Monthly Archives: September 2014

We started to learn our letters of the week this week with letter Aa.  My students had so much fun exploring all things Aa!  Our focus was mostly apples, but we also learned about other things that begin with Aa too!  Here are some pictures of what we did this week: “a is for apple”Continue reading “Apples, Apples Everywhere!”

We just finished our Five Senses unit.  I absolutely LOVED teaching the kiddos about their five senses.  They loved learning about it too!  It’s a long post, sorry, but worth the read for a wealth of activities to try in your classroom. I always to make sure to incorporate reading in each lesson.  We readContinue reading “Five Senses”

I came across a ton of anchor charts that I used when teaching first and second grade.  I thought they may be helpful to you, so I took pictures to post!  Some I modeled off of other anchor chart pictures I happened upon while searching for ideas.  Here they are:

We just completed an All About Me (I Am Special) unit.  We started the unit at the end of the first week of school and continued it through the second week.  I like to start the year with All About Me.  Children love to learn and share about themselves.  I also think it helps toContinue reading “All About Me – I am Special”

Well, I started back to school 3 weeks ago and I’ve been CRAZY busy and I haven’t been able to post…but I have been taking tons of pictures.  Here’s two of my huge mess after I moved rooms and started unpacking.  Talk about tons of work!  I definitely got my exercise in…lol  Can’t wait toContinue reading “Mess!”