Happy Chinese New Year! There is a big blizzard on its way here in NS, so we have a snow day. A great chance for me to catch up on my gigantic to-do list! Before I get started on that, I wanted to pop in and do a little post...
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TPT Blessings
Hey everyone! As 2015 comes to a close, I wanted to take the chance to look back on the year and my TPT journey as a whole, and share some of the blessings that came out of opening my store - blessings that I never expected. The turn of the...
Five for Friday – Dec 11
Hi guys! Happy Friday :) I actually had a great Friday today. The beginning of this week was tricky, with me returning from Cuba and everyone readjusting to a return to routine. Also, December is always crazy! #amirite?! But our Elf on the Shelf left us a little reminder note,...
Noël en maternelle!
Hi! I am back from Cuba, where I spent a fantastic week laying on the beach, drinking copious amounts of frozen coffee beverages, and watching an old friend get married. It was a great little break - but of course I missed my students! We just got back on Sunday,...
La lecture guidée en maternelle – Guided Reading in a French Primary Classroom
Has this ever happened to you? You're sitting at your guided reading table, with a group of sweet students who are gung-ho and eager to learn to read. You spend 10-15 minutes painstakingly teaching them a new strategy to help them read new words on their own (look at the...
Pocket chart sentences
Youpi, youpi!! Last week, my brand new pocket chart arrived. It's my fourth year teaching, and I have never splurged on a NICE pocket chart until now! I bought a couple of little cheap ones from Michael's, but always balked at the prices at Scholar's Choice and Scholastic, and was...
Five for Friday – November 13
Hi! It's Friday, and I have a few minutes to myself, so I am linking up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for my favourite, Five for Friday! Five for Friday is a linky party where teachers post about five random things from their week. We had a GREAT week this week....
Un coquelicot pour se souvenir
Hi! Long time, no post! I have been in big-time new resource creating mode for the past month. My students this year are so different than last year when I had the combined class, that I have been finding that I have needed to create more for them than I...
Des idées pour enseigner l’alphabet en français
Hi everyone! I was reading a post on the awesome Facebook group Primary French Immersion Teachers this morning asking about how people teach letter names and sounds to their kindergarten students. I started to share some things that I do, and when my answer turned into a novel, I decided...
All about writing!
Hi! Today marks an exciting time for us - we have officially been writing for a month! As mentioned in a previous post, I use Deedee Wills and Deanna Jump's Writer's Workshop units. I take a sample of their writing on the second day of school, but start our first...