Editable Printable Classroom Labels

As the new year approaches we will take a guess and predict that like us, you are thinking about ways to get organized and make 2021 your best year yet. Am I right?!

Having a tidy and well organized classroom can make everything flow smoothly and leave you and your students focused on the most important thing - thinking and learning!

Labeling places to store and return equipment is one of the easiest ways to help create an organized space and day. 

We have a huge and growing range of editable classroom labels - from simple through to cute and creative. If you need a fresh new way to combine function and classroom aesthetic take a peek at some of our favorites.

Printable Classroom Labels can be used for just about anything in the classroom:

• resource storage
• sorting student materials
• creating spaces for small groups of learners to access their individualized equipment
• subject books and folders
• desks and cubbies
• displays of information
• bulletin boards and door displays
• name tags

and so much more!

Tips and tricks

• don't worry about laminating them - you have so many tasks to do as a teacher - just print, write and go
• print 2 or 3 more sets than you need, cut them and store them in a little box in your storeroom - you can quickly replace or create a new label in seconds when you need it through the class day
• attach simply with pegs (clothespins) or blue tac
• ask students to help you write the labels - creating a purposeful writing activity and building class community
• in the early years classroom, take students on a 'class tour' in the first few days, point to each label and read it to the class - have them repeat back to you - do this several times to build classroom awareness and reading skills 

The photos in this post are labels from our Editable Round Labels pack which are a good standby to use in the classroom. They will coordinate with most of our other decor and classroom theme packs too.

Please always feel welcome to contact us if there is an organizational need you have - we'd love to try and help!

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Gumnut and Gum Leaf Door Display

Our Display in a Day printable packs include decor labels and accents to make teh perfect welcoming display for your classroom. 

This new one is perfect for a super cute Australian classroom. It features gumnuts and gum leaves. It will help make a sweet and happy entrance to your classroom and positively promote a year of learning fun!

Decorate your classroom door, bulletin board, window or hallway with the message board or plates: We're going to have gum fun in ...

Our decor theme packs are:

• easy to cut and assemble pieces
• feature full color and blackline pieces
• enable you to write or type your student names

Included in this printable decor pack, in both color and backline, are:

• 4 different gumnuts with space for student names
• one page sign with 'We're going to have gum fun in ...' and space to write or type your class name or grade
• word cards to create a bigger title 'We're going to have gum fun in ...' and space to write or type your class name or grade (2 cards to a landcsape page)
• accent pieces to add decoration to your gnome display: Earth tone rainbows, 4 gumnuts with hearts, leaves

Add the pieces in any arrangement to any display area in your classroom - or mix and match with my other classroom decor items to liven up your learning space!

Find this new Display in a Day pack over in our store today!

See more of our cute classroom door displays over on our website.

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Free 2021 Wall Planner

I love a wall planner to keep me focused and organized through the year. I love to have it color coded and easy to read at a glance. I can see the weeks, weekends and months quickly. 

Would you like to print a 2021 Calendar Giant Wall Poster too? You can access our design for free and get it printed for your own office or classroom wall! 

Provided in our TPT store download is a jpg digital file for you to print yourself. Print at home, take to your local print shop or upload to an online printing service.

You may print this poster for your classroom or home, not for any commercial purposes or to sell.

Included is:

• page sized pdf version
• 300 dpi 24 inch x 36 inch poster (JPG image file)
• 300 dpi A1 (Australia and UK JPG image file)

We hope you love creating a perfect learning space with our bright, happy and engaging classroom decor and resources. If you are busy creating a beautiful learning space for 2021 you may like to browse more resources from our brights range HERE

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Starfish Count by 5 Posters

 

Add some fun and engagement to your classroom environment while encouraging the foundations of multiplication (skip counting) with our starfish cuties!

Each starfish features the next 5 numbers in a 1-200 sequence and will help your learners understand the skip process.

Choose a selection or display the entire range. Use them as posters, game and activity aides or for your whole class introduction to repeated addition. 

Having a small selection on display in your math or small group activity space makes for a useful reference for students - for counting by 1s and 5s! The fact that they are adorable, engaging for children and will make you smile is just a wonderful bonus!

Find these printable classroom accents over in our store.

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Printable Christmas Gift Tags to Color and Make

We would love to share with you, how to make some cute gift tags for your Christmas gifts. This is a practical and engaging activity for your little ones to help with in the week before Christmas.

What you need:

• printable template - it's free on this past post
• thin card or heavy paper
• pencils
• hole punch
• ribbon, string or embroidery floss

How to make:

1. Print the tags you would like - choose from color or blackline in 2 sizes
2. Trim each carefully
3. Color with pencil or fine markers (if using blackline)
4. Punch a hole through the circle
5. Tie a ribbon through the hole, ready to attach to a gift

Good luck getting your Christmas gifts wrapped - I am yet to finish my shopping and am looking forward to having them all under the tree soon!

