Before teaching Visual Arts, I taught First Grade. With that background, I believe that "Word Walls" are a good reference for stud...

We all know that anchor charts are a huge part of a classroom. I believe that they should be separated by content. To add a little bit of co...

I recently added new Word Wall Headers to my Teachers Pay Teachers store . These are sets of colorful, round alphabet labels to use for your...

I created several sets of Bingo games for Fry's Instant Words and uploaded them to my TpT store . There are four sets of Bingo boards in...

The students competed in against "houses" in a spelling bee. Mrs. Guzman called out a word to the first person in the line and if ...

One of the many ways we practice our weekly word wall and phonics words is through the lessons and games on SpellingCity . The students love...

A few weeks ago we were reading various stories about school. One of the books we read was Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes - one of my favorit...

I recently compiled a page of some of my favorite reading sites for young children. They are filled with interactive stories, phonics and si...

I found this fun refrigerator magnet game at ABCya! that your children can use to practice spelling their word wall and phonics words. You...

The students have been blogging away! They have written over 250 posts so far. Their latest blog entries are about additive patterns. When ...

I recently updated our First Grade Word Wall PowerPoint . The slideshow advances every five seconds to reveal a new word. You can help your ...

To help your child learn their Word Wall words, I created Word Wall Flashcards. We will be creating Word Wall Rings in class over the next f...

To help your child practice their weeklly word wall and phonics words, please visit our grade level SpellingCity page. SpellingCity is a gr...

At least once a week the students practice writing their weekly word wall and phonics words in shaving cream. This activity is especially go...

This week we have been celebrating all of the wonderful accomplishments the students have made during the year through various activities. F...

This week we worked on the word wall words this, get, and all . We are also working on words with the sh sound. To help your child continu...