As much as I love to come up with clever writing prompts and activities for my students, I also love to see what they come up with on their own. At the beginning of the year, I make a big deal about how first graders get to make a lot of choices with their learning. One example is with their writing notebooks. Their writing notebooks get to be filled with their creative, brilliant, interesting ... Read More about Writing Notebooks

I had such a great response from my Writing Rubrics Pack and a request to make a Reader Response Rubric pack. I'm so excited about this pack! I made 30 reader response prompt pages and cut-out options to use with journals. There are rubrics to go with these prompts and then I made some generic rubrics that would work for a basic retell reading response. There are 33 different rubrics. I ... Read More about Reading Response Rubrics and Prompts Pack (freebie too)

I hope you are all enjoying your summers. I've read in blog land that some of you are already back to school! I've still got another month left but I'm already starting to get anxious excited to get back into my classroom. I swear, it takes me an entire month to get my class set up!  Since we're going camping (in my dad's backyard) this weekend, I thought it would be a great time to ... Read More about Who Doesn’t Love a Smore?

I decided to start with your freebie.  Here are two of the Read and Sequence from the first grade August literacy center pack. I love giving kids the opportunity to practice sequencing skills on a smaller scale. For this one, they use their schema about camping to figure out what order the sentences should go in. In other menus, there may be a "how to" type of sequencing activity. Either ... Read More about August Literacy Centers and a FREEBIE