Thinking in Primary

Still going strong!  I'm linking up with Big Time Literacy's Big Time Blogging Challenge again and today's topic is to write about your favorite books to teach with!  That's a hard one because I have sooooo many!  But, what I really love is to teach with good quality big books.  My teaching pals and I are HUGE fans of shared reading.  Sometimes we find out that people aren't doing it and that makes us very sad. You can read a little bit about the way we do it here! One of my favorite shared reading books is Brown Bear, Brown Bear.  I just love this book and I use it every single year! If you click on the picture below it will take you to Amazon and this is the anniversary version with the original words! I know I've blogged about his before to, but this is the class book I have for sale in my TPT shop.  I love making class books with my class (although sometimes I get caught up and don't do it as often as I should)! Thanks for stopping by!...

Why I haven’t been blogging... This is the only part of the post that is personal, so for those of you who want to get to the school stuff (and I totally get that) skip to the next paragraph.  Anyway, I turned 40 and all you know what broke loose!  I’ve always been a migraine sufferer, but I suddenly stepped up into the chronic category.  We’re talking nearly every day.  I’ve tried eliminating my triggers, changing my diet, eliminating stress (as much as anyone can), getting more exercise, less exercise, yoga, meditation, more water, I’ve tried pretty much everything. Towards the end of the summer I finally dragged myself into a neurologist’s office (one of those “are you tired of living a maybe life” doctor’s from the TV commercial) and she’s doing her best to take care of me.  She put me on some medication that is supposed to prevent them, it doesn’t.  She doubled the dosage, it makes me sick.  On the bright side she ordered some tests to make s...

Here is the Brown Bear, Brown Bear Roll and color sheet I made to use with my math choices next week! Brown Bear Roll and Color Pin It