Celebrate the 50th Day of School in 1950’s sock-hop style! There is so much fun learning that can be done on this day that revolves around the number 50! Read to find out more!

Stressing over how to plan and prep Parent/Teacher Conferences? Let me help you easily prep and plan yours from start to finish!

You've heard of the Desk Fairy, but what about the Fab Firstie Fairy? This fairy is the sweetest thing to enter into your classroom this year, and there's one for Kindergarten too!

Math and literacy centers used to give me a headache. I’d be trying to run a small group while the rest of the class looked like the local zoo! I realized very quickly that centers would be a huge waste of instructional time if centers weren’t explicitly taught, and clear, easy to understand expectations were given. With some trial and error, I finally came up with the BEST possible way to run my centers and I’ve been running them this way for YEARS! Read my 5 tips for center success!

It's SUPER important to build students' reading stamina during independent reading time.

Want to know how I keep math centers running smoothly in my classroom?! I love maximizing my time with small groups by making sure that my centers are meaningful and low-prep! Click here to read more!

For K-1 students, centers are one of the most developmentally appropriate things that you can do for them.

Here’s everything that I do to make sure that I have a smooth and successful Meet the Teacher Night!

I’ve put together a resource for you that would take a TON off your back-to-school plate!

There are a few things that I use in my classroom DAILY that I absolutely could not live without. Read here to find out about my favorite resources that every K-1 teacher needs!

I finally decided to compile a small list of the 7 things that are absolute “must-haves” in my classroom because I truly use them each and every day!

Visuals in a primary classroom are a NEED! Clear, easy to read print paired with distinct visuals is something I have always made sure is abundant in my room. Read to see the 5 most important visuals that are referred to DAILY in my room

Wanting to create a writing center station for your students to visit during ELA centers, but not sure how to make it functional and low-prep?! I’ve got you covered! There are 3 print and go resources that I use to create my writing center, and my students love coming back to this station each day because of these resources. Read here to find out more about our classroom writing center!

I think it’s safe to say that my classroom love language is “storage and organization!”

Organizing and managing a classroom library is actually a piece of cake! Let me show you!

At one point, I worked for a school district that told us “calendar time wasn’t really appropriate for First Graders anymore,” so they were removing it from our master schedule. My response to that was “on what planet?!”

Want to jump on the Sound Wall train but not sure where to start? Let me help you!

Celebrate the solar eclipse with these fun math activities, literacy activities, writing crafts and more! Plan your solar-bration!

Looking for low-prep, chaos-controlled, and standards-based Leap Activities to celebrate the Leap Year in first grade? Read about them all here!

Tracking student data would be a very daunting task if I didn’t have students help me do it! Of course I save their assessment and behavior data for my own records, but I also like having students track their data so that they can see their growth, and so I have visuals to show families during conference time. Read more about how I do this in my classroom!