tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6268727533469909142024-03-06T19:34:18.796-08:00A Place to ThriveDanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.comBlogger51125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-4016398515092512622013-09-07T07:16:00.002-07:002013-09-07T07:16:59.677-07:00Classroom Reveal<span style="font-size: large;">Well, we've been in school for 2.5 weeks now, and I'm finally getting around to showing off my classroom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Hopefully, as I settle into a routine, I'll find the time to post about this first few weeks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Without further ado, my classroom...</span></h4>
<span style="font-size: large;">First some, in the process pics:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">When I walked in</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trying out desk arrangements</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">And one more failed try</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the end of Day 1</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">At the end of Day 2</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And ... then I forgot to keep taking in progress pictures, but here is my classroom a few weeks later, many days of working in the classroom and about a week of teaching later:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">From the door. I finally decided on 2 groups of six and 5 groups of 4.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Classroom library, math board, mailboxes, computers, and whole class meeting area.<br />This has also become this class' favorite work area.<br />This is the corner that is cut off to the right in the picture above.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A shot from the library/whole group area. <br />I can't wait to do <b>We're So Proud</b> next week! See my post<span style="color: magenta;"> <a href="http://aplacetothrive.blogspot.com/2012/10/posting-student-work-were-so-proud.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a></span>.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Directly opposite the door.<br />This is my <b>One Class, Many Cultures Board</b> (see post <a href="http://aplacetothrive.blogspot.com/2012/09/one-class-many-cultures-freebie.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a>), <b>Welcome board</b> (this will be my science board once we start science), and my <b>Prefixes, Suffixes, and Roots Word Wall </b>(This is new for this year and I am so excited!)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>My desk</b> (which I made take up WAY less room this year!), <br /><b>Student Supply and turn-in table</b> (on the right), <b>math manipulatives</b> (white drawers to the right <br />and bottom of book case - I love that these are accessible to students all the time now).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Close up of "the bookcase."<br /><b><span style="color: lime;">Top shelf: </span></b>Daily copies, my Copy File Laminate box (with birthday pencils sitting on top)<br /><b><span style="color: lime;">Second shelf: </span></b>My school's Character Building Books, a tub of things for helpers <br />(parents, middle school volunteers, etc) to do, and paper clips/push pins.<br /><b><span style="color: lime;">Third row: </span></b>Master copies of things I use regularly, Sub Binder, <br />Folders to hold temporary centers, one tub of math manipulatives, and empty space.<br /><b><span style="color: lime;">Bottom Row:</span></b> Math manipulatives that the students can use anytime <br />(although I guess we need to talk about putting them back since there is a missing tub!)<br /><span style="color: lime;"><b>On top of the drawers</b></span> is the prize box, raffle, and <br />Caught Being Good (school wide positive behavior system)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Close up of the front left of the whiteboard. <br />This has our schedule and procedures we use daily, like our Morning and Afternoon Routine, When You Finish Early List, who the Lunch Helpers are, and who the Homework Checkers are.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Reading Workshop (loosely based on Daily 5) board. This is under the whiteboard. <br />I'm trying desperately to make productive use of that space, <br />but I'm worried that it won't be a visible enough reminder of what they need to do.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Trying out <b>hand signals</b> this year. So far, we're only using the 1, 2, 3, 4 and me too. <br /> I started getting overwhelmed because I couldn't remember what each one meant, <br />so I had to turn around and look at this (it's above the whiteboard).<br />These posters are from <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/HAND-SIGNAL-3-PRODUCT-BUNDLE-for-CLASSROOM-MANAGEMENT-825210" target="_blank">Clutter Free Classroom</a> <br />(but I had to print in black and white and color them - the printer and I were fighting)</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'm trying out mostly group jobs this year (the big circles) with just a few individual jobs <br />(the little circles with blurred out names). I'm sure this will get a whole post later on!</span></td></tr>
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<br />Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-34006332797520335932013-08-25T06:59:00.002-07:002013-08-25T07:01:12.553-07:00A Peek at My Week Linky!<span style="font-size: large;">Have you heard about <a href="http://mrslaffinslaughings.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-peek-at-my-week-new-linky-party.html" target="_blank">Mrs. Laffin Laughings'</a> new linky? It's all about looking at what we're doing next week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This coming week is my first full week back with the kiddos. We had them for 3 days this past week, and I am EXHAUSTED!!! Five days will be an adventure, I think. At least we'll be getting started on our normal routine.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Writing our Class Code. We didn't get to it last week. As a class, we brainstorm a whole bunch of rules/guidelines and then consolidate them (basically until we get to Be Safe, Respectful, and Responsible, which are our school-wide behavior expectations)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Launching Daily 5 (Read to Self and Word Work are my goals for this week)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Studying Place Value and learning about Math Workshop. After the first two weeks of school, we rotate classes for math (we change about every month). Like I did last year, I'm going to train my homeroom kiddos really well about Math Workshop so they can help the others learn my procedures during each rotation (since there will be a handful of mine in each class).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Studying Maps - I'm still working on planning this. If you have any ideas, please let me know!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Building our working-time stamina. Last week, they couldn't quietly work for more than about 10 minutes. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Saving Fred - check out my post </span><a href="http://aplacetothrive.blogspot.com/2012/08/first-week-of-school.html" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="font-size: large;"> if you haven't heard about Fred (he's in the Teambuilding section)!</span></li>
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Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-63151165256076409952013-08-13T05:58:00.000-07:002013-08-13T05:58:04.487-07:00A Tale of Student Teaching Linky Party<span style="font-size: large;">I've been thinking a lot about my student teaching these past few weeks for a couple of reasons. I have two friends moving from teaching first grade to fourth (like me going from student teaching to my own classroom). One of those friends is one from my credential program, and she is coming to my district!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This couldn't be a better time for <a href="http://thepolishedteacher.blogspot.ca/2013/08/l-is-for-linky-partygiveaway-day-12.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">The Polished Teacher's A Tale of Student Teaching Linky Party!</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First, I'm going to summarize my credential program because from talking to others and reading blogs, I think that my program was unlike many of yours.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It was 13 months long, June to the following July, and included a Masters in Teaching. Here's a basic outline of our year:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">August - December: Starting on the first teacher-duty day, we were in our first placement. For this quarter, we spent 3 half days (with university classes in the afternoon/evening) and 1 full day (with university classes in the evening) in our placement. Fridays were all day university classes.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">January-June: We were in our second placement. At the beginning, it was the same schedule as before, but by April we were in the placement full time, with university classes only in the evening.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"> I am getting married in just under a year to the greatest guy! I could not be more excited!!!!!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">I am getting ready to start my third year teaching 4th grade. I love the curriculum and seeing the kiddos personalities blossom. I could live without the girl drama.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">I decided that I wanted to be a teacher when I was 6 years old. Until my junior year of college, I thought my dream age to teach would be preschool or kindergarten. Now, I love my upper graders!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">I played water polo in high school and college (and did swim team in high school). Now, I'm working on teaching myself to like running (which I have always HATED - hence the water sports).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">I love to sew, but don't make time for in enough. I've been working on a quilt made of all my swimming and water polo T-shirts for about 3 years now ...</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">I majored in creative writing in college. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">I'm an only child.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">I like/need to sleep a LOT. I basically can't function on less than 7 hours. I can easily sleep 10-11 hours if I don't set an alarm!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"> I have always been ridiculously organized. Yet, somehow, my classroom is not. I'm working on that!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">I keep myself very busy. My fiancé always says that I don't know how to have free time!</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm excited for the rest of Teacher Week. Unfortunately, I will have to skip tomorrow's link up because my room is not ready enough to show! :( I'll be showing it sometime next week probably! I can't wait to learn more about all of you and see your classrooms tomorrow!</span></div>
