Beat the Summer Reading Slide!

As we know summer is coming, and many students are going to take this as a time to forget about school and have some much needed fun...BUT I want to spend the last few weeks with my students showing them the way BEAT that summer slide!
My first grade team and I have decided to create lesson plans, homework, and a library night to encourage reading throughout the summer, everyday. We plan on creating our own reading goals for at home, create a reading spot, make a reading box, create reading response journals, and ALOT more! I am pretty excited for all of this to come together! Oh! And our school is also going to be participating in BOOK WARS (more motivation!!) - our school has read the most books for 2 summers in a row! Bring it on Summer 2015!

Check back soon for lesson plans, homework schedule, and activities for Summer Reading and reflection! 

Here is what I am working on for end of the year reading reflection. It's a FREEBIE! So grab it and give me some feedback. :)  (I copied the 2 pages front and back to have it ready for the last weeks of school) ;)

Click here to go to my TPT store to grab the FREEBIE! 

Kentucky Derby Writing! {TPT OVERHAUL}

MANY videos and articles later, I have decided to give making TPT products another try! I have so much fun creating and making up ideas, but I get confused easily and feel overwhelmed! I am starting simple with this Kentucky Derby Writing that will have a few quick prints for some fun writing the week before DERBY weekend!! Let me know what you think in the comments below and I will be sure to add to my new product! I am open to any and ALL suggestions. :) Once I finish I will be making it a FLASH FREEBIE for 30 minutes later today! Check out my store for my old products as well! 

Use the Story Kit App to Publish Narratives!

We are starting a new adventure with Narratives! We started our Narratives when we began 1st grade and now we redoing them to show how much we have grown! We are adding feelings, moving or characters, and stretching out our small moments. I love using the lessons from Lucy Caulkins, she is amazing! Check out here books here.

First download the Story Kit app! If you are using an iPad, like we are, you have to download it for iPhones only. Click the app picture to get the app now!

It is super simple to use, students can add there pictures, text, and voice to their books that they create then email them to their teacher to then post on Twitter and print! My class LOVES creating on our iPads from Donors Choose.

Here are some examples of Narratives I created and my class created. (mine is a little more simple so we could read it and practice editing our work and adding to our work)

Miss Reynolds Narrative 

Mrs. Wolff's Narrative

Aydn's Narrative 

Laila's Narrative

Alazay's Narrative

Estrella's Narrative

Jarieyah's Narrative

Natalia's Narrative

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I am Dreaming of DreamBox!

Klondike now has a new Math program that we have been using called Dream Box! You can download the app here. Students can go to play.dreambox.com/login/btsg/7bux to find their teacher. Our password is the flower!