Enjoy this Freebie! Your students will love singing and acting out this song. Perfect for Easter or Springtime! I use my poems and songs all year long. Each student has a poetry binder and I usually add about 15 poems per month. Great to practice fluency, Reading Centers, Daily Five, Do-Nows, a...
In January I went to a training and picked up a GREAT children's cd Smile at Your Neighbor with Mr. Eric The kids fell in love with multiple songs but their favorite is "The story of the Three Little Pigs" the kids beg and ask for it daily! so I thought it would be fun to do a couple crafts to go along with it. so today we made the 3 houses! I had cut up "straw" "sticks" and "bricks" I laid the materials on the table and had the kids guess what we were going to do with them. I didn't get…
This week we talk about butterflies. I was pretty happy that it was my turn to teach. How fun are butterflies? You can't talk about butterflies without reading The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. I usually don't choose the books that the kids have probably heard a hundred times, but they did have a lot of fun with this one. I love this big book. It was a gift to Bee when she was just wee from my brother and his wife. I think that it is from Barnes and Noble though, if you are…
