Teaching With Haley O'Connor

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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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  • Social-Emotional Learning is more important than ever and having quality lesson plans and activities makes it so much easier to build into your curriculum. These units were developed to support YOU in teaching, modeling and reinforcing great character. This resource focuses on SELF-CONTROL and is part of a year-long social-emotional curriculum. This resource can be used as a stand-alone resource or in conjunction with the other units.
  • **** ACTUALIZADO para incluir una versión de Google Slides ™, así como también una versión de Microsoft para OneDrive ™.El aprendizaje socioemocional es más significativo ahora que nunca y tener planes de estudio y actividades de buena calidad hace que sea mucho más fácil incorporarlos a tu currículo. Estas unidades fueron desarrolladas para AYUDARTE a enseñar, modelar y reforzar un gran carácter.
  • 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 |
  • Are your students struggling to read and write words with beginning and ending digraphs? This packet is perfect to introduce and reinforce digraphs in centers, small groups, or independent work.The following digraphs are covered in this pack: CH, SH, TH, WH, PH, KN, WR, CK, NG | Teacher Resources Elementary | First Grade Printables | Lesson Plans for ELA |
  • Read now on the blog...I would love if we occasionally set time aside to publicly praise EVERY student...in front of their class and class parents. I created a list of awards with my teacher friends. I wanted to make sure there were enough and that you could find something for every student. As I created this list, I thought about what we want to encourage in our students. What skills and traits will help them be successful in their future? | Resources for Teachers | Year End Awards |
  • 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 |
  • Helping our students celebrate the adults in their lives is so important. Unfortunately, many Mother's Day Father's Day resources can be challenging for students in non-traditional families. This resource makes it so every student in the classroom could use it to celebrate someone in their life. Each activity is general enough that they can be for anyone, includes: Mom, Stepmom, Grandma, Aunt, Special Lady, Dad, Stepdad, Grandpa, Uncle, Special Guy, Teacher, Family, and Blank. | Lesson Plans |
  • 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. | First Grade Resources | Reading Lesson Plans | Printables for Elementary |
  • 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 |
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