tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26100885825871770522024-03-18T20:38:23.600-07:00Southern Sweetie in Secondjodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-36321480103295676582012-12-05T18:21:00.002-08:002012-12-05T18:21:33.686-08:00Spreading Christmas Cheer!This year, in lieu of a traditional Christmas gift exchange between students (giftcards, books, secret santa, dirty santa, etc) We are going to be giving gifts to people around our school who might not otherwise be recognized. Each second grade class is giving gifts to a different set of people such as: related arts teachers, grade-level assistants, special education assistants, cafeteria staff, office staff, janitors, and bus drivers. For one week, we will recognize these people by giving them a small gift every day. Instead of buying gifts, students were asked to bring in supplies for these gifts. Here is the list of gifts we are giving this year:<br />
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Monday: *a bag of Hershey Kisses (We wish you a Merry Kissmas!)<br />
Tuesday: * a bag of popcorn and a coke (Popping in to wish you a Merry Christmas!)<br />
Wednesday: * Hot Chocolate (Warm Wishes for a Merry Christmas!)<br />
Thursday: * A single serving pack of Crystal Light Lemonade and a bottle of water <br />
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My class is giving gifts to the bus drivers. Each day a group of 5 or so students will get to deliver the gifts to the bus drivers. I am so excited about doing this! When doing gift exchanges students often get upset because they do not get the gift they wanted, or get something they already have. This way all students get to GIVE a gift and no one will be upset about what they GET!<br />
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I have posted Christmas Gift Exchange Tags on my TPT store for FREE! If you like this idea and want to do this in your classroom Please feel free to use my tags! Click <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Gift-Exchange-Tags" target="_blank">HERE</a> to get the tags!jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-76985370186309010692012-11-20T14:33:00.002-08:002012-11-20T14:33:28.357-08:00Books OnlineAs a new teacher, my classroom library is not yet where I would like for it to be. Although my library is steadily growing due to Scholastic Book Fairs, book orders, classroom donations, books being tossed by previous teachers, and the books I have purchased, I have found several resources for online books that I wanted to share with you! Some of them you may already be using in your classrooms, but I wanted to make a space where you could easily access books online. <br />
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Bookflix is an amazing resource! You have to purchase a subscription to use it, but it has TONS of books that come to life like cartoons. My students absolutely love Bookflix! We watch these during our snack time. With each fiction book, there is also a nonfiction book to go along with it. for example; the fiction book <u>Click, Clack, Moo Cows That Type</u> comes with the nonfiction book <u>Let's Visit a Dairy Farm.</u> The books are seperated into categories that make it really easy to find what you are looking for. <br />
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This site is called Tumble books. Our local library has a subscription to this site and you can access it by clicking on the image above. TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of
reading in a format they love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing
picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an
electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you.<br />
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Storyline Online is a program by the Screen Actors Guild Foundation. This website has members of the SAG do read alouds from great picture books. Each story also has activities and lessons. There is no membership required for this site. <br />
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This site offers books for children to read online or have read to them. This would be a great site to use on an IPAD.<br />
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<a href="http://kids.aol.com/KOL/1/KOLJrStories" target="_blank"><img alt="Arthur's First Sleepover" src="http://www.aolcdn.com/ch_kids/bl-koljr-arthur-sleepover-left.jpg" /></a><br />
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AOL kids offers great read alouds! the books are read aloud to the students. They are not animated, but they acually look like the pages in the actual books! This is a great reminder for students thats all of these online book sites are REAL books!<br />
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Barnes and Noble offers an online storytime where the books are read by the actual author. This is a great site to use during an author book study to hear the real author's voice!<br />
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I hope you find these sites as useful as I do! Please leave a comment if you use any of these sites or know of any other great sites you would like to share!<br />
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jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-41699338930032414982012-11-18T16:40:00.001-08:002012-11-18T16:59:23.516-08:00Teachers Pay Teachers vs. Teachers NotebookHello there! Boy has it been awhile! I promise to be back soon with happenings in my classroom and share some of my new items with you all, but today I wanted to write about the current questions I am having with TPT and TN. I have been a seller on TPT for almost a year now! I purchased the full membership this quarter and have been very pleased with my earnings so far. I am not a top seller or anything but I am very excited to see people purchasing my items and I have loved being able to share what I do in my classroom with so many people! <br />
