Each Monday we collaborate with our building's new and Dual Language staff members for a professional development session based on what they highlight as their needs and/or desires for learning! This week we focused on Daily 5 ideas as all of our staff are currently working hard to get their stations and guided reading up and running! The teachers who attending the session came up with a variety of wonderful ideas and activities that could potentially be used throughout the year in these…

This week has been what I feel is best described as the learning launch! No longer am I just teaching procedures and expectations, but now I am adding that layer of academic challenges to really push my students to launch into a new year of learning. We have unlocked 6 pages of our Rise and […]

When I began using The Daily Five I spent most of the summer planning just how to execute it in my classroom. I was embarking on my journey on my own. No one at my school was doing it yet. In fact that is how I found teaching blogs. Searching online for what The Daily Five looked like in other classrooms led me to many awesome ideas and inspirations. If you looking for Daily Five ideas, below you will get a peek at some of the Word Work activities I use and a few tips. I make a rotation…

If you are working toward implementing The Daily Five in your classroom or if you are reviewing in preparation for next year, I would like to remind you about three important mini lessons to cover with your students during the first week (or so) of launching Read to Self. It's important to begin Read to Self right way, because it sets the tone and the routine for all of the other components of The Daily Five. The authors, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser, recommend the following three lessons to…

Well, hello! I hope you all have been soaking up summer vacation. My aunt posted this on her Facebook last night and I couldn’t help but...

Launch your writing workshop with these Kindergarten writing lessons, printable materials, and rubrics!------This 5-week unit will teach your Kindergarten students the routines and procedures of writing workshop.The unit starts out by helping students learn how to use writing tools, draw with lots o...

Each Monday we collaborate with our building's new and Dual Language staff members for a professional development session based on what they highlight as their needs and/or desires for learning! This week we focused on Daily 5 ideas as all of our staff are currently working hard to get their stations and guided reading up and running! The teachers who attending the session came up with a variety of wonderful ideas and activities that could potentially be used throughout the year in these…

Today, I’m linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching , for some Friday fun! Where did July go? I swear, it just flew by .. I can’t believe that I have 24 days left until I go back to school, and...

The Daily Five has become my favorite part of the day! I love reading and literacy (so much show I'm attaining my masters in it :)! My kid...

The Daily Five has become my favorite part of the day! I love reading and literacy (so much show I'm attaining my masters in it :)! My kid...

Every year I do work stations/centers differently. One year I had about 10 stations and the children had tons of work to be handed in (TONS...

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