Grab some NEW and IMPROVED CHEER Pack for a Great New YEAR

August is coming...

Back to school is coming...

Are you going to be ready?

You will with these updated and SO CUTE Dr. Jean Cheer Cards!

This pack is 100% FREE for you to grab.

Head over to my blog to check out her

addition AMAZING paid packs 

that are now NEW and IMPROVED like 

Transition Tips & Tricks 

 

and Brain Breaks,

Then grab 

ALL THE CHEER CARDS FREE

by clicking here.

Sending you wonderful wishes...

FREE Odd and Even Posters

Hey Peeps!
How are you about change?
Some people hate it, dread it, and avoid it.

I like it and sometimes encourage it too often!
This may be one of those times!

A whole list of things spurred on my latest change... but it resulted in a FREEBIE!

Come on over and GRAB IT!

Glitter Glue Classroom Management Trick

You guys REALLY need to see this GENIUS classroom management trick I discovered recently!!!!  Want to know the best part?  It has to do with this pretty glitter glue!

~Michelle from Apples and ABC's

Winter Classroom Management FREEBIE

Olaf is the
most
popular
snowman
I know.

He is funny, dependable, and we all know how Olaf has the
absolute BEST attitude around.

WHO DOESN'T ADORE OLAF?




Have you seen this
Hide -and- Hug Olaf?

 I found it a few months ago and KNEW I had to use this in my classroom. 

BUT HOW?

{Insert Kindergarten Teacher Mind Working}

My solution?

An AWESOME freebie to help you find 

kindness,

  thoughtfulness, 

and positive students in your own classroom. 

and  this Hide-and- Hug in the Classroom FREEBIE pack here.

Head to my blog to read all about how I teach SNOWMEN
and tons of other snow ideas for your classroom.
And to grab this freebie pack too!

Eight Classroom Expectations

Hey Friends! Mrs. Hoffer here!! I just wanted to drop in and tell you about some amazing changes that have been going on in my classroom. In August our school became a Great Expectations school. This may sound familiar to some Oklahoma and Texas readers. 

For those of you unfamiliar with GE, ti is an approach to better the whole child, not just a quick behavior fix. I am loving it! This program was how my mom taught, and she has been out of the classroom for about 14 years. It is constant, but there have been a few tweaks here and there.

Anywho, in about October our school had a trainer come in to talk to the whole school. About this time, our Primary team had been discussing getting rid of our behavior charts. So going into this meeting I was very nervous about what was going to come up. In the meeting, what I expected did happen. We decided to throw ourselves out there and get rid of our clip charts. Cold Turkey. I am not going to lie, I was a nervous wreck! I plastered this quote all across my room and reminded myself multiple times a day.

Now you might be asking, why are you telling me this? Well in all of our classrooms we have Eight Expectations posted, and we go over them every morning.

There they are, front and center in my classroom. We say them each morning after our pledges and moment of silence. Then we go right into our classroom expectations. Then the Give me Five song.

When ever one of my kiddos are not making a good choice, I just remind them of which Classroom Expectation they need to work on. So if I hear a students making fun of another one of their friends, I remind them “Sarah, Expectation #2 say, We do not laugh at or make fun of a persons mistakes”. They quickly apologize. What is even better, when I am working with a small group, and I over hear my friends remind one another of the expectations. Warms this teachers heart!

I have shared my Eight Classroom Expectations over on TpT. Go check them out here! While you are at it! Go look around Great Expectations and see if it is a good fit for you!!

Classroom Rules Book

Hey everyone!  It's Kristin!

I am heading back to school in just one day.  ONE DAY.  Except, truthfully, I've been at school on my own time off and on all summer, and I'm talking about the fact that I am required to be there in just one day.  The kids come this Monday and I can't even believe it.  But I know in just a matter of time, I'm going to say something like I can't believe it's Halloween or I can't believe it's Christmas, or How is it Valentine's Day already?  Time just flies when you're having a great time living life.

SO!  In preparation for my new class of kiddos, I've created a little Rules book that we are going to be filling out together for the first couple of days.  We will review it all week and maybe even for two weeks!

I have a couple of versions for you and it's FREE over on my blog.  I hope you can use it!

Top Secret Gluing Techniques Freebie

 

Do you have a love/hate relationship with white drip glue and kiddos?

I know I do! I love it because it is CHEAP and LASTS way longer than glue sticks and the kids can't lose covers OR forget to put the covers on for that matter. 

