tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63192772926059369552024-03-18T20:04:51.142-07:00Three Cheers for First GradeFollow the life of a primary teacher.Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-66849905781874193382016-02-02T16:28:00.000-08:002016-02-02T16:28:10.998-08:00Groundhogs Day<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a quick little blog about Groundhog's Day. I was excited that he didn't see his shadow... after 3 feet of snow, an early spring sounds delightful.... although I will miss the possibility of snow days and delays. Today we had a 2 hour delay because of ice so I was only with my kiddos for 2 hours... 30 minutes of which they were in library! I had time to read my favorite Groundhog read aloud and do a quick craftivity!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is your favorite Groundhog Read Aloud? Mine is Go To Sleep Groundhog. It is about a Groundhog that just can't get to sleep so he wakes up in October, November and December.... seeing things he's never seen before (Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas). I love it and the kids enjoyed it too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After we read the book, we created these pop up groundhogs. I have seen it just so the pop up, but I decided (on my way to school this morning) to do one side as if he saw his shadow and one side if he didn't. The kids enjoyed pretending to be the groundhog popping up. They loved their puppets and it helped them remember which one meant 6 more weeks of winter or early spring. I normally watch the groundhog on the weather channel with the kids... but we ran out of time! I may show them tomorrow!</span></div>
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-62776924788502754572016-02-01T14:17:00.003-08:002016-02-01T14:17:29.536-08:00Differentiated Morning Work<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've taken a vacation... or rather it was gifted to me. Here in Northern Virginia we just had a second winter break thanks to Snowzilla. Today was my first day back (on a 2 hour delay) since Thursday, January 21st. It was great to spend some time at home with my little lady and husband and watch the beautiful three feet of snow fall. It was also nice to get back into the swing of things today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I started differentiated morning work for the first time. I found that some of my higher kids were flying through their morning work, while some others were struggling to finish each morning. I created three different morning work packs and the kids did a GREAT job with it today... especially considering they've been out of school for 10 days!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For my higher readers, I challenged them with what basically was my morning work when I taught first grade. They will have a daily writing prompt. They did a really nice job with it... and loved being "challenged."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For most of my kids, I stuck to the basic morning work. In January, they worked on identifying the days and filling in a closed sentence. This month, I added some decoding and math. I was very impressed that they were all able to sound out pig... when I know if they came across it in a book, they wouldn't try. I hope daily decoding practice of CVC words will help in their general reading. Following the directions in the last part about coloring 17 red circles was the hardest. Most of them did a great job using their classroom resources to figure out the word "red" and "circle."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, for some of my kiddos I gave them the same work, but filled in some of the days to help them get started independently. For a few of them, they still struggle with the days and have lost confidence by needing my help everyday. I am happy to say they did it all by themselves today and I hope to build on that independence with their March morning work... one step at a time..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hadn't put any of my kindergarten morning work in my TPT store because I feel like there are so many wonderful choices out there, but this one is in there because of the leveled options! I hope you can use it in your classroom!</span></div>
Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-35964805892675078302016-01-14T14:47:00.003-08:002016-01-14T14:47:33.270-08:00Illiterate happy kindergarteners in Finland<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKi6hgijZVAa1xjPsg5Jxe0k3eQfGJthZ_4TTLjJqHqCO6_SqZH3WGp8ftIzMIXRr8gSORR3XrvBB09gZTTV1NOChMyk7CEYGEYBmzP199exj8tGUkNJrKraA2Ej0XBdOdUqJPATxMCB0/s640/blogger-image--1311842585.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Well so much for my New Year's Resolution to blog every day... but a few times a week is better than nothing I suppose! Before I do my review of the day, I just wanted to mention a lot of my inspiration for the week. Over the weekend, I read an article titled... the Joyful Illiterate Kindergarteners of Finland. It is about how kindergarteners have fun and learn to play and academics are not pushed as much. It made me really reflect on my classroom. I only teach half day kindergarten so they are only with me for 3 hours and there is a lot of stuff I NEED to cram into the day... and not much time for things I WANT to do. I tried adding a few things this week to try to add more fun into the day! Here is my review of today... er I guess week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* In an attempt to create more time for creativity and exploration, I opened up the Creation Station yesterday. Its now an extra on my Daily Five rotation and as of now, students can visit it once a week (I choose the day to make sure they get everything else in). The kids LOVED it. I actually had a student in tears this morning because she wasn't assigned to go to until next Tuesday :( I simply put a bunch of craft supplies over there and told them the only rule was to clean it up when they were done. They have created so many different things... you can see the kiddo today made his house out of popsicle sticks :) I think this is going to be a keeper for the rest of the year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* Another way to increase fun in the classroom is I am finally implementing Go Noodle. I had seen so many bloggers/instagrammers talk about it in the past, but never actually looked it up. We are using it for transitions. I was tired of timers and countdowns so when it's time to transition to the carpet, I put up a 2-3 minutes video and the kids get cleaned up and to the carpet FAST! Its also nice for me to get a little more exercise in during the day :) Will keep you posted if the novelty wears off... but I doubt it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* Yesterday I asked my kids what they knew about Dr. King.... crickets. I'm use to teaching first grade and they come in know something about him. This was honestly my first opportunity to teach them something that no one had a clue about or any prior knowledge. Its hard to get all of the facts across to five year olds, but we focused on Dr. King wanting to make the world a better place and one of the ways he did so was by giving a speech to encourage people to be fair and nice to each other. The kiddos drew a picture of their "dream" for the world and then I took a picture of them "thinking" to put at the bottom. I'll post a picture tomorrow of the final product! They really want a world where people are nice to each other!