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Teaching Students to Reach Out to Others
As Americans we are so blessed with material things and all the comforts of life that we can easily forget how most of the rest of the world lives with ...
DIY Valentine’s Day Cards
Valentine's Day can be a great opportunity for showing your students how much they matter to you. Nothing says you matter as much as something hand-made. Using Laura Cochrane's Love ...
First Day of School Activity
Unlike many of you who will be starting school tomorrow AFTER the Labor Day weekend, I started classes two weeks ago on the 19th of August. I fully intended to get ...
How Caring for Yourself Better Enables You to Help Kids
You know how when you are flying in an airplane, just after they shut the doors they go over those in-flight passenger announcements? Well, here it is January and the ...
Classroom Newsletter Tips & Examples
Newsletters are a teacher's best friend when it comes to maintaining good communication with parents. I like to send mine home on Mondays to provide parents with information about the ...
Celebrating National Aviation Day
During teacher's convention this year, our conference treated us to a wonderful day trip to Mackinac Island. When I wasn't bicycling around enjoying the sunshine and breeze, I was walking ...
Students Perform Columbus Musical
There is nothing more exciting than wrapping up a school year with a spring vocal concert, and that is just what we did last week. Sixth grade performed In Quest ...
Students Perform Song Using Cups as Instruments
I'm so excited to share with you a clip of the music performance our two sixth grade classes put on for assembly yesterday
I got the idea two weeks ago when ...
How to Teach Public Speaking to Sixth Graders
Many people's first experience with public speaking comes in college, when they are required to take a course in the art of presenting. Public speaking is such a valuable tool ...
Woohoo! Our First Blog Award
Happy Valentine's Day! And along with all that excitement, I'm happy to announce that Inspired Class was chosen as one of the Best Teacher Blogs by We Are Teachers.
It's amazing ...