Now soaring in Kindergarten
I Wanna Iguana Activities I Wanna Iguana activities for the Letter I! I love the book and it’s so perfect for the letter I (and also for persuasive writing). I have had my firsties in the past write a letter home to their parents persuading them to let them have a specific pet. For Kindergarten, we just discussed what we’d “wanna” have as a pet and
letter craft ideas and a morning routine freebie Letter Craft Ideas Morning Routine Freebie -Letter craft ideas are so much fun in kindergarten. In this post I am sharing letter craft ideas from this last week and a FREEBIE for your morning routine! My teaching partners and I have been doing a quick run through of all the alphabet and each day we are trying
Teaching blends in first grade can be a tiresome task…you teach and they get it and sometimes they don’t. So you re-teach blends. Some get it, some don’t. Repeat. It can be frustrating to gain the automaticity that we all want in our early readers with regard to blends! I updated a pack of mine a while back to take some of the monotony out
The beginning of the chapter is focused on what to do when you have a “barometer” child who is repeatedly the one that is keeping your class from building stamina. (Barometer as in, affects the “weather” of your room) Hello? My son! They list 4 steps to helping this type of child gain independence and build stamina: Step 1 Reflection Step 2 Extra Support Step
Math Daily 3? What?? Yep, that’s what Chapter 8 is all about and I have to say, I like it. I already do a lot of what they describe, we use Investigations (for better or worse) so the math games are a check, and whole group is something I do well…if I do say so myself, but intervention/small group is my hugest source of frustration.
We are working on Chapter 7 (instead of including Chapter 8 with 7, we decided to give Math Daily 5 a week all its own next week!) Get the FREEBIE Pack {HERE} on TpT! Chapter 7 is all about when to launch the next Daily 5. They suggest waiting until children have demonstrated independence and increased stamina during Read to Self before going on to
My bright idea is something I have used for years and recently started using it with Daily 5: 3 Ways to Read a Book, specifically “I can read the pictures”. Upon introduction of the 3 Ways to Read a Book (book study blog post {here}) I show students one of my foreign language children’s books and ask them if they think I can read the
I enjoyed Chapter 5, my favorite part is about creating independent readers and writers, with a gradual release of responsibility. The key for independence with Daily 5 is multiple short practice sessions, with repetition and discussion throughout the first weeks of school. My least favorite part was when they shared (which would be difficult for me) the idea of having mostly bare walls, for
Ok, so this week we are looking at Chapters 3 and 4. They are both all about Independence. Chapter 3 was a large chunk of information, so let’s get started! Chapter 3 is about the 10 steps to teaching and learning independence. I LOVE the idea of my kids being independent learners. We all know that kids learn differently: visual, auditory, and kinesthetic…but the book
The latest book by “the 2 sisters” is the second edition of the Daily 5. I have to admit that I am not a complete and faithful Daily 5 Believer. I like a lot of things about it and there are a lot of things I took and adapted to fit my classroom over the years since reading the first book. I can say that
