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Whew! The first weeks of school are SOOOOOOO BUSY!!! But would we have it any other way??? Of course not! I just wanted to show you a quick little part of my morning math routine. Morning Math is starting off with a bang! Now it does take the kiddos quite a little while to get it going reeeeaaaaal good, but for the most part they are doing great! I will be posting more on that real soon - the truth is I'm waiting for some stuff I ordered from Really Good Stuff to help us out. Then I'll go on a picture takin' frenzy with my littles and their soon-to-be super charged math brains!!! Our teacher mentor at University High (aka University Lab School) uses Morning Math to teach her entire math program and those kids are geniuses by the end of the year. We modeled our mornings directly after hers and here are some examples of my firsties work from last year. 139th Day of School 162nd Day of School We run out of room sometimes!! And look at that multiplication!!! Yes!!! From first g...

Oh my goodness this has been the BEST first week of school!! I was so excited to meet all my new firsties and begin our adventures together! We got through A LOT of rules and routines and procedures this past week and are ready to do even more next week. One of the best things this week was our interactive notebooking (INB) using Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Journeys reading curriculum. This series is completely Common Core aligned and is an excellent way to introduce to students the love of learning to read. We've had so much fun with the back to school week and are excited to keep learning! The kids loved putting their books together and beginning activities to help them study in the future. I have finished lessons 1, 2, and 3 (working on 4 and 5!) but I couldn't wait to share them with you! All notebooks are Common Core aligned and feature interactive components. Lesson 1 - summarizing, main ideas, nouns, sight words, short a words, Daily Edits, Main Idea sort! Daily Edits!  S...