One Teacher's Adventures

    After 3 months of striking, we finally returned to school this week!  Our start date was pushed back by 3 weeks to September 22! Before the students arrived on Monday, I put numbered cards on the desks.  As the kids came in the door, I gave them a numbered popsicle stick and asked them to sit at the matching numbered desk. In our district, elementary teachers keep their classes from the previous year for the first few days, so I decided to have the outgoing Grade 5's write a book of advice for the new Grade 4's. I grouped them based on the colours of their cards to create lists of things that Grade 4 students needed to know.  When we had a list of about 18 ideas, the students broke up into pairs to make pages for our advice book.    Be a participant. Do your best! Your work will get harder, but you can always ask your teacher for help. Math is a bit harder but you can do it! You are a leader, the younger...

I realized that I have zero "Back to School" products in my TpT store , so I decided to make some! The first product I've made is a foldable mini book to introduce yourself to the class.  It would be easy to make with students from grade 2-6! To make this "Me Book," I created a template. The template looks like this: It will turn into a mini book, by following these steps: Feel free to create a template of you own to fit with your class, using any of the page ideas that I have included.  If you'd like to use my template, you can download it here ! To see more great "Back to School" ideas, click on the picture below!

It's been another wet and rainy Saturday in Victoria, so I spent the morning with brainteasers!  (I know, I'm a total nerd!)  When I was in school, I used to love rebus puzzles.   What are rebus puzzles?  They are word puzzles that illustrate a familiar phrase or saying.  I didn't know until today that they were called Rebus, but now that I know, I want to use the name as much as possible!   I found a couple online, then I decided to make some handouts for my English classes to use as a warm up.  While I was making them, I thought to myself, "Self, this would make a great TpT item!"  I created 36 pages of these brainteasing puzzles, one for each week of a school year, and bundled them up.  They are for sale at my TpT store, One Teacher's Adventures. If you are as nerdy as I am on a rainy Saturday, perhaps you'd like to try some out? See if you can solve these puzzles! For the answers, click here . To buy the packa...