tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18542004231337362212024-03-17T02:21:31.190-05:00Mrs. Lee's KindergartenCheck out all the fun things we are doing in room 28!Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257509117216808339noreply@blogger.comBlogger354125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854200423133736221.post-30220876517476999712017-07-07T15:01:00.000-05:002017-07-07T15:01:07.634-05:00"Trollin" In to a New School Year!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I don't know about you, but my kids love trolls! So, I thought how cute it would be to make a <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Troll-Craft-Back-to-School-Activities-3239990">troll craft</a> for the beginning of school! This can be used when teaching colors or just back to school. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Create a graph of your student's favorite color. Pre-cut strips in several colors. Let students choose a strip according to their favorite color and glue to the graph. This is a sample graph. Use a larger piece of chart paper for a larger group of students. I mean, how adorable is that? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We love to wear hats in my classroom. Let students make troll hair for their favorite color. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To make the hair stand up glue a strip to the top of the hair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the girl, I used a twist tie to gather the hair and, of course, I added a cute bow! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Here's a sample chart for recording things that kids are excited about school.</span></div>
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Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257509117216808339noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854200423133736221.post-62981563470361292482017-06-14T17:38:00.002-05:002017-06-14T17:38:43.909-05:00Let this summer be a YES summer!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, let me say that this has nothing to do with kindergarten or education, but everything to do with being a mommy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I reflect a lot. Like, I reflect on everything I do, everything I say, everything I may do, or may say, or could do, or could say. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Upon reflecting, I feel like I'm always telling my kids "no". Let me explain. Should my kids be told no? Absolutely! I'm not talking about things that are concerning to their health or safety. I'm talking about things that matter a lot to a child, but maybe not so much to an adult. For example:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kids: Can I have sprinkles on my pancakes? Me: No, pancakes don't need any added sugar.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kids: Can we have game night tonight? Me: Um, I don't know...I'll probably be doing laundry.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kids: Will you play ball with me? Me: But, it's sooooooo hot outside.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know there are million and one blog posts and articles out there like this. But, I don't want to be the mom that looks back and says, "Man, they grew up right before me and, I said no. I didn't let them be little. I didn't play ball with them or let them eat sprinkles on their pancakes for crying out loud." I mean, who cares.</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, you can stay up a few more minutes.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, go ahead and drink that Mountain Dew.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, keep playing. A little rain won't hurt.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, I'll hold you. </span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know every family is different and that's great. Find things that fit your family's lifestyle and say yes. Even if you don't have kids, say yes to your husband or wife, or grandkids, or nieces and nephews. Say yes to things that will impact a life, things that will make a memory, things that matter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know I'm trying hard to think before the word no just spills out of my mouth. Sure, I'll have moments...we all do right? But, I'm writing this so I can <i>reflect</i> on what will make memories for my kids. Trying not to sweat the small stuff. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Use the good china. Order dessert. Spend your last dollars at the movies.</span></div>
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You know, every year when December hits, it's like the rules go out the window...sound familiar? So, I came up with <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Naughty-or-Nice-Activity-2202005">this little activity</a> to help my little sweeties remember how to be peacemakers and make good choices in the midst of a little chaos.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First, I made the big Santa and had the lists and headers ready to go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I store the santa and use it each year. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Next, I read each card aloud and I let my students tell me where each card fit. Then, I taped them to the correct list.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">You can find the cards and headers in <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Naughty-or-Nice-Activity-2202005">THIS</a> packet <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Naughty-or-Nice-Activity-2202005">HERE</a>!</span></span></div>
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Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257509117216808339noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854200423133736221.post-42629014231255469522016-11-01T19:00:00.002-05:002016-11-01T19:00:14.465-05:00November Centers and Activities!!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">November brings a busy time of year! I've blogged about the following ideas before. There are lots of center activities and Thanksgiving Ideas that you could add into your classroom!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have this <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/November-Craze-Ready-to-Print-Math-and-Literacy-Activities-2201844">print and go pack</a> that is perfect for those busy days! These activities will definitely keep your kiddos engaged in practicing important skills! Look at all that FUN! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a variety of writing that will fit all of your student's needs. From list making, to labeling, to making books...it's all here!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's one thing that my students love to do! I put the pieces and the cards in my writing center for them to work on.</span></div>
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This is probably my FAVORITE turkey that we make every year. I don't have a picture of ours, so this is from her class. It's from Cara at <a href="http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com/">The First Grade Parade</a>! Her ideas are always a must! </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For this game, I made up 10 headbands with feathers that had pictures on the feathers. I randomly pass them out each day to 10 friends…the students in the group completing the activity walk around the room searching for the feathers that their friends are wearing on their head. Then, they write the beginning sound. Now, how fun is that…the whole class is involved!<br /><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kvDD1adEqUc/UoqyAZQZgAI/AAAAAAAAFFs/tNfOpzWYtbg/s1600/IMG_2982.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="color: #c73f63; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kvDD1adEqUc/UoqyAZQZgAI/AAAAAAAAFFs/tNfOpzWYtbg/s320/IMG_2982.JPG" style="border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 4px;" width="320" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beginning and Ending Sounds…this was a little tricky for my kids right now, but I definitely could hear them trying...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is great for common core…each child gets a mini tub of red and yellow counters…Then, they complete their Gobble, Gobble Counting Book making combinations of different numbers on each page. This is in <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Turkey-Time-Common-Core-Math-Centers-403820" style="color: #c73f63; text-decoration: none;">Turkey Time Math Centers</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They loved this one! I added colored dots to match the feathers to make it easier for my kids to build the words.