Don’t you just love those books that come along and touch your heart? The Hickory Chair is one of those (okay, I have to admit, there really are many, many) that mean something special to me. Making a connection to a story is important and is what we strive to teach our students. If you have not read The Hickory… View Post
Looking at the ceiling, wiggling in the carpet, staring at another group…Is this what you sometimes get from partner reading? Me too! Until I started holding the students accountable for time spent in reading together. I wanted my students to get all they could out of their reading time and I like for them to read in partners part of… View Post
I am so excited! I got to be a guest blogger today at Kreative in Kinder. Crystal has wonderful kindergarten ideas to share so be sure to hop on over to her blog and check it out! We missed two days of school this week due to snow and missed our Valentine’s Day parties. 🙁 But we got to make… View Post
Whew! We finally finished up our folktale/author study. We learned so many things about folktales and did so many comparisons and had a lot of fun along the way. I posted before about our first folktale in this unit and you can find it here. Our first folktale was Three Little Pigs. We then moved on to Red Riding… View Post
I have posted about Table Top Twitter before. Students like this activity as it is open ended and they can interact with everyone that they wish to interact with and express their own opinions. If you missed my earlier post, Table Top Twitter is a way to have students interact with authentic writing. You can choose a passage from the… View Post
Last night was just one of those nights! I had planned to offer the retelling freebie last night with my Wide-Mouthed Frog post. But the computer was not cooperating with me! Does this happen to anyone else??? So frustrating…Anyway, if you could use the retelling activity that I used with the pop-up book, The Wide-Mouthed Frog, I would be… View Post
One of my students’ favorite books is The Wide-Mouthed Frog by Keith Faulkner. It is a super fun pop-up book about a frog with a huge mouth. He meets different animal friends and asks them what they like to eat. One animal he meets is an alligator who likes to eat…you guessed it- wide-mouthed frogs!! The kids, of course,… View Post
