Teaching Writing
Teaching writing in the middle school classroom can be really tricky. There are always some students who love writing, but I have always found that most of my students groan when I ask them to pull out their writing. Then you have those students who just sit there and stare at their pages class after class no matter how many times you ...
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6 Ways To Encourage Independent Reading
As teachers, reading is one of our main focuses with our students. Whether we teach littles or middles, our students are always reading! All of our core curriculum, Math to Science to History and English, expects our students to read a lot and read well. One of the best ways for students to become better readers overall is for them to read ...
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Digital Activities for Early Finishers
Now What?
“I’m done! Now what?” Every. Single. Day. As teachers, we dread hearing these words! You’ve already put so much time and effort into the online lesson plan, you didn’t have a chance to plan anything else! Amongst the many challenges teaching online is the fact that some littles finish tasks way quicker than others. This leaves us scrambling to ...
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5 Ways To Engage Your Students In The New Year
I don’t know about you, but for me January is perhaps the gloomiest month of the year. The holiday magic has ended and you are back to work with restless students with no break in sight for months to come. So what do you do!? Somehow you have to find a way to engage your middles as you navigate a new year. And while the new year can seem dreary after all the ...
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Engaging Learners With Bell Ringer Journals
We all know the chaos that begins when we hear the morning bell. Students rush into the classroom in a flurry of backpacks, lunchboxes, coats, and papers. It can be loud and our short peaceful prep time before school comes to an abrupt end. But the beginning of the school day doesn’t have to be all chaos. Que bell ringers.
Bell ringers are a ...
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DIY HOLIDAY WREATH
C H R I S T M A S. There’s nothing I don’t love about this time of the year. Christmas carols, snowflakes falling, reading Christmas books, and carrying family traditions each year through to the next - from watching Christmas flicks to Starbucks Christmas brews! Yes, I L O V E everything that gets crammed into the month of December.
For ...
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