A few weeks ago I was walking through Barnes and Noble with my family. We don't go there often, but every once in a while the kids get gift cards and they love browsing through the thousands upon thousands of books. Out of the corner of my eye I saw a book called Robot in Love that I knew would be great. The cover is just perfection. I'm so glad I took a second to flip through it because my first impression was right! Immediately, I texted Katie and told her that we just had to do something with it! We decided that we would make a special edition of Rooted in Reading for 2nd and 3rd grade teachers. Well, when I was … [Read more...]
Checking Out Books in the Classroom
Providing students with books to read in the classroom and at home is very important to me. In the past I have sent home book bags (HERE), set up my classroom library (HERE), and had student book bins (HERE). Now that I am an intervention teacher, I have to look at everything a little differently. I see my 4th and 5th graders for 30 minutes each day which doesn't leave enough time for independent reading. However, I have a HUGE collection of books that is just dying to be used more! I decided to put together a system that allows my students to check out books to read at home. Here are the things I used: labels, … [Read more...]
Compound Sentences
This week my 4th grade students have been creating and editing compound sentences. This is something they have worked on extensively in their classes, so I just wanted to do a small focus during my time with them. Now that we have the ball rollin’ I wanted to share some ideas with you! These are definitely things you can do in any grade level. We created a FANBOYS anchor chart to review the conjunctions that we can use in compound sentences. Students worked with a partner to write a sentence using the FANBOY. Then, we traded sentences to edit. Students shared their sentences and added them to the chart. As a group … [Read more...]
Reading in January AND a Polar Bear Directed Drawing
Happy December! I have so much to share with you, so let's just get started right away! I have been looking for an EASY and QUICK way to share all of the links to our Rooted in Reading books for a couple of years now. Well, Amazon solved all of my problems for me! I now have an Amazon storefront that is organized into categories for you. I have more categories than our Rooted in Reading books, but that was what initially got me VERY excited to create this for you! You can click HERE to see the store. I realize that Amazon doesn't always have the best prices, but it is a quick way to see all of the books on our lists! I … [Read more...]
Dictionary Skills {FREEBIE}
Have I told you that I am currently working as an Acceleration Teacher with 4th and 5th grade small groups? No?! Well, I'm so sorry! I think I forgot to mention it. This fall I started a new position where I work with the big kids. I pull small groups for ELA and go into classrooms to work with students. It's really been such a blessing, but oh so different from 2nd grade. First of all, the supplies I need right now are so minimal that they can basically fit into one bin! And I find myself sitting on the carpet quite a bit with students surrounding me. We may be reading a book, working on a skill, or playing a … [Read more...]
Christmas Door Decor
I am currently the Room Mom for both of my kids' classes at school. I'm not 100% sure how it happened... but I felt an urge of guilt come over me at Meet the Teacher and ended up signing up for both classes. I've NEVER been Room Mom before, so I'm not quite sure what I was thinking, ha! BUT, lo and behold... here I am. Just in case you are wondering... Room Moms help with parties, volunteers, etc. I'm actually currently working at a different school than them, so it's going to be very interesting!!! Thankfully I have a VERY understanding principal :) Anyways, all of the room moms decided to decorate the classroom … [Read more...]
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