This past Friday, a couple colleagues from school and I went to a workshop put on by Fun to Teach ELD. As the name suggests, it was fun! We discussed teaching ELD as a pull-out program and also teaching in the classroom by integrating into our regular content. The ...
Most of you know I am following the Clutter-Free Classroom's project for cleaning and organizing my classroom. Last week's assignment was to sort through stuff and purge! I did work on it, but I'm not done yet. That closet. Ugh. I think I need to get ...
Thanks to Pottery Barn, I now know about National Organization Day! I've been following The Clutter-Free Classroom's Project for a clean and organized classroom. Here's this week's challenge: My list of things to do in my classroom: Finish sorting an labeling all my ...
Success! Remember how I was afraid? Well, the MLK projects turned out awesome!! I used this lesson plan from Dick Blick to figure out how to do positive/negative art. Remember my original inspiration from this pin? Over at Educated...Not So Domestic, ...
With next Monday being Martin Luther King, Jr. day, my class has been learning about MLK and civil rights this week. On Monday, we read Martin's Big Words and also an easy reader biography about Rosa Parks. We talked about some vocabulary words such as racism, prejudiced, ...
Welcome to my classroom! Here are some pictures to guide you around my new room in 3rd grade! I took advantage of the room move and grade level move to make many changes this year. First up, you'll see my writing board. I have some charts up about small moments, ...
This past summer I had the pleasure of attending a training for OCDE Project GLAD® in the McMinnville School District in Oregon. OCDE Project GLAD® (Guided Language Acquisition Design) is a model for teaching to all students, specifically students who speak ...
Pinterest gives me so many ideas for craft projects (see them on my other blog Nicole's Crafting Adventure!) and also for classroom lessons and projects. At the beginning of this school year, I made many things for my new classroom. I moved rooms and moved up two grades, so I wanted my new space to be different and exciting. This project was to not only look good, but create storage and a seating ...
