A Girl’s Gotta Have A Good Pen {Five For Friday & A Teacher Friend Freebie}

Happy Friday! I’m linking up with Doodlebugs Teaching for another Five for Friday!

 

 

Here’s a little peek at my week…

Can I just say how much I love Ink Joy pens?

 

 

If you’re not already swamped with running records, phonics screeners, high frequency checklists and grading baseline writing assessments. You soon will be! These Papermate Ink Joy pens are the best. I like to be able to color code my assessment scores by quarter and I appreciate a pen that’s smooth and easy to write with when I’m taking a running record. Of course, I love my pretty Flair pens too!

 

I made these for my teammates because a girl’s just gotta have a good pen when she’s taking a running record.

 

Hey Girl. Download the cards here.

 

We wrapped up our Louder, Lili book study this week. This little book is a true gem for talking with your class about kindness, being a good friend, and standing up for what is right. It lends itself well to teaching several different reading strategies and skills and my class really connected with these characters. Click here to find the book on Amazon. 

 

 

 

 

Last week we did this Math About Me activity and defined ourselves using math! I send home a math autobiography so parents can help their child gather all of their math info like address, phone number, family ages, etc.  That way they have everything they need to describe themselves using math!

 

 

 

 

I got my reading area cleaned off, assessments finished, and we’re ready to go! #majoraccomplishment

 

 

Our center rotations are slowly taking shape. I wanted to do something different in my poetry center this year so we’re doing it Teacher By The Beach-style.

 

 

 

Jen has a great poetry station routine that I  love.  She incorporates fluency practice and sound/spelling pattern identification with a highlighter (Which is always a hit with kids), spelling practice, illustrating, and labeling.

 

 

 

 

I’ve since added having students write sentences using the words from their list on the back side of the page.

You can read all about Jen’s poetry routine here.

 

 

I introduced this center routine with a sweet  poem by Kristin Smith from A Day In First Grade.  I purchased this poem with

her I Can Be A Pal  pack. It tied in perfectly with our how to be a good friend writing.

 

Just like Jen, I typed up the poems I wanted to use from Scholastic’s Big Book of  Phonics Poems plus some other random

poems I’ve gathered over the years. I purchased my poems HERE.

 

 

 

I had a parent copy and cut the whole year’s worth and all I do is change the poem each week. I love easy!

 

Since I also love these silly Hey Girl’s so much  I’ll leave you with this…

 

 

 

Get those pens! Ha!

 

 

Have a wonderful weekend, friends!