I am a planner! I hate feeling unprepared for the unexpected. One of my back to school tasks has always been to prepare my emergency sub. binder. Having this binder really easies my mind if I have to be out unexpectedly. I feel much better knowing my sub. will have everything they need and my students will have engaging lessons ready for them. Not to mention, before I was a full time
Teaching and Learning Rubrics are a powerful tool to help students evaluate their own work. It holds students accountable to demonstrate that they have mastered each element in the standard. Here is the process I follow to create and implement TLRs in my class. 1. After you have taught all of your mini lessons, create the rubric with your class. I create the rubric by displaying all of the anchor charts we
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We are studying air and wind in science. Last week the kids had a blast doing this wind experiment with bubbles! You can find this experiment and more in my air and wind packet on tpt. You can also get the bundle which includes a whole unit on weather.
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I can’t believe how fast the summer flew by! We are already into our second week of school. Here are some pics of my classroom this year. I was so lucky not to have to move again! I am a little crazy with color coordinating. I can’t stand having colors mismatch- which is difficult since I have a pastel color scheme. Here is a freebie. This year we have to..
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This week I am beginning a new reading unit on Fairytales. Since it is almost the end of the year, I wanted to do something that would be engaging to my kiddos, but also hit the few CCSS literature standards I have not hit yet. We are beginning the unit with recognizing common elements in fairytales and folk tales using this graphic organizer. Recount Folktales Organizer Next we are going to
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