Author page: Primary Paradise

Classroom Organization, Writing

Informational Writing Books for K-2 (Lucy Calkins)

Informational writing can be a struggle with lower elementary students, but in this post, I’ll share with you how I was able to help my 2nd graders create detailed and age appropriate informational writing booklets on topics they were comfortable writing about. Watch my Facebook live on this topic here. In February, I blogged about using the Lucy Calkins common…

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Behavior Management, Math, Reading, Writing

What We Did this Week: Shapes, Recipes, and a Party

Hey All! Today’s post is going to be a little random, so bear with me. 🙂 This week in math we were focusing on shapes. We started off with 3D shapes and then went into polygons which ended up being a whole lot of confusing for my kiddos. We use the Envision Math program, and the lesson only called for…

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