 Themed weeks in upper elementary are the bread and butter to rigorous learning. When you have a theme for a week or a day your students buy into the learning at a whole other level. During the holiday season, theme weeks are vital to keeping engagement and rigor high! Elf week or day is…
Do you have a teacher in your life you want to buy for? Let me tell you the number one thing your child’s teacher wants, a note from you and your student! It is free and goes such a long way! If you put a $5 gift card with it, that is great. If you…
December is a great time to find some really engaging and rigorous read alouds for your students! Some of the read alouds can just be for fun and some can have some high-value teaching content in them. Today, I am going to share my top 10 read alouds for the month of December. Click on…
Christmas is such a magical time in the upper elementary classroom. You can really challenge your students to think and apply the skills that they have learned in the first half of the school year, all while staying overly engaged. During the month of December, I do not teach a ton of new reading content,…
Thanksgiving can be such a fun time in the classroom. You can still teach so much content through themed activities. You can actually do MORE rigorous activities because kids are so engaged with themed content. Today, I am going to discuss some easy ideas you can use to add Thanksgiving themed activities into your normal…
Teaching grammar should be engaging and fun for students! Today, I am going to give you 5 quick ways to make it engaging and more exciting for your students. Want to learn how to make these fun activities and teach grammar in less than 15 minutes?! Head to this blog post here! Play Games While…
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