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I have not yet set up a TN store, but I do notice that most of you bloggers have both a TN and TPT store. I like the idea of paying a minimal one time fee and you get your earnings immediately on your paypal account. My worry with TN is that I know it is not as popular as TPT. If you sell on both TPT and TN, do you lower the price of items on TN? Do you think it is a disservice to TPT to lower the price on something bc the percentage you recieve is higher? <br />
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I would love to hear some feedback on how TN stores are doing vs. TPT stores. I'm off to do a little investigating.... I'll let you know what I find :)<br />
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Okay so after a little searching back and forth between sites, I find that most sellers sale their products at the same price. I like this because it with holds the integrity of both sites and proves that the price of a product is related to the quality of the product itself and not the income of the seller. <br />
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I would also like to add that after searching throught TN, I love the way the products look on the site. You all have done a FABULOUS job creating pics to display your work! I usually only use TN to purchase clipart, but I will now be looking for their for other things too! jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-35043656544442007132012-10-05T16:28:00.001-07:002012-11-16T13:01:30.525-08:00Friday Freebie!!!<center>
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I am linking up with TBA today to bring you a FRIDAY FREEBIE! YAY!! We have been learning about nouns this week. I made these posters that you can get <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Noun-Posters" target="_blank">here</a> on my TPT store.<br />
I used the posters that I made to introduce nouns. Here is what they look like:<br />
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Then I placed posters around the room with the same heading. I put the students into groups and had them carousel around the room and list as many nouns as they could thing of. Each group had 2 minutes at each poster. I had each group use a different marker. My groups worked out so that a different student got to be the "writer" at each poster. The students had a lot of fun brainstorming together and making the posters. <br />
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Next week we are going to be learning about proper nouns. I am going to have the students use post-it notes and write proper nouns for each poster. We will place these around the existing posters. Enjoy the weekend!<br />
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jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-75142729348820874852012-10-04T16:55:00.002-07:002012-10-04T16:58:03.403-07:00Math Focus BoardI have really wanted to create bulletin boards this year that were educational and could be used as a reference daily for my students. I created Math and Reading Focus boards this summer, but when school started, and we started using them, they really didn't work for me like I wanted them too. Here are my original boards:<br />
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The Reading board worked okay for a little while, but I have remodeled it. I will post more about that one later. Today I wanted to post about the math board. It turned out, that this board did not work for me at all! I had to change the posters underneath the headings daily, which was a lot of work! I tried laminating construction paper and writing on it, but it got really messy. <br />
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I searched every blog I could find for a new Math Focus board. I found this one at <a href="http://lifeinfirstgrade1.blogspot.ca/2012/08/my-week-in-review.html" target="_blank">Life in First</a>:<br />
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I did my best to recreate this one... and just while typing this I noticed that I forgot to take a picture!!!<br />
My board has the Math Talk section- this is where I write about the math vocabulary for the topic we are on. I also use the "Today's Problem" poster. Our Math series has a "Question of the Day." I use this section to post the question. Students answer on a post-it and stick it on the poster. With Common Core, we are really focusing on Higher Order questioning and writing in math. I use the essential question poster to post our question for each topic. Students also answer these on post-its. My students LOVE using their post-it notes! I did not use posters for months or days of the week. I use this space instead to post posters or other pictures or cut- outs that go along with our Topic. This week we are on Topic 5: Counting Money, I have put pictures of each of the coins on the board. I really wish I had remembered to take a picture of my board!! I love the way it turned out!<br />
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If you are an Envision Math user, you may be interested in the Essential Question Posters I have created for my focus board. You can get them at my TPT store by clicking <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Envision-Math-Essential-Questions" target="_blank">HERE</a>. The first pack includes an essential question for every lesson in Topics 1-10. <br />
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jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-38193882252892488132012-09-28T18:17:00.002-07:002012-09-28T18:17:40.722-07:00Friday Freebie!Hi everyone! Happy Friday! I am linking up with TBA to bring you a FRIDAY FREEBIE!!