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Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-91668608589675306042013-08-11T17:32:00.000-07:002013-08-11T17:32:41.962-07:00Monday Made It - Reading Records, Bathroom Passes, and Organization!<span style="font-size: large;">The last Monday of summer. Next Monday kicks off our school year (no students until Wednesday). Of course, I'll be in my classroom all day today and at training for most of this week. But, I'll pretend it's still summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The rapidly approaching school year has kicked my butt into productive mode though, so I've got a few Monday Made-Its to share!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">First up, Bathroom Passes: </span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the beginning of each month, I give each student a bathroom pass with the word "bathroom" on it. Each letter is a pass. When they need to go, I cross out a letter (of course, we still have the talk and expectations about when appropriate times to go are). At the end of the month, unused letters become tickets for our raffle. This is the system that all 4th grade has used at my school the past two years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I like to have the name of the month on the bathroom passes. Some of my teammates just rotate through the colored paper we have, but I could never remember which color I was on. So I made one for each month. I'm going to copy them all as soon as our copy machines are up and running so I am ready!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I gray out the days that they do not have to get their log signed (weekends, including Fridays, and days off of school).</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Parent signed reading logs are expected at my school. My first year and a half, I used a half sheet of paper each week that students had to write how many minutes they read each night and have a parent sign. I HATED collecting them each week and would often forget to make sure I had copies each Monday. So, part way through last year, I switched to monthly logs. It's still just minutes and parent signatures, but I only have to collect it once per month. Most of the kids really liked the calendar aspect of it! I made the fonts match the bathroom passes and I'll copy them on the same colored paper (one of those cute, but doesn't matter things, I know).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Would you like to use these too?</span></h4>
<span style="font-size: large;">Click <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5XSVeYWf4vBUDFnNXdJN3ZnU0U/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">HERE</span></a> for the link to the bathroom passes and reading records. All days are white on this reading log since I don't know your schedule :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">And last, some cute organization:</span></h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Label shape from <a href="http://www.ladybugsteacherfiles.com/2012/07/my-favorite-basketsand-some-editable.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Ladybug's Teacher Files</span></a>; Font: Oh {Photo} Shoot<br />
I used lots of Mod Podge to stick those cute papers on!<br />
They match my <a href="http://aplacetothrive.blogspot.com/2012/08/monday-made-it-and-keys.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">turn-in boxes</span></a> nicely (though I wish I had found this paper before I made those!)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided to do Copy, File, Laminate instead of Copy, File, Grade for a couple of reasons:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">I feel like I always have some small little thing that needs laminating but doesn't seem worth turning on the laminator, so I save it for later, when I have a bigger job. BUT, then I forget or misplace that small thing.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: lime;">Alright, I'm off to my classroom now to see if I can get it ready enough to show you all tomorrow for</span> <a href="http://imbloghoppin.blogspot.com/2013/08/teacher-week-13.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">Teacher Week '13</span></a><span style="color: lime;">!</span></span>Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-85835594128974595862013-08-07T06:00:00.000-07:002013-08-07T16:36:23.361-07:00School Supply Shopping!<span style="font-size: large;">I did it. The big back to school shopping trip is<span style="color: lime;"> DONE</span>. I'm sure there will be plenty of smaller ones to come, but none that fill up my trunk like this one did.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><b>What did I get, you ask?</b></span> (all photos found via google search - my things are packed in my car ready to head to the classroom)<br />
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From Office Max:</h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">For Writing Notebooks</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Two backs of black and one of blue - I'm taking bets on how long these will last!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Tune into Monday Made It next week to see what this turns into!</span></td></tr>
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From Walmart:</h4>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">105 of these babies. 35 each of purple, green, and black. <br />Does anyone else feel like a crazy person searching through bins for a bunch of the same color? <br />I just want to turn to everyone and say "You don't know how much time it saves <br />over the year to be able to say Get out your green notebook!" <br />But of course, I don't, because then I'd seem actually crazy!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">33 of these - I'm going to try having each kiddo keep a clipboard in their <br />desk so we can transition from desk to carpet quickly.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">A must have for setting up my classroom and student supplies. This, and masking tape!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">35 blue ones - trying a new system for spelling this year!</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">For making whiteboards</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">For ???? I don't know, they just called to me.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Dry erase dots. I got 9 of them in a couple of colors. Again, not a specific plan but they were 3 for a dollar!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Check back in the coming weeks to see what I do with all of this loot! For now, I'm off to get my classroom keys ...</span><br />
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<br />Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-69912550092154681022013-08-05T06:08:00.000-07:002013-08-05T06:08:38.497-07:00Monday Made It - Clips Galore!<span style="font-size: large;">After a summer of slacking on school things (and just organizing when I wasn't), I finally took on the biggest and most important </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><span style="color: magenta;">c</span><span style="color: orange;">r</span><span style="color: blue;">a</span><span style="color: lime;">f</span><span style="color: #674ea7;">t</span><span style="color: magenta;">y</span></i></span><span style="font-size: large;"> project of my summer - making all of my behavior clips! I've posted about my behavior chart before <a href="http://aplacetothrive.blogspot.com/2012/09/behavior-management.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a> and <a href="http://aplacetothrive.blogspot.com/2013/06/an-apple-day-behavior-management.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">here</span></a>, but here's the quick run down: When a student ends the day on "Excellent Effort" <i>(side note: I'm thinking about switching the order of Role Model and Excellent Effort - what do you think?)</i>, he/she gets to put a sticker on his/her clip. When there are 6 stickers on the clip, he/she gets a new clip. The new clip is a new color. My kiddos last year loved it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And ... now I am all set for this year, even if every single student gets all the way to the elusive GOLD GLITTER CLIP!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm linking up with <a href="http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com/2013/08/monday-made-it-august-5.html" target="_blank">4th Grade Frolics for Monday Made-It</a> to show off my work and give you some tips if you are planning to color and glitter any clips!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First, I dyed the clips using </span><span style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;"><b>Rit dye</b></span><span style="font-size: large;">. If you're using warm water, it takes 15 minutes to an hour to get good color (depending on how much dye you put in and how deep you want your color to be). If you're using room-temperature water, it takes a LONG time (overnight worked well). I used warm water from the tap for the first batch of each color (so the dye would dissolve) and then reused the same dye-water for the rest of the batches.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Note: Wood floats. Don't be like me and think that if you make it deeper, it will cover the whole clip. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">It won't. You've just got to turn then every once in a while.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;">Then, they had to </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><b>dry</b></span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next up, </span><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;"><b>GLITTER</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> </span>(for those superstar students who get to their 5th or beyond new clip)<span style="font-size: large;">. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Because of the glitter I had, I used two different methods. Here are my pros/cons of three methods (one I did last year as I scrambled to make clips mid-year):</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><u><b>Hot Glue and Loose Glitter:</b></u></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Pros:</b> Fast</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cons:</b> Doesn't look as great, some glitter falls off</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><u><b>White Glue, Loose Glitter, and Sealant:</b></u></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Pros:</b> Pretty</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Cons:</b> Count the steps and supplies needed (put on glue, spread it around, put on glitter, shake off glitter, let dry while you painstakingly try to clean up the glitter, spray with sealant, let dry)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">And ... maybe it is the sealant I chose or my spraying technique </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">... but my fingers were still covered in glitter after handling these.</span></div>
