With winter around the bend, my classroom is becoming a winter wonderland!  We will start out December with our study on Holiday Customs Around the World. I LOVE these fun activities! In addition to those activities, we ensure word work is engaging and meaningful with some fun games and practice opportunities from Working in a […]

Do you ever need to fill a few minutes in class? Want those minutes filled with something meaningful? Also want those minutes to require very little (hopefully nothing) from you? Wouldn’t it be nice if those minutes incorporated some high-level thinking and schema cementing tasks? Yeah, me too! That’s where Daily Schema Review comes in. […]

I’m sharing a few of my favorite March activities with you today. I cannot believe we are already heading into March! The post is long, but filled with all sorts of word work and writing fabulousness and a FREEBIE, too!! A couple of things happen when March rolls around each year. I get a little […]

Do your kids ever do this? Time and time again I find that my little peeps struggle when they try to “clap the syllables” or tap their “head/shoulders/hips” to find the syllables. They’ve been taught this technique by previous teachers and it works ok. But when you’re a beginning reader and are just diving into […]

Carson Dellosa recently sent me a couple of products to try out in my classroom. Both focus on Differentiation and Stem. I excitedly added them to my lesson plans in October. Differentiated Reading for Comprehension The Differentiated Reading for Comprehension Resource Book worked as a great change for my guided reading groups. However, I must add that […]

I think classroom environment is important. It’s important that all that your students’ environment is not only fun to look at, but engaging and meaningful as well.   Whenever possible, I try to ensure that whatever I put on my walls can serve many purposes including beautiful decor. Hey – we spend a lot of […]

I’ve known and worked with a couple of the teachers that man our Kindergarten team for nearly 20 years! They are amazing kindergarten teachers and work their tails off to ensure those kiddos are ready for first grade. One of the concepts they begin with each school year is color recognition and our entire school […]