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Linking up with Teaching Trio for a new linky party!

My favorite time of the school year is now!  Students come back from winter break rested and ready to learn.  My Kinders came back this week more mature, ready for routine, and missing several teeth!  I love incorporating books like these because they lend themselves so easily to great writing activities right at a time when my Kinders' writing skills are set to blossom!

WOW Me Wednesday!

I'm linking up with our new collaborative blog, The Literacy Ladder, for the first ever weekly linky, WOW Me Wednesday!

I love giving my students opportunities to WOW me with their ability to solve problems and explain their thinking.  That's why every week we practice extended response questions for reading, math, and/or science.  After grading the assessments I choose "Star" Work to hang in the hall on our Star Student displays.  This holds students accountable for doing their best work, communicating their thinking well, and answering the question correctly.

(Pic of hall display to come tomorrow... Silly sinus infection has me couch-bound today.)

You can give your students opportunities to WOW you, too!  Check out some FREE Extended Response items in my TPT store, 21st Century K (follow links on the FREEBIE tab above).  Options for purchase included scaffold sets of questions for a single standard or sets of four themed for the month aligned to Kindergarten or First Grade Common Core.

2015 Currently

Linking up with "Oh' Boy 4th Grade," for 2015 Currently!

I'm also SUPER EXCITED to announce that I will be a part of a NEW collaborative blog with teachers from across the country AND abroad! 

Our new blog, The Literacy Ladder, will focus on all things literacy with a emphasis on ELA Common Core connections in the elementary grades.

Check out The Literacy Ladder HERE:

 

To celebrate our launch we are hosting a BIG TPT Giveaway with $24 in our own products and 5X$10 in TPT Gift Cards! 

Be sure to follow us and enter to win!