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One area I want to improve on this coming school year, is the writing center. I want students to practice specific skills in an engaging hands-on way. This way I…
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One area I want to improve on this coming school year, is the writing center. I want students to practice specific skills in an engaging hands-on way. This way I…
Setting up guided math is a lot like setting up guided reading. Slow and steady wins the race brings sanity for the year. Don’t be in a rush to get…
Whew…it happened. I got to a happy place in the room today. I hope it will be a wonderful space for my incoming first graders. Before we start with the…
One of the ways I love to keep myself and my students organized is by labeling everything. One, there’s no guesswork, two, students learn to recognize the words and what…
I have compiled my pictures of word work from last year into one post in hopes of showing how we organize and teach word work all in one neat and…