tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48800130599697150182024-03-05T04:17:35.376-05:00Third Grade's a CharmUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4880013059969715018.post-66316365593306554252012-09-05T23:06:00.006-04:002012-09-05T23:15:21.966-04:00First Day Fun<div style="text-align: justify;">
Well it is official! I had to set an alarm and get out of bed this morning and go to work. I know that I should be more happy about it, but I feel like Judy Moody when she had to go to third grade. (In case you don't get the reference Judy Moody was in a mood. Not a good mood but a bad mood.) I am only on chapter 2 with my kids. I am assuming Judy will pep up and I'm sure I will too. </div>
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I just loved my summer this year. It was the first year that I didn't have to work a summer job. I spent a lot of time with my kids and having fun. Oh well gotta pay my bills..</div>
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First, I want to thank Mrs. Lemons for the great <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/A-Lil-Birdie-Craftivity" target="_blank">bird craftivity</a>. </div>
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My kids enjoyed "tweeting" about their summer
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Second, I created a first day frame (As seen all over Pinterest.) and took all of my students' pictures. </div>
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I think it turned out really cute. I have one below to show.</div>
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I did get a new student today, a girl thank goodness. I have 12 boys and now 8 girls. I am hoping that my numbers get to stay at 20. This is the lowest class size I have had in 11 years.</div>
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I'm off to bed. It's going to be a long week. </div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4880013059969715018.post-87286088924961615932012-09-02T15:06:00.000-04:002012-09-02T15:06:07.410-04:00Fairy Tale Fun<div style="text-align: justify;">
Sometimes I am a little slow on the uptake. I have been soooo excited that there are only 19 students on my class list. (A little nervous too, because the other 3rd only has 18. I would hope that they wouldn't combine, but you never know.) This year I have chosen to do a fairy tale theme in my classroom. In third grade they get to learn about fairy tales and folk tales from around the world. I thought it would be fun to hook a theme to that.</div>
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All summer long I have been searching for fairy tale things to decorate my room with and to use to enhance my theme. It all seemed very girly. This made me a little apprehensive how well I could make it work, but my friend assured me that it was a great theme. I get my class list on Wednesday right before my open house I put up my bulletin board with all of the students' names on crowns. It looks great.</div>
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This morning I am reading another blog and she is talking about how many boys she has on her list. I am thinking I have 12 boys on my list too; 12 boys and 7 girls. Bam! It hits me 12 boys and 7 girls. Fairy tale theme only 7 girls. Wow I think I really chose the wrong theme. I am in desperate need of a way to "dude up" fairy tale land.</div>
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Well I am so glad that is out of the way. This year we had our Open House before the kids came back. I have to say I really liked it. Getting my room together this quick was a challenge, but I had to realize that some of the stuff could wait because I want the kids to add their touch to it.</div>
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My classroom is going to have a Fairy Tale theme this year. I really love having a theme that goes along with what I have to teach. We are all going to be the subjects of the Kingdom of Kuhn. I am going to call my weekly newsletter "The Kinghtly News" I that too cute or what? These are the little things that keep me going.</div>
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I have a freebie for you. It is my morning routine posters. I have just used clip art from the internet. I am pretty sure it is free, but I am not making any money from it so you should be able to use it too. I hope you enjoy my little tour. I will be posting more classroom pics after the kiddos help me complete it. I would love ideas for Rapunzel's Tower,</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This will be the frame that I will use to take pics of the kids on the first day.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I used the <a href="http://kindergals.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-house.html" target="_blank">poem</a> from The KinderGals for my apples</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These were that Magic wands that I made that said, "It is going to be a "magical" year.
