Teaching With Sight

I'm so excited to announce that I have launched a new blog along with two amazing colleagues!  We're all primary-grade educators, and we have over 50 combined years of teaching experience. ...

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Hi all!  I'm home taking care of my twins, and I wanted to offer some resources that might help parents continue their children's learning at home. https://www.abcmouse.com ABCMouse is a col...

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Hi all!  I've been feeling very musical lately, so I wanted to sing about this beautiful book named I Know a Shy Fellow Who Swallowed a Cello by Barbara Garriel.  I collect as many books as I ...

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Hi all!  Friday was my last day of kids for this school year.  I always have such mixed emotions.  I'm happy, of course, because I get to sleep in a little later and, well, summer vacation!  ...

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Hi everyone!  Addition is a key topic that many of us need to cover in math at this time of year in kindergarten, but it can be challenging for some students.  Therefore it's important to provi...

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Happy February, everybody!  The kids in my class asked me to make a cupcake sight word board game for them, so of course I did!  I think this idea was so attractive to the children because ...

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Book Cover of "Cassie's Quilt" Happy New Year, everyone!  I am going to try to be much more consistent with my blog posts this year.  It's my New Year's resolution! In December, I read a...

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year, everybody!  Before the holidays, I was playing Superhero Bingo with my students and one of my little boys said "Mrs. Dudley, why don't you make us a Christma...

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Good morning, all!  I'm interrupting my Donald Crews author study to talk about Education.com .  I'm a member of the site, and when I'm too busy to make my own paper, games, or activities, I tu...

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Book Cover of "Freight Train" by Donald Crews Book Cover of "Shortcut" by Donald Crews Happy summer everyone!  I'm continuing my Donald Crews author study because I think it was a very ...

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Book Cover of "Flying" by Donald Crews The second book in the Donald Crews book study that I would like to talk about is Flying . This is a great book for discussing sequencing.  It also ...

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Book cover of Parade by Donald Crews Happy June, everybody!  We've been doing a Donald Crews author study, and I'm going to start this series of blog posts with a wonderful book called Par...

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Hi all!  When I think of spring, I think of rainy weather and clouds.  We have also been talking about the seasons in language arts.  So, I looked through my collection and found Little ...

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So, with about a week-and-a-half left before I have to go back to school, I've been thinking about the first day.  It's definitely true that we have to do rules and routines, as well as explain ...

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"Grouchy Ladybug" by Eric Carle First Grade is finally finished!  I feel both sad and happy at the same time: sad because I've had some of the same kids for two years and I'll miss them ver...

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Happy May Day, everyone!  I found some really wonderful books about graphing for first grade that I wanted to share with all of you. Lemonade For Sale by Stuart Murphy is a really nice bo...

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Merry Christmas everyone!  I hope you all had a beautiful holiday.  Since moving to first grade, I've spent a lot of time researching curriculum and getting to know my lovely new class.  That'...

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Hello, bloggy friends!  I have recently been moved to first grade due to changing enrollment numbers at our school.  I was wondering if any of you could give me names of good first-grade blogs,...

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Hi everyone!  I never understood, before, the joy of owning a dog.  Ava is the new addition to our home.  She is such a sweet girl!  I'm planning to make a book about her and share it wi...

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Hi all!  I've been doing some cool rhyming songs for my classroom and wanted to share what I'm doing with all of you. When I was a little girl, I loved doing Patty-Cake-style songs. ...

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In pre-k or kindergarten, have you ever noticed that your kids have problems telling you the number that comes before another number?  It's so weird!  9 out of 10 times, my kids can tell me a n...

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Happy snow days, everybody! We have had a pretty big snow storm here in Maryland. My husband took a time-lapse video of the snow falling in our back yard. He has described it to me and it sou...

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Hi all!  I'm in Orlando, Florida today at the NAEYC conference.  I will be presenting a session this Saturday morning at 8:00am, so if anyone's around and wants to stop by for a quick hug, I'll...

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Hi, everyone! Happy almost Halloween! My kids have been loving this book that's really the classic 5 Little Pumpkins finger play. We have been using this story for subtraction. Here we are hold...

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Hello, everybody! My curriculum this year for math is very different from every other year. In the past, we've started with shapes and positions. But this year, we started with numerals, quan...

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