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* Last week, I mentioned our Skittles Science experiment and how the students used their science minds to question what would happen if we did the same thing to M&Ms. I took it a step further and bought a few different types of candy at the store today to put in water to see what happens to the color. Tomorrow we will test sweet tarts, M&Ms and gobstoppers (I'm very curious about these!) I'll post pics of our results!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">* We've been working really hard on letter writing, but its been a slooooow process as I only have time for Writers' Workshop 3 times a week... for 20 minutes. Tomorrow we will finish our first "guided" letter and then after that they will be able to write more letters at their own pace. I am excited for them to "mail" their first letter to a classroom friend tomorrow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am in the middle of mid-year DRA testing. When I asked a student his favorite book today he told me The Bible. He then told me about why he likes it and that he knows God loves us and will one day give us a mansion. Adorable and so heartwarming that he chose this book!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My goal is to do a Five for Friday tomorrow! Happy Almost 3-Day Weekend!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Article about Finland: </span>http://taughtbyfinland.com/the-joyful-illiterate-kindergartners-of-finland/</div>
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-31548771419368600562016-01-10T18:09:00.001-08:002016-01-10T18:09:17.614-08:00Five for Friday - Sunday Edition<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I didn't blog on Thursday... or Friday... or Saturday (but technically that wasn't part of my goal) so here I am on Sunday trying to get in on the Five for Friday action. Thanks for letting me link up <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2016/01/five-for-friday-linky-party-january-8th.html" target="_blank">Doodle Bugs Teaching</a>! Here are 5 things from my week,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to do something for New Years, but with everything else I wanted to do and us only being half day, I had to do something quick. This only took about 10 minutes. They decorated their hat and then I glued it on their head. It makes for some cute decor in our room and they love seeing themselves up on the wall.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was so worried that after break my kids would come back and not remember our routines. After some refresher conversation, I told them I was going to try to catch them doing what they are suppose to do and if I saw a great example, I would snap their picture for our Daily Five wall. This kiddo was really enjoying a new January book in our Listen to Reading center and was thrilled to be a "good example." for our wall! Easy peasy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Weekly Science Experiment: Skittles!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We dissolved candy canes before break so bringing out the skittles for our weekly experiment was fun. A lot of them thought the skittles would disappear. Maybe if we had left them longer they would have? We did enjoy watching how quickly their color disappeared. They enjoyed mixing the water too with the different colors. This was a very easy experiment to do, but I head a LOT of scientific talk. My kids noticed that the primary color when all the colors blended was orange. We got to talk about the orange skittle, but also how the red and yellow skittle made the orange color. They also created my follow up science experiment for next week. They were curious what would happen with M&Ms. I'm a bit curious now too since they have chocolate in the middle. Next Friday I plan on bringing in a bunch of different colored candies to try... maybe gobstoppers, skittles again M&Ms, jellybeans... any other ideas? I'll tell you how it goes! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Science experiments have been so easy this year because I spent the summer prepping for the year with my TPT product.. <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/A-Year-of-Science-Experiments-1990647" target="_blank">A Year of Science Experiments.</a> Every week, there is a question, materials, procedure, hypothesis page, etc. already done to follow along with. It has made my life super easy! There are printables to go along with each experiment as well, but that would be a lot for my kiddos right now in the time table I have to get experiments done. Doing weekly experiments has been great as far as teaching vocabulary since they are exposed to it all year long!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since this is my first year in kindergarten, I am getting use to not having desks. I didn't want them to have an unfinished work folder that they always forgot about so I just have them put anything that is unfinished right here where they can see it. It's also a quick way for me to see who hasn't done specific assignments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Rainbow Words</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I blogged about rainbow words earlier this week! You can check that out. Here is where I keep track of who knows what lists. Three out of 18 of my kids already know how to read all 18 lists of words. One student already knows how to write them all too! Wow! This is great to motivate them to learn those sight words at their own pace!</span><br />
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-80004350920494944842016-01-06T15:03:00.001-08:002016-01-06T15:03:26.869-08:00Day 3<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I honestly cannot believe I am here blogging for the third day in a row. I think I have a nice system set up. I am always close to my 10,000 step goal at the end of the day so from now on, I take my laptop and sit it on the treadmill and walk those last few steps as I blog.... two resolutions done! Here's my hump day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. My kids always impress me with their ability to take things to the next level. My first graders did this last year, but I was so surprised to see my kinders do it this year. Every morning we draw tens and ones for how many days we have been in school. Some kids have gone back and written the numbers in their drawings. We call it "stretching the brain."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. During reading groups, I try to encourage the students to use our strategies. I always ask at the end, which word did they have to use a strategy to figure out. They never remember! I took out some highlighter tape today and gave them each a piece to put on the word when they figured it out. That helped them remember which strategy to share at the end. Right now, we are just working on Lips the Fish and Eagle Eye for most of my reading groups.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. We started our telling time centers today! The kids loved the centers I had for the day. For this rotation, they get to spend one center on the computer, one center playing Memory, one center playing Bazinga, one center with Time Bingo, one center playing a Board game and one center with me where they work on a true/false activity. I pulled all of these games from my first grade unit on telling time and just took out the quarter hours! We had a good time! Bazinga is my favorite (an ode to The Big Bang Theory). This is where they pull out a card and have to read the time. If they can read it, they keep the card and the first kid who has 10 cards wins. If they pull out a card that says BAZINGA, they have to put all of their cards back in... womp, womp, womp. Here is a link to my TPT unit... 2 weeks or mini lessons, games and an assessment. Make sure you use a Promethean Board though because it is Active Inspire!