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
Sentence Chefs Sentence Writing Activities
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
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