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my reading area. I do Daily 5 and last year the CAFE. <br />
This year going with my theme I am doing the FACE of a reader. The first poster is the magic mirror with the face in it. (Think Shrek) Each of the other 4 posters are mirrors with each of the letters of FACE and definitions in them.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am using this whole group incentive along with my PBIS clip chart that will track individual behavior. I picked up these cute cupcakes at Michael's and cute sign at <a href="http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com/2011/07/sweet-behavior-classroom-mgt-and.html" target="_blank">4th Grade Frolics</a>.</td></tr>
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Well it's official. I went into my classroom this week. It was only for a few short hours, but my summer has official begun to slip away. It has been a great summer filled with family and fun. And lots of baseball. (My son is on a travel ball team.) I was able to work this summer, so family time really got amped up. So blessed to be able to spend this time with my two wonderful kids.</div>
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I have decided to do a fairy tale/fable theme this year in my 3rd grade classroom. I was really excited about it when I left school last year, but I have not been able to find really good boy friendly stuff. Plus there is absolutely no pre-made stuff out there to <strike>cheat</strike> decorate with. Oh sure if I went with that incredibly adorable owl theme, the one I had debated about but the kindergarten teacher already does and I have to be original, there would be plenty of stuff that I could just open and have instant cute theme room. I am not sure why I have to always make things sooo difficult. Oh well. I have pinned many cute ideas and hopefully will be able to implement them soon, tick-tock. I will post pictures and hopefully a few freebies.</div>
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I have one more week that I can putz around my room, but that next Monday, the meetings start and then kids come the Tuesday after Memorial Day. I wouldn't be so stressed, but this year our Open House is the week before school starts. So my classroom has to be done before Labor Day. And of course our district gives us 1/2 a day to work in our rooms officially. Who gets all that done in 1/2 a day? </div>
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I was reading Holly’s blog over at <a href="http://crisscrossapplesauceinfirstgrade.blogspot.com/2012/08/product-swap-til-you-drop.html#comment-form">Crisscross Applesauce</a> and she was blogging about ideas for a letter detective download from a product swap. </div>
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It reminded me of when I taught 5th grade and mysteries were one of the genres that we had to read and write. I was inspired by <a href="http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/exploring-mystery-genre">Beth Newingham</a> to create detective case files for each of my children. I would have them dress up like a detective and I took their pictures. This particular year I had two aspiring photographers who took my picture.</div>
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This same year I taught 2, week long detective themed sessions of summer school (4th-8th grade). I dressed up in this garb and it hooked them. We had a blast reading, writing, and solving mysteries.</div>
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Off to a baseball tournament and a chicken dinner in Frankenmuth, MI this weekend.<br />
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NanUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4880013059969715018.post-59976978928514991602012-07-31T10:48:00.001-04:002012-07-31T10:51:09.527-04:00The ABCs of My Classroom<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">That's the sound of my heralds announcing my accomplishment. It's the "ABCs of Mrs. Kuhn's Classroom." I plan on doing a fairy tale and fable theme in my room this year and I'm just getting into character. I have spent the last week working on my classroom handbook and now it is finished. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">I created one 5 years ago and haven't done one since. My computer broke, I lost all of my files and I didn't want to retype it all again. I decided that this was the year I was going to redo it. Parents of third graders seemed more interested in the goings on in my classroom. This time I will make sure that I save it on a flash drive so I never have to do that again from scratch. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;">I toyed with the idea of making it reflect my theme, but I decided to keep it generic because I feel the need to change my theme each year. Hopefully it contains all that a parent will need to know about how I run my class.</span></span> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you head over to Kimberly's blog <a href="http://funkyfirstgradefun.blogspot.com/2012/07/michigan-blogger-meet-up-photos.html" target="_blank">Funky First Grade Fun</a> she has some great pics and the to links to all of the participants blogs. So many great people with some really awesome blogs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">On a completely unrelated topic, I went to go and see my son's movie it opened over the weekend. Sounds glamorous right. Not! We went through hours of waiting in line at a cattle call audition, 4 callbacks, a promise of greatness,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> a day of shooting, and t</span><span style="font-size: large;">hen we waited for 2 years for the film to come out. </span><span style="font-size: large;">All for a brief pan shot of my son in the outfield. You couldn't even recognize his features. He made some great plays while they were shooting. They must be on a cutting room floor somewhere. Oh well that's showbiz. The movie was pretty good though. It will be coming to video August 21st.</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4880013059969715018.post-22739571478962807302012-07-31T00:51:00.000-04:002012-07-31T09:28:32.197-04:00Good to be Back!<div style="text-align: justify;">