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you bought my unit, make sure you download the revised one...there's a "goof" on this one...do you see it?</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I fixed it and revised it!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always love how these turn out each year! We've been talking about symmetry so we designed these cool shirts for our Native American friends. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This center was a HIT! They <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Catch-That-Turkey-412149">caught the turkey</a> with a fishing pole and then bingo dotted the matching letter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Teacher Tip: Instead of paper clips which always get pulled off from the fishing pole, just simply staple the corner of the game piece and it works perfect! Easy peasy, lemon squeeze!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">You can find this in my TPT Store for <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Catch-That-Turkey-412149">FREE</a>!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love Halloween in the classroom! There are so many fun, spooky things you can integrate into your learning units. Check out some of the fun things we've done this year and from years past! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you have never taught a unit on bats...do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> These cute little bats are from Cara at <a href="http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com/">The First Grade Parade</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This was a super fun math game to practice more/less. Of course, you could change it up to fit what you are teaching or make it harder for older grades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First we made an edible spider with oreos and pretzel sticks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We made these <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwMswPIivRO6S3RfWmdyNElLbHc/view?usp=sharing">haunted house mats</a> from clipart and ran them on colored paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To play, we gave each student a mat and put some Halloween themed erasers on each table. We (teacher) called out a number and the students had to put that many counters at the top of their mat. Then, we called out another number and they put counters at the bottom to show that number.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, we would say, "use your spider to show us which set has MORE". The students would put their sider beside the correct set. We also practiced LESS too. We played several times. Last, they got to eat their spider. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To set the mood, play some spooky music for kids from youtube while you play.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwMswPIivRO6S3RfWmdyNElLbHc/view?usp=sharing">HERE</a> to grab the Math Mat below for FREE.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have you read Crankenstein by Samantha Berger? It's adorable! Great for talking about feelings and it's just plain fun. We made these Crankensteins and made a class chart about what makes us cranky and what makes us happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"> </span>Aren't these adorable? Love how funky they are. We read Too Many Pumpkins by Linda White...like we do every year. I absolutely love that book...it's at the top of the list of my favorite fall books. Then, we wrote about what we wouldn't like too many of and what we would love too many of. <span style="font-size: 20px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Next, crinkle some black butcher paper so it covers the candies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Then, make up some letter, word, or picture cards to throw on top of the black paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I used die-cut pumpkins to make it more seasonal, but you could use anything. And, I made a variety of pumpkins. Okay, the fun part…Turn all the lights off so it's dark and gather together at the rug. Tell your kiddos that you're about to make a magical brew and you need their help. *Before beginning show them the "empty" pot…remember the black paper is covering the candies. Quickly flash the pot before them…don't give them too much time to inspect the pot or they might notice the paper. Give every student a card. They must tell you what is on their card correctly before throwing it in the pot. After every student has added their magical ingredient (the cards) have them stand up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You will sing this in a scraggly voice while stirring up the cards: Stirring, and stirring, and stirring my brew. Stirring, and stirring, and stirring my brew. (whisper the words) Tip toe, tip toe as you inch closer together in the circle. Repeat once…then on the last tip toe, yell BOO! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When you yell boo, you will quickly flip the black paper over so the candies are on top and the cards are under the black paper. Ta-da! Magic! The cards turned magically into candy….I'm telling you it might be the most fun thing we do for Halloween! My kids go crazy over this every year! They absolutely love it so much! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The day after Halloween we make this candy graph and these cute little candy crafts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've been working on adjectives a lot and learning about poems. Aren't they cute?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a TON of Halloween books that I absolutely love…The Three Bear's Halloween is just too cute! After reading the book, each student gets a piece of candy corn. We talk about how it has 3 colors and 3 parts, just like stories do…a beginning, middle, and an end.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We retell each part of the story using our candy corn and eating the appropriate part. I do the writing on our chart while they are retelling and munching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you're looking for some fun NO PREP activities to do during the entire month of October, check out my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/October-Craze-Ready-to-Print-Math-and-Literacy-Activities-2163300">October Craze</a> Print and Go pack. </span></div>
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Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257509117216808339noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854200423133736221.post-79584922181837530012016-08-20T21:13:00.001-05:002016-08-20T21:13:07.112-05:00Classroom Tour 2016<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I've got a full week of kindergarten under my belt. If you haven't heard, I'm doing something a little different this year. I'm co-teaching!! That means 2 teachers in one classroom with double the kids! More on that later, but for now...OUR CLASSROOM! Try combining 2 teacher's stuff that's been collecting for more than 10 years and moving into a much smaller space. It is no easy feat. BUT, it gave us a chance to clean out things we never used anymore, and reorganize! Yay for that! School, for us, started August 10th, so we're already living in it. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just had to show you our new door sign. How cute is that?!?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had a local girl paint it for us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> We bought brand new colorful tables!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tables from Worthington Direct.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LOVE our new rug from <a href="http://www.todaysclassroom.com/flagship-fccolrb7612-color-rings-carpet-7-x-12-black/">Today's Classroom</a>! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Notice our 2 new mini trampolines. So fun to sit on and read to our kiddos! We also are using them for good behavior and spontaneous reasons! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> How cute is this old school desk? My sweet hubby spray painted everything in our classroom that we could find that needed it! :) Got inspiration for this little project from someone on IG and right now I can't find that post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Do you have a blue wire book rack from Lakeshore? We sprayed ours purple!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> And, a close up of my area. Loving the banners, our new hand painted signs and vinyl borders!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love how we organized our craft materials. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, this is how we keep our trade book teacher books</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Come to the NEAEC Conference. I'll be there! Will you??</span></div>
