Building number sense is a HUGE focus of first grade. Students must have a solid awareness of how numbers relate to one another (which number is greater or less) as well as how they are ordered (which number comes before, after, between). One very fun way to help first graders build their number sense is...
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Today we reviewed the letter k in class. Students were asked to make a list of as many “k” words as they could think of. As they thought, they’d occasionally call out words to me, to determine whether they began with c or k. My favorite of the day, “Constipation?”
*One of our goals for this blog is to make a greater effort to share more about our teaching practices and the learning opportunities that go on in our classrooms. There’s no time like the present, so, let’s get started! Our third full week of school is now underway (how time flies!) and it...
Our IKEA furniture was delivered yesterday (well, most of it… they delivered the forgotten pieces this morning), and assembled this evening! We LOVE it and now that we have an idea of each piece’s scale and fit in our house we can venture back to IKEA (hooray?) and pick up a few of the soft...
First let me start by saying that going to IKEA is never a quick affair. It’s always an hours-long process that leaves us exhausted, with aching backs from walking on those concrete floors, and leaving the store carrying bags that are far too full and heavy. Don’t get me wrong, we actually really like going...
