March Teaching Ideas

Hello everyone! So excited to share my week with everyone! 🙂  It was a good one!  The last week before spring break! 🙂  I love my little ones, but can I say that I was just EX.HAUST.ED?  Ugh…having spring break so late was hard on them, but hard on me too! 🙁

Thank you to Kacey for sharing this linky with all of us! 🙂  Click on the picture to link up with her, if you’re interested in meeting a few new bloggers! 🙂  I find someone new to talk to every week! 🙂  I love a good linky! 🙂

Random item #1: I have finally figured out how to use photobucket to hyperlink images!!!  I’m like a REAL blogger now, people! 🙂  If Katie King is still doing her Techy Teacher Tuesday, I plan to link up with her and share how I learned! 🙂

Random item #2: This week, I rolled out my new Egg-static About Phonics centers to review CVC words and long vowel exceptions.  We’ve been working on these patterns in class and the students really seemed to enjoy working on these centers.  I was really excited about them because they can last a loooong time and not be switched out! 🙂  The kids can play multiple times and still get great practice!

Random item #3:  This week, I taught about landforms.  I got a really cute landform dinosaur from a sweet teacher out of Illinois named Mrs. Castro.  She adapted the idea for her dual language class…from another teacher.  The kids got a chance to make a dinosaur and then label the parts of the dinosaur as if they were actual landforms.  They made some pretty neat connections! 🙂  It’s a FREEBIE!!! 🙂  Go check out the link! 🙂

Check out these landform dinosaurs on TPT.  Click here for the link! :)

Random item #4:  We worked on ‘Pot of Gold’ writing.  This is an idea from Erica Bohrer’s St. Patty’s pack.  The students wrote about something that was more precious than gold to them.  It was a really great idea for informational writing.  I loved reading them.  I had a student who is an animal LOVER write about his pet hamster that died this week.  He cried on every stage of writing, but was so proud of what he produced.  I was proud of him too…and shed a tear or two myself while reading it!  Good stuff! 🙂