Mas Rusli

As you may have heard I'm moving up from first grade to SIXTH grade. I'll be teaching Media Literacy and Video Production. Yup. No more primary for me :( I'm a little sad, but also a little excited! I'm sure as the school year moves closer I'll be MORE excited! Stay tuned for the middle of July! For the time being, I'm going to share with you an activity I've been working on. I LOVE interactive notebooks. However, they take up a lot of time and a lot of paper and a lot of glue. I've got to spend lots of days training my firsties on how to properly cut and paste the activities in their notebooks. This activity is one that I've had in my paper interactive notebooks for awhile, but I've moved it to a digital platform! Check it out:  There are letter tiles off to the side that the students click and drag to build short a words. After building a word, they type the word in the table, drag the letters back, and do it again. When they are finished, I...

We are having a BLAST learning all about Louisiana. The kiddos are really doing an amazing job with this unit. They love Louisiana!! I wanted to show what our interactive Louisiana Notebooks look like and they came out so adorably perfect that I'm giving this set away!  This is so easy to implement as a mini unit. I just took some blue construction paper and stapled some looseleaf in the middle. Each kiddo got their own booklet and we began! Here are the pics of the whole notebook:  And here is a Vocabulary Freebie as well!! My firsties were so excited to bring their notebooks home and show their families.  {{HERE}} is your FREEBIE!! This interactive notebook is part of my larger We Love Louisiana Unit available in my TpT store.  Happy Teaching!!!

Wow!! The Journeys Interactive Notebook for first grade has been unbelievably popular!!! Not only on my TpT store but also in my classroom! We have been working hard on creating our notebooks. The students are doing wonderful. I wanted to share a bit how I do them in the classroom. I mostly use the activities as an exit ticket after teaching the mini lesson, before the students move into Daily 5. I've also added an extra center to the Daily 5 as the Interactive Notebook Center. This is used as an early finisher activity - for when they finish their work. We are currently finishing up Lesson 10 in Unit 2 and planning on doing a review week next week along with From Seed to Pumpkin! I've been super busy at school so I've not been able to work as much on the INBs for Unit 3 as I would have liked but they are on their way! So that being said, here is Lesson 11 for Unit 3!! So many fun activities to work on!  Lesson 11 focuses on:  High frequency words (8 this unit) Digraph th a...

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...