http://www.childswork.com/blog/2011/10/classroom-management-reconsidering-physical-classroom-structure/

Classroom Management: Reconsidering Physical Classroom Structure

Classroom management is actually broken up into three, distinct subcategories:

• Conduct Management
• Covenant Management
• Content Management

 This deals with managing

all parts of your classroom, from the ways things are set up to the rules the children must follow.

Great site for classroom arrangement and setup

http://tinkerlab.com/homemade-easy-low-cost-light-table/?utm_content=buffer463d5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Here is a great site!  https://www.facebook.com/TeachingIdeas?fref=nf  I could not confirm if it was run by practicing teachers but it always has great links.
This was today's link: http://www.ladybugsteacherfiles.com/2014/03/color-coding-classroom.html?utm_content=buffer00155&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

The Teaching Palette : http://theteachingpalette.com/category/blog/ is a blog for Art Teachers and anyone else interested in in depth art projects and instruction. This blog is filled with a crazy mixture of resources from building your own custom spinner to use as an aid for classroom management to
K-5 lesson plans . One such lesson plan for K was " What can you do with a dot?" (http://theteachingpalette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/What-Can-You-Do-With-A-Dot.pdf)
This was such a great lesson that sparked the kids imagination by giving them a small item and asking them to transform it into something else. I feel this is a wonderful resources where many teachers have come together to build and maintain a wonderful reservoir of teaching resources.

Schoolatic sponsors a site called " Top Teaching" located at http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/teaching-ideas   This site is filled with lesson plans, freebies, an various blogs from working Teachers and that in itself keeps me coming back. One of the areas I looked into was :
http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/top-teaching/2014/04/professional-resources-help-lesson-planning-process  This area gave great alternative options when creating diverse lesson plans.
I also like that it is supported by Scholastic because it will be kept updated and contain many resources available through the company including an "Everything you need" page " http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/teaching-themes/everything-you-need which offers ideas and resources for teaching themes for Prek thru 12.

I have been following another blog called  Funshine: Common core and more for exceptional kids at http://digitalanthology.blogspot.com/. In this blog, a lot of information is available for Teachers of children with special needs. All the material is user friendly and free to all who seek ways to enrich their students lives. There a tab called "freebies" which links to a Pinterest board full of teachers posts that share lesson plans, accommodations, adaptations and more. It is a wonderful resource and is set up to offer freely, the advice and lessons of teachers from around the country. On this Pintrest page I found lesson plans suggestions and activities from preschool to K-3 and most of it came with great graphic or pre-made handouts. This is a site dedicated to adaptations for children with special needs and it is rare to find such a resource that freely shares its successes.

I searched Google for Teacher's blogs and came across one that really impressed me. It was a site recomended by Scholastic Books. It is called : Ms. Cassidy's Classroom Blog :   http://mscassidysclass.edublogs.org/

Ms. Cassidy's class communicates with children in schools around the world. They have a global classroom with partner schools in Ireland and they are helping build a school in Kenya. I think that her activities are up to date and relevant. She and her class are working together with their community to fund-raise for a school and children they will probably never see. This lesson in caring for others less fortunate is a wonderful and meaningful life lesson for the students and the community supporting them.

 In her class of 6 year olds, 1st grade  children are on film answering questions from their  friends in Ireland, they then ask question back, this is done on video. It gives the children a chance to speak publicly and to find out some first hand information about what is happening to children in other parts of the world. This turned into a Social Study, Math and English lesson. The late thing they are doing is asking their own questions , this video will be sent to the children in Ireland and the connection will be complete. I like that her lessons include a lot of science and technology, the use of video, and pictures of pheasant eggs they are raising give evidence to this. their classroom is filled with different learning centers from a library area with headphones for books on tape to a science area with stethoscopes. All in all, the children always seem fully engaged and there are many visible signs of interactive learning throughout the blog.