Clever Classroom Blog

It’s that time of year again! Yup, that time where you spend loads and loads of time explicitly teaching, modeling and praising desired expectations. When you break down what you expect of children as social beings and intrinsically as individual learners, there are so many expectations. Many times, we may take the time to teach […]

Getting your students to share more about themselves whilst also learning about others is super fun with this craftivity (craft + writing activity). I wanted to make something that was a bit of fun for back to school.  I guess this idea could be used any time throughout the year as a writing prompt. Kids just […]

It’s time to celebrate!  A few weeks back our Facebook page; Clever Classroom hit 500,000 wonderful fans! Who knew that was even possible? I love my Facebook fans and can’t believe that they still follow me, ha-ha! I’m dedicated to posting helpful content and aim to make the lives’ of teachers a little bit easier. […]

Many of you know that I am passionate about social skills and manners.  I’m not sure if it’s because of my sweet mother and her good examples or because I understand that being polite, thoughtful and empathetic are core to being human in our society. I know that children have not had the experience and […]

Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) is so excited about teachers going back to school, they are throwing another sale! I am joining in on the fun and offering 20% off all my resources in my store, Clever Classroom. TpT will take off a further 8% off when you use code BOOST on Wednesday 20th.  As usual, watch […]