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Deciding to homeschool your child can be both exciting and overwhelming. I’ll never forget the moment we decided to make the leap, albeit only for a year. There’s so much to consider, but you don’t have to have it all figured out on day one. With a bit of planning (and a lot of patience!), you’ll find your rhythm, adjust it, and find it again and again!  Below, you’ll find advice to new homeschool parents (or veterans) from the perspective of a veteran teacher and someone who has homeschooled.

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A FREE compilation of creative and critical thinking games for your classroom with quick and fun ways to keep students engaged in learning AND stretch their thinking.

ZERO Prep (and FREE!) Creative and Critical Thinking Games

Combining our time as homeschoolers and my 16+ years in education, I have some tips for homeschool parents to make homeschooling the best it can be!

Advice to New Homeschool Parents from a Veteran Teacher (And former Homeschool Mom!)

My best tips for how to prevent summer slide with a strategic blend of reading and math activities. It IS possible to turn the summer months into a period of growth!

How to Prevent Summer Slide in Upper Elementary

Curated book lists, practical teaching tips, and resources that will make teaching your upper elementary units of study so much easier to plan.

Units of Study Using Rich Picture Books

First Chapter Fridays is an engaging way to introduce new books, authors, and genres. These tips keep students engaged during whole-class reading.

First Chapter Fridays and Novel Read-Aloud Engagement Tips

"Giggles and Grammar" is the BEST grammar curriculum that engages students in meaningful, systematic grammar lessons and helps students LOVE learning grammar skills.

“Giggles and Grammar” Curriculum for Upper Elementary

This Teaching With a Mountain View Resource guide is your shortcut to finding exactly what you need for your students separated by topic and season for easy navigation.

Teaching With a Mountain VieW Resource Guide

Download lists with the best upper elementary books and free printable bookmarks with reading response questions to share with families throughout the year.

The Best Upper Elementary Books and Free Printable Bookmarks

Teaching a vocabulary word of the day helps upper elementary students develop a wider knowledge of words, tackle complex texts, speak confidently, and think critically.

Increase Word Power with Vocabulary Word of the Day

Daily math word problems play a pivotal role in mathematical understanding and critical thinking skills. These 3rd- 5th grade sets make implementation simple!

The Importance of Daily Math Word Problems

Make planning your next novel study easy with these 5th grade novel study books! These books will entertain and ignite a passion for reading.

5th Grade Novel Study Books

Register for 8 weeks of FREE professional development. The weekly tips will leave you better prepared to teach 8 key upper elementary reading and math skills.

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Make planning your next novel study easy with these 4th grade novel study books! These books will entertain and ignite a passion for reading.

4th Grade Novel Study Books

Make planning your next novel study easy with these 3rd grade novel study books! I've also included my favorite accountability tips!

3rd Grade Novel Study Books

Critical thinking in math helps students learn to analyze and evaluate math concepts, identify patterns and relationships, and explore different strategies.

How To Encourage Critical Thinking in Math

Favorite upper elementary math manipulatives and tips for hands-on learning to meet a variety of student needs.

Must-Have Math Manipulatives For Upper Elementary

Tips for organizing your upper elementary literacy block. Includes daily routines, whole group lessons, and literacy rotations.

How I Organize My Literacy Block

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Teaching Domain Specific Vocabulary

Math Workshop Ideas for Upper Elementary

Math Workshop Ideas for Upper Elementary

Incorporating Picture Books In Your Upper Elementary Classroom

Incorporating Picture Books In Your Upper Elementary Classroom

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Math Projects: Differentiated Hands-On Learning

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Supporting Student Learning at Home

Anchor charts serve as daily references for your lessons, empowering students to solve problems independently. Here are 8 of the best anchor chart tips!

