37 Name Games for Kids: Fun First-Day Icebreakers
Name games for kids are one of the simplest, most effective tools a teacher can use during the first days of school. When students walk in not knowing a single…
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Name games for kids are one of the simplest, most effective tools a teacher can use during the first days of school. When students walk in not knowing a single…
Fun attention getters for the classroom are one of the most effective tools you have for redirecting students without stopping the lesson. Whether your class is deep in group work,…
Addition and subtraction games with dice are a simple way to make math practice more engaging for elementary students. Dice create a random number each round, which gives students repeated…
As an elementary teacher, there are few moments more satisfying than when a carefully selected pair of students collaborate and communicate to complete a task; it’s inspiring! But the reality…
Teaching second graders to tell time is essential to their 2nd grade math curriculum. Analog clocks, though traditional, provide valuable practice for mastering time-telling skills, especially when it comes to…
In this post, we’ll share examples of SMART goal-setting examples, sentence frames, and sentence stems that students can use to plan and achieve their goals. These sentence stems act as prompts to…
Report card comments for elementary students can feel overwhelming, especially at the end of a long school year. Whether you are writing end-of-year report card comments, progress report comments, or…
Successive blending is a phonics intervention strategy for students who can identify individual letter sounds but struggle to retain all three sounds long enough to blend them into a word….
Most math classes have students working at three or more different levels simultaneously. Some students are still building fluency with concepts from the previous year; others are ready for the…
If you’re an elementary school teacher looking to ace your next interview, you’ll want to be well-prepared for the most common teaching interview questions. In this post, we’ll provide you with…
You know how important it is for students to be collaborative and work together in the classroom. When students partner effectively and learn to cooperate, it fosters strong communication skills…
The heart word method is a research-backed approach to teaching sight words that asks students to analyze each word’s sounds rather than memorize the word as a whole. If you’ve…
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