Today I am joining many other bloggers to bring you another awesome Bright Idea for your classroom! Have you heard of the app called Decide Now? It's a FREE app that you can use in SOOOOOO many ways! You plug in the choices you want, give it a name and presto! You have an instant spinner. I use this app in a few ways! I use it to call on students! They love seeing the wheel spin and finding out who gets to be picked! I also use it for when a student levels up on the Super Improver wall, or when the whole class reaches a certain number on the Scoreboard! Here is my prize wheel! I would highly recommend this app to everyone! If you enjoyed this bright idea, please consider following me on Facebook, Instagram, or TpT for more bright ideas! For more bright ideas from more than 80 other amazing bloggers, please browse through the link up below! Have fun finding some new ideas! An InLinkz Link-up

Now that we've taken care of our small supplies and our unit equipment what else do we have to think about? Is there anything we could put on display? Are there things we could put out to make a room more engaging and look like a science classroom? What about microscopes, glassware, or engaging equipment like a skeleton or a Van de Graaff machine? These are the items I like to have out in the open if possible—I want folks to come in and to know exactly what goes on in our classroom, and think, “

It took me about four or five years of my teaching career to figure out an efficient system for navigating makeup work. In order to keep track of makeup work in the classroom, I keep a daily makeup work log online that my students can access to get their own makeup work. That way, I can avoid havi

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Since I typically leave my three bulletin boards up for the entire year, I decided to use PowerPoint to create my letters. See the steps below and

I just did a count and I only have 3 more Mondays until I begin training with my new district, and I only have 5 more Mondays until the first day of

Over the last four years, I have taught at two different schools, three buildings, and four classrooms. One of the rooms only had ONE bookcase and a rolling cart for storage (the desks didn’t have any storage either!)! I somehow got it to work. With all these changes, I have learned what I need and … Continue reading Top 7 Teacher Must Haves

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***This post contains affiliate links. By purchasing an item using these links, I will receive a small commission on your purchase.*** You guys. I may have discovered a classroom organizational game changer! And it only took 11 years of frustration, messy files, and bulky binders! Before I share this new tool, let...

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Happy last Teaching Tip Tuesday!! Today will be my final post of the school year for teaching tips. Starting next week, Tuesdays will be Tank Top Tuesdays where I will feature a fun summertime acti…

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I love making lists so I couldn't wait to join this fabulous linky party hosted by Fabulous 4th Grade Froggies. It's a To Do list linky party of all the things I need to accomplish before the first day of school. Well, my list gets longer by the minute. Here is what I have so far: Make labels for student BEE binders, name tags, and journals. Make birthday photo poster (inspired by Erica Bohrer)- IN PROCESS- MONDAY MADE IT label cubbies and mailboxes with BEE labels create class checklist and make multiple copies (best tip ever) organize my closet and put away new supplies I bought over the summer make transportation display DONE! (inspired by Laura at Tattling to the Teacher) Redesign my class t-shirt – order multiple colors Make brain break bucket Put together bee binders and be sure to make 3 extra bee binders for any new students who might show up later on in the year. Plan for the first few weeks. Head on over to Jennifer's blog at Herding Kats in Kindergarten because she's giving away Donor's Choose gift cards. I love Donor's Choose.

The writer's workshop is a key component to Marie's literacy program. Together with her students, she strives to scaffold and dissect the features and organization of a form of writing so that the children in her class are able to understand the intricacies. This lesson is not at the beginning of her work with procedure writing. She has taken her students through different mini-lessons to address the form and co-constructed the criteria for a piece of procedural writing together. Marie uses a 3-part lesson in writing to immerse students in the learning. The focus of the first part of her lesson looked at how verbs are used within a procedure piece of writing. With a sample piece of text, students worked in pairs to locate the verbs and pay attention to how they are used. During the second part of her lesson, Marie walked her students through a common topic, focused on how to safely leave the school when there is a fire drill, a real life situation that applies to their lives. Marie went through each stage with her students by taking them through each step of a safe fire drill evacuation. Leading them out of the classroom and down the stairs, the physical nature of the lesson allowed students to think about and internalize the importance of including all relevant and important details and steps. From here, students sat down to write their procedure using an outline to help organize their thoughts while Marie conferred with students to help them through. The outline included the organizational pieces of a procedure writing piece as well as key words to know specific to the topic of a safe fire drill evacuation. For those that finished early, Marie had an extension activity focused on finding the missing ingredients of a recipe ingredient list. The third part of her lesson included having the children meet back on the carpet to share their writing. There are many ways that Marie scaffolds the learning with and for her students. Clear expectations and guidelines are posted and writing is showcased and celebrated. Students are referred to as authors and their work is posted on their class' "author's corner." Writing is shared with each other using an author's chair approach and it is also shared with other students and classes by posting written work outside of the classroom. This instills a sense of pride in their work as students, and as writers. A management piece that Marie has in her classroom is a board dedicated to the writing process. At a glance, she is able to see what her students need and who she needs to meet with. Checklists for revising and editing, as well as author paper, is available for her students to use. This visual piece helps her keep track of where her students are and what they are doing in their writing.

I hopped on tonight wanting to show you my Daily 5 tubs and realised I left my hard drive with the photos on it at school. So all your gett...

Are you looking to bring an Author Study into your classroom? Students can pick an author of their choice (in groups, or as individuals) and use this planning page to help guide them through the first steps: This planning page is a place for students to record: - Student Goals - Reasons for choosing the author - Books the author has published - Resources/Websites - Culminating Project Ideas Happy Teaching!

Here at Chartchums we are excited once again to have a guest blogger. This week we will hear from Bianca Adamo Lavey, a staff developer at the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, who work…

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A little late, but I guess that is better than not linking up. :) I am linking up with Fourth Grade Frolics for Monday Made It. We are getting ready to go back to school so I have been slowly working on my classroom. I was out of town most of the week so today I was finally able to go and take some pictures of things I have been working on. I have seen everyone's adorable Birthday Balloons so I just had to make some too! Thanks Brooke Hilderbrand for this awesome Freebie!! I printed the balloons in black and white to go with my theme. I used straws to attach them too. I got my straws from the Dollar Tree (6 straws for $1). I got the adorable vase from Michael's on clearance. Next I put together my rules. I have shown the rules before but this time they are hung up in my classroom and I made them smaller. I also added the flower to the top and bottom. TPT (Freebie) I laminated, cut out, and added the ribbon for the welcome sign. I got the letters for the welcome sign from 4th Grade Frolics. Doesn't it look great! Thanks for visiting!

I have some anchor charts and things that I have been meaning to share, along with about a million other things, but I finally have some ti...