When I taught public school, our school used the Four Blocks Literacy Model for reading and writing. The four blocks are guided reading, self-selected reading, writing, and working with words (phonics). One of the activities both my students and I always enjoyed was simply called “Making Words”. Students were given a big word (which was […]
Right before the Christmas break, we wrapped up a huge thematic unit I created on animals. We were taken on a fun adventure around the world by Bert the Animal Expert, where we learned about a different animal group on each continent. We studied amphibians, reptiles, spiders, mammals, insects, fish, and birds. We also learned […]
This winter emergent reader for kindergarten is one of the first products I created when I started my TPT store. I recently gave it a complete makeover with new clip art and added a digital version in Google Slides, too. Let me give you a sneak peak of this FREE resource! Print Emergent Reader The […]
This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. Last night, we had a family movie night. We decided a couple of weeks ago what our pick would be: Elf. My kids haven’t seen it and I hoped they’d find it as funny as we did when we first saw […]
This post contains affiliate links to products I recommend. Read my full disclosure statement. On Fridays this December, I’m going to try to incorporate some Christmas fun into our day. I think I’m going to focus on one Christmas-related theme each Friday, with the first one being reindeer. In planning for this day, I created […]
I’m busy planning and creating a few Thanksgiving activities for us to do next week. I pinned this pin a few months ago about students imagining looking at a character in a book through a keyhole and then writing and drawing about them from that perspective. I loved that idea, and when I was thinking […]
This fall, I’ve been teaching a Pre-K and Kindergarten art class at a local co-op that we attend. Each week, I read a book and then we make a craft or piece of art based on the book. I knew I wanted to read a book about owls and then make some type of owl […]
I’ve dubbed this school year “The Year of Fractions” for my daughter. She’s currently in Singapore Math 4A and she’s been working with fractions almost since the beginning of school. She’s been adding and subtracting them, writing them as mixed numbers, changing improper fractions to mixed numbers, and simplifying them to boot. When it came […]
I came across a pin the other day about helping students set academic goals for themselves and I just loved the idea! Setting, working towards, and achieving goals is a powerful skill that will help students not only be successful now, but also in the future. This is learned skill they can benefit from for a […]
I love our morning meeting and calendar time but this year I’m going to do things a bit differently. I’m going to add in the use of a calendar notebook. We’ll start by filling in the date on our monthly calendar. This is a great place to practice not only the days of the week […]