Today is the second day of my five-day series on using innovations in your classroom during writing workshop. For today’s post, I’m highlighting The Important Book by Margaret Wise Brown. This book is written by the same author as Goodnight Moon, and it’s another simple story. Familiar items (like apples or spoons) are highlighted in…
Did you guess what yesterday’s sneak preview video was about? INNOVATIONS! I blogged about using innovations during writing workshop at the end of March and promised to return to follow up with some free writing ideas soon. After gathering my innovation files from school, I’ve decided to make a series of five innovation posts to…
Spring break is flying by much faster than the school weeks usually do. Why is that? I’ve been staying busy though. I did a little spring cleaning around the house, finished some sewing projects, and organized my teacher files on the laptop too. Filing all of my great downloads into my digital file folders inspired…
I’m doing my first Currently from Farley’s Oh’ Boy 4th Grade blog. She’s awesome, so you should check her out if you aren’t already following her. I like getting to know what my blogging friends are up to in their personal lives and not just their classrooms. Here’s mine! Just in case you missed it,…
I teach reading and writing workshops using different genres each month. Right now we’re reading biographies and historical fiction in reading workshop so my students are drafting autobiographies in writing workshop. I have a confession to make though… history and social studies just aren’t my favorite subjects to learn about. However, I do my best…
We’re going on a field trip tomorrow! It’s the one I schedule for my team each year (and my favorite, don’t tell). It’s to the Indianapolis Children’s Museum. Their website has a ton of resources, even if you aren’t nearby. Ryan and I went Sunday to update my scavenger hunt questions. They have remodeled A…
I’m a member of a great group of relatively new bloggers who decided to come together for a great giveaway. But giveaways are more fun if they have a little twist. So, we’ve also made this one a blog hop. Each blogger will be running the same giveaway on their blog. So after you enter…
Vicky over at The Best of Teachers Pay Teachers picked my test-taking poster as her Freebie of the day. We are in the middle of our test-taking season here in Indiana with two sessions down in March and one to go in April. I really think our poster and bracelets help my students feel motivated…
If you’re reading this, chances are you have a blog or are at least very familiar with the blogging world, but are you equally familiar with classroom websites? I started a classroom website for my class while student teaching. That was waaay back in the day when the concept was still relatively new. 😉 I’ve…