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Celebrations, joy, goal-setting - they all matter in the classrooms, especially when we aren’t physically sharing the same space. We are waist deep in Distance Learning - learning, autocorrecting, and figuring out how we teach new content, build classroom communities online, celebrate students’ successes, and encourage families. Today we’re going to share and explore a few ways we can celebrate, ...
Word study matters. Explicit and systematic phonics instruction is critical for our emerging readers. Direct instruction has to be a component of our reading blocks, as well as, opportunities for ...
Number Talks (1st Grade, 2nd Grade) offer students to opportunity to share their math thinking, hear others’ thinking, try on new ideas, ask questions, and make connections. The foundation for Number ...
Since mid-March 2020, our world has moved at lightening pace. It seems that there is a moving target that changes on an hourly basis. "Prepare a few at-home enrichment activities" to "Plan 3 weeks of ...
Five falls ago our District rolled-out Common Assessments to all fifteen (14 at the time) of our elementary schools and included accompanying scantrons sheets with each one. Initially, our 1st grade ...
Over the last 8 weeks, we have covered a lot of ground. We've explored each other's classrooms, traded ideas, asked questions, and remembered why The ...
My name is Catherine, and I am an organization addict. It's true friends. I love procedures and order and know my classroom runs smoothly because of ...
Today I'm sharing some of my classroom 'must-haves'. These are resources that have paid dividends for me, completely worth the expense. We use these ...
Hey, friends! Today I wanted to drop by and share how our Writer's Workshop is developing. We jumped right into Narrative Writing and we are loving ...
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