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I have created this Fluency pack for use with centers, small groups, or homework. The freebie contains two Tic-Tac-Toe boards for reading fluency. Students have to read the same book three different ways to get a Tic-Tac-Toe. This could be used in centers for "Read to Self" or "Read with a Partner." You could use these in a small group setting as well. I also like the idea someone gave to me as using them for homework and having the child's parents initial the boxes when the student completes the reading activity. click on any of the pictures below to get the Freebie!<br />
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jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-10517244604641538402012-09-26T17:41:00.001-07:002012-09-26T17:41:48.021-07:00Light Bulb moments after meeting with our instructional coach!Today was a <strike>very good</strike> GREAT day! Well it was Johnny Appleseed's Birthday which was a great start to the day. We taste tested different types of apples, made a chart of our favorite types of apples, we had a mini unit on adjectives and did a little project with apples and adjectives to describe them. I haven't been doing to well at taking pictures to share with my posts but I will do better!<br />
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The great part of the day came in the afternoon when we met with one of our district instruction coordinators. She is new to the position this year. She moved to our county from Texas two years ago and taught 5th grade in our county last year. I am very excited to have an instructional coordinator from a different place. I feel like she will have lots of new things to share with us! <br />
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One thing she mentioned is that in the district she came from in Texas, they were told to use the text books and provided curriculum as A resource, not the only resource!!! This idea is not new to me, this is what we were taught to do in all of my education classed in school. However, when I got my first job last year I found that all of the teachers teach with the reading series and never stray! BORING!!! I soon learned that the reason for this is because in our county, we have been told that we need to teach our reading and math series with fidelity, meaning that we were told to basically follow them verbatim. In both teacher manuals for reading and math, there are blue words that are basically a script for the teacher to follow. I was very shocked when we were told to "read the blue words!" You mean I went to college to read from a teacher manual? I could have done that right out of high school. <br />
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With the new Common Core standards though...... the tides are starting to turn! We were advised today that because our reading series is not aligned with common core we can use the material if we would like, or we can use other resources more aligned with common core! Yay!!! So, I am on a quest to find and create the best resources for common core! Wish me luck! If you know of any great blogs out there to help me please please please let me know! I am a seller on TPT and work on a lot of (in my opinion) great products. However, I know that I will not be able to tackle this job on my own! <br />
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Oh, and I'd like to share a little "pat on the back" moment with you all! During our meeting, she asked us to share anything that we were doing in our classrooms that might be different from everyone else or that others might like to hear about. A co-teacher suggested I share about my Writer's Workshop, so I did. She was really impressed with what we were doing in our classroom and she loved it! She said that I was the first person in the county that she had heard of doing this! Yay me :)jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-8187851800077293682012-09-19T16:52:00.002-07:002012-09-19T16:52:28.044-07:00Reaching Common Core through Writer's Workshop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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So, I am sure that most of you are using the new Common Core Standards in you classroom this year. We started implementing them this year. When I looked at the <a href="http://www.readtennessee.org/teachers/common_core_standards/2nd_grade/writing.aspx" target="_blank">Common Core Standards for Writing</a>, I couldn't help but think that the writing portion of the standards is more about the writing process than standards we have had in the past. I started using Writer's Workshop in my classroom last spring, and my students loved it! Here is a brief overview of Writer's Workshop:<br />
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Writer's Workshop is what REAL writers do!</div>
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Writer's workshop is an organizational structure that invites students to write by making the process a meaningful part of the classroom curriculum. Students learn to write daily through varied activities. In writer's workshop, students are exposed to the organization and thought required to create a story or write about a favorite topic and develop it into an understandable narrative with a voice and focus. Because they are allowed to choose the topic, students are motivated to create and complete works. Peer conferencing can become a central part to the creative process. The writer's workshop format includes story planning, revision, teacher editing or conferencing, and direct instruction in the conventions of English. This teaching technique allows students the opportunity to develop expression, revision strategies, and skill in writing, and encourages them to try a few new things during the revision process. </div>
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Writers Workshop can be paired with reading activities to create a powerful motivating, organizational structure when teaching literacy. Quality literature can become an essential source to model good writing, and a wise teacher will carefully choose books used as sources. In writing workshop, a teacher can quickly see a students vocabulary level, organization skills, their ability to learn, retain, and apply information, attention span, and how a student's abilities grow through the year. </div>
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There are generally four parts to Writer's Workshop. The first is a mini lesson. A mini-lesson is usually a 10 minute whole class activity. Mini lessons can vary from anything such as spelling techniques to teaching revision process. The next part of Writer's Workshop is "Status of the Class." I remade this board from <a href="http://secondgradestyle.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">secondgradestyle.blogspot.com</a> to use in my classroom.</div>