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Who out there struggles with getting your kids <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writing-Kindergarten-Write-Every-Day-2599949">writing every single day</a>?!?! We know it's super important...yet, so hard to:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Find time amongst all the other 10,000 things to do each day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Get kids to put thoughts and words on paper.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Once they get words...having them write at least 1 complete sentence...THEN expand and write more!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Have a writing block without you wanting to pull all of your hair out strand by strand.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is me....WAS me. I have always loved the idea of a writing block...one where my room is calm, relaxed, every kid is writing the whole time...I'm conferencing with individual kids...the whole 9 yards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let me add, this post is not about Writing Workshop. I love the idea of Writing Workshop! I think it works! This is just what made writing in my classroom easier for me...and was better than doing a little here and a little there. This was consistent for me. And, it made all the difference.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to figure out something that worked for me and my kids and my schedule. I was tired of not knowing what to do or how to get my kids started on writing. Let's face it...when I get a new group of kiddos...the majority have never been to preschool. They can't hold a pencil, they don't know letters or sounds. They can't write their name. How in the world are they supposed to be writing stories at the end of the year?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's what made sense to me when I created this <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writing-Kindergarten-Write-Every-Day-2599949">Write Every Day</a> packet to use with my kids. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Practice sounding out words</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Labeling pictures</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. Stretching out LONG words</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. Writing at least 1 complete sentence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. Practicing tracing a correct sentence then writing it on my own</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. Growing a simple sentence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. Fixing and incorrect sentence</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. Elaborating and writing more than 1 sentence</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another thing that makes sense to me is whatever letter I am focusing on for the week...well, focus on that. So, I have all of these activities for each letter of the alphabet! With that said, I do not do Letter of the Week. I believe strongly in introducing and teaching all letters and sounds from the beginning, but as part of our reading series we focus on 1 or 2 letters per week. Basically, students will see activities during centers and such geared toward that specific letter plus previously taught letters.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Okay enough blabbing...on with the pictures!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an example of what we would do on Monday. For a long time, we did this together...as I modeled and we sounded out the words together. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a challenge word for each letter too. Perfect for more advanced students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Notice I had my kids circle the words that rhymed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's lots of things you can do with these papers besides just sounding out the word.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again, we do this together at the beginning. I'm modeling how to stretch out words and listen for sound other than beginning sounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fast Finishers write a sentence or 2 using one of the words.</span></div>
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This is seriously one of the most fun pages we do all week. My kids LOVED this one and I loved looking at them just as much!</div>
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The purpose of this page is to get kids to stretching out LONG words and trying to hear as many sounds as they can in a word...other than the typical 3 they usually get. I gave the number of how many sounds are actually in the word.</div>
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This tells me a lot about my kids. Are they hearing many sounds or just a few? Are they getting blends and digraphs?</div>
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This little guy had sneaky e down pat. Do you see it?!?! Another reason I LOVE this page!</div>
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Here is Trace It Try It. I wanted to my students to trace a correct sentence a few times then try to copy it and get it CORRECT. Uppercase, spaces, and punctuation. Sounds easy right? Nope. But, this helped a lot!</div>
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Students use a paper clip to spin a color then trace 1 of the sentences that color.</div>
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I let my kiddos get a clipboard and their writing box and find a spot in the room to do this activity. </div>
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Write a Sentence: We always want our students to write a sentence. Just one sentence. Y'all...it takes a long time for some kids to be able to do it. Doing this every week helped my kids a TON! This is a little more structured than free journal writing even though that's super important too.</div>
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The paper gives them a picture and the word to write about. </div>
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These are examples of writing after January. We had already been talking a lot about adjectives and growing our sentences a lot so you can see that some students were beginning to grasp that concept. A lot of times I would put a cloud around adjective, or a sticker heart, or marker heart just to let them know I "noticed" their hard word! </div>
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The lines are where I asked this student to go back and correct his lowercase letters to an uppercase letter. Notice the heart for using an adjective.</div>
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This student is EL and was reeeeeeeeally struggling with writing. period.</div>
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I'm TICKLED that she got " I have egg." </div>
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HUGE accomplishment for this one! </div>
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They won't all look like the above. I'm okay with that as long as they are making progress in their OWN way! YAY!</div>
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This little paper had a "PARTY" because it was awesome! I sprayed adhesive then dipped it in confetti. </div>
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Note: The spray adhesive wasn't very sticky. Trying to come up with another solution because my students loved when their paper had a party!</div>
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Growing Sentences!</div>
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We had a mini lesson on adjective and using them in our writing. My students were already familiar with what adjective were at this point so we created this giant flower with different adjectives on each petal. You can see this went all the way to the ceiling in our classroom.</div>
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We brainstormed the words together then I glued it and hung it up later. This was a great visual for my students to "spice up" or "fancy" their writing. Plus, I could say don't forget to grow your sentences and point to the flower.</div>
