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This All About Me writing activity makes a cute 3-D bulletin board display. Elementary students can use this as a back to school activity, as a getting to know you activity, or during the year for writing a paragraph, a letter, or an Autobio Poem. Multiple writing templates are included for easy differentiation. #writing #allaboutme #backtoschool #bts #2ndgrade #3rdgrade #4thgrade #5thgrade #bulletinboard #students #teachers #ideas

Teaching visual arts via distance learning due to inclement weather, school closures, pandemic, or other extenuating circumstances? Whether your school calls it remote learning, e-learning, or online learning, likely you’re quickly figuring out how challenging it can be. Get help by accessing free art lessons for kids in my library instantly! Receive updates when new art resources, printables, PowerPoint presentations, posters, and worksheets are added. | Glitter Meets Glue

Social skills are a critical element to helping kids succeed socially, emotionally, personally, and even academically. These are the skills are the behaviors that help kids join in conversations, collaborate with peers, develop lasting friendships, self-advocate when they need help, and so much more

When I think about student writing, one of the most difficult concepts to teach is sentence fluency. Much of excelling at fluent writing revolves around students’ background with literacy. Certainly,…

Full year lesson plans provide huge time savings to busy teachers. It is important to have lesson structures and assignments in your classroom that can be used all year.

FREE Crayon Gospel Cards! Print a copy of these Crayon Gospel Cards for all the kids in your Children's Ministry. This is fun gift to give to kids at Easter, but it can also be used as they head back to school. We've included 3 versions of 8.5" x 11" printable PDF files with this download. One has all 4 small cards on one sheet, one has 2 larger cards on one sheet, and one has a single large card on it. This is the text written on each card: Purple - Reminds us of the robe the soldiers made…

These free online art classes for kids are an amazing resource! Check out these amazing free opportunities for art that […]

Engage your students and help break the ice at the start of a new semester. This blog post includes four ways to include escape rooms in the secondary ELA classroom. Engage your middle school ELA and high school English students in escape room activities by incorporating them into your instruction as ELA Test Prep, a class novel review activity, a way to introduce lessons, and a back-to-school ice breaker. Middle School Escape Room Activities | High School Escape Rooms | ELA Escape Room

Flip Sticks are an amazing participation tool for calling on students at random! The idea of using name sticks is nothing new. In fact, this classroom management strategy has been around for a long time. Unfortunately, what I didn’t learn until a few years into teaching, was how to keep track of which students had […]