After a couple weeks, and a much needed Winter Break, we headed back to school last Tuesday. We only had a 4 day week that first week back and with it being a shorter week, switching things up in my reading block a bit, and wanting time to review procedures, I decided not to do our regular reading routines and curriculum. Instead, I reintroduced Martin Luther King Jr. to the kids. As luck would have
I receive office supplies from Shoplet.com from time to time to try out. I was super excited when these Astrobright sets arrived at my house. I received the Neon Astrobrights colored paper and the Happy Astrobrights colored card stock sets. I generally just use the colored paper that my school supplies and I rarely, rarely have used card stock. Well, after using both of these sets, I don’t think I’ll be going back to either. I
Last week we took a look at Character Traits. We spent a lot of time discussing how traits described a character on the inside. We also talked about adjectives, though the students often gave the characters nouns as traits. We’ll work on that during our next go around. We started by taking a look at Lulu because she’s a phenomenal, big character in the books. If you aren’t familiar with Lulu and the amazingness Judith
Over the years, I’ve used a variety of systems to manage my small groups and centers rotations. I’ve used Slides and Powerpoint to display one chart with different slides for each day of the week as detailed in my Small Group Instruction Management post. My Editable Centers and Small Group Display has been a savior for that! I’ve also used Powerpoint to time, signal, and rotate through my small group rotations each day. Every year,
I’ve changed up my small group and centers rotation display several times over the years. My first year, my partner teacher and I grouped between classes so we had several groups to manage. Our set up looked something like this (but with quite a few more places the students actually went to) and with three rotations each day. Every morning I’d move the center rotation cards so the students knew where they’d go when since
