STEM and informational writing go hand in hand in this fun, hands-on learning project! 🙂 I’m piloting the Lucy Calkins writing program for my grade level, and I have mixed feelings about it (but that’s a different post)...
continue readingOne of my goals in my classroom is always to get my students to try new books on different subjects and in different genres. There are always students who stick to the same series or type of books, and I think, as young readers...
continue readingSo, this post was supposed to happen a couple days ago, but then I realized I had left my camera in school. Oops! Anyway, here’s a quick peek at what we were working on last week! First, we created our fable and folk tale flipper...
continue readingAs promised, I wanted to share with you how we started our study on fables and folk tales this week! We started on Thursday since we were taking benchmark assessments earlier in the week, so we’ve only just begun, but we’re...
continue readingHey all! I’m hoping you are all starting to thaw out if you were dealing with the extreme cold. Today it got all the way up to 25 degrees! That’s a lot better than 5 degrees, anyway. Today was our first full week back to...
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