About Math Journals
Just a quick post to share some helpful hints on how we are using our math journal in first grade this year! Last year we embarked on math journaling. At…
Math Professional Development Information
Just a quick post to share some helpful hints on how we are using our math journal in first grade this year! Last year we embarked on math journaling. At…
I have been lean on literacy practice these days and really wanted to beef up our practice on some key concepts. I created a printable literacy practice unit to help…
Here’s what works for us! First up on Friday afternoon I stock this 5 drawer unit with the activities for the following week. This is a picture from last year. …
Can we all just breathe a big sigh of relief for a second….aaaaaaaaaaah. GOODBYE October. I love a great themey month full of fun, but red ribbon week, parent teacher…
This year I implemented a new system for guided reading. It really isn’t “new”, but it is a compilation of everything that I have gathered from here, there, and everywhere…
Today I am joining in on a blog hop about interactive notebooks! In the beginning I was a reluctant convert to interactive notebooks, but have come full circle! I adore…
You and I both know that perfect is not what we want at all! Nothing is perfect! We want improvement! Gains! Strides! I have never taught a perfect day. I…
Back to School We are two days into the school year and I feel like we have covered so much and yet I am staring straight up at a steep…
The last time I blogged, I shared some pictures from classrooms in my school. I assure you we could do this every day for a month, and I would still…
Since I have already shared my classroom reveal this year, I wanted to share some of the incredible classrooms in my school! If you missed my classroom post you can…
Teacher week has been a long standing FAVORITE blogging week of mine! I fell in love with blogging because I jumped into other teacher’s lives through their blogs. This week…
If you read my last post about my writing center, you know I am trying to build a bank of meaningful center activities that allow students to practice concepts directly…
This year I am excited to have some fresh ideas that will bump up the engagement and relevancy of daily data! Over the years I have used magnetic student numbers…
We have over a week until our Meet the Teacher night, but time tends to go warp speed right before school starts so I took a little time this morning…
One area I want to improve on this coming school year, is the writing center. I want students to practice specific skills in an engaging hands-on way. This way I…
Setting up guided math is a lot like setting up guided reading. Slow and steady wins the race brings sanity for the year. Don’t be in a rush to get…
Whew…it happened. I got to a happy place in the room today. I hope it will be a wonderful space for my incoming first graders. Before we start with the…
One of the ways I love to keep myself and my students organized is by labeling everything. One, there’s no guesswork, two, students learn to recognize the words and what…
I have compiled my pictures of word work from last year into one post in hopes of showing how we organize and teach word work all in one neat and…
Once I figured out the template for the All About Me Flip Up Book, I knew I HAD to create some resources for reading response and writer’s workshop. I am…
I have blogged about math journals before, but I hope to share a few new tips in this post today! {Previous Math Journal Posts Here and Here and Here}…
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