Last year I found this cute idea for giving each student a bouncy ball that said “I’m looking forward to bouncing through the year with you!” I handed these out at open house along with a bag of microwavable popcorn that said, “Thanks for popping in!” This year I only handed out the bouncy balls….
I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a Whole Brain teaching training in my district back in April. Chris Biffle and Chris Rekstad were awesome! They have amazing ideas and were very inspiring! If you don’t know much about whole brain teaching, check out their website – wholebrainteaching.com I will be implementing aspects of whole brain teaching…
I can’t believe this year is already coming to an end. Tomorrow is my last day with this year’s group of kiddos. 🙁 We have had many ups and downs this year but overall this is probably the best class I’ve had during my teaching career! I will really be sad to see them go….
Open House is Monday night and school starts on Wednesday. I wish my summer wasn’t ending! I have spent a lot of time at the school last week and this week. I have all of the major things done. The thing I am most excited about is my word wall! A couple pf years ago…
I previously explained a little about how I use Scott Foresman Reading Street in my classroom. I have the students read the stories at their own pace and I do one-on-one conferences with each student. To help with my documentation and monitoring of student progress I created “running records” for each story in Units 1-5….
Okay, so I am basically re-inventing the wheel here because there are many Daily 5 stamina graphs floating around out there in cyberspace but I wanted to make my own. 🙂 UPDATE 2018: I designed these stamina graphs over 7 years ago! After I received an email from someone about them, I decided they needed…