Congratulations fifth grade teacher! Fifth graders are very independent and curious. They have such fun personalities starting to emerge and are beginning to act like miniature adults. I love their sense of humor! Now that you know you will be teaching fifth grade, you are probably starting to wonder what resources you might want to

I LOVE interactive notebooks! They have been a regular part of my classroom routine and something that my students look forward to. That being said, I receive questions from other teachers nearly every day. This may be a long post, but I wanted to answer ALL of your questions in one place. So grab a

Three important truths about teaching you need to hear as you head back to school!

Welcome back for the second part of my ELA blog post series! Today I am sharing all about my reading center routines and activities. If you missed the first post about my reading whole group lessons, you can click HERE to get caught up. Let me start by reminding you of my entire ELA block schedule. Center

September 11th is a tough topic in an elementary classroom, but I have always felt that it was imperative that I discuss it with my students. I know that some teachers feel that it is too negative or will scare the kids. I agree that this is a possibility. But students will hear about September

I'm not gonna sugar coat it. I have to be 100% honest. Here goes...I hated doing parent-teacher conferences. Yup. I used the H word. #sorrynotsorryIt really has nothing to do with my kiddos or even the parents. It's just that I already have a million things to do. I am barely staying afloat. Having 25

Creating a daily classroom schedule that fits in all of the curriculum, specials, pull outs, etc is like cracking the code to a government vault. It’s nearly impossible to make it all work. The number one question that I receive from my teacher besties is, “How did you fit this all in?” So I decided

Can I be really honest with you? Don't judge me, but I really hated teaching reading, writing and grammar during my first few years of teaching. I dreaded my ELA block every day. I found it boring to teach! I LOVE to read and write, but I felt like my lessons were causing my

When all of this craziness happened, we quickly got to work and offered teachers two weeks of free video writing lessons to share with their students. Click HERE to grab them if you have not already! Teachers loved them, but we also received so many tech questions. It's understandable! Most teachers are having to jump