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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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  • Past and present worksheets, activities & printables by Teaching with Haley. This mini-unit is all you need to teach your little ones about past and present! I created this unit for my first grade students, but it could easily fit into the kindergarten and 2nd-grade curriculum as well. In this packet, you'll find several whole-group activities and pocket chart sorts, independent practice pages, writing pages, and so much more. Read more for detail!
  • The End of the Year can be incredibly stressful...but having the right tools can make it so much easier! This Summer Bucket List Craft and Activities Pack is perfect to wrap up your year and send your students home to have a successful summer - all in printable format! | First Grade Resources | Printable Lesson Plans | End of Year Lesson Plans |
  • Episodes available on Spotify & Apple Podcasts: Today we’ll talk about responsibility in the classroom and how to help our students. We’ll talk about helping them with organization of materials, time management, making healthy choices, and showing self-control. Haley gives specific strategies, tips and language to use to talk about each one with your students and help your class make more responsible choices. | Podcasts for Teachers | Resources for Elementary | Character Education |
  • Now available on Spotify & Apple Podcast: Today we’ll talk about 5 simple ways to strengthen your relationships with students. We want our students to know that we care about them and that we’re here for them, and there are simple things we can do to show this to them. | Podcast for Teachers | Resources for Elementary Teachers | Social Emotional Learning |
  • Now available on Spotify & Apple Podcasts: Haley shares what it means to add social-emotional learning (SEL) into your day & what the research says about it. We'll discuss the 5 components of SEL and the difference in classroom management, social-emotional learning, and how we can include both of them in our days. Finally, we'll talk about 5 ways to strengthen the SEL instruction in our classrooms. | Podcast for Teachers |
  • Use this freebie to teach your littles those important reading strategies! Included are clipart for a class anchor chart, pieces for student notebooks (or you could have them create something else), student bookmarks, and student pages to send home or anything else you might need them for. :)
  • Do your students need additional practice with inferring and drawing conclusions? These activities will build your students' skills in an engaging and fun way!To introduce the lesson, your students will read a letter from local superheroes who need help defeating Mean Max! After the introduction, students will read 4 clues about a location in the community. Then, they will use their schema to make an inference and write about it.
  • How many times a day do you think, “man I am WORN OUT.” Teaching is HARD! It’s hard emotionally, it’s hard physically and even hard financially. Without a little inspiration it’s easy to get worn down. On days when you just don’t feel like you can make it, I hope these quotes inspire you to keep going. | Blogs for Teachers | Elementary Lesson Plans | Resources for Teachers |
  • Have you heard of the 2×10 strategy for behavior management? The first time I heard about it was many years ago from my administrator. Many teachers on our campus were struggling daily with classroom behavior and referring students to the office on a regular basis. We knew something needed to change, so she introduced us to this strategy. Learn more and get your printable conversation starters now!
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