I realize it’s been quite some time since I have posted anything on my blog. I’ve been having a pretty challenging time at school right now. I have a difficult class this year. Between the behavior issues, lack of motivation from students, having over half of my class struggle with reading phonics skills and all…
This year my district is requiring first grade students master the first 300 Fry words. At Halloween I made a fun Roll, Say, Keep game and now I’ve made Christmas ones too! They are available at Teachers Pay Teachers and Teachers Notebook!
During phonics and spelling instruction my students and I spend a lot of time making words. The students use letter tiles (plastic or paper). Whenever I use one of my making words worksheets that I made to use with Reading Street, I always open up a making words file on my SmartBoard. As I’m walking around watching…
I originally posted a bit about how I use Scott Foresman Reading Street in my classroom HERE. If you haven’t read that post and you are curious, I’d start there since I’m going to try to not repeat myself. Since that post I have received many emails and questions about more specifics. First of all,…
I love celebrating Johnny Appleseed’s birthday in the classroom! It gives me a good reason to bring all sorts of apple goodies into the classroom! During the week that John Chapman’s birthday falls (September 26th) my students sample one different apple item each day. I usually do applesauce, cider, juice, pie, and different types of…
What a busy week! I had a meeting on Monday, bus duty Tuesday, a full day of PD on Wednesday, and I’ve been working on a million things including three graduate class projects, adding apps to my iPad and two iPod touches I purchased for my classroom, and working on a big unit! Whew! I’m…