Look what a parent made for me from my class! Adorable, right? I thought I would include it in my Five For Friday Post! My birthday is tomorrow and my class surprised me with the guinea pig cakes. A mother of one of my students made it. I was just floored! ...
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Visual First Grade Plans for the Week of 11/17/14
This week my first graders and I will be focusing on the sh digraph, personal narratives, relating addition and subtraction, states of matter, and a quick Laura Numeroff author study. Here are my visual plans. Just click to download. I am linking up with Deedee again! Packets ...
Currently November
Hi all, I am linking up with Farley again for her Currently linky. Here goes! Listening to The Mindy Project. I just love that show. I feel like Mindy and I could be friends in real life. I have read Mindy Kaling's book Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me and just ...
Operation Underdog
As teachers, we naturally have very giving hearts. We always want to help, expecting nothing in return. Well, today, I'm going to invite you to something really special that I am happy to be a part of. My teaching heart jumped at the chance to contribute to a really wonderful ...
A Peek at My Week: Visual Plans for the Week of November 10th
The year is flying by! This week my first graders and I will be focusing on the wh digraph, personal narratives, relating addition and subtraction, and states of matter. Here are my visual plans. Just click to download. I am linking up with Deedee again! Some resources I ...
Black & White Polka Dot Plus Brights Classroom Reveal
I am very well aware that this reveal is 2 months late! I really worked until the minute before school started setting up my classroom. I was even on facebook the week before school started offering to pay anyone $20 an hour to come and help me cut, laminate, and paint. I ended up ...
TpT takes NYC and Tsu?
Last weekend, I met up with some fabulous TeachersPayTeachers.com authors in NYC. I live on Long Island so it was just a 55 minute train ride in. We say "on" Long Island and not "in" because it is an island. Anyway, we started our day with a brunch at the Brain Pop offices. ...
Magic e and Plans for the Week
This week in first grade we are focusing on magic e. With our new Words of the Week phonic sequence, we decided to teach Magic e earlier in the year. Many of the students are already reading above grade level and need to understand Magic e in order to successfully read books at those ...
Halloween Sale!
Happy Halloween! My whole store is 20% off. Click {HERE}. ...
Engage NY First Grade Math Resources
I have gotten a ton of questions on my visual plan posts about how I utilize Engage NY in my classroom. For those of you not familiar with the math program, you can check it out and download the whole program for free here. The truth is that I am still trying to figure out how to fit it all in ...
