Our busiest month for anchor chart creation? September! When I moved my site to the new server, and transferred from a website to a blog (this blog!), I didn’t create posts to showcase my anchor charts. On my old site,…
What is on your walls the first day of school? Click here, to find out why my walls are BARE the first day of school. I’ve tried several approaches to creating anchor color and number word anchor charts. These are from…
In this challenge, students in grades K-5 work as a class to create six buildings for Tiny Town. The goal is to provide resources for community members, while making choices that are smart for the environment and community members (balance…
My first grade writers have been working to find small moment stories. We’ve had success using the watermelon analogy, when paired with our own story ideas. To introduce the concept, we took a walk in the woods. Our “big idea”…
There will be no anchor charts adorning our classroom walls this year. “What?” you ask! Yes, no anchor charts. They’re going digital (more on that in a future post). I wanted to have something on the walls, and didn’t want…
Our personal narratives unit is one of my favorites. During this unit, students listen to and read books, discuss books, brainstorm possible topics, write several personal narratives, select one personal narrative to develop into a digital story, share their stories, gather feedback…
assessment • alphabet • anchor charts bee books • book bins • behavior • balanced literacy calendar math • classroom design dr seuss • daily 5 emergent readers • erase-a-rhymes fine motor • fonts graph of the week • graph of the day homework •…
Having your students write letters to Santa can be a daunting task. I use this activity to teach letter writing skills, as well as the writing process. Creating large anchor charts has been a life saver for me because I…
When we come back from Winter Break we dive right into our largest unit of study: PENGUINS! It is by far my favorite unit of study. As usual, our unit studies center on rich informational texts with a sprinkling…
My students are currently working with editing checklists. I find that they are holding themselves more accountable for the learning that’s taken place over the course of the year. Over the years I’ve created a few different editing checklists for…
