As summer break quickly {but not quickly enough} approaches, I’ve wanted to find engaging and creative ways to enrich and review our reading and writing standards. I also wanted to squeeze in a few fun, but easy, art projects, because we’ve worked hard all year and deserve a little fun! I decided to create a […]
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After I made my Common Core Math Assessments, I had many requests for a similar language arts assessment version. After months of work, I’m thrilled to announce that I finally finished them and let me just way “Whew!” That was a big project-much, MUCH bigger than I expected! Third Grade Language Arts Assessments & Fourth
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These Christmas literacy activities should make the days leading up to Christmas vacation a little easier for you and fun for your students! No matter how crazy it is, the week before Christmas vacation is one of my favorite weeks of the school year. I have more flexibility to let loose a little and have
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I never thought writing a post on noun lessons and activities would be exciting. To be perfectly honest, I’ve always dreaded teaching parts of speech. I know that if I was bored teaching it, my students had to be extremely bored studying it! I integrate parts of speech and grammar instruction into writing workshop, but I
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Homophone lessons are not exactly my favorite thing to teach, but homophone instruction and practice is so necessary. Homophones are a concept that students can usually grasp in isolation, but are frequently misused in student writing. This blog post shares five lessons and activities you can use to teach homophones, so that you can see
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Morning work plays a crucial role in my 3rd and 4th grade classroom. It’s what I use for a daily spiral review in math and language arts. Since I’ve been implementing my morning work routine, I’ve seen a significant improvement in students’ overall retention of skills. That retention of skills has reflected in an substantial
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These fantastic fall lessons are not Halloween based lessons. If you’re looking for Halloween ideas, be sure to check out this post. This post share many ways to have fun with your students during this busy fall season. It also includes THREE free printables! Fall Lessons-November Writing Prompts These November writing prompts are sure to
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