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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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