Elementary Teacher Resources Blog

Quick, easy and effective elementary teacher resources.

Magnetic Holders for Centers

I use card games a lot during our math centers. I would keep the cards in zip lock bags but in a very short time the bags were ripped and very messy

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Sign-In Board

I am a Prep (Kinder) teacher and I find this is a great way to teach children how to write their name and also keep track of who is at school each day.

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Desk Organization- I Love My Benches!

I put my husband to work to save my desks from becoming a mess. He made benches that sit between pods of 4. They stand as high as the legs of the

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Pocket Mailboxes

I wish I could take credit for this creative idea, but I have to give it to a great friend of mine who is not even a teacher! She found this pocket

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Headphone Hang-ups

I hate how tangled up headphones can get! The kids spend more time trying to untangle headphones than they do actually listening to a book on CD.

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Supplies and Folders

When our library put out this old card catalog table many years ago, I grabbed it quickly! I use the drawers to store pencils (old and new), rulers,

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Classroom library organization

I bought many different colored baskets to use to organize my classroom library books. I color coded and numbered the books according to which basket

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Homemade Chair Pockets

I use homemade chair pockets on my 3rd grade students' desk chairs to help them stay organized. Their desks are fairly small for all the books we have,

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Spelling and The Daily 5

Hi! I was wondering how you teach spelling? Do you follow any teacher resources

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Centers in Containers

I purchased several inexpensive stackable pull out drawer containers from Wal-Mart. I then printed out nine of my second grade learning centers and a

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Center Pencils

Organizing simple objects such as pencils in your Literacy Centers can be a real time saver and management tool. Every year before school begins I purchase

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First Year in First Grade

Hi, I have been teaching second grade for the last 12 years. I just found out last week that this year I will be teaching first grade, to tell you

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Writer's Workshop Additional?

Hello! Do you do Writer's Workshop in addition to the Daily 5? Do you have any other Language Arts time slots (handwriting, spelling, etc.)? Thanks

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Glove Writing Center

Fill a basket with gloves of all kinds from various activities and occupations. Suggestions are latex(surgical), kitchen, mittens, welding, firemen,

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Starfall

Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to motivate children to read with phonics. Their systematic phonics approach, in conjunction

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Math-Aids.Com - The Math Worksheet Generator

Math-Aids.Com is a free resource for teachers and parents. You can make an unlimited number of printable math worksheets for children, the classroom

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Guided Reading Strategy

I don't know where I exactly found this idea but I have used it in my classroom at least once a week. In the guided reading lesson after the students

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First Grade Bell Work?

I recently made the change from teaching 2nd Grade to 1st Grade. I used H. Wong's bell work strategy for the students upon arrival. I loved it.

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First Grade Teacher

Can anyone tell me some easy/simple centers they start teaching first graders at the beginning of the year? This is my first year starting at the beginning

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Kindergarten Literacy Program

Our school district is in the process of choosing a literacy program for our kindergarten. What do you use and what is the best resource out there?

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