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Fluttering Through the Grades

Habitats of the World

 Our first thought was, can we PLEASE get a little more green on that little loading bar up there?  Puh-lease load faster!! Please? So, while we're waiting impatiently, we'll just take our summer vacation "in our minds" for now... Habitats of the World Adorable Earth Graphic by the adorable Krista Wallden We've been continuing our travels around the world. This week we are zip-lining through our newest Habitat Unit,  The Rainforest Habitat.  Our class is loving our habitat learning and ... VIEW POST

Earth Day Hooters

We LOVE hooters.  Well, our first graders LOVE hooters.  Apparently... They told us today.  Some actually shouted,  "Oh my goodness! I LOOOOOVE hooters."  We didn't even care about the shouting out like we normally do, but who yells, "I love hooters!" in first grade?  Whoooo? Perhaps, we should explain?  Today we completed our I Give a Hoot Earth Day Owl Craftivity.  Oh, no...It gets better...  You can grab our Earth Day Owl Craftivity and tons of other Earth Week activities in our We ... VIEW POST

GIVEAWAY Winner & Fluency Building Bookmarks Take 2

And the BIG Bloggy Birthday Winner Is... a Rafflecopter giveaway  Congratulations Laurie!!  Check your email shortly for all sorts of goodies!!! A HUGE thank you to our blogging buddies for helping us out too. You Ladies are amazing!  This week, we got cracking on our Earth Day learning.  It is one of our favorite units to teach. We are super excited to be trying our sweet friend Katie's Easy {and adorable!} Ecology unit along with our We Love the Earth activities this year. You can read ... VIEW POST

Fluency Building Bookmarks & Comprehension Cards

We spend oodles and oodles of time teaching kids how to read. We build words, break words, even make and take words. You get the picture...We spend a whole lot of time decoding. Decoding is reading, right? No, not quite... When we left for Spring Break our kids were cracking any code we put in front of them. They were decoding up a storm.  It was the best robotic, cave person talk we've ever heard.  But, it lacked 2 major things...fluency and comprehension. It was troubling us...A ... VIEW POST

Highs and Lows Linky

We're linking up with Teacher to the Core for this month's Highs and Lows.   Christy's High:  Getting 23 people's crazy schedules together to celebrate her hubby's parent's 50th Wedding Anniversary! Such great family time!  Christy's Low: REPORTS and SPORTS!  In a week's span, we had 2 living wax museum presentations, 1 women in history report and speech, and 2 science fair experiments and presentations. That's 7 days people. This is when having twins hurts double! SPORTS: Saturday ... VIEW POST

Spring Giveaway & Notepad Tutorial

Day One is Done...Poof... {source}  We think we might have a problem settling into Spring Break. Do you ever feel like the second you get some time off from school you kick into high gear doing other things?  No, you don't... Oh... What?!? You're lounging on the beach in Hawaii for Spring Break... Eh, Hem...Sorry...Never mind... That may just be the first grade teachers on crack thing again. Tee...Hee... If you don't know what we're referring to, please scroll down to yesterday's ... VIEW POST

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