<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><u>Glitter Glue:</u></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Pros: </b>It looks pretty and there's no glitter to clean up.</span><br />
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">GLITTER GLUE FOR THE WIN!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seriously, I don't think I will ever do </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">any more clips with loose glitter.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The loose glitter and glitter glue ones drying in peace (and some plain black ones sneakily preparing for the next step).<br />
Side note: It seems like the poor red ones always got left out of the pictures :(</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last, glue on </span><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><b>numbers</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> so they are good and ready for your Behavior Superstars (I actually did this before the sealant on the loose glitter ones and it worked just fine).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And, without further ado, the </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><b>finished product</b></span><span style="font-size: large;">:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Each color is in number order on a scrap of cardboard. I think this will keep them nice and tidy.<br />
Students get a plain clip on the first day of school (upper left), then black, blue, green, red, <br />
red glitter, green glitter, blue glitter, silver glitter, and finally gold glitter.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have at least two extras of each color (I guess I wasn't so hot at counting on this ... but extra extras can't hurt!), so I'm clear for at least two new students to come mid-year. Being prepared will make it not happen, right?!?!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-size: large;">What have you made lately? </span></h2>
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<span style="color: #8e7cc3; font-size: large;">Head over to 4th Grade Frolics and link up!</span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">P.S. Really, do you think I should switch Excellent Effort and Role Model? I'm torn!</span><br />
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<br />Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-14995447288891930782013-08-01T17:10:00.000-07:002013-08-01T17:10:28.065-07:00Back to School Goals<h4>
<span style="font-size: large;">Goals, Goals, Goals</span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am always good at setting goals and having my students set goals, but not always at going back and reflecting on them later (or having the kiddos do that). So I'm linking up with <a href="http://iheartrecess.blogspot.com/2013/07/monthly-goals-back-to-school-edition.html" target="_blank">I {heart} Recess for Monthly Goals: Back to School Edition</a>. Maybe having them on here will get me to look back later on. Hey, it's worth a try.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">Personal:</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> Last summer, my boyfriend (now fiancé) and I started working out regularly and eating healthily. We both lost about 30 pounds. We managed to keep it going until early November. Then we lost the momentum and rarely worked out and ate worse and worse. We're back on track now, and I want to keep it going all year long. And, of course, I've got a wedding to plan!</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">Organization:</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> For the past two years, once I've made copies of something, I've just put the master copy in a big, unorganized box. I'm really working on getting that organized this summer (I'm about half way done and summer's more than half way over -oops!) My goal this year is to keep on top of the organization system I'm creating.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Planning:</span> </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> I always spend basically my whole weekend planning and grading. I've got to stop that! It drives me crazy!</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">Professional:</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> We're switching to Common Core this year. I think that keeping up with that is enough of a professional goal.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Students:</span> </span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> So many of my students, both really good students and struggling students, have said they hated learning or hated school. I really want to help my students find something they are interested in.</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Motto:</span> </b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> This goes for me and for my students!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What are your back to school goals?</span></h4>
Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-76243122866447696752013-07-22T17:02:00.000-07:002013-07-22T17:02:09.150-07:00Monday Made It - I Can! (Freebie)<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Where, oh, where has this last month gone? </i></span><span style="font-size: large;"> It has been a blur of wedding planning, family vacations (I met a ton of my fiancé's cousins that he hasn't seen since he was little or had never met), and general relaxing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I feel like I've hit school count down mode now - one month from today is the first day back with the kiddos! Yikes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know I won't get everything done that I had hoped to this summer, but I've got a few things that I still really want to get done:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Organizing master copies (hard copies and digital files) - I know this will make my life easier. Plus, I have two friends who are switching from kinder and first to 4th this year, plus two teammates new to 4th grade, and I want to be able to help them!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Map out Language Arts - I kind of hodge-podged language arts together last year. With switching to common core, I don't think I can do that this year! I need more structure.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Make behavior chart clips - see my post <a href="http://aplacetothrive.blogspot.com/2013/06/an-apple-day-behavior-management.html" target="_blank">here</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I typed out all of the CA Common Core Language Arts, CA Common Core Math, CA Social Studies, and CA Science standards as "I can," "I know," or "I understand" (I tried to avoid these last two as much as possible because they aren't actions students can show, but the way some of the standards are written, I couldn't figure out how to get around it). </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As I read each standard, I tried to picture teaching it and what baby steps we'd have to take to get there. I put those on separate cards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once I can get back into my school, I am going to back each one with colored construction paper, laminate, and put a magnet on each one. I'm not quite sure where I will display these, but it will most likely be on the whiteboard.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Typing all of these up really helped me realize how much we teach in a year! Wow!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This past year (and continuing on into next year) my </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><i>goal</i></span><span style="font-size: large;"> is to consistently make whole class lessons short - no more than 15 minutes. This is really challenging for me for two reasons: (1) I usually have a lot of ideas (from the curriculum, from my teammates, and from myself) that I want to include, and (2) I want to make sure that they really get it (otherwise 25 hands go up the second they start working - something I'm going to work on with my class next year).</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;"><b>Notes</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> - Taking notes makes them know that they need to be doing something during the lesson and gives them a reference for later. Bonus: I can easily look out over the classroom and see who is paying attention.</span></li>
<li><b><span style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">Get Up Activities</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> - At some point during each whole class lesson, I try to do something that gets the kiddos out of their seats. My two go-tos are: "Stand Up, Hand Up, Pair Up" for a pair share or "Corners" (I ask a question with four possible answers and designate each corner as an answer. Students go to the corner they think is the correct answer).</span></li>