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Tomorrow I have Guidance... which means I have a thirty minute planning block. I don't get much planning, so I am excited about this! I want to re-vamp some centers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Tomorrow we will draw things we need vs. things we want. I think they have a handle on it, but sometimes its interesting what kids think they "need."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. A student gave me a picture of a Christmas Tree... so "I could celebrate a little longer."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Day 2... and here I am blogging again. Unfortunately, I forgot to snap the pictures I wanted to take today before I left my classroom. Maybe tomorrow my entry will be more visually stimulating! Here is my day in 3... 2... 1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. During our Morning Meeting time, I play the Fifty Nifty United States son (which I learned in first grade). We've only been doing it since December 1st, but some of my girls can sing all of the states! I credit my first grade teacher, Mrs. Conroy, for knowing all of my states and it infuriates me when people can't name all 50 states.... have you seen that Friends episode? So, you're welcome students, future adults, for teaching you your 50 states.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. We did a spur of the moment math project today because our hallway bulletin board looked a bit bare. We made hot chocolate mugs and put "marshmallows" in. They created two sets of them and then added them together. It ended up very cute and they followed directions really well. (pics posted tomorrow!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am no longer teaching first grade. I had a beautiful baby girl, Julianna, in May and was offered a part time kindergarten position at a school less than a mile from my house! To get into this school, I decided to give kindergarten a try and go part-time for the year. I LOVE kindergarten and am enjoying every day! I do miss first grade though... so if ever presented with the opportunity to choose between the two, it would be tough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though I am part time, my afternoons are spent playing with Julianna. I had fully intended to make TPT products and blog, but that just wasn't happening. I am still going to work hard to add some products to my store, but for now, I'll blog. Every day I am going to share my 3, 2, 1. You will get:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. My kids were much more awake than I anticipated this morning and super excited to be back at school.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. I changed the morning work and made it more challenging, where they had to write the days for yesterday, today and tomorrow... they rose to the challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Tomorrow we are starting out math centers for telling time. I love teaching telling time and I hope they enjoy some of the fun games I have made. I will post a picture of them playing the games tomorrow and provide a link to where you can buy it online!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Tomorrow, we are going to start comparing needs and wants. We briefly discussed it today with a fabulous book: <i>Flakey the Naked Snowman</i>. It is about a snowman who doesn't have any clothes because he gave the all to people who needed it more! If you haven't read it, I suggest giving it a go!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 1. Two of my kids came into today, who I have been working hard with on their handwriting... and were rocking the handwriting! They were writing so small and neatly and were so proud of themselves! It was a great start to the new year!</span></div>
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-56215946240582685502014-09-02T02:50:00.002-07:002014-09-02T02:50:56.975-07:00September Currently<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good Morning! I am linking up with <a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/frame?post=3349559497&group=0&frame_type=a&blog=7808827&frame=1&click=0&user=0" target="_blank">Farley</a> for September's Currently! Here it goes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is the first day of school today. I am up, enjoying my coffee and my husband is downstairs watching Seinfeld, maybe a first day of school pick me up? Normally he isn't up this early, but I think the excitement of the day has us both up and running before the sun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though this is my seventh year teaching, I still couldn't sleep last night and the anticipation of the first day is killing me. I hope we get to do everything I have planned for the day and it all goes smoothly. As long as they all make it on the correct bus to get home, I will be happy! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though I am wide awake, another hour of sleep wouldn't hurt. I have a feeling an early bed time will be up for tonight!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The three trips section was fun :) I love to travel! We spent our summer in Alaska and Southeast Asia. I have yet to make it to Hawaii. It is one of the 3 states I have left to visit and we will probably save it for last. I've always wanted to go to South Africa and New Zealand as well!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy first day of school to all of you guys starting today and have a great September! I am ready for some football and fall weather :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1kdS1e3izp_1PFVTylwbff9XM33Ji7YDZsuCLreqcLPhrQbi6PYEYcTMfxdNFI-mTujlLNY7RMwPfSRjMWTabXFdxgX0Bk0BRWWG00M_EQRslqaKu-R_Aolq5_AKrDW35HXknik9XnXw/s640/blogger-image-1337623517.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Here is my big reveal this year! This year I decided to do an ocean theme. It was really fun to put it all together. I wish I could claim all originality, but this wouldn't be possible without Pinterest! I don't know what I did before without it :) Here is where my 22 kiddos will come each day this year :) I am so excited!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And was transformed to this in only a week and a half!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am trying out Class Dojo this year! Has anyone had any success using it? Any pointers? I think it will be much more manageable than my old behavior management and I am excited to introduce it to the kids tomorrow. We are going to color in avatars and create speech bubbles for them with classroom rules.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love the birthday board. Last year, I did the same thing with super heroes, but NEVER put their pictures in as the faces! This year that is number one on my list - take their pictures to go in each boat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The crabs in the tens frame are so cute!