Guess what? That's what! We have been keeping a deep, dark secret for a few months now... We hate keeping secrets, but we are good at it. Pinky promise. But when TpT made the big announcement today, we realized we are finally able to fess up! Fluttering Through First Grade (That's us!) will be presenting at the very FIRST Teachers Pay Teachers Conference in Las Vegas this July! Stop.Right.There. Breathe... Now scream!!! We are so excited and honored to have been ... VIEW POST
Teachers Pay Teachers Conference 2014
SitSpots Blog Hop and a CaliGals Giveaway!
OH, the possibilities for these sensational SitSpots!! We were in deep thought with SitSpots owner, Joyce, and our blogging buddies at the Southern California Kindergarten Conference about these perfect patches... Our takeaway? SitSpots...They aren't just for sitting! We grabbed our fair share, and got to work. We had a master plan, with a minor problem. This giant rug pretty much hogs takes up our entire classroom floor space! SitSpots work best directly on classroom conpet ~ No, ... VIEW POST
Kindness Activity for Kids Compli-Mats
Teaching our primary students about compliments is highly important in our classroom. Of course it's always easier to point out what we don't like...But, we have found we have to purposefully teach our first graders how to see the good in one another by pointing out what they do like. So, we came up with an idea to teach our kids how to pay compliments to their classmates. Introducing...Compli-Mats! Get it? Compliments written on a 12x18 piece of construction paper, about the size of a place ... VIEW POST
Our Lucky Rainbows March Writing and St. Patrick’s Day Activities
We are lucky! We don't mean "Take me to Vegas" lucky...That will be in July! In March, we write reasons why we are lucky. We made Bubble Maps on our whiteboards with the labels, I know... I have... I am... I can... Our lucky little leprechauns realize there are so many reasons they are lucky! So after a quick check of their whiteboards from us larger leprechauns, they are given their pot of gold and rainbow to quickly disappear into deep thought as they write and color their own reasons on ... VIEW POST
Spring into First Grade! Math and Literacy Centers for the Season
Spring is in the air! Or, at least it should be right about now... We know our Snow Day friends agree...Right? Plus, we Southern Californians have had exactly 4 straight days of real rain, so that is pretty much about all we can take...Ask our freeways. We are getting excited to put our winter centers away and pull our spring centers out to let them play...And, by play we mean work really hard...They just don't see it that way, but that's A Ok with us... We are coming down the homestretch, ... VIEW POST
SoCal Kindergarten Conference Wolfpack
When we greeted each other at the Southern California Kindergarten Conference last Friday, we howled... When we all roamed around the perfect presentations and various vendor venues together, we were told we traveled in a pack... We all agreed that despite the fact that we drank Starbucks and passion fruit iced teas (that may or may not have tasted like band-aids), we were totally experiencing THE HANGOVER from such an amazing time... Channeling Alan's Wolf Pack letter for ... VIEW POST
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