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This page we did together. I added little shapes to make it easier for you to guide students where they should be. </div>
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I made this little anchor chart and I mean we used it Every. Single. Day. </div>
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I always held it up and we read it together. We held up a finger each time we said something. After a while all I had to do was say "A good sentence has 3 things"...and they just knew it! </div>
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Here was mini lesson we did closer to the beginning. I saw this on Instagram from Kindergarten_Chaos! So cute!</div>
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One thing I don't think I've mentioned was pulling kids during this time. I always tried to pull a few students and work with them small group for a little more individualized instruction. </div>
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These students are using tools from their writing box. I'll blog about these a little later.</div>
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One last thing! I tried really hard to meet back up at the rug after writing...especially on the days we did the "Write a Sentence" page. I love to give my kids an opportunity to share their writing and as you can see below we Silent Cheered for great writing!! </div>
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So fun! I tried to point out at least one great thing like....I love the way you used adjectives today, or You're sentence is so interesting and thoughtful. (Y'all I get so tired of I see the sun, and I like the dog.)</div>
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There you have it! A condensed version of how I use <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writing-Kindergarten-Write-Every-Day-2599949">Write Every Day</a> in my classroom. </div>
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<br />Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257509117216808339noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854200423133736221.post-37226334629685351912016-06-15T22:48:00.001-05:002016-06-15T22:48:44.414-05:00Exciting News!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I have some exciting news to share!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next year, I will be co-teaching in kindergarten!! Same school, same grade (I teach in an ALL kindergarten school), different classroom! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">That's right...Jamie Mayas from <a href="http://mrsmayaskinders.blogspot.com/">Mrs. Mayas' Kinders</a> and I will be teaching together in the same classroom! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Excited would be an understatement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have taught K in the same room for 11 years and it was great, but I am ready for a change. Um, packing 11 years worth of teacher stuff was challenging. HA! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can't wait to share with you our adventures of co-teaching and what our new classroom will look like! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's my old classroom...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here will be our new classroom!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They knocked down a wall to make a larger classroom to fit 36 kiddos instead of 18.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Stay tuned for our classroom tour in a couple months...but for now </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">HAPPY SUMMER!!!!!</span></div>
Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257509117216808339noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854200423133736221.post-72950078666938294932016-01-11T17:29:00.001-06:002016-01-11T21:58:26.330-06:00How I do Kindergarten Book TubsBook Tubs...where do I begin? I've had book tubs for a couple years and never got my groove on setting up, managing, and maintaining them. I tried a couple things, but I couldn't find a good fit for me or my kids. I'm hoping I've found a solution as far as managing and keeping them up to date. This is nothing special or new! In fact this is pretty much the same thing you've seen pinned on Pinterest and read on many blogs out there. I'm hoping with a few tweaks, this is SIMPLE enough for me to manage and SIMPLE enough for my kids to handle. <br />
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Are you feelin' me? I have to have SIMPLE to MANAGE...pretty much that means I want my kids doing most of the "handling of it" alone. I don't have time to touch these daily, swap out books daily, keep records of who has what book, check tubs for correct levels, keep track of what books they have read and how many they have read, etc. My kids get a lot of small group reading time with me everyday, SO, I'm not stressing myself over book tubs. I'm using these as a fast finisher choice, quiet time, & time-fillers. <br />
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I went back and forth on how to sort my books and how to allow my kiddos to "check out" books and so forth. I just couldn't get a good plan or wrap my head around it. So, here's what I'm doing. <br />
The books shown are all extras from our Scott Foresman reading series. We got the new updated version, and we got new books with it. Cha-Ching! My old books went straight to my "library" for book tubs. My books are sorted by 3 levels...Strategic, On-Level, and Advanced. I had the colored polka-dot cards (see pic below) already in my classroom so I just laminated them and wrote my students names on them according to each of their levels. My school is ALL kindergarten so we don't have AR levels or star levels or anything like that. However, Scott Foresman does have DRA levels and Fountas and Pinnel levels on their books now. <a href="http://www.pps.k12.or.us/departments/curriculum/2030.htm">HERE</a> is a link that shows what levels Scott Foresman readers fall in.<br />
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When a student is ready to get a book or change out a book they will go to the basket that has their name on it and choose a book...same way most people do it. I guess what makes it simple for me is there are only 3 baskets to choose books from. Their names are there on the tub so that's the tub they pull from. There's no paper to fill out, no record keeping, nothing. I want this to be as intrinsically motivated as possible. I add to and take away books as we progress through each unit. My students ONLY touch the books in THEIR designated basket. I do have appropriate level books in each basket, plus a few that would be a challenge. Of course, I want my students to push themselves. One of my friends always says, "If you don't put them on the bicycle, they'll never learn how to ride"...so the "bicycle" is there when they are ready. <br />
*****EDITED to say that the books that are in their leveled basket are books we have read in small groups prior to them being a choice. I have 2 sets of these leveled readers. :)<br />
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I'm very easy going about the book tubs as when they feel comfortable changing their books in and out. I ask that my students read the book they choose as least 3 times or more. I tell them to get familiar with it and be able to read it with ease...fluently if you will. Remember, I read with all my students every day during guided reading so they know what I mean by those words and know what I except of them. Gentle reminders are given to students to swap out books often. <br />
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I want students to learn to love to choose books, and learn to read and re-read. Not just flip through the pages and think that is reading. I'm hoping this makes the process Easy-Peasy Lemon-Squeezy! <br />
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Each student has their own numbered book tub...no names...it's just easier for me this way. It's the same number they line up on. :)</div>
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Each book tub has a pointer :)</div>
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How do you do Book Tubs? I'd love to hear your ideas for managing them!</div>
