September 26, 2011
I love science books! My all-time favorite book is “A Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds.” I found out about this book when I taught first grade. It was my favorite story in the first grade Treasures series. This is an amazing story for plants and I love the imagery in the book. I love…
September 25, 2011
Hello all! Hope you are having a fabulous weekend. I am having a hard time concentrating on my lesson plans so I thought I’d blog. It is taking me forever this year to get my plans done. I think part of it is due to having to write down the teacher standard for each activity…
September 23, 2011
I’m linking up The Inspired Apple’s “Inside My School Bag Linky Party.” I am a bit obsessed with bags for my school stuff. I love bags and purses so this is my ideal linky party. I just got some new bags from 31 gifts to carry my gargantuan pile of school stuff. I love this…
September 19, 2011
This week, we are working on a hard skill for some kiddos…quotations. They have such a hard time figuring out where the darn things go..before the period, after the period, and the comma really throws them for a loop. Today, I had the kids write a sentence on a sentence strip with elbow macaroni as…
September 18, 2011
Well, time is flying fast this year. I can’t believe September is halfway over. I am loving the weather this past week. It’s definitely feeling like fall. It’s amazing how it went from 90 degrees to 70 degrees in one day. Fall is my favorite time of year so I hope it stays like this…
September 16, 2011
I want to say thank you to 2 great bloggers for awarding me the “Versatile Blogger Award.” Thank you Debi and Debbie! It made my day when they left me their comments. Please visit their amazing blogs. Both ladies have some great ideas and their blogs are so cute!
September 13, 2011
We have started our unit on plants and I am so excited. I love teaching plants! There are so many things that you can do to teach plants and the kids love everything. Today, I introduced the topic by doing a graphic organizer with the class. Then, the kiddos completed one on their own. I…
September 10, 2011
We’ve been working on main idea this past week with our Treasures story “Fighting the Fire.” We made an anchor chart towards the end of the week to go over what we had learned about main idea. I saw an idea online to help the kids really understand the main idea. The kids traced their…