Kids do as they see - make sure your kids are watching you use your Kindle to read. Here are some discounted books and free titles to choose from:
https://madmimi.com/p/46e835?fe=1&pact=24725917338
Thursday, August 28, 2014
Freebie
How cute would this be in a writing center or the cover of a book! Plus, it's free!!
link: http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_2
Link expires August 31, 2014
link: http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_2
Link expires August 31, 2014
Freebie
Teachers need to resources to spruce things up some times and here's a lttle freebie to make that happen:
link: http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_1
Expires August 31, 2014
link: http://www.mymemories.com/store/share_the_memories_kit_1
Expires August 31, 2014
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Thriving on Teachers Pay Teachers
Here is a fabulous article for educators looking to make a few pennies by posting their hard work on Teachers Pay Teachers.
http://blog.teacherspayteachers.com/
http://blog.teacherspayteachers.com/
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Soon To Be Teacher - The Baby of the Family of Educators
Day one of teaching = success!!!
Two lessons I learned about being a teacher today:
1) Time management and classroom management are KEY to a great lesson
2) I'm gonna need to take stock in some energy pills! haha!
- Guest Blogger, Emily
Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Goodbye First Grade
As the school year wraps up and plans are underway for the upcoming school year, teaching assignments must be made, involuntary transfers placed, and new positions need to be posted. It's like putting a puzzle together; the puzzle looks one way in the spring and then changes are made again to the puzzle pieces during the summer break.
I have been feeling completely exhausted this school year with my first graders for some odd reason. I felt I should go to an older grade, perhaps second or third grade. As the puzzle was being put together the spot that opened up was a fourth grade position, the one grade I have not taught since my student teaching over twenty years ago.
My heart dropped when my principal came to let me know how the puzzle pieces were being fit together this spring. I couldn't pin point what made me so immediately apprehensive about going to fourth grade. When the darling smiles on my first graders entered my classroom the tears rolled down my eyes as I realized that I would soon be clearing out my first grade curriciculum and start counting down the days these petite smiles would beam at me as I greet them each morning. That was it. I will miss these little arms that glue themselves instantly around my growing waistline every morning, the little fingers that endlessly tap at my forearm to instantly capture my undevided attention, the tiny voices pleaded endlessly for a bandaid for their invisible paper cuts.
Ideally, everything is mapped out before school dismisses for summer with minor changes. Yet, I have never returned from a summer break without a major mouth dropping announcement being made, that is, a teaching assignment. Someone moves, decides to stop teaching, switches schools or makes a radical change in position.
Now that it has been announced to parents that I will be teaching fourth grade, parent request have been made, and the first draft of class lists have been posted I have resolved to say my adieu to my love of first grade.
- Bethany
I have been feeling completely exhausted this school year with my first graders for some odd reason. I felt I should go to an older grade, perhaps second or third grade. As the puzzle was being put together the spot that opened up was a fourth grade position, the one grade I have not taught since my student teaching over twenty years ago.
My heart dropped when my principal came to let me know how the puzzle pieces were being fit together this spring. I couldn't pin point what made me so immediately apprehensive about going to fourth grade. When the darling smiles on my first graders entered my classroom the tears rolled down my eyes as I realized that I would soon be clearing out my first grade curriciculum and start counting down the days these petite smiles would beam at me as I greet them each morning. That was it. I will miss these little arms that glue themselves instantly around my growing waistline every morning, the little fingers that endlessly tap at my forearm to instantly capture my undevided attention, the tiny voices pleaded endlessly for a bandaid for their invisible paper cuts.
Ideally, everything is mapped out before school dismisses for summer with minor changes. Yet, I have never returned from a summer break without a major mouth dropping announcement being made, that is, a teaching assignment. Someone moves, decides to stop teaching, switches schools or makes a radical change in position.
Now that it has been announced to parents that I will be teaching fourth grade, parent request have been made, and the first draft of class lists have been posted I have resolved to say my adieu to my love of first grade.
- Bethany
Friday, October 19, 2012
Heidi Songs
Incorporating music to teach is something I use at every opportunity possible, even when I am teaching in the upper grades. I felt like I hit a wall when I conducted a weekly monitor progress assessment and realized my first graders were not retaining their sight words consistently. I wanted to recycle everything I had been doing. I freaked out! As we follow the Common Core my First Graders were supposed to come to me with a handful of sight words already mastered, right?!? Wrong!?!
I collaborated with my First Grade team, the real experts, who were also experiencing the same frustrations. We talked about a website to check out. It was www.HeidiSongs.com.
I checked out some samples she had on YouTube and then made the purchase online. A month after using the sight word songs and reproducibles in my class, I realize it has been worth every penny. The songs are fabulous and the reproducibles double as a handwriting practice. I highly recommend the sight word series since they help forge through the Common Core for First Grade.
Family of Educators Blog has no affiliation with the website or distribution of materials. We are simply giving credit where credit is due and sharing a fabulous resource.
I collaborated with my First Grade team, the real experts, who were also experiencing the same frustrations. We talked about a website to check out. It was www.HeidiSongs.com.
I checked out some samples she had on YouTube and then made the purchase online. A month after using the sight word songs and reproducibles in my class, I realize it has been worth every penny. The songs are fabulous and the reproducibles double as a handwriting practice. I highly recommend the sight word series since they help forge through the Common Core for First Grade.
Family of Educators Blog has no affiliation with the website or distribution of materials. We are simply giving credit where credit is due and sharing a fabulous resource.
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