Every teacher knows the key to classroom sanity is routines. Classroom routines are predictable and predictable means that the students know what to expect. When they know what to expect, they will follow the expectations and things go smoothly. It becomes clockwork. If done well, a teacher isn’t even necessary to be there. Kindergarten teachers …
Keeping track of student’s reading can be something of a mystery to me. When I first started teaching, I had students keep a home reading log. Some kids were diligent, some struggled because they didn’t care or they lost their logs. I found that because so few of these logs got handed in, I as …
Okay, so in reality, I don’t run Daily 5. I run Daily 2! But I aspire to add in a word work component, but it just hasn’t worked out yet…. So yes, in my class we have Daily 2 and it is AMAZING!!! I remember the summer I discovered Daily 5 and the CAFE books. …