Month: March 2014

March 30, 2014

It’s Sunday so that means that it’s time for visual plans. Can you believe that it will be April this week? The countdown to the last day is nearing. For reading this week, we are working on inferencing and main idea. For inferencing,we will be reading Two Bad Ants and I Want My Hat Back….

March 29, 2014

It’s spring! Time to clean out those cluttered wish lists and get some amazing resources at discounted prices. Check out the long list of sellers who are holding sales in their TPT stores this weekend. Thanks to Beth Ann from Zip-A-Dee-Doh-Dah Designs for creating this amazing image. If you are looking to get ready for…

March 20, 2014

Happy Thursday everyone! I am in the middle of spring break and it is going by way too fast. Yesterday, I came down with a stomach bug so that kinda ruined yesterday. I feel much better today but still not 100%. I wanted to do a quick post to let you know that I have…

March 11, 2014

It’s time for Must-Read Monday (on a Tuesday.)   Today I am going to share some of my favorite books for teaching vocabulary.  My first book to share is great for teaching kids to use context clues. “Baloney Henry P.” has a ton of made up words and the kids have to use the context…

March 9, 2014

Thanks for hopping over to visit me on this amazing blog hop! I’m joining you today to bring you some ways that you can use that unused space in your classroom. If you are like me, I don’t have much wall space in your classroom but I really wanted to find a way to hang…

March 8, 2014

I’m bringing you my visual plans a day early this week. Tomorrow is the Bright Ideas blog hop so no time for these. It is finally the week before spring break. Man, I’m looking forward to that. Since it is the week before spring break, I will be reviewing and doing our 9 week math…

March 3, 2014

It’s Monday so it’s time for Must-Read Monday at Teaching Maddeness. This is easily becoming my favorite linky party. This week, I am sharing some easy chapter books that your kiddos will love. I heard about these books from Christina Bainbridge this summer. My boys love these and so do most of my girls.  These…

March 2, 2014

It’s time for visual plans. This will be a fun week at my school because we are celebrating Read Across America all week with dress up days. My reading skills this week are cause/effect, visualizing, and prefixes. I love Dr. Seuss books but, man, are they long and hard to read out loud. I bought…