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Status of the Class, is a time for the teacher to know where students are at in the writing process. This is also a good way for students to see who else is ready to revise and edit. This will help them to find a partner when it is time for the next step in Writer's Workshop- Writing and Conferencing. This is the part of writing workshop where most time should be spent. (about 20-40 minutes.) During this time, students work at their own pace. Students may be prewriting, drafting, revising and editing, conferencing with the teacher, or publishing a finished piece. The last part of Writer's workshop is Sharing or Author's Chair. This is the time when students get to share their published work. Author's Chair should last 5 to 10 minutes. </div>
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I have started implementing Writer's Workshop in my classroom this week. So far, so good! I will post more about the individual parts of WW in later blogs as well as share some of my mini lessons with you! </div>
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If you are ready to start learning more about Writer's Workshop and want to use it in your classroom then head on over to TPT and check out my "Learning Common Core through Writer's Workshop" packet.</div>
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If you are a teacher like me, (which I'm sure you are or you probably wouldn't be reading this :) you LOVE fall! Fall means back to school, cooler weather, football, and of course... Johnny Appleseed!! and Johnny Appleseed means APPLES! I love apples! Growing up, my mother had our whole kitchen decorated with apple stuff. if there wasn't already a teacher in our school with an apple theme, I would totally do one! There is just something about apples. They are soooo classic teacher! Our first grade classes at our school do a <strike>big</strike> HUGE unit on Johnny Appleseed, so we as second grade teachers do not do much for this day. However, I cannot, as a teacher, go through September without even mentioning Johnny Appleseed or doing something fun with apples. Sooooo... I created this Apple Unit: <br />
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I had so much fun creating this! I love to think of new things that my students can do around a given theme. And what better theme for September than apples???? This product is available on my TPT store and you can get to it by clicking on the picture above. There are several Literacy, Math, and Science activities included in the unit. The last page of the unit is a list of other ideas to go along with the unit. I wanted to share those ideas with you today, because some of you may already have planned what you will do for your Johnny Appleseed Units, but these are just some more fun activities you could throw in :) <br />
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Here are the previews for my Apple Unit....<br />
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Head on over to TPT to check it out! I am also working on a Johnny Appleseed Crafitivity that I will be posting as a freebie.... hopefully TOMORROW!!!<br />
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Oh, P.S.... What do you think about me doing my first linky? I'm thinking of "Thinks My Students Say." My students are a HOOT this year! I am dying to share some of our funny stories and would love to hear some of yours! What do you think?jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-68203432522781447082012-09-10T17:19:00.001-07:002012-09-10T17:19:57.570-07:00Inflected Endings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
This week we are learning about inflected ending; -s, -ed, and -ing. This is always a really hard concept for my students to grasp. I think that the hardest part for my students is realizing that when you add "ed", you are not just adding a "d", but dropping the e and adding ed. This is a skill that we study twice a year. Last spring, I created this pack to teach inflected endings.</div>
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This product includes posters for teaching inflected endings such as adding ed and ing. Chants are also included that are helpful in teaching the rules for doubling consonants and dropping the silent e. There are also 2 games that are great for center or workstation activities. These games are super fun! My students loved them!</div>
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jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-1446648683950259702012-09-05T15:15:00.001-07:002012-09-05T15:15:22.847-07:00One Tired Teacher!Week 3 and I am beat!! How are you all managing? I have a great group of students this year! But.... I feel like I am starting to sink! We have so many new changes this year! The biggest change this year is that we have to give actual number grades for Science and Social Studies this year, which is something that I did not even have on my schedule last year. We taught some science and social studies along with our reading stories but that was about it. Now we are having to add in a time for teaching science and social studies. With that, I have not even started center rotations. I feel like I am falling behind. Here is an example of my class schedule:<br />
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I haven't done reading center rotations yet so I am not sure if that will be enough time. But I do know that there is no time for math centers in this schedule which is something I really wanted to do better at this year. What do you think? What do your schedules look like? Do you teach Science and Social Studies? If so, how do you fit it all in????<br />
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On a side note, I would like to share some of the things we have been doing in class. At the beginning of the year, we read No David! and did a whole group activity in which we listed what makes a good student. We then turned this into an anchor chart that I will use all year. We also did a David craftivity and wrote our school rules. This was a freebie on TPT and I am not sure who to give credit for it, but it was wonderful!!<br />
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This week, we read <u>Exploring Space with an Astronaut.</u> During this story, we learn about the planets and the sun and moon. It is a really fun week! One activity we did, was to put the planets in order by distance from the sun on black bulletin board paper. The fun part comes when I tell the students to bring a pencil and their project to the carpet. once they get to the carpet, I tell them to start poking holes all over their paper. The students have no idea why they are doing this, but they have tons of fun stabbing their papers with their pencils. It literally sounded like a hail storm in my classroom! Then, when all of the students were gone, this is what I did.....<br />