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Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-75419086064455693862013-06-21T12:45:00.000-07:002013-06-21T12:45:48.517-07:00Five For Friday<span style="font-size: large;">I am linking up up with <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2013/06/five-for-friday-linky-party-june-21.html" target="_blank">DoodleBugs</a> for Five for Friday for the first time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week, my five might be relatively boring and not education related - after all, it is the first week of summer, so </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>RELAX</i></b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> has certainly been the theme!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We put a deposit down on our wedding venue! (Unfortunately, the contract is not quite signed, so I am not allowed to "advertise" that we are getting married there, so I can't even post a pic for you)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I printed (most) of my binder covers and put them in the binders.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started working out after about two months off. My body is SO SORE! But, oh, does it feel good!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I cleaned my apartment. Does your house/apartment get crazy messy at the end of the year? With all the crazy to-do lists and cleaning the classroom, straightening my apartment was the last thing on my mind. It feels so much better to have a clean apartment! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started watching Gossip Girl on Netflix. I put it on mostly thinking "let's see how bad this is" (with a hint of curiosity) ... and even though it is a very ridiculous show, I'm a bit hooked! Perfect, mindless, summer fun.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Right now, we are working on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><b>narratives</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. Our first district assessment, which is mid-October</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, is fictional narratives, but we start with personal narratives and then move into fiction because it's easier for kiddos to put details in about something that has really happened.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Last week and the beginning of this week, we worked on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-size: x-large;"><b>Snapshots</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><b>Talkshots</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>Thoughtshots</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">4. I <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">model</span></i> from the story I'm working on with them. I pick out a scene from my Backwards S (our picture mapping) and then do think-aloud writing on the document camera. I make sure to talk a lot about how I don't remember every exact detail, but I make up reasonable details. They just watch and listen. Some try to give me ideas.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5. I tell the students that when they get back from lunch, they will <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">do what I just did</span></i> from one of their own Backwards Ss. I remind them they need to come in silently. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6. We have lunch. I write a reminder of instructions on the board.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7. They come back from lunch, and 99% of them silently get to work. It is far and beyond the best transition time of my day!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">8. When writing time is almost over or I see them getting antsy, they <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">share</span></i> their work with someone. We do elbow partners, face partners, stand up - hand up - pair up, and back partners on different days to mix it up.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">9. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The next day</span></b>, we start writing by <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">reviewing</span></i> the most important things about a Snapshot/Talkshot/Thoughtshot to make our mini-poster for our writing wall. I laminated these before hand and used whiteboard makers, so I'll just be able to erase and use them next year!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We're starting to get good at writing for longer and longer! Half an hour is my goal for them!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'm hoping we get through our full personal narrative unit in the next two weeks. I think for fictional narratives this year, we'll write spooky stories to read on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">H</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">l</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">l</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">n</span></b></span><span style="font-size: large;">! </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>(June update: We ended up doing monster stories and they were not ready anywhere near Halloween, but the kiddos loved writing them and most turned out spectacularly!)</i></span></span></div>
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Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-17782520728123524262013-06-19T07:49:00.000-07:002013-06-19T07:49:22.217-07:00An Apple A Day - Behavior Management<span style="font-size: large;">Back in September, I posted about my <span style="color: magenta;"><a href="http://aplacetothrive.blogspot.com/2012/09/behavior-management.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">behavior management plans</span></a> </span>for this year. <a href="http://theappliciousteacher.blogspot.com/2013/06/an-apple-day-linky-party-classroom.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;">The Applicious Teacher</span></a>'s linky is giving me the perfect opportunity to look back on how those systems worked!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Unfortunately, I never took another picture of the clip chart later in the year. It was so </span><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: magenta;">c</span><span style="color: lime;">o</span><span style="color: orange;">l</span><span style="color: cyan;">o</span><span style="color: red;">r</span><span style="color: magenta;">f</span><span style="color: lime;">u</span><span style="color: orange;">l</span></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"> as the year progressed. Students were so excited each time they got a new clip! Some were on their third glitter clip by the end, and all but one student got a new clip at least once during the year. (That student with from the clip down/clip up anecdote from my previous post got his black clip during the last week of school. He was beaming with pride). <b><span style="color: blue;">I will most certainly be using my chart again next year.</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>However, there were two problems:</i></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Numbers</b> </span><span style="font-size: large;">- their numbers were taped on (so they could easily be switched to a new clip). After the first couple of months, about half of the clips didn't have a number because they fell off.</span></li>
<li><b><span style="font-size: large;">Clips</span> </b><span style="font-size: large;">- I made 32 black clips, 32 purple clips, 32 blue clips, 16 green clips, and 16 red clips before school started. This hardly lasted me the first trimester. After that, I never did another huge batch of clips. I'm sad to say that some students had to wait a week before I got their new clip ready. It was stressful for me and not really fair for them!</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i>So, this summer ...</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am going to make 34 (to be prepared for new students - that was another wrench in the plan) of ALL of the colors. I am going to glue numbers 1-32 (and just have two extra of each) on to them. I know not every student will use all of the clips, but that will just mean I have a head start for the next year, <i>right</i>?</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Having clips and raffle were just </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">too much</span><span style="font-size: large;">. I had a hard time being consistent with both. Next year, I think I will still do a math raffle (since I can't use clips then) and will probably still do a raffle from unused bathroom passes at the end of each month. Not too long after my last post, the allure of the raffle diminished and it wasn't a good Afternoon Routine motivator (I have another idea for that - it will probably be a Monday Made It sometime this summer).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I never started it! I think I will try doing something whole class next year, though. My kiddos were jealous when other fourth graders got their marble/button jar parties!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">What's your behavior management? How do you balance the different aspects of it?</span></h2>
Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-446502531564378892013-06-18T07:13:00.000-07:002013-06-18T07:13:00.561-07:00Tried It Tuesday - NEON Binders<span style="font-size: large;">As I <strike>stalked</strike> read blogs last summer, I saw many ideas for </span><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">organizational binders</span><span style="font-size: large;"> for students, including many cute acronyms. I posted some thoughts about it last summer <a href="http://aplacetothrive.blogspot.com/2012/07/fabulous-idea.html" target="_blank">here</a>. And then, I TRIED IT! </span><i>(however, as you clearly know from my lack of posts over the past months, I was a bad blogger this year. I don't have pictures of my kiddos' binders. I hope you'll forgive me!)</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I decided on</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <span style="color: blue;">N.E.O.N</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"> as my acronym (as my classroom color scheme is black with neon colors). It stands for <span style="color: blue;">Navigating Everyday with Organization and Neatness</span>. I got this particular acronym from Ginger at <a href="http://gingersnapstreatsforteachers.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ginger Snaps</a>, though my binder was very different. One major difference is that these binders never left the classroom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here's the cover, which each student colored. 