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I am all about Google forms!!!  I used to do my letter assessments with paper but once I discovered Google forms, I rethought all my paper assessments within the classroom and once I figured out how to insert images into Google forms (very easy by the way), I created a Google form for my letter assessments and I was blown away at the ease of the assessment process.  I sue a Samsung Tab A with an S-Pen in my classroom and my students thought it was really cool to see the letters on the tablet.  The benefit of using Google forms is that all the data I am collecting on my students goes straight into a Google sheet which allows me to show my data in various ways such as pie charts or bar graphs.  AND it allows me to save on paper!!! I have put these assessments into a package for my TPT store and Teachery shop.  Below give you a little look into the package. I cannot say enough about Google forms and how it has transformed my assessment within my classr

Every year I try to get my literacy centers to be a little more efficient so that the students can really become independent with them.  With the move to a new school and new classroom, I again tried to make the process of centers more efficient.  Now my classroom came with this lovely shelving unit... With plenty of counter space (of course the picture below was from me setting up the classroom). I also had this lovely cart from Michael's that had 6 drawers on one side that would be perfect to hold each groups center booklets (I will post better pictures once I get  back into the classroom mid August).  I labelled each drawer with the Group number and little pictures of the students so they knew it was their drawer. So looking at the counter space I had and the drawers, I realized I could put the drawers out on top of the counter space so the students could easily get their center booklets and start work right away.  This worked out really well.  The kids kne