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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

  • Accomplishment Animals

    Accomplishment Animals: My FAVORITE Way to Celebrate Student Successes

  • 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

  • One Word for Kids Goal Setting

    One Word Goal Setting for Kids: A Meaningful Back-to-School SEL Activity

  • 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

  • Accomplishment Animals

    Accomplishment Animals: My FAVORITE Way to Celebrate Student Successes

  • 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

The Best Back-to-School Resources

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Honestly, their ideas had me 🤯 and I learned so mu Honestly, their ideas had me 🤯 and I learned so much about how my students think, process, and work in a large group!! Here’s how I did it:

Hand them a huge stack of letters (there were tons of duplicates). They had to silently make a large circle of letters A-Z. No talking. I LOVED watching them work together. (If you don’t want to do this step, just make a circle of the letters before they arrive.)

Then, I gave them a topic. We went around the circle, and each student had a QUICK chance to state something that started with each letter (in any order) and collected letters as they went. If they didn’t have one ready to go, we’d go to the next person and continue around the circle until all letters were gone. The person with the most letters at the end “wins” but we actually ALL won with this one! 

Shoutout to TopDogTeaching for inspiring me to start this last year!!
Let’s stop asking kids to share their favorite foo Let’s stop asking kids to share their favorite food and start asking questions that make them REALLY think about their answers. 🥰 Want even more? Comment below, and I’ll send you the info about my Purposeful Pondering cards! 🩷
🚨 One of my favorite activities for the first week 🚨 One of my favorite activities for the first week of school and beyond!! I use patches, but you can use stickers or pictures or anything you dream up! Comment below, and I’ll send you the link to the patches I got. 🩷
They’re ✨ essentials ✨ for a reason! Truly love ea They’re ✨ essentials ✨ for a reason! Truly love each and every one of these anchor charts, so I create and teach them at different points throughout the year EVERY year. 🩷🩷
These curriculum resources are YEARS in the making These curriculum resources are YEARS in the making, and I couldn’t love them more! 😍 Whether you want to implement Morphology Minutes (in just a few minutes a day) or explicitly teach students each set of morphemes with a slide deck, practice with partner plays, use Morphology Skill of the day, complete comprehension activities and more, I’ve got you covered! Comment below, and I’ll send you the details. 🩷
I’m obsessed with these reading review cards! Simp I’m obsessed with these reading review cards! Simple and quick, but still requires students to really ✨ think ✨ about what they read! Comment below, and I’ll send a link your way! 🩷
Accomplishment Animals are still going strong in m Accomplishment Animals are still going strong in my classroom! I’m answering some of your most asked questions here! Comment below, and I’ll send you ALL the info and my favorite tiny critters. 🩷❤️
Comment below, and I’ll send you ALL the info abou Comment below, and I’ll send you ALL the info about how we use book beads, including these cute Book Review Cards for meaningful (but fun) accountability. 🤗
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