Focus boards

Hello! I just wrapped up my first week of my eleventh year teaching and wanted to share some picture of my classroom with you. This post contains Amazon affiliate links for your convenience. I am paid a small commission for referring you to the products I am recommending but you will not pay any additional ... Read More about Classroom Tour 2017-2018

One of the homeschool challenges I faced was figuring out how I was gonna teach my 3rd grader while also giving quality attention to our playful and active four-year-old. I found that including him during some portions of the lessons made things much easier. But how do I include a 4-year-old in 3rd-grade lessons? The answer for me was to invite him whenever we read and did history and science class. I realized that he seemed most interested in those lessons, and if he wasn't, he was free to…

Description Create a focus wall that is easy to maintain, keeps all the important skills for the week in one place, and looks amazing! The best thing is that it was not created with one specific grade level or curriculum in mind. The cards are blank so that they can be customized by teachers in all grade levels anywhere in the world! What is included? Posters: Ready to print and editable posters. Bulletin Board Letters: Large letters to use on your bulletin board that spell "Focus Wall" in…

What exactly is a focus wall? It’s an intentional area of the classroom that displays learning targets, as well as the curriculum for the week.

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Use this colorful calendar board set to transform your calendar time. This board is perfect for preschool and kindergarten and comes with focus board materials that fit perfectly on a trifold board. Calendar time

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The blog posts features a tour of my 2nd grade classroom with a burlap and bright theme! My focus wall area is one of my favorite parts of the whole room.

Focus walls are all over Pinterest and teaching blogs lately. The more that I read and thought about them, I realized what a useful tool these are for students...of all ages! I've seen them done for every subject, some even have multiple subjects all on one. However, I already have a pretty big space devoted to math, so I wanted to make my focus wall all about Reading and Language Arts. My purpose for creating and utilizing a focus wall this year was so that my students would consistently…