My New Favorite: The Simplified Teacher Planner
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by Stephanie @ 3rd Grade Thoughts
3y ago
One of the ways I stay organized and sane throughout the school year is by using a Teacher Planner. There have been several that have come and gone throughout the years, but I am thrilled to be sharing my newest favorite and all of the reasons why it has climbed to the top of the list! If you follow me on Instagram or YouTube, you have seen this pop up quite a bit this past month. In a Teacher Planner, I always look for several systems that I know will work for me, including: Dated lesson planning pages Lined and segmented lesson planning pages Notes pages-- both lined and grid/dot grid ..read more
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New YouTube Series: Brain Breaks in the Classroom
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by Stephanie @ 3rd Grade Thoughts
3y ago
This 2020-2021 school year is going to be brand new territory for every single person and that feels pretty daunting, honestly. With the uncertainty of where classes will be held, and with the new restrictions in place, it brings up a lot of anxiety in this teacher, that's for sure! New teachers, parents, admin, and most importantly, our students are also feeling this shift in energy and it can feel very overwhelming! As with most things that feel big and out of our direct control, movement and calming strategies are some ways to get ourselves grounded again. So many of you have been long ..read more
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Icon Stickers for Your Teacher & Daily Planners
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by Stephanie @ 3rd Grade Thoughts
3y ago
It has been a while since my Etsy Store has been open, but I am thrilled to announce that it is back and better than ever! One thing to know about me is that I am a huge planner-- from daily to business to teaching to budgets-- if I don't write something down, I forget it. Checklists, fun pens, stickers, and washi tape make the whole process a more creative endeavor. You can find all of my favorites in my Amazon Store! As a teacher, however, I wasn't having the same experiences in my lesson planner. I found myself rewriting the same things over and over again which made lesson planning ev ..read more
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Distance Learning End-of-Year Student Gifts: Word Cloud Bookmarks
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by Stephanie @ 3rd Grade Thoughts
3y ago
Teaching fifth grade this year, it was an especially difficult goodbye season. Not only would I not have this class again, but the students were getting dispersed throughout middle schools in our district next year, so they would not get the chance to be together as classmates again, either. Because we ended the year 100% virtual, I wanted to be able to organize and end-of-year student gift that was tangible, meaningful, and didn't cost a lot for me to make, either in time or money. I landed on word cloud bookmarks and I am so glad I did! Set-UpI created a Google Form (we're a Google-base ..read more
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Chapter Book Read Alouds During Online Learning
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by Stephanie @ 3rd Grade Thoughts
3y ago
We study Colonial America and the American Revolution up to the Constitution in our fifth grade Social Studies curriculum, and a large part of making that seem relevant was reading Laurie Halse Anderson's trilogy: Chains, Forge, and Ashes. My kids were hooked! We read aloud two to three chapters every day during snack time and couldn't get enough of her amazing imagery, realistic details, and sense of adventure and suspense! So, when school was cancelled in the middle of the second book, I knew I had to keep this online read aloud tradition alive. RecordThe first thing I wanted to do to k ..read more
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MORE Teaching Resources for Online Learning (part 2)
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by Stephanie @ 3rd Grade Thoughts
3y ago
We are heading into week four in our Online/Distance/Home/Remote Learning. There have been many ups and downs and I want to share three more resources that have helped make this transition more doable. Be sure to check out my first three resources HERE. Disclaimer: I have been teaching fifth this year, but my daughter is in third and I taught third for a billion (actually 12, but you know...) years, so I am offering these ideas for a 3-5 setting. As always, feel free to pick and choose based on your own situation :) Would You Rather? Math Questions This Would You Rather? Math sit ..read more
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Building Classroom Community with Flipgrid
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by Stephanie @ 3rd Grade Thoughts
3y ago
One of the reasons I love teaching is the community that is built, year after year, with the wonderful little humans in my classroom. For an entire nine months, from August to May, we start as strangers, build wonderful memories and inside jokes, and end the year transformed. We are a class and we are all better for having been together that year. So, I think it comes as no surprise when I say that I am missing my little classroom community so much.  I miss their funny stories, their jokes, the way I could joke with them, and mostly their distinct and fascinating personalities. Teachin ..read more
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Helpful Tips for Google Meet
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by Stephanie @ 3rd Grade Thoughts
3y ago
We started our online schooling with the choice between Zoom or Google Meet, but it didn't take long for Zoom's recent negative press to overwhelmingly move our district toward recommending only Google Meet. I was (am) a huge fan of Zoom for many reasons, but I also know that when the district says Meet, I use Meet! I had three concerns with moving to Google Meet from Zoom: Admin/Host Privileges: In Zoom, there are a wide variety of settings I can control as a meeting Host. I can determine who enters my meeting, when my meeting starts and stops, and ensure that students aren't in my "class ..read more
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Board Game Review: Labyrinth
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by Stephanie @ 3rd Grade Thoughts
3y ago
Since we will been homebound for a while, I want to share some of our family's favorite board games to help pass the time. These are a bit different than the traditional Monopoly and Sorry! and hopefully you will love them as much as we do! We play these all as a family and my daughter is currently in third grade, so the bonus is that you can add these to your classroom game collection next school year! In my classroom, we have a few of the more familiar games like Trouble, Mancala, and Rush Hour for Friday Free Choice, but I think you'll find that these new titles would be a we ..read more
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Teaching Resources for Distance Learning
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by Stephanie @ 3rd Grade Thoughts
3y ago
What a week this has been! Our school district in Colorado shut down a week before Spring Break, so this past week was our first go at Online/Distance/Home Learning. I have heard it called a wide variety of terms, but one thing's certain, it is unlike anything we have ever done before. First things first-- there is absolutely no "right way" to go about this. This is a huge shift for every single person across the globe. I find both comfort and discomfort in that, but I want to offer you three of the resources that have worked for me this past week in the hope that you can add to your tool ..read more
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