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I broke up my board this year by subjects. We have a lot more that needs to go into lesson plans this year so I am hoping to incorporate them in each section. For example, in addition to learning targets, we need to add vocabulary. These will kind of serve as Anchor Charts, but on the board. I hope I can keep up with it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This will be the Word Work area. I am also trying Daily Five this year. I always had about 9 centers for kids to go to, but this year I have consolidated them into the Daily Five. I am excited to try this. I hope it results with me working smarter and not harder.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A tank of writing ideas! I can't wait to introduce all of these fun writing projects to my kiddos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our word wall!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not really classroom decor, but for open house/bts night every year, I always have my parents/students sort their supplies. This year I even had them put what they needed to keep in their desk away. This saved me so much time. Next year, I am adding a step though - unwrapping everything! Do you know how long it takes to take all of the glue sticks out of their packaging? I hope the parents won't mind doing that themselves next year :)</span></div>
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-61226275128555308192014-08-12T13:33:00.000-07:002014-08-12T13:33:02.696-07:00I'm Back!!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This blog has been severely neglected! I haven't posted since January, but I hope to contribute to my blog a lot more this year! A couple of major things have happened since my last blog entry:</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. We moved to a great new home!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What do both of these things have in common?? $$Money$$ To make both of these things happen I tutored non-stop last year and had absolutely no time to add to TPT or to blog, but now that everything is under control, I have cut back and am ready to enter the blogging world again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't have anything to say about school just yet. We don't start until after Labor Day and aren't required to head back until the 20th. I do plan on heading in later this week to start my set up :) This year I am doing an ocean theme! Last year, I did a super hero theme, which I loved. In honor of my renewed adventure in blogging, I am giving away all of my super hero themed decor FREE in my TPT Store! </span></div>
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-71219985646820487232014-01-27T15:51:00.001-08:002014-01-27T15:51:28.336-08:00Our Daily Routine, Continued: Daily Journal<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Do you do a daily journal? This is one thing I started my first year teaching and I cannot let go of it. I really think in the long run, it helps my kiddos with their writing. Every year prior to this one, their journal was their morning work. This was great for my kids that arrived on time, but all of my stragglers were always behind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year, I decided to do the daily journal at the beginning of our Center Time (which is about an hour). It takes the students about 15 minutes to complete this, but this way when they are done, they can go straight into their literacy activities. My kids like their journals and work really hard in them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How do I motivate them? I choose an Author of the Day daily. I pull three random journals each day at the end of our literacy block. These students read their journal and then I decide who wrote most like an author (included interesting detail, spoke clearly, answered the prompt, etc.) The student I choose for Author of the Day gets to display their work on the board and use my smelly pencils (nothing fancy and very manageable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I do not correct their journals or even look at them on a daily basis. At the end of the month, I flip through them and look for the first grade standards. I write a quick note on what they do well and their goal for next month to improve their writing. The one great thing about the journal instead of daily work, is I copy it once a month and I don't have to send it home until the end of the month.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/First-Grade-February-Daily-Journal-1061809" target="_blank">My February Journal</a> is now available in my TPT store. It features primary lines, daily writing prompts and a place for illustrations.</span><br />
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<br />Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-7215612120527967622014-01-15T10:46:00.000-08:002014-01-15T10:46:08.775-08:00Word Study Break Down<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Continuing in my attempt to post about my daily routines, I figured I would go in order. Every day after <a href="http://threecheersforfirstgrade.blogspot.com/2014/01/morning-meetings-de-constructed.html" target="_blank">Morning Meeting</a> we do word study. I have an extensive amount of word study resources, but I have finally figured out a way of managing it. Below you will see four different boxes (CHEAP from IKEA!) They are labeled with each of my four different groups. On Monday, they have to go to their box and cut our their words for the week. They keep them in a plastic bag in their desk to sort each day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Every Monday, I meet with every word study group for about ten minutes. We do the sort that is part of each of my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/A-Year-of-Word-Study-Activities-Part-1-824136" target="_blank">Word Study Units</a> where they sort on pictures. I cut out the words for each unit (and laminate them for further use) and together we talk about the words and put it on the correct picture. Before they leave my table, they have to do the sort with their own words and read the words to me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After Monday, I put the leveled games into the different boxes. Students can choose to play whatever game they want during our word study time. To make my life easier, I created game bags for each game with all of the required pieces. Students simply grab the game from their box and the bag with the pieces, play it and then return it to the box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Friday, I give each word study group a test. It may seem a bit daunting to give 4 different word study tests, but I simply put each of the groups at different tables and walk around and give the different words to the different groups. They must write the words in the correct sort and write them all correctly. If they do this, they get a super speller award, which they LOVE!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope this has helped your word study. I love word study and think it is so helpful for the kids to learn their spelling patterns!