This is part 1 in our 3 part busy bag series. Read Part 2 and Part 3. Recently I hosted a busy bag exchange with 20+ of my friends (and their friends). It’s an idea that I’ve seen around the web lately, especially getting inspiration from here and here.
I'm so excited that I've finally got my writing center up! This week we finally started doing the Work on Writing component of the Daily 5 independently. I realize that it's clear into the 2nd week in October, but I didn't decide to try the Daily 5 until the middle
There is a newer Words Their Way post with more information. Click to see it now. I thought it would be nice to have all the Words Their Way resources in one post. I'm also including a link to the sort sequences that I use to organize my binder. Letter
Today you can help break a world reading record with Jumpstart's Read for the Record. Head over to their site and see what you can do to participate!
Do you Pin? I'm like a Pinterest fiend. Clicking that "show more pins" button is like getting a little fix. Ok, I'm not really that bad. 🙂 But I do la-la-love Pinterest! Love it to the point that I'm finding it difficult to get to sleep at a reasonable hour.
I finally got around to making a new record book for my Words Their Way groups. My last one lasted me several years, but it was finally full. So here's the newbie. I got the cute clipart from Lettering Delights. I like to keep track of which group is one
Heidi and I started using these homework folders several years ago. We certainly didn’t invent the idea, although I believe we’ve made it our own and came up with our own acronym. It’s been revamped many times since we started but meet the G.O.L.D. homework folder, as Heidi is using
As we get ready to add some new and exciting items to the shop we decided to lower the price of our Banana Split Math fact. You can now snag this awesome program for $8! Head on over to the shop to get yours today!
I was looking through some pictures and came across these that I'd forgotten about. Are you familiar with Tomorrow's Alphabet? It's a pretty clever idea. For each letter of the alphabet, there's an example of what it changes into. Like, "Y is for wool, tomorrow's yarn." I read it to
It's the middle of July! How did that happen? I hope you're enjoying lazy days by the pool, sipping cool drinks, and losing yourself in breezy romance novels. Yeah. Me neither. People keep asking me if I'm enjoying my summer and I tell them no. Then I mention something about
And now we'd like to tell you about the Second Story Window 2011 Summer Reading Challenge! Read 10 new books and you can earn a free $5 game from our shop. One game per child. Parents can read books to a non-reading child. Download the form here. E-mail photos
image via Boy have we been busy lately! But don't be too sad about our blogging absence, it's because we're working on so many fun new things for the shop. Let me tell you, there are so many great programs going on right now encouraging summer reading. Here's a quick
