tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90974334444595683032024-02-06T19:05:34.105-08:00First Grade Friend-Zee!Sparking a "Friend-zee" of Creative Learning Through FriendshipAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11645297542145351572noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097433444459568303.post-27658902353354693622013-08-16T04:09:00.000-07:002013-08-16T04:11:36.626-07:00Back to School SaleIt's that time again...Teachers Pay Teachers is having a sale and so am I! On August 18 and 19 TPT is offering a 10% off code PLUS I am having 20% off all products over $3.00. That adds up to 28% off! Don't forget to use the TPT Promo Code when you check out!<br />
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That's all for now - I'm busy as a bee working in my classroom and I promise pictures will come soon!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11645297542145351572noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097433444459568303.post-53061167583084911622013-08-02T05:14:00.002-07:002013-08-02T05:29:24.516-07:00Back to Reality!OK OK - time to face the facts. My beautiful northern Michigan summer is slipping away. With all the back to school supplies in stores I can't <strike>even pick up disgusting sugary cereal and smore fixings for my camping trip without lamenting that my summer is ending</strike> help but feel that excited twinge of a new school year and a new beginning. Yes I have worked a lot this summer...finished my Master's degree (WOO HOO!), done some extra work for the state Department of Education, and worked out a plan for my guided math groups...but I've also spent time on the beach, cleaned my house,<strike> sang and screamed my head off for</strike> took three girls to see One Direction in Chicago, and enjoyed <strike>many many afternoon naps</strike> quality downtime with my children. However, this all adds up to one sorely neglected teaching blog.<br />
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Summer Slacker? Who not me!</h2>
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The great thing about a teaching blog is that your followers usually don't <strike>give up on that summer slacker</strike> "un-follow" you and I know you'll all be here for me. Yes I had big plans for my blog and TPT this summer - after all, when during the school year do I have this much unscheduled time? But you know, the old saying "If you want something done, ask a busy person" is true and I'm much busier during the school year. <br />
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So I'm hoping that many of you are like me...and in the summer you don't especially want to think about school or read about <strike>an over-achiever who has no life</strike> <strike>a teacher who is probably making millions in TPT sales </strike>dedicated teacher who already has her lesson plans for the year done and classroom set up by early July...but now that it's August you are starting to get the bug to eat, breathe, and live teaching! At least that's MY justification for being a summer slacker!<br />
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So join me in my Back-to-School (Eager) Beaver Fever and let's <strike>get this party started</strike> <strike>oops, that sounds like a summer slacker talking</strike> get ready for a great school year together!<br />
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Here's what I've been working on during the past few days:<br />
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And here's some of my to do list for next week:<br />
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<li>laminate, laminate, laminate</li>
<li>assemble OWL Books</li>
<li>copy, copy, copy</li>
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It's getting to be that time of year when I start looking for ways to <strike>keep everyone sane</strike> continue the learning process even as the lure of sunny warm days <strike>make it hard to resist a REALLY long outside recess</strike> remind us that another school year is coming to a close. I actually find that sticking to our normal routine as long as possible makes for the smoothest and happiest last month of school, but with school-wide assessments and Dibels testing starting in the second week of May it's hard to keep in our routine.<br />
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Each year around the second week of May I mix up our reading groups a bit and assign students to a reader's theater group. I've used the <a href="http://www.readinga-z.com/book/scripts.php" target="_blank">Reading A to Z Reader's Theater</a> scripts and scripts from the Scholastic Book below:</div>
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You can get this book from Scholastic Book Clubs or from Amazon. I like this one because each play has a multi-leveled script which allows students from different reading levels to work in a reading group for a few weeks. We spend a lot of time building fluency and expression as we practice our plays. Each student works on a character-related headband to wear and the cast of each play works cooperatively on a large bulletin board-sized scenery poster. Every student has at least one part in a play.<br />
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While all students are required to be in a play at the student showcase, they get to decide what they'd like to do for their second part. Students have a choice between doing a partner poem (choral reading) or reading aloud a story or book they've published. I use poems from a variety of places; I like the Jack Prelutsky and Bruce Lansky poems for older students, and I use poems from <a href="http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems.html" target="_blank">CanTeach</a> - they are short and sweet and have great rhythm. I pair students and they choral read their poems together. For the students who choose to share a book I have them use our wireless microphone and read aloud a published book. The microphone really helps the audience <strike>stay interested</strike> hear better!</div>
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The whole showcase takes about an hour and I usually serve juice and cookies. I typically invite our building principal, our district superintendent and my reading assisstant to join us for the showcase; it's a great way to end the year! I also usually use the showcase to publicly thank my parent volunteers and give them a small token of appreciation. You can check out my pinterest board on parent volunteer gifts:</div>
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<li>auction off anchor charts and old/used materials - you'd be amazed at what kids want to take home!</li>
<li>re-organize our classroom library</li>
<li>clean our tote trays with shaving cream and a hose (on a hot day of course)</li>
<li>beach ball autographs</li>
<li>write a letter to next year's first graders</li>
