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These classroom setup tips will help you to organize everything from supplies to centers.

Classroom Setup Tips to Organize Everything

Let’s be honest, friend, setting up a primary classroom is no small feat. Between crayons, manipulatives, worksheets, and games, it can feel like your classroom is one giant stack of bins just waiting to tip over. So.Many.Materials. I get it! But here’s the truth. . . a well-organized classroom isn’t

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Start building the bridge from letter names to letter sounds with these engaging activities.

Building the Bridge from Letter Names to Letter Sounds

If you’ve ever wondered when the right time is to dive into letter sounds with your students, you’re not alone. As primary teachers, we know that teaching the alphabet isn’t just about singing the ABCs or identifying letters on flashcards. Before we move into phonics instruction, we need to make

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This post is full of 7 engaging shape centers will seasonal themes, so you can use them for the whole year!

7 Engaging Shape Centers for the Whole Year

If you’re always looking for ways to focus on shapes in your classroom, without reinventing the wheel each month, I’ve got you! Today, we’re going to talk about 7 of my favorite shape centers you can use for the entire school year in the primary classroom. I’ve got a wide

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5 Fun Ways to Teach Numbers and Counting

As a primary teacher, I spend a lot of time working on fun ways to teach numbers and counting in my classroom. You too? While we all know that these concepts are essential, endless worksheets to memorize them can get a little boring, right? I certainly think so! That’s why

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End of the Year Classroom Clean Up Tips for Busy Teachers

As the school year winds down, there’s something so satisfying about closing things out and setting yourself up for a smooth start next school year. But let’s be real, end of the year classroom clean up can feel like a massive job. Between wrapping up assessments, managing excited students, and

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This tips and activities are excellent for teaching phoneme manipulation in kindergarten and first grade.

Tips and Activities for Teaching Phoneme Manipulation

Learning to read is not just a one-and-done type of activity. There are many skills students must learn and put together to become fluent readers. Many of these skills fall under the umbrella of phonemic awareness. And, for many kids, one of the most difficult…is phoneme manipulation. Over the years,

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Use fun activities and small group lessons when teaching consonant blends to early readers.

Teaching Consonant Blends to Early Readers

As a primary teacher, one of the biggest milestones we help students reach is learning to read. It’s one of the things I love the most about being a kindergarten teacher. Our sweet kids arrive to us with minimal knowledge of the alphabet, but in a few short months, they

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