I love sending these QR codes home with my students at meet the teacher! Usually we have meet the teacher the week before school starts so after I meet my new students we don't see each other for a couple days. I made this so that the kids can hear the story "The Night Before First Grade" from me before school starts. My hope was that this story from me would ease any first day of school worries ... Read More about The Night Before First Grade
Writing Goals
Transform Goal Setting At the beginning of this year, we decided as a school to focus our goal setting on writing. We hoped to help our students learn how to set individual goals to support their writing. Starting Off When starting off, we went through the students' writing at the beginning of each month and talked about what goal they should set for themselves based on a writing ... Read More about Writing Goals
March Math(ness)
Hello! March has arrived which means it is time to pack up your pink and red hearts and it is time to pull out the green shamrocks and pots of gold. March is crucial because it the time of the year when new concepts are being introduce but review is necessary so that kids can retain what was taught back in October. We practice addition and subtraction all year long but during this time ... Read More about March Math(ness)
Pizza Week!
Who doesn't love a themed week at school? First grade just finished up an amazing week filled with pizza themed activities. Pizza is an easy and fun theme that you can incorporate in your classroom as well! Preparing For Pizza Week To prepare for pizza week, I ordered I giant inflatable pizza from Amazon. I was thinking that I could also use the giant pool floaty in the classroom when ... Read More about Pizza Week!
Morning Routines
What does your classroom morning routine look like? Do you use morning work? Start lessons right away? Lead a morning meeting? All teachers have a different routine for their morning depending on schedules, but I wanted to share about how we start our morning and how it can make the rest of your day a great one! Your first interaction with students in the morning sets the tone for the day. ... Read More about Morning Routines
