A YEAR OF K WRITING CENTERS. A YEAR OF 1ST WRITING CENTERS. A BAD CASE OF STRIPES.

my OCD self is SUPER annoyed at THIS! This is going to bug me all year! How do you keep track of your students who leave the room? Links to this post.

What the Teacher Wants! Back-to-School Bulletin Board, Management, and Donation Door. Crisscross Applesauce In First Grade. New Adventures in First Grade.

Tuesday, March 17, 2015. I have quite a chatty class this year. And by chatty I mean they never stop talking. Luckily talking, otherwise known as speaking and listening, is one of the CCSS standards, so we have been working hard on purposeful talk. We use these great Accountable Talk Posters. To help us frame our conversations, and today we talked about space. To get my kiddos engaged, we did a See, Think, Wonder activity from Making Thinking Visible. SEE -What do you see? .

Friday, February 13, 2015. This is one of my favorite ways to practice and review vowels. I give each student a vowel on a math counter. They all have the same worksheet with the vowel missing. They read each word with the vowel they have. Then they switch to use another vowel. Simple, quick, fun. For one, you could also make your own.

A blog about early childhood activities in English and Spanish. Saturday, August 24, 2013. Introducing our new Room Label Cards. Use these cards to label your room for a print rich environment. Dual Language Room Label Cards. Posted by Deborah Patterson Kim Jungman Fails. Sunday, September 2, 2012. Dual Language Center Pocket Chart Cards.

Wednesday, July 8, 2015. Kerry and her Krazy Klass. To help give advice for new working moms and returning to school! My husband and I welcomed our son, Carson, in March and we have been enjoying him each and every minute. I was lucky enough to be able to take off 7 weeks of maternity leave after he was born and returned for the final six weeks of the school year.

Sunday, January 27, 2013. I hope your new year is going great! I am excited to announce that I recently gained my 1000th follower on TpT! I am so honored for all of your support over the last year. It has been fun getting to know many of you, learning from you, and sharing ideas and products. Tuesday, January 15, 2013.

Sunday, August 14, 2016. The first activity has pokemon characters spread around the coordinate plane and students must write the ordered pair in which the pokemon can be found. This is good practice for students to write ordered pairs. Click here to check out this product! Wednesday, July 20, 2016.

Lifelong Learning Is Moving! The website grew. It grew and it grew and it grew. It grew until it was one year old, and then it ran away from home. I encourage you to check it out as none of the new content will be posted here.