Pinterest Party! (1)

Last week a few of my old and new grade level colleagues got together to make a few things we had been pinning on our respective Pinterest boards, mostly 1st grade centered anchor charts. Take a look at some of the ones that I made.

I recommend that all grade levels do this at least a few times throughout the year. Not only does it give you a chance to see all the team members you love and talk about all the crazy things we as teachers deal with on the daily, but you can make sure that everyone has similar themed items in their rooms throughout the year.

I know our admin has very high expectations about making sure that our students are getting a similar learning experiences in each classroom regardless of who their teacher is. At a school where we have high turnover rate and people don't stick around for too long, I like the idea of starting the year off with 5 out of my 7 team members (two were on vacation :D) having the same charts hanging from the rafters in the room.

Stay tuned for more!

Let's Try This Again

Many moons ago when I was a fledging young adult fresh out of college I started a personal blog to vent out my frustrations and thoughts about this vast thing called life. Years later, the thing hasn't been touched.

For a while now, I've been giving thought to starting a new blog solely devoted to my teaching career and today is the day I decided to jump in.

I'm entering my 6th year teaching, my 2nd year at a school since I left Cleveland County and moved to Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. I have a personal/professional goal this year of implementing Guided Math and continuing to hone up on my Readers Workshop literacy activities. It might be a huge undertaking, but I'm up for the challenge.

I've been on Pinterest like a crazy person, making new boards and filling up my newsfeed with my posts, haha! I've been looking at educational resource books and other teacher blogs to try to mold everything I'm reading into a structure that will work for my K-8, urban, extremely low performing school. This little slice of the Internet is going to be where all my thoughts and sweet finds come together.

So if you're up for the ride, hop in. First stop: Guided Math.