The Mitten

For the last 2 weeks, my children and I have been reading and learning about The Mitten by Jan Brett.
I’ll give you a run down of what we have been doing day by day, then I’ll post separately about 100’s day tomorrow!
Monday: We took a picture walk through the book and then I [...]

The Inaguration

WOW!!  What a day!  My principal arranged the day so that we started our day of celebration by talking about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his hopes and dreams for the future.  We then made our way to Barack Obama until we all gathered together in the gym/dining room to watch the inaguration together [...]

The Jacket I Wear In The Snow Pictures

I posted the pictures that go along with this story under the Lang. tab. (it is the 2nd up from the bottom) I use these pictures over several days to help the children work with oral sequencing skills.  I also write the names of the items on sentence strips.  On Day 2 of this book, [...]

Lesson Plans for part of January 2009

Here are what’s done already of my plans for January.  You will see that I still have a few big holes to fill in.  Sometimes I get the most important things out of my brain first and then mull over the missing parts.  The DNC BK. 2 that you will see referes to Developing Number [...]