A Primary Teaching Blog
2020 was a beast, but I think we found new creative outlets for ourselves. I had a thought on what could bring us together even when we couldn’t actually be together. Enter, the chalk obstacle course. This was so fun to create, knowing everyone in my neighborhood could enjoy it! I was able to grab all my supplies from Michael’s… Read More
I love to document my students’ year in pictures (and I know the parents appreciate it too). For most holidays/events I like to throw up a background or photo booth and snap a picture of my little ones. Sometimes I just post them on ClassDojo for parents to see, other times we print them for cards or presents. We love… Read More
I wanted to offer some of my favorite distance learning tools (including tutorials). These are simple enough to use and effective enough for any classroom. Screencastify screencastify.com With this screen recording program (best used as an extension with Chrome web browser), you can record lessons or instruction to send to your students. You can record your screen with yourself as… Read More
Scholastic Book Clubs has changed my life. I remember getting the book flyer every month in elementary school and visiting the book fair once a year when it came by my school. Honestly, one of the first things I did as a new teacher was join the Scholastic Book Clubs! I couldn’t wait to get books for my library and… Read More
We have been working on our fluency here in first grade! It’s about that time of the year that we can all read, but we REALLY need to work on our intonation and fluidity! Enter this AMAZING APP Sock Puppets! First we PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE! We love to use these Reader’s Theater Plays from A Teeny Tiny Teacher! Here’s an… Read More
I’m obsessed with Target Dollar Spot erasers. Aren’t we all? We walk in, get sucked in right away to the Dollar Spot, and what do we see? These sweet little baggies full of cute erasers. Do we know what do to with them? No. Do we care? No. I thought to myself, I probably have AT LEAST 3 baggies per… Read More
Let’s talk about search engines. How often do we search Youtube for videos or Google for images and hope nothing inappropriate pops up while you’re trying to share a quick something with your students on the fly? GUILTY. With technology being front and center these days and common core taking us deeper into research, we are in desperate need for a… Read More
Hey everyone, just a quick post to show you how to make a template in PowerPoint, so you can stop changing the margins EVERY TIME you go into your new slide! You guys, it literally took me two years to do this. WHY!? I don’t know. My life has just been simplified and I’ve saved up to 30 seconds of… Read More
Don’t you just hate when you’re somehow left with extra labels? Like in RANDOM places? Here’s a quick tutorial on printing labels when you are missing some. And being, well, a teacher and a sane person, I want to use EVERY SINGLE LABEL that basically cost me a fortune to buy in the label pack {like why are 100 labels… Read More
I’ve got a quick tip for you all during this month’s “You Oughta Know” hosted by Jasmine over at Buzzing with Mrs. McClain! Do you ever have several small pieces of things to laminate? You cut them up and they slide all over and get overlapped? Some people just throw the whole page through and cut the pieces up, but I… Read More
