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Ice Breakers for the First Day (or Week) of School

Depending on how your first day (or week) of school looks, include some ice breakers. Ice breakers can help some students very quickly find like minded potential friends. They can also be quite intimidating, if you are trying to force your students to share too much about themselves too soon. A level of trust needs to be … [Read more...]

How to Prepare For The TPT Sitewide Sale

Teachers Pay Teachers organizes a TPT Sitewide Sale every quarter. Most of the time, the dates will be February, May, August and November. Sometimes they will have "Bonus" sales in April and September. As a seller, you need to manually (UPDATED: See below) join the sitewide sale in order for your buyers to receive 25% off of … [Read more...]

Create an Economy System for Your Classroom

Regardless of the classroom, creating an economy system can be a highly rewarding experience not only for the students, but for parents and you. I've used this system is various forms for the past 15 years, from kindergarten to grade nine. And it works for them all! What is the Purpose of a Classroom Economy System? Back … [Read more...]

Complete Your Unit Plan – Part 3

To complete your unit plan, you will need to have a few components already in place. If this is your first time to this website, welcome! You can find part 1, Creating a Balanced Unit Plan and part 2, Unit Plan Creation, linked. If you are looking for a free template for lesson planning, you can find one on my TPT store. In a … [Read more...]

Tools to Grow or Start Your TPT Business

As we are moving into the holiday season, now is a great time to look at tools to grow or start your TPT Business. Why? Christmas or Birthday Wish Lists!!! If you are new to TPT, do not jump in and buy all the stuff. I wrote a blog post on the Costs of Selling on TPT. I re-read it , updated it and some links and it's worth … [Read more...]

I’m Done Now What – Early Finishers Choice Board

"I'm done!" shout the same early finishers each and every day. How do they do it? But more importantly, what do you do with them? There have been days when I would just let them play (I teach grade one), but then I began to see the quality of work change. Other students wanted to play too, so they would scribble their work to … [Read more...]