Groovy Educator

Tomorrow is GO time!  Summer vacation is over.  The next week will be full of meetings, planning, and decorating.  On Friday I get to meet my new class family for the year.  It's an exciting time.  The next few days will be a flurry of activity. At my school, we have a wonderful PTA.  They really spoil the teachers.  It is the first time I have worked in a school where the parents are so involved.  Tomorrow the PTA puts on a welcome back breakfast.  It will be a time when everyone comes together and celebrates the new school year.  We share about our summers and wrap our minds around all the things we have to do. After the PTA breakfast, we will have out first meeting then we work in our rooms.  I'm glad that I came in before school started.  All my furniture is placed and most of my boards are up.  When I get into my room tomorrow, the first thing I am going to do is make a list of what needs to be done.  I will ...

These books are amazing!  I love lists to begin with but these books are imbued with useful resources.  I love to refer to them when create new word sorts or when I am making a practice page or activity based on a specific skill. Author:  Edward B. Fry    The Vocabulary Teacher's Book of Lists is just as amazing as the Reading Teacher's Book of Lists , Aside from the fact that it includes twenty four methods for teaching vocabulary, it is full of information about prefixes, suffixes, homophones, and so on and so forth.  You just have to see it to believe it.  If you click on the picture of the book, it will take you to the Amazon.com website where you can look inside.   While I was surfing the internet looking for more information about Edward B. Fry, I happened upon this website:  http://www.uniqueteachingresources.com/Fry-1000-Instant-Words.html It has Fry's 1000 most frequently used words available for download.  I ...