Who else is swooning over all things cactus? I'm sure by now you've all seen the cactus classroom obsession. Isn't it just about the cutest thing EVER? I mean HEL-LO CUTENESS! One of the many things that I love to teach during the first few weeks of school is our classroom climate + kindness + how we are going to treat each other. This is such an important thing to establish right off the bat. Like SO important! … [Read more...]
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Back to School Icebreakers plus a FREEBIE
Who's already prepping for their back to school week?!? One of my very favorite things about the first few weeks of school is getting to know my students,....and my students getting to know one another. I just love it! They are so eager and excited about their new classroom, teacher, and friends! I put together several fun and interactive icebreaker activities, as well as interactive team building activities and games to use during those first … [Read more...]
How to Catch Santa FREEBIE!
I love Jean Reagan's whole "how to" book series. They are THE cutest ever! When I came across her, How to Catch Santa, on Amazon...I knew I had to get it! It is just as precious in real life! Last week we read the book and then came up with a plan on how we would catch Santa if we could. I got so tickled at some of these!! Afterwards, my students wrote out their steps of how they would catch him on this little … [Read more...]
Frying up FRY words!
I don't know about y'all, but I am always trying to brainstorm ways to get my students motivated and excited about increasing their sight word fluency. I have been trying something new this year with my class that I shared over at Blog Hoppin', and I wanted to share with you all here too! My district uses Fry's sight words. Each grade level is given a particular set to assess each student on. Our goal is that each child will … [Read more...]
Catching up with Back to School activities
Since I am not one to cook, much less prepare a meal ahead of time, I wanted to catch up on our back to school activities that we have done the past few weeks. Bare with me as I let the pictures do most of the talking. Here are a few of my favorites to do each year. Last week we read If You Take a Mouse to School and completed this text connection. You can find the mouse templates plus the writing stem here and … [Read more...]
Adverb FREEBIE and suffixes!
Have I told you all how excited I am about summer?! I mean 12 more days and I can sleep in!! Hallelujah! We have started a summer countdown chain in our room that looks similar to this one. I saw it weeks ago on Pinterest and knew I had to do! Not quite sure if it has been more helpful or more of a teaser but hey, it is getting the job done! Pic is via Pinterest Although we are counting down our days,…we are still making every … [Read more...]
Wrapped up Prepositions, slides, and left over pumpkins….
There is just NOT enough hours in the day to squeeze everything in. SOOOO….tomorrow, we are in deed, playing catch up!!! Tomorrow, we will work with prepositions {mainly prepositions for *where*}. Geez. Those little things are TRICK.EE!! I wanted to make it fun for my kiddos to learn so, after brainstorming with Mr. Hudgeons, he helped me come up with this little idea!! Santa’s bag and a present! The plan is to have the kiddos discuss all … [Read more...]
Naughty and Nice visitors
After Duck Dynasty, a Sunkist, and going on a night time sight word hunt with Rapunzel, I am ready to share what we have been up to. Last week, in phonics, we learned about the *th* brother! He is the naughty one that likes to stick his tongue out. So after formally meeting him…. we were ready to go on a *th* hunt! We used our story in our Journey’s reading book to find words that had Mr. TH himself! After finding their words, the kiddos … [Read more...]
Classroom Management Linky
Hi friends! I am linking up with What the Teacher Wants to share how I do classroom management in my room. I cannot take credit for either of these ideas, but I had to share them because they are just that good!! When my amazing co-worker and blogging buddy, Shannon Kirby shared this idea with me of doing “Behavior makes Cents”…I knew I had to do it in my room. It is amazing. Check out her TPT store to snag it up. I also use Mel D.’s fuzzies … [Read more...]