One of the best things that I have done for my classroom was to transform my word wall. I changed it from the typical 1 MILLION words all SPREAD OUT on a board to a compact, portable and VERY WELL USED word wall. In my teaching career I have seen the impact that […]
Tag: ELA
An Interactive Duo-Tang? Part 1
Interactive notebooks have been taking the teaching world by storm! I’m already on the bandwagon because I LOVE interactive notebooks. I use them with most of my units. I find that my students retain the information more because of this! They are one of my favourite things. That being said, I invented another tool that […]
Not the Diary of a Worm!
Today in my classroom, we read the adorable book “Diary of a Worm” by Doreen Cronin. My students of course loved this silly tale of a worm and his antics. This inspired me to create a template for my students to recreate this silly book with their own characters. Presenting… Diary of a Vlosaraptr? Haha, this […]
The NAUGHTY list…
Hello everyone! I Had such a good day at school. Partly because my kids were excellent, and partly because we did REALLY FUN REINDEER ART! Here is my finished project! We began by making our art. Usually I do my writing first, and art second, but today we had art scheduled and so I took […]