We are doing yearbooks... They each design their own cover and I'll laminate them. Each person gets a page with their picture and things about...
The kids do a 1 minute reading every Friday to me.
After each lesson, I ask questions about what they learned. I reward those who get it right with super duper punches (pbs). This makes all of...
we have to use the words from the reading series even though some words are extremely hard! We had one set of words that combined er, ir, ur words...
I second the tying the shoes!!! Half of my class doesn't know how to tie their shoes!! They didn't teach them how in kindergarten and apparently,...
you never know. My kindergarten teacher remembers me and my family. She even remembers details about my brother.. like he loved 18 wheelers and...
They'll remember that I love corn, love football (especially the Carolina Panthers), love frogs and absolutely love fridays.
A few weeks ago, I came across a plastic shelving unit. There were 20-30 plastic drawers in various sizes. It was about $25. I know it was a...
I have one girl in my class who, when confronted for doing something wrong, her automatic answer is "No I didn't." It drives me insane because I...
We use super duper punch cards at my school for PBS. Every other friday, they get to go to the school store and spend their punches. The prizes...
I've been through 3 as well and those were the expensive ones. I bought a cheap $12 one and now I am only allowed to sharpen pencils. They think...
so i thought only my kids had gone nuts! We had the 100th day yesterday and it seems like ever since we got back from christmas break... they have...
lol... yea they surely do... It's starting to get on my nerves!!
Oh how I envy those of you with tables instead of desks. I HATE putting my desks in rows but I have no choice. The desks we have are horrible!...
We like it. I found lunch was too long anyway. After about 20 minutes, the kids were done and were just talking anyway so it really isn't that big...
I live in Louisiana right near the coast and I think I would DIE in temperatures like that. Yesterday it was 40 degrees here with a windchill in...
We missed a week from Gustav and a week from Ike so some of our early dismissals were taken away, some professional development days and we took...
This is my first year teaching and let me tell you, they do tattle ALOT! I did my student teaching in 3rd grade and it's a world of difference. I...
8:30-9:30 Spelling/Whole Group Reading 9:30-10:30 Literacy Centers/Small Groups 10:30-10:45 Phonics 10:45-11:00 Recess 11:00-11:30 Specials M-Art;...
Thanks, DHE. I keep seeing the videos of Erath on tv and we live about 2 minutes from the middle school and high school so I still don't know for...
