During phonics and spelling instruction my students and I spend a lot of time making words. The students use letter tiles (plastic or paper). Whenever I use one of my making words worksheets that I made to use with Reading Street, I always open up a making words file on my SmartBoard. As I’m walking around watching students spell the word, I… Read More
What a busy week! I had a meeting on Monday, bus duty Tuesday, a full day of PD on Wednesday, and I’ve been working on a million things including three graduate class projects, adding apps to my iPad and two iPod touches I purchased for my classroom, and working on a big unit! Whew! I’m glad to have a day… Read More
How many of you have bought Kathleen Pederson’s Fix It Up! Sentences for Grammar, Sight Words & Handwriting? Well if you haven’t, let me tell you that it is an awesome resource! My students loved the fix it ups! I saw where Laura from First Grade Fundamentals posted fix its for StoryTown, so I decided to create some for Reading… Read More
My school uses Scott Foresman Reading Street. When I moved from the computer lab to teaching first grade I was SO overwhelmed with all of the Reading Street materials! There are like a bazillion worksheets! Grammar worksheet, spelling worksheets, workbook pages, etc. There is just so much “stuff!” My first year I tried to fit in as much as I… Read More
I’ve officially be out of school for two days and I have already spent most of my time working on things for next year! Yes, I am an obsessed teacher! I’m trying to get as much done as I can before I leave for Florida next Monday. (squeal!) I just finished the worksheets for Unit 1 of our Scott Foresman… Read More
In a couple of weeks my kiddos will be working on words with suffixes -er and -or. I decided to make a little game for them to practice reading words with these suffixes. I am posting it here, for free, for my fellow bloggers. I am also posting it on TPT, but you can get it here, from my blog,… Read More