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100th Day of School Math and Literacy This is 116 pages filled, filled, filled with many different ideas! I worked really hard at making this different from the rest. Every game is differentiated and will meet the needs of all your learners. By: Kinderglynn
Be My Valentine Math Centers (Common Core) These super cute Valentine centers will be a wonderful addition to your math centers. These centers are multi-leveled and there are several different activities suggested within many of the games. By Rebecca Anderton – Teaching First
Black History Super Activity Pack! by Tech Girl-Engaging Lessons
Dental Health Fun for Literacy and Math By Kristen Walsky
Groundhogs Literacy and Math Center Fun! By Kristen Walsky
Oh So Sweet Cupcake Glyph and Writing Craft! Perfect for Valentine’s Day! By Tech Girl/Engaging Lessons

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Anxiety.... someone reassure me please.
I am currently freaking out about how much my students have to learn this year and how far behind they already are in first grade. I know logically it’ll be fine, and I just got a coteacher (thank goodness) which will help TREMENDOUSLY with management and getting kids more personalized support. But I’m still freaking […]
Getting students to READ questions in math... advice appreciated!
I'm teaching third grade this year, and I notice a lot of students are often asking me "what do I have to do?" or "I don't get this" when they are doing independent math work. I'm not talking about actual word problems, but simply instructions. For example "Complete the following patterns and write the pattern […]
Phonics in Middle School
Hey all, I have a 7th grader who has been home schooled up until this year. His reading is very poor.. he has a lot of trouble decoding new words and doesn't recognize many sight words at this point. I think he lacks certain phonemic awareness skills, such as phoneme segmenting, phoneme addition (s + […]
strategies for improving reading comprehension
Second year teacher here! However, this is my first year having a considerably low class. I teach 6th and 7th grade Reading/ELA, and one of my 6th grade reading classes is very low. None of them are on IEPs, but many of them tested at the very bottom and struggle with basic recall questions, let […]
Classroom Management HELP
So today was my first day of teaching and it was...interesting. I realized that my school is really bad at telling new teachers ANYTHING. They emailed out a first day homeroom powerpoint at 11pm last night (after I had already been to bed.) The lunch schedules are confusing because you have to go to each […]
"Negative Nelly" teachers
Do you have any at your school? Do you sit with them at lunch? Can you feel the negative vibes coming off them?
"Interesting" conversation with a teacher
Actual conversation with another teacher (OT here)... Me: Today is going to be good! OT: You know why it's going to be a good day, right? Me: Um, because I decided it is? OT: No, because God is good, so He makes it a good day. Me: ... Once I gathered myself together and realized […]