Hey there and hello teacher friends! It is Fri-Yay! How about some Five For Friday action? Thank you Doodle Bugs Teaching, for hosting this fun linky party each week! Here’s what’s been going on in our little corner of the world.
I’m a reading specialist. We have a teacher shortage. That translates to a sub shortage. And that’s where we specialists come in. We often get pulled at THE. LAST. MOMENT! to sub for a sick teacher. While I’m not a fan of the very last moment call…I do like being able to see my students in their own classrooms. It’s always fun to ask them to get their very favorite book to read to me during independent reading. In my teacher dreamland, I imagine that they will bring me some high quality literature and we will spend some great time reading and deeply discussing said high quality literature. NOPE! Wrongo bongo! Lovely mental image shattered! THIS is what third grade boys like to read to me. Then they giggle. This book seems to be in EVERY intermediate classroom. It’s everywhere, I tell ya! Do you know how many times that this has been their choice? Ack! Well, maybe some day my “high quality literature” dream will come true.
In my first grade groups, we have been working on those pesky d’s and b’s. Those crazy letters are always tricky, and they seem to love to get mixed up in the littles’ brains. What do I use? I LOVE this d and b set from An Adventure in Literacy. It’s so cute and the best thing I’ve come across for helping with those pesky reversals. It has b/d sorts, and lots of other activities so that when you have finished with them, the students are well on their way to reading without b/d reversals! You can check it out on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Don’t you love it when the Amazon box arrives? This week it brought this new book. I’m an idea junky and am always looking for new things to use to get those all important breakthroughs happening for my intervention group students. I can’t wait to dive into this one. It is from Tim Rasinski so it has to be good. Have you read it?
Lookie! Lookie! This week, my sweet daughter surprised me with my very first Rae Dunn pottery. Isn’t it cool? I love the message, too! It’s a great reminder. Have you got on the Rae Dunn bandwagon yet? I’m hooked now!
This week we had a rally for education at a local high school. Our state has been sued for not fully funding education, which is the highest mandate in our state constitution. So it’s been a battle as you can imagine, and it has been going on for ten years now. It is all coming to the end though, so our rally was held to keep the pressure on the legislature to do the right thing. They sometimes try to sidestep the issue. I know…you are probably not surprised at all shocked to hear that. We brought these two cuties, (my grandbabies) to help sway the legislators that attended. They really got into waving their signs! I’m sure their cuteness alone swayed those legislators our way. Don’t you agree?
That’s what’s been happening in our little world. I’m going to go check out some more Five For Friday posts now to see what everyone else has been up to. Happy weekend everybody!
Smiles,
