We have really been drilling place value.  It's so important to have a deep understanding of place value in order to move on to other concepts like double-digit addition and subtraction with regrouping.  We spent about two weeks on tens and ones and another two weeks on hundreds.  We used our EnVision a lot and supplemented with Amy's Playing Around with Place Value resource during whole and small groups.   Last week, I felt it was time to break out The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs .  I have posted about it before, but I wanted to share it again.   This activity took about three days in its entirety.  The first day, we kicked off the lesson with Race to 100.  Anything involving a race always gets them excited! The place value mat is from the Playing Around with Place Value pack.  I like it because it has visuals for the ones, tens, and hundreds.   Each child has a set of place value manipulatives and a n......

Hello, friends!  I am finally back after my LONG absence.  I have been wanting to share my weekly plans, but it would have been a picture of me on the couch or in the bed!  I have had mono for the past month and it took me down, y'all!!!  I have never been so thankful for my health!  I went back to work last week, and we are on fall break this week.  We finally got to have our apple week last week, so I wanted to share some of what we did. Here are my visual plans for ELA.  Of course, I over-planned as usual.  I have got to get that under control!! We started our apple unit with a KWL.  Then, we went on to build our background knowledge and vocabulary related to apples.   You can get the free apple vocabulary cards {HERE} . We talked a lot about how labels can help us better understand informative text.  The anchor charts are Cara Carroll inspired. The next picture is one of me being attacke......