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The get to know you activities below are great for that first week of school when you want to get to know your new 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students and you also want your students to get to know each other. Use one or more of these back to school ideas to help start the year off right in …
Classroom jobs are a great way to help get 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade students excited about helping out in the classroom. And as a HUGE added bonus, having an organized classroom job system can really help save you time. The classroom jobs list below contains 32 possible jobs you could have in your upper elementary classroom. Not …
One of the main priorities for those first days of schools is to get to know your students, and for your students to get to know each other. Letting your upper elementary students create and share an “All About Me Bag” is a cheap, low prep way to do this.What is an “All About Me Bag?”An “All About Me Bag” …
Classroom pencil management for 3rd grade, 4th grade, and 5th grade students is much harder than the general public thinks. Non-teachers do not and cannot understand how difficult it is for upper elementary students to keep up with and take care of pencils. Or how disruptive pencil sharpening can be to instruction. Often teachers have to provide classroom supplies for …
Wondering what to do on the first day of school? I was always surprised at how quickly the day would fly by. One minute I’m greeting students, the next, I’m exhaustedly sitting at my desk wondering where the day has gone, why my feet are so tired, and how I could have gone the entire day without doing anything I …