Ever need a “redo” in your life? We’re lucky that we get a “redo” every new school year. One of my favorite things to “redo” is room arrangement. For room arrangement I consider, traffic flow, work spaces, and teaching spaces….
Recent addition to our classroom! #love Let me just say, "Where have you been all my life??" @Copernicused #edchat pic.twitter.com/XUEmFoeLPN — Jessica Meacham (@jessicameacham) July 12, 2014
I use a balanced literacy approach. I created the above visual to explain the components. Each component plays an integral role in developing strong, skilled readers and writers. Throughout my website you can find resources that align with a balanced…
Independent Writing Independent Writing offers students additional opportunities to write. In order to become proficient writers, students must be provided with many opportunities to write! During Independent Writing, students continue to practice what they’ve learned during Modeled/Shared/Guided Writing. We have…
During Independent Reading, students continue to practice what they’ve learned during Modeled/Shared/Guided Reading. Independent Reading offers students additional opportunities to read. In order to become proficient readers, students must be provided with opportunities to read, read, and read some more!…
Little Miss Muffet: Students and teacher will label the rhyme Little Miss Muffet. Prior, they will have had multiple experiences with the rhyme. Students will have experience with retelling the rhyme using felt pieces at the Felt Board Literacy Corner….
Why Do We Write A Morning Message? By participating in the writing of our morning message, students learn… writing is speech written down proper letter formation upper and lower case letter recognition associating letters and sounds left to right progression…
Currently we use the Journeys Alphafriends for our alphabet frieze and word wall. We are going to switch to a different alphabet frieze next year (2014-2015), as we’ve noted some confusing sounds for our kiddos (/e/ elephant). Below you’ll seen…
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…
My thoughts/feelings/philosophy about this is that the room should be an empty canvas. As we learn throughout the year, we fill our room with evidence of our learning. I prefer student created things on the wall. None of the things on…
