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The Trendy Elementary Ed Teacher
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items Being an elementary teacher is so rewarding and so much fun. I love keeping my classroom up to date with the newest trends and making my scholars feel like home. I am always looking for new incentives, teaching hacks, projects and anything to keep my...
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Decor
Supplies
Organization
Soft Start/Morning Choice Activities
Circle Time/Morning Meeting
Elementary Teacher Read Alouds
Decor
This BOHO Dessert Classroom Decor set is gorgeous. I love the BOHO theme and anything with cacti. This is a perfect balance of both themese.
Boho Desert Classroom Decor Bundle, Easy and Modern Classroom Decorations
These BOHO educational posters are so cute! These would be a great addition to any lower elementary classroom or your children's playroom.
Set of 12 Educational Posters, Montessori Classroom Decor, Homeschool Prints Rainbow Handwriting Alphabet Chart, ABC Boho
This modern and on trend editable classroom decor will make your classroom homey.
Wildflowers Themed Classroom Decor Bundle
Have the grooviest classroom in the school. This retro classroom decor set has everything you need and it is all editable.
Retro Groovy Classroom Decor Bundle
Supplies
My favorite thing in school is when my teacher let us use these scented markers.
Mr. Sketch : Markers
Having an assortment of fasteners/paper clips in the classroom is a MUST!
Paper Clips : Clips & Fasteners
This organizing shelf is so handy to use as student mailboxes, paper organization, free time activities and etc.
Safco Products 9420CY Wood Adjustable Home, Office
Transparent sticky notes are so awesome for note taking and leaving little notes on your kiddos desk.
Transparent Sticky Notes
My kiddos love when I leave them messages/positive notes with these black stickies! I use metallic markers and it looks so cool.
Post-it Super Sticky Notes, 3x3 in, 5 Pads
It's always a great idea to have a stash of markers and crayons in your classroom!
Crayola Crayons and Washable Markers ...
Organization
These cable labels are such a lifesaver in the classroom. I used these to label the cords for my students Ipads/computers so they know which one belongs to their device.
Cable Labels by Wrap-It Storage, Medium (30-Pack)
These are such a lifesaver in the classroom! I use these for so many things such as game and puzzle storage, student work, ELA rotation activities, math activities, and so much more.
EOOUT 24pcs Mesh Zipper Pouch Zipper Bags
This craft cabinet is so handy in my classroom. I use this to house all my extra office supplies such as my staples, paper clips, binder clips, tacks and all my other random office supplies I have laying around. I made cute little labels to insert in...
Craft Cabinet, 20x6x16 Inches, Black
These magnetic curtain rods are great to hang to your whiteboard. I hang my monthly birthdays on here along with my "I can" statements. These can be used for so many more cool ideas.
Magnetic Curtain Rods
Soft Start/Morning Choice Activities
These are so fun!! The Picasso Tiles are very similar to the Magnatiles. These are a great way to let your students imaginations and creativity run wild.
PicassoTiles 60 Piece Set Magnet Building Tiles
I love this marble run race track. It is a great STEM activity for kiddos to use their imagination. This is one of my favorite activities.
PicassoTiles Marble Run 100 Piece Magnetic Tile Set
What a great way to start your school day with squigz! Let your students creativity and imagination run wild.
Squigz
Beads are a great ways for kiddos to practice fine motor skills. Beads are great for morning start activities.
180 Pcs Animal Shaped Beads for Kids DIY Jewelry
Beads are a great way to practice fine motor skills. They are also so fun for soft start/morning choice activities.
1000+ Pcs Pony Beads Bulk - Plastic Bracelet Beads
Lacing letters and numbers are another great activity for students to practice fine motor skills along with become more familiar with letter and number recognition. Lacing letters is one of my top morning choice/soft start activities.
Lacing Letters
I have a bin with plastic animals and some trees/fences for one of my soft morning/morning choice activity bins. Students love to use their imagination and play with these animals.
Plastic Animals
This construction set is another great activity to put in my soft start/morning choice bins. It allows students to work on their fine motor skills and use their creativity to design and build different structures.
Construction Building Set in a Box - Melissa & Doug
Building blocks are such a great activity for students to be creative and build structures. It works on fine motor skills. How fun is it to build the biggest tower as your can and then being able to knock it down. These blocks are one of my kiddos to...
