Best Teacher Blogs
After doing some research, I finally found my four favorite teacher blogs with great information on organization, activities, structure, and classroom set up. A big thing for me was to make sure they were well organized and easy to navigate. These are websites I can carry with me as my career as an Early Educator takes off!
https://kindercraze.com
This website helps to describe how to organize your classroom in the most efficient and beneficial way for both the teacher and the students. Her entire classroom supports a learning environment. Everything has a home and everything is completely organized and labeled. The areas that are designed for the students are at eye level for them to reach and see. My favorite section of her classroom was the library. It was sectioned off with comfy bench and pillows chairs for the children to sit in and relax. She had all of her books in bins labeled by categories for the children to see. There was an easel that sectioned off an area for a nice reading nook that was also decorated with plenty of pillows for comfort. All of her areas are open enough that she can see from any area of the classroom.
https://www.simplykinder.com//
This website is extremely helpful with sight word, name spelling, and letter help. One of the activities i found that would be extremely helpful is the clothes pin name craft. The students get clothes pins with each letter of their name on one and a popsicle stick with their name on it. It is their job to match their clothes pin letters to the right letter on the popsicle stick. Not only does this help with spelling their name, it also helps with fine motor skills. Pinching the clothes pins open is not always an easy task for children. Therefore, they are doing two activities in one without even knowing. Eventually, the children will be able to spell their name without the help of the popsicle stick.
http://www.lauracandler.com/
This website was simple to use but had a lot of great teacher information and resources. There was ways for teachers to communicate with each other. There was a lot of different activities and resources to use in the classroom. My favorite part of the website was the "file cabinet". There are different categories to choose from. There is a file for literacy, math, science, management, social studies, and many more. Each file has sub-folders. The sub-folders come with different assignments and activities for the teacher to give the students. There was so much great information throughout the website.
https://teachingmama.org/quiet-time-boxes/
This website was helpful on giving ideas for independent learning activities. She had a box for each day of the week, monday through friday. Each box was filled with something different that could be used during quiet time, hence why she called them "quiet box". They were also good for independent quiet time for each student. The boxes were all filled with different things, some had books while others had puzzles. I think this is great idea! It keeps the children relaxed and engaged. It is great to have things planned out ahead of time and to always have something ready for when children become antsy and cannot sit still, especially during quiet time.
https://kindercraze.com
This website was extremely easy to navigate. It was very well organized. It was colorful which drew my attention and kept me interested. There was many great activities and information throughout the website. It had a great article on classroom set up for the first day. You may think your classroom is ready, but it may not be. This article gave me great information to think about for the first day of school and how the classroom should be laid out and organized. I will keep this information for a long time.
https://www.simplykinder.com//
This website was very simple. However, it was full of great tasks and information. It was very easy to navigate. There were lots of helpful tips on the website. For example, there was tips on how to balance teacher work-life. I think that is extremely helpful and important to read and listen to. There was a whole topic on back to school. Activities to do with the parents, things to inform them on, and even a donation hand chart for the parents to help the classroom out with certain supplies. The website had so many great activities for letters, shapes, sight words, and so much more.
http://www.lauracandler.com/
This website was very well organized, everything was labeled and easy to find. The file cabinet tab gave sub-tabs that all contained different activities and lessons do for each topic. There were many free worksheets on the website. There were also packages that were buyable that included worksheets for the topics. There were different blogs for teachers to communicate with each other as well. This is beneficial because there are always questions to ask other teachers.
This website helps to describe how to organize your classroom in the most efficient and beneficial way for both the teacher and the students. Her entire classroom supports a learning environment. Everything has a home and everything is completely organized and labeled. The areas that are designed for the students are at eye level for them to reach and see. My favorite section of her classroom was the library. It was sectioned off with comfy bench and pillows chairs for the children to sit in and relax. She had all of her books in bins labeled by categories for the children to see. There was an easel that sectioned off an area for a nice reading nook that was also decorated with plenty of pillows for comfort. All of her areas are open enough that she can see from any area of the classroom.
https://www.simplykinder.com//
This website is extremely helpful with sight word, name spelling, and letter help. One of the activities i found that would be extremely helpful is the clothes pin name craft. The students get clothes pins with each letter of their name on one and a popsicle stick with their name on it. It is their job to match their clothes pin letters to the right letter on the popsicle stick. Not only does this help with spelling their name, it also helps with fine motor skills. Pinching the clothes pins open is not always an easy task for children. Therefore, they are doing two activities in one without even knowing. Eventually, the children will be able to spell their name without the help of the popsicle stick.
http://www.lauracandler.com/
This website was simple to use but had a lot of great teacher information and resources. There was ways for teachers to communicate with each other. There was a lot of different activities and resources to use in the classroom. My favorite part of the website was the "file cabinet". There are different categories to choose from. There is a file for literacy, math, science, management, social studies, and many more. Each file has sub-folders. The sub-folders come with different assignments and activities for the teacher to give the students. There was so much great information throughout the website.
https://teachingmama.org/quiet-time-boxes/
This website was helpful on giving ideas for independent learning activities. She had a box for each day of the week, monday through friday. Each box was filled with something different that could be used during quiet time, hence why she called them "quiet box". They were also good for independent quiet time for each student. The boxes were all filled with different things, some had books while others had puzzles. I think this is great idea! It keeps the children relaxed and engaged. It is great to have things planned out ahead of time and to always have something ready for when children become antsy and cannot sit still, especially during quiet time.
Detailed Website Analysis:
https://kindercraze.com
This website was extremely easy to navigate. It was very well organized. It was colorful which drew my attention and kept me interested. There was many great activities and information throughout the website. It had a great article on classroom set up for the first day. You may think your classroom is ready, but it may not be. This article gave me great information to think about for the first day of school and how the classroom should be laid out and organized. I will keep this information for a long time.
https://www.simplykinder.com//
This website was very simple. However, it was full of great tasks and information. It was very easy to navigate. There were lots of helpful tips on the website. For example, there was tips on how to balance teacher work-life. I think that is extremely helpful and important to read and listen to. There was a whole topic on back to school. Activities to do with the parents, things to inform them on, and even a donation hand chart for the parents to help the classroom out with certain supplies. The website had so many great activities for letters, shapes, sight words, and so much more.
http://www.lauracandler.com/
This website was very well organized, everything was labeled and easy to find. The file cabinet tab gave sub-tabs that all contained different activities and lessons do for each topic. There were many free worksheets on the website. There were also packages that were buyable that included worksheets for the topics. There were different blogs for teachers to communicate with each other as well. This is beneficial because there are always questions to ask other teachers.
https://teachingmama.org/quiet-time-boxes/
This website was one of my favorites! It was just the right amount of color and was easy to navigate! Everything was labeled clearly, making it easy to find. There are so many wonderful articles on activities and lessons for certain topics. My favorite article to read was "How to get Control of Chaos and Clutter". This article was very informative and helpful on how to organize your classroom. Her big tip was one project at a time and start small. You do not want to overwhelm yourself and not finish anything. I found the whole website completely helpful and useful.
This website was one of my favorites! It was just the right amount of color and was easy to navigate! Everything was labeled clearly, making it easy to find. There are so many wonderful articles on activities and lessons for certain topics. My favorite article to read was "How to get Control of Chaos and Clutter". This article was very informative and helpful on how to organize your classroom. Her big tip was one project at a time and start small. You do not want to overwhelm yourself and not finish anything. I found the whole website completely helpful and useful.
