Toddler Faith-Based Homeschool Curriculum Freebie: Apple Sensory Lesson
I’m super excited to announce my homeschool curriculum, currently in the works - “In His Garden: Faith-Based Learning”. I’ve always wanted to homeschool my children, as I was homeschooled, myself, when I was younger, and as I believe God calls us to use our talents to witness to others and further glorify His name, I want to use my experience in the creation of teacher resources to make a curriculum that other homeschoolers can use.
Keep reading to learn more about this curriculum, my plans for it, and to get August Week 1, Day 1 downloaded for FREE!
6 Alphabet Freebies to Build Literacy Skills: The Letter “A” Coloring and Tracing Sheet Printables
Teaching the alphabet, or the Word of God, doesn’t have to be difficult! In fact, the two shouldn’t be mutually exclusive. This freebie aims to teach both at the same time, with 6 sheets all about the letter “A”, where your child (or student) can have fun coloring or practice their tracing skills. Regardless of whether you homeschool, or if you teach in a Sunday school, or a private Christian school - this freebie will be super helpful to you and your students.
Keep reading to learn more about this freebie and how you can get instant access to it.
7 Tips on How to Encourage a Love of Reading in Your Toddler: Build Literacy Skills From the Beginning
All good parents want their children to succeed in life. If your child has a solid literacy foundation from the get-go, it can not only help them in school, but all throughout adulthood. These literacy skills come through reading, of course; after all, how can you get better at something if you never practice it? The ability to read can get you far in life, so if you have a child and you want to help build their literacy skills from an early age, or to help build a love for reading, I have a few tips on what I did (and currently am doing) with my toddler, who, at the time of writing this, is almost 19 months old.
Dollar Deals for Any Classroom: 6 Inexpensive Resources for Relationship Building and Classroom Management
Finding quality resources for your classroom doesn’t have to be expensive. Below are 6 resources that any teacher of any subject can use in their classroom to either help build relationships or manage their classroom. From remembering birthdays, to celebrating accomplishments or promoting active listening - there’s a resource in here for you. AND they’re all only $1! Which is even better.
Digital Morning Work for the Reading and Writing Teacher: Get Your School Day Started Off Right With These 6 Featured Resources
Morning Work, Bell Ringers, Do-Nows - regardless of what you may call them, many teachers use them to get their school day started. It’s a great way to get your students active and involved in their learning from the very beginning of the school day, practicing skills that are oh-so-important to their growth as a student and as a person. As I’ve told my students, it gets your brain ready for the day! Below are 5 digital resources to use in your classroom to practice writing skills and get your students warmed up and ready for the school day.
Beat the Sunday Scaries with These 5 Tips: Make Your Sunday Suck Less and Your Week Better Organized
The Sunday Scaries… we’ve all been there, amirite?
I remember, in my first two years of teaching, I had the worst Sunday Scaries. I would be an anxious mess and it, overall, wasn’t a great day because I was too focused on Monday. On one hand, I knew I didn’t want to do much work because, y’know, boundaries, but on the other hand - I felt like I had to do some sort of work because I wasn’t super duper prepared. I was at an impasse and my Sunday suffered because of it. I eventually developed some strategies to help me through these feelings and my week started off on a much better foot.
Keep reading to learn more about some things I personally did to help.
How to Create a Strong Classroom Community: 5 Tips to Ensure Your Students Can Actually Tolerate Each Other
It’s nearly impossible to run a classroom when your students hate each other. Between arguments, pettiness, and literal fights, there is no room for teaching. It’s important to make your classroom environment one that your students feel welcomed in - like they’re a part of something - where they can at the very least tolerate the people around them.
Classroom community is one of those things you aren’t exactly taught when you go to college to be a teacher; it’s more something you have to experience to understand. Read my tips to get a head start with building your classroom community - it will make a world of a difference in your room.
How to Avoid Teacher Burnout: 6 Tips to Keep You Going All Year Long (or at Least Not Hating Your Job)
Imagine this: it’s the beginning of the school year and you’re feeling GREAT. Pumped up, ready to go. The weekends and the breaks come and go, but as you near January, February, and on to Spring Break, you are feeling more and more exhausted by the day. You can’t relax on Sundays. You are riddled with anxiety as you get up each morning and drive to work. Each day passing by seems to be worse than the previous.
You are feeling burned out.
How can we avoid that?
Well, it’s not something my professors talked to me about in college, so I’ve come up with a few tips to help manage the burnout, if not completely eliminate it. As a new teacher, this is vital information. Keep reading for more details.
How to Create a Solid Classroom Management System: 10 Tips to Set Yourself up for an Amazing School Year
I used to struggle with classroom management. It was probably one of those things that required some experience, and I’m so so so grateful for my colleagues who gave me advice to help me out when needed. Without them, I would never be where I am today.
I want to be that person for you today - you probably came here with the question, “What can I do to make my classroom management better?” Well, here is some hope for you: it is never too late to put a system in place that works for you. Forewarning, however, if you started off the year weak in terms of classroom management, it’s going to be harder to get it back on track. Though it can be difficult, it’s not impossible.
How to Build Authentic Relationships With Your Students: 8 Tips That Can Make a Difference in Your Classroom
I remember, back when I was in college (go Bearkats!), my professors would constantly preach, “Relationships, relationships, relationships.” The same thing would happen in my first few years of teaching. The thing is, however, is that no one told me how to do this, merely that it was something to be done. Maybe they expected something magical to happen, I don’t know. So, I had to figure it out through trial and error.
“You can’t have a solid classroom management in place if you don’t build those relationships first.”
“Kids don’t learn from people they don’t like.”
While these things are true, it did take me a while to figure out how to do this in my classroom in a way that was authentic. I understood the benefits; I just didn’t know how to go about it. Keep reading to find out a few things I learned.