Teaching With Haley O'Connor

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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

Books for Teaching Respect

Books for Teaching Respect

Today I wanted to share some of my favorite books to support your lessons on respect. Having strong read-alouds makes it so much easier to introduce and reinforce social-emotional skills. Click each of the images to purchase these books on Amazon. Before you buy, though, be sure to check your local and school library! This post contains affiliate links. I… Read More

Turkey Activities

Turkey Activities

This post contains affilate links. I receive a small stipend when you purchase something on Amazon. However, I stand behind each product and wouldn’t recommend something I didn’t believe in. This is at no cost to you. Now that Halloween is over (😭😭) it’s time to move on to Thanksgiving. I’m so thankful for other educators and activists who teach… Read More

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  • 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
  • Have you read All Are Welcome? I absolutely love this book! It is perfect for back to school, but you could use it anytime! This is the perfect social emotional learning book to read during your classroom meeting time or morning meeting to discuss diversity. In this post, I share All Are Welcome book activities as well as a free discussion questions download. This freebie is great for working on comprehension skills before, during, and after reading the book.
  • Are you still using clip charts for your behavior management system? If this is your go-to classroom management system, it is important to identify why you are using this to manage student behavior. In this post, I am sharing why teachers chose to use clip charts over other classroom management tools. There are tons of other classroom management strategies out there but clip charts for managing behavior still are high on the list, especially for new teachers.
  • Are you using clip charts as part of your classroom management system? In this post, I am sharing 4 reasons why you should stop using clip charts in your elementary classroom today. Using a clip chart for behavior problems damages teacher student relationships and student relationships with their peers. Clip charts for behavior also don’t work long term. It is time to ditch this behavior management system and try something new.
  • Creepy Carrots is one of my favorite read-alouds for Halloween or anytime of the year for that matter. In this post, I am sharing why I love Creepy Carrots as a Halloween book. This book is great for teaching story elements and retelling. This book helps students to understand characters, setting, solution, and problem. It is great for working on comprehension skills and vocabulary words. You will find Creepy Carrots activities and a craft that is hands-on and fun for your elementary students.
  • 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
  • Are you still using clip charts for your behavior management system? If this is your go-to classroom management system, it is important to identify why you are using this to manage student behavior. In this post, I am sharing why teachers chose to use clip charts over other classroom management tools. There are tons of other classroom management strategies out there but clip charts for managing behavior still are high on the list, especially for new teachers.
  • Are you using clip charts as part of your classroom management system? In this post, I am sharing 4 reasons why you should stop using clip charts in your elementary classroom today. Using a clip chart for behavior problems damages teacher student relationships and student relationships with their peers. Clip charts for behavior also don’t work long term. It is time to ditch this behavior management system and try something new.
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