Teaching With Haley O'Connor

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Fun with Data and Graphs

Fun with Data and Graphs

We spent the whole past week in Math on Collecting, and Organizing Data! 🙂 This week, we are focusing on using Graphs to collect information.  It’s going to be more challenging, so I’m glad we had such a fun week exploring and making graphs to show our Data! Here are some of the highlights. 🙂   We started our week with this fun… Read More

Story Elements!

Story Elements!

This has been a great week back! Boy have I been tired, but each day I am excited for their smile, hugs, and eagerness to learn and spend the day at school. Is anything better than “Aw, man…tomorrow’s Friday! I wanna stay at school all weekend!” Melt. My. Heart. In reading, we have been doing story elements all week. My… Read More

Good Citizens

Good Citizens

What a bummer…we are losing tonight. 🙁 Breakin’ my heart, boys! We are headed to the game tomorrow and I am SO excited because if you live in DFW, you know how amazing the weather has been this weekend. We had some rain on Friday, but it feels like 30 degrees cooler. So, basically, I don’t want to dive into… Read More

First Week Plans

So…I am a blogger FAILURE! 🙂 I promised all of these fabulous updates, and I literally have fallen asleep at 8:00 everyday, and I feel like I haven’t seen Keith in weeks! Boo! BUT, Meet the Teacher went AMAZING, and I am sooo excited for these new little ones! Did I mention how SWEET they are?!!? And their parents are… Read More

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  • I made these 10 binders for my kiddos when they finish work early! Our writing curriculum is pretty scripted, so I try to build free writing into our day at other times. These would be perfect for Daily 5, Literacy Stations, or fast finishers!
  • I created this packet of writing prompts and activities for my first graders to use during Work on Writing time, morning work, and other times I want to keep them engaged in writing. They are also perfect to attach to your favorite Fall craftivities and make adorable bulletin boards! I love to give my students choice...you can easily set these in a writing center and let them choose their activity!
  • This is a packet of 10 story problems...there are 2 versions! :) One version is perfect for math notebooking and another is a full page printable where students show their thinking in words and pictures!
  • Living and Nonliving Sorts, Activities, and Printables
  • This product is part of a series of monthly reading log and book response pages. My littles will complete these pages during their independent reading time...they will work with any book they are reading (fiction and nonfiction are included.) I included a cover page in case you want to staple the entire packet for your littles to work on throughout the month!
  • Halloween addition centers by Teaching With Haley. My students can't get enough of ghosts, pumpkins, and candy corn! These addition centers cover addition within 20, and have students work on many different addition strategies! Each center comes in color and black/white and with a student direction page. The printables and activities are Halloween themed from cauldron sums to spin and add. Great for kindergarten and first grade learning remotely or in the classroom. Download the preview now.
  • Have you ever wanted to purchase a teacher binder but weren't sure which style you wanted? Or maybe you wanted several styles for different purposes? Then this bundle is for YOU!I created this bundle when I realized many people were torn on which style to get! It allows you to change your binder each year, or use one for your teacher binder and something totally different for your substitute binder or parent contact binder! Learn more... Elementary Teacher Resources for Classroom Management
  • Thanksgiving Freebies by Haley O'Connor. Learn more about the different Thanksgiving ideas, activities, Thanksgiving read-aloud books, anchor charts, and crafting activities for kids. Including ways to show gratitude and thankfulness. I created a free pdf download for the read-aloud The Littlest Pilgrim. The free download helps kids identify the main character in the read-alouds traits! If you click on the images on my blog post you can download my free The Littlest Pilgrim download. Learn more.
  • How to Setup a Classroom Library with FREE Library labels. I love creating a comfortable space for my students to re-read our favorites and find new books to love. In this blog post I go through the process I followed when I flipped a primary teacher's classroom library. Learn how to purge, organize, label, and store your favorite read-aloud and children's books for your kindergarten or first-grade classroom. Read more!
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