The kids cheer, "IT'S THE 100TH DAY!!!" The teachers cheer, "THERE'S ONLY 80 DAYS LEFT 'TIL SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!" It is absolute cause for class celebration! The 100th Day really comes and goes with a POOF in our class! Or, we're just getting too old to keep up! Whatever the case, we like to stretch the learning out a bit beyond the 100th Day and keep things as status quo as possible around this time of year. We may have our sights on summer, but we can't lose them just yet!! We've ... VIEW POST
100th Day of School Hoopla!
Top 10 Tips For Your Best Year Ever!
Each new school year brings with it a flood of emotions as teachers. We're excited. We're nervous. We're bummed (Summer, don't ditch us!!). We're exhausted. We're optimistic. Flying into our 15th year teaching first grade together, we've learned a few things about making the best of each new school year. Just like the catchphrases, "Happy Wife, Happy Life." and "If Mama's not Happy, Nobody's Happy." pop into our minds, so does "Keep your Dear Teacher Happy.". But that my friends, will not be ... VIEW POST
Let’s Play I Have, Who Has? with Freebielicious
We've got some exciting news to share! We've joined the fun over at Freebielicious. You can now find us fluttering over on their blog too. We're kicking things off with a fun game our class loves to play called "I Have, Who Has?" If you're just getting started, you can head over to the first post in our Back to School Edition {here}. Follow the clues for some of our best back to school tools! If you followed our clue from A Special Kind of Class... Who has been job share teaching partners for 13 ... VIEW POST
Sentence Chefs Sentence Writing Activities
Sentence building and writing are main ingredients in every primary classroom. Given the right recipe, our developing writers are cooking up a sentence feast! But, it's not always easy...So, by adding a dash or two of fun, our Sentence Chefs beg for the secret sentence recipe time and again in our classroom. Meet the Sentence Chefs! These cooking themed, differentiated sentence building activities include everything to teach, reinforce, and enrich sentence writing in our classroom. We ... VIEW POST
My Interactive Story of the First Thanksgiving
We realize Halloween is tomorrow, but we're pretty sure all teachers everywhere would agree that we are done with October now...And November is just around the corner. We're always trying to work a week ahead, so we don't Fall behind, so here's what we're prepping now... Reading and Writing about the first Thanksgiving during the month of November is one of our favorite times of year. Here are a few titles we use to guide our learning all month long. We love getting our students involved in ... 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
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