Happy Monday, friends. Today has been a day of spackle and Kilz Wall Paint and spray paint. I hope your Monday has been as productive as mine. Today I'm sharing ways to turn ordinary things into ...
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Oh how Pinteresting! {Classroom Decor}
I hope this note finds you well and basking in the sweetness of summer (or soon-to-be-summer)! :) Today I am linking up with the ever lovely Ashley Reed at Just Reed for her Ten Pin Linky: Classroom ...
The 9 Verbs of Pencil Sharpening
Hi, friends! So summer is upon us, and I am continuously in the process of collecting supplies for my classroom. The other day I snagged a 10 drawer cart from Sam’s for $24!!!! But, a few weeks ago, I ...
Comparing Numbers using Place Value
Hi friends! I am so excited to share with you a project a whole slew of bloggers and clip artists have been working on led by the lovely Stephany Dillion at Primary Possibilities. Several ...
Monday Made It – Kingdom Style
Happy Tuesday, friends! I hope you all are well and enjoying summer. So, I must admit that my Mom is my best friend. Although I am not able to spend a ton of time with her during the school ...
A {FREE} Field Trip to the Apple Store
Thursday I helped chaperone a trip to the Apple Store with a group of 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students! We live in a very small town and headed about 40 miles to the closest store. It was so fun to ...
Poet-Trees and Our Poetry Coffeehouse
Celebrating the conclusion of our poetry unit, we hosted a 1st Grade Poetry Coffeehouse (an idea by Amanda Nickerson) and it was a smashing success. 17 of our 21 friends and their families came ...
Oil Spills, Earth Day, & Beauty
Happy, happy Friday dear friends! Here are 5 highlights and I'll be sharing more all throughout next week! Since we have talked a lot about ways humans hurt the Earth in our habitat studies ...
Poetry in 1st and 2nd Grade
From turning snakes into spaghetti and clouds into cotton balls, writing poetry is absolutely magical! Students use their five senses and figurative language to create poems that break all the rules ...
Free Mental Math Centers
Student buy-in was high this week when I explained that ALL week we were not going to touch a pencil in math. (Note – I *might* have fibbed…as my friends did complete daily exit slips – but shhhhh! ...
Argh you ready for QR Codes? {Freebie}
How argh you doing, friends? This week in 1st grade, we are all about pirates as we begin a study of /r/ controlled vowels. We kick of the week with (The Inspired Apple) Abby Mullins’ Learning /ar/ ...
Main Idea Freebies
All year in reading, we have talked about main idea with our friends, but it has only been this week that we have zoomed in on identifying the topic, main idea, and supporting details of a text. This ...