Well, I think the majority of my class saw the movie Frozen over the break. I have to say, that was the best Disney movie I’ve seen in years. The music was great. It was beautifully done, and I love the characters! Olaf, the Snowman, absolutely cracked me up! I think I earned the Teacher
We’ve been working on identifying a sequence of events in our reading curriculum lately. One of our recent posters showed a man making pizza. We identified the transition words that told us there was a sequence of events. We found the words first, next, then, and finally. As much as I would have loved to
Connecting reading and writing is natural in the early grades. Right now, in our first grade reading curriculum, we are working on identifying the main idea and supporting details in a text. We have used a graphic organizer to help us keep track of our thinking. This same graphic organizer led itself right into our
Sometimes all my kids need is an invitation… a very subtle invitation. All invitations that sound like mom’s suggestions will be met with heavy resistance. Invitations that seem like a child’s own ideas, will somehow seem brilliant. While the kids were at school the other day, I pulled a few favorite books off of our
Up, Down, and Around is a super cute book by Katherine Ayres. It has bright, beautiful illustrations and minimal text. It’s the perfect book for young readers! The kids in my classroom saw me take this book off of the garden shelf. They immediately knew that the book was about gardens. We spent quite a