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Teachers - we deserve this summer break life 👏🏼

First week of summer photo dump highlights☀️ Documenting here to look back on during the school year ✌🏼Summer so far has been the perfect way to get my energy back from this school year. To relax, recharge + enjoy extra time doing the things I love with the ones I love 🧡

- Eric Church concert 🎵
- Nova 🧡
- Pickleball + golfing date nights 🏓
- ALL the patios 🍻

Let me know the highlight of your summer !👇🏻

GIVEAWAY CLOSED✨To celebrate teachers + show a

GIVEAWAY CLOSED✨To celebrate teachers + show a little appreciation, we are doing a little giveaway to two lucky teachers!

Two of y’all will win a $50 gift card to @shopsimplylovely, $25 to @teacherspayteachers + a basket of my favorite teacher goodies!

Happy Women’s Day! 🧡 Happy Women’s Day to

Happy Women’s Day! 🧡

Happy Women’s Day to these strong women (and so many more) who inspire me on the daily 🧡

Happy Women’s Day to all of my little Instagram community of strong teachers that support + inspire me each day in my dms & social posts! 🧡

Anyone else feel like January lasted a whole year?

Anyone else feel like January lasted a whole year?! 🙋🏼‍♀️ I am ready for a new month… & it’s just a bonus that February is the shortest one. Swipe to see a few things I’m looking forward to in February! 💕

- Valentine’s Day fun 💕
- Olympic themed dress up days + school-wide activities ❄️
- Black History Month + non-fiction projects
- A few 4 day weeks 🙌🏼
- Just a fresh start! ✨

Shout out to my @nationalbusinessfurniture whiteboard table for literally making my teaching life easier in so many ways. Use the code ED10 for 10% of your next order! #nbf #mynbfstyle

This weeks focus: try to recognize the positive be

This weeks focus: try to recognize the positive behaviors 🧡

Every year it gets this way. January + February are long, cold & filled with indoor recess. We’ve got a whole lot of energy + I find myself having a little less patience 😳

1️⃣ I’m not a huge fan of behavior management systems but sometimes we just need to implement them for a few weeks. So we started our Class Kerplunk this week. Each time we do one of the things on the poster, students get to pull a stick out. I don’t know who’s original idea this was but I’ve done it for a few years! Helps me recognize the positive things happening in our classroom + the class will get a reward when all of the balls have fallen 🧡

2️⃣ One of our new end of the day routines a few days a week is a class shout out. Each Wednesday I will do class shout outs to recognize positive behaviors happening individually. The class list helps me remember to find positives in every student!

3️⃣ Students who get a shout out get to press the Hype Button while the class cheers + it just adds a bit of fun! 📣

Save this post for when you are feeling the same way as me with a bit of a thin patience ☺️

You made it through the week! Cheers to the long w

You made it through the week! Cheers to the long weekend! 🎉

I’m looking forward to spending time with my mom this weekend, getting new arrivals ready for @shopsimplylovely + having no specific agenda whatsoever! 🧡

What are your weekend plans? Let me know below + I’ll choose a few of you to send a little Starbucks treat for you to enjoy this weekend! ☕️

THIS book! 🙌🏼 I am so incredibly proud + exc

THIS book! 🙌🏼 I am so incredibly proud + excited for @thetututeacher !

From the most beautiful illustrations, to the consistent message that teaches young readers to have a voice, speak up and be strong when they see or face inequalities and injustices.

This is the perfect book to share with students of all ages to begin the conversation + to show students that no matter how young, they can have a voice. I can’t wait to share it with my students! 🧡

You Have a Voice comes out on January 20th but you can pre-order yours anytime before then from Amazon!

…And when I say you CAN I mean you SHOULD, because every classroom needs this book!

Anyone else need a little perseverance to get thro

Anyone else need a little perseverance to get through your first week back? 🙋🏼‍♀️

Swipe to see a little random peek inside our first week back from break:

• After revisiting expectations with the book “I Promise” my students chose the word perseverance to be our “Class Word” for the new year! Students were paired up + each pair decorated a letter while adding how they were going to persevere this year.

• We did a giant word find as one of our New Years challenges, always one of my favorite activities!

• More or less: we came up with a list of things we wanted to do more of and less of. Fort reading made me giggle but it was a great way to have conversations around things they want/need in the day 🧡

• Worked on making inferences with some good books, picture of the day + some detective activities. 📚

• Celebrated the new year by making our water bottles that we were supposed to make before break! ✨

I hope you had a few positive moments in your first week back even with the sub shortages, rising cases & indoor recess. Enjoy your weekend doing something for YOU! 🧡

Happy Holidays from the Wasiks 🧡 Our Christmas

Happy Holidays from the Wasiks 🧡

Our Christmas card was sent out late so it only feels fitting to post a late Holiday photo here as well🤣

Wishing all of you a relaxing + joyous holiday break! 🎄We are spending a little time off the grid at the cabin to close out 2021! ✨

Schedule a weekend getaway with your friends…you

Schedule a weekend getaway with your friends…you won’t regret it ✈️

5 years ago when I started this Instagram I never would have thought I would make some of the best friendships..but here we are now 🥰

So thankful for these people in my life, they truly are some of the best! 🧡

Bring your dog to work day! Drop the 🐶 below if

Bring your dog to work day! Drop the 🐶 below if you think everyday should be bring your dog to work day! 👇🏻

But for real..Scout is just here to remind you that there is a Cyber Monday TPT sale happening today + tomorrow! Swipe to see a few of her favorite resources 😉

We ended our staff development day with a little “puppy party” in the gym full of all the dogs🧡 Because..what a better way to bring joy to an otherwise “ruff” year? 😉

