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Category Archives: Classroom Life
My little turkeys
From Sarah over on Confessions. We are in full turkey mode here at school. And I love it! Doing seasonal stuff with my kindergartners and first graders is such a welcome break from our regularly scheduled programming.We’ve read My First Thanksgiving and I’m … Continue reading
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Where do boogers go?
From Sarah over on Confessions. When our communication specialist picked up my little group of kindergartners from their general ed. classroom last week, there was a bit of drama.”Ms. H!! Ms. H!!”, little ‘Julie’ cried. “Maria wiped her burger on my leg!!”When … Continue reading
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And then I raided my chocolate stash
From Sarah over on Confessions. We were starting our personal narratives project by writing a list of important people in our lives. I modeled for my first graders on chart paper, and then supervised as my four students got to … Continue reading
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My Teaching superpower
From Sarah over on Confessions. If there’s one thing that I like to brag about being good at, it’s making fun activities into educational activities.(But truthfully, my students’ language levels are so low that I can pretty much justify ANYTHING … Continue reading
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read my lips, not my face
From Sarah over on Confessions. I have an over-sensitive first grader named “Adam.”He has a lot of issues going on at home, so it’s easy for me to be compassionate rather than short tempered when he starts talking in his … Continue reading
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a healthy injustice
From Sarah over on Confessions. My school got this grant for a fruits and vegetables program. It means that every day, at about 2 o’clock, the lunch ladies visit each classroom and drop off a baggie of cut fruits or … Continue reading
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teachers color too
From Sarah over on Confessions. Last week, we read “Mice Squeak, We Speak” in Kindergarten. We talked a lot about action words. One or the suggested activities in the curriculum guide was to make paper plate animal masks.It was the … Continue reading
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Target teaching tool
From Sarah over on Confessions. I picked up these animal action cards in the Target dollar bins over the summer. They’re proving to be quite handy for teaching verbs to my kindergartners!! I pulled out a few for our “Action … Continue reading
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spending that kindergarten paycheck
From Sarah over on Confessions. If you’re one of the five kindergarteners that sees me for Language Arts, you are always aiming for more happy faces than sad faces.Each child has a laminated 3×5 card on their desk with two … Continue reading
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A classroom tour
From Sarah over on Confessions. Welcome to my classroom! Come on in and take a peek:Student names will be written on the frogs before the first day of school!Language Arts area: where all the magic happensCalendar: with a high focus … Continue reading
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