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  • Camping themed classroom
    Back to School,  Classroom Decor

    Camping Themed Classroom

    July 3, 2020 /

    (Disclosure: Some of links below are affiliate links, which means that at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you click through and make a purchase.) Every summer I would spend hours perusing pinterest for the perfect classroom theme for the school year. So different choices, from llamas to cacti and even farmhouse! (I’m not sure that a Chip and Joanna Gaines shiplap classroom is particularly inspiring for students, but then again, each to their own!) But the themes I love are the ones that have legs and can be revisited year after year. And the decor that I always come back to is camping. Here…

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    Looking for inspiration for a first week of school craft that involves practicing cutting skills, name recognition and coloring and goes along with the BEST first week of school book, then look no further! This coconut tree is editable and personalized to make the first craft your students create in school one they are sure to keep forever!

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    Fun and engaging back to school after the New Year activities for elementary students - click to learn more!

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    For pre-school and kindergarten students, the most important word in the world is their name! Name recognition, matching, tracing and coloring activities fulfill two functions - they are great practice to help students learn names AND they help to develop those all important fine motor skills. Learn more and download a FREE personalized name worksheet for your students!

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    Have you played Scoot! with your students? I was introduced to this game a couple of years ago when I was subbing for a second grade teacher, and fell in love with it! Learn more in this blog post - with a free Scoot game for you to try!

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    Take a look around your classroom. What percentage of the walls are covered by store-bought posters or things that you have created and what percentage of the walls or wall space available is covered with student work? When teachers decorate their classrooms with pretty store-bought artifacts it says a lot about what they think about their classroom, about their classroom theme, and a lot about what they like, but it doesn’t really say anything about the students. In recent years classroom bulletin boards have become less and less about sharing student work and more an expression of the teacher. Inspirational words, angel wings, quotes and cricut designs all look very…

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ABOUT ME

I am a former elementary teacher from London in the UK.  I taught in England for nine years before coming over to North Carolina on an exchange program where I met and married my school teacher husband.  I taught for a total of 21 years before starting my own business making crafts and resources to help educators in schools and home settings.

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