{Wordless Wednesday 4.29.15}

Hey y'all. Sorry it has been so long. Those of you that follow me on Facebook know that I am currently in competition prep. In addition, it is the end of the year so everything is being slammed in on the classroom side of things.

Today, for Wordless Wednesday I ask you...how do you teach vocabulary and text evidence? We tried this and the kiddos really got it!!

{Wordless Wednesday 2.4.15}

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Hey there friends! I am back for another fun filled Wordless Wednesday. Today I ask you - What do you do in your free time? My passion is photography! I love taking pictures of scenery and portraits of kids and families.

Wordless Wednesday {12.17.14}

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I told you I was on top of things this week! Look at me getting on my exercising in, all my planning, all my products, and all my DIYing. I must be excited about my upcoming three weeks off. Gotta love that year-round schedule! :)

What do you do to increase and reinforce comprehension skills during the holidays? What do you do to relieve stress on the weekends?

Wordless Wednesday {11.26.14}

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Happy Thanksgiving...almost! I hope you got the reference I was going for there. We worked so very hard this week on turkey activities in my classroom. One of our biggest projects was using the book Turkey Trouble. We disguised a turkey, wrote why it was the best disguise, typed our stories, and then translated our stories to Greek!!! This took us quite a bit of time, but my little sweeties were so excited to see their hard work in another language. Pictures coming soon. Hehe

Right now, for Wordless Wednesday I bring to you my vacation LOCATION! Can you guess where I am? What are you doing for the holiday??

Wordless Wednesday {11.19.14}

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I am totally going to use this week to promote a collaborative blog I am a part of. I am so happy to be a part of The Elementary Entourage! Head over there to see what we are talking about....Teaching Tips to be Thankful For! Enjoy!!!

Wordless Wednesday {11.5.14}



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It has been a busy few days for the Felts Family! Sammie, our littlest, decided she would catch strep, which meant mommy would have to catch up on sleep. What do you do to juggle the responsibilities of work and being a mom?

Yes, I am the super exhausted one and Sammie is the sick emoticon! We had colorful children what can I say?

Wordless Wednesday {10.29.14}

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It's that time again! A picture can say it all. What does this picture say to you? Leave your feedback!!

How do you plan your small groups?

Wordless Wednesday: We're Really Regrouping 10.21.14

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Well friends....it is that time again. What time you ask? Well regrouping time of course! I learned a lot last year teaching second grade for the first time. I learned these little sweeties need lots of time and practice to get this concept down! In retrospect, I did not allow the students last year enough manipulation time in order to master the skill of regrouping. Therefore, we are taking things nice and slow this year. Maybe it is because I have an inclusion class this year, or maybe it is because I have become wiser with age (ah-hem), but time needs to be spent on mastery and not just covering everything on the pacing guide. Can I get an AMEN?!

I adjusted my plans this week to reflect a longer unit encompassing addition and subtraction with regrouping. We have spent two days on modeling tens and ones and modeling making a ten from ones. This visual using the document camera and SMART board really helped keep my students engaged and help them understand how to solve these types of problems. When I sent my sweeties to their seats to demonstrate their understanding using their own base ten blocks...well let's just say I was amazed and disappointed. I was amazed at how excited they were and how well they were doing, but I was disappointed that I did not take the time to do this with last year's class. Sigh!

The goal is to live and learn with these sweet kiddos I have this year. Inclusion is teaching me more and more about what's important...the needs of the students. 

So I ask you this...what are some of your most favorite ways to teach regrouping to your sweeties? Until next time...

Wordless Wednesday: "Fall"abulous Text Features 10.14.14

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Happy Fall Y'all!!!

What do you do to review after a long break? Today was our first day back from intersession, and my first day back to blogging! Yay us! In order to keep routine and some spice to first nine weeks topics for review, I decided some Fall action was in order.

We began with a read aloud of Awesome Autumn by Bruce Goldstone. This book is top of my list when it comes to helping students understand how the senses are used to describe autumn. I wanted students to be able to identify words that are indicative of Fall as well as tell me the text features they notice during the reading. We came up with "fall"abulous words, which turned into some phrases. This allowed me to see which students remembered text features, and which may need additional support in the coming weeks. The students really enjoyed this review and we even extended the learning with some written comprehension practice! Double score!!

Not super fancy, but helped with some difficult standards. We will be working with this book the remainder of the week. Stay tuned on my blog for more!