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The students expect it but it can be an automatic teacher headache. You know what I’m talking about…it’s Fun Friday! Even if you dedicate just 15 minutes to it at the end of the day you might be taking time away from instruction especially if you have recess in there too! Then, no matter what you need them to do after their “fun Friday”, it’s going to be 10x more difficult than it needs to be. {envision peeling students off the ceiling, desks flying and cupcake frosting smeared on the floor} Oh, is that just my class? {insert embarrassed face here} My special needs self-contained kiddos work hard to earn the Fun Friday party aka fiasco every single week, but I tried something different this past month and I loved it! Swap cupcakes for creative and exciting curriculum extensions. Here is what I did. Week One This month we are learning about the 7 continents! Each week is dedicated to a different continent. We are using our beloved interactive pocketbook units and to enhance this, I fou...

It’s Friday and it has us feeling all sorts of happy today! We’re linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching again for her Five for Friday post. This week’s five random facts from our classroom showcase our favorite Teachers Pay Teachers sellers. Our first favorite seller is Krista Wallden’s Creative Clips . We LOVE using her clipart in our products! Her style is so kid-friendly, it’s adorable, and her wide variety has SO many uses in our lives! We use her clipart for… …morning work journal covers… ...our Winter Math Craftivities … …and her artwork is featured in our new Weather Unit . We love using Creative Clips in our products and in our classroom! Another Teachers Pay Teachers favorite of ours is The Moffatt Girls . We use her monthly No-Prep Packets as part of our morning work notebooks! Because our students perform at different independent levels, we’re able to differentiate their morning work notebooks because she has varying skill levels available in her store. *Teacher hack: cr...

Have you heard? The secret is out! Teachers Pay Teachers is having a SALE ! Tuesday February 7 th and Wednesday February 8 th , you can grab resources at up to 28% off with the promo code #TPTBEMINE ! Our Wish list is already stocked full of sweet resources for our classroom as well as clip art for creating resources too!  As if that isn’t enough excitement, we are having a TPT giftcard giveaway with some fabulous teacher bloggers! You have the chance to win one of eight $10 gift cards that you can use for the sale! Enter the giveaway through the rafflecopter below starting at midnight on Tuesday February 7 th . The giveaway will last until Tuesday at 11:59pm. Winners will be announced on Wednesday! After you finished entering here, scroll to the bottom of this post to hop on over  for another chance to win! a Rafflecopter giveaway Check out some of our Favorite February Resources below and you can grab them for 28% off during the site wide sale! 1 Valentine Math Craftiviti...

After last week’s Friday Favorites link-up we decided we needed to participate in another one this week! Today we’re linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for her Five for Friday link up! Today we’ve organized our five random facts…mainly because organization makes our hearts happy but we also thought the info would be useful to you all! First up is an organizational tip. It’s no joke that we just love organization. We love color coding, we love our planners, and we love when everything has a place. This obsession has transferred over into our professional lives and we’ve learned that our students thrive in organization. Back in May we wrote about how our students are so successful using our thematic pocket book series. First we choose an overall science or social studies theme. Then, we create weeklong units. These weeklong units each have one pocket in our binded pocket book. At the end of the mega unit, students take home a large portfolio of the science or social stu...