I made another Search/Read/Write the Room Center for this Week. I have gotten some sweet feedback to keep them coming, so I will. This one focuses on Short and Long O. Here are my visual plans for the week. There really isn't a nice theme going on unless, I throw it all ...
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Five for Friday – April 26th
I am linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching to share five random things about my week. 1. It's that time of year, things are breaking and just a mess: 2. My Scholastic book 20 Super Spelling Centers is available in May's SeeSaw Catalog. 3. I helped my nephew with his ...
Mrs. Wishy-Washy
The nice people at Hameray Publishing were kind enough to send me two Mrs. Wishy-Washy books to review. I am a huge Mrs. Wishy-Washy fan, so I was so excited to get the two books in the mail. The first book, Mrs. Wishy-Washy and the Big Wash, is included in the "Green Set" of "The ...
Earth Day: Reusing in the Classroom and Visual Plans for the Week of April 22nd
I use a lot of paper with my students and I feel really guilty about that. One way I have found to be a little more eco friendly is to save all larger scraps of paper. I do this by placing a little garbage pail in the art center and telling the kids to put their bigger unused scraps of ...
Owls, Plants, and Last Week’s Plans
I just finished a big 84 page Owl themed Literacy and Math Packet. It has editable pages and is Common Core Aligned! I am trying this new thing where I put the standards on the worksheets. Let me know what you think of that. My teammates suggested it and I thought it was a ...
Memorial Benefit and BUSY!
Hi everyone! I just wanted to let you know that I won't be able to post my visual plans until later in the week. I had a busy weekend and have not had much time to sit. I attended a benefit in memory of my friend Artie yesterday. I was an all day and into night event. Lots ...
Teachers Pay Teacher Purchasing Tips
I am teaching an inservice class for my district and it came to my attention that some teachers did not know that you could re-download your purchases. Some teachers also don't know about TpT... SPREAD THE WORD, PEOPLE! Seriously, sign up for the newsletter (go all the way to the ...
Visual Plans for the week of April 8th and Bears
This week's story is Splash! It is about two bears waking up from their winter hibernation. I have a ton of bear stuff, so I decided to get all into the bear theme this week. It depends on whether or not I like the reading series story, if I decide to build my theme ...
Five For Friday – April 5th
I am linking up with Kacey again for Five for Friday! Here are five random things about my week: 1. I feel like crud! I have a terrible cold. Last night, I stuck tissues up my nose just so I could go to sleep without nose-leakage! Gross 2. We are having some ...
Erica’s “Tell it Like it Is” Blogging and TpT Tips: Technology
There was such a positive reaction to my first "Tell It Like It Is" post a while back, that I decided to create another "Tip" themed post. First, I want to thank you for the positive comments. I was not trying to be "The Boss of the Applesauce" but I wanted to get some simple, ...
