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Fluttering Through the Grades

Student Dictionaries ~ Phonics Printables

We hit the classroom floor running at the beginning of the school year to help our students master their letter sounds. One of our favorite year long activities (No, that's not a typo...This lasts pretty much the entire school year for our class) for practicing our phonics skills is My Letter Sound Dictionary. We recently pulled it out to prep for the coming school year and noticed it needed a major metamorphosis. We are so excited about what emerged! This unit got a major overhaul. The ... VIEW POST

Back to School Customer Appreciation Freebie!

We cannot thank you enough for all of your Fluttering Through First Grade purchases & feedback during the Teachers Pay Teachers Back to School sale...THANK YOU!! In absolute appreciation, we've whipped up a little Back to School Facebook Fan Freebie for you!    It's our spin on Bingo...Played exactly the same way, but we like to make the kids yell funny things when they win...So, they have to shout  "Back-to-School O"  if they get four in a row.     We've created 6 playing cards, ... VIEW POST

Crafting Quality Work for Michaels Create2Educate Sweepstakes!

Setting class expectations for quality work from the beginning of the school year is top priority in our class. But, this isn't our first teaching rodeo, so we know first hand that even 6 and 7 year olds can "mail it in sometimes". We struggle with them just going through the motions, not really understanding the importance of or having the self-motivation quite yet to want to present their best work...especially when the recess bell is tolling. Know what we mean? The Problem Area... When we ... VIEW POST

Throwback Thursday ~ Classroom Morning Routines

About this time last summer something devastating happened...Somehow, someway we managed to delete every single photo from this entire blog of ours.    Gone... Fluttered away... Vanished into Cyberspace with no return ticket.  It was the saddest day of our blogging lives!  Ask Tammy's husband... Picture a grown woman curled up in the fetal position in full blown "ugly cry" mode on the family couch. Yep, it wasn't pretty.   It's taken us almost a year to repair many of our posts, and we're still ... VIEW POST

Fishing for Ideas ~ Writing Topic Cards and Tools for Your Sea of Writers

We're diving into writing and swimming through stories beautifully these days...As long as we're given a topic and told what to write... Teacher Sigh... But, a lot of our first graders still have trouble coming up with writing ideas on their own. Let's face it...A lot of people, no matter the grade have trouble with this!  We say write, and they hear  "Stare blankly into space and master that deer in headlights look...Hold it...Goooood..." ;)  So, we came up with a master plan and they dove ... VIEW POST

Listen Up! We’re Listening!

We're in the middle of an epidemic, teacher friends.  Yep...An Ignoring Epidemic. It's bad. Really, really bad... ...Wait...We're sorry...What did you say?  We weren't really listening to a word we were just saying...  We just couldn't sit back any longer. We couldn't listen (yes, really listen) to one more Mommy or Teacher friend say,  "It's just our society now." or "It's just kids nowadays."  Nope. Sorry. We are teachers and our job is to teach. If they need to learn how to listen, we need ... VIEW POST

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