It’s the season of thanks and I’m thankful for

It’s the season of thanks and I’m thankful for so many things: Thanksgiving break coming so soon (anyone else?! 🙋🏼‍♀️) + this cozy library nook in my classroom. Swipe to see a preview of the thankful breakfast we will be having next Tuesday before we leave for break + a few pictures from years’ past! 🧡

If you want to create a cozy nook in your classroom, these movable Huddle soft shape seats from @nationalbusinessfurmniture are the perfect fit. Use the code ED10 for 10% off your next order! #nbf #mynbfstyle #ad

I’ll share the grateful notes + thankful mats as a freebie in my stories! 🧡

Why do I feel like November came out of nowhere? 🍂 Either way, it’s here and we are almost through our first trimester of school. This year I have spent SO much time at my Whiteboard Kidney Table working with students on more of a one-on-one basis than I ever have. The needs are just so much higher this year.

The table from @nationalbusinessfurniture is seriously a life saver. 🙌🏼 It is the perfect size + creates an easy space to quickly work through problems or give a little extra encouragement to my 4th graders! :) Use the code ED10 for 10% off your next order! #nbf #mynbfstyle #ad

ONE MORE DAY…& we will have made it through Hall

ONE MORE DAY…& we will have made it through Halloween week 🙌🏼 I’m curious..do teachers & students dress up for Halloween at your school?

No dressing up for us tomorrow, but we will be making pumpkin catapults + enjoying some spooky stories in the dark 👻

Drop a 🎃 emoji below + I will select 5 of you to send over a little Starbucks cash to help you make it through your Friday 🧡

Teach sweatshirt is from my shop @shopsimplylovely 🥰

Self-regulation tip 🧡 Emotions are high this y

Self-regulation tip 🧡

Emotions are high this year + self-regulating is not something that has come easy for many students.

I’ve had these sand timers for years, but they have probably gotten more use this year than all the years combined. I have a handful of students who use these timers to help them move through frustrating moments. They simply grab their calm down tool (for many it’s the sand tray or sensory sand) + a 2-5 minute timer and take a quiet break.

A few benefits I see with these timers:

- They provide a calming visual for students to regulate their break ⏰

- They can simply flip them over and add more time if they need a bit more 🧡

This doesn’t provide the perfect solution for every student, but it has been successful for a few of my students in the classroom!

I’ll tag all of the reset resources in the link in my bio 🙌🏼

New resource alert: @tractlearning is a new platfo

New resource alert: @tractlearning is a new platform that encourages critical thinking + creativity through project based learning activities! 🙌🏼

We tried it out today & my students got to design their own pumpkin inspired by the artist Yayoi Kusama. They got to learn a little + create a little...the perfect mix! Swipe to see a little preview of the lesson!

It’s super simple to sign up + give it a try in your own class! Set up a FREE account with the code MRSWASIK at the link in my bio!

@tractlearning is designed to spark creativity and empower learners to develop the critical thinking skills they need. It provides students ages 8+ with the opportunity to explore new interests and deepen existing passions through self-directed, project-based classes in a format kids love! Then..they have the structure and support to harness those passions and apply them toward creating + teaching their own class on Tract!

Boo! 👻 Could these boo basket prints from @thre

Boo! 👻 Could these boo basket prints from @threadmama_story be any cuter?! There’s just something about a little surprise treat that can really make my day brighter..anyone else? 🥰

This year especially we need little day brighteners every once in awhile! Or as @hellomissromeo would say..a little glimmer! ✨

Do you have a sunshine committee at your school? ☀️ What are some other fun ideas you have to bring little glimmers into your building?!

Classroom procedures are taking a liiiiittle bit l

Classroom procedures are taking a liiiiittle bit longer to master this year than years past. 😳

Right now we are working towards mastering some specific routines with our little “Boo” board! 👻

I combined @headoverheelsforteaching and @happilyeverelementary ideas to make this quick little Halloween inspired routines check! Each time I see them mastering these routines, we will take one off.

If we get each little boo off, we will have a little classroom celebration….that has yet to be determined! 👻

Which routines are your students struuggling to master?

We are problem solvers 🧡 …our math board is

We are problem solvers 🧡

…our math board is manifesting my 4th graders to not only be problem solvers in math + STEM, but hopefully in other areas as well 🧡We aren’t quite there yet…but I have hopes we will get there! 😉

We just started our first math unit of place value + it’s always one of my favorite units to teach! Swipe to see a few simple + engaging activities we’ve done!

✨ @99mathgame - this fast paced game allows students to practice the skill while also competing against others + themselves!

✨ Beat the Teacher activity - this is always a favorite! Students try to beat me in making the biggest/smallest number out of numbers rolled on the dice. Once they write the number in it’s place they cannot move it. Then we have discussions around the place values, how we could have made it bigger/smaller, changed it, etc.

✨ Notecards + paper clips - each math partner group numbered notecards 1-9 and received 2 paper clips for commas. I would show them a number in word form + they would build it with their notecards. Or they would build their own number & practice saying the large numbers. They also built numbers + then compared to another group. Hands on + good practice!

What are some of your favorite Place Value activities?! 👇🏻

👋🏻 Goodbye week 3..hello weekend! I feel l

👋🏻 Goodbye week 3..hello weekend!

I feel like we are at that stage of the year where we are still mastering procedures but now getting into more content..which can be a bit exhausting! Anyone else? 🙋🏼‍♀️

Now I’m ready for a fun weekend spent with family! How will you recharge this weekend? 🧡

I hope you all take the weekend to relax + recharge! Tap the outfit photos + head to my @shop.ltk to shop week 3 teacher outfits ✨

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