Teaching With Haley O'Connor

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Fun with Data and Graphs

Fun with Data and Graphs

We spent the whole past week in Math on Collecting, and Organizing Data! 🙂 This week, we are focusing on using Graphs to collect information.  It’s going to be more challenging, so I’m glad we had such a fun week exploring and making graphs to show our Data! Here are some of the highlights. 🙂   We started our week with this fun… Read More

Story Elements!

Story Elements!

This has been a great week back! Boy have I been tired, but each day I am excited for their smile, hugs, and eagerness to learn and spend the day at school. Is anything better than “Aw, man…tomorrow’s Friday! I wanna stay at school all weekend!” Melt. My. Heart. In reading, we have been doing story elements all week. My… Read More

Good Citizens

Good Citizens

What a bummer…we are losing tonight. 🙁 Breakin’ my heart, boys! We are headed to the game tomorrow and I am SO excited because if you live in DFW, you know how amazing the weather has been this weekend. We had some rain on Friday, but it feels like 30 degrees cooler. So, basically, I don’t want to dive into… Read More

First Week Plans

So…I am a blogger FAILURE! 🙂 I promised all of these fabulous updates, and I literally have fallen asleep at 8:00 everyday, and I feel like I haven’t seen Keith in weeks! Boo! BUT, Meet the Teacher went AMAZING, and I am sooo excited for these new little ones! Did I mention how SWEET they are?!!? And their parents are… Read More

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  • Building a classroom community is one of the most important things teachers can do and it greatly impacts our students academically! I created these units to support classroom instruction by explicitly teaching students about what we expect from them. In the same way that we provide direct instruction, activities, and practice in math and reading, I believe we should provide these same things for character education. | Social Emotional Learning | Character Education |
  • Nonfiction Text Features - This unit is packed with activities to get your little ones exploring, identifying, and using text features in their nonfiction books. Teacher Resources Elementary | First Grade Printables | Printables for Learning | ELA Resources |
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  • This pack is perfect to practice addition and subtraction word problems. This story problem uses numbers 1-20, but mostly focuses on working with numbers between 10-20. Each topic has 10 word problem pages with 2 versions, a full page where students show their thinking by drawing a picture and writing it in words and a version has journal prompts. Spring Lesson Plans | Elementary Printable Worksheets
  • Mother's Day Crafts, Printables, and Activities: This packet is FULL of activities to celebrate the important women in your students' lives! You'll find crafts, writing pages, coloring pages, coupons, and more for your students to give to their moms! I also included options for aunts, grandmas, teachers, and blank for students who aren't in traditional living situations. | First Grade Resources | Printable Lesson Plans | Elementary Curriculum
  • 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.
  • Social-Emotional Learning: Respect Lesson Plans and Activities by Haley O'Connor. This unit on RESPECT and is part of a year-long curriculum for teaching students how to have great character! However, this unit could also be used as a stand-alone resource for teaching all about respect in the classroom. In this packet, you will find 4 detailed lesson plans on respect, as well as additional printables and resources! Perfect for teaching Kindergarten, 1st, 2nd, Homeschool students.
  • This adorable classroom sign is perfect to hang outside your door, or to print off as a large poster and hang in your room. Remind your kiddos that everyone is welcomed and loved!
  • I believe our students need to know exactly what we expect of them and also how we feel about them! These posters are perfect to introduce in classroom meetings and discuss. Once you have discussed them, they make adorable decor that will always remind your kiddos about the culture of your classroom! They are perfect for promoting growth mindset, accountable talk, and relationships in the classroom.
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