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I help busy teachers keep their students engaged with fresh ideas and creative, hands-on activities for their classroom. I believe learning can be rigorous and fun!

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I’m so happy you’re here! I’m Libby, and I love all things first grade – the curriculum, the content, and the sweet kiddos. I’m passionate about helping K-2 teachers save time in the classroom with fresh ideas and fun, effective resources. My spouse is in the military, so I’ve learned to be very adaptable while moving from school to school. We are currently stationed in Birmingham, Alabama with our two pups and a baby on the way! When I’m not creating or spending time with loved ones, you can find me online shopping or learning about the science of reading.

If you’re looking for hands-on, engaging activities for the primary classroom, you’re in the right place! Take a peek around, grab some freebies, and explore ideas on the blog. I can’t wait to connect with you, teacher friend!

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Camera roll dump from the last week because it’s b Camera roll dump from the last week because it’s been a crazy one!

We closed on our house. My sister got married in a snowstorm. We moved. Apparently we thrive on chaos 🤪

We are racing to get settled in our new home as soon as we can before Alex deploys later this month! Our kids and pups have all adjusted well so far. Hopefully that continues as we get unpacked these next few weeks!

I learned a lot as far as moving & showing a house with very little kids 😂 so if you’re moving soon with little ones I’m happy to share what worked for us!
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#3under3 #toddlermom #militaryspouse #momofmultiples #twinmama
It was Saturday morning and I was thrifting with m It was Saturday morning and I was thrifting with my 2-year-old. I found some summer clothes for him and then I saw this book in near-perfect condition and less than $2 (!!) If you’re unfamiliar with this book, it’s about showing compassion and love even in challenging times.

Knowing what I do now, I think I was meant to find this book that morning. Only hours later I would learn of another innocent civilian killed by ICE agents in Minneapolis. I watched the video. felt shaken and horrified. I felt hopeless. If a bystander helping someone isn’t safe, then who is? This isn’t the kind of place I want to raise my children.

We’ve lost our way. We’ve forgotten that we’re all humans deserving of love and compassion. No one should fear leaving their house.

Today I woke up feeling hopeful. Please call your legislators and ask them to put a stop to this. I shared in my stories two easy ways to do this and both take less than 5 minutes.

Use your eyes. Watch the bystander videos. Don’t just read headlines and regurgitate them without any evidence. The people you see belong to someone. That was someone’s child.

We are all human. We all deserve love and compassion.

#minnesota #ice #teachersofinstagram #motherhood #kidsdeservebetter
One part of being an adult that no one prepares yo One part of being an adult that no one prepares you for, is that you have to keep living your life even when it feels like the world crumbling around you.

Your heart is breaking for the events happening outside of your home, but you have to make the lunches and do school pick up and buy the birthday gifts. You feel hopeless and distraught, but you walk into the classroom and greet your students with a smile. You hug your kids a little longer before bed. You make sure they feel safe and loved, knowing that another child’s life has been thrown into turmoil because of the color of their skin. You read the headlines through tears and then mark your calendar for camp signups. 

The trauma these children are enduring is unacceptable. Imagine living in constant fear that someone you love could be taken from you. That when you come home from school one day, you might watch a masked man forcibly remove your parent, sibling, cousin, or aunt. That kind of fear can have lasting effects. 

There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.
- Nelson Mandela

Parenthood is political. Teaching is political. Existing in this country is inherently political because the policy enacted within it directly affects your life.

One day our kids will look back on this time in history and ask what we did. What will we tell them?

#minnesota #liamramos #ice #motherhood #teachingispolitical #motherhoodispolitical
I’m having a birthday sale! 🥳 Today I turn 33 and I’m having a birthday sale! 🥳

Today I turn 33 and to celebrate, my @teacherspayteachers store is 20% off today & tomorrow! Grab some February activities on sale 💌 Use the link in my bio to shop 🛒

Here’s what other teachers have been buying this month:
- Color by Code Addition & Subtraction Winter Page
- Parts of a Sentence Activities
- Martin’s Big Words Book Companion Activity
- Word of the Year Goal Setting Writing
- Conjunction Activities for And, Or, & But
- AR Pirate Activities for R-Controlled Vowels
- ED & ING Inflectional Ending Spelling Rules Mini Unit

Thank you for being a part of my teaching journey! I appreciate you!! 🩷
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Moving with kids prep 🚚📦 Alex deploys soon after Moving with kids prep 🚚📦

Alex deploys soon after we move, so I’m trying to make the transition to a new house as smooth as possible. Putting up pictures of our new home has gotten our toddler excited! He’s pointed to the different rooms and loves to go ‘see new house’ 🥹 and it was surprisingly easy to use AI to put our furniture in the listing photos!

What are your tips for moving with a toddler?! ⬇️

Motherhood | military family | toddler
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His words resonate now more than they ever have. His words resonate now more than they ever have. 

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.”

Given the state of our world today, we need role models like Dr. King more than ever.

On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, may we do more than post his quotes. Instead, may we reflect on how we can apply his principles in the way we treat others.

#mlk #drking #mlkday #mlkjrday
Re-sharing because sickness has just hit our house Re-sharing because sickness has just hit our house!

Cold & flu season prep 🤧

When my toddler had the stomach bug, it was so hard to get him to eat or drink anything to keep him hydrated. The one thing he was willing to eat was popsicles! So to prep for the coming sick season, I’m making a bunch of popsicles to keep in our freezer 👌

I like to keep our homemade popsicles simple, so for these, I used apples and bananas! This is 2 peeled & sliced apples and one small (very ripe 😅) banana that Alex tossed in our freezer. It made a ton to add to our popsicle stash!

Using the @babybrezza food maker is so much easier than using our blender! It has only 3 pieces to clean and it’s dishwasher safe - which you know I love!

The most annoying part of prepping food for my toddler when he was a baby starting solids, was cleaning all the different kitchen items needed to steam & blend. Plus steaming on the stove took so long! I’ll definitely be using this food maker all the time when the twins start solids 🙌

This is the third @babybrezza product we’ve used and we’ve loved them all! Our bottle washer runs multiple times a day and we used their bottle sterilizer constantly when our toddler was a baby. 

Buy at BabyBrezza.com for free shipping, easy returns & an extended 18-month warranty! 

@babybrezza is having a winter sale through January 21! 

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#ad @babybrezza #sponsor #MyBrezzaMoments #ParentSmarterNotHarder 

Motherhood | toddlers | mom life
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January is for all the good winter reads ❄️ I lov January is for all the good winter reads ❄️

I love reading about snowmen this month! You can incorporate snow in so many extension activities, like writing about how to build a snowman, studying the science of snow, or learning about symmetry with snowflakes! ☃️

Want more January read alouds? Comment link for the full list!
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