Childhood books and childhood pictures….what a fun wat to celebrate Read Across America! My para-professional got this idea from our librarian and put this together (she is the BEST para-professional!). This one board has been the area all the students and teachers alike have been gathered lately to see if who can guess which teacher is in each picture. Some… View Post
Debbie at Rainbows Within Reach is having an organize your classroom linky party! If you are wanting to get organized this summer, you will want to join in the fun! All kinds of organization will be represented. My organizational topic is anecdotal records. 🙂 Anecdotal records…written records on how students are doing, notes on student progress or areas of weakness. … View Post
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