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy New Year! One of my New Year's Resolutions was to blog at least twice a week! Well, week 1 passed with no blogging, but in my defense we haven't been in school! We enjoyed 1 day back after break and then a snow day, ice day and cold day. We seem to be back into the swing of things now so here I am blogging! I thought I would start by blogging about different parts of our day in first grade. We start every morning exactly the same, with morning meeting! Do you do morning meetings? Here is a screen shot from each part of our morning meeting. It takes about 30 minutes, but it is a great way (I think) to start off every day. It will be available for FREE in my TPT store by the end of the day for anybody with a Promethean Board :) I will also add the other months as I make them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. This is up when they arrive in the morning as just a friendly reminder of what they need to do :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Every morning I write them a morning message. There is normally some sort of seasonal character in the corner telling them how many mistakes there are. After we read the letter together, the students help me correct it with editing marks. This is just a quick way of reinforcing writing skills.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. How many days have we been in school? We keep track on this hundreds chart (there will be two hundreds charts after the 100th day of school). The students must tell me if the number is odd or even and then they choose a snowflake. Behind each snowflake is some sort of counting skill (counting by 1's, 2's, 5's, 10's, backwards and creating number sentences).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. My students bring over dry erase boards to morning meeting. When we get to this slide, they have to make on their board the amount of money for days we have been in school. They simply draw it using P for penny, Q for quarter, D for dime and N for nickel. I walk around and when I see someone has done it correctly, they can then go drag the coins into the piggy bank. We count it together. After that, they write the amount in two ways.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Again, on their boards they draw todays number with hundreds, tens and ones. Then I choose someone to make it on the board. We then count it together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. I guess the whole purpose of morning meeting is the calendar. We write the date and then add it to the calendar. Students can also create a pattern in our calendar with the pictures I provide. They then fill in the days for yesterday, today and tomorrow. We sing the days of the week song every day and the months of the year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. Everyday, I have a "meteorologist" check out the weather for our weather graph. We keep track of it here and discuss the pictograph everyday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. This is my favorite slide every morning. We just started this one (before we were doing the fifty nifty United States song). I learned all 50 states in first grade and I feel its a good time to teach it. If they do 5 minutes of practice/day, they learn it slowly. This will be the slide for the rest of the year. We listen to the Animaniacs States/Capitals song and then we choose a part of the United States to label. We simply drag the names of the state out of the hats and put them on the map. The kids love this and its a quick and easy way to get in a little geography practice. I think everyone should be able to name every state and capital and know where it is on the map!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9. We do 5 sight words of the week each week. I put them in here and then each day they choose a different hat (each with an activity under them). Some of the activities are back spelling, disco dance, stomp the word, etc. They also write these on their white boards.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10. We do a word family of the week. On the first day of the week, we brainstorm together words that are in this word family. After that, they are in charge of writing as many words in this word family on their white board. After I give them about 2 minutes, I ask for the words they wrote and we put them on the board together… this way they are writing them too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">11. We have a poem of the week each week that they keep in their poetry notebook. We do different things with these poems. We read them for fluency, but then they also write the sight words in them, talk about definitions of words, etc. We spend about 4 minutes talking about and practicing the weekly poem each day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">12. My school does Answer of the Day which is a great assessment tool. I write a different answer each day (normally something we are studying) and they have to come up with a question for that answer. For example for this one a question would be "what is the first month of the year?"</span></div>
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<br />Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-25970778455900038242013-11-15T13:36:00.000-08:002013-11-15T13:37:39.746-08:00Five for Friday!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Quickly checking in for the weekly <a href="http://www.doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2013/11/five-for-friday-linky-party-november.html" target="_blank">Five for Friday,</a> seems to be the only day I am committed to blogging :) Here it is!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, I am very excited to be offering my Thanksgiving Math Pack for FREE, yes, I said FREE in my TPT Shop. The only thing that I ask if you download it, is please rate me. I would love to know how I am doing and if my products are useful. You can check it out <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanksgiving-Math-Pack-977841" target="_blank">HERE</a>. The Literacy Pack is available for $3.00 too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My kids are loving our realistic fiction unit. Since this is only year 2 of fully implementing Lucy Caulkins' Writers' Workshop, I had not taught Realistic Fiction before. I had a lot of fun creating my 2 week unit for this. The kids created characters and plots this week. Most of them began writing. I can't wait to see how they turn out. The Unit is also available in my TPT store.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My kids rocked the fractions test today! I am so glad because I feel like this is SUCH a hard concept to teach. Check out the centers I used at my <a href="http://threecheersforfirstgrade.blogspot.com/2013/11/fraction-action.html" target="_blank">Fraction Post</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This Bingo Board is really helping with homework completion. It's simple. Whenever the child does all their homework (reading and word study), they get to put their name on the Bingo Board. Then, I simply pull a number on Friday for a winner. They like it, I am hoping the Novelty doesn't wear off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is our re-telling road! The kids love when I pull it out. Right now, they walk down with a buddy so they can retell the whole thing. One day, we will shift to walking down alone.</span></div>
