Amazon Teacher Must Haves

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I am so excited to share some Amazon teacher must haves with you all!  I have rounded up my top picks for teacher survival, games, phonics, reading, math, and classroom management.  Whether this is your first year teaching, moving grade levels, or you’re just wanting to add some new ideas to your classroom – I hope that you will find this post helpful!

Amazon Teacher Must Haves 

Let’s start shopping and get you ready to teach like a boss!

 First up! Teacher Survival! Here are my top 5 picks for surviving the school year! 🙂

Yeti Cup: I love these cups! They keep your water, soda, or coffee, ice cold or hot all day long! They come in several different colors!

Astrobrights Colored Paper: This paper can be used for so many different things in your classroom! Crafts, parent notes, newsletters, tags, anchor chart letters are some that I can think of right off the bat.

Laminator and laminator sheets: I loved having keeping one of these laminators in my classroom. Anytime I needed something laminated quickly – it came to the rescue! It also has a handle on the end so you can transport it to and from school.

Rae Dunn Planner: Who doesn’t need a cute, light weight planner to take to and from school meetings, as well as to and from the classroom?!

Comfy dress and shoes: These t-shirt maxi dresses are so comfy! They truly fill like you are working in your pajamas.  You can pair it with booties or tennis shoes for the fall/winter,  and sandals for the spring/summer! You can also layer these dresses with kimonos and cardigans! These dresses come in several different colors.

Here are more color options for the dress

These shoes are comfy for standing on your feet all day!

Alright, now let’s look at some items for classroom games that you will be able to use over and over again!

Top 5 Amazon Picks for Classroom Games

These Magnetic Whiteboard Spinners were a staple in my classroom! We used them for just about every subject! Here is an example of one way we used them.

I would spin the spinner and students had to show that time on their analog clocks that they had at their table.  We made this game into table races so the first table to all show the correct matching time, received a point.  We also used them for practicing word families, reading comprehension questions, and building words.

 Sticky Notes: These are another great thing to keep on hand in your classroom.  Here is a look at how we used them for fractions, place value, independent work, and games!

Suction Cup Balls: My students LOVED using these! We used them to practice our sight words, phonics skill, and several different math concepts.  For example, students got in two teams in front of the board and each team had a suction cup ball.  I would call out a word, and they threw the ball onto the board.  The team that landed on the correct word, got a point!

Jumbo Inflatable Dice and Number Bean Bags: How fun are these?!? You could use these during whole group instruction to generate numbers for your math lesson.

Top 5 Picks for Reading

Dry Erase Circles and erasers: These  dry erase circles are sticky on the back.  I used these on my guided reading table for students to write words or responses on.  Each student at the table had one.  They were much easier than having students bring a whiteboard to and from the table!

How fun are these minion erasers for your students to use at the small group table as well?!

These plain colored ones are great too!

This Magnetic Table Top Easel  is great to keep at your guided reading table to use during your lesson. It’s small enough to keep out on the table or place on a shelf.

Write On Dice are great to keep at your small group table to write comprehension questions on.  You could also use them with word families and building words.

Have you seen these Snap Word Sight Word Cards? I love how they are visually exciting to students plus the visual aides on the words help student with recalling the words. These are great!

Top 5 Pick for Phonics

These Giant Magnetic Letters are such a manipulative to have on hand when introducing letter formation.  Let your students come to the whiteboard to construct the letters.  You could also call out a letter sound and have a student build that letter.  Put them in a station or use them for STEM!

These Alphabet Stencil Cards are great for a word work station.  Students can trace the letters in a word.

Stamps and Play-Doh are always a hit for word building.  Students can stamp out their words in the Play-Doh or they can use the Play-Doh to form the letters in the word they are spelling.

Letter Unifix Cubes are another great manipulative to have on hand for your word work stations.

If you are wanting magnetic cubes for your whiteboard – guess what?!? Amazon has those too!

These magnetic letters can be used over and over again in your classroom! Put them in a station for word building or you can use them during your guided reading time on the magnetic table top easel to build words. There are uppercase and lowercase options.

 

Top 5 Picks for Math

Unifix cubes are a definite staple for your math manipulatives! These can be used for counting, addition, subtraction, game counters, classroom management, graphing, and STEM.

Plastic Sleeves can be used to put a recording sheet in and use it for a partner game rather than a worksheet.

Spinners! These are a great alternative to using a paper clip and pencil!

Magnetic Ten Frames and a Magnetic Rekenrek Board are wonderful to use during your whole group lessons as well as during number talks. We used these daily during math time!

Top 5 Classroom Management Picks

This Dry Erase Tape can be used on student’s desks to write their name on or you could even use it to leave positive notes to students on their desks! One year I had a parent use this tape inside their child’s take home folder to write notes to me regarding transportation from school. We also used it for daily communication back and forth.

Sit Spots can be used for carpet spots or even for classroom games!

These Pull, Stretch, and Squeeze Stress Balls are great to keep on hand for cool down time if a student needs them.

I love these Clear Plastic Poly Envelopes and use them quite often! They are a great way to keep RTI group materials organized because they are color coded and have a place on the front for a label.

Magnetic Timers are wonderful to have in the classroom! You can put them on your whiteboard and they are a great visual for your students on how much time they have to complete a task.

Whew! That was a LOT of goodies to share, but I hope that you find something in this post to use in your classroom!

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