I went to the Michigan Blogger Meet Up yesterday and I had such a great time. I was really neat to meet in person the very people that I have <strike>stalked</strike> read online. I had a total geek moment as we went around the table and introduced ourselves. I introduce myself the woman sitting next to me introduces herself, and then then woman on the other side of her introduces herself. Fascinating so far I know, just wait. She's all like "Hi I'm Christina Bainbridge." I lean forward and blurt out, "I love you!" Way to keep my cool. I pride myself on not being starstruck. I always complain about those weirdos that are fanatics. Then I go all "Can I have your autograph?" Not really, but I did feel a bit dorky after I said it. I was just so cool to get to sit down with people you respect and share ideas about a mutual hobby and passion . </div>
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I have been rejuvenated to begin blogging again. Once school began I become overwhelmed with teaching a new grade, having a new principal, and navigating my way through a new evaluation system. Blogging went by the wayside. I also chair our PBIS committee, sponsor and lead our student council, am on our district technology team and sit on the district elementary curriculum committee. Shoot me now! Unfortunately, I have added school webmaster to that for this year. I need to knock it off. Blogging is going to be my therapy this year. It's better for me than large amount of chocolate and alcohol.</div>
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Happy Blogging!!!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4880013059969715018.post-82824080337831022672012-03-01T23:12:00.001-05:002012-03-05T21:01:34.894-05:00<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Valentine Centers with Learning Buddies</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">This is the third set of parent manned centers that we have done with our first grade learning buddies. We did Halloween themed centers, Christmas centers, and now Valentine centers. This is a great time when my third grade students get together with our first grade learning buddies. We had several game centers, a few craft centers, a couple math centers, a Valentine writing center, and of course a snack center. It was a great day.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yummy heart cinnamon rolls.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Everybody loves a good cinnamon roll.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chopstick steal my heart race</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">conversation heart graphing</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">heart animal art</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Valentine make a word</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Valentine Bingo</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gateway to fun!!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;">This was a picture post that was a draft from way back in October. I have been absent from posting my blog since then. I have had a busy and productive year in 3rd grade. Thanks to all of you out here in cyber space. I feel like I have been able to function in my new grade because of all of your wonderful ideas and freebies that you, my fellow teachers, have kindly blogged about and shared. I feel like everything I do is a total rip off. Imitation is the highest form of flattery. You are all so talented and again I thank you for your unknowing support.<br />
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Such a stressful year, but I hope to be posting again soon!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thanks to The<a href="http://theteacherwife.blogspot.com/2011/09/even-and-odd-street.html"> Teacher's Wife</a>, my kids made a haunted version of Even and Odd Street</td></tr>
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4880013059969715018.post-26661400887405355992011-10-07T22:08:00.002-04:002011-10-07T22:20:41.025-04:00UH-OH OREO!!!<div style="text-align: justify;"><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><br />
<strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "Candy Randy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Welcome to our </span><span style="font-family: "Candy Randy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">O.R.E.O.</span></span></span></strong><strong><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-family: "Candy Randy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Project Fall 2011!<br />
(</span><span style="font-family: "Candy Randy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">O</span><span style="font-family: "Candy Randy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">ur </span><span style="font-family: "Candy Randy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">R</span><span style="font-family: "Candy Randy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">eally </span><span style="font-family: "Candy Randy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">E</span><span style="font-family: "Candy Randy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">xciting </span><span style="font-family: "Candy Randy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">O</span><span style="font-family: "Candy Randy"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">nline Project)</span></span></span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #4c1130;">I love this time of year. Each year my class and our first grade learning buddies stack Oreo cookies and gather data. This is a online project hosted by </span></strong><a href="http://www.jenuinetech.com/"><strong><span style="color: #4c1130;">Project By Jen</span></strong></a><strong><span style="color: #4c1130;">. I have done this project for the last 6 years. The kids have a blast collecting their data. They also like eating their results.</span></strong></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><strong><br />
