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I usually use the same weekly plans as the year be I usually use the same weekly plans as the year before. I just make a few tweaks here and there and adjust my small groups - but the plans are, for the most, part the same. #teachertimesaver. But, this year?! My team was stressing. Our day is now broken into virtual time chunks. So, for the first time in a VERY long time, I had to make a new plan book for myself! 🍎 That's SUPER easy to do with the COMPLETELY EDITABLE "The Ultimate Weekly Planner"! CALM and PEACEFUL was my main goal - because nothing else about this school year is calm or peaceful so far. The beach and spa dictated my color choice. This time, I divided our day into 3 main instruction blocks, not my usual... MANY. The cool thing is, my team is sticking to our year plan. We are giving the kids the same materials we use in class. Our lessons are following the same routine that we KNOW works. We are going to our best to recreate the same thing we would do in even though we are teaching through the screen. Those group, peer-to-peer projects, and hands-on game practice won't look the same - but the foundations of our day will! We have made packets for our kiddos -hello way too may days of prep and stacks of ... everything - with all the paper/pencil (yay fine motor skill building) materials they will need, sent home Morning Wake Up in book format - A MAJOR MUST HAVE for spiral review of all ELA & Math standards (on SALE now for grades K-2!) and My Journal (a freebie on my blog). Swipe to see my "usual" plans and a glimpse of my team's year plan. The Ultimate Weekly and Year Curriculum Planners help us hang onto our sanity during all this "uncertainty". Click my bio to find them on SALE in my store. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Traci-Clausen/Category/Planners-232306
<<SWIPE To plan - or not to plan… ugh! What a di <<SWIPE To plan - or not to plan… ugh! What a difficult time! Many of us are MAJOR planners and super Type-A. 🙋🏼‍♀️ Isn’t this so hard?! Yet, so many teachers are still pouring their heart into planning for the unknown. I ❤️ hearing from the thousands of teachers around the globe about their ❤️ for The Original Ultimate Weekly Planner. The feedback, emails and messages I receive daily about it truly warm my heart. THANK YOU! 😘 I’ve used, modified, updated & shared this planner with my teacher friends for over 20 years! (Stop doing the math! I began when I was 5! 😜) The Ultimate Weekly Planner was one of the first things in my teacher stores nearly 10 years ago - when there were NO editable digital planners around! As technology improves, so does the planner! It’s my baby! Check out the details in my Insta Stories. Here are answers to a few recent questions I’ve received. ✓Create 6-day weeks, COHORT, daily, homeschool and all other non-“traditional” plans. ✓Include any number of time slots. ✓Not limited in editable functions like Powerpoint- or Google Slides-based planners are. ✓Automatically include your routines and repeated items each week. ✓Reuse/edit the same plans yearly. Modify & start over anytime. Never repurchase another teacher planner! ✓Tons of optional binder extras for print and/or digital use. ✓B/W versions of ALL components included. ✓Add links & “stickers” clipart. ✓Includes tabs to quickly find the exact week or teacher binder page you need. ✓Optional CCSS reference included. ✓100s of editable starting templates for both single & multiple subject planning with both horizontally & vertically structured weeks. ✓Print 1-page, 2-page or tabloid-sized. ✓Store digitally & access from any computer. ✓Google Sheets, Excel and Numbers compatible. ✓Share plans with admin. ✓Includes extensive HOW TO instructions & exclusive access to HOW TO videos. Other questions? Let me know! Find The Ultimate Weekly Planner in my store (Traci Clausen) under the planners category. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Traci-Clausen/Category/Planners-232306   (IG link in profile)
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𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙥 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙎𝙩𝙚𝙥 𝘼𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙁𝙧𝙤𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣⁣ ⁣ So... this whole Distance Learning thing... It isn't fun.Not for the kids. Not for the teachers. Definitely not for the parents. ⁣ ⁣ I've been struggling you guys. ⁣ ⁣ How can I make all this screen time meaningful and engaging? How do I make worksheets that they may or may not be able to print engaging without a big ol’ fun and active lesson to go with it? ⁣ ⁣ Well, I can't. I've tried. But nothing is as great as the actual face to face engaged lessons that come with teaching. The reason behind our passion for what we do. ⁣ ⁣ I've uploaded all kinds of things I know will be helpful to my Google Classroom. It will help. The parents will be appreciative. ⁣ ⁣ But I know it isn't truly enough. They have access to all that we do in ow and that's fantastic. MORE things than they need, really. But they don't have the engagement part. The BIG part. The making a connection part. ⁣ ⁣ So I am providing them this grid of activities. It isn't random. It is specific to my class, my kids, where we are in the year. It is specific to the work I am assigning them in Google Classroom. Specific to what our Wonders Reading assignments and Pearson Math assignments attempt to build concept mastery about - but don't quite get there. ⁣ ⁣ These will provide them a simple way to incorporate the concepts in their current real world. ⁣ ⁣ The file contains my 7 different weekly Activity Grids as .pdfs as well as the editable file so you can make your own. ⁣ ⁣ It's available in a direct download Google Slides file as well as a PowerPoint file you can save to your desktop. ⁣ ⁣ I hope it helps you out!⁣ ⁣ Here's the link to the Google Slides version. The PowerPoint version is linked in the product description.⁣ https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Distance-Learning-Activity-Grid-Editable-FREE-GOOGLE-SLIDES-5423331

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