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How do you get to know your students at the beginning of the year? Me boxes? Me Reports? Me Posters? For ME… pun intended, I like to use the last option, ME Posters! These easy to do posters are a Back to School MUST for my beginning of the year routine. I usually send them home as a first week of… Read More
Your first week of school sets the tone for the year! These are some of the activities we did in our first week of 2nd grade! There’s nothing wrong with posting about your first week back halfway through your third week, right? I mean every afternoon I get home I basically look like this…. Even though I am on like day… Read More
The first day of school can be nerve racking! And that’s not just for the teacher. I can say with confidence I’ve survived my first day of 5th grade and I lived to tell about it! New district, new school, new grade level, new classroom. There are so many “new things” happening in this Applicious Teacher’s life I’m surprised I… Read More
Don’t you just love prepped and ready to go centers? Me too… but after a few months, your kids are ready for something new and your centers have seen better days. Well today, I’m here to share with you the secret behind making your centers last all year! And to help illustrate the teacher secrets is the Back-to-School Edition of my… Read More
Good-bye summer! Hello new school year! Tomorrow is my first day of Pre-Planning. Of course, the whole week is consumed with meetings and such, so I’ve been trying to do as much to prepare for those first few weeks with my kiddos from home as I can. Now that I am back in second grade, I am super excited to be… Read More
A day in second grade can be busy, full of laughs, and of course TONS of learning, but if you’re new to the grade level, thinking about fitting in ALL those standards while keeping your kiddos engaged seems daunting! I get asked all the time… “How do you fit it all in…?” and the answer to the question is… Read More