It's finally time for #2getherwearebetter CLASSROOM REVEAL!!! I am so happy this day is finally here. I have been itching to show off all my hard work of setting up my classroom before my children storm in ready to learn LOL :)! SO, READY, SET HERE WE GO... Here ...
Why sit on a chair when you can sit on a stability ball! I am so excited to start the 2015-2016 school year and I am even more excited that I have gotten rid of my chair. YES, NO MORE CHAIRS! My awesome teammate received a class set of stability balls last school year to use ...
I am so happy to link up with Angie at Lucky Little Learners and Ashley at Schroeder Shenanigans in 2nd this month to talk about bulletin boards. In my classroom, I currently have seven bulletin boards in my classroom. Below are three of those seven. This is the most ...
This past week, I had the chance to participate in two reader's workshop professional developments. I also got a three-day training in June that was awesome! During the past school year, I started to implement reader's workshop, but my district's focus was on writer's workshop. ...
So far I am enjoying my summer and getting some much-needed rest! Professional Reading I am currently working through a stack of professional reading material. I have been reading Reading in the Wild, and I love this book. I have so many things I will be doing ...
My Goals: Present at a conference for teachers- My dream is to continue learn to build my knowledge to present at a conference. Specifically a conference focused on ELA or technology. I have a great love for reading and all things technology, and I want to be able to share ...
Celebrating Black History was one of my first product I created when I started my TpT journey a year ago. I have been working on adding reading passages to this product and I have included a preview on one of the reading passages. If you would like to take a closer ...
First let me say to all my readers who were expecting this post yesterday, I am sorry. Yesterday was sooooo busy! Here is it part 2 of chapter 1 in The Literacy Teacher's Playbook. In the last part of Chapter 1: Collecting Data the book talks about reading comprehension. ...
Here we go! I am excited to be doing my first book study this summer! There are only for chapters in this book, so I have split the chapters into two parts. This part 1 of Chapter 1: Collecting Data. Thanks for Joining!! Chapter 1: Collection Data This chapter ...
For the upcoming school year, I have been looking at different professional development books to read over the summer. While searching my instructional coach's office, I found The Literacy Teacher's Playbook by Jennifer Serravallo. I chose to read this book because next year ...
I am super excited to link up with Luck Little Learners and Schroeder Shenanigans in 2nd with their monthly linky party 2getherwearebetter. The reason I created my blog was to show teachers what I like to do with my students, and to connect with other teachers. I love ...
Okay okay!! I know I'm late, but I have been really thinking about what things I want to work on this year. It's 2015!! So far my year is off to a good start and I want to keep it that way. Life is so short at times that you just have to make the best of it. So, what I have been thinking is: I have really neglected my blog. I started this blog to talk about all the wonderful things I do in my classroom ...
