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You probably don’t know this about me, but I wasn’t always the picture of teacher organization that I am today ;-).

I used to do all the things they say not to.

I had piles of paper everywhere (gasp!)

I planned my lessons at midnight on Sunday night before teaching for the week.

I realized 30 seconds before students were due to walk in that I didn’t have any copies run for the lesson they were about to start.

I scrambled to get technology set up after students were already seated and ready to go, resulting i downtime and chaos.

Basically, I spent tons of time and increased my stress all because I didn’t have a plan. It was frustrating, discouraging, and to add insult to injury, I didn’t even really enjoy what I was teaching.

If you’ve ever felt like this, lesson planning and prepping ahead of time is a total game-changer.

Once I started lesson planning earlier, my professional educator journey got a whole lot easier. Here are some of the lessons and how they've radically transformed student engagement in my classroom:

This Word Work game for Winter has games and activities to last an entire month. It teaches 20 winter words with fun and simple to follow games and my students ABSOLUTELY love this center!!

Winter Snowglobe Subtraction around the room. Students walk around the room, find the subtraction problem, and write and solve it next to the corresponding letter on their recording sheet. My students got the chance to review subtraction, while walking around and getting their wiggles out. I am now using this every couple of weeks. They never tire of it!!

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