I don’t know about your students, but mine seem fascinated by the changes characters can go through in a story! We have been having some great discussions about this. I use that roller coaster visual to help them “see” the changes and it really helps. We started off with Finklehopper Frog- great story about a frog wanting to fit in… View Post
I’ve got some wiggly little ones. ย I bet you do too! ย Several of my students have a hard time keeping their pockets down on the chair and not moving all over the place. ย After a lot of research into alternative seating, I decided to give it a try and see if it helps my distracted students. These are Hokki stools… View Post
We were Feeling Groovy for our Family Literacy and Math Night! Our Family Night is the same night as Scholastic book fair so we used the same theme they were using for our school literacy night- Feeling Groovy! One of the really great things about our Family Night is our prize drawing table. We had scooters, Kindles, a Chromebook, 2… View Post
My sight word activities this year have included a lot more movement for my active learners. ย Learning our sight words has been a bit more of a challenge for some of my kindergartners. ย A few are struggling to learn and keep those sight words learned. ย This group is also a very active and mobile bunch so I have switched… View Post
We do a lot of work during RTI to strengthen and improve reading fluency in our students. ย For students who struggle with reading, fluency can be a major block for them. ย I have made it a goal to work on improving fluency in both RTI groups and my guided reading groups. ย ย One way to help this problem is… View Post
On this RTI journey, we have learned a lot of things. We meet as a committee after each cycle to decide whether students have made enough progress to move back into the classroom for Tier I instruction. Sometimes that decision is clear and an easy one to make…sometimes not so much. If the student has made good progress in… View Post
Infer…isn’t this skill hard for some of our students? I know some of mine struggle with it. So we created an anchor chart with visuals to help us understand what the author sometimes doesn’t tell us but wants us to be able to figure it out. There are a lot of books that can be used to teach students how… View Post
