The Mountain Teacher – Page 10 – This is an elementary teaching blog focused on primary teaching tips, tricks and resources.

Classroom Reveal 2018-2019

Traveling Class Mascot

Friday Letters

The Great Pencil Challenge

Student Spotlight

Partially Flexible Seating

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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Partially Flexible Seating

TheMountainTeacher-August 22, 2017-16 Comments

How I Make Flexible Seating Work in My Classroom Partially Flexible: Flexible seating is the top new teaching trend at the moment! At first, I…

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Structuring Your Math Block

TheMountainTeacher-October 26, 2016-0 Comments

Structuring a Second Grade Math Block Math is absolutely my students’ favorite time of the entire day! They look forward to each part of our…

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Class DOJO

TheMountainTeacher-June 29, 2015-7 Comments

Implementing Class DOJO in an Elementary Classroom

How to Make Class DOJO Manageable When I first started using Class DOJO, it was quite the fiasco. I felt like I constantly had to…

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Introduction

TheMountainTeacher-June 25, 2015-0 Comments

Hello & Welcome! Welcome to my blog, or for some of you, my reboot blog. I wanted to take some time in my first blog…

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Challenge your students to keep their pencils for an extended period of time using this great pencil challenge leader board! This is an engaging way to teach students to take responsibility and to look after a pencil. Set a date for a goal, set your check in dates, review the "vow" to take care of your pencils, and have a visual tracker of who is still in the competition. #classroomideas #teacherhacks #teachertips

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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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Pause For Praise! These are positive notes home that you can easily print out, copy, and send home with students when they have an excellent day. There are 6 different notes with different images and messages on them. Print these on bright colored paper (such as astrobrights) to get the best effect. These are a perfect addition to your PBIS classroom. These can be used with any grade level, and even during before and after school care.

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Make teaching writing more ENGAGING and planning for writing EASY by utilizing this year long writing pack. This resource includes 25 units of writing that will take 32 weeks to teach. #iteachsecond #seccondgrade #writing

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Teaching geometry has never been so much fun or so easy for you to plan! This is a 3 week geometry unit that is filled with second grade worksheets, assessments, homework and activities. There is also a pacing guide included, showing you how I would complete this unit in 3 weeks time. There are also anchor charts included for your bulletin board display, showing all the shapes and their attributes, as well as other important vocabulary words learned during this unit such as angle, side, etc.

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Engage students in learning their sight words with this fun themed game! There are five levels for easy differentiation and consistency among various levels of students. This game is fun for ALL primary grades. Students take turns drawing and reading the cards.