8 Key Comprehension Strategies {Freebie}

For the past few weeks, at our school, we have been talking about comprehension strategies and thinking about what we do and what we can continue to do to strengthen our kids comprehension throughout all of the grade levels. Our reading coach had a great visual (that I fixed up a little…) that we can […]

Peek at My Week…Halloween

So many fun activities this week! I love the week before Halloween. The read-alouds are some of my favorites. I have my bookshelf all set up and ready to go but I don’t even have all of the books displayed that I love! Here are my plans for the week. One of my favorite read-alouds […]

Just My Type {Sentences}

I started doing a computer station last year. We started with beginning sounds and then moved on to labeling. The kids love computer station, but I had some kids that needed a little more of a challenge. My goal this year was to make a computer station for the kids that are little quicker and […]

Peek at my Week…Pumpkins

It’s Fall Break week! Oh my WORD. And a field trip. And a Fall party. Somewhere in there we are going to be learning about pumpkins and the life cycle. When we go to the farm on Tuesday, we get to walk around the pumpkin patch and pick pumpkins off the vine. This is a […]

Peek at My Week…Apples!

What a fun weekend I had this weekend being showered yet AGAIN! Oh my word. I am surprised I didn’t have to rent a U-haul to get everything back to our house. This baby is going to be decked out for the first year of her life. Goodness. It was such a special day and […]

Peek at My Week…Wishy Washy and Five Senses

It’s time to start planning for another week 🙂 Peek at my week is ready to go! This week, we are going to be reading Wishy Washy and starting to re-tell using pictures and “story-telling” voices. I have the kids color the pictures and then use a re-telling pouch to re-tell the story using tub/mud […]

Peek at My Week…Transportation, Science Tools & Environmental Print

We’ve got a busy week planned ahead. We are going to be studying about transportation, science tools and environmental print. I am in the midst of putting my transportation unit together as we speak, and it should be done in the next couple of days. I just want to try it out with my kids […]

Peek at My Week {Family}

I decided to post a day late today because YAHOO we have a nice long weekend! I love getting to skip a Monday. This week, we are talking about family and the kiddos are doing their first presentation about their family! I love starting the process of presentations. The first one is always a little […]