8 Anchor Chart Tips & Tricks

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A week of lesson plans I’m truly excited about t A week of lesson plans I’m truly excited about teaching. ✨ 

One week stands between me and Thanksgiving break, and these are some of my favorite academic-based seasonal activities that truly bring joy into my classroom. 👏 

🦃 Comment below, and I’ll send you links to everything!
It’s almost time for my favorite collaborative w It’s almost time for my favorite collaborative writing assignment all year, and I’ve got my chart ready to go! 🥧 🥔 You can do this with any delicious dinner feast (you don’t need to specify Thanksgiving) and incorporate all of your students’ family favorite family foods! I can’t WAIT to see what this year’s group comes up with. 

✨ This activity is part of my FREE Week Before Thanksgiving Lesson Plans, and I just added NEW printable student sheets to use with it! 🤗 Comment below, and I’ll send you more info about this lesson and the freebies to go with it! Swipe to see different versions of this lesson I’ve done with kids!

Here are the details:

I have students imagine their favorite feast AFTER it has been eaten (oh, what a mess!). We fill the table with the foods. Then, we brainstorm vivid vocabulary words to describe each part of our mess.

Swipe to see the next step where we form even more detailed descriptive sentences! You can even take it a step further and compile it into a paragraph with a topic and closing sentence. This entire process is included in the free printables, too!
Don’t worry — the emails are always positive!! Don’t worry — the emails are always positive!! 🥰🤩😅 Parents can never believe how much math relevance their kids see and apply ON Thanksgiving. Now, if only I could convince them to help with the dishes. 😜 

Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to my favorite project all year!

Pssst ✨ This is NOT your average Plan Thanksgiving Dinner project! It is differentiated and takes that idea to new heights and is loved by thousands of teachers! 🥧 They use so many problem solving skills, and I can’t wait to implement it for the 10th+ year in a row!!
Comparing the themes, conflict, and character chan Comparing the themes, conflict, and character change in these four books has been SUCH an excellent challenge! 🍁 This year, I swapped out one of the books, changed up the anchor chart, and added a F R E E printable note catcher for students as well as a cumulative project assignment. 

💖 Comment below, and I’ll send you everything you need to implement this lesson right away! It hits a TON of academic standards and really gets kids thinking about identifying specific themes, tracking character change, examining conflict, and writing brief summaries. 👏
This is one of my FAVORITE inference investigation This is one of my FAVORITE inference investigations! 🦃 🕵️‍♀️ It’s also part of my Week Before Thanksgiving lesson plans, which includes five FREE resources and tons of ideas to get you through the next couple of weeks! Comment below, and I’ll send the info your way. 🧡
It may be spooky season in my classroom, but you k It may be spooky season in my classroom, but you know I’ll still be keeping things structured and academically focused! 👻 🎃 Comment below, and I’ll send you the links to all the fun in my plans this week! 

Over the years, I’ve amassed so many resources to incorporate seasonal fun while still hitting your standards, crucial reading skills, AND critical thinking. 🍂 ⬇️ 

💚 Halloween Reader’s Theatre was my most popular set for the last TWO years, and I know why! There are 8 plays, and they are SO fun and engaging AND students are held accountable with listener guides. 👻 I also created plays with a variety of kids in each play? so they range from partner plays to groups of six!

🧡 I can’t wait for my students to solve the Halloween inference mystery by exploring their case files to figure out who is wearing each costume! 

🖤… and of course, I can’t forget reading logic puzzles (which my students are OBSESSED with this year) and context clues creepy tasks! Your literacy plans are COVERED for this week! 👏
It’s TIME!!! 👻 🎃 I have to be super honest It’s TIME!!! 👻 🎃 I have to be super honest and admit that my plans for next week aren’t totally, actually IN my plan book yet, BUT, I know precisely what I’m doing and almost ALL of the resources I’ll be using are freeeeee!

Comment below, and I’ll send you a link to a big bundle of differentiated Halloween freebies! 🤩

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Honestly obsessed with these cuties for the next t Honestly obsessed with these cuties for the next two weeks of success stickers and accomplishment animals! 👏 👻 Comment below, and I’ll send you links! 🧡💚
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