</strong></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Candy Randy";">These were the guidelines we were required to follow</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">…<span style="font-family: "Candy Randy";"></span></span></span></span></strong></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: "CAC Moose"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">You will measure the<span style="font-family: "CAC Moose"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> COUNT</span> of cookies used to stack -- </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "CAC Moose"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">NOT</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"> height of stack.</span></span><span style="font-family: "CAC Moose";"></span></span></strong></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "CAC Moose"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: small;"><strong>Each participating class needs at least <br />
1 bag of Nabisco's Oreo® Chocolate and<br />
Crème Sandwich Cookies. </strong></span></span><span style="font-family: "CAC Moose";"><br />
</span><span class="style21"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "CAC Moose";"><strong>(classrooms need to use the REGULAR Oreo cookie -- </strong></span></span><span style="font-family: "CAC Moose"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
<span class="style21"><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "CAC Moose";"><strong>not double stuf or triple double for their average.)</strong></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "CAC Moose";"></span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="color: #4c1130;"><span style="font-family: "CAC Moose"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Students will observe how many Oreos <br />
they are able to stack before the Oreos</span></span><span style="font-family: "CAC Moose"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">®</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "CAC Moose"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> tumble.</span><span style="font-family: "CAC Moose";"></span></span></span></strong></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "CAC Moose"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Students are encouraged to predict <br />
how many Oreos® they think they will be able to stack and then compare actual results.</span><span style="font-family: "CAC Moose";"></span></strong></span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "CAC Moose"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Students are NOT to use <span style="font-family: "CAC Moose"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">anything</span> to stabilize the cookie and they are <span style="font-family: "CAC Moose"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">NOT</span> able to adjust cookies as they stack. (i.e....once they have placed the cookie and their hand has left the cookie, they may <span style="font-family: "CAC Moose"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">NOT</span> adjust that cookie again.)</span><span style="font-family: "CAC Moose";"></span></strong></span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><span style="color: #4c1130; font-family: "CAC Moose"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Each student will have <span style="font-family: "CAC Moose"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">TWO</span> attempts to stack Oreos® and<br />
will record the highest amount they were able <br />
to stack before tumbling.</span><span style="font-family: "CAC Moose";"></span></strong></span></div><strong><span style="color: #4c1130;"></span></strong><span style="font-family: "CAC Moose"; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span><br />
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<span style="color: #4c1130; font-size: small;"><strong>Teachers will need to explain to their students that this is a project with schools all over the world and also explain what information this project is attempting to collect. They also need to discuss that at the end of the project, all results will from their classroom will be averaged and posted!<br />
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Once the entire class has stacked their Oreos®, they will average all their results to turn in ONE class amount. </strong></span></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><strong><br />
