Creative Tips & Resources for Busy Teachers
I must admit that I have a love-hate relationship with Word Walls. What’s not to love about how students can use the word walls to assist in writing, and practice reading high frequency words? Nothing! Except how much room they take up. I have one large bulletin board in my classroom
Today I was listening to NPR in my car and heard this great news I wanted to share with you. The senate is trying to re-write no child left behind with some changes that teachers and students alike have been sorely needing. The news program was on NPR and the
I was working on updating my February writing prompts packet to include student word banks and graphic organizers when I realized I had no idea how to actually spell Puxatawny Paxatoune Pawksatawney Punxsutawney Phil’s name. So, I googled it and discovered that he has a whole website which includes activities
(Yes, that is a 7 foot tall snowman behind my hubby less than1/2 way through the storm) I am currently snowed in from the Blizzard of 2013. I have had 3 snow days so far, and I just got a text notification that we have no school tomorrow either. Blah!
I’m still plodding my way through creating Reader Response Journals for students to use specifically with their Rigby guided reading books. I am working toward reader’s workshop, but I want to make sure my students practice answering specific questions about the text, and work on their vocabulary
Yeah!!!!!!!! We got the snow day we’ve been wanting. 🙂 I got so caught up on housework, played games with my kiddos, built snowmen, and made a sight words game. The game is called Broken Hearts and these are the directions: Set up: · Print 1 copy of the game
It seems today that everyone “has the flu”, knows someone who “has the flu”, or is imminently in danger of contracting the worst flu ever! LOL – I think we just really really need a snow day. Just in case you really do get the flu the last thing you
My school uses the Rigby Literacy by design program for guided reading. I love the books and generally spend 3-4 days on a book with each group. My high group is ready to move to a bit more of independent written response activities than before. As a result I created
I was listening to a report on NPR this morning while I was driving in to work. In the report they said that an experiment was run on American students and Japanese students where they were both presented with a difficult math problem to solve. The American children gave up
Hi all, For those of you who have grabbed the October, and November prompts packs I want you to know that the December Prompts pack is finished and up in my TpT store. Get it here for only $1.00.