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Journal Date Stamp
One of my favorite things about teaching five year olds is watching them write in their journals. Several months ago some of these students only knew a few letters and sounds. Now they’re actually composing sentences! It’s amazing! We work in our journals once a week during small groups. I call three or four students at a time to my teacher table where they spend 15 to 20 minutes writing and illustrating. The kids can see the word wall and I’m there to help with sounding out words as needed. I’m happy if they hear the beginning sound. It’s a success if they write down the ending sound. And I’m over the moon, teacher crazy if they hear any…
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Monday Made It – Sharing Bag
I marked two school projects off my To Do List last week but added at least a dozen more! Thank goodness for Monday Made It! It provides us with ideas, inspiration, and incentive to get it all done! My first Made It was somewhat of a re-do on a previous project. Remember when I printed new my sight word cards? They looked like this… Well, I loved how they looked and I was just getting ready for the next step to mount and laminate them when I had a major thought. As I was trying to decide which color cardstock to use, I started thinking it would be nice if they…
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Monday Made It-Print, Laminate, Cut
By the time you read this, I’ll be at the beach! I’ll definitely have my share of fun in the sun and relaxing but I’m also taking a big bag of teacher stuff. Little by little I’ve been working on things for next year. Let’s link up with 4th Grade Frolics to give you a quick look at what I’ve done. I wanted to update my Word Wall and make new sight word cards. The Word Wall has a Popcorn theme which I love and I thought these black & white polka dots would be a nice compliment to all the reds and yellow of the popcorn accents. These editable sight word cards are part…
