Ideas and resources to help you teach with BLISS!
Do you ever have mixed feelings about the use of technology in the classroom? While there are definitely a lot of perks to using it, there is also pressure to make sure you are using it in just the right way. When I pull out the tablets in my classroom I want to be totally confident that the apps and… 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
Hello There! Today is day 2 of snow days! While I am excited to have the day off to catch up on things I’ve been needing to do but have been too busy to breathe, the thought of Saturday school (I teach at a year round school so this is the only time we can make up our days) takes… Read More
