A Springtime Activity for Sorting Consonant Digraphs

I’ve been feeling like I’ve been neglecting my first and second grade teaching friends lately by posting bunches of early reading activities.   When I purchased those cute little flower boxes at Walmart for the Springtime Vowel Sorting, I couldn’t help but pick up a few of those adorable frogs.  I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with them at the time.  So, thinking about what I can make for first grade, I came up with a consonant digraph sorting activity. Click HERE to download the free consonant digraphs pictures. Click the following link to download directions for differentiating this activity. Differentiating the Frog Consonant Digraph Sorting Activity      

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The Cookie Sheet Challenge!

It all started with a cookie sheet.  I was observing a student in a kindergarten classroom during literacy center time and in one of the centers the teacher placed magnetic letters on a cookie sheet and the students made words with the letters.  Clever– I’ve seen cookie sheets on Pinterest before and really hadn’t paid much attention.  After leaving the classroom I wondered how many activities can I come up with using a simple cookie sheet.  So my weekend started with a trip to our Habitat for Humanity Restore- hum, no cookie sheets.  No luck at Goodwill and no luck at the Salvation Army.  Couldn’t believe it.  So I traveled over to Walmart and they had cookie sheets for only 88 cents! 

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Vinyl Chalkboard Sheets- Such Endless Possibilities!

I thought I was excited when the Home Depot started selling chalkboard paint.  Then came the dry erase board paint…  oh, my gosh!!  But today my teacher friend, Keri, shared a new product that will likely keep me up many nights thinking of different ways to use it.  It’s vinyl chalkboard paper!  Can you believe it?  It works just like contact paper.  You cut it into the size or shape you want, adhere it to any surface, write on it with liquid chalk, and then erase it with water.  Amazing! Keri cut strips of chalkboard sheets and used it to label containers in her classroom.  She also used the sheets for a math station activity.  Next year the kindergarten teachers at the school plan to use a Cricut machine to cut the sheet into shapes for

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Response to Intervention: A Lesson From Our Orthodontist

  My three children are now 18, 17 and 15.  When Response to Intervention (RtI) was first introduced in our districts around 8 years ago, I was spending just about the same amount of time in the Orthodontist’s office as I was on the soccer fields.  As our family Orthodontist explained, there was something about my husband’s and my genetic combination that contributed to our children’s very unique orthodontic problems.  My son’s issues were mild compared to my two daughters.  What was astounding to our Orthodontist was that Kassie and Lizzie had the opposite problem.  Kassie had a severe overbite and Lizzie had a severe underbite (among many other issues).  He informed us that out of the three very difficult

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