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See the stars???? The kids were so excited to come back in from related arts and see these hanging from the ceiling! This is a very temporary project due to fire Marshall regulations but they are so cute and the students love seeing the stars and their work hanging from the ceiling. We use these as a reference all week when we are working with planets. Anytime the students ask me a question, I say look up :) jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-43703078462230956092012-08-19T19:04:00.001-07:002012-08-19T19:04:55.842-07:00Whole Brain Teaching ImplementationI am excited to announce that we started back to school Thursday! After a week and a half delay, I was so excited to be back in the classroom! I started teaching WBT rules last week. The students really enjoyed doing the rules with the hand motions. I also taught them class, yes, and we are working on Mirror. I think that we will continue to work on these concepts and maybe add teach, okay! There is just so much at the beginning of the year and I am not sure how much my students will retain. How are you all implenting WBT? What are you starting with? I would love some more information about starting the process. The website gives great information but I would really love a layout of when to teach the different parts. Any suggestions?jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-62964438103837894262012-08-14T08:31:00.000-07:002012-08-14T08:31:30.838-07:00Favorite Read Aloud Linky!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Tikki Tikki Tembo Is my Ultimate favorite read aloud! The kids really love his long name, and when I read it I do a really funny accent that the kids think is really funny.</div>
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Caps for Sale is another favorite of mine. When I read this I sing the lines, "Caps, Caps for Sale fifty cents a cap!" and when we read the monkey part we act out what the monkeys are doing. The students love when I get so mad at the monkeys! </div>
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The Grouchy Ladybug, isn't Eric Carle the greatest??? He was my favorite when I was a child and still my favorite to this day! Again, when I read this, I always get REALLY grouchy! </div>
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There are soooo many more books that I love to share with my students! I think any book can be a great read aloud, its all about how you read it! I always use lots of expression when I read and really try to make it come to life. For some reason, I can not do read alouds sitting down. I have to be standing so I can move around and really get into it. I feel like I get into it as much or maybe more than the students do! I can't wait to see all the great read alouds you all are doing!</div>
jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-62619114984729111112012-08-14T07:58:00.002-07:002012-08-14T07:59:09.287-07:00Back to School..... Soon??So most of you have probably already had your first day of school. I have gotten my class room ready, had registration night, met my new students and then..... "SCHOOL WILL NOT BE IN SESSION UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE"..... WHAT??? No school?!?!? That's right, our county commission and school board have been in back and forth discussions and meetings about funding our school system's budget. An agreement has yet to be reached, and our director of schools has delayed the opening of schools until an agreement can be reached. At first, I was very excited that someone was finally taking a stand and standing up for the students and teachers in our county. Our county is one of the largest in the county, yet we have the 49th (out of 92) smallest budget.... It has been a week and a half of discussions and meetings and I am ready to go back to school! I hope this issue gets resolved soon! Sooo to end on a positive note... I would like to share my completed class room pictures with you all :) <br />
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This picture is kind of blurry but this is my Wizard of Oz Door. I absolutely love how it turned out!</div>
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This is my closet door, I am going to post these classbook pages my students will fill out about themselves.</div>
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Two of my Inspiring Wizard of Oz Posters that can be purchased at my TPT Store. :)</div>
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Math Focus Wall. This is something new I am trying this year. I will post more about it, once I have gotten the chance to try it out...</div>
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Messy middle round table. I think I am going to love having this round table here though. Excuse the mess... That was papers from Registration night.</div>
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Under the loft is where students will do fluency and word work centers.</div>
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Welcome :) and Whole Brain Teaching rules on the blue bulletin board. They are Wizard of Oz theme and FREE on my TPT!</div>
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A view from the door....</div>
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jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-35993490466992740772012-07-18T16:14:00.002-07:002012-07-18T16:14:57.595-07:00During and After Reading StrategiesSoooo its been a while! I have been so busy working in my classroom, enjoying the summer and working at my part time job that I haven't been able to post like I would like too! A few weeks back I was a guest blogger on Amanda's blog read my post <span style="color: #a64d79;"><a href="http://www.teachingmaddeness.com/2012/07/before-during-and-after-reading.html" target="_blank">here!</a> </span><span style="color: black;">In the post I discussed Before, During, and After reading strategies to use to aid student comprehension. Today I am going to share a couple of my favorite <span style="color: #6fa8dc;">During Reading and After Reading Strategies</span>. </span><br />