<br />Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257509117216808339noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854200423133736221.post-26524973477430396272015-11-04T17:43:00.003-06:002015-11-04T17:43:50.806-06:00Thanksgiving Ideas Repost and an OLDIE FREEBIE!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is a just a repost of some of the centers and activities we do during November...just in case you need some new ideas! :)</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;">Whew…I love this time of year, but it gets so busy I just can't keep my head from spinning! But, this is the time of year I really start to see my kinders grow academically and I love it! Plus, there are so many fun learning opportunities that are just that; FUN & LEARNING at the same time. Here's what we've been up to the past couple of weeks. All of these activities can be found in either my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Happy-Thanksgiving-Unit-165944" style="color: #c73f63; text-decoration: none;">Happy Thanksgiving Unit</a>, my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanksgiving-Common-Core-Literacy-Activities-412037" style="color: #c73f63; text-decoration: none;">Turkey Time Literacy</a> pack, or my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Turkey-Time-Common-Core-Math-Centers-403820" style="color: #c73f63; text-decoration: none;">Turkey Time Math</a> pack plus tons of other great centers not shown. :)</span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 20px;"><br /></span><div style="font-family: 'Crafty Girls'; font-size: 20px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Building sight words with letter feathers…FUN!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For this game, I made up 10 headbands with feathers that had pictures on the feathers. I randomly pass them out each day to 10 friends…the students in the group completing the activity walk around the room searching for the feathers that their friends are wearing on their head. Then, they write the beginning sound. Now, how fun is that…the whole class is involved!<br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kvDD1adEqUc/UoqyAZQZgAI/AAAAAAAAFFs/tNfOpzWYtbg/s1600/IMG_2982.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="color: #c73f63; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration: none;"><img border="0" height="213" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-kvDD1adEqUc/UoqyAZQZgAI/AAAAAAAAFFs/tNfOpzWYtbg/s320/IMG_2982.JPG" style="border: 0px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); padding: 4px;" width="320" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Beginning and Ending Sounds…this was a little tricky for my kids right now, but I definitely could hear them trying...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is great for common core…each child gets a mini tub of red and yellow counters…Then, they complete their Gobble, Gobble Counting Book making combinations of different numbers on each page. This is in <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Turkey-Time-Common-Core-Math-Centers-403820" style="color: #c73f63; text-decoration: none;">Turkey Time Math Centers</a>.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I always love how these turn out each year! We've been talking about symmetry so we designed these cool shirts for our Native American friends. </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This center was a HIT! They caught the turkey with a fishing pole and then bingo dotted the matching letter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Teacher Tip: Instead of paper clips which always get pulled off from the fishing pole, just simply staple the corner of the game piece and it works perfect! Easy peasy, lemon squeeze!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">You can find <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Catch-That-Turkey-412149">this in my TPT Store</a> for <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Catch-That-Turkey-412149">FREE</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let's face it...no one likes messy handwriting. This little pack has been in the works for over a year and I finally finished it this summer. Woohoo!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like it because these are simple pages that can be finished without too much time spent. Plus, there's an element of fun in each one instead of just copying and copying and copying. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's the little incentives that my students get when they do a GREAT job.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are saved for students who may have not been doing their best, but they finally TRY really hard and get it! Or, for someone who doesn't rush through and works hard. And, yes, those students who usually always have neat handwriting get these from time to time. This just mixes things up and lets them use a different writing tool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I needed some really simple posters without pictures and words to show my kiddos where the letters sit on the line, which letters are tall and which ones are small, and the ones that hang. I also use these to talk about lines and curves and the different strokes made to form each letter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I came up with these fun little poems to recite each day (or every day or so...) when we start our handwriting time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is probably our favorite guided handwriting page we do as a class. This is the page we do on Monday. First, we start out with letter strokes using a pencil. We talk about how we need to learn how to make these strokes correctly so we can write letters, words, sentences, stories, and EVEN to draw pictures! They really begin to see how letters are made up of lines, curves, diagonals, and circles. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, we do the whole page TOGETHER. I do not put this in a center because I need to see if my kids are making the letters correctly. The first (and maybe the next) time we do this we talk about how we are going to use the colors in rainbow order. My kids are already familiar with rainbow order because we build rainbow for behavior. SCORE!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If your kids aren't familiar you just tell them which color to start with and so forth. They learn it QUICKLY!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's how the rest of the lesson would go:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me: I say, "marker at the top" then I say "ready?"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kids: say, "spaghetti".</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me: I model the FIRST stroke and say this (for M) "straight line down"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kids: they say and trace the straight line down</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me: I say, "hop to the top" and I show how to go back to the top</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kids: they say, "hop to the top" and do it</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me: I say, "down up down" modeling how to form the letter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kids: they say, "down up down" tracing the rest of the letter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me: I say, "say M"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kids: "M"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Me: I say, "say /m/"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kids: "/m/"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We do the same exact thing as above for EACH uppercase letter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Then, for lowercase it's the same exact routine except we say, "straight line down, bump, bump."</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We say M and /m/ after EACH letter. This reinforces the name of the letter and the sound.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> At the bottom we talk about the pictures that begin with Mm and the get to choose any color to trace the lowercase m. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My kids love this time. After saying the letter phrases 6 times for each letter they "get it". </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here's another fun game. Students spin the letter spinner and the color spinner using a paper clip. Then, write either upper or lower case letter using the matching color. I suggest laminating first, then using a vis a vis marker to write on and wipe off the letter you are working on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another game we play is Practice Makes Perfect. You can use the spinner you see below to write on the letter you are using OR you can throw letters in a pocket cube like I did. