A Primary Teaching Blog
Some might say that sight words can be boring. That it always seems like you have to do the same old practices to get your students to learn their sight words. Right?! WRONG! Sight words can be loads of fun! Having taught the sight word intervention group at my school, I have been able to come up with some great ideas that have been really… Read More
Hello, everyone! I am so happy to help Jen with her Something Borrowed Series. If you do not know me, I am Britney from Tailor-made Teaching. I am a 20-something year old Ohioan currently teaching first grade for my second year (lots of numbers in that sentence). I do not take the responsibility of a first grade teacher lightly. In… Read More
Hello sweet friends! I’m Aris Rossi from Sailing into Second and I am BEYOND excited to be guest posting for Jen on her adorable Sparkling in Second blog today! While she’s away on her honeymoon, I’ll be sharing all about our 3rd grade Common Core Homework! This year, the 3rd grade team at my school decided to implement project based homework instead of… Read More
My name is Kristen from Easy Teaching Tools and I’m a 1/2 teacher in Orange County, CA. I’m so happy to be a guest blogger for Jen while she goes and gets herself married! I’ve had a few requests about teaching a combo/split class. This is the first of several posts I’ll be doing on organizing, managing, and teaching such… Read More
Sarah here from A Rocky Top Teacher. One of my blogging besties, Jen from Sparkling in Second, is embarking on her new journey as a Mrs. That’s right! Our Ms. Cullen is getting married! BIG congrats to you girlie! While Jen is away enjoying marriage bliss, some of her blogger peeps are taking over her blog for a special event! My… Read More
Well, it’s almost April & Spring has officially “sprung” in my classroom. Kids bouncing off the walls, thinking they are grown folks. Yeesh! I hope it’s not just me! We had to have an impromptu kindness lesson the other day…it went AWESOME, but they are still a bit mean to each other. We all shared a time we’ve been hurt… Read More
A blog post on math centers. I wanted to share a switch I made during my math time. I started the year off with rotations, where I’d teach a small group of students a lesson and rotate them through until I’d taught the lesson {5 times through} to all 25 kids. I had seen so many teachers do such a… Read More
Hey Ya’ll! I hope you are getting back into the swing of things, I’m enjoying my extra day off due to MLK Jr. Day! I wanted to offer up some quick and easy adjective activities that worked in my classroom and took little to no prep! I think adjectives are one of the funnest things to teach, so simple and… Read More
I’m joining Kickin it in Kindergarten for her 2013 Instagram Linky! It has been quite a year and it’s wonderful to take the time to stop and reflect…via instagram {find me: @sparklinginsecondgrade} Here are my top 3 highlights/faves from instagram this year… 1. Since the beginning of the year, I had wanted to start a blog. There were so many… Read More
Happy {soon-to-be} New Year! My blog redesign is finished! Isn’t it fabulous? I owe it all to {the very patient} Kerri from The Cutest Blog on the Block! I can’t tell you how many times I had her changing this and tweaking that, but she was amazing {thanks Kerri}! To celebrate this NEW design, I am having a “NEW” themed… Read More
