Seniors Share Pleasure of Reading with Kids 1st-Graders Enjoy Stories from Delnor Reading GroupByline: Rachel Yackley Daily Herald CorrespondentYackley, Rachel
It is time to startreading cvc words. For the last few months, we have built words, replaced beginning sounds, changed the ending sounds, and filled in missing vowels. But now it is time to read. One of my twins is taking off. He loves the simple books filled with CVC words, and ...
These skill-based Secrets can be shared whenever and wherever they are needed throughout the instructional day. The more Secrets kids know, the more they can read and write independently, using the posters to recall the sound patterns for reading and the spelling patterns for writing. A cornerst...
As a hybrid classroom for distance learning, I have 22 students in person and 7 online, and teaching both groups well is anything but easy. We were only a few weeks into this school year when I experienced one of those special “teacher-moments” when you know that you’re doing somethin...
Jamie loves to make the people that eat her treats, HAPPY. She wants you to be happy in life, like she does her 1st graders, and her delivery on both does not disappoint. Jamie loves to ice her confections with pastel colors, swirling happiness with sprinkles of sugar. I may have asked...
he had time to shower before he was to perform at the local high school football game with the marching band. It was the 8th graders’ night for that opportunity. I started to get nervous at the game when I found out the sandwiches I’d anticipated eating for dinner were not on their...
“I discovered it really was a challenge and a lot of fun working with elementary school students,” he said. “We would compose a poem on the board and have great fun choosing over a word. We would just kick around the possibilities. Man, that was fun.” Fourth graders proved his fav...
In 1953, there were 40 1st graders at St Mark’s. A decade later, in 1964, the number had more than doubled to 88. There was hope, however, in the construction of the new school. The dilapidated, outdated classic 1890s school house had been a worn-out collection of hodge-podge ...