The Learning Beach By Stacy

Yay!!! It’s Friday! Made it another week teaching all day on Zoom as well as in-person 😵‍💫. Who else is teaching all day like this? I am really getting used to this new crazy Middle School life!

We start our ELA Class each day with SURF- Silent Uninterrupted Reading Fun! This is a nonnegotiable for us. My sixth graders know what to expect as soon as they walk into our room each day. Students choose their own books to read toward our 40 Book Challenge and everyone has pledged to read every day. They know I value this time and so do they! How do you incorporate independent reading into your classroom? Let me know!

I have been completely MIA on the and for very good reason. Right before I was supposed to start teaching second grade, I got hired as a sixth grade ELA teacher in a local district closer to my home!!! 🥳🙌 ⁣
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I have been looking for a job closer to home since moving back to PA in 2012. It has been a complete whirlwind and things are slowly starting to fall into place. I started teaching my middles a week after school started in a basically empty classroom for the first time in 22 years! Anyone who knows me knows I love to decorate and set up my classroom, so this was tough. ⁣
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There are so many new systems to learn as well as a new reading series, but I am trying to take it one day at a time. Baby steps! 😂 I am beyond thankful for my new school, AMAZING sixth grade ELA team to work with, short drive to work, and most of all to my God who worked all of this out after many years of being patient and praying. 🙏🏻💙💛

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday! I didn’t take many pictures. I did snap this one of my baby girl with a sparkler. My 15 year old son won’t let me take any pictures of him and post. 🤣