Have you considered making a teaching portfolio to showcase your success as a teacher? Then check out this guide to making one! This post was most recently updated in January 2019. Looking at some of these pictures, I cringe at my font choices and the types of resources and downloads I was creating. But this post was written in 2012…
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Positive Postcards!
I hold high expectations for each of my students. Sometimes this comes across as me being tough on them, but I love each and every one of them tons!! In order to show it (aside from what I do each day), I try to regularly send them a “positive postcard“. In order to do this I think of something each…
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St. Patrick’s Day – Getting Ready for the Leprechaun!
As a student I didn’t have teachers who got into St. Patrick’s Day. For my first two years of teaching, we did a few activities – but nothing major. However, during my third year of teaching I realized just how much fun St. Patrick’s Day can be! I watched a teacher who left little leprechaun footprints from the doorway of…
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Dr. Seuss Activities & Fun Ideas!
Dr. Seuss week always seems to be a fun, BIG deal! I absolutely love it! There are so many educational Dr. Seuss activities you can tie into the classroom or home! Reading, writing, math, and more! This blog post contains affiliate links. You can read more about my disclosure statement here. Dr. Seuss Activities for Upper Elementary I’m probably biased, but…
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100th Day of School Perfect Attendance Certificate!
If you work in a school where attendance is an issue, you need this perfect attendance certificate! 🙂 It’s a pretty generic item, but I loved the way we presented it at my last school. All of the K-5 kiddos (about 100 of them) got together for a little assembly where we honored everyone who had been to school all 100…
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