
Get them talking day one
Getting students talking in the language on the first day in a low pressure environment.

Poster Review : a minimal prep activity for a year’s worth of review
My favorite simple activity to review material from the previous year.

Sick? These Sub-Plans Will Save your Sanity
It’s 3 am and I can’t sleep. My throat burns, my head throbs and in 4 hours I’ll be trying to corral 25 eighth-graders with a box of Kleenex in one hand and a bottle of Advil in the other. Panic overwhelms me as I realize I have no sub plans ready! Do I call out? What if I’m still sick tomorrow?

Top four tips for setting up your classroom for success!
Four tips to setting up your classroom to help you and your students be organized and productive.
Categories
- Assessment 3
- Chat Mats 1
- Classroom Set-up 8
- Classroom management 2
- Community Building 2
- Comprehensible Input 31
- Culture 17
- Día de los Muertos 1
- Encouragement 1
- Games 19
- Grammar 1
- Holidays 4
- How to 5
- Lessons 4
- Movie Talks 1
- No Prep 2
- October Classroom Ideas 2
- Organization 1
- Planning 1
- Reading 20
- Resource Round Up 1
- Review 1
- Speaking 3
- Stories 1
- Sub Plans 6
- Technology 2
- Thanksgiving 1
- Vocabulary Activities 2
- behavior management 2
- classroom community building 4
- teacher sanity 2