It seems like such a simple expectation...Walking through the halls of a school that is. But the reality is, sometimes there's a bit of a learning curve when it comes to walking around campus for our little learners. So, our school adopted an acronym called WALK... Seemed fitting. ;) We have WALK posters posted all around school, both inside and outside of our classrooms, as visual reminders to our students that they need to walk respectfully around campus. We also created this walking ... VIEW POST
Classroom Procedures for Walking Through School
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
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
Common Core Assessment Record Book
We're gearing up for our second year with Common Core and needed a quick and easy place to reference the standards and track student progress. Carson-Dellosa sent us this gem and it's going to be a great tool to keep us and our students on track! The Common Core Assessment Record Book has all of the standards at our fingertips in an easy to follow format that helps us reference and record quickly as our class works through the standards all school year long. It also includes a ... VIEW POST
Ocean Themed Classroom & First Day of School Freebie
We posted this picture of our fish themed first day of school activity on our Instagram page the other day and had a lot of requests to share! One of our favorite first day of school activities to welcome our new school of fish into our ocean themed classroom is to create these O-FISH-Al Welcome Back Bands. It gives our first graders a little down time during their long first day back to school, and it gives us a quick first day assessment to see how their coloring and cutting skills are from ... VIEW POST
Editable Student Spelling Dictionaries
One of our favorite classroom tools is our Student Spelling Dictionaries! They build responsibility in our students' writing all year long. Here's a Throwback Thursday post from last school year all about them. Our kids learn quickly that we have a class "My Writing Words Rule" that never bends... If you don't see a word, you can ask the teacher, parent volunteer, aide (or whichever other adult is armed and ready with mad spelling skills and a pencil) to write the word in your dictionary ONE ... VIEW POST
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