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My kids love this game because they get to use 3 tools for writing...pencil, crayon, and marker. This is another semi-guided paper we do. I walk around and observe. I love it, because I can hear my kids saying the "phrases" we practice for each letter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I just kinda make up my own phrases for forming each letter. This helps them understand which stroke to make...straight line down, diagonal line, bumps, or circle around. Plus, it's just more fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hopefully this post inspires your handwriting time with your own kiddos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This post is long overdue! But, we had so much fun with the centers that I couldn't resist posting them a month later. I love introducing and practicing colors by reading <a href="http://amzn.to/1ja4BOu">Dog's Colorful Day</a>. It's simple text is perfect for beginning of kindergarten and the kids always love the story. I love it as well, so I just had to make a unit of centers on it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can find the unit <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Color-Activities-Dogs-Colorful-Day-Centers-2057684">HERE</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you don't own the book <a href="http://amzn.to/1ja4BOu">Dog's Colorful Day</a> you can purchase it </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like to practice beginning sounds this way to get kids used to the idea of a letter and sound that matches a picture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I like my kids up and moving so these write the room activities are perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> For this one, students had to choose a color object from the story and color a dot to match.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I love hanging things from my ceiling that go with a center. These giant numbers hung around the room and students had to "find" them and trace the match on their paper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This one, you just count the dots and trace the number. We only go to 5 this early in the year as far as centers go so my kids can feel successful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Pick a bubble and trace the matching letter with the matching color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This one helped my students see a five frame and a number that go together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tweezers are always nice for fine motor. To play they had to roll the cube and grab that many poms to put on their dog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can purchase the <a href="http://amzn.to/1ja4Wk4">kid-friendly tweezers here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, the <a href="http://amzn.to/1ja50QJ">pocket dice HERE</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To practice shapes we rolled and dotted. Great for learning how to roll cubes and use bingo dotters correctly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was probably my kiddos' favorite one! They practiced reading sight words by building hot dogs. We added ketchup and mustard using red and yellow yarn.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We made this giant dog chart to practice retelling the story Dog's Colorful Day and then labeled each spot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another way we practiced retelling was making these story headbands with cute little dog ears.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, another fun activity we did was make these textured spots on Dog. I set up stations around the room for each color spot. You can see a few of the stations below. One station was painting the blue dot because in the story Dog's blue dot was paint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This station was shaving cream and glue dyed pink to resemble ice cream from the story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This one was yellow powdered tempera paint to resemble pollen.</span></div>
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I'm sharing with you about the Learning Targets and Essential Questions box for kindergarten. At my school, we aren't required to display learning targets or I Can Statements. However, once I got these in and looked at them, I feel they would be very helpful not only for my students, BUT to keep me more aware of the standards and skills I'm trying to teach my students. I find myself using these words when teaching so I can make sure I'm covering exactly what I'm supposed to be.</div>
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Do I teach the skills and standards without these? YES! I just like that these are "in my face" for me to see every day. </div>
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What I don't like so much is that it doesn't come with a small pocket chart, which would be super handy. I had one, now I can't find it. I just used a large pocket chart that I had. I also wish they were in order. They aren't but they do come with tabs for sorting which is really nice! </div>
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If you have to display learning targets, essential questions, and I Can Statements I would recommend this product. You can click on the pictures below to go check it out!</div>
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<br />Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257509117216808339noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854200423133736221.post-7886698739443321632015-09-21T21:43:00.001-05:002015-09-21T21:48:03.376-05:00Sometimes You Just Need New CENTERS!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sometimes you just need new centers! Yes, I get bored with the same ol' same ol'. Do you? I do typically use the same things year to year, but every now and then I gotta try something new. And, for some reason, I had an "extra" week with no theme this year, so that was the perfect opportunity to quench my need for something new. So, I came up with <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Literacy-and-Math-Centers-for-ANY-theme-Kindergarten-2107182">ANYTHING GOES</a> centers. I was really focusing hard on introducing the alphabet and counting to 5. So, I just wanted basic centers where they were doing letters, sounds, and counting; letters, sounds, and counting; letters, sound, and counting! Ok, you get the idea. These are very basic. I want my students to feel successful in what they do, especially at the beginning of the year. A lot of children have no concept of letters, sounds, counting, or writing. So, we do a lot of tracing and then trying to write letters and numbers. As far as beginning sounds, most of my students don't know this skill yet either so I make it easy for them to be successful. I think that's super important! There will be plenty of opportunity for them to show us what they know! Here's what I came up with! Click the image below to check them out!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If your kids love to roam around the room this is perfect for them! Tape up the letters and let them go on a letter hunt! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Plus, these GIANT magnifying glasses make it 10 times more fun! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Aargh!! We practice finding and labeling beginning sounds with this Shiver Me Sounds game.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This game is self-correcting which I love for beginning of the year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A lot of kids do not know one letter when they come to kindergarten so this one is perfect for showing students which letters match! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to do at least one center based on Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! No kinder teacher can think of the alphabet and not think of that book. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I think this one was my kiddos' favorite one! The cheese doubled the fun factor!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Counting is so much fun adding pepperoni and cheese!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To make the cheese I just cut very thin strips off of a foam sheet then cut the strips into little pieces. They just grabbed a handful and sprinkled it on AFTER they counted the pepperonis of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This one students had to use a car/bus to drive and count the dots along the road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got these little transportation counters from Lakeshore Learning. I use them for everything!