<span style="color: #4c1130;"></span></strong></div><div align="center" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #073763; font-size: small;"><strong>Click below to see all of the classrooms across the world who have joined in this project and posted their results online.</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://mapalist.com/Public/pm.aspx?mapid=216553"><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: small;"><strong>map</strong></span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-size: small;"><strong>The link below will show you the results of all of the classrooms that have participated.</strong></span></div></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://projectsbyjen.com/Projects/2011oreo/2011oresults.html"><strong><span style="color: #0b5394;">results</span></strong></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div align="center" style="text-align: center;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4880013059969715018.post-46348632374292678802011-10-02T20:40:00.001-04:002011-10-02T20:45:08.067-04:00You Know You Teach Third Grade When . . .<div style="text-align: justify;">Let me start by saying, I normally teach 5th grade. This year I am teaching 3rd grade. As part of our state's curriculum, I have to teach fairy tales and fables, so I started this last week by reading a different fairy tale each day. On Thursday, I read <u>Puss in Boots</u>. I would have never been able to read this to my 5th graders and say the main character's name 15 different time without hearing snickers and giggles. The 3rd graders were enthralled, without so much as a strange look or a giggle.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Friday, I read <u>Rapunzel</u>. It talked about how the prince climbed up Rapunzel's hair, they fell in love, and performed their own marriage ceremony. After a few months Rapunzel's dress began getting tight around the middle and her step-mother became angry with her and cut off her hair and threw her out of the tower. One little boy looked at me and said,"I don't get why was her step-mother so angry?" Holy cow! I didn't know that sex-ed was part of Fairy Tales 101.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4880013059969715018.post-54971842669936029392011-09-27T22:58:00.000-04:002011-09-27T22:58:57.148-04:00Put Down the Pencil and Walk AwaySomebody should stop me before I volunteer again. Please! I swear I need an intervention. The note goes up on the board in the office, you know the one, "We need someone to volunteer for ________ (you fill in the blank) please let me know if you are interested. " I am like a crack addict and volunteering for a committee seems to be my fix. <br />
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I will say I have gotten better. Now instead of outright putting my name on the list I say, if you can't find anyone else I will do it. Who am I kidding. Once I say that, they stop looking and Bam! another serving for my plate. It's called boundaries and apparently I seem to lack them. Does anyone else out there have this problem? Or am I alone? <br />
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Happy Tuesday!!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4880013059969715018.post-52779886484185765382011-09-24T11:33:00.002-04:002011-09-24T13:04:51.175-04:00Yay Me!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsfqvIBdhr8re6Pgwp6Jd1U7eWDOO2l2pEIaQyBnud4ONosPCb4qm7TEEkWwW7_V3yZxNOvN0u1fuxOdI4KodpDoq0QXv6vZl6ogFk0M8RuHk6yR1HdBxS7HFXuAhyphenhyphenEn4i5ei7elNq6pg/s1600/Verastile+Blogger+Award.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" hca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsfqvIBdhr8re6Pgwp6Jd1U7eWDOO2l2pEIaQyBnud4ONosPCb4qm7TEEkWwW7_V3yZxNOvN0u1fuxOdI4KodpDoq0QXv6vZl6ogFk0M8RuHk6yR1HdBxS7HFXuAhyphenhyphenEn4i5ei7elNq6pg/s1600/Verastile+Blogger+Award.png" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Ok, first let me say I am soooo excited to be awarded with this Versitle Blogger award. However, I am not feeling like I derserve it this week. I have been stressed to the max and have not been decent enough to thank Patti over at "A Series of Third Grade Events" The thought of needing to tell you all 7 things about me and pass the award onto 15 others seemed daunting. After a day out of my classroom for meetings today, I feel destressed enough to sit down and blog. So here goes. Thank you so much Patti! I am honored that you have bestowed this upon me and my little blog. (Let's just say I started this post on Thursday and now it is Saturday and finally I am actually going to post instead of saving as a draft.) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://aseriesof3rdgradeevents.blogspot.com/"><img border="0" hca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSmIUarmiDG7HjVZV2TAUURxYofrTiP-9Z_B_mk22J5LOHNTat0ActL97JBxpoDJeryzwGRi4Bx-TF6h_oRmwZ5pIiusadeUcTDiF23lc8KM5tkqciLmwZgSQF-0o85A44Al_TF_xePCU/s1600/BlogButtonjpg.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Now for the rules. When you receive this award, you must thank the person who gave you the award, tell seven things about you, and pass this award onto 15 blogs that you feel deserve this award.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thank you again Patti!</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">1. I love to sing. I was in concert choir in college. I was part of my churches worship team for several years. I sang, and got paid I maight add, in several weddings. However, the moste memorable wedding I sang in was my own. I held my husband's hands, looked into his eyes, and sang to him. It was awesome; not a dry eye in the house, except for my husband, I told him if he cried while I was singing, I would kill him. He didn't cry and 17 years later we are still going strong. Then I was given the opportunity to sing the same song when my mom and dad renewed their vows on their 25th anniversary.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">2. In that same vein, I always wanted to be a rockstar. When I turned 40 is when I realized that was probably not going to be my reality. Oh well. I am a teacher, and isn't that kind of the same thing?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">3. I love to watch television, and my guilty pleasure show is America's Top Model. If you tell anybody I will have to deny it. Holy cow, I don't know why I love it so, but I do. Deep down, I probably always wanted to be a model too. I did take a modeling class when I was 12 and got to model clothing while I walked around a department store encouraging people to visit the girl's department.