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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

The Best Back-to-School Resources

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Comment below with something your students have be Comment below with something your students have been OBSESSED with this year, and I’ll choose one random commenter to win a set of accomplishment animals to end the year! Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! 🩷🩷 

💡How accomplishment animals work:

Every week, my students take a moment to share a specific success or accomplishment with me and we have a quick conversation about it. They get a little animal (or sticker) and build the cutest little collections over the year — it’s such a fun visual representation of all they’ve accomplished over the year AND such an amazing way for me to learn more about them and connect!
I always seem to pull out the Topple Blocks games I always seem to pull out the Topple Blocks games this time of year, and I’m sending one lucky teacher FOUR sets of blocks to use in their classroom! 🍎 Comment below with the number of days of school you have left. I’ll select one random commenter on Thursday and send the blocks your way! 

Not endorsed by IG. I will never ask you to click links to verify you won and will contact winner directly via comment AND DM from this account only. 🩷😍
These are my SIX favorite books to read at the end These are my SIX favorite books to read at the end of the year — I always read What the Road Said on the very last day of school before I hand out awards. 🩷 I’m giving away a set of all six to one teacher! Just comment below with your favorite kids book of all time, and I’ll select one commenter on Wednesday. 

💡 Not endorsed by Instagram! Winner will be contacted Wednesday evening via DM.
These little guys are my absolute favorite (and ea These little guys are my absolute favorite (and easiest) class pets ever! 🤩 Comment below, and I’ll choose one commenter and send a cute little jellyfish your way! 

Not endorsed by IG! Winner will be contacted Tuesday evening via DM.🩷🩷
This may be my FAVORITE resource I’ve made in year This may be my FAVORITE resource I’ve made in years! 😍 I’ve been working on it since January and testing and tweaking it with my students, and I’m so excited to share it with you. My students LOVED it (we used it with an I Survived book), and I had so much fun teaching it. They were just SO into it and noticed so many aspects of graphic novels that they never had before. 

😀 Comment below, and I’ll send you the link!
If you’re a teacher, you probably recognize these If you’re a teacher, you probably recognize these two questions I ALWAYS get from parents (especially this time of year): 

1️⃣”What should I work on with them over the summer?” and 

2️⃣ “What books do you recommend for my child?” 

💥 So, I put together a FREE resource for you to send home to help parents support their kids over the summer! 

🏠 I created this easy to use guide full of book lists, skill lists, and even quick, authentic activity suggestions to help guide parents over the summer (no packets or workbooks needed)! 

Comment below, and I’ll send you the free link to download it! 💕❤️

(Also very very proud of this song choice because they will, indeed, forget about it if they don’t keep doing a little something over the summer!) 😜
✨ 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!
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