back to school bee news template

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Those back to school newsletters might arrive differently this year. When I started teaching we mailed out newsletters with meet the teacher information and supply requests.  This year teachers may send them inside our LMS along with those paper copies (still nice to hang on the fridge). I made a newsletter template with a bee theme because Honey Bee Day is in August! Click to make a copy. I think including a QR code with a video of you saying a quick hello would be awesome, too! Flipgrid would be a great choice for this because it could be a mini-introduction to that tool if you plan to use it more- or could even include a request to respond to the newsletter on a grid.

Stuck on getting started? Here are some ideas and resources for building a back to school newsletter. I used Euphorigenic from a font generator to make a couple of these font titles and google slides for the template along with the fun bee bitmojis available! Bee productive with those slides, y’all.

doodle adventures

Screen Shot 2020-07-09 at 10.55.24 AMI am a firm believer in sketchnoting and the bullet journal, so it gives me great satisfaction to doodle coloring sheets with a message for a board at our school. Students usually help me fill it in when they are at recess or on a brain break. This year I have no idea how that will work, so I guess I am just hopeful doodling at this point. I decided to video it this time to show that I keep at it until it’s done… everyone can doodle.

“Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.”
Henri Cartier-Bresson

#summerpd hyperdoc of staple resources

I have fomo when it comes to PD in the summer, especially this summer when we are facing the unknown for the 2020-1 school year. I created this blended/remote learning hyperdoc to highlight some staples I’ve used in face to face and online instruction. And even though I have used all of them before, I haven’t taken advantage of ALL of the PD each resource has. Check out the hyperdoc below to see if you are an expert level on these essential parts of teaching life!

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