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What to Do When Students Cry at Drop-Off!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ If you teach Pre-K, TK, Kindergarten, or even first grade, you may have experienced children crying when they are dropped off first thing in the morning. If you have an assistant, that person can usually help. But what if you are teaching alone? What can you do? What if you have many sets of parents all lined up to meet you and drop off their child, and already you have two children crying hard? This is the stuff that early childhood teac...
   

A Fun PacMan Back to School Door or Bulletin Board! FREEBIE!

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Here's a fun idea for a back to school door decoration or bulletin board with a PacMan video game theme, complete with all of the free downloads you need to make it happen. My first and second graders really ate this up, so if this sounds like fun to you, read on and I'll tell you how I did it! These are the photos that caught my eye on Pinterest , and inspired my project, although there were several other PacMan bulletin boards a...
   

Insta-First Graders: An Instagram Themed Bulletin Board for Back To School

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Here is a fun, FREE bulletin board download with an Instagram theme that works GREAT for back to school!  I've got everything you need right here to download and print to make it nice and easy for you- for any grade level! To make it, all you have to do is print out the iPhones to use as frames for the children's photos.  I got some bright, primary colored cardstock at Michael's when it was on sale for this purpose, and then...
   

Organizing Materials for Easy Lesson Planning

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Have you heard the news? We've Moved to  HeidiSongs.tv ! Our new website features an online video streaming service, updated blog posts at  Heidisongs.blog , and a wealth of fresh resources designed to make learning even more fun and engaging. You can also continue shopping for our educational products there and at our  Teachers Pay Teachers store ! Head over to  HeidiSongs.tv  now and explore all the exciting new features.  See you there! __________________________________________________________________________ Here are my best tips to help you get your classroom materials organized in a way that makes sense, makes things easy to find, and helps you get your lesson plans done quickly and easily! The basic idea is simply to organize your language arts and math materials by skill so that any time you want to teach a particular concept, you simply go to that folder, binder, or box and choose from what you have, and start writing! If this sounds lik...