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Teaching is TOUGH. And sometimes life can be TOUGH. So, when life gets tough how do you still teach well? Let me start by saying when hard things happen in your real life teaching can be double hard. Sometimes it can be helpful to have that routine and those smiling faces every morning, but sometimes…

Holidays are MY JAM! Teaching a holiday is even more my jam! St. Patricks Day in the classroom can be SO.MUCH.FUN. even if you teach upper elementary. You can still challenge your kiddos while having a ridiculous amount of fun. READ FUN BOOKS Like any other holiday, the best way to get into it is…

Reading is my FAVORITE subject to teach! I love watching kids fall in love with a good book and I love watching them understand a difficult text. When I sit down to plan my reading instruction I am typically planning it in three different ways: skill based, review based, or novel study! Today, I am…

Some years you just have chattier classrooms than normal! It happens! There are many different ways to manage a rather chatty classroom and they might be different than normal management techniques. I have researched and surveyed many teachers around the world and I want to share with you all the different types of advice that…

It has now been a good 8 months since I became a mother! How is that possible?! Being a teacher and a mom is a crazy and incredible thing! You get to love on 28 kiddos all day and then you come home to love on your own! Now, I am very blessed and lucky…

Point of view is a hard concept for kids to understand. Many times it takes weeks to understand the concept. I wanted to take the first week I taught the concept and make sure it was engaging for my kiddos. I wanted to make sure that it related to their real life, so that they…