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4th of July Math, Science & Literacy Fun! by Tech Girl/Engaging Lessons This mini Unit includes a Math Mystery Phrase activity, an Underwater Fireworks Science Experiment with a teacher page & student lab sheet page, a Star Spangled Banner Lyric sequencing activity, an informational interactive page all about July 4th and Independence Day.

Under the Sea Craftivities & Printables by A Cupcake for the Teacher This unit is jam-packed with FUN! Learn about ocean animals with seven different crafts, 11 total activity sheets, and colorful vocabulary cards!

At the Zoo Theme Word Wall Words and Games By Giggly Games Take learning a step further by incorporating a classroom game of BINGO or matching with the same words, for extra practice and FUN! Each eBook includes a full page instruction sheet on how to use the games in your classroom.

Welcome to School Posters By KindergartenWorks Get the posters that will make introducing your classroom to your new group of students a breeze! Perfect for kindergarten or first grade.

General Education

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 […]