Mother’s Day is coming right up! To me, Mother’s Day is the official start of fun. The weather is usually nice, and it’s beginning to feel like summer. The school year starts winding down. Last year I posted this free Mother’s Day craft and took lots of cute pictures of it up all over my school. Here are a couple from some firsties. It’s a pretty simple design meant to be copied onto white paper
Last year, I created these Common Core math warm ups for our kindergarten teachers. Our kids go full day, a long day, and come in knowing quite a bit of content. This allows them to go through most of the K standards by Christmas, and the 1st grade standards the second semester. Of course, they don’t quite get it all, and they have to spend time reviewing. But it really prepares the kiddos for first
Here’s a great program you may or may not know about! Pets in the Classroom recently contacted me and asked if I’d share their wonderful program. Here’s what they sent me! Pets in the Classroom is an educationalvgrants program supporting responsible pet care for school classrooms. Sponsored by the Pet Care Trust, the goal of the program is to establish healthy child-pet relationships by supporting responsible pet care in Kindergarten-8th Grade classrooms across the
I’ve finally gotten back into the swing of products and blogging- I think. It’s not been 10 days between posts and I think I know another couple posts I’ll be doing in the next few weeks. That’s remarkable for how I’ve been the last month or so. Most teachers get in their funk about this time of year (or March-ish). I’m usually coming out of my funk by then. My funk is like the end
I’ve been wanting to share my record keeping process for my RtI groups but my photos came out blurry. So, then I took some new ones. Those are still blurry but I figured I’d share them anyway! 🙂 As many of you know, I spend a lot of my day working with RtI students and oversee my building’s RtI program. I did this in a previous position at a previous school as well. The ideas
