Trendy Tales of a Teacher

We exchange valentine's cards each year and I thought I should make a box that matches the theme of my room!  Here are the steps and ma...

As I mentioned in a previous post, I moved at the beginning of the summer and was fortunate enough to start at a new school this year!  S...

My new room has an entire wall of windows that needed some updating.  I decided to make a banner that would stretch across the windows addi...

 Teaching students to use colorful words in writing is a difficult task.  I found all of these great mini posters to help students with th...

It drives me crazy when papers start spilling out of desks and nothing is in the correct spot! I found this great idea to have the desk fair...

To avoid curious eyes and ensure students' privacy during assessments, I made these dividers out of two file folders and a word doc. I l...

In preparation for the state standardized tests, I made an anchor chart that has several sentence starters for the students to use in exten...

Keeping track of absent student's work throughout the day can get time consuming!  I found these absent student folders on TPT and love...

At the beginning of the year, I helped my students brainstorm reasons why we write.  I keep this chart hung up in the room so that whenever...

Each year I decide to do something different and I wanted to find something that I could use year after year.  My friend actually whipped t...

 When working with guided reading groups, there are certain things that I need readily available so that there are no interruptions or di...

After reading, "Martin's Big Words", the students summarized Dr. King's dream and then created their own.  It warmed my he...

Do you spend five minutes each day pushing the student's desks back in their place?  I don't understand why, but their desks are alw...

I saw this poster on Pinterest and decided that I had to make my own.  It reminds the students of the expectations for working independe...

I wanted to give my students something for Christmas that wouldn't cost too much, but also mean something to them.  After perusing diffe...

I wanted to share a few of my favorite classroom organization tricks!  I learned fast that organization is key when trying to be a great te...