I love math centers and I especially love to create math centers that focus around a specific holiday. I have been doing these Halloween math centers for years and thought I would update them to sell on TpT. My Halloween Math Centers packet is a 42 page download of hands-on ...
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Busy Teacher’s To-Do Lists
I love To-Do Lists! I write them on post-its, on those To-Do List pads, and on my Blackberry. I also like to make To-Do Lists of ideas I have for TpT, my blog, and Scholastic. I created free "Busy Teacher's To-Do Lists" for TpT and posted about them on Blog Hoppin'. Click ...
Laura Numeroff Author Study
Laura Numeroff's newest book, If You Give a Dog a Donut is being released on Tuesday, October 4th! Last week my students spent the week imersed in Laura Numeroff's books. We used the activities from my updated Laura Numeroff "If You Give..." Author Study Packet. If you have ...
Read/Write the Room Worksheets
Read/Write the Room is a staple center utilized in my print rich classroom environment. Each week, the students take clipboards, a pencil, and a worksheet and look around the room for words with a specific phonic element. They then record the words on worksheets like the one pictured ...
Word Wall and Freebie
I am super to excited to be part of Blog Hoppin' and I just wrote my first post for them on Word Walls. Click {here} to read my post and snag a Read/Write the Room freebie! Click {here} to purchase my word wall words. These complement the word wall headers (click {here})in my TpT ...
Star of the Week
I start off by being the first Star of the Week. I have my Star of the Week display up for Meet the Teacher Night. This is a great way for parents to get to know me better and serves as an exemplar for what is expected from the Star of the Week. To create the display, I printed ...
I Think My Teacher Sleeps in School Class-Made Book
In the beginning of first grade, I like to read a book aloud to the students, discuss the book, and then complete a writing prompt. Yesterday, I read my students the adorable book, I Think My Teacher Sleeps in School by Leatie Weiss. Throughout the reading, we made predictions and text ...
Remembering 9/11 for Primary Students
Today is a day that no one will forget. Being from NY, I knew many people who died in the Twin Towers. Ten years ago today, I was a substitute teacher at my current school in Lindenhurst, NY. After the attack happened, I ran around covering classes so that teachers could call ...
Back to School! Week One a Success!
School started for me on Tuesday with students coming in on Wednesday. I have an awesome group of first graders this year. I am also so lucky to have only 20 students. My school was supposed to have three first grade classes and then when the budget passed we were able to get four! ...
Thank You and Where I Got the Polkadot Punch Out Letters!
I would like to thank the following blogs for picking me as a top ten blog! Thank you ladies. I truly appreciate all my followers and fellow bloggers. I have gotten a few emails and questions on my posts about where I got the punch out letters and the polka dot borders I use in ...
