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8 Key Comprehension Strategies {Freebie}

October 28, 2015 by Elizabeth Hall ·

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 […]

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Peek at My Week…Leaves and Seasons

October 19, 2015 by Elizabeth Hall ·

I am a little late on my Peek at My Week this week because I have thoroughly been enjoying my Fall Break. I went and got myself a prenatal massage (which I highly recommend to any pregnant people out there), finished the nursery, done a little shopping and really just got some good R&R. I […]

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Just My Type {Sentences}

October 17, 2015 by Elizabeth Hall ·

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 […]

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Calendar Giveaway!

September 22, 2015 by Elizabeth Hall ·

Last week, I shared with you how I have been making my life with calendar so much easier. I am putting the entire year in one folder and the kiddos are using expo markers and little erasers to follow along as we go. Here is a picture that I shared from last week. I set […]

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Transportation in Kindergarten

September 16, 2015 by Elizabeth Hall ·

We have been talking and learning all about ways to go this week. Our shared reading for the week is “To Town” and it’s our first one. We’ve been pulling in other stories to build on our discussion about transportation. Of course, the all time favorite for the week so far is “Don’t Let the […]

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Calendar Time Simplified

September 8, 2015 by Elizabeth Hall ·

It has taken me awhile to really figure out what I want to do during calendar time. I know that it’s important and it’s a skill that I want my kids to master. I have tried countless binders, folders, pages…etc. Nothing has really worked for me until now. I am not undoing binders and then […]

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Kindergarten Color Days

August 28, 2015 by Elizabeth Hall ·

We have been having so much fun doing our color days this week. We started the week with red and followed with orange, yellow, green. Each morning, the kids have a morning task of color word work to complete. We play the color songs (which I’ll share here in a minute) and work on just […]

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Read and Write the Room for the Year Giveaway!

August 24, 2015 by Elizabeth Hall ·

Don’t you love Read and Write the Room as one of your literacy stations? It has always been one of my go to stations, but I am kind of scrambling at times to pull what I want to go with what we are doing for the time being. I need a resource that I can […]

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