How do you know when it’s summer? Do you sleep in every day? Do you have time to read something other than professional books? Maybe your alarm clock gathers dust as you sleep in every day! My husband always said he knew it was summer time because I always spent more money during the summer than I did during the… View Post
On Sunday, I posted about how our school made the decision to leave Accelerated Reader and go in a different direction. You can read about that post here. We decided that we could do better for our students and we want to promote reading for the pure joy and entertainment that it can bring rather than promote reading with rewards. … View Post
Have you ever heard a similar conversation (only with your name inserted instead of mine): “Mrs. Vines, Mrs. Vines! I made my AR goal!!!” This being said from an excited student and I follow up with “Great, I’m so happy for you!!” Then says excited student, “NOW I DON’T HAVE TO READ ANYMORE!!!” This comment has been said to me… View Post
Jeannie at Kindergarten Lifestyle is putting on a picture book linky! Everyone loves picture books, right? I know I do and I had a tough time narrowing this down to just one picture book! The Wide-Mouthed Frog is a fun and surprising book! First of all, it is a pop-up book and what kid doesn’t just get all excited for… View Post
We just recently had a huge reading party at our school. Every May we have a chocolate fountain as part of the festivities! The kids really enjoy that part! I don’t know if it is all that warm, gooey goodness cascading down or getting to dip all kinds of treats into that melted chocolate! This year, our librarian decided to… View Post
Do you use circle maps with your students? They are easy, but versatile to use. One of my classes was reading George Washington’s Mother. This book fit in so well with using a circle map to make all the information that the students were learning easier to manage. We also did a circle map as we read Freckle Juice, an… View Post
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
