Substitute Planning

Hello!  I’m Nicole from Teaching With Style and I’m so excited to be over here on Melissa’s new blog, Inspire Me, ASAP! Melissa has some amazing ideas and her units have come in handy MANY times!  When I moved from 1st to 3rd a few years ago, my new team wasn’t as strong as my […]

Model of a backbone

I don’t know about you…but I am just *waiting* for things to S-L-O-W down at school, but I just don’t thing it will happen anytime soon! We finally finished our MAP and AimsWeb testing, our first round of progress reports, and getting into the swing of things with our reading, writing, and math workshop. I […]

Building a Classroom Community: Teaching Acceptance

Looking for an awesome, touching lesson to teach your students about accepting each other…just as they are? Want to incorporate the reading strategy of “visualizing” into this lesson? Read more to learn about how I establish a positive and welcoming classroom climate from day one of school! Today’s blog post is a throwback on a […]