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-22926029450183799732013-11-08T13:22:00.003-08:002013-11-08T13:22:58.960-08:00Five for Friday!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What a quick week! Here's a quick recap to link up with <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2013/11/five-for-friday-linky-party-november-8th.html" target="_blank">Doodle Bugs</a> for Five for Friday! Here we go:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The most exciting thing that happened is that we got beautiful hardwood floors installed! We bought the wood in August with the intentions of doing it ourselves, which we totally would have had we been able to nail it! Since it was a concrete base, we had to glue it and that made us really nervous so we spent the money (well worth it!) to have the floors done in a day! I LOVE them!!! Now we just need area rugs :) We have also noticed that it is actually warmer with the floors than the carpets, who knew?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was parent/teacher conference week! We had Monday and Tuesday to meet with parents/get report cards done/work in our classrooms/do a million other things (you know how it is!) I always like meeting with parents, even for just a brief time because it reinforces the kids are learning and still excited about school. The other good thing about parent conferences is report cards are done :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We did a great Veterans' Day activity this week too. I found a super cute craft on pinterest (but just tried to locate the source and it just links to a jpg so if its yours, THANK YOU! We wrote to soldiers and I am sending out the package this weekend. I thought it was a meaningful way to learn about the Day as well as cheer up our troops. To any service members who are reading this, Thank You!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I LOVE to travel. It helps that my husband is a teacher and also loves to travel so we get to spend or summers on the road. Anyway, I love bringing this into my classroom so every Friday is "Travel Friday." Today we went to Hungary, which is the country my husband taught in for a year as an international teacher. My kids get SO excited to "fly" to a new country every week. We fly in our airplanes, learn the language, see the sights, and do different activities. It is so fun. If I can get my act together, I hope to share more about it on the blog :) I'll keep you posted! Next week we are off to Peru!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few things to be excited for this week/next week! First, tonight my husband and I are celebrating our first anniversary (a week early!). We are spending the night in the city (DC) to see John Oliver. I am so excited. I wish he would hurry up and get home. I am also excited because this magical picture showed up in the forecast for Wednesday: </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Apparently we may be in for a snowstorm!! Last year if this had happened I would have had a minor meltdown because I wanted my wedding outside and snow was not an option... This year, I say BRING IT ON!</span></div>
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<br />Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-61930137392261395072013-11-06T17:50:00.003-08:002013-11-06T17:50:42.132-08:00Fraction Action<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was browsing bloglovin and saw a couple posts about Workshop Wednesday. I am excited to link up with <a href="http://ideasbyjivey.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ideas By Jivey</a> for the first time... and it worked so well because I just finished my Fractions unit, which is this week's theme :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The county switched our curriculum around this year and we are knee deep in fractions right now! I am always so intimidated by fractions before I start... so many big words, numerators, denominators, fractions of a whole, fractions of a set... lots to teach! However, today, as I met with my kids during week two of fractions I noticed they have it! They picked it up pretty quickly and I am hoping its because we've been busy bees playing games in my new fraction unit! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My Fractions Unit is three weeks. We started with a pre-assessment. In week one, we focused solely on fractions of a whole. Here are a few screenshots from week one games:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Week Two, we are moving onto fractions of a set. They are understanding the link between fractions of a whole and fractions of a set. Many of the games are the same for week two, but fractions of a set. Here are some other ones:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In week three, we put it all together with a mixture of activities! My favorite activity is Mystery Fractions. Here, they get a fraction piece and they need to trace it in the circle to see how many times they can trace it to figure out the fraction. It's fun for problem solving.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These games have worked out really well in my class. You can purchase them in my TPT Store. If you have a promethean board, buy <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/3-Week-Fractions-Unit-with-Games-963287" target="_blank">this pack</a> because in addition to the games, you have a daily mini lesson as well as daily number talks. If you don't have a promethean board, you can buy the <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fraction-Game-Pack-963376" target="_blank">PDF version</a> and put the games in your centers.</span><br />
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Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-28159065531402326782013-10-19T09:43:00.001-07:002013-10-19T09:43:16.250-07:00Five for Fraturday!<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ah! Another week where I didn't get to post until Saturday! Maybe next week will be my week to come back to the blogging world more regularly :) Here I am though to link up to <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com.au/2013/10/five-for-friday-linky-party-october-18th.html" target="_blank">Doodle Bugs</a> Five for Friday!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My old teammate from my old school sent me this picture this morning... made my week! I had this little one 3 years ago and left the school 2 years ago and I still made it as her hero :) This is why we teach :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My kids are doing an awesome job with our start of our small moments unit! They really are latching on to the idea of finding a tiny moment and then stretching it out! This is the first year the kids haven't struggled with the concept... maybe because everyday I look like a goober emphasizing the ideas of STRETCHING it out :) I will try to take some pictures of the kids progress next week so you can see how awesome they are at writing already :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a full moon this week, which explains my kids behavior on Thursday. I couldn't understand how they had been so perfect on Wednesday during math centers and Thursday it looked like we had never done math centers before! Then I noticed the full moon and ahhh, it clicked. Does any one else feel the curse of the full moon in their classroom? Fortunately, by Friday they were back to their perfect little selves :) I love my class this year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Speaking of my class, I have a couple changes this week. One of my little ones is moving :( I am so sad about this because he is such a hard worker and I was really looking forward to seeing his growth this year! Hopefully he will continue to achieve in his new school. I also got a new student who doesn't speak any English. I have had my ELL students before, but never one with no English. I know that at this age, he will pick it up quickly and I have already seen this... any tips of the trade for helping him out as much as I can?</span></div>
