Oh. My. Goodness. Friday night I uploaded and blogged about my K/1 Common Core Math pack. I made it for my kindergarten team based on feedback from them, and didn’t really think many people would want it since it spanned two grades. I was wrong. Just plain wrong. I got lots of great, positive feedback both here and in my TpT store. And then I had requests for a second grade common core math review
So today was one of those days that will go down in history as epic. Epic. Some of our students went absolutely and positively crazy. Cra hazy. There was a butter knife in one situation and a rock larger than my hand involved in the other. Everyone was safe and it sounds worse than it was, but it was crazy. But, my day ended much better. We were able to leave early instead of doing
I have always been of the mindset that it’s important to use formal names for things with children. They’re capable of learning them and it can continue to strengthen their vocabulary skills in other ways. In most aspects of my day, I stay true to this philosophy. I use “schema” with my students; I explicitly teach comprehension strategies and expect students to use their formal names. I teach content vocabulary and expect students to use
