Last fall, I did a Gratitude Journal with my students. Every day, for 42 days in a row, they had to write down 3 things they were grateful f...

We have a program at my school where students are encouraged to set weekly goals, and long term goals. I find that after a while, kids set t...

I don't know about the rest of you, but I love Teachers Pay Teachers! I tried to get all of my back to school goodies a few weeks ago w...

I finally finished my goal of converting all of my review cards for the chapters into digital files. I've been using random sized index ...

This year, the 3rd, 4th and 5th grade classes got together to do an end of the year project which we named Biome Bonanza. We put the student...

With every unit in math, I give out a math challenge that reviews some of the major concepts from the previous unit. I had a challenge for m...

As a follow up to one of my most popular items, School-Themed Mad Libs, I have put together a set of 4 Animal-Themed Mad Libs which is avai...

My students recently finished a biography partner project, which was designed not only as a reading and research project, but also to help s...

November is a time for Parent-Teacher conferences, which I must admit are not my favorite. I spend so much time trying to think of everythin...

It's time for a TpT Flash Sale! Everything in my TpT store will be on sale, 15% off, all weekend. Enjoy!

One of my biggest pet peeves about classroom jobs is the kids not doing them regularly (my custodian agrees when the trash cans aren't p...

My students have a S.T.A.R. (Students Taking Active Responsibility) Binder where they keep all of their homework, goal setting sheets, readi...

Another one finished! Chapter 4 Everyday Math pretest is now available! If you are interested in using them in your own classroom, Chapter...

Well, I'm 3 for 3 now with pretests! My goal is to make one for each of the 12 units, so I'm a quarter of the way done! If you are...

I knew at the end of last year that there would still be some students who really struggled with basic facts.  Watching a child sit there ad...

One of the goals I have for this year is to take more of a math workshop style approach to math so that I can differentiate more effectively...

As I was walking down the hallway at school yesterday, I noticed that everyone has their peanut free posters hanging up, and it's the sa...

A second-grade teacher at my school found a set of phonics cards that she thought would be great to hang on the wall behind the table where ...

Last year I put together a set of "I Can" Posters for Math and ELA for Third Grade, which hung on my wall and could help students ...

Moving up to fourth grade with the students I had last year certainly has it's advantages.  For example, I know that they still need pra...