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January can tend to be a "blah" time in the classroom. The excitement of the holidays is over and you have to come back from break. Today, I wanted to share with you some of the things I do in January to keep my kiddos engaged, learning, and having fun! Winter Digital Slides For reading centers, I love using these Winter Digital Slides to make it easy for me and engaging for my students. In the winter digital slides students will read close reads, do word work assignments, work on ... Read More about Winter Activities in Upper Elementary

October is such a fun time in the classroom. Today, I am going to share a round-up of all my favorite ideas for teaching in October.  = Bat Week One of my favorite weeks is BAT WEEK! The kids LOVE it so much and I can make it so rigorous for them. We do a bat cave challenge that is beyond rigorous and so engaging. We research, write, do stem, and so much more. Read all about Bat Week here!   Visualizing with I Need My Monster I LOVE LOVE LOVE this book! It is so cute. ... Read More about Favorite October Activities for 3rd and 4th Graders

Reading aloud is one of my favorite parts of teaching, it is also an essential part of the beginning of the year. Today, I am going to share with your my favorite read alouds for back to school and how I teach them. You can click on each book to be sent to the Amazon affiliate link for that book. Back to School Picture Books The Exceptionally, Extraordinarily Ordinary First Day of School by Albert Lorenz This is a super interesting book about a HILARIOUS first day of school. My kids ... Read More about Back to School Read Alouds for 3rd Grade

Teaching students through an engaging transformation that is cheap and fun is the way to go! Construction is big in my community so I decided to bring it into the classroom. We used this as a review week for all subjects! We completed rigorous and engaging work that all had the construction theme! Setting up the Transformation To set up the transformation I did the following things: Printed off clipart of different machines to add around the room (these are provided in my ... Read More about Construction Transformation in Upper Elementary

  Valentine's Day is exciting for children. In order to keep students learning all week long, you need highly engaging and rigorous work! The week of Valentine's Day I focus on review in all subjects, while keep students working hard and highly engaged. Reading Centers I love doing reading centers in my classroom! Each day we do one 20 minute center. Students listen and watch Valentine's Day stories being read to them! They read two close reads and compare and contrast ... Read More about Valentine’s Day Activities for Upper Elementary