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<br />Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-1834799383642264152013-10-13T12:15:00.001-07:002013-10-13T12:15:09.138-07:00Small Moments Writing Unit<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love fall Sundays... I love sitting and watching football and creating things for my classroom. Today I have finished my small moments unit! Yes! Writers' Workshop is planned for 3 weeks!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My kids have really settled nicely into the Writers' Workshop routine this year. They actually love this writing time and are trying their best during the whole 45 minute block. I can't wait to start Small Moments with them. I find small moments a bit challenging because the kids have a hard time focusing on ONE small moment, but we will work hard on it! Below are some screen shots of my small moments unit, which is now available in my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Small-Moments-Three-Weeks-Writers-Workshop-Unit-924768" target="_blank">TPT store</a> for the Promethean Board. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Everyday I have a quick mini lesson (which are broken down by day with teacher notes in the flipchart). My mini lessons focus on adding details and how to write a good story. Then my students write for about 30 minutes before we share at the end of the block.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How do you run writers' workshop?</span>Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-31943434315874995672013-10-11T12:24:00.004-07:002013-10-11T13:16:02.990-07:00Five for Friday 10/11<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things are finally getting into a routine at school so hopefully I will have more time to blog, but for now here is my five for Friday! I love linking up to <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Doodle Bugs</a> for their weekly linky party! It has been quite a week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, the past two weeks haven't been the easiest. My grandmother, Nanny, fell last Tuesday and we have been on hospital watch since then, knowing that she wouldn't recover :( She passed away to join her husband and daughter last Saturday night. This week we were able to celebrate her life surrounded by friends and families. I wanted to share this photo of her at my wedding last year. How lucky I was to have her at our wedding, but I wish she had just smiled at the camera! We tried so many times and she kept turning around to talk :) She will truly be missed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am loving math this year... as I feel like I have mentioned before. Below are a few pictures of my kiddos at math centers:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At this center, the are playing "guess the number" This was a great activity to help them describe the numbers!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This activity had them cut out different formats of numbers and decide if they were odd an even. I had a cheat sheet for them to refer to, but they did a great job!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the game Abracadabra! They need to roll two dice and add them together. They then remove a marker off their board that is in the column of that sum. The first person to make their board disappear wins!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a fun fall activity. They simply roll the dice, add them together and the color in the fall item.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of these math centers, plus two more weeks of centers are available in my TPT store. It is my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Three-Week-Number-Sense-Unit-913736" target="_blank">Number Sense Unit</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I took today off to recover from the week's events and happened to have time to finally put my sight word units up on TPT. I have been using them in my classroom and they have been ready, but I hadn't finalized them for sharing. You can check out my whole <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/First-Grade-Sight-Word-Pack-921555" target="_blank">sight word unit </a>at my store, but you can also see there are 18 smaller units.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Who watches Homeland? That is the highlight of my week right now! I love that show! We also just found Brooklyn nine-nine with Andy Samburg. If you need a good laugh, check it out :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-88655755451260601702013-09-27T14:02:00.000-07:002013-09-27T14:02:00.407-07:00Five for Friday<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well another week went by where I FAILED to update this blog! Six hours of tutoring and the loss of an hour of planning time this year is really taking its toll on my blogging. Maybe October will be my month! Here is my Five for Friday with <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Doodle Bugs</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Even though I am not blogging about it, there are some great things happening in first grade:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of my word study work for the summer is really paying off. My kids love the word study choices this year! Here are some snap shots of each of the games I have for each word study sort:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Weekly Science Experiments</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This year I am trying to do a science project on a weekly basis to try to implant the scientific process into them a little bit at a time. These are super simple science projects, but we go through the process and ask questions, make hypotheses, make observations and record results. The kids are loving it! I am happy that I have actually stuck with it this year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Test 1 is done, Test 2 starts next week.... Is there anyone else out there who just wants to start teaching reading? Its so hard with all of these tests. My goal is to get it ALL done this coming week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Kevin Henkes</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We just finished up our Author Study for Kevin Henkes. My kids loved everything about him and I am amazed at how much they retained about this awesome author. I am also really proud of my kiddos for using comprehension strategies already with my daily read alouds. I have a rock star class this year!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A non-teaching thing. Anyone else's team 0-3 this year? My poor Redskins just can't get it together! I am hoping for a W this week! Go Skins!