The beach is good. So Good. Kids learn so much at the beach... but this post won't be about identifying sea creatures or collecting and graphic seashells... although those would be fun beachy follow ups (maybe for a later post 😉 ) This post is about all the things kids learn at the beach all [...]
Month: June 2017
4 Ingredients of Effective Sight Word Practice
Last post I shared with you about how color coding the sight words in my classroom helped with practice, management, and ultimately helped my students to learn their sight words more effectively. We all know, however, that mastering those words takes more than just hanging them on a word wall, or introducing them at morning [...]
Getting Sight Words to Stick: Color coding the words
As a first grade teacher, I have recognized that one of the biggest indicators of my students' reading success is their sight word knowledge. This is especially important for my struggling kiddos because they are spending so much time and "thinking space" in their brains working to decode all the other words. These struggling readers [...]
Quick and Easy Activities for the First Day of School
I know I'm always looking for low pressure, engaging quick & easy activities to use on the first day of school. Here are some awesome activities recommended by some of my teacher friends! I like to use one of these Back To School Color by Number activities on the first day of school for [...]
To My Son’s Kindergarten Teacher
Dear Miss K, Thank you. Thank you for bringing him joy. Thank you for being the smiling teacher who is "very pretty with golden hair." Thank you for the "good day sticker" smack dab in the middle of his forehead every day, evidence of a day filled with laughter. Thank you for calling him "handsome" [...]