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 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…
It’s Freebie Friday over at Teaching Blog Addict. I have not one, but TWO freebies for you lovely people. One goes along with the theme of “Christmas in July” that is fast approaching. I don’t know about you guys, but I love cute writing paper. I just can’t get enough of it! Freebie #1 is…
Mrs. Parker is having a linky party all about Fall Read Alouds. I LOVE books! Here are some of my favorites I use during the first week of school. I read my class the Magic Tree House series so we always start off with Book # 1: Dinosaurs Before Dark. Check out the Linky Party…