In Stopping the Revolving Door at Your Guided Reading Table – I share a strategy that takes the focus off of you as the sole source of help, empowering your students to identify others in the classroom that can help problem…
A Scrabble Names Wall has been on my “wish list” of ideas for a few years. I finally tackled it this year and am very pleased with the results! Want to create a Scrabble Names Wall in your classroom? Read on for…
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 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,…
First up -our “What do I do when I’m done?” chart. I’ve seen different versions of this chart and this is ours. When we created this, we sketched it on the SMARTboard. I then turned it into this. I used the…
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…
