Linnea Harper

Wife, mom of 2 college grads and 1 college junior, 1st Grade Teacher, and Triathlete. Life is a journey, not a destination...enjoy the ride!

[TeacherGoals @teachergoals]

How to be a good teacher:

1. Set high, but reasonable, standards.
2. Hold students to those standards.
3. Let students fall (don't bail them out at the first sign of struggle).
4. Help students back up.
5. Love your students.

#kidsdeserveit #teachergoals

[Linnea Harper @LSHarper1]

The Miners and Herbie came to visit us at school this morning to get us excited about reading. They even read us a great baseball story! @SWR_CEL #sussexcountyminers #Herbie #minersreadtoachieve #baseball

[Linnea Harper @LSHarper1]

We had a blast testing our foil boats today. Some held just 8 pennies while others held more than 140! #youngengineers #STEAM #sinkorfloat @celprincipal @SWR_CEL

[Linnea Harper @LSHarper1]

I love when we get to be Engineers and design our aluminum foil boats. Today we predicted and tested how many pennies our boats would hold before they’d sink #youngengineers #STEAM

[Brad Weinstein @WeinsteinEdu]

The best team you can have is composed of people with different perspectives and strengths. If everyone is always agreeable and thinks in the same way, the status quo will never be challenged. #collaboration #teachergoals

[TeacherGoals @teachergoals]

Me: During prep I'm going to grade three sets of papers, make 5 positive phone calls home, plan for tomorrow, and get caught up on email.

*Me on prep:

[Linnea Harper @LSHarper1]

Despite the cold and rain outside, we had a great inside Beach Day today! We compared groups of goldfish, wrote beach stories using our five senses, and then went fishing for CVCe words! Of course there was dancing and surfing all day too!

[TeacherGoals @teachergoals]

If we can teach kids to be anything, we should teach them to be kind #charactercounts #teachergoals

[Linnea Harper @LSHarper1]

We started looking for a “Secret Student” today and here he is! Each day we hope to have another one. It’s so much fun for me to watch them self-monitor and make adjustments to their behavior just by hearing me say, “Could it be you?” @celprincipal @SWR_CEL

[Linnea Harper @LSHarper1]

Coco got into our Snowball Sight Word center today and buried herself in the “snow”. #onemoreday #elfontheshelf #funinfirstgrade

[Barbara Prillaman @baprillaman]

@teachergoals @WarnerPrincipal We have work to do....thanks for reminding us!

[Linnea Harper @LSHarper1]

Coco didn’t return to Santa last night. 😥 This morning she was still sitting with our reading buddies. Santa sent a letter telling us that she stayed in the same spot to see if we’d be more mindful today at rug time. #fingerscrossed🤞🏻#secondchances

[Linnea Harper @LSHarper1]

Yesterday we found Coco in with our reading buddies. She had her Word Detective badge and was zooming in on a good book. #ourelfisreading

[Linnea Harper @LSHarper1]

They found Coco this morning hiding next to the class gum ball machine. #crazyelf #9daystogo

[Linnea Harper @LSHarper1]

Today we found Coco doing a little Christmas decorating! #5daysin #10morehidingspots #clasself

[Linnea Harper @LSHarper1]

There’s no better way to learn about the phases of the moon than with Oreos 😊 @celprincipal

[Linnea Harper @LSHarper1]

Our elf Coco was playing with our BoxTops all day. Hopefully her being in the bucket helped remind the kids to clip and bring in their BoxTops!

[Linnea Harper @LSHarper1]

Coco was watching and reminding us to use our Magic E wand as we practiced our long vowels #elfontheshelf #alwayswatching

[Linnea Harper @LSHarper1]

Coco our class elf arrived yesterday! Though was a bit camera shy yesterday, this morning we caught her napping with Baby Echo above the Smartboard 😊

[Linnea Harper @LSHarper1]

They did it! They earned their Word Detective badges! Meet the newest first grade Word Detectives 😎 #readers #solvinghardwords #goodreadinghabits