Learning the Alphabet with Digital Task Cards
With my daughter starting to read, my son has become more and more interested in learning the alphabet and heading in her direction. How we use Boom Learning™ to learn the Alphabet… You may have heard about Boom Learning™. It is a platform for Digital Task Cards. You can read about it here. I decided […]
Recycled CVC Spelling Words
Are you a hoarder? So, if you had to ask my husband to define a hoarder, he would probably do so my mentioning my name. I keep all kinds of packaging which may be useful in activities for my children. There are toilet rolls in a kitchen cupboard and plastic disposable containers in a bedroom […]
Digital Task Cards Make Teaching Easy!
Boom Learning™ is a year old! I can’t believe it has been a year since I first started with the BoomLearning™ platform to create BoomCards™ task cards as part of the Beta group. If you haven’t heard of this App before, you are seriously missing out! The BoomLearning™ platform for digital task cards which can […]
QR Code Possibilities are Endless
I loved using QR codes in my classroom and to this day, wish I had discovered it earlier. As a result, I am going out of my way to introduce them to other teachers so that they can identify with the potential that they offer the classroom environment. I have compiled a few ‘How to…” […]
This is how I encouraged students to ‘Get to Know’ each other.
Are you back at school? Most, if not all, schools have reopened for the new year and days have been filled with getting to know new students, setting ground rules and tackling the task of covering all required work before the first set of assessments. The first few weeks ( as well as the last […]
CVC Fun on the Way to School
Megan is in Kindergarten and loves books. Every night we read two stories to her and she is starting to recognize words- which is very exciting. We have been focusing a lot on Sight Words and CVC words and it was getting to a point where she wanted to read on her own, but there […]
Be Your Student’s Superhero!
This has been on my mind for a while now. It is something that I think does not come naturally to everyone, and is therefore overlooked by many. It applies to not only teachers, but parents too. I’ll be honest with you and admit that my ‘light-bulb’ moment only happened after my daughter, Megan, was […]
Building Back to School: Language Tools
Are you looking for some language tools for Back to School? I have linked up with Denise from #Teachermom. She is running a Back to School Tools linkup for the next few weeks. This week focuses on Language tools and I am all for playing game to reinforce language concepts. My students knew where the […]
Classroom Tools for Building Back to School
It’s nearly back to school time and I joined Denise from #TeacherMom for a Back to School Link up. When I was in the classroom, I would introduce a new motivational quote every Monday and a Fun Fact on a Friday. I subject taught so the different classes would come to my classroom for my […]
Tips to Curb Back to School Anxiety
At the beginning of the year (our year starts in January), Megan started at a new school where she knew almost no one. Despite being a confident and eager child, I still anticipated a fair amount of anxiety with the new venture. Seeing that the new school year is drawing closer, I thought to share […]