One of my blogging besties, Jen from Sparkling in Second, is embarking on her new journey as a Mrs. That's right! Our Ms. Cullen is getting married! BIG congrats to you girlie! While Jen is away enjoying marriage bliss, some of her blogger peeps are taking over her blog for a special event! My "something borrowed" is Classroom Calendar Math. I "borrowed" this idea and adapted it to meet the needs of my kiddos in my classroom. Hopefully, after this post, you will want to "borrow" it, too! I am a classroom calendar junkie. Yup..even in good ole' second grade. In fact, I think it is safe to say that I would still do calendar if I was an upper elementary or middle school teacher. Do you have/ use a classroom calendar? If you do..I am smiling at you. If not...hop on over to Jen's blog here to read all about how and why I use classroom calendar in my guest post! ...
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QR Help with Vowel Sounds
At this point in the school year, most of us are in 1 of 3 stages- 1)Test Prep/Review 2)Assessment Craze or 3) Relief. My kiddos and I are currently in stage 1. We test in just 20 days. I am really nervous excited about our assessments because my kiddos have worked so hard this year, and I know they are going to own it! As we begin reviewing all of our skills, my goal is to create different centers and activities that are going to engage the students in new and exciting ways. My go-to tool for this week is the handy QR code. I wanted to provide the students with the ability to check their own work while they are working in centers. One of our centers this week covers reviewing long and short vowel sounds. The students are given a group of words and asked to sort them by their vowel sound. After all the words are sorted into their designated buckets, the students can scan the QR code(attached to the front of the bucket) with one of our classroom iPads. After they ...
A Little Spring Cleaning with a TPT SALE!
So March has been crazy, no? I mean really...how cruel is it to let us celebrate Spring and then smack us with snow and freezing temperatures for the next week after. Not cool Mother Nature...not cool. But, that's okay because I just had a relaxing Spring Break and am ready to get back to school and rock out the last few weeks before the big State assessments. We have less than 50 days of school left! Oh my! Speaking of Spring, we all like to think of the start to the season as a great opportunity for us to clean our house, closets, cars..and TPT store wish lists. Mine is packed full of goodies that I have been saving for a sale just like this one. My entire store(all 10 products LOL) are on sale! Are they in your wish list? Go get 'em! Not on your wish list? Grab 'em anyway! Just click on the sale image for easy access to my TPT store. (Special thanks to Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah Designs for the graphic. Check out her store! ) In the last week, I have driven to ...