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have a great weekend everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have always loved the routine of our morning literacy block and started the second half of the year last year trying to duplicate it for math. I HAVE IT DOWN! I am obsessed with my math block because it runs so smoothly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We have a one hour block for math which starts out with Problem of the Day. Each day, we work on a math problem that was given to us by the math department. This is a nice start to get us focused on the math time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the problem of the day, we do a quick mini lesson. Here is a screen shot from a pattern/sorting unit:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We end our math time with Number Talks. I have to be honest, when we were told we had to add number talks to our daily math routine I was feeling a bit overwhelmed, but I LOVE them. For the past two weeks, we have just been working on identifying numbers in ten frames:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We finished our patterns/sorting unit this week. I have posted the entire unit, including mini lessons, assessments, center printables, number talks and guides on TPT. It has everything you need for a 10 day pattern unit including 12 centers. Enjoy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love my class this year. I am blessed to only have 16 kiddos and they have a great personality! They are hard workers and are really trying their best :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fall weather has arrived in Northern Virginia. I am loving the pumpkin spice lattes and boots weather! Since we have had such a mild summer the leaves are already changing too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love to travel and bring that into my classroom. This week we went to Spain! We made castanets too. I have a lot of ELL students in my class so they were thrilled to share their spanish with the other students. When we travel on Fridays, we pretend to fly to the country and then we talk about what we can see, hear, taste, smell and touch in that country. We talk about landmarks, food and fun activities. They really enjoyed Spain, even though our visit was cut short because of the weekly fire drill!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On Monday one of my best friends came to town from California. I was so excited to have her and her hubby and 10 month old baby spend the evening with us. It was so fun to have a baby around and to catch up with her :) It was a great way to start out the week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have two things. At the beginning of this year, we watched this clip:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also came across this on facebook this past week. I know it has been circulating so you may have seen it already, but really puts things into perspective:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Happy Monday! I hope to not neglect this blog this week - there are lots of fun things going on in my classroom I want to share!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Annie</span>Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-21534086073493440542013-09-04T02:35:00.002-07:002013-09-04T02:35:57.241-07:00First Day Jitters<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday was my first day.... and I still had first day jitters! I would have thought by year 6, those would be gone, but I did read a fellow teacher's facebook status that said the same thing. She had decided that getting first day jitters is a good thing because it means we are still excited about teaching. I will have to agree.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But back to those first day jitters.... I love that book, but alas didn't have time to read it to the kids! Anyone else overplan for the first day? Like didn't get to half of the things they wanted to? Guilty!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had so much I wanted to do yesterday, but we didn't quite make it. I reflected on Day 1 last night and decided I still did too much. Today I want to slow down and really make sure those procedures and rules are in order.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My biggest success for yesterday? Getting the kids on the right bus! This is my biggest fear every year, but they all made it where they needed to go at the end of the day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also found my math time to be extremely productive, although... again, didn't get to everything! This week I am implementing full math time procedures. Our county is implementing Problem of the Day, which is great! We are also implementing number talks. I really wanted to get our math procedure down this week so we started with our problem of the day and then rotated through three centers (just playing with our math tools this week) and then finished with number talks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think I have math planning down to a science this year and I am thrilled. I make a flipchart for each unit. In the flipchart, I have the daily problem of the day, a whole class mini lesson, the centers for that day and the number talks lesson. This way, the whole unit is done and I can adjust year after year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I need to start getting ready to head back for Day 2....</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Annie</span>Anniehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13699836639496654283noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6319277292605936955.post-67868363673849658822013-09-02T10:52:00.004-07:002013-09-02T10:52:46.886-07:00September Currently<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am doing two blog posts today so I can link up to Farley over that <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2013/09/currently-september.html?showComment=1378143498088#c8186702188329621064" target="_blank">Oh Boy 4th Grade</a> for her monthly currently! Two blog posts should get me out of my blogging slump and ready for the school year right?! Well here it is!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Listening: My husband never gives himself a chance to relax and has been working really hard to get ready for school. He is a high school social science teacher and is great at what he does. I am pleased he is sitting enjoying some relaxation and video games before day 1.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Loving: We spent the morning cleaning the house from top to bottom! It is so much more calming to have a spotless house to get some work done :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thinking: Tomorrow is the first day of school. I got to meet a lot of my kiddos last week and I think it will be a great year... but those first day jitters never go away, do they? I would have thought by my 6th year I would be comfortable on the first day of school, but you never know what could happen! I am hoping for a smooth day tomorrow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wanting: I have cleaned the house today... and wrote about my classroom on my blog... but that's it. I need to do some prep work for tomorrow, but keep finding things to put it off... I want some motivation!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Needing: Fall! I love Fall weather... its so humid right now in Virginia! The first sign of fall comes this week (unless you knew the secret code to tell the barista at Starbucks to get an early one)... a pumpkin spice latte! I can't wait for my weekly treat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me: We have been traveling and in and out so much this summer it has been hard to cook every day. Now that school is back and we have a routine, I am looking forward to home cooked meals! When school starts, we are super busy so I am hoping to get in at least 2 legit date nights this month. I would also like to getaway for a weekend! Last fall we were busy planning and prepping for our wedding... this fall, I am looking forward to enjoying more of the season (not that our wedding wasn't enjoyable, just busy!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">See you next month!!</span></div>
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