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One of my favorite strategies to use during reading is DRTA or Directed reading Thinking activity. In this activity, students skim a reading selection. They view the title, headlines, illustrations, captions, sidebars, etc. Then students make predictions about what they will be reading about. The most important part when having the students make predictions is to identify how they reached this conclusion. After making predictions, the teacher picks a "break point" and has the student read independently to that point. At this point students can confirm or change their predictions. This process is repeated until the story is finished. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Reciprocal Questioning (ReQuest) is my absolute favorite reading strategy! The kids absolutely love it!!!</span> In this strategy, both the students and the teacher read a paragraph or section of a story. after reading the passage, the teacher first asks the students questions about what they just read. Then the teacher and students both read the second paragraph or section. This time the students get to ask the teacher questions about what was just read. Students have to comprehend what they read enought to formulate a question and know if the teacher got it correct. This is also a great time for the teacher to model how to go back in a selection and look for answers if someone doesn't know the answer to a question. The students love this because they always try to stump me! <br />
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After reading strategies are a great summative assessment for student comprehension. My favorite after reading strategies usually require some sort of group or whole class effort. My two favorite strategies are: Graffiti Board and Carousel.<br />
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Graffiti boards are fun because they are colorful and messy and allow for student creativity when writing. I always encourage my students to think of fun ways to write on the Graffiti wall, veritical, diagonal, different colors and sizes. Graffiti boards can be used with any topic. During reading, I will write the name of a story we read on the top of the graffiti wall then students will graffiti everything they remember from the story.<br />
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Carousel is very similar to graffiti except that I put students in groups and place charts through out the room with different ideas from the story, and students write and brainstorm as much as they can about the topic on each poster. Each group is given 30 seconds to a minute at each poster and then they rotate to the next poster. <br />
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<br />jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-64109328056189818862012-07-12T12:28:00.001-07:002012-07-12T14:11:36.891-07:00Lions and Tigers and Bears Oh My!Hey Blogging Buddies! I am totally slacking on the blogging front... I took a vacation to Florida over the Holiday and an just starting to get back in the swing of things! If you read my guest blogger post on Amanda's wall at <a href="http://www.teachingmaddeness.com/">Teaching Maddeness</a> then you know that I promised you a blog post with BDA strategies as well as the full length document! Its coming I promise! I am not on my home computer, but I will have it for you soon! I hate to say this but I am in a classroom decorating RUT!!! I really love all the colors and polka dots in my room but I have done nothing Wizard of Oz-y yet! I really want to stick with the Oz theme. I am thinking of naming my reading groups Lions, Tigers, and Bears?? What do you think? I am going to decorate my door with a yellow brick road and Dorothy with the title "There's No Place Like Second Grade." But other than that I havent really thought of many other ways to tie in the Oz theme. I've googled and read some ideas but Havent found anything I just love... I am going to do something I saw on Pinterest as a behavior incentive called Build a Rainbow and the students add colors to their rainbow for good behavior... What else have ya got for me bloggers?????jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-72905015227159399172012-07-02T17:48:00.001-07:002012-07-02T17:48:02.845-07:00Classroom Decorating and Whole Brain TeachingSoo Its been a week since I've posted anything and I am feeling like a major slacker! But the truth is, I have been working in my classroom and doing a lot of research on Whole Brain Teaching strategies, and by research, I mean watching youtube videos of Whole Brain Power teachers! They are awesome! I saw my first Whole Brain Teaching video when <a href="http://www.teachingmaddeness.com/2012/06/saturday-shares-and-100-follower.html">Amanda at Teaching Maddeness</a> shared a <strike>good</strike> <span style="color: magenta;">GREAT</span> video about it! And if you are just as addicted to watching teachers in action as I am, then you know that after the video ends, you can watch related videos. This equals hours of me glued to my computer screen! The Video on Amanda's blog is by far my favorite! I don't know who that teacher is, but she has some other videos out there too that are about Whole Brain Teaching and she is just amazing! IF anyone knows who she is, and knows if she has a blog or not PLEASE let me know!! So I've decided to use Whole Brain Teaching methods in my classroom this year along with the sign language and other ideas i've gotten from the blogging world! I have created posters for the rules and various other parts of Whole Brain Teaching. They are free at my TPT store, but you can get them <a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B19WIOZvvv3mQmpSdjNmYVRFMmM" target="_blank">HERE</a> too!<br />
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I have also been spending a lot of time in my classroom. I started decorating, and now I can't stop! I love it soooo much! Here are some updated pictures of what I've been doing in my classroom so far:</div>
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This is my room from the door. I made these seat covers for my chairs. I made them with the left over fabric from my boards, and color coordinated with my table top organizers.</div>
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This is the view from the front of the room. There is still a spot on that back wall that I don't like. I am thinking I may just hang some posters here... What do you think?</div>
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My Reading area is still not quite finished. I am still missing my rug and books. I also want to recover that bench. I got it from a friend who was cleaning out her room. I had originally planned on using it at a table but I ended up using my two square tables for my computers. The purple bulletin board will be my reading focus wall. It is not finished yet either.</div>
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Here is a closer view of a bookshelf I spray painted... Not great, but once I fill it with books I think it will be okay.</div>
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While putting up my alphabet, I counted out how many tiles I would need.... Obviously I misbounted. This will have to be redone.</div>
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I am going to hang my students birthday board on the back side of my loft. Inside the loft you can kinda see the tissue poms I made to hang from the ceiling, and the pool noodles that I am going to use to make a rainbow above my door to go with my "Over the Rainbow", Wizard of Oz theme.</div>
