At the big books center we are working on the word THE.  Students go through the big books and every time they find the word "the" they write it on an index card.

I bought clear spoons and colored spoons and wrote uppercase letters on the colored spoons and lowercase letters on the clear spoons.

Then at the Spoons literacy center, students match uppercase and lowercase letters.

The new school year starts on Monday! This is my welcome board.

I made this reading strategies bookmark so my kids can remember their word attack strategies during independent reading!

I went to the hardware store today and stocked up on paint samples.  I used these ones to make a poster to teach about different shades of colors.

Changing seasons

We went to the Arnold Arboretum in the fall.

Then we went again in the spring.

We found the same tree we took a picture with in the fall, and took another one in the spring.  It was a fun way to really see how the seasons change!

The first poem of the year that we memorized was The Crayon Box That Talked by Shane DeRolf.  In art, my class made crayons to wear at arts performance night.  Then they performed the poem for the whole school!