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">4. My sister owns her own custom cake business, <a href="http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Stephanies-Sweets/126133540738256">Stephanie's Sweets</a>, and I get to help her make these edible creations. I very much enjoy spending time with her and getting to explore my creativity in this way.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">5. I love to travel and have visited many interesting and diverse locations in the past, present, and even the future through the pages of books. One day, I would actually like to travel to some of these places in real life. I have two fantasy vaction spots: Australia and Japan.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">6. I have written 2 grants in the last 2 years and have received $1700 to use for technology in my classroom and to go on a field trip. This year I plan on writing a grant to see if I can get ipod touches or ipads to use in my classroom for "Listen to Reading".</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">7. I love to cook and try new things in the kitchen. I have been working on a recipe to submit to the Pilsbury Bake-off next year. I think it would be fun to compete in food contest.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br />
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For the last 7 years I have been teaching the 5th grade in some form or another. Sometimes straight and sometimes in combination with a 4th or a 6th. Guided reading for me consisted mostly of passing out the same book to a group of about 6 kids who were all at basically the same level. I would then try to meet with as many groups as possible in one day, which was usually 2, while trying to keep the rest of the kids busy. This was usually achieved with worksheets or if I had an exceptionally well behaved class, I may have tried using centers. Lets face it, it was all busy work.</div>
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We would sit at my kidney table which I later upgraded to a U-shaped table and would take turns round-robin reading. I thought I was getting fancy when I would give them post-it notes. They would look for new words, ask questions or make text connections and they may even make a prediction or two. I would give them a set amount of pages to read for the next time we would get together and then I would send them on their merry way. I would expect them to write a summary for me in their reading notebook, which I later upgraded to writing friendly letters back and forth with my students. (I am not saying that this is a bad idea, I'm just saying after a while all of that reading and writing or summaries and letters was too much for me to keep up with.) My ultimate goal was to make sure everyone got through their books. </div>
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I thought that what I was doing was what I should be doing. We would DRA test our students at the beginning of the year and then again at the end of the year. My students always showed growth. Our district judges us on how the kiddos do on the DRA. They have to achieve a certain fluency speed, have a certain accuracy, and write a good summary. We did this well. I didn't give much of the rest of reading a second thought. All that one on one stuff was for the primary grades. Right?</div>
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Then two things happened. My second grade daughter was an entire grade behind in school and was really struggling in reading. She hated it. Then, I really analyzed how my students were doing on our state tests. That's when I really began paying attention to what my first grade teacher friend was doing in her classroom for reading. I asked her many questions about how she taught and assessed reading. I took a graduate class on teaching struggling readers. I learned the difference between running records and miscue analysis. This is when I realized I wasn't really teaching reading. I was creating good word callers that could write a summary that passed the mustard. They could not, however, go beyond the text and answer deeper meaning questions like authors purpose or inference questions.</div>
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That's when it happened, I discovered "The Sisters" for myself. I had heard of them before, but never gave them much thought for me the upper elementary teacher. I attended their Daily 5 and CAFE in the Classroom workshopes. I have to say they have helped me put into place a real reading system for my classroom. It all makes so much since. It was like, "Duh".</div>
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This year I moved to third grade and jumped into the pool with both feet and I am swimming in the warm waters of Daily Five and the CAFE in the Classroom. My kids love it, and I love it. By day 7 we have made it to 29 minutes of stamina for Read to Self and we have introduced Word Work. I know that the sisters suggest Work on Writing next, but I had to get spelling going.</div>
