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Lunar New Year in the Classroom
Resources for studying Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
5 Ways to Connect with Students
Indoor Recess Favorites
Lunar New Year Read-Alouds

Lunar New Year Read-Alouds

Will you be teaching your students about Lunar New Year? It’s such a fun and interesting holiday to spend time discussing and celebrating! Today I just wanted to share a few activities you can use in your classroom, as well as some great read-alouds to add to your day. If you’d like more ideas on celebrating Lunar New Year with… Read More

5 Ways to Re-Establish a Strong Classroom Community

5 Ways to Re-Establish a Strong Classroom Community

Starting the Spring semester is always exciting, but a bit overwhelming. Often, we realize how much content we still need to teach…where did half of the school year go?! But we’re also met with students who have matured over the break and started to really blossom and show new strengths and abilities. At the beginning of the year, it’s easy… Read More

Favorite Products for Indoor Recess

Favorite Products for Indoor Recess

There’s nothing quite like the feeling of looking outside and realizing it’s going to be indoor recess today. EXCEPT for looking at the forecast and realizing you don’t know when you’re going to have outdoor recess again. I’ll never forget when we had two weeks of indoor recess. I don’t know how any of us survived. I wanted to share… Read More

Favorite Books for Christmas

Favorite Books for Christmas

Today I wanted to share a few of my favorite books to talk about Christmas in the classroom! You probably know that I’m a HUGE proponent for balancing the holidays so that Christmas isn’t your main focus. But, I also understand Christmas can and should be a part of your unit. Here’s a list of my favorite books for the… Read More

8 Things to Consider for Your Holiday Unit

8 Things to Consider for Your Holiday Unit

Happy December! I wanted to stop by and share some of my learning over the past few years about your Holiday unit. It’s such a fun unit and topic and I know kids look forward to it everywhere. There are a few things we can do to tweak our language/resources to make sure we’re respecting each culture, religion and family…. Read More

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  • This pack is perfect for your little ones to practice addition and subtraction word problems. This story problem uses numbers 1-20, but mostly focuses on working with numbers between 10-20.
  • Actividades Digitales de sentido numérico en Español. Miles de maestros están de acuerdo en que esta es una forma atractiva y efectiva para desarrollar el sentido numérico. Cada vez que los estudiantes realizan estas actividades, pueden usar diferentes números. ¡ Puedes imprimir las tarjetas numéricas que estan incluidas o puedes usar nuestro sitio web de generador de números!. Lee más acerca de las diferentes lecciones de matemáticas de sentido numérico que se pueden enseñar virtualmente.
  • Social-emotional learning for teaching in the classroom or remotley by Teaching With Haley. As we navigate these challenging times, our kids need even more strategies than normal to manage their emotions. This is the first of many online social emotional learning lessons, created to support teachers, parents and guardians. As they help kids manage their feelings, and deal with adversity. Great for kindergarten, first grade and second grade. Learn more about worksheets, lists, and activities.
  • Kindness lessons and activities by Teaching with Haley. Kindness is a great place to start your social-emotional curriculum and I’m excited to share some of my favorite ideas with you in this post. I cover my favorite kindness videos, kindness read alouds, and kindness activities. Including what kindness is, character education, what boundaries are, and more. Great social-emotional learning lessons for kindergarten, first grade, and second-grade students. Learn more
  • Helping our students build their comprehension is one of our most important jobs! As we share read-alouds with our students, we build their comprehension through questioning and modeling. After our lessons, it is imperative we give them opportunities to practice on their own.
  • Social-Emotional Learning: Optimism Lesson Plans and Activities by Teaching With Haley. I developed these units to support teachers in teaching and a rewarding great character in the classroom! Building a classroom community is one of the most important things teachers can do and it greatly impacts our students academically! Great social-emotional learning activities, lesson plans, and printables for teaching kindergarten, first grade, and second grade students in the classroom
  • Digital Memory Book for students to complete and reflect on their school year together. Digital activities for Google Classroom and Seesaw for the end of the year. Memory Book for end of the year. Digital slides for making memories about the school year. Google Slides and Seesaw Images.
  • Before students are ready to read words with vowel teams and diphthongs on their own, they need a bit of teaching. For some students, they may have picked up on these patterns on their own. For others, this may be brand new information. As you navigate teaching vowel teams at home or at school, I hope you’ll find activities that are engaging and help your kids interact with words in many different ways. Students need to see words in isolation (all by themselves) and within sentences.
  • The best online resources for learning at home by Haley O'Connor. In this post, I go into detail about different online resources your family can use today to help with remote learning. Learn more about storybooks from Vooks, great online cooking classes for kids by Highlights 4 Kids, grade-based learning games for word study (phonics) math, holidays, and more from ABC Ya. There are some great free online resources for virtual learning at home for kindergarten, first grade, and up! Learn more.
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