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Christmas Pre Reading Activity Cards

Help your little ones get ready for reading with Visual Discrimination activities. Print these cute cards and make an engaging game or center for students.

30 cards are included that work from difference in color, size, position, orientation and features.

How to use

Students take a card and look at each Santa from the 'starting star' on the left. Ask them to look closely and point to each picture across the line. 

Encourage them to then look back through the pictures again, giving a final sweep before confirming which is 'different'. They can identify this Santa with a clothespin or paper clip.

This file features:

• a teaching tips page
• a detailed instruction sheet
• 30 cards
• a follow-up worksheet and
• a cover page (for your organizational pockets and pouches)

Find this new printable over in our TPT store today.

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Santa Koala Finger Play

Finger plays are such a practical and instant way to incorporate so much essential and rich learning in one fun experience for the early-years classroom! They help you provide:

• a literacy experience - students can point to the words and read with you
• a language experience - students will experience meaningful integration of new topic vocabulary and rhyme
• a chance to integrate learning with the senses - listening, language, speaking, movement and visual
• an opportunity for behavior managment and building classroom community -  a joint experience that will help build classroom community

Here is our newest rhyme - Santa Koala!

Perhaps you could combine it with our free craft or a reading of Santa Koala by Colin Buchanan and Glen Singleton.

A blackline version is included too for students to color. Send this home and encourage your learners to read it to their families.

Find this printable finger play in our store!

Browse more of our Santa themed teaching ideas here.

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Snow Friends Tracing Pages

 

To help your learners engage in lots of practice for writing we love making big shape tracing pages. Tracing big shapes is a great first step before learning handwriting patterns and symbols (letters and numbers).

We have a growing range of printable packs available in our store but today we would like to show you some of our new snow friends!

You can provide your students with any writing implements that work for your context. We love fat markers, chubby crayons and oil pastel. We find that emergent writers feel successful and engaged quickly with something that makes a beautiful line on the page despite their limited penmanship. 

You can find these printable pages over in our TPT store for purchase. 

We hope our big happy snowmen bring a smile to the face of your learners today as they practice their early-writing! 

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Christmas Elf Art Project

Guide your students through an Elf Directed Drawing for a Christmas art project. This pack includes directions for one whimsical elf drawing and includes 4 presentation options.

Select from one of 4 projects

• classic directed drawing
• big draw
• draw and write OR
• Read-Draw-Write

1. Classic directed drawing has the steps and room provided for students to simply draw, following the steps.
2. Big Draw provides the steps on one page, and a page sized, bordered worksheet for students to create a large artwork.
3. Draw and Write has a blank space for students to draw (using the separate page of steps) and a few lines to write a sentence or two.
4. Read, Draw, Write worksheets encourage students to read the words in the word bank, follow the directed steps to draw a picture (and they may add additional drawings) and then write a sentence or two about their picture or the topic.

The directed drawing in this pack is a perfect stimulus for writing. They can follow the steps exactly or you can encourage your students to add their own individual features, create interesting backgrounds and scene extras!

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Santa's Day Screen Wallpaper

 

Would you love some Christmas cheer to brighten your day? Today, I'm adding a new screen wallpaper - Santa's Day - to my screens and would love to share it with you too!

We've heard that so many of your little learners love a new background on their board occasionally too and hope this brings a big smile to their face today!

Simply download the images from google drive below. Store them on your camera roll and choose them for your screen saver and/or wallpaper.

Santa's Day Computer Wallpaper
Santa's Day Phone Wallpaper

{These are for your personal use only and cannot be redistributed or shared}. 

We hope you have a lovely day and thank you for all your support this year!

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Free Printable Christmas Tree Card

Over in our free Coloring Club library we have a Christmas Tree card template for you to print.

How to make a Christmas Card:

1. print the template page
2. color the tree with crayons or markers
3. cut carefully around the edge (assist little learners)
4. fold the tree card in half
5. write a message inside to someone you love
6. glue any crafty detail of your choice on the front - glitter, poms, sequins etc

This free page is ready and waiting for you in the free library - to find out more about how easy it is to join the club, read more on our Coloring Club website!

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Adding 3 Single Digits

Engage your students in a fun math game for Adding 3 Numbers. Perfect for First Grade this activity can be used in math centers, group rotations, workshop or independent learning activities.

Students will have their own game mat and take turns to flip an addition card and find the total.

To find the total you may observe that they:

• are using known addition facts - e.g. they instantly know that 4+3 = 7
• use an addition strategy - e.g. the doubles strategy, one more than strategy, friends-of-ten, or near-doubles strategy
• can partition of 2 numbers from anywhere within the problem, solve this part and then add on the rest
• are at an emergent level of addition and are counting from 1, adding from left to right or using their fingers/tapping fingers under the desk

If a player answers the problem correctly, they may cover a fish with a counter. 9+9+9 is the largest sum.

