More Morning Messages

Here are a few more of our “new” style Morning Messages…again, sometimes all you have to do is ask!  I was running out of new ideas to introduce or practice (mainly because it’s the end of the school year) and so I asked the kids what they would like to practice… Here is another of [...]

New Bookcase

Sometimes I get tired of having too much stuff!  Has that ever happened to any of you?  This picture is a nice picture of what my desk area looked like at the beginning of the school year.  See that table and bookshelf in the middle of the screen?  That table helped me to collect lots [...]

Managing Literacy/Math Work Stations

I’ve had several questions about how I manage my Literacy Work Stations lately, so I thought I would explain with some pictures: I used Debbie Diller’s LWS signs from the back of her LWS book.  I shrunk them down to about 1/3 of their size (3x5ish) and laminated them.  I then put them into the [...]

What do you think?

I’ve changed up my blog header and background paper…what do you think?  I’m not exactly sure if I like them together or not…so any comments would help me to decide!  Do I keep the header and find another background or keep the background and redo the header?  Please leave me a comment to help me [...]

The Pond

Our classroom pond is up and running! As part of our current IB unit, we are learning about how people, animals, and plants interact with each other. We wanted to show the children this using something they can easily see in Indiana, so we chose to learn about how the people, plants, and animals around [...]

Thirty-One Bags

I just signed up to be a Thirty-One Bags consultant…I know, I didn’t have enough going on, so I needed something else to do!   I thought I would put a link here (and in the sidebar) because they have LOTS of great bags that teachers need (I want them all!!).  Here is a link: [...]

EDEL 545 Post

Hi Everyone! As most of you know, I am taking grad classes towards earning my Master’s Degree.  As part of a module in my Technology & Computers in the Classroom class, we are learning about blogs and blogging and the idea of letting children publish their work to a wider audience on-line rather that just [...]

Centers/Discovery time

Here is a look at the some of the centers we have going at the end of our day that the children can visit.

Another idea from Debbie Diller

Another idea that Debbie Diller shared was this one about punctuation and how to help children understand what the various marks mean. I really liked this stop light version because my children can visualize the punctuation mark and then remember the color associated with it. I tried this idea out today so that I could [...]

So much to share!

I had the pleasure of seeing Debbie Diller again when she came to talk in my district. She had some great ideas (as always) that I was able to go try in my classroom right away. This chart is a schema chart. We listed all the things we knew about apples and such before we [...]