The Mountain Teacher – Page 9 – 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

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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January Read Alouds

TheMountainTeacher-January 15, 2018-1 Comment

Favorite January Read Alouds For Elementary Classrooms I LOVEEE January because that is when I break out ALL things winter! I let December be all…

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The Great Pencil Challenge

TheMountainTeacher-January 15, 2018-11 Comments

Looking for a way to keep your classrooms’ pencils in check? Tired of sharpening pencils or listening to the pencil sharpener all day? The great…

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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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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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Engage students in chapter books by having them complete this fun project! Your students can read ANY chapter book and complete this fun summarizing flip book. Students will practice summarizing book chapters using the "somebody, wanted, but, so, then" format. There are two options for flip books. Option A goes up to 18 chapters, and simply practices summarizing.

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Are you looking for an EASY way to streamline your small group planning for reading? Look no further, this guided reading group planner pack has everything you need to: create and organize your groups, plan a week's worth of lessons for your small groups with ease, hold your students accountable for their learning with various questions and graphic organizers and empower your students to own their learning by giving them various reading roles.

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Simile writing is easy with this monster writing and craft! Teach students to use similes as part of this descriptive writing resource. This lesson can be taught in one day or stretched out throughout five days. Students generate lists of adjectives to describe their monsters, turn the adjectives into similes to describe how their monster acts, smells, feels, sounds and their appearance.

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Encourage your students to read, write and get outside over the weekend by sending them home with your traveling class "pet" or mascot. This resource includes everything you need to implement sending home a class mascot with your students this year. There is a letter to parents explaining the project, a template for students to write on, rules and reminders for your students while they are looking after the mascot, and a binder/bulletin board cover for your students’ work.

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Second grade money centers that are engaging and fun! This resource has five engaging centers that cover the common core state standards for money in a fun, refreshing way for students.

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Field Trip Reflection Form - this is a perfect way to review and reflect after any field trip. Specifically catered to zoo field trips or a generic form for any other field trip.