A Creative Teaching Tale

Smellies are in full force! They are the perfect 🎖 reward 🎖 for students to get immediate positive reinforcement.

I don’t know about you, but I struggle with giving tangible prizes during the day. They tend to be a larger distraction to the students. However, a quick wipe of the lip smackers on their hand, and it’s magical!

What are your favorite incentives in your classroom?

My school has implemented the “House System” for grades 3 - 5 for this first time this year! We are sticking to 7 essentials to get us started!

To sort the teachers and students into their houses, we had the best assembly where we revealed the house through a balloon POP 🎈

Do you have experience with the House System? Do you have questions about it? ⬇️ share below!

House System -
House Shields -
Spinner -

And just like that, we are back at another school year 📚 🍎 ✏️ I have begun my 6th year teaching in THIRD GRADE!

I can tell this is going to be one great year! ☀️

Happy TWOsday! ✌🏻

I 💕 love 💕 an excuse to make a shirt and dress up at school!

What is better than baking holiday cookies?! 🍪 Definitely baking cookies with your very own aprons and cups!

I haven’t had time to craft as much lately, but I always love an excuse to break out the and get a little creative!

🍂 Feet Up Friday 🍂

We had an Early Release Day for the kids today, so I had some teacher-time to get stuff done!

What better way to begin learning about letter writing than with a GIANT envelope ✉️ and a GIANT letter in a real mailbox!?

A new part of our classroom this year are these Mini Anchor Charts! 🖍 These fun little tools help the students be resourceful, independent, capable, and creative!

We start with some generic and helpful charts such as the alphabet, vowels, color words, number words, and a hundreds chart. As we create anchor charts as a class, they will be added.

I took a big leap this year and moved my “teaching station” (AKA my small group table and all of my supplies) away from my computer station/smart board.

It has been a seamless transition with the use of my wireless mouse 🖱 and keyboard ⌨️! I still have as much access as needed but also have a space that works best for my class and me!!

My newest favorite guided reading tools
T R A N S L U C E N T sticky notes!

The possibilities with them are endless!

How do you keep yourself and your team organized?

We use a ⭐️ Peek at the Week ⭐️ to have all of our team information in one place ✏️ this ensures that everyone is on the same page and has all necessary links!

✏️ I love to keep an abundance of class lists handy to use whenever needed! They keep me happy and organized! 🤗