How in the world is it already October??? I’ve already been in school for 35 days…what??? I love cute writing paper, especially since student writing is posted all over our room. I created these little packet to engage your sweet writers. I use this paper as part of our daily journal writing, thematic writing, and […]
Simple way to make a magnetic place-value board for your calendar!
I couldn’t find a place-value pocket chart at the teaching store this weekend so I created something similar. After several years of experience, I found that my students weren’t correlating bundling straws for place value {like a lot of place-value pocket charts use} so I switched one year to using place-value manipulatives, since this is […]
Halloween High Frequency Activities
We know how important High Frequency (HFW), or Sight words are. These are words the most common words students will come across. Knowing these words automatically will give students time to focus on other decoding strategies and comprehension. I don’t know about you, but having students do the HFW activities from our reading series is […]
Listen & Sketch: A great teaching strategy for visualizing
This activity was created by Marcia Brechtel, the creator of Project GLAD. Project GLAD is a program that has amazing strategies for English Language Learners, but it works well with all learners. This is one of my favorite activities because it takes zero prep! We have to supply our own paper in my district so […]
How to get whiteboards for a bargain!
What student do you know who doesn’t love to use a white board. We know how spendy they can be, so…I bought a huge piece of white/gloss hardboard at Lowe’s and the kind workers there cut it into 24 pieces for me. It only cost 12.00 for 24 of them, what a deal!!!
High Frequency/Sight Word practice
We practice High Frequency Words (HFW) sight words daily, throughout the entire day! I know how important they are for my kiddies, especially when it comes to fluency. When students can read the sight words with automaticity, they can focus on decoding and comprehension. Here are some activities we love using to reinforce them during […]
Kid President’s Pep Talk to Teachers and Students!
I love him to pieces.
Working on my classroom transformation
I was fortunate to get hired in a new district the day school started. So I had 4 days to get my room together. Lots of late nights, caffeine, and lunch breaks to keep me going. Couldn’t have done it without my boyfriend and family. Future library, computer, listening center, and word wall Future writing […]
Table Points and Classroom Management
Classroom management is THE most important thing in my classroom. One management tool I use is for group management. Over the years, I’ve used a few different table point systems and this is by far my favorite and most effective. I have 5 table groups and my kiddos are grouped heterogenous. Some years I have […]
I've been back at school for over a week…sneak peek!
I’m teaching a 1/2 combo this year so these were our first day photo props…glasses and all! I’m color-coding everything, first graders are green and second are blue. Watching little ones do jumping jacks is quite a sight to see, cracks me up year after year! Yikes…a before photo of my room! New book bins […]
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