Can I just say that this sight makes me so happy! There’s a basket for each month just chock-full of writing goodies. (Rubber maid stackables for the win!) Like I mentioned yesterday, the framework stays the same each month: journal prompts, list tags, research cards, and stationery. Only the content
Can you believe we’re just days from November?? I swear time just speeds up. Although at the moment I’m really antsy! Yes, in part because I want to get past the hopped-up on Halloween feeling in my classroom, but I’m also excited to switch out my writing station. It tickles
After last week's INSANITY (Halloween, torrential rain = inside recess, power outage, field trip) it was a relief to get back to normal today. It gave us the first real chance to try out the November writing prompts. I gathered a bunch of journal ideas from the internet and wrote
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
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
Instead of math journals, in my class I have the students write me "postcards." I tell them that when you're someplace special you send other people postcards to tell them how great it is. Since I can't visit inside their heads, they have to send me a postcard to tell
Happy New Year! Why not kick off the new year with a creative story activity? We are loving the new website Storybird. Their tag line is "Collaborative storytelling for families and friends." Doesn't that sound fantastic? Click here to see a tour of the website. I especially love the art
Many young children love writing stories. Long before I could write well, I would staple art paper into little story books that I would write and illustrate. One of my favorite projects in elementary school was writing and editing a special story to put into a "Bare Book." We carefully
When I started teaching, writing was the subject that excited me most. The interest quickly fizzled, however, when I was swamped with trying to manage the process smoothly. Teaching writing has been a personal battle ever since. We have parent-teacher conferences this week and in order to get everyone to
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