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The boys and the girls both liked this one. I love how these one reminded them of their softball or baseball teams they played on this summer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> And, for a just print, no prep, this one turned out pretty cool. I've said it before, but if you do not have Pocket Dice you need to get some asap! I use them all. the. time. For real. You can find them on Amazon! Click on the picture below to check them out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, this one made us hungry every single day! HA! I kept forgetting my real candles for them to use as counters, but cut up pipe cleaners work just the same. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of my favorite things to do is teach letters and sounds to my Kinders...so I guess you could say my favorite thing to teach is READING! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I just wanted to share a few ways I begin introducing the alphabet. Many of these I shared in one of my presentation in Vegas this summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like to pull the letter I'm introducing from our mystery bag. I think it just creates suspense..gets the kids thinking...is exciting and fun! Each day we put the letter in the pocket chart and sing the alphabet song and we stop at the letter we last put on. Of course, they usually say, "I know what letter will be next"...and that's totally ok! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These adorable little letters came from <a href="http://pocoandpop.com/uppercase/uppercase.php">Poco and Pop</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We sing all kinds of songs from <a href="http://www.drjean.org/">Dr. Jean</a>, to <a href="http://www.kidscount1234.com/">Shari Sloane's Letter Pop</a>, and <a href="https://www.jackhartmann.com/">Jack Hartmann</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also love <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNTakNQwoAqVtPSORzswT_A">Harry Kindergarten</a> on YouTube and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1jhiDqp-jIYR07Ini8Jamw">Have Fun Teaching</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of my favorite <a href="http://www.heidisongs.com/?aff=5">Letter Songs</a> to use are from <a href="http://www.heidisongs.com/?aff=5">Heidi Songs</a>. You have to check out her <a href="http://www.heidisongs.com/?aff=5">Letter Sounds DVD!</a> It's the best! I highly recommend purchasing this DVD. I use it all the time and my kids remember the catchy tunes she has for each letter and sound. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love including pictures of my students on our alphabet cards and name chart. It gives the students a personal connection to letters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I use my discovery table from Lakeshore a TON for letters and sounds at the beginning of the year. Here are a few ways we use it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This game can be found <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Color-Activities-Dogs-Colorful-Day-Centers-2057684">HERE</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These are just foam puzzles from Dollar Tree and magnetic letters and shapes. I use magnetic fishing poles a lot too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fine motor skills are so super important for young learners especially those who have little to no prior experience using writing tools. These are great activities for teaching the alphabet. You can find all of these activities in my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/AlphaFrenzy-Alphabet-Activities-1924894">Alpha-Frenzy Pack.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Reading is Writing! I want my students to get started with writing right away and writing the alphabet is a perfect start. These activities can, again, be found in my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/AlphaFrenzy-Alphabet-Activities-1924894">Alpha-Frenzy pack</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We journal each letter of the alphabet through <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Hands-On-Alphabet-Journal-800265">hands-on activities</a>. This journal can be found <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Hands-On-Alphabet-Journal-800265">HERE</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can try it <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Hands-On-Alphabet-Journal-FREEBIE-1903112">FREE HERE</a> to see if you'd like to try it with your kiddos.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found textured foam at Michael's Craft Store and die-cut letters for my kids to use as tactile letters for tracing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I love these cute little <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Anchor-Charts-1235119">anchor charts</a> from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Anchor-Charts-1235119">Cara Carroll</a>. I hang these on my board and refer to them often while introducing and teaching each letter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I found this little "Letters on the Bus" printable from Mailbox Magazine years ago. Its great for a quick little letter chant and for small groups. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally, there's TONS of fun ideas to incorporate into teaching the alphabet. A favorite is popping letters out of balloons while listening to Who Let the Letters Out. Afterward, we put each letter that popped out into a pocket chart in alphabetical order. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We also love decorating our very own kid-made alphabet that hangs in our classroom all year. It gives the students a sense of ownership to the alphabet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope you found this post useful! Hopefully you can take some of these ideas and use them in your own classroom!</span></div>
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Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257509117216808339noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854200423133736221.post-57507305493232709582015-09-02T05:00:00.000-05:002015-09-02T05:00:06.760-05:00Classroom Tour Blog Hoppin's Teacher Week '15<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey y'all! Remember me?? I have not blogged in forever! Gosh, school started and...well...you know how that goes. I have been in school about 3 weeks and let's just say my classroom doesn't look like it did the day before kids started! HA! I didn't change up my classroom much this year because I kinda did that last year and I still love it! I snapped a few pics of some new things and then I'm gonna share my post from last year in case you missed it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I finally bought a black pocket chart and made some changes to my center board. It runs the exact same way, I just made some new cards and such. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I still adore my chalkboard numbers from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Classroom-Decor-Mega-Bundle-Brights-and-Polka-Dots-738391">Hope King</a> and my Alphabet from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Crush-My-Candy-Chalkboard-Flair-Alphabet-Posters-779906">Special Teacher for Special Kids</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are busy, busy getting acquainted with the alphabet. I love these cute little letters from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are fortunate to have lofts in our school. My kids love going up here to read. I added these cute little battery operated lantern lights from Target this year. They look great when the lights are out during rest time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Um, I finally got around to getting pictures printed for my frames that sit behind my teacher table.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yes, it took me a whole year! But, I love that it makes my room feel home-y and cozy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Instead of names, this year I put pictures of my kiddos on their work display area. I really like the way it turned out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I chose to go with all white paper on the black fabric background.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And, this is the door to my classroom! Again, I printed each child's picture to display above their name. Love!</span></div>