32 identical binders? They definitely needed names and a bit of personality! Most of them were into the neon idea and used highlighters. They turned out cute! </span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(Bad Blogger, Bad Blogger)</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Inside, we put three folders, all labeled </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(with cute labels that I cannot seem to find an electronic copy of right now)</span><span style="font-size: large;">. </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Each student had a <span style="color: red;">red folder</span>. One side was labeled "Ready to Turn In" </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">(see my post linked above for why)</span><span style="font-size: large;"> and the other said "Miscellaneous." (New vocab word for some students on the very first day of school!)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Each student had a <span style="color: blue;">blue folder</span> for Language Arts.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Each student had a <span style="color: #444444;">black</span> or <span style="color: #f1c232;">yellow</span> (their choice - because I couldn't find enough black ones) for social studies and science. (I alternate teaching these two, so students never need both)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Front Pocket of Binder: Bathroom Pass, Daily Behavior Log</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">Red Folder:</span> Work ready to be turned in and work that didn't "fit" anywhere else</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">Blue Folder: </span>Any work in progress for Language Arts, especially Writing Workshop and Reading Workshop papers</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;">Black</span>/<span style="color: #f1c232;">Yellow</span> Folder: Any work in progress for Social Studies or Science</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Back Pocket of Binder: Any work that involved construction paper (you know how it's too big to fit in folders? Well, it fits here!)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Students' desks were more organized than last year, when they just had folders in their desk.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Many kiddos felt like they were organizational super stars. They bragged to other classes about them.</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Wow, did some kiddos accumulate work/papers in there! I tried having a whole class clean out every other week, but the kiddos who needed it the most didn't really pay attention.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">Some kiddos (those same ones) jammed paper in, so it wasn't organized, papers were crinkled, and it was just a MESS!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">The holes on almost every students' folders ripped during the year. Major pain to deal with. </span>(Cute story side note: I had a about six students who at the beginning of the year were an academic mess - no organization, no effort, nada. I worked with them and their parents very closely to get them on track. All but one made huge progress. When students were cleaning out their desks at the end of the year, I commented to one of the successful ones that I was amazed at the great condition of his NEON binder. His response: "Well, you know how at the beginning of the year ... well, I wasn't as good at being a good student and I never used my binder. So really, it's only half a year used." It made me smile to be reminded of how far he had come and that he knew it!)</li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Verdict:</span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Better than the folders from the year before, but not everything I'm looking for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Will I Do It Again?</span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Not the same way. My teammates and I have already talked about having school-to-home binders this year, so NEON binders may still exist in my room, but their purpose will be different. I blog about it more once the idea is more settled in our minds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What have you tried? Go link up with Fourth Grade Flipper and share!</span></h2>
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<br />Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-91056465979966823002013-06-17T08:07:00.000-07:002013-06-17T08:07:57.514-07:00My First Monday Made-It of Summer 2013<span style="font-size: large;">Today marks the start of my productive summer. I've spent most of the time over the past three days watching movies (we went to see Man of Steel - I was SO bored for the second half of the movie), TV shows on Netflix (I'm a bit late to The Office), playing video games, reading blogs, and just generally being a bump on a log.</span><br />
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<span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">Well, no more!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today starts my summer of:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">wedding planning</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">exercising</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">eating healthy</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">working on school projects</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;">finally finishing setting up my apartment (almost two years into living here)</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I did get started on the first of my Summer-To-Do-List for school - <span style="color: blue;">ORGANIZING MASTER COPIES</span>. That means I have something to link up to <a href="http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com/2013/06/monday-made-it-61713.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta;"><i>Tara's Monday Made-It</i></span></a>!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first step in making organization that you'll actually use is making something cute (or at least decently nice looking),<i><span style="color: orange;"> right?</span></i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> I have decided to use </span><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><i>binders</i></span><span style="font-size: large;">. I'll go more into my reasons once this project is finished, and I can proudly present the final product. Therefore, my first step was making </span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;"><b>covers</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> and </span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;"><b>spine inserts</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> for my binders. Now, these aren't the cutest things in the world, but once they are printed on brightly colored paper and lined up in a neat row on my book case, I think they will look plenty pretty enough to make me happy. I also made a page to put in the front of each binder that lists the </span><span style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;"><b>standards</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> covered in that binder and some of the bigger, overarching standards (especially those in Common Core). I am really trying to focus on the standards rather than the curriculum, especially for the coming year with having to use our old curriculum to meet Common Core (plus, my team-mates and I found this year that the activities we come up with to meet the standards are almost always more fun for students than the curriculum's).</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Here's the whole document - 71 pages!<br />Fonts: Oh {Photo} Shoot by Kevin and Amanda, Tekton Pro Bold, Tekton Pro BoldExt.</span><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: small;">Border : From the Pond http://frompond.blogspot.com</span><span style="color: #00b050; font-family: 'Calibri,Bold'; font-size: large;"> </span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">A</span><span style="font-size: small;">n example social studies binder - the front has the topic and the over -arching standard. <br />The next page is the full standard and the chapters in our textbook it relates to <br />(this will be the first thing in the binder) and the last page has Analysis Skills we <br />are supposed to teach all year long (it will be on the back of the standards page).<br />Social Studies and Science Binders have California State Standards.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">An example for math. I split these up by Common Core domain. <br />Down at the bottom of the last page are the 8 Mathematical Practices, just to keep them in my brain!<br />Math binders have California Common Core (so, Common Core plus CA's additions).</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">An example for Language Arts. Again, the last page has the broader Common Core standards.<br />Language Arts binders have California Common Core</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">My Language Arts spine inserts. I decided not to make them full <br />length because it is so hard to get a full length one in, am I right?!?!?</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Would you like to use these? </span></h2>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Click </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5XSVeYWf4vBR3FqMWdPZ2pmNTg/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> to go to the PDF in Google Docs. Click </span><a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B5XSVeYWf4vBbWZ3YV9qODQtUlk/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">HERE</span></a><span style="font-size: large;"> to go to an editable Word Doc in Google Docs, so you can edit (though I'm not sure how well the formatting will transfer - make sure you have the fonts downloaded)!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Monday! </span></h4>
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Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-24861781005029647032013-06-16T22:00:00.001-07:002013-06-16T22:00:59.070-07:00Summer Time and the Livin's Easy<br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Whew! This has been a hectic seven months. I can't believe it's been that long since I posted. I bet most of you thought I was gone for good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now that the school year's over, I'm back.</span></h3>
<span style="font-size: large;">Next year, I'll try blogging the whole year. </span><i><b>Wish me luck.</b></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A quick recap of November - June (with more details likely to come in later posts):</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">I got engaged!!!!!! </span><span style="font-size: large;"> We aren't getting married until next summer, so I haven't started planning yet, but now that school is out, the planning is ON!</span></h4>
