Spelling is something that I struggle with… and so does big brother. I don’t mean that we struggle to spell words… I mean that we get bored with it. I get bored with teaching it a…
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Hello darlings! This post is an overview of the Word Study Program I use in third grade. Stick with me though, because you could do the same thing in your classroom, you just need some word lists. These pics will take you through the program step by step. It is a mash up of Words ... Read More about Differentiating Spelling in the Elementary Classroom
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Wondering what to teach in January? This post if full of great ideas, tips, and strategies to help you plan your lessons for this month.
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Hello darlings! This post is an overview of the Word Study Program I use in third grade. Stick with me though, because you could do the same thing in your classroom, you just need some word lists. These pics will take you through the program step by step. It is a mash up of Words ... Read More about Differentiating Spelling in the Elementary Classroom
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Boy was it a cold start back after winter break. I can take a few days of this weather, but I'm just about over it. Of course the cold did not slow us down in class. We made the most out of the 3 days and 5 hours that we had this week. (Monday was an admin. day and Thursday was a delayed start.) My goals for this week were to introduce our January math and literacy centers (all 21 of them), to do a little Daily 5 retraining, to launch Rocket Math (addition fact drills), to teach all about Y as a vowel, and to work in some fun New Year's activities. Quite a list for a short week. I'm happy to report that we fit everything in. :) My students are all about getting new centers. I change them out each month. I intro all of them over a day (or two) during a few mini lessons. After I explain and model all the centers, they are up and running. I love the year long review these centers provide. They also free me up to meet with students to do a little reteaching. In math this month we are working out of my Baby It's Cold Outside {10 Math Centers for January}. This packet includes work with addition, subtraction, number comparisons, number order, nonstandard measurement, time to the half hour, missing addends, and more. You can get a closer look by clicking on the picture. Below is a FREE center from this packet, Snowman Comparisons. With this center students will practice comparing numbers with the greater than and less than signs. Click on the picture for your own FREE copy. As for our literacy centers, we'll be working with the companion packet, Baby It's Cold Outside {10 Literacy Centers for January}. This packet includes work with rhyming words, long and short a discrimination, sentence sorting, contractions, synonyms, antonyms, compound words, sight words, and more. You can check it out by clicking on the picture. You can have a FREE center from this packet by clicking on the picture below. Hot Chocolate Blends provides your students practice with initial blends. After matching all the initial blend picture cards with the word cards, students will write their answers on the recording sheet. Besides our work with literacy centers and math centers, we also spent a bit of time practicing Y as a vowel. We started off by going over our anchor chart and brainstorming words that end with y. If you would like this anchor chart to use with your students, click on the picture. We talked about how most one syllable words that end with y have the long I sound. While most two (or more) syllable words that end with y have a long E sound. Students applied their vast knowledge of Y as a Vowel by doing various sorts, reading, and writing activities. We primarily worked out of my Words at Work {Seven Word Work Activities for Y as a Vowel}. You can learn more about this packet by clicking on the picture. If you would like a free copy of one of the activities from this packet, click on the picture below. It's a word sort with Y as long E and Y as long I. With all of this learning going on, we had to fit in some time for a little creativity. Plus, my walls were bare after all of our Christmas craftivities went home. We really needed some student artwork to liven the classroom. So . . . after reading some favorite New Year's themed books, we discussed resolutions. Students thought about personal resolutions and wrote them down. Then we made our New Year's Resolution Kids. Using the party blowout was certainly not an original idea, but I love it. The kids love using them too. I'm a little worried that the blowouts will be ripped on the Resolution Kids as soon as I send them home. For first graders, blowouts can be just too fun to resist. Maybe I need to get another set of blowouts to give my students when they take their projects home. We had a great week. Everyone seemed to be rested and ready to get back to our routine. Next week we'll be celebrating our 100th Day of School. I cannot believe we are already at the 100th Day point in the year. Time flies when you're having fun. Time also flies when you are super busy. Thanks for stopping by.
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Dots and Boxes is a pencil and paper game that probably every child (and adult!) has played at least one time in their lives! The great thing about Dots and Boxes, like Tic-Tac-Toe and Hangman, is that you only need a scrap of paper and a nubby old pencil to be able to play. Trust me, these are great games to keep the kids busy while you're sitting in the waiting room at the dentist's office for two hours while another patient has emergency surgery...or such like. So even though you don't need any special game board or paper to play, it's still fun to have a pre-printed board to play on. I've whipped up two different pages for you today. One has 2 small game boards and 1 medium game board. This sheet also includes some instructions, in case you and your children have forgotten the rules! The other sheet has one extra large game board on it. So choose your board and have fun playing with your kids. Or give them some sheets when they say they're bored and make them play with each other! (That option sounds best to me this summer!) Just click on the pages above to download the printable sheets from Google Drive.
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Welcome to Workshop Wednesday!! 🙂 Today is my LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!!! Oh my heavens, I can’t believe it. I can smell the sweet fragrance of summer just around the corner!! 🙂 Before I get into the meat of this post, I wanted to let you know that Workshop Wednesday will be changing JUST FOR […]
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Do you love finding new ways to bring math into the classroom? I have found my new favorite math game! We played FARKLE during summer school as a way to promote place value, addition, mental math and probability skills. Whether you use it for that purpose or make it a part of your indoor recess activities, your kids will LOVE this game! All you need is 6 dice or you can look for the Farkle tubs in your local Target or WalMart. I created some kid-friendly recording sheets that I wanted to make sure I shared with you! Click Me! Enjoy!
Pressure on students to obtain A's is having a harmful impact on stress, depression and anxiety levels. High school teacher David Cutler shares some ways to help students learn from setbacks and then move on.
