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
Working with words: stretching them out, counting the sounds, clapping syllables…. This is something I have my struggling readers do each week. The students seem to really like working with the words and the sounds that they hear. It is fun to watch them work through the steps and how their facial expressions change when they see the numbers. … View Post
My friend, Tammy, over at Forever in First has a great post on first graders and fluency. Fluency is such an important part of good reading. It is something that some readers continue to struggle with. Students need be able to read quickly with meaning, but not so fast that they are just spitting out the words as fast as… View Post