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By the way, my daughter is now in 4th grade. She still has some reading issues, but she is reading right where she should be for her grade level and she enjoys books now.</div>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTNX7V_1fiHff9MMmuds8jAnEN4LkV3Ksj28X7928PidxXLUazosZO1H_Rn" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" nba="true" src="http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTNX7V_1fiHff9MMmuds8jAnEN4LkV3Ksj28X7928PidxXLUazosZO1H_Rn" /></a></div>Every year I lke to start off my year with some character education along with my procedures. This year so far I have read <u>Crysanthemum</u>, <u>Lily and the Purple Plastic Purse</u>, <u>Don't Laugh at Me</u>, and <u>Have you filled a Bucket Today</u>? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">After I had read all of these books I did a lesson that I call Paper Timmy. I Draw a stick figure of a child on a sheet of chart paper and I usually call it Paper Timmy. I usually make a big deal out of the fact that we have a new student in our class and his name is Timmy. This year I have a Timmy, so we have a Paper Tommy. We discussed how in each book someone said mean things to someone else. I asked the children to think of a time when someone said something mean to them or that they said something mean to someone else. I have them share these out loud. As they say each mean thing, I begin to crumple up Timmy. I say do you ever feel this way inside, all tight or crumpled when someone says something meanto you? Eventually I have a tight wadded up ball. The kids relate to this and say that they have felt this way inside when they get made fun of. We all agreed that this is not a good feeling.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then I tell them that it takes many positive compliments to ofset (not the word I used with them.) just one negative comment. Then we begin to say nice things to Timmy and compliment him. As the children say nice things or fill Timmy's bucket, I begin to undo the tight paper ball. We continue complimenting Timmy as I continued unfurling the wad until he is flat again. I try desperately, with lots of flair, to get Timmy to look perfect . This is when I point out that no matter how many nice things we say to Timmy, you can't erase the effects of the mean words. You can never take them back.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I hang Timmy somewhere in the room and when we begin to experience times when kids are being mean, I point to paper Tinny and remind them that they ned to say nice things and they cannot take back the mean things.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I have had former studetns come back to my room at the beginning of the year and they will point and say "There is paper Timmy. I remember him," I love that. Be prepared however, one year I had a student tell me that it made him feel bad when his step-dad told him he would never be anything when he grows up. That's when I realized that when he left my room he would believe he could be anything when he grew up.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is one of my favorite activities! I hope you use and enjoy it.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4880013059969715018.post-91684553668265402402011-09-09T23:17:00.004-04:002011-09-10T00:21:34.984-04:00Week One is in the Books!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I must say I am learning to embrace my inner third grade teacher. I wasn't sure she was actually in there, but when put to the test, she came up big. I am loving these kids!!!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">It has been 8 years since I taught 3rd grade and I only did it one year and I have tried to blot out the memory for the last 7 years. I am sure they were not that bad, but I had many things stacked against me that year. I had just gone back to work after taking a year off having my daughter, I was stuck way out in a portable building with a 5th grade and two self contained special education classrooms. The portable was literally on the next block from the school, which meant that my little darlings had to <strike>walk</strike> hike to the main building a couple of times a day, rain or shine. Sometimes library just wasn't worth it. There were 4 other single portables out there with us. We referred to ourselves as "The Village". It really did seem like an M. Night Shamilan (sp?) movie. On top of all that my class had the alphabet soup of issues. Don't get me wrong I loved them. In fact I followed them for the next three years till they were in 6th grade. Not that I had all of them every year, but I had most of them at least twice by the time they graduated from 6th grade. But for crying out catfish, they didn't know what to do with lined loose leaf notebook paper. I did not realize the vast difference in maturity from 5th to 3rd.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My name is Nannette. and I can understand Crysanthmum's angst. Plus, I could never find anything with my name on it when I was a kid. I hated Ann and Beth and Susan. They had cute pencils and stickers and such that were emblazened with their name. I had to find stickers with Nancy of them and carefully cut off the "cy" (Nan is my nick name.) However, I love my name now!</td></tr>
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I love getting to know a little bit about all of you through these fun Linky Parties. Here is what I am currently doing. And I mean currently, as in right now while I am on my computer while still laying in my bed when I should really be doing something else. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Have a great holiday weekend all. It is back to school for me on Tuesday. I can't wait to meet my new class and get back into a routine.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">If you want to join in all of the Linky Party fun, head on over to <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2011/09/september-currently.html">Oh' Boy Fourth Grade</a> and let us all know what you are doing currently.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2011/09/september-currently.html"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://i730.photobucket.com/albums/ww307/LeslieFLambert/Blog%20Items%20New/meghanfbutton.png" width="200" xaa="true" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4880013059969715018.post-83101936838980024862011-09-01T21:38:00.003-04:002011-09-01T21:59:50.865-04:00Ready Or Not Here It Comes!