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Building Your Classroom Library

July 15, 2018

BooksforYourClassroomLibrary

Building Your Classroom Library In the Scholastic Principal and Administrator’s Report (2018), they found that the average United States classroom contains 254 books with 31% of classroom libraries ...

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Filed Under: Daily Five, Reading/Literacy, Tips & Tricks

Managing Math Centers

July 30, 2017

Overwhelmed by math centers? Check out these SIMPLE ideas for create predictable patterns and routines that allow for streamlined planning!

From planning leveled guided-math lessons, to guided reading groups, to writer’s workshop, to Daily 5 choices, to math centers, as primary teachers we can be planning and preparing for over 36 ...

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Filed Under: 1st Grade, Don't Miss These, Guided Math

Planning Your Math Instruction with CSA

July 24, 2017

differentiating guided math instruction

Oh differentiation - a word that strikes fear, frustration, and angst into the hearts of teachers everywhere. So often we are told to differentiate our guided math instruction by going "deeper not ...

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Filed Under: 1st Grade, Guided Math

The Best Math Games for Building Fluency

July 3, 2017

Math Board Games are a FUN way to build fluency and mental-math skills during math centers or guided math blocks. Check out these 7 games perfect for 1st and 2nd grade mathematicians!

Math Board Games offer students the opportunity to build social skills, practice addition and subtraction fluency in a fun way, and offers teachers a nonthreatening way to assess students' ability to ...

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Professional Development Books That Drive Instruction

June 18, 2017

These 10 Professional Development books are ideal for molding, honing, and guiding your instruction. Some will remind you why you teach, others will reignite your excitement for welcoming a new classroom of friends, and most will change your teaching practice for the better.

  So often I open my email to find a teacher is looking for more resources on math, writing, mini-lessons, etc. Ultimately, the underlying question is - I want to know more. I want to hone my ...

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Filed Under: 1st Grade, Management

50+ Morning Tub Ideas

June 14, 2017

A morning work alternative, Morning Tubs offer Primary Students a play-based opportunity to explore, create, and build social skills.

50+ Morning Tub Ideas A Morning Tub is a great way to offer a play-based opportunity for students to explore, create, and communicate. A non-threatening way to start the day, Morning Tubs help reduce ...

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Filed Under: 1st Grade

FREE Books for Your Classroom Library

June 9, 2017

Snag hundreds of FREE picture and chapter books for your classroom library or student book bins from your local Half-Price Book Store.

FREE Books for Your Classroom Library  Teaching is expensive. Even in the most supportive, well-funded schools, teachers fund classrooms. The most expensive (yet the most essential) of classroom ...

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Whole Group Math Lessons

December 22, 2016

Whole-group math lessons are short, intentional lessons that anchor our learning and set the foundation for our small-group instruction during guided math.

Our whole-group math lessons happen every day for 8-12 minutes after we talk numbers and before small-groups and math centers. These short, intentional lessons help anchor our learning, set the ...

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Filed Under: Guided Math, Uncategorized

Winter Art Projects

December 20, 2016

Embrace the season and give our students some hands-on opportunities to create parent gifts, directed draws, watercolor paintings, and so much more!

Winter is a special time in the classroom. We are beginning to see the fruits of our hard work and holiday goodness is in full tilt. As teachers, we have the chance to embrace the season and give our ...

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Teaching a Combination Class

December 20, 2016

Split classes? Combination classes? Multi-age classes? Whatever you call them, they are a challenge! See how I structure my K/1 classroom and make it all work!

Split class? Combination class? Multi-age class? Whatever you call it, this year I welcomed a new challenge! Transitioning from a 1st grade classroom to a K/1 classroom 5 weeks into the school year, ...

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Building Number Sense with Rekenreks

November 14, 2016

Why a rekenrek? Bead racks offer students a hands-on, concrete way to illustrate their math thinking, compose and decompose numbers, & establish benchmarks.

As math teachers of littles we know our students need hands-on concrete experiences as mathematicians. Being able to quickly solve an addition or subtraction problem only comes after dozens of ...

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Filed Under: 1st Grade, Guided Math

Using EPIC for Listening to Reading

October 16, 2016

Using EPIC for Listening to Reading Research repeatedly says the more words students interact with and are exposed to the better readers they will become. The benefit of using a Daily 5 structure for ...

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Filed Under: 1st Grade, Daily Five, Technology

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My name is Catherine Reed, and I am in Year 10 of my elementary life, residing in small-town, Kentucky.  I student taught in 1st grade and never ...

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