I've had only 2 parents complain about me (lucky for me :)). Both times, the admin KNEW that their claims weren't true because I am very soft...
I agree with lafogosa about comprehension. I had a reader too last year that could read anything I put in front of her but she was low in...
My kids liked the Ready, Freddy series. Last year the kids didn't really like the Magic Tree House books but I"m not really into them either even...
You guys eat early lol. We start at 8:15, have specials at 8:30 to 9:15 every day. I think the first K class goes to lunch at 12:20ish and the...
You could use them for comprehension. We do it in K and 1st grade. Ask literal and implied questions about whats in the pictures. They could write...
I think this is the most I've seen the Kindergarten section actually be used in the 5 or 6 years I've been to AtoZ lol. (Not to offend any...
You could have them find pictures of real life things that are the same shapes as triangle, circle, etc and create a shape book.
My K class is like yours dizzy. I kind of just float between the different boards to see what can be useful to me.
I co-taught in a Kindergarten classroom. We both were general ed teachers. We had 30 kids and usually got the worse behaved ones because there...
How do you sign up for the McDonald's reading program? I've only seen Pizza Hut.
Last year I started with the once a month each person bring in a snack, but then I changed it when students wouldn't come to school that day...
I do Whole brain teaching and I also do the "If you can hear me touch your nose, if you can hear clap your hands"...and so on until I have all...
Full day, 8:10 to 2:40. for the first month or so we have nap time after lunch. K lunches are scheduled late in the day so theres usually only an...
Those are soo cute and silly hehe :). I love it. I'm going to have to add that to my room this year.
I saw the monsters before on the kcrew website, but I didn't realize there were different sayings. Does anyone have a whole list of the poems? I...
Hmm...I'm not sure you can have too much poetry. It really helps with reading fluency and phonemic awareness. I do a lot of poetry in my...
I'm Jennifer. I teach in central FL (Polk County). This is my 6th year teaching (3 years in private and 3 years in public). My first year I was an...
One nice thing they said about it is that our data will be available instantly but it also gives you actual lessons to address the area where they...
I went to training a couple of weeks ago for it. Theres only been a couple of counties that have been piloting it this year so its pretty new to...
Our county is getting rid of DIBELS too and getting FAIR. I go next week for training on that...whatever that is.
