April 8, 2014
I’ll admit that I’m a history nerd. I love reading historical fiction. I thought I would share some of my favorites with you today. I read Songs of Willow Frost over spring break and I couldn’t put it down. The main character is an orphan who is given up during the Great Depression. He remembers…
April 6, 2014
Hi everyone! I’m back today with my visual plans. I’m linking up with Mrs. Wills’ Kindergarten for her weekly linky party. In reading, we are working on inflected endings, comparing and contrasting, and homophones. For Mr. Putter and Tabby, we will be comparing and contrasting Mr. Putter and Tabby. This story was in our…
April 2, 2014
Wahoo! It’s April! I’m so excited that is spring that I can’t stand it. I’m linking up with Farley for her Currently linky party. I haven’t linked up in forever because this school year has been so busy. I’m so glad that it is winding down now. I love baseball! I was so excited about…
March 30, 2014
It’s Sunday so that means that it’s time for visual plans. Can you believe that it will be April this week? The countdown to the last day is nearing. For reading this week, we are working on inferencing and main idea. For inferencing,we will be reading Two Bad Ants and I Want My Hat Back….
March 29, 2014
It’s spring! Time to clean out those cluttered wish lists and get some amazing resources at discounted prices. Check out the long list of sellers who are holding sales in their TPT stores this weekend. Thanks to Beth Ann from Zip-A-Dee-Doh-Dah Designs for creating this amazing image. If you are looking to get ready for…
March 20, 2014
Happy Thursday everyone! I am in the middle of spring break and it is going by way too fast. Yesterday, I came down with a stomach bug so that kinda ruined yesterday. I feel much better today but still not 100%. I wanted to do a quick post to let you know that I have…
March 11, 2014
It’s time for Must-Read Monday (on a Tuesday.) Today I am going to share some of my favorite books for teaching vocabulary. My first book to share is great for teaching kids to use context clues. “Baloney Henry P.” has a ton of made up words and the kids have to use the context…
March 9, 2014
Thanks for hopping over to visit me on this amazing blog hop! I’m joining you today to bring you some ways that you can use that unused space in your classroom. If you are like me, I don’t have much wall space in your classroom but I really wanted to find a way to hang…