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How to Use Play doh Mats on the First Day of School

First day jitters can be a thing of the past for your students with these fun back to school play doh mats! As students enter your classroom, they can sit and play with playdoh to build designs and create pictures on these fun mats! This will help them relax and ease into the day, rather than feeling too nervous! Print different mats for students to play with as they unpack supplies and get ready to learn on the first day of school. These are a great back to school activity!

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Super Easy Class Jobs for Teachers

The easiest class jobs on the planet: end of day jobs! Stop stressing about class jobs and make a simple solution to keeping your classroom clean. Instead of assigning everyone jobs to complete throughout the day, assign one block of time for everyone to work together to clean up your room at the END of the day! Students have dedicated time to do their job, in a way that really benefits your classroom. And you have time to get ready to teach the next day...all while your students are cleaning!

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Four MUST-TEACH Routines for Back to School

There are dozens of routines to teach during back to school season. But, there are FOUR main routines and procedures to teach. These four routines are so important because they make the biggest impact on the organization and structure of your classroom! When your classroom is organized, your students have more opportunities to learn, because you are spending more time teaching and less time managing clutter and mess. Check out this teaching article to learn the four must-teach routines!

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Playdoh Mats for the First Day of 2nd Grade

Give your students a calming, engaging activity to complete as soon as they have a seat on the first day of school! These playdoh mats will help get jitters out on the first day, while also giving students a focused activity to do as everyone is trickling in through the morning. This is a great option for the first day of school, or anytime you want hands-on, sensory fun!

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Simple Student Birthday Gifts from Teachers

Birthday bags are the simplest birthday gift for your students! Prep some paper bags at the beginning of the year with a 'happy birthday' label. Copy a ton of paper birthday cards. When a student has a birthday, they get a paper bag on their desk! Everyone else in the class decorates a birthday card. As they finish it throughout the day, they drop it in the bag. As the teacher, you can put a homework pass, or any other fun goodies you want inside the bag! The birthday student goes home with a ba

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Tips for hosting a successful, simple Open House as a teacher! Does parent night make you nervous? Are you looking for some new tips to make your evening with students and their families as smoothe as possible? Check out this article with tips for open house! These ideas are great for a first year teacher, or for a teacher who wants to tighten up their open house routines.

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The Best First Week of 2nd Grade EVER

The First Week Back Activity Pack is stuffed full of activities for your first week of 2nd grade. To make it all make sense, I've included a free PDF of lesson plans for the first week of school that blends the activities from this pack with the routine and procedure lessons you need to teach! Click to download your FREE lesson plans for the first week of school, and have your best first week of school, EVER.

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EASY Student Birthday Gift Idea

Take the stress out of student birthday gifts this year! Simply prep a birthday bag for your students! How to prepare birthday bags: Grab a stack of brown paper bags, label them with 'Happy birthday', put a bag out on the birthday student's desk when their birthday arrives. Pass out birthday cards for the class to decorate, write notes, and stuff the bag! The birthday kid gets to take home a bag full of love from his or her class. It's a meaningful, simple, low-prep and almost no-cost solution!

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Classroom Library Tour : A Back to School MUST HAVE

Do you want an organized, well-used library this year in your classroom? Take your students on a classroom library tour! Learn in this article what a tour includes, how to highlight your books in a way that gets your students excited, and download a scavenger hunt your students can go on in your library when the lesson is over! Click to read this article with this unique, impactful back to school idea!

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Improve Student Reading Fluency Even When You're Not Around — The Simple Classroom

Reading fluency centers that will help students grow as fluent readers independently! Perfect for 2nd and 3rd grade students. Great reading center activity for a read to someone station, or just a weekly reading center in an elementary reading classroom.

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5 Tips from a Teacher on How to Have Weekends Off This Year: • Deal with things as soon as you get them, rather than storing a bunch of smaller tasks up for one work session. You have to schedule a larger work session into your week. You do not have to schedule the 90 seconds-2 minutes it takes you to complete a form on the spot. • Use pockets of class time wisely. Keep a running list of 2-minute tasks in your head. If you have some downtime, knock out one of those tasks! (Filing a stack of tests, organzing your planning time materials, etc.) • Resist reinventing the wheel. Sometimes the curriculum is good enough...even if it's not the cutest. Use what you have, supplement when you need to, but always try to rely on materials that are pre-made and ready to go. It doesn't all have to

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