Monday, November 30, 2015
Zoo Field Trip
What a fun day we had at the Little Rock Zoo! Check out the pictures below to see a few snapshots of our trip.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
It’s FEATURED TEACHER TUESDAY!
Heidi Martin is a 1st Grade Teacher & Whole Brain Teaching Staff Member! She is also a mother of a 13 year old daughter (lord help her), a newlywed, and expecting a baby boy in January!
Heidi has been a teacher for 4 years at a priority school in Racine, WI. You can read all about her teaching journey HERE! She was voted 2nd best teacher in her county last year & recently won 3rd Runner up in the Thred-Up – Raise a Hand for Teachers Campaign! Heidi has a passion for helping under-privileged students & loves to watch her First Graders grow into leaders. Through Whole Brain Teaching, Heidi teaches her students to become teachers & run a self-managing classroom. Whole Brain Teachers like to call it “teacher heaven”! You can read all about Heidi’s WBT Journey here!
If you want to learn more about Whole Brain Teaching, join Heidi for WBT Wednesdays on her blog and Blab.IM show! Just search WBT on Blab to find upcoming & past shows!
Besides running her blog, Heidi is also a TpT Author! You can find her store at Droppin’ Knowledge with Heidi Martin. Some of her newest products include…
These packs are perfect for working on sentence structure while team-building at the same time!
To see how she uses these in her classroom (and see other versions available), CLICK HERE!
This comes in a PowerPoint format so all you have to do is add your own text!
Now, how about some FREEBIES?
For 2 days only (November 17th & 18th), you can get a copy of Heidi’s Add the Room activity ~ November Edition! & the Add the Room DECEMBER edition for FREE!
Get more Freebies HERE!
Thank you for checking out this week’s Featured Teacher! Have a Happy Thanksgiving and we will see you back on Tuesday, December 1st to meet Elisabeth from Literacy and Lattes!
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Our next Featured Teacher is Carol Polston over at The Chocolate Teacher
Carol is in her 23rd year of teaching. She has taught mostly first grade with a few years of second and kindergarten sprinkled in here and there. Her love is definitely first grade. Her favorite part of teaching first grade is seeing the growth in her students from the beginning to the end of the year. This growth never ceases to amaze her. She feels blessed to be able to be a part of her students’ growth!
Carol has been married for 38 years. She and her husband have three grown children and two adorable grandchildren. An unusual fact about Carol is that she had the privilege to teach all three of children in first grade. Her older two children she taught as a homeschool teacher and her youngest child was in her 1st grade classroom in public school. She feels happy that she got to teach all three of them how to read! Her youngest daughter is now also a teacher (teaching P.E.- a love she did not get from her mom).
Carol loves teaching just about every subject (ok, maybe not P.E.). She especially loves to teach phonics and reading! Grammar is also a subject she enjoys teaching. Carol started creating phonics and language units to sell on TpT a little over a year ago. She enjoys creating units to use in her own classroom and to share with others. The first grade classrooms in her district use her phonics and language units. You can click the links below to see a few of these.
She also enjoys providing activities to get her students up and moving as they learn. To encourage this, she has created Write the Room activities. These activities are a bunch of fun. Students move around the room looking at cards that are pinned to the wall and they record their answers on an answer sheet. These are a highly anticipated activity in her class. She has created quite a few to go along with her weekly phonics skills. You can check out her short vowel word family bundle here:
Carol also just completed a beginning mapping unit. She used it in her classroom and the kids loved it. The culminating activity in this unit is a map skill lap book. You can see it here:
Carol has quite a few free products in her store. Here are two that you can try that will introduce you to her phonics units and Write the Rooms:
Are you wondering why she named her store with the unusual name- The Chocolate Teacher? You can read all about why she did that here:
You can follow Carol at these sites:
Thanks so much for taking the time to read about Carol.
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Grab your coffee and settle in for another exciting round of Featured Teacher Tuesday!
This week our featured teacher is Amber Unger, a first grade teacher who shares real estate with the Milwaukee Brewers, Green Bay Packers, lots of cows, and many beer breweries. Yep! You guessed it; Amber is a proud educator in Wisconsin. She is in her 7th year of teaching: 4 years in Kindergarten, 2 years in ESL, and 1 year in first grade so far. Amber never thought she would find a grade level that made her happier than Kindergarten, but she quickly learned this school year that first grade is the place to be!
Her “home” away from home looks like this:
And she shares her real home with these men:
Amber has been blogging since 2011. You will definitely want to stop by her blog, Mrs. Unger's Unbelievable Elementary Experiences, for years worth of great teacher tips, student-centered ideas, and fun photos!
You will also want to swing by Amber’s Teachers Pay Teachers store, as all of her products are free! Amber has a dream to find TIME to make products that she feels are worthy of selling, but until then - enjoy the freebies (currently 59) in her newly updated TPT store. Here are a couple of examples:
You can also follow Amber in these ways, too:
Be sure to stop by our Featured Teacher Tuesday linky party next week to learn about another fabulous first grade teacher: Misty! (Can you believe next week is November already!?)
Monday, October 19, 2015
Recess and Center Fun!
Just playing :)
Swinging!
Using our senses to discover what this yummy mystery treat is---
These next two pictures show full engagement with a very new learning tool (ipad) as well as a learning too that you don't see to often anymore (a popup book)
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