But, we all hate it simply because kids don't know how to use it...and teaching them has always been so difficult that I used to just give up and go with the easy to use, easy to waster, EXPENSIVE glue sticks...how about you? 

I thought there MUST be a better way to do this. There must be a way to get these kiddos familiar with this white, sticky stuff and to get them to use it effectively....

I wrote an "original" song that can easily be sung to the tune of "The Farmer in the Dell" and created sheets that students actually practice the new terms they learn: dabbing, globs that take forever to dry, making frames, and dots in the corners!

It has made a world of difference in my classroom and I hope it can end this gluing nightmare in yours.  Even if you are one of the more than 40,000 teachers who have already downloaded this FREE product, please feel free to grab it again since I have made it more kid-friendly and (for our sakes only) prettier!

 While you are at my TpT Store, I would LOVE it if you made sure you were a follower of my store!

Picture Directions!

Hi!  Cupcake here to share an improved version of an old freebie! :)  Picture directions are a great classroom management tool for little learners!

I posted a set of picture directions in my shop two years ago, and decided they needed a facelift… so I made them pretty and added to the set!  They will match any bright classroom, and they also coordinate with my chevron decor.

Stop by my blog to see a preview of all the included cards, or just go directly to my shop to pick up {or redownload!} your copy.  I hope you love them!!

Setting Up Procedures

Hello everyone! Kristen here from A Day In First Grade. With the back to school season quickly approaching, I wanted to put together a quick packet to help me organize my thoughts on some of the things I will need to do/teach at the beginning of the year.

I created a FREE guide for you on setting up procedures in your classroom! It is full of posters, questions, and pages for you to download to help you get organized.

I hope that you enjoy it!

Simply click HERE to get taken to this HUGE freebie!!

It even includes posters that you can use in your classroom like this one:

Enjoy,

Kristen 

First Day Management Techniques

Swing on into Mrs. Miner's Monkey Business to get three of my most useful back to school tips! Find out what on earth ^^^^ this kid is doing and how it will save your sanity (not to mention your voice) for those first few days of school. 

You can also grab stop signs and find out how those never ending lines become easily manageable with them at the beginning of the year....

See you there!

Click here to swing in for some freebies!

The Teacher Cheat Sheet

Hello!  It's Reagan from Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits

Sometimes the simplest things end up being the most valuable in the classroom for me!  The teacher cheat sheet is possibly the center of all classroom happenings and it gets little to NO attention on the blog!  Time to fix that today!!


I am NOT a fan of constant documentation.  I mean we don't usually have the time to use the restroom let alone document everything happening daily, can I get an amen?

So here's a simple solution to the documentation issues we all face daily!


Each week on a cute clipboard of choice, you have a blank cheat sheet.  {pictured below on the left}

As 3,647 small things come up each day you jot down on your cheat sheet so you only have one consistent place to look for the entire week's happenings.  Keep it where you always have it handy.  Take it to recess, take it to lunch, have it when parents call asking when things happened.  It's a simple solution to the chaos!  

The red marks on the right are examples of things I may write down in a given week. 

I keep it to ten rows because I never used all 24 kid's names in a week and the spaces get too small to really write what is happening if you put to many boxes on a sheet.  Ten seemed to be the perfect amount per week needed.

 I leave all of the sheets on the clipboard for the entire semester underneath so I can flip back when I get a phone call and have answers ready!  Once the pages on the bottom are really outdated,  I slide them out and place them in a file until the end of the school year.  {Just in case}

To get this cheat sheet I am going to have you head to my facebook page and use the freebie tab!  Hope it helps simplify your school year craziness!  :) 

 

Free Labels for Folders & Journals

Hi!  It's Reagan from Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits, and I am so excited to share something with you that I look forward to creating every year!!!

Folder and Journal Labels!!!  #yesiamscreaming  #obsessed

   Here's a peek!  Come on over to my blog to get your free labels!

3 Cheer for Dr. Jean's Cheers!

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I have an amazing freebie everyone is going to want!

Every teacher in

 Pre-k- K- first 

use and adore Dr. Jean.

Her fantastic cheer cards.help create a positive environment.

These cheers work.

They make the classroom a FUN.

And the little learners 

eat.it.up! 

 

I was blessed to be able to recreate Dr. Jean's Cheer Cards for everyone!

All her classic cheer cards received new fonts, new graphics, and a new feel...

and they are also easier to cut apart.

Click on the picture or {here} to grab these cheer cards... absolutely FREE.