Building Blocks
These snowflake building blocks are truly a hit. They are so fun and students can be so creative.
Snowflake Building Blocks
Brain flakes are similar to snowflake blocks. They both are so fun for kiddos to build, imagine and explore. I have both brain flakes and snowflake blocks as a soft start/morning choice activity.
Brain Flakes 500 Piece Interlocking
These wooden stacking/balancing stones are another great activity for students to work on in the morning. There are so many great skill developing aspects of the wooden stacking/balancing stones. The stone blocks have many flat cut surfaces so the st...
BESTAMTOY 36 PCS Wooden Stacking Rocks Stones
This balancing tetra game is such a great addition to my bins. It works on student focus and fine motor skills. You can also incorporate color recognition as well.
HOMELAM Stacking Blocks Tetra Balance Game
This dinosaur stacking activity is so fun and engages learners to learn concentration, thinking, skills, logic and hands on abilities. Also, the vibrant colors help enhance color perception.
HahaGift Dinosaur Toys
I have a wide variety of stacking activities that I rotate throughout the years.
Wooden Wonders Balancing Playset
Finger puppets set students up to use their imaginations. I love watching my kiddos play with finger puppets.
Finger Puppets
Legos are another great soft sta/ morning choice activities. Students love legs and being able to use their imagination and bring their ideas to life.
The LEGO® Store Mall of America
Building block bars are so fun to create and design different structures. Students have the best time building with block bars.
500 Pcs Building Toy Building Blocks Bars
My students LOVE Magna-Tiles. They can create some outstanding structures. Some of my students even use Magna-Tiles to build fences for their animals. The creations are endless.
MAGNA-TILES
I love the construction Magna-Tile set. My boys in my classroom LOVE this set and it's always a race who can get to it first.
MAGNA-TILES Builder Construction Set
Another great soft start/morning choice activity is this Dino Magna-Tile set. Students go crazy when I rotate this set into our rotation. Students get so creative and have so much fun with using their imagination during play.
MAGNA-TILES Dino World
You can never go wrong with having a Safari Magna-Tile set. I love these Magna-Tile sets as much as my students. They bring out students creativity.
MAGNA-TILES Safari Animals
Foam pattern blocks have so many uses in my classroom. Students love using them to create different creatures and solving math problems to using them to draw unique pictures.
Foam Pattern Blocks
Circle Time/Morning Meeting
This wooden weather toy is great for calendar time and deciphering what the weather is like outside. Students are able to place the correct wooden pieces on the board each day. It is great quality and the students love being able to be the weather ma...
Austok Weather Station Toys, Educational Wooden Learning Toys Kids, Wooden Toys Gifts for Toddler Kids Age 3+
Elementary Teacher Read Alouds
Story time is my absolute favorite time of the day. There are so many great children's book that teach valuable life lessons along with content covered in class.
Chairs on Strike is such a fun book to read to your students. I love all the rhyming in the story.
Chairs on Strike
This is such a great book for pre-k/k. It's a book about the alphabet letters racing up the coconut tree that ends in a disaster. This book has so many fun educational activities that you could do with your kiddos as well.
Chicka Chicka Boom Boom
Such a cute book!! My twin toddlers LOVE this book.
Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus!
Mo Willems is such an amazing author. Nanette's Baguette is such a hilarious book. This is a must have read aloud for your students.
Nanette's Baguette
This story is so fun for Pre-K and K grade levels. There are so many fun activities that go along with this outstanding read-aloud.
This Book Will Not Be Fun
Let's be techy & learn 🤓
These are some of my favorite recommended educational sites I have my scholars use in my classroom.
IXL is one of my ALL TIME favorite educational sites. It is individualized for every student. I am able to assign specific skills I want students to work on and I can track progress in real time. 10/10 recommend!
IXL | Math, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, and Spanish
Mountain Math/Language is a necessity in my classroom. Every week a new set of questions/problems are given to my students for math and language. These problems are correlated with the state and grade level standards. It helps my scholars practice pa...
Mountain Math/Language
Epic is one of my scholars favorite apps to read, use for research, educational videos and educational games.
Epic: Get 40K+ of the Best Children's Books, Videos & More