My school uses Scott Foresman Reading Street. There are things I like and do not like about this series. Luckily, my principal pretty much lets us teach reading however we choose and does not make us use the series the way it is laid out. That’s a post for another time! I do closely follow…
How many of you use The Great Poetry Race in your classroom? I started using it this year, and I love it! Basically, students practice a poem all week. They read the poem to family, neighbors, other adults and each time they read it, the person they read to signs their paper. The purpose is…
I’ve had a great day! I woke up this morning to find I had sold a few products on TeachersPayTeachers. Then I discovered that someone made a very generous donation to my first Donor’s Choose project that I submitted a couple of weeks ago! I.AM.SO.EXCITED!! Crate and Barrel also made a contribution to my project!…
I’ve been working on more fraction activities for this week. I ran across a fraction kite activity a couple of years ago. It was great, but didn’t quite fit the needs of my class. I created my own fraction kite activity today. It is on TpT for $2.00 but the first person to comment here…
I opened a TeachersPayTeachers store! I will posting freebies there as well as items for sale. Next week my class will be learning about fractions. Last year I created a simple Pizza Fractions worksheet. Well today I spent almost the whole day re-vamping the worksheet (making it MUCH cuter!) AND I created a 20 slide SmartBoard…
In 2011, I created one of my most popular products -Â blank I Have/Who Has cards. My students always loved playing with these cards! They loved to challenge themselves and see how quickly they could get through all of the cards. I would write their time on the board (how long it took to get through…