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Whether you are looking for tips to better manage your classroom, classroom design, flexible seating, or classroom organization, you are in the right place! Browse through the posts and categories below to explore all of my tips and tricks for running your classroom.

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Here are some of the websites, apps, and activities I have come to love, as well as how I use technology in the classroom to enhance lessons.

Here are some of the websites, apps, and activities I have come to love, as well as how I use technology in the classroom to enhance lessons.

7 Ways to Use Technology in the Classroom

Here are my best tips to prevent teacher burnout, from a seasoned teacher who has really been (and is still!) there in the trenches with you!

Here are my best tips to prevent teacher burnout, from a seasoned teacher who has really been (and is still!) there in the trenches with you!

How to Prevent Teacher Burnout

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

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

Practical coping strategies and resources that make meeting your students emotional needs a little less overwhelming.

Practical coping strategies and resources that make meeting your students emotional needs a little less overwhelming.

Ways to Support Students' Emotional Needs in the Classroom

Three tips and resources for a smooth and productive classroom morning routine in upper elementary.

Three tips and resources for a smooth and productive classroom morning routine in upper elementary.

3 Parts to an Effective Classroom Morning Routine

These strategies, tips, and resources for student engagement are a must to increase student engagement and motivation in upper elementary.

These strategies, tips, and resources for student engagement are a must to increase student engagement and motivation in upper elementary.

Tips for Increasing Student Engagement and Motivation

Learn how to use podcasts in the classroom to challenge students' listening skills, and integrate content related skills too.

Learn how to use podcasts in the classroom to challenge students' listening skills, and integrate content related skills too.

Incorporating Podcasts in the Classroom

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

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.

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

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Using pictures to teach literacy skills never fail

Using pictures to teach literacy skills never fails! It’s super engaging, relevant, and incorporates so many different ways to practice a skill. Start with making inferences and literal observations based on the photo, complete a skill-based task relating to the picture, and then apply the skill to a reading passage!

Drop a comment below if you’d like the link to the bundle which includes reading skills, parts of speech, and figurative language practice. ❤️

*Not to be confused with using pictures as a strategy to predict words in text. 😉

I’m SUPER short on time, so I try to incorporate

I’m SUPER short on time, so I try to incorporate six minute STEM challenges once a month during morning meeting activities. 🥰

Today’s task was super open-ended. They had to work together to create something relating to winter. I gave each group different manipualtives to use and off they went! The groups were hyper-focused the entire time and then had to do a quick presentation to the class about their creation when time was up! 👏

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So much beautiful in just one basket. 🥰😍 Agr

So much beautiful in just one basket. 🥰😍 Agree?!

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I loooooove this unit on commonly confused words,

👏 👏 👏… the entire classroom when someon

👏 👏 👏… the entire classroom when someone finally solves a puzzle like this. 😂

I love to incorporate these challenge problems (use Nrich and Openmiddle to get started) because they teach my students so much more than how to solve a math problem. They learn important lessons in teamwork, persistence, resiliency, and growth mindset. We talk about strategies for tackling difficult problems and the importance of not giving up when things get hard.

ALL kids need to feel and learn to embrace challenge. Oftentimes, kids I see have rarely faced an academic challenge. Things have just come easy to them, so when it doesn’t, they can lack strategies that will help them. In fact, they will often give up before they even get started.

I tell them it’s my job to make sure I’m helping them stretch and grow their brain by giving them challenges. They don’t love it at first, but they eventually do! 🤗

Those Dollar Spot succulents in planters that look

Those Dollar Spot succulents in planters that look like composition notebooks will never get old, though. 😉 I’m not usually big on fancy classroom decor, so books have become one of my favorite elements of “purposeful decor” in my classroom. Do you see any of your favorite chapter books here? 🤗

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