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(nothing else on this list is going to come close to that level of exciting, at least to me, so hence the font size decrease)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. I successfully survived my second year of teaching, with me being the second most experienced with 4th grade on my team (and therefore having to step up to leadership roles) and having one team-member transferred mid-year (followed by a train of subs as they searched for a replacement).</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. I finished </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">BTSA</span><span style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">4. I didn't get a pink slip (hey, big deal for a second year teacher)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">5. I said good bye (making them promise to visit, of course) to an absolutely amazing group of kiddos. I think that this will be one of those groups that stands out as one of my favorites for my entire career. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now, for my summer plans ...</span></h2>
<span style="font-size: large;">This year, I'm trying to keep my school summer to-do list shorter. Last year, I was so overwhelmed by everything I wanted to do that I did very little of it. That, and I have a wedding to plan! :)</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Organize master copies</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Make "I can" statement posters for all standards (especially Common Core Math and Language Arts, but also Social Studies and Science)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Map out Language Arts (I meant to do this last summer. It's even more important now that we are switching to Common Core this year)</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I've seen SO many great ones. This inspiration is from <a href="http://mrstinastots.blogspot.com/2013/06/monday-made-it.html" target="_blank">Mrs. Tina's Tots</a>.</td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Make a Copy, File, Laminate box (my take on the Copy, File, Grade box that's been all over lately)</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Again, so many great ones. This inspiration is from<a href="http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com/2013/06/monday-made-it-61013.html" target="_blank"> 4th Grade Frolics</a>.</td></tr>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Work on Social Studies Units (I completely re-did one social studies unit this school year, and the kids LOVED it. They cheered for Social Studies time, rather than groaning. WIN!)</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Make Behavior Chart colored clips</span></li>
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<li><span style="font-size: large;">Figure out how I'm going to organize myself next year (lesson plans, grading, student info, meeting notes, etc)</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;">What's on your summer to-do list? Any advice for any of mine?</span></h2>
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Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-47191132422027038752012-11-09T20:02:00.000-08:002012-11-09T20:02:10.711-08:00Hello Again<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Wow, I can't believe it's been over a month since I posted. Over a month since I've really read blogs either.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;"><i>So, hello again, bloggy world!</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I've been super busy and haven't really wanted to think about school when I got home. Major drama going on at my school.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The super busy is not subsiding. Report cards are due one week from today. <i>Yikes!</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The drama is somewhat subsiding, so I'm not running to hide from anything education related.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">What better way to step back into </span>(hopefully)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> regular blogging than to link up with Tara for a </span><a href="http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com/2012/11/monday-made-it-november.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">Monday Made It</span> </a>(ignore that it is Friday, please)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I posted this summer about some professional development books I read (<a href="http://aplacetothrive.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-book-whisperer.html" target="_blank">Book Whisperer</a>, <a href="http://aplacetothrive.blogspot.com/2012/08/notebook-connections.html" target="_blank">Notebook Connections</a>, <a href="http://aplacetothrive.blogspot.com/2012/09/trying-out-daily-5.html" target="_blank">Daily 5</a>). I have been integrating those with our curriculum (Treasures) to make my own Reading Workshop. One part of it is our reading notebooks.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I feel like I'm getting really good at teaching those lessons. One day I teach the comprehension strategy. Students practice when they read. The next day, I teach them how we write a response using that strategy by modeling it with a text we all know. Then, they write a response, either on the same topic as our model, on the same book but focusing on a different part, or on their independent reading book.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Then, during Reading Workshop, they are supposed to write a response on any book using any of the strategies we have learned.</span><br />
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<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">"We were supposed to remember how to do those?"</span></i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Well, yeah, I'd like them to, but if they've only done it once, I get that it'd be hard to remember.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Enter the </span><b><u><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;">Reading Response Strategy Binders.</span></i></u></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> There are two of these in our Work on Writing drawer for students to reference.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Do you want a copy of my oh-so-pretty (if I do say so myself ... I'm rather proud of these) pages? Well, <a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5XSVeYWf4vBZ1Rrc3Y5aE9nZEk" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">here</span></a> they are! I already need to add more strategies so check back soon for an updated version!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Happy Veteran's Day Weekend!</span><br />
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<br />Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-57889724475759948892012-10-06T07:32:00.000-07:002012-10-07T13:36:42.428-07:00Posting Student Work - We're So Proud Board<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I got this idea last year when we did a veteran teacher observation for BTSA. I love it, the kids love it, and most teachers love it when they come into my room.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">It's my <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">We're So Proud</span></b> Board:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The blurry parts are, of course, their names.<br />
After many, many tries at fitting all 32 students' work here, this is the most space saving configuration boyfriend and I could come up with.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Every other Thursday, I make sure I (or our aide) has sorted all of their work (everything from homework to graded tests) in their mailboxes:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">They take their pile of papers to their desk and look through them. It's the first time they've seen any of the grades, so they spend some time seeing what they got right and wrong and just generally reviewing their work.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Next, they choose one piece they are most proud of. We have a list of reasons you might be proud that the kiddos came up with, including things like a good grade, doing better than normal in a subject, doing well on something that was really challenging, trying really hard, doing neater work than normal, etc.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Then, they fill out a "</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: lime; font-size: x-large;">Smiley Slip</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">" (that's those yellow papers you see in the corner of each). They staple it to wherever they want on their paper and turn it in for me to put up.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Last, they return all of their papers to their mailbox to be filed later. After our conferences in November, they will take most of this work home each time we do "We're So Proud" instead of putting it in their mailboxes, but I like to save everything until conferences!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>How do you display student work? How often do you change it out?</i></b></span><br />
