Fresh Ideas for Creative Teaching
My favorite part about being CTP’s Creative Consultant is getting to play with all of the awesome products! Just yesterday, I pulled out a bunch of products from the Poppin’ Patterns line to create a board for our CTP sales team. I have to say, I am in LOVE all over again! I always go [...]
THE SCENARIO: You’ve just walked into your classroom after indoor recess ready to start your afternoon. You’ve planned an awesome writing lesson that you know your students will LOVE! You explain to your students that it is time for their writing lesson and you start to hook them in by explaining what they are about [...]
If you follow me on Facebook, you know that I just spent the last week in Atlanta at the 2013 Ed Expo. The Ed Expo is a gathering of businesses that sell products to school supply stores. As you walk down the aisles, you will see book publishers, art suppliers, game companies, classroom decor companies, [...]
I had the best time in Atlanta at the NAEYC conference! It’s always so much fun to travel with the Creative Teaching Press crew! What a great group of people to spend time with! I presented with the legendary Tommie Netzer, who is retiring as CTP’s Creative Consultant. This was Tommie’s last workshop and it [...]
Election day is right around the corner. I’ve created a few quick and easy freebies to use in your own classroom to celebrate this important day! My two favorite books to read are Grace for President and Duck for President. These are great to start discussions about the responsibilities of holding an office and voting. [...]
Do you want a super easy center activity for your students? I’ve created a really cute patterning activity using CTP’s pumpkin stickers and border! When I create patterning activities, I like to use sentence strips. A really cute alternative is this cute pumpkin border! Turn the border over and just start creating patterns with your [...]
CTP’s new BW Collection is absolutely stunning! To create a designer look on my bulletin boards I used the BW Chart Cards 10″ Jumbo Designer Cut-Outs to display student photos. I decided to only use black and white photos for a coordinated and dramatic bulletin board. The gray tones in your pictures also compliments [...]
Does your school celebrate Grandparents Day? I always had trouble finding cute things to do with my students to celebrate this special day, until I found CTP’s multicultural people. I thought it would be fun to have your student’s use the cut-outs to replicate their own grandparents. This is a great activity for kids of [...]
As teachers, we get so overwhelmed with creating the environment, thinking about curriculum, and all of the other responsibilities of teaching that we tend to overlook ourselves. We constantly give and give to everyone around us and this includes giving up space for a teacher desk. For years, I didn’t have a teacher desk. Why [...]
There is nothing more exciting than the first day of school! Kids come on that first day with new clothes, freshly combed hair, new backpacks, lots of school supplies, and feelings of excitement and nervousness to begin a new year! The anticipation of school starting evokes so many emotions from the students, to the parents, [...]
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