I’ve had several people asking me for an Owl theme. I decided to attempt this by creating my own Owl graphics. I think they turned out pretty cute! I’ve done an Owl Newsletter and Owl Attendance theme so far. I may do a more “traditional” owl theme later (brown owls) but these owls are colorful!…
Well, I survived my second full week of school – the longest week ever. I had a graduate class on Monday night that’s over an hour away. Tuesday I got a sinus infection. When I have one it lasts for-ev-er! I have had major, MAJOR drama with the mother of one of my students the…
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…
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…