New ideas!

Love, love, love collaborating with other teachers!!! I am so grateful for the opportunity to develop the district's 3rd Grade Curriculum Map (what we teach along with resources to support teachers) and work with a group of women I don't normally see on a regular basis. We are not only making positive progress in our work, but we've been able to share ideas and inspire one another. I am so excited to make a few changes for next year (many by choice and not dictated by our curriculum map, for those of you who teach in WF)! Watch for progress on developing lap books, word sorts, book/author/genre studies, and tools for teaching non-fiction, and watch for a classroom overhaul! I'm moving to a new room and am so appreciating the push to declutter, reorganize, redecorate, and create the optimal environment for learning, and thanks to Pinterest and endless teacher blog resources I have a wealth of ideas at my fingertips. So I guess this summer I'm not really taking a "break" so to speak, but I am thrilled to work on projects that can't normally be undertaken due to the demands of day-to-day teaching. Photos of the progress in my new room to come in a few weeks!