Monday funday! We started off our day making some text-to-self connections and I must brag for a minute, my kids did an amazing job. First, we reviewed what a text-to-self connection was and made a quick little anchor chart. Then, we read Thank You, Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco (click below for the book). During […]

We dove into character traits this week and what better guy to do that with than Tacky?!?! My kids love this odd little penguin! After reading the book, I recorded what my little ones had to say: Then we used Lindsey (The Teacher Wife)‘s character page from her Reading Comprehension Pack. I have both her […]

TGIF everybody!!!!! I am heading out for *date* night with the boy, but before I go I thought I would link up and share a Friday Freebie with you! I am using the book Enemy Pie by Derek Munson next week for a shared reading lesson.   This book is one of my absolute favorites […]

Lindsey, over at The Teacher Wife, has a FANNNtastic linky party I just had to join! It’s all about your….   This is perfect because now I can compile a list of alllllll the new books I obviously NEED for the upcoming year! 1. My Mouth is a Volcano! By Julia Cook I recently posted […]

I wanted to take a minute to share one of my favorite MLK Jr. crafts and activities to do! Our I had a Dream craftivity: That MLK was a cutie, huh?! Anyways, he is just one of the fun activities I added to my lil packet.  My fave, fave, fave book to read aloud is […]

  My Mouth is a Volcano is one my favorite books to read at the beginning of the year to help curb the interrupting and blurting out! This year I made a cute little craftivity to extend our learning after this read-aloud. We always talk about why it is important not to interrupt others and […]