

  • Working together is an important life skill that doesn’t always come naturally to our students. Here are my best tips for supporting group work.

    Tips For Supporting Group Work and Collaboration

  • Upper elementary classroom management tips. Put these essential routines in place NOW for success all year.

    Classroom Management Tips: Essential Daily Routines

  • My Three Must-Dos for Setting High Expectations in the Classroom

    My Three Must-Dos for Setting High Expectations in the Classroom

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✨ I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, so l ✨ I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately, so let’s talk pendulum swings… What have you witnessed so far? What is happening now? And what do you hope to see swing a different direction soon? 🧐
The winner of this year’s March Madness Picture Bo The winner of this year’s March Madness Picture Book Competition is officially IN, and I’d love to hear which book won your bracket! Swipe to see how our school’s bracket played out. 🐟 🦀 I had a feeling from the beginning that Don’t Trust Fish would be a favorite, and it sure was. It came down to this one and Stalactite and Stalagmite, but Don’t Trust Fish took it all!
🚨 This FREE fractions and decimals math project is 🚨 This FREE fractions and decimals math project is one I’ve used for THREE different observations over the years, and it incorporates math, reading, and social studies in the very best way. We’ve had so many eye-opening moments completing it this week, and my students have a solid understanding of converting fractions and decimals with denominators of 10 and 100. 👏 💖 Comment below, and I’ll send it to you.
First day of our Picture Book Showdown is in the b First day of our Picture Book Showdown is in the books (so much pun intended)!! Teachers all over my school are participating, and I can’t wait to narrow it down to the top 8! My brackets are totally free if you’d like to join in the fun! 🩷🤩 Comment below for all the info, including a template to make your own bracket!
This morphology routine has quickly skyrocketed to This morphology routine has quickly skyrocketed to a top priority in my classroom! I usually print students their own pages, but we’re saving copies so this works just as well. Comment below, and I’ll send you info for implementing it into your classroom! 🩷
📣 Let’s hear it! As a classroom teacher, what acad 📣 Let’s hear it! As a classroom teacher, what academic skill do you wish more students had when they entered your grade level? 🧐
It’s definitely true that educational trends come It’s definitely true that educational trends come and go…. And I’ve seen some GREAT ones and done away with some meh ones. I was introduced to Hands on Equations to teach algebraic concepts over 17 years ago, and it’s one of the resources I still use every single year! Kids love it, I love it, parents love it. 👏 

🗯️ So, tell me… What’s the one thing from the beginning of your career that you still use with great success? 

P.S. Everyone say “hello” to my rogue sticky note! 🗒️ 

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It’s time for a Picture Book March Madness Showdow It’s time for a Picture Book March Madness Showdown, and I can’t wait to see the winner this year! 📕 Swipe to see the 8 pairs I have chosen to go head to head this year, and comment below for a free copy of my brackets and to learn more about how I implement this on a classroom and school wide level! 

There are many other creators out there who have done this for years and inspired me to implement this in my classroom a few years ago. 🩷
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