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Everyone on the Teaching With a Mountain View team is a current or former elementary teacher. Combined, we have almost 50 years of experience in the classroom! But we were all first year teachers at some point and still vividly remember the struggles (and celebrations!) of those years. There are so many new teachers entering our field right now, so we’re on a mission to share the BEST resources for new teachers. Find them below!

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This blog post is PACKED with practical advice for new teachers, straight from experienced upper elementary teachers who have been exactly where you are.

Practical Advice for New Teachers, Straight From Our Community

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

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.

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Read our first year teacher tips and learn everything we WISH we had known! We'll cover classroom management, lesson planning, parent communication, and more.

The Best First Year Teacher Tips

Whether you’re preparing for a scheduled observation or want to ace an unannounced walkthrough, this list of classroom observation tips will help!

Classroom Observation Tips

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

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

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

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

How I Organize My Literacy Block

Math Workshop Ideas for Upper Elementary

Math Workshop Ideas for Upper Elementary

practical classroom decor tips upper elementary

Practical Classroom Decor Tips

free first week of school lesson plans, back to school lesson plans

Free First Week of School Plans

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professional Development For Teachers

Engaging in professional development opportunities can provide fresh perspectives, new strategies, and valuable skills that will benefit both you and your students. Browse my FREE professional development opportunities. I hope these resources help you reflect, set goals, and invest in your continuous growth as educators!

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I’ve never loved a set of acrylic critters more I’ve never loved a set of acrylic critters more than I do this one (and my kids agree). 🥰😍 I originally got them to use as accomplishment animals, but they are so big and adorable that I’m planning to use them for a creative writing assignment! I’ll share more details once I iron out my plans, but for now… you need them too. 😂🤩

Comment below, and I’ll send you the exact set!
🤫 Dots on the tips of all of her letters to be 🤫 Dots on the tips of all of her letters to be ✨ decorative ✨ and can’t write with anything other than Mr. Sketch Markers. 🤷‍♀️ 

So tell me… if I walked in your room, what subtle hints might I find that told me how long YOU’VE been teaching? 😂
The Humble Pie has become an INSTANT favorite for The Humble Pie has become an INSTANT favorite for me. 🥧 I was speechless when I read it and instantly paired it with The Big Snowdown to teach being humble vs. arrogant and instilling the idea that hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard. I created this comparison chart to track our notes as we read, and I can’t wait to talk about these BIG lessons with students. 👏 A MUST pairing for every upper elementary classroom. 🫶
🥹 The reflections after reading these four book 🥹 The reflections after reading these four books has me in awe!! Over the last few years, I’ve done two different versions of these book comparisons (swipe to see both), and they both result in such deep thinking about characters, internal and external conflict, theme vs. topic, and ALL KINDS of character traits! 

Comment below, and I’ll send you everything you need. 🩷💕
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!

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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. 👏
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