Included is:

• page size game board
• addition cards
• recording worksheet
• cover page (great for organizing your equipment and resources)

Mini Lesson to help students recall strategies

If you find some students at an emergent level after teaching the addition strategies, use the opportunity when playing this game to help them access them.

Below we see 4+3+1. Use counters to show the 3 parts in different colors. Show students how easy it is to solve 3+1 by sliding the counter down into the blue column. Tell them to recall the 'one more' or 'count on one' strategy. This creates 4+4 and remind them of the doubles strategy, totalling 8. 

Here in 5+4+5 show them how the double 5 can be solved first and then the additional 4 added on quickly (either counting-on, or using knowledge of place value - 1 ten, 4 ones). 

4+7+6 can encourage a reflection to the 'friends of ten' strategy (6+4=10) or the near-doubles strategy (7+6= 6+6+1= 13)

We always suggest playing a variety of math games to teach and apply skills and concepts in math. Ideally, students should have many opportunities to apply the strategies you have introduced. They won't have a deep understanding of them until they have used them practically. Try to allow students at least 2 opportunities to play each game, or even 3. 

We suggest a 3 day structure for math games:

• Monday - introduce the game, becoming familiar, have a quick go
• Wednesday - playing without the burden of learning rules etc
• Friday - playing with confidence, opportunity to apply new learnings, student feeling successful

You can find 3 Penguins over in our store 

If you need some resources for introducing the addition strategies for kindergarten and first grade, you will love our Math Packs. 

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Christmas Tree Door Display

Would you like to create a beautiful classroom Christmas door display in a snap? Our printable resource kit includes all the fun pieces you need! Just print, cut and display. Your door, board, window or wall will be festive and happy for your community of learners. 

We've included so many choices for you:

• color or blackline
• space for student names or just pictures
• cute happy faces or plain

The name accents can also be used as labels, tags, gift ties or rewards.

A message board We are TREE-mendous is included or use the editable page to create your own unique message.

Your learners will love arrive for class with a bright happy door to welcome them! 

Find this printable pack over in our store and more Display in a Day packs in our range.

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50 things to do when you're feeling blue

50 little ways to feel better when you're blue

We asked our followers over on Instagram what they do to feel better when they're feeling blue. Reading all the ideas was such an instant pick-me-up, I wanted to summarize them and save them here as a list to share with you. Few of them require any prep or expense! We hope they bring you some warm-fuzzies or give you some new ideas for next time you feel down. Thank you to everyone who contributed!

1. Have a hot shower.
2. Have a cup of tea.
3. Play your favorite music loud and dance.
4. Go for a run.
5. Sit and listen to music.
6. Make something.
7. Do an art project.
8. Make a teacher resource.
9. Connect with other like minded teachers who just get it!
10. Watch your favorite TV show.
11. Have a good chat with your friends.
12. Have cuddles with a puppy.
13. Look at artwork or images that makes you happy.
14. Sing to your favorite music loudly.
15. Go for a walk in the forest
16. Go for walk on the beach.
17. Swim in the ocean - salt water is the perfect tonic.
18. Cuddle a kitten.
19. Elevate your feet and watch TV.
20. Collect shells at the beach.
21. Have a coffee and debrief with your partner
22. Have a little talk with Jesus.
23. Indulge in a little chocolate.
24. Hug your kids, family or friends.
25. Make a delicious hot chocolate.
26. Look after your pet - grooming, walking, playing.
27. Sit by the fireplace in your jammies.
28. Watch a few episodes of Friends.
29. Go outside - sit, walk, listen.
30. Walk a dog.
31. Relax in the bath with a good book.
32. Relax in the bath with a hot cup of coffee.
33. Have a big old squeezy bear hug.
34. Read a good book.
35. See/spend time/talk to family.
36. Curl up in a blanket and take a long nap.
37. Scrapbook.
38. Color or waterpaint.
39. Play Christmas movies or music!
40. Absorb the sounds of nature - listen to the birds, the trees, the wind, and feel the sunshine.
41. Think about others and/or family and how you can help and support them.
42. Clean and tidy a small space.
43. Send a friend a funny meme or gif.
44. Do a puzzle or crossword.
45. Have a big glass of water and a rest.
46. Listen to instrumental music. 
47. Read some cards or messages that have come your way in the past.
48. Change the linen on your bed and make your bed.
49. Write a letter to a friend who lives afar.
50. Write down three things you are grateful for today. 

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New Teacher Advice

Penguin Screen Wallpaper

I love a fresh new screen aesthetic - it helps me refocus and gives me a sense of renewal. I made a new penguin themed screen wallpaper for my phone and devices and would love to share them with you too.

This design features some penguin cuties fishing from an ice platform with fluffy white clouds drifting overhead.

In the Premium Coloring Club we recently added a Penguin Fishing Day coloring page that would be a lovely relaxing winter project for your little ones too.

Thank you so much for stopping by our blog today, we appreciate you so much. Find the screen wallpapers here:

Penguin Phone Wallpaper

Penguin Computer Screen Wallpaper

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