NEW Literacy Center Rotations, Teaching Place Value, and Opinion Writing! 

I love how often you incorporate play and games into your instruction. Kinders and firsties need this!! ❤

LOVE how you explained your reading centers in detail today! Was JUST what I needed to fine tune my groups!!! I already had all your materials in today's video except one. Where is the "Roll it, Read it, Take it" Poster from? I'd love to be able to add that in as one of my center rotations. THANK YOU for always stimulating my teaching brain on Sunday to return to work on Monday🤩

Hi Susan! What is your daily schedule and how much time for each?

Do you have your Roll It, Read It, Take It in TPT?

I'm registered for the Summer Summit and am excited to hear more! Thanks for all you do!

Love your vlogs. Thank you for taking the time to make them and share them!

Thank you for sharing your stations! I love these! Are your calendar /schedule cards on your tpt ?

Is there any chance you could share the rubric you created for the phonics curriculum adoption?

We are also reviewing K-2 ELA curricula. Super curious to see what you think of Into Reading, EL and CKLA. Please keep us updated 🙏

Thank you for another informative video, Ms Susan. I get so excited when you talk about collaborating with fellow teachers to make or plan lessons to help your students better. Can you please do a video on lesson planning and how that looks in your class, even a lesson plan template? Thank you so much! 😊

Love all u do!!!

Love all this. Where did you get your roll or read it take it poster

These are wonderful ❤️

I love the "Find the Fish" game to review heart words! I have just printed out an Easter egg and will be playing it as an Easter egg hunt with my students. I'd love other ideas of games to use for heart word review (other than Kaboom, which my students currently play and LOVE). Quick question, do you incorporate the high-frequency, but decodable words (some teachers call them "snap words") into your review? OR, do you review them differently/separately from heart words? Ideas on how to support fluency around snap words would be helpful. Thank you for all of the high-quality resources you provide as well as the "behind the scenes" skills (organizational, instructional planning, etc) that viewers like me can glean from your videos!

You are awesome!

Thank you so much for your great videos and resources! A question about the task cards. How do you know students are completing them correctly? Do you check them somehow or just have them wipe them off/clean them up at the end of the rotation?

I love your resources in their writing folders . . . sound board, heart words, letter formation. Is this something that is available on TpT as I am not a member of your SJT clubs yet? Thanks :)

I've used Must Do May Do during my small group time. We all start w/ independent reading, then they have a brain builder activity (many times I use one of your phonics sheets from the SJT literacy club) and then they go to EPIC or Lalilo (I rotate the app we use). If they get done, they can write in a free write journal, read, listen to reading, have a fidget break, and sometimes I put out big floor puzzles for them to work on. I always struggle w/ rotating and it eating up too much time, but I might have to try this! Also, can you share how you set up your math block? How much time do you have and how much time do you give for each part of your math block? I love the games, but sometimes we end up running out of time for the games. Maybe I'm putting too much time for the I Do/We Do? Thank you as always...I get so many ideas from your videos. I've been in education for 22 years and I love all the fantastic ideas you share each week!

Thank you so much for the sound wall cards. My class is really enjoying it. I know you have the vowel team cards as well, but I don't see any for the ee and ey. Did I miss them?

As you've transitioned to the science of reading, do your students read to self any longer, as in book boxes? I'm having a hard time letting this one go, as I still see value. But I also appreciate your literacy centers and that chance to practice phonics skills. There's just not enough time for it all! We adopted a new program this year that has my literacy time VERY full.

Love your videos! They usually inspire me. What are the curriculums you use?

Hi Susan! I am inspired once again by your today's vlog! I have been thinking of revamping my "centers" time and was wondering if you have the slide to share. I am NOT techy in any way.. It gives me such major anxiety. LOL. If I had a blank template, I could add in my center choices. Thanks!

Please share your ideas of each of the curriculums. All NYC public schools are using HMH Into reading

I love the opinion writing graphic organizer. If they finish early, do they start another one on their own?

Are the math games you showed in this video available in the membership?

Do you have for sale your math spiral review slides? I like that idea, I need to incorporate that more before my math lesson. What is your opinion on must do, may do? I have been doing that instead of centers and having to rotate. Can you link where you purchased your writing folders? I bought your personal narrative unit and just wanted to say we are loving it. Drawing out our stories ahead of time has been good for them to visualize their story.

Thank you so much for your great videos and for sharing your fabulous activities! Just to let you know that I've been trying for a while now to open the link: FREE Fundation Picture Cards, but I can't... maybe it's a problem on my end, but I just wanted to let you know in case there's an issue with the link. Thanks again!!!

Hi Susan, do you know why Massachusetts will not be allowing Fundations as a foundational reading program?

Are the task cards from your tpt page?

Where is your rug from? Thanks!

Where would I find your math activities

I would like to buy the materials you are using in your vlogs. how? and where? thanks

Hi where are task card plastic boxes from? Love!!

Hi, Can you provide a link to the Mo williems book How to make a book? I can't find it anywhere

Are your time slides available

Instead of "Hands up," I riig a cowbell and say "What's your value?" Then we go around the room and share their value.