Tomorrow is my first official school day for the 2011-2012 school year! Tomorrow morning we have Superintendent’s Day which is basically where all teachers in the district have to watch the blood borne pathogens and sexual harassment videos. There’s a guest speaker and it’s pretty much a pep talk from the superintendent to have a…
I had a request for some ThistleGirl Magic Tree House inspired products. At first I was thinking the request was pretty crazy! The more I thought about it, the more excited I got! Let me go ahead and say “I do not own The Magic Tree House. Magic Tree House is © Mary Pope Osborne…
Open House is Monday night and school starts on Wednesday. I wish my summer wasn’t ending! I have spent a lot of time at the school last week and this week. I have all of the major things done. The thing I am most excited about is my word wall! A couple pf years ago…
I’ve been working all summer on “themed” products for classrooms. I’ve made name plates, PowerPoints that cna be used at Open House or Back to School Night, classroom newsletter templates, SmartBoard attendance files and a set of 40 different forms that can be used in the classroom (everything from grade book, calendars, nots, and substitute information…
I previously explained a little about how I use Scott Foresman Reading Street in my classroom. I have the students read the stories at their own pace and I do one-on-one conferences with each student. To help with my documentation and monitoring of student progress I created “running records” for each story in Units 1-5….
Okay, so I am basically re-inventing the wheel here because there are many Daily 5 stamina graphs floating around out there in cyberspace but I wanted to make my own. 🙂 UPDATE 2018: I designed these stamina graphs over 7 years ago! After I received an email from someone about them, I decided they needed…