It's no secret that dry erase markers are a must have classroom tool. From whole group lessons, guided reading and math groups, partner work, and independent recording, our students use dry erase markers all day long. As teachers, we are constantly begging asking families to send in dry erase markers or stocking up during back to school sales. But, one of our biggest challenges is teaching our students how to determine when they need a new dry erase marker. We've learned over the years that the ... VIEW POST
EXPO Dry Erase Markers with Ink Indicator: A Teacher Win!
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
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
Public Speaking Skills Practice for the Primary Classroom ~ The Power of Sharing Pages
We believe public speaking skills should be taught early on in the primary classroom. Giving students multiple opportunities to speak in front of their peers sets the foundation for lifelong literacy learning. Plus, it hopefully helps them steer clear of the, "Just pretend everyone is naked!" public speaking technique. :D We have never done the traditional “sharing” in our class. Instead, we use our sharing time each week to practice and develop beginning public speaking skills with ... VIEW POST
That’s a Wrap! End of School Activities
We're going with the Field of Dreams, "If you build blog it, they it will come." mentality at the moment. 29 days and counting left in the school year for us, which we are sure may seem like a lot to some of you who are ending this school year much, much sooner, but we will get our payback time come July. ;) We really don't know what it is about the end of the school year, but we absolutely love it! Perhaps it's because the pressure is off. The learning is learned. The books are read. Homework ... VIEW POST
Spa Mom and Tie-Rific Dad Together At Last! Mother’s Day and Father’s Day Craft Bundle
Spa Mom and TiE-Rific Dad sitting in a tree... Spa Mom and TiE-Rific Dad are snuggling up this year in our new Mother's Day and Father's Day craft bundle! We fell in love with both of these projects last year, so figured we should just make their adoration official. :) Spa Mom was a huge hit last year and we can't wait to introduce her to this year's bunch! Our kids loved them...Moms loved them...And, teachers loved them too! Here's a few fabulous feedbacks about Mom... Mother's Day ... VIEW POST
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