The classroom finds that make teaching just a little easier! 🍎 From organization lifesavers to everyday essentials, these are the things that make me wonder how I ever taught without them.
One of those teacher purchases you don’t realize you need until you have one. So much faster for cutting worksheets, task cards, and classroom displays.
Paper Cutter
If you’re going to spend time making classroom materials, laminate them once and reuse them forever. Especially worth it for station cards and activities.
Amazon Basics 9-Inch Thermal Laminator
Buy the big pack. Seriously. Between signs, task cards, games, and student resources, teachers somehow go through these constantly.
Laminating Pouches
A good classroom pencil sharpener is absolutely worth paying a little more for. Look for one that can survive middle schoolers using it approximately 700 times a day.
Electric Pencil Sharpeners
Teacher classic for a reason. Great for grading, planners, labels, and pretending my life is significantly more organized than it actually is.
Flair Pens
If you love a really smooth pen, these are SO good. I keep them at my desk and inevitably have to hunt them down when someone “borrows” one.
Papermate Inkjoy
Regular sticky notes are fine. Super Sticky notes actually stay where I put them. I use them for everything from student activities to reminders around my room.
Super Sticky Post It Notes
If you have magnetic whiteboards or cabinets, BUY THESE. Instant storage without drilling holes or taking up precious counter space.
Magnetic Hooks
The teacher version of “I don’t know where this belongs, so it lives here now.” Perfect for supplies, activities, papers, lab materials, or moving things between classrooms.
Rolling Cart
Great for classroom music, videos that aren’t quite loud enough, activities, and school events. One of those purchases that gets used way more than expected.
Anker Speaker
Classroom decorating emergency kit. Perfect for bulletin boards, signs, crafts, displays, and repairing the approximately 400 things students somehow manage to break.
