The "Beginning of School" Crud

If you have ever taught, then you know about the "beginning of school" crud. It creeps up on you slowly. You start to lose your voice a little. Your nose gets stuffy. Your ears feel stopped up. You think, "this happens every year and it will go away." So, you continue on your non-stop quest to fill your students with knowledge. Then, BAM, it hits you. You can't breath through your nose. Your ears are clogged. Your head hurts. Your eyes hurt. So you take your Saturday to visit urgent care and two shots and three prescriptions later you are at Walmart doing your Saturday thing. When you get home, you crash. You don't leave the house Sunday and by Monday you realize just how bad you did feel because you are feeling so much better.

Yep, that was me last week and this weekend. Hence, no blogging. I would like to think that my many followers have been disappointed. But, I would need some followers for that to even begin to be true. Right now my "following" meter shows a big, fat zero. Patience grasshopper…….

I did spend my time at home working on some new items for my Teachers Pay Teachers store and hope to get those posted in a couple of days. Click the link to the right to check out my store.

Roll, Say, Keep

I love Roll, Say, Keep for sight word practice. 

I found this game several years ago on Kathy Gursky's The School Bell: http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/Dolch/Directions/rollkeep.html.

She uses the Dolch word list, but I made a list using the sight words in our district's adopted curriculum, McGraw-Hill Wonders for First Grade. 

Friday I gave each of my students a game board, the kindergarten review words and the unit one words to take home for practice. I let them cut the words out at school and play a round or two when they finished. They loved it! My plan is for them to use these at home to practice sight word fluency. As we finish other units, I will send those words home for practice.

A Little Begging

Before I close this post, I need to do a little begging. Back in the summer I posted a project on DonorsChoose.org for individual listening stations. My project expires on October 11th and it hasn't been funded yet. If you, or someone you know, would like to support education, please check out my page. Every little bit helps. 

http://www.donorschoose.org/oakley

Until next time,

Robin