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Do you love community building, but loathe the traditional ice breaker activity? Are you looking for a way to liven up your student discussions so that all students participate? Start with this back to school community ice breaker that is fun and is an activity that helps start discussions in your 2025-2026 school year! This Hexagonal Thinking discussion activity is a fantastic activity to use as community building. This discussion activity gets all students involved giving all students an

Do you know how important community building is but loathe the traditional ice breaker activity? Are you looking for a way to liven up your student discussions so that all students participate? Start your back to the New Year off well with a fun activity in 2025! This Hexagonal Thinking discussion activity is a fantastic activity to use as community building. This discussion activity gets all students involved giving all students an equitable voice. This d iscussion activity is ready to g

Are you looking for a way to liven up how you teach your first week of school routines and procedures this back to school season? This interactive around the room bingo game helps you to teach students where they can find all the things in your classroom. Instead of the boring classroom tours pointing to where things are located show your students where to find all the things but in a fun way! This first week of school bingo game is a fantastic activity to show your new class how much fun they

Do you know how important community building is but loathe the traditional ice breaker activity? Are you looking for a way to liven up your student discussions so that all students participate? Start your New Year in 2025 off well with this hands on activity. This Hexagonal Thinking discussion activity is a fantastic activity to use as community building. This discussion activity gets all students involved giving all students an equitable voice. This d iscussion activity is ready to go fo

Teaching procedures, rules and routines for back to school is so important! Teaching routines and procedures for substitute teachers is just as important. This back to school classroom management lesson and activity contains an editable Google Slides lesson, a hands on activity, an incentive and some printables for your sub binder. Make it easy for yourself during back to school or at any time you have a sub coming in. Add the lesson and activity to your sub binder or sub plans to help

Do you need an effective whole class behavior management tool to help you manage the whole class in a positive way? Do you want to help students manage , monitor and set goals for their own behavior in the 2025 new year? Whole class behavior management is a daily challenge for even the most experienced teacher. This nearly no prep classroom management strategy uses the simple tool of goals, targets and student reflection. The classroom behavior management strategy is very effective in manag

Do you having a calm down corner set up in your elementary classroom? Are you looking for emotional self regulation strategies to add to your calming corner? Calming corners and self regulation strategies are essential in classrooms today to help students learn manage their emotions! . These self regulation strategy cards can be used with an existing calming corner or a new calming corner to help students learn how to self regulate. Adding these regulation strategy cards to your teacher tool

Are you looking for a way to launch independent reading during reader's workshop this back to school season? Try this independent reading expectations guide. Use it as a launching lesson, rubric or bulletin board materials. This independent reading guide is designed to help your Reading Block run more smoothly. Start back to school confident that you have a structure and routine to help students understand what independent reading should look, sound and feel like. This kit can be used to l

Are you looking for a way to launch independent reading during reader's workshop this back to school season? Try this independent reading expectations guide. Use it as a launching lesson, rubric or bulletin board materials. This read to self reading guide is designed to help your Reader’s Workshop run more smoothly. Start back to school confident that you have a structure and routine to help students understand what independent reading should look, sound and feel like. This kit can be used

Are you looking for tools to launch your expectations and routines in Reader's Workshop during the first weeks back to school? Are you looking to create a smoother Reader's Workshop with consistent routines, procedures and expectations? This printable Reader's Workshop Anchor Poster can do both! This anchor poster is designed to help your Reader’s Workshop run more smoothly while also , setting up and assessing expectations during your back to school workshop launch. This anchor poster rubric

Routines and Expectations in Reader's Workshop and small guided groups need to run smoothly. This printable Reader's Workshop expectations rubric can be used in a variety of ways to help with the management of your Reader's Workshop! This rubric can be used in any reading class to help the adults and students have a common language around the routines & expectations during Reader’s Workshop. Use this printable rubric during Reader’s Workshop as a reflection tool, during launching at the