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Farm Unit {Giveaway & Freebie Alert}

September 26, 2013 by Elizabeth Hall ·

We have been learning about Farms this week along with The Five Senses and Community Helpers. Whenever I can’t find a fab resource to use (there are so many!) I just make my own. And then I get a bit carried away…and a unit is born. So here is my newest creation… We have […]

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Where Do Readers Read?

September 25, 2013 by Elizabeth Hall ·

Just a quick post tonight about a great book and reader’s work-shop lesson that is so powerful! Today, we talked about how readers read everywhere. I asked the students to think about places that they see people reading. They came up with bed, with their mom, outside, in an airport, at the beach, with their […]

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Let’s Wash!

September 11, 2013 by Elizabeth Hall ·

My students and I have been loving Mrs. Wishy Washy these past two weeks!What a perfect way to get little readers confident and excited about reading other than Mrs. Wishy Washy? I just think that Shared Reading is such a powerful learning experience. This is my favorite one to start with. By the end of […]

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Moving Word Wall Flash Freebie

July 24, 2013 by Elizabeth Hall ·

When I think of my word wall, I think of kids just aimlessly gawking up to find “and” under the “a”. Then I visualize myself doing a crazy dance to get them to find the word. Then they point to “is”. Don’t you hear the sound of your hand slapping your forehead? There’s got to […]

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Fabulous Freebies and April Currently

April 1, 2013 by Elizabeth Hall ·

The honeymoon (aka Spring Break) is over and it’s back to reality. I am going to admit that my lesson plans were not in the best shape this morning. I was looking at everyone’s visual lesson plans yesterday and could still not get the motivation. However, we still had a ton of […]

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Speaking of Spring Break…grab a freebie!

March 20, 2013 by Elizabeth Hall ·

It’s the first day of Spring and it’s FREEZING!!! Someone said the S word this morning and I just put my hands to my ears and said la-la-la I can’t hear you. Don’t even say snow (I said the S word) two days before Spring Break! I am just hoping that the weather at the […]

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Wednesday Word Problem Giveaway and Dreaming of 100 followers!

February 27, 2013 by Elizabeth Hall ·

It’s Wednesday and my kids know that on Wednesdays it’s ice cream day (they can only get it from the cafeteria on Wednesday) and Wednesday word problem day 🙂 More importantly for me…it’s the word problem day….more importantly for them? You and I both know the answer to that. However, we are going to pretend […]

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Wednesday Word Problem…freebie included!

February 20, 2013 by Elizabeth Hall ·

I feel like I haven’t done a great job explaining to the bloggy world about Wednesday Word Problems and what an amazing tool is has been to have in Kindergarten. When I first heard the idea, I thought it was crazy because I though there was no way a Kindergarten student could solve […]

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