Water bottle snowman craft

Every year, we make the cutest upcycling snowman craft using just a few materials that you most likely already have in your classroom.  This water bottle snowman craft  is perfect in place of guided reading during the holidays, or you can try it whole group. Materials for water bottle snowman craft Here’s what you need […]

Why Teachers Pay Teachers is both a blessing and curse

Let me start off by saying that Teachers Pay Teachers has been amazing for teachers to find meaningful lessons and resources to meet the needs of all of our little learners while making learning fun.  It’s brought teachers together in a collaborative forum where we can connect through social media.  I have been inspired by […]

A whole post dedicated to November

I don’t know about you, but these germs my little kiddos are bringing me are wrecking havoc on my poor immune system.  My month started with all of these goodies.  Then included 2 rounds of antibiotics.  What to do??? To start each month off, I always send home a family art project.  It gets the […]

Currently…November

I’m linking up again with Farley at Oh boy, 4th grade for another fun “Currently.”  How is it already November???  This year is just zooming on by.  I am in the middle of hosting a HUGE giveaway with 20 bloggers!  Have you entered yet? This is my contribution.  My kiddos began these activities during Literacy Workshop and are […]

Currently…October

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 […]