A Captured Audience Parent Learns a Lesson in Teacher Harassment Picture, if you will, a teacher trying to constantly recover from hurtful attacks during her entire teaching career. As a choral director, any decisions I made about who was in what choir, who performed what solos or leads in the musical were always up for … Read more

I love to start off my school year with easy stem activities, to give my students an introduction to engineering concepts like identifying a problem, brainstorming ideas, sketching to communicate, selecting an idea, building a proto-type and testing it. These are all part of the problem-solving process and can be applied throughout life, not just … Read more

As I’ve said in previous posts, I love decorating a classroom, but those decorations need to have a purpose.  I leave a lot of empty space on my bulletin boards at the beginning of the school year so the students can fill the walls with their learning.  So, when I do take up that precious … Read more

Transitions really help to keep your classroom running smoothly – especially as a substitute teacher. Transitions are a perfect way for the children to have a quick break after a busy lesson, to calm the children down after a very active lesson, to motivate them or to give you 5 minutes to get the lesson … Read more

    This year I tried something game changing. You see, we always do a Classroom Scavenger Hunt at our Meet the Teacher event. We have families sign up for different 1/2 hour time slots so there’s no more than 5 children at a time. The children and their parents complete the scavenger hunt, finding different … Read more

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🚨New product alert! 🎃 And just in time for Halloween!  Your writers will love turning these shapes into creative illustrations and stories! Based off my best-selling Squiggle Stories, your students will love these Halloween themed writing pages. This writing activity pages are PERFECT for the month of October to help celebrate Halloween in your classroom! … Read more

  I have a weird obsession with making bookmarks each year for our interactive notebooks. I’ve tried ribbon and paper clips in various forms and they always seem to fall apart in some way. My newest attempt is bookmarks that students can color. I make name sheets for the front of their binders that they … Read more