In preparation for President's Day, my class also learned about National Symbols. I purchased a unit from What the Teacher Wants, then decided to add in a research article and an art project around the bald eagle. My friend Michelle from Third Grade Al Dente posted about this ...
I'm following and linking up to The Clutter-Free Classroom's project for organizing my classroom. I've done a ton of work so far: gave you a tour of my classroom in the "Before" stage, cleared off a shelf of my stuff so student supplies can go there, cleaned out and organized ...
In my classroom, we do the Daily 5 during reading time. While an assistant and I are meeting with small groups to work on strategies or do assessments, the other students are engaged in reading activities that require minimal set-up on my part: Read to Self, Work on Writing, Listening ...
Rachel from the Sub Hub tagged me as "it"! 12 Random Facts About Me: I am married to my college sweetheart and have two children - a boy and a girl. My son's 6th birthday is tomorrow!!! I don't really like dogs, but we have one. He's ok. My first year of teaching was ...
These past couple of weeks, I have been linking up with the Clutter-Free Classroom to help organize my classroom a bit. I've already purged old teaching materials and files, cleaned off an entire rack that now can house student materials, re-organized a bookshelf for my ...
I love scouring my local Goodwill for children's books for my classroom. They have such good prices! I also find other great books at Goodwill, just for me. I got my copy of Marley and Me for $0.99, a first edition of Mosaic of Thought (see my post on reading comprehension ...
