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Meet Reagan Tunstall and Kristina Grant, the passionate individuals behind Tunstall’s Teaching Tidbits. These fast friends found the formula for enhancing not only each other’s teaching, but thousands of other educators too! Reagan’s love for creating content and lesson experiences for every learner combined with Kristina’s passion for creating classroom community and a climate of…

My Coin Crew!

My Coin Crew!

For the last two weeks, we have been mixing it up with mixed coins!  I first introduced coins back in December, but I spiraled back to it now that my kiddos are much better at skip counting in the higher ranked numbers.  In order to balance both the procedural aspect to teaching coins as well…

Workshop Talk!
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Workshop Talk!

This year my entire morning is workshop style.  My class goes 3 full hours in workshop mode every day.  We do our reader’s workshop (loosely based on The Daily Five) and then we meet on the rug and go right into our guided math workshop.   This is the part of the year where the benefits…

No Mayhem Monday!

No Mayhem Monday!

I am one happy teacher tonight.  We rocked out the day in room 119.  I mean it.  It’s the 6th week of school and thank you baby Jesus it feels like we are getting somewhere now! We started with reader’s workshop and boy oh boy my shoulders were tense and my critical eye ball was…

Building Strong Number Sense with Numbers 0-5

Building Strong Number Sense with Numbers 0-5

Teaching the numbers 0-5 may seem pretty straightforward, but educators know building strong number sense with numbers 0-5 involves a series of important strategies and activities. Likewise, throughout our instruction, we balance understanding numbers and number relationships. Numbers 0-5 Focus and Objectives For our learning focus and objectives, we will cover the following six concepts:…

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