A language rich environment has been at the forefront of your mind all year long. You have a portable word wall, anchor charts, posters, etc… Now it’s almost Summer and you’re about to say goodbye to your precious students. Will they continue to be exposed to language the way they were in your classroom? Maybe. Maybe not. You can send your students and their parents away with a few pointers to make sure that their children continue to exposed to…
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Holidays & Seasons
Getting students to keep writing up until the last day can be quite challenging. So many of our students begin to mentally check out and their stamina decreases. There are…
Explaining summer slide to parents is extremely important, especially since they probably have never heard the term before. Summer Slide is very real. Studies show that students fall up to…
Earth Day is probably one of the social studies/science lessons we sometimes choose to skip; what with all the other things we need to teach and all the standards we…
End of year is approaching and if you’re like me, you’re already dreaming of beach trips and sleeping in. Unless you have tons of PD to attend and many PD…
ELA & Writing, Holidays & Seasons
Differentiated Letters to the North Pole Writing Unit to Get Students Engaged
I don’t know how it is for you, but getting my students to want to write, especially at the beginning of the year, can be quite a daunting task. During…
I wrote this post way before the countdown debate began. I’ve since pulled it from my blog and wavered back and forth on whether I should make it live again…
Holidays & Seasons, Management & Organization
3 Copies to Make at end of year to make your back to school time smoother
If this isn’t your first rodeo, you must now be a seasoned veteran in the art of making it to the copy machine before anyone else. Beginning of the year copying…
Have you had your 100th or 120th day yet? For the past two years I have celebrated the 100th day and have had different activities leading up to the 120th…
As my little sister would say, this post is a million years late! I got into the classroom mid August and started prepping, but then September rolled around and the…
