Teaching with Miss Caldinez

Use this sheet to assess your students' knowledge of their Magic 100 words.

In My Heart by Jo Witek- a book of feelings! How is your heart feeling today? This activity provides your students with the opportunity to communicate how they are feeling through art. Talking about our feelings can be difficult however using art to express our feelings can be a lot easier. Using the different coloured materials provided, your students will be able to communicate how they are feeling without the use of words.

The complete Magic 100, 200 and 300 word flashcards. Print these flashcards on the corresponding coloured paper and use for assessment purposes. Use flashcards with my `Magic 100 Assessment Recording Sheet' for record keeping purposes.

Your students will love choosing from the activities on my `Spelling Homework Grid'. 30 simple but fun activities for your students to engage in to practise writing and spelling their Spelling/Sight Words.

A booklet for the first week of school. Getting to know your students and building strong relationships with them is so very important . I have created this booklet for teachers to use in the first week of school to gain insight into each child as an individual and learner.

Use the above observation sheet to record notes during Guided Reading sessions. This observation sheet includes a section to record your learning intention/s, session teaching points as well as spaces to record your observations of each student during the session. What I love most about this sheet is the `Where to Next?' section. By identifying `Where to Next?' as teachers we can really focus on what we can do to help that individual student be successful with their reading. A simple yet effecti