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<br />Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-51086942080888512682012-10-04T19:47:00.000-07:002012-10-04T19:49:22.614-07:00Currently and Writing Wednesday (err... Thursday with Freebies for you!)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">First up, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Currently</b></i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">:</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 13px; padding-top: 4px; text-align: center;">Thanks,<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: large;"> <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2012/10/currently-october-for-classroom-and-you.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fjtmhg+%28Oh%27+Boy+4th+Grade%29" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Farley</span></a></span>, for hosting!</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Okay, okay, so I know <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">The Witches</span></i> isn't really all that seasonal ... actually, no I don't know, as I still need to read it! But, it is what I am most excited about right now. One of my awesome teammates has a unit she does every year in October with The Witches. My kiddos ordered enough Scholastic books with our last book order that I was able to get a class set of The Witches, so our two classes are going to read them at the same time this year and of course I'll be using her unit. I am ridiculously excited!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">With our district narrative writing assessment window starting NEXT week and of course a million things trying to butt their way into our writing time, I'm having a hard time getting through all of the pieces of a narrative before testing them. Never mind revising and publishing. That's going to have to come after the district test!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So far this year, we had been brainstorming and writing "shots" (see post </span><a href="http://aplacetothrive.blogspot.com/2012/09/big-smiles-and-writing-workshop.html" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> and </span><a href="http://aplacetothrive.blogspot.com/2012/09/writing-wednesday-snapshots-talkshots.html" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, respectively) on whatever students felt like that day. Many had worked on pieces of upwards of 10 stories! But now that we want to be published in the next two and a half weeks, I wanted the kiddos to start focusing on one story. We made this checklist of questions to help </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">choose a great story</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> for them to write:</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">And finally, we got to </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">leads</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. I "read" two leads - one from a Magic Treehouse book and one I said was from a rough draft of mine (</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'm going to tell you about my airplane ride</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. Great, right?). Almost all of the kiddos seemed to get why the Magic Treehouse one was better. Then, I gave them notes (it would have been WAY WAY WAY too much writing notes) and we glued them like so into our notebooks. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We read over the notes, wrote an example for each, and outlawed some </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><strike>annoying </strike></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> uninteresting "leads" (</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>Hi, my name is _____ and I'm going to tell you about ____</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> is one of my biggest pet peeves!) Last, the kiddos read the leads in their independent reading books and we talked about what made those interesting.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One of my fabulous grade-level teammates gave me this idea and the slips for it. Big thanks to her!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When I introduced </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: yellow; font-size: x-large;"><b><i style="background-color: #cccccc;">Sunshine Notes</i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, we talked about how they are a way to say thank you when someone has filled your bucket and a way to fill other's buckets. We also talked about how specific things fill our buckets better than "you're nice" or "you're a good friend" and brainstormed some specific things. For the most part, the kiddos are writing great, detailed notes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Writing Sunshine Notes is one of their options when they finish work early. We read some Friday afternoons and then just pass the rest out. The kids leave clutching their Sunshine notes like they are made of gold! It is such a great note to end the week on. I'm keeping a close eye out for students who consistently aren't getting any, but so far no kiddo has gone more than one week without getting at least one.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I love how much <b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">classroom community</span></i></b> this builds with such a small amount of class time used!</span>Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-59143893706486095262012-09-26T17:35:00.000-07:002012-09-26T17:35:07.672-07:00Writing Wednesday - Snapshots, Talkshots, and Thoughtshots<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Since I <b><i>love</i></b> writing so much and feel like it is one of my strongest teaching areas, I'm going to try to regularly write about what we are doing in writing. I already posted a bit about writing <a href="http://aplacetothrive.blogspot.com/2012/09/big-smiles-and-writing-workshop.html" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">here</span></a>.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In my district, we don't have a set </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">writing curriculum</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. It's a bit of a hodgepodge, do-what-you-want sort of thing. Our Language Arts curriculum, Treasures, has writing in it. A few years ago (before I was there), they did 6 Traits of Writing trainings. I have the materials they got at the trainings. We each have a teacher's edition and half a class set of Write Source. Using any of these as the set curriculum does not prepare students at the right time of year for the three district-wide writing assessments and certainly won't get our 4th graders ready for the state writing test in March. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;"><i>So we just do what we want, basically.</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Right now, we are working on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><b>narratives</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. Our first district assessment, which is mid-October </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">(yikes, that's soon!)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, is fictional narratives, but we start with personal narratives and then move into fiction because it's easier for kiddos to put details in about something that has really happened.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Last week and the beginning of this week, we worked on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #999999; font-size: x-large;"><b>Snapshots</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><b>Talkshots</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #38761d; font-size: x-large;"><b>Thoughtshots</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">5. I tell the students that when they get back from lunch, they will <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">do what I just did</span></i> from one of their own Backwards Ss. I remind them they need to come in silently. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">6. We have lunch. I write a reminder of instructions on the board.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">7. They come back from lunch, and 99% of them silently get to work. It is far and beyond the best transition time of my day!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">8. When writing time is almost over or I see them getting antsy, they <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">share</span></i> their work with someone. We do elbow partners, face partners, stand up - hand up - pair up, and back partners on different days to mix it up.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">9. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The next day</span></b>, we start writing by <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">reviewing</span></i> the most important things about a Snapshot/Talkshot/Thoughtshot to make our mini-poster for our writing wall. I laminated these before hand and used whiteboard makers, so I'll just be able to erase and use them next year!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'm hoping we get through our full personal narrative unit in the next two weeks. I think for fictional narratives this year, we'll write spooky stories to read on </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">H</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">l</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">l</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444;">e</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange;">n</span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">They're groups of mental math problems that build on each other in some way.</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The kiddos sit "theater seating." Everyone's chair faces foreword (which involves everyone moving their chair because of how my groups are set up) and they have nothing in their hands.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">On chart paper, I write a problem.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">When kiddos have an answer, they make a sign-language letter a, putting their thumb on their mouth (I don't know how to better describe it!) This shows me they're ready and helps them to not blurt out the answer.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I call on one kiddo for the answer and write it down, not saying if it's correct or not.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I ask everyone if there are any other answers and write those down too.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I call on kiddos to explain how they got their answer and record on the chart paper what they did, putting their name next to it.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I have 3-5 kiddos give explanations. The more difficult the problem, the more strategies I do.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">If the strategy I'm trying to get them to doesn't come up, I bring it up as my strategy.</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">At the end, if I want them to know the name of a certain strategy, I tell them "what mathematicians call" the strategy some of them were using. For example, "<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #674ea7;">I want to teach you a new name for a mental math strategy. Mathematician's call Kevin and Bryan's strategy compensation.</span></i>" (pointing to where I had written Kevin and Bryan's explanations earlier).</span></li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The blurred out parts are their names. "M.F." means <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">memorized fact</span>.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Do you believe the kiddo who said 18 x 3 was a memorized fact? No, me neither, but I still put it up! <br />At least no one said 48 x 3 was a memorized fact!