Happy Saturday! I know it's been a while, but I wanted to drop in real quick to share a little resource with you that you could use to communicate with parents. These Reading Skills Snapshots are informal assessments that I use during small group instruction. I use these as a communication tool for parents. I've used them during conferences and as something I send home each month. You could ... Read More about Reading Skills Snapshots

Happy Monday! I'm here today to give you a quick management tip for the beginning of the school year. I thought I had blogged about this years ago, but realized I did a little video about this (as part of a Primary Chalkboard Back-to-School youtube link up,) but not an actual blog post. So here goes, better late than never! When I first started teaching first grade, I was so overwhelmed by the ... Read More about Classroom Management Visuals

A few weeks ago I blogged about how I managed my literacy centers. This system is literally the best thing I ever did as a first grade teacher. It made things so much easier for me in the long run. You can read more about it HERE. I finally took photographs of my September centers to show you all. I have these monthly centers for every month except July. I train my students in September, ... Read More about September Literacy Centers for First Grade

Hi Everyone! Last week I updated my writing rubrics pack again. This update includes all new rubrics with the common core standards right on them. The other rubrics were not grade-specific, but these ones are. I added rubrics for kindergarten through third grade. For each grade there is a conventions rubric and narrative, opinion, and informative rubrics. Here is a little preview of the ... Read More about Writing Rubrics for Common Core