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Summer treated us so well ☀️

Back to school tomorrow! 🎒🍏 ✏️

Check out these movement-based beginning of the year activities for your early elementary students!

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Looking for some fresh beginning of the year activities that will get your elementary students out of their seats? Check out these 5 teacher-tested ideas!

Weekly teacher emails seem like such a basic in teaching… and yet we’ve all received (and sent 🙈) hard-to-read, ineffective communiques.

Recently up on the blog: my Ultimate Guide to Writing Effective Teach E-mails!

👉 Grab an insight or two - or let me know what I missed!!

Are you teaching gratitude in the classroom? These incredible read alouds are perfect for starting meaningful conversations about gratitude.

Check out these 10 book recommendations!

Why not focus on gratitude this November? These bilingual printable gratitude postcards are perfect for elementary writing centers, small groups and beyond!

Feliz dia del pavo & Happy Thanksgiving! Keep your elementary students meaningfully engaged leading up to Thanksgiving break using this fun bilingual Roll-A-Turkey Descriptive Writing exchange! This three part thanksgiving descriptive writing activity will be a hit!

Why not center gratitude in your classroom as the winter holidays approach?

These read-alouds are guaranteed to spark meaningful conversations with your elementary students!

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Elementary teachers: are you looking to center gratitude in your classroom this November? These bilingual Thanksgiving-themed printable postcards are perfect!

Your students will love writing notes of gratitude to each other, their teachers, their families - and beyond! Grab these Spanish & English print-and-use postcards today!

This bilingual resource is everything you need for interactive, meaningful student-led conferences in elementary!

In this value-packed, multi-modal resource, you’ll find:
- Parent communications
- Student self-reflections
- Collaborative goal-setting sheets
- Ideas for student-led conference agendas
- Caregiver feedback forms

The Google Slides format makes it easy to customize to your own needs!

Ready for better parent-teacher conferences! Implement student-led conferences quickly and easily with this comprehensive resource!

Working on procedural writing with your elementary students? These Halloween-themed how-to writing prompts are perfect practice! Pre-differentiated and bilingual (Spanish & English), this is a value-paced elementary writing resource!

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Bilingual-Halloween-Procedural-Writing-10341692

How would you use this bilingual Day of the Dead writing activity in your classroom?

Our boxes came this week and we are so grateful!

Thanks to the generosity of many, we now have a class set of legos which we’ll use for everything from science projects to language learning.

We’ll also use them to PLAY. Study after study has shown the integral role that play has in developing language, problem solving, and social emotional skills. Plus, it’s FUN and children deserve fun.

Thinking a lot about this text as I prepare for my students to come in just a few short days.

Some things I’m trying:
✨ taking a language history from students
✨ emphasizing Spanish first on family communications
✨ preparing resources which encourage student to use their full linguistic repertoire.

Do you get to teach multilingual learners this year?

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Elementary educators: Are you searching for the *PERFECT* writing project to kick off the new school year?!

Your students will think globally AND get to know their classmates with this engaging writing project! I can't wait to see how you use it in your own classroom!

Kick off your school year in a student-centered way by co-creating your classroom rules!

Read here for the easy steps for this collaborative process!

Your elementary students will LOVE these inspiring growth mindset affirmations!

8 unique, cactus-themed designs with both English and Spanish options.

I can't wait to see how you use these!

Fellow teachers: Create a custom photo directory for your students' families in no time with this drag and drop template!

Going beyond the weekly email - here are 14 ways to create and sustain lasting teacher parent partnerships!