Does December got you a little overwhelmed and are you thinking how am I going to survive these next two weeks until Winter Break?? Well, I’ve got your covered with some holiday theme activities that are ready to make your last weeks of the year enjoyable! Today’s focus is all about those products that will help […]

Happy November, friends! Today I’m sharing my (newly discovered) obsession with writing with you in the form of Acrostic Poems. This year I’ve been blessed to be teaching writing to a great group of ELL students. We have been working hard on building vocabulary and understanding parts of speech. Around this time every year, I spend a […]

Happy November! This month is all about being thankful and celebrating the amazing things we have in our lives. I wanted my students to reflect on those very things while continuing to practice their writing. On a whim, I thought of this thankful turkey book so satisfy both the writing process and their thankfulness in a cute […]

1. November Third Grade Homework Spent the beginning of the week with a goal in mind, FINISH November homework for those third grade kiddos. I remember this time last year I was just thinking about a way to make homework a little less painful for my group of kids. Now, almost a year a later, […]

1. Building Vocabulary Have you heard of a CCD before? I was inspired to write all about this great strategy for building vocabulary within your classroom. I tried to break it all down so that you could start using it in your classroom right away and even included a freebie!     I’m talking all […]

Before I tell you what a CCD is, let me tell you where it originates. It’s one of the many strategies used in Project GLAD (Guided Language Acquisition Design). I was lucky enough to be GLAD trained a few years ago. I quickly used these strategies with my 3rd and 4th graders in a unit called, Biomes of […]