Dear President-Elect Obama

Every Wednesday evening my students read the cover story in Time for Kids and then complete one of the worksheets. It’s not exactly how I’d like to do current events, but sometimes it’s all that’s possible in a given-week. Last night’s assignment was to read pages 4 and 5 of the present issue [...]

Check these out!

My friend and colleague, Karla Hayden, shared the following.
Lookybook.com – Check out the hundreds of titles that are read aloud!  (This is great for SmartBoards.)
Storyline Online (Screen Actors Guild) — There’s only about 20 titles, but the read alouds I have viewed are excellently performed.

Printing & Punching

Things that need to be punched…, originally uploaded by teachergal.

I promised to give a Stories in Hand Update. However, there’s not much to tell you yet since I’ve been printing and punching and printing and punching. I’m hoping to start using the story starters Sprague has given us, as part of the class, [...]