We have just finished up our cinquain poems to go with our books about sharks and dinosaurs. After reading and learning about sharks and reading about the dinosaur in a Danny and the Dinosaur book, we started examining cinquain word poems to see what we could notice about them. I decided we would do word cinquain poems rather than cinquains… View Post
Teacher Appreciation All Week!!
3- 6 Free Resources is having a teacher appreciation linky party! How were your teachers celebrated this week? We were being appreciated ALL week long! I must say it was wonderful, but I think I may have gained about 20 pounds this week from all of the celebrating! Our school and PTO was just so fabulous to us. 🙂 The… View Post
Thinking Tables
Need a quick, fun way for students to review information? Try doing a thinking table! I have wipeoff tables in my room, so this works wonderfully. If you don’t have these tables, you can still do the thinking table by laying a big piece of paper over them. Let your students know what kind of information you want them… View Post
Accordion Class Made Books
Do you make books with your class? Class made books are so popular with the students! They will be read again and again since they are the authors and illustrators. They value these books and will choose them over and over again to read. We have been doing The Little Red Hen and I found this wonderful poem to go… View Post
Shout Out Saturday!
Portable word walls! Caitlin from Kindergarten Smiles has posted about her thematic portable word walls. She is using these for her writing center to assist students with journal writing, writing stories and letters, etc… Can’t you just see how they could be helpful to students when writing informational text? You need to head over to her blog to see the… View Post
Tree Maps
Do you use tree maps in your classroom? I have been using them in mine and they really help the students organize their thinking and comprehension of the stories we read. Sometimes we do them together. You can do them in small groups or even individually. You can see the progression of the students’ thinking as you read the map. … View Post
Little Red Hen and Predictions
The Little Red Hen, a favorite of all youngsters. My students were of no exception. This version was a little different than some- the Little Red Hen made muffins instead of bread. We took a picture walk through the book and the kids really picked up on how hard she was working without any help. I was proud of how… View Post
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