I have been thinking a lot about this over the last couple of days… how am I going to begin my term? What do I want to focus on? What is going to be best for my students starting of this new term? I want to start the term off super positive and create a safe supportive learning environment. SO…
Take a break… You deserve it!!
YAY it’s holiday time again!! WOOO!! I’m sure you are all just as excited as I am to get some rest and recover to start next term fresh. However over this time take some time for yourself, take a break… WE DESERVE IT! For me, term 1 was absolutely crazy and hectic… I constantly felt like I was behind…
Sailing the oceans… looking at the First Fleet
HISTORY! I love teaching history and watching my little students faces scrunch up, thinking and wondering about why people in the past did certain things or why certain things occurred. I love having these conversations with them, answering their questions or researching these questions together! I strongly believe though that teaching areas, like history, should be inquiry based and lead…
Growth Mindset
This concept of a growth mindset was first introduced to us when we worked in a before and after school care. We both loved this concept and felt it would be an important addition to our classrooms! The idea behind a the growth mindset theory is that sometimes people think in the way as described as a fixed mindset. …
Engaging with parents
Engaging with parents… I know this sometimes can seem like a really hard thing to do as parents are either extremely busy, or us ourselves as teachers have soooo many other things on our minds that this just slips by. However engaging with students parents and allowing them to be a part of the classroom and their child’s learning is…
Be the reason… Make a change…
My friend tagged me in this on Facebook today and it really got my thinking… Just showing up to work, having a conversation with someone and having a joke around with them can really change their day and their outlook! I feel like this is so important as not everyone has someone to go home to… So leaving work from…
Ready… Set… Teach!
I was talking to my friend Georgia the other day about how excited we were to get back into the classroom! After actually getting back into the classroom we got a little stressed and overwhelmed with all the things we might want to do with our classroom and thinking of different ideas of what to do in the first week…
Working from home: Creating a Pinterest worthy (yet practical) home office.
If I had a dollar for every time someone say “Teachers have it soooo good, your job is 9-3pm” we would all be rich! As I explain in my post “Top 10 things I wish I’d know as a first-year teacher” a teachers hours are not constrained to the school hours of 9am to 3pm, in fact there are many…
Top 10 things I wish I’d know as a first-year teacher!!
Hello Bloggers! As I end my first year… I can’t help but think about what I am going to do next year and all of the knowledge I have picked up along the way that I wished I knew at the start of the year! Talking with Georgia about all the exciting things that we both want to try next…
5 handy dandy relief teaching tips
Special request blog created by an amazing teacher from the perspective of being a relief teacher! Being a relief teacher is hard, we commend anyone who does it. It’s a tough gig, but it can also be lots of fun! I (Georgia) spent the majority of Term 4 of 2017 as a relief teacher. I moved around A LOT…
