I love the 100th Day of school. It is honestly my favorite day of the year. I love this point in the year because I always look around and realize my classroom seems to be running itself. My students know all of the expectations, they know where everything is, they know how to get things they need, we’ve built a…
This post today is brought to you by Snow Day! Snow Days- They’re really fun until you’re in school until June 30th. 😉 Anyway, I wanted to share something I came up with last week after one of those lessons. You know the ones I’m talking about. Those lessons where, at the end, your kids are almost as confused as…
STEM and informational writing go hand in hand in this fun, hands-on learning project! 🙂 I’m piloting the Lucy Calkins writing program for my grade level, and I have mixed feelings about it (but that’s a different post). Right now we’re working on informational writing. Basically, they do an experiment and create a lab report. It’s been a lot of fun,…
One of my goals in my classroom is always to get my students to try new books on different subjects and in different genres. There are always students who stick to the same series or type of books, and I think, as young readers, it’s important for them to learn to read different types of text. One way I encourage my students…
So, this post was supposed to happen a couple days ago, but then I realized I had left my camera in school. Oops! Anyway, here’s a quick peek at what we were working on last week! First, we created our fable and folk tale flipper poster. Every time we read a fable or folk tale, my kiddos wrote down the…