Primary Teaching Ideas, Resources and Strategies
Yea!!! It’s the weekend! I swear, the weeks seem to keep getting longer and longer recently! I have to admit… I am pretty jealous of the 3-day weekend that I hear so many people are enjoying right now… Kind of makes my “regular old 2-day weekend” seem a bit less exciting… but I’m trying not to do that whole “grass… Read More
While I deeply believe in the need for ongoing formative assessment- the kind that gives me information to drive my instruction- I just CAN NOT STAND the “big” tests that we give to such little children these days. I feel like I am being asked to give my second graders the SATs or the LSATs every quarter. It hurts my… Read More
Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week! We went back to school on Monday so it has been a l-o-n-g, busy week.. a good week… but a very, very busy one! Last weekend my parents had a huge family party at their house. My sister and her family came into town, which is always fun! They also had… Read More
Happy Friday! I am really excited to be linking up with my very first Five for Friday post today! I love reading these blog posts every week and I have had intentions of writing one for a very long time. Today I am “biting the bullet” and making it happen! I had a fabulous week so it seems like a… Read More
Hello forgotten little blog! Let me start by saying I had EVERY intention of getting a “catch up” blog post together last week… It was going to be a “Back to School, Back to Blogging” kind of thing. The plan was to link up (for the first time!) with “Five for Friday”. However, as you can see, Friday came… Read More
So, this post is probably going to sound crazy. I am going to tell you about this “classroom management strategy” and you are going to think I’m nuts. It’s okay. It won’t hurt my feelings. I’m telling you, this is going to sound ridiculous but it WORKS and my kids LOVE, love, love, love it. Alright, here… Read More
I am blogging about “October Magic” and citizenship today over on the Who’s Who and Who’s New blog. Come over and visit!
We have been having lots of fun launching our science study this year. We started by brainstorming and reading about what scientists do. Then, we talked about how we would be scientists this year and do all of these things. Last week was all about using our 5 senses to learn about our world. My teammate found this silly… Read More
Since I was pretty much the worst blogger ever last year, I decided to finally share one of our favorite science units. During our study of life science, we focused on the difference between living and nonliving things. We started by learning what living things do, need and are. We sang a silly song to the tune of “London Bridges”… Read More
Today, I want to talk about close reading in kindergarten and first grade. I LOVE close reading with my students and I hope you do too! It makes me so sad when I hear primary and/or early childhood teachers complain that close reading isn’t appropriate for emergent readers. I could not possibly disagree more! I think the problem is that… Read More