Most of my career, I’ve worked in the primary grades setting. Even the few years I worked in an upper grade classroom, I still tried to use as many math read alouds as possible. I wanted to share a few of my favorite read alouds that I’ve used during my place value units. The best …
Hi Friends! So, we’ve been SO busy the last 10 weeks that I haven’t had a chance to mention all of the changes that have happened. We ended school in VA on June 20th. We packed all of our belongings up on the 21st and moved south on the 25th! We spent most of July …
Hey friends! Let’s chat about number sense math centers in my first grade classroom! I wanted to take a moment to catch up what my firsts have been up to! Our curriculum is big on spiral review. We touch on number sense at the beginning of the year but really dive deep in Jan/Feb. Our …
Hey friends. I wanted to write a little bit about that first week of school. You know what I am talking about..that back to school time. In this post, I am going to share some back to school tips to help the rush. I’m kinda of *stressing out*. We officially go back August 20th…that’s not …
Hey Friends! I don’t know about y’all but I have really enjoyed my downtime the last few weeks. I’ve had family here for almost the entire time and I wouldn’t have had it ANY other way! Faith, Family and Love, what more could a girl ask for? The holidays weren’t exactly my *ideal* version because …
I wanted to share a post I did for my sweet friend Denise at Sunny Days in Second Grade a while back..I wanted to share it with you because it includes some GREAT free resourse!! Hey! This is Ashley from The Teacher’s Treasure Chest! I am so thankful my sweet friend Denise let me stop by! Through blogging, …
Hey friends! We’ve been slammed the last few weeks, so I’m so sorry that I haven’t had much time to stop by. We’ve been hitting some major skills the last few weeks. From Problem and Solution , Main Idea and Author’s Purpose, Text Features..AND Cause and Effect! We’ve been jammed packed! On top of all of that we’ve been working …
As I was packing up my classroom to prepare to move across the country, I found such a great teaching tool for teaching place value that I wanted to share with you. I made this a few years ago. Â My kids were struggling with understanding place value and the order that numbers go in. I’ve …
I had a few requests for a “Cars” themed packet! So I began trying to create something different and something that would be useful to a variety of classrooms. So I created this Cruising-Through-Math-and-Literacy-Mini-Packet !! This packet contains a variety of skills. *Fill it up–Even & Odd Numbers Sort*Expanded Form Number Match*Doubles Addition Facts*Sight Word …