I don’t know about you all, but I am already thinking about next year (A LOT!)! At the beginning of the year in first grade we spend a lot of time going over short vowels and CVC words. I am creating a series of CVC Scoot games for my students. I love Scoot games because…
I love to cute-ify the worksheets and forms I use in my classroom. This year I created a new spelling test form for my students. I created several others and uploaded them to Teachers Pay Teachers as a freebie! (Also available on Teachers Notebook) Included in this FREE file are spelling test forms for tests…
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…
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 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…