Category: Teaching

We are still on the Angry Bird roll in my class… all thanks to Mrs. B, one of the speech tutors!!!  You can see our growing flock in the photo! Today we were planning to make the little bird, but…

Recently I posted some pics and directions to make the red Angry Bird, see the blog post here.  Well, yesterday we made black and yellow angry birds!  They are so cute!!! Kids got to again practice color, size, and shapes again…

Today’s post isn’t about teaching, just some fun photos of our garden in bloom. We have also been enjoying the birds out our kitchen window! First photo is before the roses bloomed, the second photos is during the first bloom…

My awesome speech therapist did this craft with my class this week!! And her assistant created and cut out all the pieces for us!!! Am I the luckiest or what?!!  I love Mrs. Dominguez and Mrs. Buchinoff!  (Whoa, probably too…

Hi there!!  Is everyone ready for standardized testing?  Our school will be testing for the next two weeks. However, I got a week-long head start since I have to give the normal test with accommodations plus two modified versions to…

I love how the butterflies add color and seem ready to flutter right off the wall!  This project comes straight from my own kindergarten experience and is pretty simple to do. All you need is 3-4 pre-cut butterfly templates, colored…

Right before Spring break I had been introducing WBT classroom rules in my class. Using WBT (see end of my post for more info) techniques, you add gestures to everything you teach in order to help kids remember, and it…

This was a fun project that allowed students to compare George Washington and Abraham  Lincoln. Then we brainstormed sentences to write, an added a picture – if you hold it one way it is Washington with his white wig, but…

You know how sometimes you think you have a good idea, only to have your students end up not as interested as you?  Well, I wasn’t sure about having a Vocabulary Parade to celebrate Dr. Seuss’s birthday and Read Across…