Another Morning Message

Please tell me if you’re getting tired of seeing my Morning Message posts!   I’m trying to post them so you can get ideas and also so I don’t forget what I can use next year! I introduced simple Sudoku puzzles this week and I put an easy one in the MM to see if [...]

A “new” way to Morning Message!

I found this great idea to change up my Morning Message a bit.  I wanted to make it more engaging and since we’d been doing the same tasks for awhile now, I thought I needed to find something new.  I came across it on Pintrest and then found this blog (Growing Kinders) that had some [...]

Sticks

This is how I choose names so that everyone gets a chance to find something in our Morning Messages (and whenever else they are needed).  I take each child’s picture on the 1st day of school, laminate it, and then punch them out with one of my Stampin’ Up! circle punches.  I tape them on [...]

Morning Message

Here is a quick picture of a typical Morning Message this time of year: Kristen

Moving things around…

I’ve recently moved some things around in my classroom to make room for new things on the walls.  I’ve moved my name wall and our anchor charts.  Here are some pictures showing what they look like now: I’m excited because I was able to free up some space on our front board so that I [...]

Meaningful morning messages

I’ve decided that this is the year I want to work on making my morning messages more meaningful each day. I’ve been working different skills into my morning messages so that it helps me and the children focus in on what our target skill will be for that day/week. This week, we have been focusing [...]

Morning Message

I’ve been trying some new things with our Morning Message, leaving out parts of words, not including initial consonants, talking up the sight words, etc.  Here are some pictures of a few of our recent ones:

Bats Day #1 and Day #2 2009

This week, we’ve been learning all about BATS!!  We have several students in our school who do not celebrate the fall holidays, so I always try to keep things neutral and not offend anyone.  In October, we learn about bats, spiders, pumpkins, and leaves, all kind of tying into the holidays, yet we do not [...]

Hi Everyone!

Hi Everyone– I hope you are enjoying the month of February so far!   I’ll be better about posting than I have been–things have been CRAZY busy around here! Last week was up in the air so to speak!  The week was full of teachable moments, field trips, convocations, snow days… And a tragic accident… [...]

This Week’s Lesson Plans

Awhile back, I had a request to see what a typical page in my lesson plan book looked like, how I get everything in in one day or in a week.  I’ve completed my plans for this week (December 15th-18th, 2008) and I’m going to post them below.  They are very general, as this week [...]