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<br />Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257509117216808339noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854200423133736221.post-91815414923969088712015-08-03T06:00:00.000-05:002015-08-03T06:00:00.245-05:00LOVE Back to School Sale!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hey y'all! I'm back from my first trip to Vegas! If you follow my blog or Facebook you probably know I presented 3 sessions at I Teach K. I had so. much. fun. Seriously...I had some of the sweetest feedback and the BEST participants in each of my sessions! I hope to be back with some picture from my trip, but for now a little Christmas in July with Blog Hoppin'. Our annual Christmas in July kicks off tomorrow. Go <a href="http://imbloghoppin.blogspot.com/2015/07/christmas-in-july-2015.html">HERE</a> to see the original post.</span></div>
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<br />Juliehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05257509117216808339noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1854200423133736221.post-22399630005474771882015-06-30T14:40:00.003-05:002015-06-30T14:40:50.209-05:00Try it FREE Tuesday!!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hey y'all! My sweet friend Hadar over at Miss-Kindergarten is featuring me for her Try it Free Tuesday summer blog series. Go on over and check out what you can <a href="http://www.miss-kindergarten.com/2015/06/try-it-free-tuesday-guided-reading-for.html">download for FREE today only</a> from my Guided Reading for Kinders pack. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Each Wednesday of the summer I'm going to offer 1 or more products from my TPT store to you for HALF PRICE! Yep, half price!! Look for the button below to show up on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MrsLeesKinderkids">my Facebook page</a>. If you don't already follow me on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/MrsLeesKinderkids">Facebook</a> then you'll want to do that so you don't miss out on these great deals!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wanted to show you what my newest product looks like. My kids love these little books!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's very little prep to this activity (chopping and stapling) and they're a great little tool or resource to use in your classroom. Bonus: the kids love them! They are super fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I made this bubble map to track the elements of each fairy tale it worked so well. My students really grasped the concept I was trying to cover doing this with each story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This is what each little bubble may look like...I photocopied the books I included on my map and shrunk them down to 25%. I cut them out and put them on a bubble so we could track each story we were working on. Also, it made more sense to the kids to have the cover of the book there so they could easily compare stories.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each year we practice measuring and counting with Rapunzel. Each student makes a tower with rapunzel. Then, I have them come up 1 at a time and cut a piece of yarn. they have to measure the "hair" and tell if the piece they cut is shorter or longer than Rapunzel's hair. We do this in a couple of theme sessions...about 1 hour total to finish the project.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can find this activity <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fairy-Tale-Crafts-Writing-Math-2443910">HERE</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> After reading both sides of the story...The Three Little Pigs and The True Story of The There </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We made these cute little retelling houses from milk cartons. I saw this idea <a href="http://rainbowswithinreach.blogspot.com/2012/07/three-little-pig-projects.html">HERE</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">THEN...one of my smarties said, "Hey, we can keep our retelling puppets in our carton"...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Um, how smart are you?!?! It worked perfectly!! :) I was originally thinking to glue a "pocket" on the back to store the puppets, but, Duh...use the opening already there! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Each side has a different look for retelling...straw, sticks, and bricks...then the back has the title of the story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We grabbed a partner and retold the story to each other. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I found this cute little retelling mat <a href="http://aspoonfuloflearning.blogspot.com/2013/09/reading-writing-lots-of-freebies.html">HERE</a>...we tweaked it a bit and had so much fun using it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">They did awesome on these little projects!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">To retell this story we used these little props, a styrofoam cup, and a green pipe cleaner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I showed the students how to insert the pipe cleaner in the BOTTOM of the cup. This was our beanstalk. Then, we poked holes in the castle and put it on the pipe cleaner at the top. Then, we simply used the puppets to retell the story with a friend. This is a really long story with a LOT of details.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I gave them 5 "magic beans" (jelly beans). I used this as a tactic to try to get them to remember details. For each jelly bean I told them they needed to add a detail from the story. I also added that their story should have a beginning and an ending. <a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lnk6Q41Oe8c/VTU8tl_BUwI/AAAAAAAAK8E/7AdgQKHBE6E/s1600/IMG_2642.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Lnk6Q41Oe8c/VTU8tl_BUwI/AAAAAAAAK8E/7AdgQKHBE6E/s1600/IMG_2642.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And, the little cup keeps all their pieces together. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">TEACHER TIP: I have each student write their name on the back of EACH piece b/c I usually have at least 1 or more kiddos drop them and end up not having what they need to retell. It takes a smidge longer to do this, but worth it. I do this with any story that has pieces all year.<br /><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eJb8qqX2zCo/VTU02ADjTbI/AAAAAAAAK50/JSLW9x3xi0A/s1600/IMG_2638.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-eJb8qqX2zCo/VTU02ADjTbI/AAAAAAAAK50/JSLW9x3xi0A/s1600/IMG_2638.jpg" width="240" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I wanted a cute way to send home all of their retelling props that would keep them all in one place and a fun way to present these to their parents for all the hard work they had put into this. I love the idea I had of making castles from shoe boxes. And, so did they kids. They loved making their very own little castle to hold all their "stuff". And, it was super easy to carry home so they could retell these fun stories to their parents! We painted the entire shoe box gray and then added some fun foam stickers to decorate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After reading this story, we made this chart about our ideas of what a real princes would be able to do. Next, we made the little craft below. This idea came from <a href="http://lifeinfirstgrade1.blogspot.com/search/label/fairy%20tales">HERE</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We make these cute little Red Riding Hood's each year. These have nothing to do with retelling, but they are fun to practice blends. Or you could tweak it to match skills you are working on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have blogged about some of my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fairy-Tale-Fun-Math-Literacy-Centers-562250">Fairy Tale centers </a>before...You can find them in my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fairy-Tale-Fun-Math-Literacy-Centers-562250">Fairy Tale Fun </a>pack.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Integrating literacy with math...sight words, color words, counting and number recognition all in one center...I love these kind!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">We are practicing hard on addition...this was super fun! How many beans can Jack's hand hold?</span></div>
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