I don’t know about you, but the moment I see school supplies for sale, I start to get a little giddy. Back to school time is so much fun! For students and teachers alike, this time can be an opportunity for a new beginning. Back to School Night
Welcome! I am so glad that you are here. For those of you who just found me, stick around and stay awhile. I hope you find what you are looking for to help make your teaching job just a little bit easier. For those of you who have been with
The following post has been imported from my original blog. Please excuse any references to Mrs. Patton’s Patch. Although this time of the year can get very crazy very quickly, I find it important to do something special for my students at the end of the year. One of my
The following post has been imported from my original blog. Please excuse any references to Mrs. Patton’s Patch. For my student gifts this year, I wanted to do something I hadn’t seen already on Pinterest. After searching the Oriental Trading site for some things 2nd graders would like, I came
Student Birthday Bags I haven’t always been great about doing things for student birthdays, so I wanted to do something easy that wouldn’t require me to prep or remember too much throughout the year. Inside each of these bags is a fidget tube, an animal eraser, a push pencil, and
The following post has been imported from my original blog. Please excuse any references to Mrs. Patton’s Patch. I’m excited to share my classroom photos with you, as promised! So glad to be done decorating before we have to be back at school so I can focus on other things
The following post has been imported from my original blog. Please excuse any references to Mrs. Patton’s Patch. After moving to the highly gifted academy in my district, I realized quickly that the Engineering Design Process was something I needed to teach my students. Although we are not a STEM
The following post has been imported from my original blog. Please excuse any references to Mrs. Patton’s Patch. We’ve been up to so much in my classroom lately, that I hardly know where to start! One of my favorite projects (and one of my students’ favorites, too) was creating marble
The following post has been imported from my original blog. Please excuse any references to Mrs. Patton’s Patch. While it was surely a busy week, the first week of school was definitely a good one! We started all of the high level activities I told you about a few weeks
At this point in the summer, I would typically find myself thinking about and working on the look of my room. I might create new table signs, change my classroom theme, go out and buy cute lanterns… whatever it takes to create a cute environment in my classroom! But this
