Celebrate the season with a Thanksgiving Play and Pie Party! I love celebrating Thanksgiving with my first and second-graders. There are so many Social Studies skills I can pack in during this time of the year. One of my FAVORITE activities is to host a little...
This was a really fun week for me at school. My class did a little ELA unit using the story Stone Soup. I used the Reading A-Z version for the students, and then read aloud the classic Marcia Brown version. We compared and contrasted the folktales with an anchor...
Are you using clip charts or thinking about starting to implement a clip chart into your behavior management system? Let me tell you why what I do is different, even PBIS friendly! I love my clip chart system. I use it in a POSITIVE way. The language is explicit and...
I’m super excited to team up with 150 bloggers for another month of bright ideas! My bright idea is a super quick classroom management idea about how to handle the “stuff” kiddos bring to school. I have a basket in my classroom called the...
Managing Writer’s Workshop can be a challenging task. Over the years, these have saved my sanity and kept my kiddos’ writing on the “right” track. These are multiple folders bound together to help keep students organized through the steps of...
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