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I finished the fabric to cover the computer cords. Dont look at the bulletin board, You can see I ran out of border... I'm not thrilled with that bulletin board though so we'll see if it stays...</div>
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I also redid my table skirt for my desk/small group table. I made it last year but the ribbon kept coming off and the girls started using it to make necklaces! HOPEFULLY it will hold up this year.</div>
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This is the board that I do not like, I think I am going to actually use it to display student work. </div>
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I made these little boxes for my students to store their creek cash in. Our school has a school wide behavior plan where students are given cash for good behavior they can spend to go to a party every nine weeks or at the creek cash store for little toys.</div>
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This is my favorite board, which is really just my white board. It is my Math Focus Board.</div>
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I still have soooo much work to do! But I feel like I have made a lot of progress! How are your rooms coming? I love looking at classrooms! Let me know if you have posted in updated pictures!</div>
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Happy Decorating!</div>jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-57004880274773429052012-06-24T15:36:00.001-07:002012-06-24T15:38:58.643-07:00My Very First Blog AWARD!!!I was soooo excited to recieve my very first blog award! Kate and Lisen at <a href="http://wearesecondgradesmartypants.blogspot.com/">Second Grade Smartypants</a>
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<center></center></a><center><a href="http://wilkieclass.blogspot.com/"><img ?="" border="0" src="http://i1260.photobucket.com/albums/ii578/redseventeen/button2.gif" /></a></center>jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-65062471160705596592012-06-20T13:54:00.001-07:002012-06-20T13:55:57.137-07:00Classroom Decorating Day 1I woke up this morning and laid in bed debating whether to lay out at the pool or go work in my room. Then, I got a text from a fellow teacher friend asking if I was going to school today. So to school I went! I like working in my room when I have someone there with me. When I need a break I have someone to talk to and she helped keep me going. If she hadn't been there I probably would have left hours ago!
Here is what was accompished today: First I Scrapped the Franklin off the door and windows. Then I moved the loft (with Kate's help). You can see in this picture how my room was laid out at Christmas. The loft was taking up so much valuable wall space! I also changed the tables my computers are on and placed them flat against the wall and put up some fabric to hide the cords. I HATE CORDS! I also redid a bulletin board. The owl picture is from last year. I did a double border on the board this year and I really like how it turned out. I arranged students' desks. I saw in someone's classroom in the blogging world had a round table in the middle of the desks. I wasn't sure where to put it and I really liked how it looked when she did it. I will have to see how it looks with students actually in the room. It might be too crowded. I am not sure what I am going to use it for either.... Suggestions? I moved my desk/ small group table to the corner where the loft used to be. I started setting up my new reading area. I still need to purchase the rug and set the books up and some other stuff. And now for my big dilema.... I moved the loft which I am soooo happy about but now I have this wall! Its huge! I need a new bulletin board. Do you all have any suggestions on how to make a bulletin board? I hung paper up on a wall last year, but it kept falling down!
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Well I've decided on a theme, and Kinda know what I want to do, but I wanted to share with you all some of the other classroom themes and doors in my school. Once you see these you will understand the pressure I am under to do something fabulous!!
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I feel so honored to be mentioned in Amanda's blog post! She is sharing ideas that she finds on other blogs every Sasturday! Check it out! There is some great information there! She is also doing a giveaway for reaching 100 followers!jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-75355806702352391652012-06-13T19:01:00.000-07:002012-06-20T13:57:02.950-07:00Professional Learning Summit Day 2Wow! Today was a day full of wonderful ideas! As I mentioned before, our county wrapped all of our professional development into 3 days. Today we had an AMAZING speaker, Rick Morris. He has made me rethink the way I manage EVERYTHING in my classroom! The Theme for the day was Eight Great Ideas. Here is a summary of what we learned and what I am planning on doing with ALL of this information:
1. Sign Language in the classroom:
One of the key topics today was that teachers are doing way to much talking in the classroom. Rick Morris showed us several ways for teachers to be able to HUSH and use a variety of methods to get the students talking. The sign language approach was more about less talking for everyone.
For example, He showed us a method for having students use different signs to signal if they have a comment, question, or answer. By having the students sign why they are raising their hand, the teacher is able to see who they need to call on. If it is a student with a question, the teacher needs to answer them immediately. If it is a student with a comment, the teacher can signal for them to wait.
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You can download this posters for your classroom at his website:
<i><b><a href="http://newmanagement.com/main/sign_language.html">Sign Language Posters</a></b></i>
2. Echoing in the Classroom
Another great point that he made with regards to teachers talking to much in the classroom he referred to a method called "Echoing" which is when a teacher repeats what a student has just said. He made some very valid points for not echoing student responses which is why I will be trying very hard to bite my tongue and not echo student responses this year. Morris said that by echoing student responses we as teachers are validating their responses and not letting the students think. he suggests a simple "Thank you" after the student response regardless of whether the response was correct or incorrect.
Let me give you an example-
Teacher: "What is the capital of Tennessee?"
Student 1: "Nashville"
Teacher: "Thank you."
