Hi guys! I hope you are all doing well and keeping calm during this crazy assessment term! I have had quite a few teachers message and email me about how I use my new Writing Goal Posters so I thought I would explain how I use them here 🙂 This year, I am teaching Grade 1 and now that Term 1 is over, we are
Eliminate the ‘CRAY CRAY’ with these student Expert Tags! {FREEBIE}
Now, I don’t know about you, but my weekly Computer sessions in my grade are CHAOTIC! Every child gets a laptop. They then need to log on with a username and password. Then wait for any updates to load. (Grrrrrr) Then silly little Google Chrome pop-ups come up (EVERY TIME!!!!). Next, they need to type in the URL and then their Reading Eggs or Mathletics
Got an uneven amount of students in your class? Don’t stress!
Hi Everyone!!! Just a short post today to share with you all a little TIP that works for me when playing partnered games in the classroom. I couldn’t help but capture this moment when I gave my puppet ‘Nigel’ to one of my students to be his ‘partner’ for one of our Maths warm up games. You should have seen the look of his face!
Pretty in Pink, Musical Chairs Reading & GoNoodle!
I can’t believe it is coming up to Week 5 already! This term has just flown! I haven’t had much time for blogging recently, however I am putting aside an hour or two to give you an insight into what’s been happening. Its been busy, busy, BUSY!!!! FUNDRAISING On Friday our school and local community came together to raise money for the McGrath Foundation by
What’s been happening in 2J!
2J!! It has a nice ring to it doesn’t it? 😉 hehe Rules Rules Rules! This was our first full week of Grade 2 and we spent some time going through our school’s ‘Start Up’ program which is pretty much a series of Getting to Know You activities and discussing classroom rules and school values etc. As some of you may know…. I LOVE David!
Behaviour Management: Setting Routines and Classroom Procedures
If you are a teacher in Australia, this is usually about the time you are getting back into school mode and begin to think about your new class! It’s such as exciting time of year! A fresh set of new students to teach and little minds to shape 🙂 However, it takes time to get these children into routine and to adjust to your personal
Five For Friday Link Up
Here we are again! It’s the end of Week 1, Term 4 and what a busy week it’s been! I have teamed up with Doodle Bugs Teaching and many other wonderful teachers all around the globe to talk about 5 different highlights from the week. 1. Chicks! Our unit this term in Prep is all about the farm and in a few weeks we will
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I have been busy giving a fresh look to some of my original popular items this weekend! These were some of the first products I created when I first started on TPT and updating them has been on my do-to list for quite some time now. So, in celebration of finally finding the motivation and time to get it done, I have decided to offer