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Ladybug Number and Tally Mark Matching Cards This is a great game for beginning learners! Match the tally marks to the number on the ladybug cards. By Rebecca Anderton-Teaching First
April Fluency Packet – Reading Supplement By Jodi Southard 40 pages – This 4 week packet is a wonderful supplement to any reading program. It is created to increase your students vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension skills.
Frog Earth Day Glyph Activity! By Tech Girl-Engaging Lessons This Adorable Frog Earth Day Glyph activity has the students answer a quick Earth Day survey about their Earth Saving habits and then create their Glyph based on their answers!
Mega Poetry and Figurative Language Pack 54 Pgs! Tech Girl/Engaging Lessons A Best Seller with great reviews! This Literacy Activity Bundle is packed full of creative and engaging activities! There are 4 activity books included!
Poetry Pack (Literacy Center Activities) By KindergartenWorks Create a poetry center or use these nursery rhymes and poems to accomplish meeting your standards!

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Should attendance be optional?
You ever catch yourself feeling relieved when your most degenerate students skip off that day? You ever catch yourself wishing they'd skip off more often? I'd never tell them that, of course. That's not what the taxpayers are paying me to tell them. But it sounds so mutual. They want to skip off, I want […]
Younger colleagues?
I’m older in terms of age but not with teaching experience. This fall will be the first time that I will have a math teaching colleague younger than I am but with experience. Other times, it’s either math colleagues older or with rookies. So, on that note, would it be weird for me to ask […]
So You Want to Be (or already are) an Online Educator?
Let's make this THE thread for those who are interested in or already are teaching at virtual or blended learning schools. We can share interview tips, best practices, and frustrations here. I've been teaching at an online K-12 school since August of 2008 and love it at least 95% of the time. I've also been […]
Getting Hired w/ Alt. Certification in Rural Texas or Arkansas?
Hi. I am interested in obtaining an alternative teaching certificate for teaching in a conservative rural community. Reason for the specific arena- I am not interested in working in an environment that promotes modern left leaning stuff, or in an environment where kids are prone to being from rough urban areas. I have substituted at […]
when a teacher is winging it and gets in trouble
I've been a teacher for 15 years and am taking some college classes. Today, in a Zoom class, the teacher obviously had run out of material and started to fill up the remaining time with a strange lesson about fear. She described a scenario where we were supposed to imagine being asleep in bed at […]
Free links! Lots of science, space, ELA, ESL, Music, Art, PD, Lesson Plans and resources. Enjoy!
It would be fantastic if we could share a link that is highly beneficial/useful, that doesn't cost a thing to use, no hoops to jump through. I encourage others to add to my links, creating some nice references to have on-hand. You can never have too many resources. I love free when it comes to […]