Independent Reading

I LOVE teaching reading!  I love watching the kids as they read their first book by themselves.  I love seeing students who didn't like reading get sucked into a series.  The only thing I don't like is managing the rest of the class while I have a reading group.  If you look back over my posts this year, I have shared the different systems I've tried. I like to set up systems...

I'm still here!

What a year this has been!  I'm not a first year teacher but this was my first year in a self-contained classroom (previously I was a resource room teacher) so I certainly felt like a first year teacher!  This quote describes my year perfectly! I have learned so much this year through trial and error.  It has been a balancing act between not changing routines too often but...

Numbers

Every day I teach 3 different curriculums. I have 2 students who are at a kindergarten level. We have been working on learning numbers 1-25 all year! There are only so many ways to go over these numbers! Today, I had one of my girls work on a counting cats activity. She first had to put the numbers in order 1-25. Then she had to count each cat card to match it to the number card. By about half way...