<li>read-aloud day (where I say yes to every read-aloud request!)</li>
<li>watch the video of our student showcase</li>
<li>watch the dvd movie of our school year spent together (I give one to each child to take home)</li>
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I split the class into groups of 4 students, dumped a large pile of links in the middle and off they went! It was interesting to listen to some students talking naturally about numbers that add to 10 while they were building 10 and others have trouble with one-to-one correspondence when counting their links! Ahh...such is the life of a first grade teacher, dealing with such a wide range of skill levels. Some students understood immediately that if two students had chains with fewer than 10 links on it, they could combine the chains to make 10, while other students didn't think to combine shorter chains together and simply dumped both chains in a huge pile of "leftovers" just because there didn't happen to be any single links lying around. We had some really rich math talk and all in all it was a great math activity. Next week, in my independent math stations, students will have a chance to do it all over again with tiny links. Here are some photos of our "linky" party action!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11645297542145351572noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097433444459568303.post-69932634554821388932013-04-01T06:54:00.001-07:002013-04-01T07:42:14.089-07:00Spring is Here - April Fool's!It's snowing here on April 1st! I guess spring is <strike>never coming</strike> taking it's own sweet time...I suppose that's what we get after a long winter with 10, yes 10 snow days! Anyhow, it's spring break for me and since it's not very spring-like outside I thought I'd try to bring some spring inside with this fun "Hop into Spring" Making 10's freebie for you! This is a great Common Core State Standards based activity to help students learn combinations of ten!<br />
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We actually used this spring Making 10's game in my class the week before spring break in math choices (More about how math choices in an upcoming post) and it went great! Here's how I organized the activity:<br />
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I printed out all 4 game boards along with the 4 Easter themed game boards (part of <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Making-10-Throughout-the-Year-Common-Core-Operations-Algebraic-Thinking" target="_blank">Making 10's throughout the Year</a>) and I put one of each inside a plastic page protector. </div>
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Students used dry erase markers to find combinations of 10 by circling adjacent numbers. Since I had a parent volunteer helper that day I asked students to play the game as a 1-player game while the parent helped, and now that they know the game it will go into the games rotation as a 2-player game. The kids enjoyed the activity and little did they know, they got to practice many of the first grade Common Core State Standards including:
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A fun alternate version of game play to increase fact fluency would be to give each child in your class or group a game board, set a timer and see how many combinations they can find within a set amount of time. </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11645297542145351572noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9097433444459568303.post-17398491418715661352013-03-27T15:35:00.000-07:002013-03-27T16:05:37.217-07:00March is Reading MonthSo, like many of you, our school spends the month of March engaging in a variety of activities specifically designed to help <strike>us remain sane through the long winter month</strike> encourage a love of reading in our students. For the past two years our spring fundraiser has been a Read-A-Thon and since this year's theme is outer space, we were all encouraged to decorate our doors in a spacey way. Now, people who know me (Becky) know bulletin board paper and I do not get along, so I always dread this kind of thing. However, my <strike>competitive</strike> <strike>must be the best at everything</strike> good natured spirit took over and thanks to the magic of Pinterest I stumbled across this great space ship craft from <a href="http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/educationalLanguageArts.html" target="_blank">Danielle's Place of Crafts and Activities.</a> <br />
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It's hard to see, but these cute little spaceships include the words "I went to visit..." and students finished the sentence with a favorite book character or setting that they have visited through the power of reading! If you look closely, you'll notice SkippyJon Jones, The Interrupting Chicken, and Corduroy! It was an easy craft to do, but did require a little prep before letting the kids loose with it. My husband who <strike>never knew he would have to work so hard when I gave up nursing for teaching</strike> is very supportive, cut around the centers of 28 paper plates! If you're a member of <a href="http://www.daniellesplace.com/html/educationalLanguageArts.html" target="_blank">Danielle's Place of Crafts and Activities</a>, she has detailed instructions and a template for the center part available. I found it easy to let the kids paint the plates and decorate the inner circle on paper, then glue the paper on top of the plate. Anyhow, it turned out great, especially for a bulletin-board-paper-phobic! </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Academic Vocabulary Word Wall!</span></h2>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We decided to incorporate the (not new) idea of a spelling or high frequency word wall to our vocabulary words. And because the most important thing is that our classrooms are <strike>cute and</strike> <strike>colorful</strike> functional and meaningful we created this poster set. We took the reason for teaching academic vocabulary plus the inspiring brightness of <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-3am-Teacher" target="_blank">The3amTeacher's</a> zig zag background set and waa-laa! Academic Vocabulary - Sparking a Brighter Mind and Spark of the Day. It's one of the most <strike>beautiful</strike> useful bulletin boards in our rooms! Having our words posted along with the journal page examples keeps the words fresh in our minds (ours and the students) making it easier to reflect and review <strike>forgotten</strike> previously learned terms through review games.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">If you'd like to grab your own copy of our poster set, click <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Academic-Vocabulary-A-Vocabulary-Word-Wall" target="_blank">here</a>!</span></div>
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