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Classroom Holiday Book Exchange

TheMountainTeacher-December 3, 2018-1 Comment

Are you looking for a way to spread holiday spirit with your littles without directly celebrating any specific holiday? Hosting a holiday book exchange is…

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Classroom Newsletters… Why? When?

TheMountainTeacher-September 24, 2018-0 Comments

Classroom Newsletters Should you do a newsletter for your classroom? How often should you send home your newsletter? What should you include in your newsletter?…

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Traveling Class Mascot

TheMountainTeacher-June 11, 2018-2 Comments

Tips, Tricks & Resources to Send a Furry Friend Home With Little Worries When I think back to my FAVORITE thing I did in second…

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Friday Letters

TheMountainTeacher-January 29, 2018-7 Comments

A New Way To Connect With Students Friday letters are mine and my students FAVORITE part of the week. Whenever students start telling me a…

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Make the Most of Your Morning Meeting

TheMountainTeacher-January 22, 2018-3 Comments

Guide to an Effective 15 Minute Morning Meeting Do you want to implement a morning meeting but struggle to find a way to fit it…

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Student Spotlight

TheMountainTeacher-January 8, 2018-0 Comments

Their Time to Shine: Structured Student Spotlight Add a Little Culture to Your Elementary Room Do you constantly have students asking you “when is show…

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Engage your students in learning about landforms by having them apply their knowledge of various landforms to create a project... LANDFORM ISLAND! Students will work alone or in groups to research 24 different landforms, draft a plan for their island, write all about their island and publish a poster of their islands. Islands will include as many landforms as possible and students will need to brainstorm different animals, plants and other features that would be located near various landforms...

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6 winter themed games that review addition and subtraction to 20 fluency. These games are great for any primary grade to help students begin to fluently solve these problems. There are 2 core games included, which have an addition version and subtraction version. The games are bump and gobble!

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Engage students during the cold winter months in reading, writing and STEM activities that all surround one of your favorite fairy tales.. The Gingerbread Man! Students will study fairy tale elements in the core story, then compare and contrast how the regular version of The Gingerbread Man is the same and is different from various fractured fairy tales. This works with ANY version of The Gingerbread Man that you might have in your library, and also includes my suggestions for various titles.

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Get students writing creatively about the Polar Express with this imaginative narrative project and craft. Perfect for any Polar Express Day Celebration!

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Engage students with nonfiction text skills this winter using this main idea and key detail ornament themed activity. This reading or writing activity is PERFECT for your primary students! Students can either write their own nonfiction text or recall information from text. Students will identify a main idea, write key details about it and then draw a picture. Then, students compile their work into either a flip book or a cute Christmas Tree!

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Writing an imaginative narrative is easy with this Polar Express writing and craft! Teach students to write stories with a problem and solution with this engaging writing resource. This lesson can be taught in one day or stretched out throughout five days. Students will generate ideas on potential problems during their adventure on the Polar Express, then brainstorm ideas on their personal adventure, write a plan for their imaginative story, then end the activity by creating a fun Polar Express.