Primary Teaching Ideas, Resources and Strategies
So, my “tip” is actually a 2-parter… This is my 18th year teaching and I have finally narrowed down my biggest priorities during the craziness of Back to School. It all comes down to connections and copies. It is really that simple. Of course all the other stuff matters… You should still teach procedures all day, everyday. You… Read More
You’ve heard the expression “If Mama ain’t happy – Ain’t nobody happy”, right? Well, the same thing is true for our classrooms. If you, the teacher, aren’t happy – you’re students won’t truly be happy either. And for the word “happy” we could easily substitute “calm”, “focused”, “motivated”, “enthusiastic” … almost any adjective works in that little scenario. When I… Read More
Well, it’s been a few weeks since I’ve been able to write a 5 for Friday post (or blog at all, for that matter)! Life has been crazy… like, CRAZY crazy… So, I will try to use this post to give a quick summary of the crazy…This is three Fridays is one… Here we go! So, the back to school craziness… Read More
Last week I shared some of the background story for how Rachelle and I decided to start our new co-teaching adventure this year. (You can read about that HERE.) Today I thought I would share “how we got here” this year and a tour of our new room. Here we go! So, at the beginning of the year we decided… Read More
Exciting things have been happening! This week my friend Rachelle and I officially started co-teaching our kindergarten classes! It’s funny because things are happening very quickly and it feels a bit like a whirlwind…but when we stopped to talk about things last night, we realized that this has been almost 10 years in the making. When you think about it… Read More
So, I just got back from the most amazing trip ever. I was incredibly blessed to attend the 2015 TPT Conference in Vegas. It was everything I had hoped for and much, much more. My head is swimming and I am totally overwhelmed trying to process everything I learned… and I am LOVING it. It feels amazing to be so… Read More
This post combines two of my very favorite things… great children’s books and kindergarten! I am so excited to be teaching kindergarten again next year and I have been really looking forward to pulling out all my favorite kindergarten books for the first few weeks. It took me five years in kindergarten to pull this collection together. That’s a long… Read More
One of the things I really love about our school, is that we give our students love of opportunities to serve others. Some of our most popular school-wide activities include an annual canned food drive and a collection for a group foster care facility in our neighborhood. Each year we collect change several times a year to benefit the Lymphoma… Read More