Student 2: "Nashville"
Teacher: "Thank you"
Student 3: "Memphis"
Teacher: "Thank you"
Wait... The capital of Tennessee is Nashville, not Memphis, so why did the teacher not correct the student? By not validating any answer as right or wrong, the students begin to question their responses. Student 10 may be thinking, "wait, I thought the answer was Nashville, but he said Memphis. Could it be Memphis?" Then the student stops, looks up the answer sees that it really is Nashville, and then raises her hand to answer Nashville.
Other Points for Not using Echoing in the classroom:
-Echoing enables students
-Students think they do not have to listen to their peers, they think that teachers will restate important information.
-Quiet students do not have to learn to speak up.
-Students say "Echo" when they need something repeated, then it is the responsibilty of the student who said something to repeat what they said.
-By allowing multiple correct answers, more students are getting to voice their opinion.
3 and 4. Timers and Sound Makers
Morris gave really good reasons for using music, timers, and sound makers in the classroom. We learned today that a child's attention span is their age plus or minus 1 or 2 minutes. He suggests setting timers in your classroom for that length of time to give students breaks and processing time. He used sounds to signal events. He had a sound for students to come and pick up hand outs, a sound for students to line up at the door, etc. He used music to signal transitional times and talk times.
5. Student Numbers
Student Numbers are already something that I use in my classroom. It is a great time saving tool, plus you can write numbers on things and then be able to use them year after year! He did make some new suggestions though, like having a student job be to put homework and classwork in number order. Then that student can write a post it to you with numbers of work not turned in, then you know exactly who needs to go to study hall or finish something during recess.
He also suggested using these check off sheets that you can get on his site to know who has turned in things like school forms, permission slips, etc.
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You can get all of the things I mentioned above, plus a TON more at his website:
<i><b><a href="http://newmanagement.com/index.html">Rick Morris</a></b></i>jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-62983740892619530612012-06-13T17:25:00.001-07:002012-06-13T17:25:42.593-07:00Teaching Happily Ever After: Grids, Hands-On Charts, & MovementOur County decided to do all of our professional development in three days this year. On day 1, all of the teachers in our county; K-12, Related Arts, and Special Ed. were all combined in one room to hear a speaker: Rich Allen. While it was a long day, he did have some insiteful tips for getting students up and moving in the classroom. I myself am very guilty of trying to suppress student energy, but after listening to Dr. Allen I am excited about implementing some new things in my classroom to get students up and moving. Check out this blog from a fellow teacher in my county for some insiteful pictures and ideas from Dr. Allen!<br />
<a href="http://teachinghappilyeverafter.blogspot.com/2012/06/grids-movement.html">Teaching Happily Ever After: Grids, Hands-On Charts, & Movement</a>jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-8949244596937902012012-06-11T19:16:00.002-07:002012-06-20T13:57:25.257-07:00Common Core and Envision MathAre you transitioning to Common Core and use the Envision Math series? If so.... I hope that your have checked out the Transitioning to Common Core in your Pearsonsuccessnet. If you have not looked at this yet... GO NOW! here are the directions for how to find the VERY useful information:
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After completing the last step you will get to a pdf download that will show you each topic and the standard you are teaching.
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjph9fZgb8VymPuToMCammukfgL8ry5c5V8N8FdLvQKHBVAAMcdHtypggT1gANTmiSltkiV7l8zM9aXZNha3ZUtsRkSQgLkiucCJdRaWxjtDlthi5eLQUHjP8I-t50POv8cUHkXBIl8AdM/s1600/page+5.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="320" width="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjph9fZgb8VymPuToMCammukfgL8ry5c5V8N8FdLvQKHBVAAMcdHtypggT1gANTmiSltkiV7l8zM9aXZNha3ZUtsRkSQgLkiucCJdRaWxjtDlthi5eLQUHjP8I-t50POv8cUHkXBIl8AdM/s320/page+5.png" /></a>jodihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09698091838710911054noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2610088582587177052.post-81161942591747222832012-06-11T18:24:00.001-07:002012-06-20T13:57:39.202-07:00The Ice Cream KingI found the cutest book at the book store the other day, and thought it would be great to read to my class. I absolutely love doing read alouds! The more I got into creating materials to use with this book, the more I kept thinking of ideas to go along with the story. I have included several ideas in my Literacy Companion such as teaching plot with a cute Craftivity with an ice cream cone. Students will write what happened at the beginning of the story on one scoop, the middle on another scoop, and the end of the story on the ice cream cone. I also included a writing activity where students create their own ice cream. I reall want to do this with the shaving cream and glue art project that makes a more 3D effect, but I will have to do some practice with that before I will feel comfortable enough letting my students do it.
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