Hi friends! How was your first week back at school? I have the sweetest class ever and I am enjoying them so much already! But I am finding it difficult to get into the swing of things. My new school is a late start school and the dismissal bell doesn’t ring until 3:40! By the…
Hi guys! I’m linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching to share with you 5 things from my classroom this week! 1. CO-CREATED ALPHABET/NUMBER POSTERS I love making co-created posters with the kids at the beginning of the year. I find that the kids use the resources a lot more too when they are…
Hi guys! Today I wanted to share a little bit about how I assess and create guided groups for math at the beginning of the year. During the first two weeks of school I try to pull all of my students one by one and do a beginning of the year number sense assessment with…
Hi guys! I’m back to link up with Kacey from Doodle Bugs Teaching for her Five for Friday linky to share 5 teaching idea from this week! 1. Roll to the Top! In math, we have been talking about subtilizing strategies and one of the strategies we talked about is recognizing numbers quickly on a…
Hi friends! Long time no blog! I’m here to share some centres that my kids have been loving this past week and link up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teachings for her Five for Friday linky! Can You Make a Play Dough Snowman? Materials needed: White play dough and an assortment of loose parts. I…
Hi friends! I’m popping in to link up with Kacey from Doodle Bugs Teaching to share five things from this week! We started to revamp our writing system this week as a division. I will post more about it when it is up and running but one change I made is going from paper in duotangs…
Hey hey! I’m finally linking up with Kacey @ Doodle Bugs Teaching again for her Five for Friday! It has been way too long but I finally have 5 random photos to share! Here we go 😉 This past Monday was Thanksgiving Day in Canada so we read “The Thankful Book” by Todd Parr and…
This was our first full week of Kindergarten and our focus was names! I want all of the students to know each other (and their own!) names well so I decided to start the year by focusing on names. We started our “special helper” routine. Each day I announce the special helper and this person…
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