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The best teacher hacks, classroom organization tips, classroom systems, and classroom management strategies from upper elementary teachers.

The Ultimate List of Teacher Hacks

Learn how to organize student supplies on the first day of school and keep them organized all year long too.

How To Organize Student Supplies

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

Classroom Management Tips: Essential Daily Routines

Back to school read alouds are a great way to build community, get to know your students, and discuss important topics for the year.

A Complete List of Back to School Read Alouds

Download free Skill of the Day weeks for spiral review in reading, math, and language from Teaching with a Mountain View.

FREE Skill of the Day Week

If you are scratching your head wondering how you can best utilize your classroom parent volunteers, here is your guide!

How to BEST Utilize Your Classroom Parent Volunteers

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

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

Amazon Classroom Favorites

Last week of school lesson plans for upper elementary. Includes fun, engaging, and academic ideas to end the school year.

Last Week of School Lesson Plans

End of the Year Reading Projects

Just-for-fun ideas for April Fools' Day pranks to play on your upper elementary students. Includes academic ideas too!

Classroom April Fools’ Day Pranks

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Quick vocab tip! ✨ I always have a big stack of

Quick vocab tip! ✨ I always have a big stack of these labels printed out and write words on them as we add to our word collectors during novel studies. Students get a sticker and everyone (mostly other teachers, students outside of class, and their parents when they get home) asks them about their word all day long. They LOVE it, and it’s a great way for them to practice new vocab words!

Over the past 14 years, I’ve enjoyed adding litt

Over the past 14 years, I’ve enjoyed adding little touches to my classroom, and I always love going into classrooms and seeing the little things that make them unique. EVERY classroom has something special!

These are a few of my favorite touches that make my classroom feel special to me and my students! ❤️

THOSE ARE MY BABIES, but my babies are almost elev

I’m ALL about novel studies and think they’re

I’m ALL about novel studies and think they’re so beneficial to students. I have so many resources and ideas that apply to ANY novel to make it low prep as a teacher but engaging and meaningful for kids! ✨ Drop a comment below for a link to my blog post all about implementing novel studies AND to these amazing flip books that make planning and implementation a breeze!

It’s that time of year! 🌳 🌲 A little backg

It’s that time of year! 🌳 🌲 A little background: My school names all of our grade level areas by different house names (bobcat house, raccoon house, etc.) and since my room is lofted, it’s called the tree house! That means I start the year with a study of trees, people who are important to the study of trees, and of course, treehouses!

🌲 My first graders are doing a short reading unit on treehouses to promote creativity. I’m infusing skills like characterization, parts of speech, vocabulary, and inference as we read a variety of picture books about treehouses. You can see most of the books I use for that on the third row of the shelf. Then, they end up creating their own dream treehouse and writing about it.

🌲 After their brain unit, my third graders will be learning about significant contributors to the trees. We start with a week learning about Katherine Sessions, reading tree poetry, and other picture books relating to the trees. Then they complete their own choice project about another significant botanist and present it to the class. You can see most of the books I use for this on the second row of the shelf.

I’m so excited to add Listen to the Language of the Trees from @sourcebookskids to our lessons this year. It had beautiful illustrations and so many connections to our learning!

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I’ll admit that I might enjoy expanding sentence

I’ll admit that I might enjoy expanding sentences even more than the kids. 😂 We start by making sure our verb is vivid, our noun is specific, and then we add an adjective. It becomes a nice, totally acceptable sentence. Then we add ONE element (who, what, where, when, why) to expand it further. There’s a Junior Varsity sentence (swipe to see different levels of sentences). Finally, we add a second element, and it becomes a Varsity sentence. I usually encourage them to resist the urge to keep going, or their sentences can end up a bit excessive. How do you encourage students to expand sentences?

💡 Tip: Once you've done these together, have students practice with pictures and then bring in their own picture to use!⁣
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Topple Blocks are some of my favorite activities t

Topple Blocks are some of my favorite activities to have on hand for a quick review, station rotation, or lesson follow up! 🥳 My students agree that it’s one of their favorite review activities, too!

Here are the details:

✏️ 2-6 kids per group

✏️Everyone in the group has a recording sheet, which contains a variety of tasks that correspond to the block colors.

✏️One student rolls the dice and ALL students answer a question from that color.

✏️Students check answer together.

✏️The student who rolls the dice pulls a block.

✏️Repeat.

If you don’t have blocks, I have gameboards to use, too! I have full Topple Block activity sets available for most math, reading, and language/grammar skills. Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you a link to the games and blocks! 👏

These games were adapted from Hope King’s idea of using Jenga in the classroom, which she shared when I visited the Ron Clark Academy six years ago! 😍

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