Jul 22 2007
Time Flies….
Wow – my summer is almost over. I have just under three weeks before I go back to work. I woke up one morning last week realizing that I had been dreaming about school for the first time in a long time, and I have not stopped thinking about it since then. I sure sign that my summer is almost over.
One thing that Reading teachers have been asked to do this year is to cover a bit more grammar, freeing the Language Arts teachers to concentrate on more of the stuff they need to cover. I have found a resource that looks like it will be a great thing – easy to implement, doesn’t take a lot of time and looks to be fun for the kids. The books are Caught’Ya !: Grammar With a Giggle. I plan to get the two books. There is a third book as well, but I will wait to see how these books work out before I get that one. I plan to do these as a warm up 2 – 3 times a week. I have other things that we need to do as warmups, as well; silent reading and a computer fluency program.
I’m also thinking about my Bulletin Boards. I have four in my room. One I make as an information board. It has a large printout of the Bell Schedule, a school calendar and a some other things. Two others will each be a generic Computer and Reading board (the two subjects that I teach). The last one changes from year to year. This year it will track the books that my reading kids read and the points they earn using the Reading Counts Program.
OK – that’s enough for now – I am still on vacation…..time to hit the beach…….
