Ideas and resources to help you teach with BLISS!
Hello Friend! Are your students struggling with basic skills such as buttoning or zipping his or her coat, building block towers, or cutting and pasting? These are all signs that their fine motor skills aren’t as developed as they should be. Fine motor abilities help children coordinate their hand movements and are critical to building other learning skills. Children start… Read More
Hello Friend! The 100th day of school is soon approaching and I can’t wait! There is so many wonderful things about the 100th day…For one, there is nothing more adorable than seeing little kids dressed up like 100 year old men and women! It also means we are more than half-way through the school year- yippee!! But most importantly, it… Read More
Hey Friends! I’m curious…. in your already crowded instruction schedule, does spelling have a place? Have you found a way to make it more than just giving a list of words on Monday and assessing on Friday? Resources for teaching spelling are often hard to come by and sometimes it feels like with the intense focus on more critical thinking… Read More
Hey Friend! How do your kids learn sight words? They are so tricky but so necessary for emergent readers to learn! As teachers we teach reading strategies like: look at the picture, sound it out, skip the tricky word and come back…THEN they encounter the word said…ugh! Next thing you know the reader is frustrated and loses all comprehension of… Read More
Hey Friend! Happy Back to School! So many of my friends are starting back this week. How did summer pass so quickly?! Summer is my favorite time of the year so I am just not ready to let it go…. Yes, I had a DOUBLE scoop! I thought I would share a quick post on the BEST classroom management tip… Read More
Happy Monday! (That isn’t so bad when we are on summer vacation, right?!) I actually am getting ready to go back to school, meet a new bunch of first graders, and start a new school. Wait, WHAT?? You see, I teach in a year round school. I posted this on Instagram the other day and a few teachers were confused… Read More
