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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!

practical classroom decor tips upper elementary

Practical Classroom Decor Tips

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

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

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

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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  • Back to School Math By the Numbers Cover
  • School Inference Riddle TC Cover
  • COVER Road Trip Reading Project
  • Back to School Math Logic Puzzle COVER
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  • Back to School Context Clues Activity Cover
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There are two questions I always get from parents: There are two questions I always get from parents: 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! 

🛑 It’s not a big printable packet or workbook full of worksheets — instead, it has book lists, skill lists, and even quick activity suggestions to help guide parents over the summer! 

Comment below, and I’ll send you the link to download it! 💕❤️
Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to the F Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to the FREE assignment sheet and more info! 🌟 🌟 

Just say noooo to those end of book tests and packets of endless comprehension questions. Say “YES” to super fun cumulative novel projects. 🤗 I’ve been doing this one — where kids create an Amazon listing for their book — for YEARS, and it never gets old!
We end our school year the same way we started it, We end our school year the same way we started it, and it always warms my heart to see how far we’ve come. 💕❤️🥰 I’ve adapted Find Someone Who to have an end of the year twist, and it’s a really special, sweet way to see kids come together for a few minutes at the end of the year! 

It’s FREE and no prep! Just drop a comment below, and I’ll send it to you. 💕❤️
I LOVE planning for the end of the year. Comment “Last Week!” below, and I’ll send you all the links! 💕

I’m a big believer in keeping our schedule as consistent as possible and continuing to have high expectations while also embracing the fun and celebration that comes with the end of the school year! Each of these activities accomplishes just that — total engagement but consistency right until the very end! ☀️
It’s time! ☀️ Over the last 16 years, I’ve It’s time! ☀️ Over the last 16 years, I’ve perfected my lesson plans for the last two weeks of school. Comment PLANS below, and I’ll send them to you and help simplify your end of the year planning!
🚨 It is Teacher Care Week here at Teaching With 🚨 It is Teacher Care Week here at Teaching With a Mountain View! Baking cookies is one of my favorite ways to calm the chaos after a busy day in the classroom. 🥰 Since I can’t bake any for you, I’d love to send five of you a gift card to your favorite treat location! 

💕💕 Comment below with your favorite treat to see in the teacher’s lounge, and I’ll automatically enter you AND send you an exclusive FREE resource to use with your students!
This is one the BEST traditions my previous school This is one the BEST traditions my previous school had, and I include it in my FREE Last Week of School Lesson plans! 

It was inspired by a segment on GMA, and the students each wrote three words to describe their year. We would take pictures of the students with their words and put together a huge school-wide slide show on the last day of school to showcase our words.⁣ I still LOVE doing it with students and making it into a collaborative chart!
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➡  So tell me... what would YOUR three words be to describe this year? 😂 Comment below, and I’ll send you my FREE lesson plans for the last week of school!
My students have been BEGGING for more of this boo My students have been BEGGING for more of this book and the activity that goes with it!! They are GLUED to the tales and love trying to interpret them. 

Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to the book! 📪 📕 

Each of these ten word tales is sliiiiiightly unsettling and unusual and REALLY makes kids think through the possibilities! I shared several with my students, and they were obsessed with them! 

Then, I had them write their own 10 word tales (harder than it seems!). Since the illustrations add so much to the story, I had the kids SWITCH tales and illustrate their partner’s tales. They LOVED this part and seeing how their meaning was interpreted by their illustrator!

They begged so much to do this again that I obliged, and that STILL wasn’t enough! 😂

Disclaimer: Some of the tales really are odd and a little unsettling, so preview them ahead of time — I recommend this one for the older (3rd grade+) crowd! 💕
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