Thoughts of a mommy & teacher.
My Dad and Ashlyn are very close but he lives in North Carolina and we live in Florida. He sends them letters and gifts in the mail and they talk on the phone quite a bit but Ashlyn loves e-mailing him. It has been great for practicing writing sentences and using punctuation. Plus she […]
Here are a few simple activities that my girls did in “room time” yesterday. I wrote numbers on clothes pins and then gave Emily number cards. I had her match the clothes pins with the number cards.
Ashlyn is starting kindergarten in a couple of weeks (sigh) so I had her write about it. She has […]
My youngest daughter Emily has become very interested in drawing and writing in the past week. Every night after I read her a story she wants to draw on her white board that is in her room. Here is a picture she drew tonight.
I am the big headed one and she is the little one. […]
I love Dot Art. There are so many things you can do with them. Here are a few things we have been doing this week. I have so many more ideas to do with Dot Art just not enough time to get them all done.
We made birthday cards! Make sure you use thicker paper or […]
Every morning when I taught first grade I would write a “Morning Message” to my students on a white board. It would always start “Today is …” and then the day and date. Then I would write about what we were talking about today and where we were going for specials (art, music, PE, computer) […]