</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Although I knew about these last year, I only did it once or twice. I'm doing them almost every day in math now and am getting FANTASTIC mathematical thinking from the kiddos! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;"><b>Bonus: </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">They LOVE it. The one day we didn't do it last week, they were asking why. Every time I get their attention during math for a transition, they ask if it's mental math time. I love the excitement!</span>Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-45855078555494892192012-09-22T17:25:00.002-07:002012-09-22T17:25:55.933-07:00Birthdays!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Outside of school, I LOVE birthdays! In my house growing up, you had a birthday month. Birthdays were big.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In the classroom, they tend to stress me out. I think it's because I want to do so many academic things each day with the kiddos that taking even a few minutes for birthdays stresses me.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But, because I love birthdays, we still do a bit.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">First off, I'm linking up with Blog Hoppin' for their </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;"><a href="http://imbloghoppin.blogspot.com/2012/09/birthday-display-link-up.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2FdeHub+%28Blog+Hoppin%27%29" target="_blank">Birthday Display Link Up</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love how all the different fonts look together. I also adore the cupcake border that I inherited with my room. I cut one strip up to go above each month.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I had originally planned to do the whole pictures of students holding up their birthdays for each month (I've seen it so many places, I don't know where to give credit!). But ... I didn't do it the first week because there were kiddos absent each day ... the second week, I kept getting told I was getting new students in two or three days, so I waited ... and then it was Back to School Night, and I needed birthdays up, so I just wrote names and dates. I'm sure some of you deal with that each year and still manage pictures, but it is very much not normal at my school!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Each month's spot is big enough for a 4x6 picture, so I'm hoping to do that next year.</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I write </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;"><i>Happy Birthday, ________!</i></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> on the board, and it stays up all day.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">They get a "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">birthday balloon pencil</span>." My two kiddos who have had birthdays so far have been so excited with them!</span></li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We have a wellness policy that says <b><i>no food</i></b> for birthdays (yes, you read that correctly, not no unhealthy food for birthdays, NO food for birthdays). If a kiddo wants to bring something, I have them pass it out as the bell rings at the end of the day.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I usually have the class <i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">sing Happy Birthday</span></i>, but I just realized we haven't for the two birthdays so far this year! Opps! One thing I learned from my wonderful cooperating teacher when I was student teaching was to ask the birthday kiddo if they wanted "cha-cha-chas" or not. If they say no, no one is allowed to make those sounds at the pauses. Most kiddos say yes, though, so the class goes crazy cha-cha-chaing at each pause!</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I also do "<i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">un-birthdays</span></i>" for summer birthday kids on their half-birthday (or as close as we can get ... end of June's birthdays have their half birthdays during Holiday Break). I will teach the kiddos part of the Alice in Wonderland Unbirthday song for us to sing (if I get on that singing thing again this year) and they will get an "unbirthday balloon pencil."</span></li>
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Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-21210055794718443102012-09-18T17:42:00.001-07:002012-09-18T17:42:15.420-07:00Behavior Management<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Natalie and Rachelle at </span><a href="http://whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">What The Teacher Wants</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> are hosting a </span><a href="http://whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com/2012/09/management-monday-behavior-linky.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+WhatTheTeacherWants+%28What+The+Teacher+Wants%21%29" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;"><i>behavior management linky</i></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. I am so excited to link up because What the Teacher Wants was the first blog I started reading. It is what introduced me to the wonderful world of teacher blogging! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;">This year, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I've put lots in place to make sure that doesn't happen again!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;">First, foremost, and number one is my </span><b><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">c</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">l</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">i</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">p</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">c</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">h</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">a</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: orange; font-size: x-large;">r</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">t</span></i></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta; font-size: x-large;">:</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Do you see the black clips? Those two kiddos have already gotten to Excellent Effort six times, so they got to take their old clip (now covered in six stickers) home and now have a black clip. Next time, it will be a blue clip! They are working toward the elusive glitter clip. I know I got the colored clip idea from someone, but I'm not sure who. Let me know if it was you!</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I didn't do a clip chart last year because I thought 4th graders were too old for it. <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan;">WRONG!</span></b> They love it, and it makes such a great impact. The third day of school was first time I had a kiddo clip down. Later that day, I told him he could clip up. "Even though I clipped down before?" he asked. "Yes! You are making better choices now. You're showing me you're ready to learn," I responded. He happily clipped up and we had quite a while before our next issue (which is quite a feat with this kiddo).</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I also have a </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;"><i>class raffle</i></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, so sometimes I hand out raffle tickets. I like to do this when kiddos are going above and beyond in some way, when a kiddo is already on Excellent Effort, but deserves another clip up, and with my math class (a partially different group of kiddos, so I don't have clips for everyone). We pull raffle tickets any day that we are ready to go home before the bell rings. It's a great way to make our afternoon routine go smoothly.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I am also going to start a class </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: lime; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>paper chain</i></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">, but I haven't yet. We don't seem to need it yet. The paper chain will start at the ceiling and they will get a link when the whole class deserves a reward. When it reaches the floor, we'll have a little celebration.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"><b>What do you use for behavior management?</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Link up with </span><a href="http://whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com/" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Natalie and Rachelle</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> to share!</span></div>
Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-626872753346990914.post-66317074798203888022012-09-16T06:11:00.000-07:002012-09-16T06:11:03.489-07:00Tell Me Something Good<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'm linking up with </span><a href="http://rowdyinfirstgrade.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: cyan; font-size: x-large;">Rowdy in First Grade</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> for her </span><a href="http://rowdyinfirstgrade.blogspot.com/2012/09/tell-me-something-good.html" style="font-size: x-large;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: magenta;">Tell Me Something Good Linky</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">. What a great reminder to focus on the positives, both at school and at home!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Well, just about everything about this class! Their behavior is fantastic and when it starts to slip, I remind them that they can do better, and they do! I think part of this is just the group of kiddos, part of it is better management on my part, and part of it is the classroom community we're building. We have read and talked about being a Bucket Filler and have "Sunshine Notes" they can write to each other that we read on Fridays. We're really starting to work as a team!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I am making time for myself to read. I stop working at least 20 minutes before bed and spend that time reading a book or magazine that is in no way, shape, or form school related. Even this small amount of me-time is so much more than I did last year!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> Link up with <a href="http://rowdyinfirstgrade.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Rowdy in First Grade</a> to share with us all!</span>Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17032422478686335799noreply@blogger.com1