<div style="text-align: justify;">I officially went back to work this week, and the kiddos are coming on Tuesday! I have to tell you, I am a little more than nervous. Which I don't get cause I feel like if I have been teaching for 18+ years, I should not be nervous. At least I have not had the bizarre nightmares yet. You know the ones I am talking about. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, I am teaching a new grade, learning a new curriculum, we have a new principal, I am attempting the Daily 5 and CAFE in the classroom, I am the chairperson of our Positive Behavior Support (PBS) team and we are in our first or implementation year, and so on. I am sure you get the picture.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Today, I finished my classroom to the best of my ability. I am ready for the kids to come. Supplies are on the desks, my word search is ready to go, I have my procedures ready to teach, and my Daily 5 lesson is good to go along with a picture book to read aloud.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am giving myself permission to not think about school for the weekend and I am going to go in Tuesday morning good to go, at least for Tuesday morning. I will worry about the rest of the week on Tuesday afternoon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For the rest of you who go back to school with your children next week, enjoy your last weekend of freedom and good luck as you go forth and teach next week!!!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the view from my desk. There is my Elmo that I cannot and I mean cannot live without.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the view from my door. That is my new (at least new to me) area run for my kiddos to sit on for group instruction.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the front of my in class library. I still need to label and organize my book bins.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I saw this as a "Use Your Writing Glasses" pocket chart. I am going to turn it into a "Write like a Star" pocket chart to fit my Hollywood theme. I love the big pink sunglasses that I created. I even glued some bling at the top corners of the frames. This will get more added to it as we do some mini-lessons for writing.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my desk. This is where I will meet with small groups of students. They also love to sit in my desk for a reward.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my popcorn word wall that I got from The Teacher Wife blog. I think it looks great!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Here is my word work stuff.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">This is my "Rock Star" behavior clip chart. We have a school-wide chart. We do not move up just down. So I had to modify this a bit. Thank you Abby from Inspired Apple.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love the clock numbers. These I have gotten somewhere. I can't remember where. I think it will be great for my 3rd graders.</td></tr>
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I have been working like a wild woman to transform my humble classroom into a Hollywood extravaganza. I am implementing the Daily 5 and Cafe this year in my classroom. A few weeks back I created and posted CAFE posters. Now I have created mini posters for the Daily 5 choices. I am still new to this whole creating and posting thing, so hopefully you are able to download my posters. </div>
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I find and rip-off, steel, or borrow my images from google images. I know that the "Admit One" was a download from Mrs. Van Dyke's website. Please know that I only use these images in my classroom and do not profit from them in any way except for the warm fuzzy feeling of creating something fun and exciting to help liven up my classroom and facilitate learning in young children's minds. Enjoy!</div>
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<br /></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4880013059969715018.post-29589799418793364662011-08-24T20:24:00.003-04:002011-08-24T20:45:23.569-04:00Here is my Room! (The Unfinished Version)<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I hated to miss out on all of the fun because my room is not yet complete, so I am giving you a sneak peek at my thought process. I have been working in my room for days, but it really has a long way to go. </div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: justify;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">The first three picture are what my room looked like when I walked in to my classroom last week. Look how shiny my floors are. There is nothing a beautiful as freshly waxed floors just waiting to be walked on for the first time of the new school year. I tip-toe around in my bare feet just to keep it that way. Just kidding, but I do try and not scuff it up while I am rearranging my room. The maintenance workers want us to put a map of our classroom before we leave for the summer. I can't do that. I look for inspiration all summer long, and then I am able to look at my room and arrange it for the new school year once I get there.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: justify;">The next three pictures are what I have accomplished so far. I spend a lot of time contemplating where I want everything. Unfortunately I was not able to keep all of my stuff. I have had to streamline to accommodate my desire to Daily 5 and CAFE this year. Also, I have moved down to 3rd grade so I am really changing up my room. I was given a huge rug from a coworker coming into my building and one was left in the room to put in my classroom. I am so excited to get all of my children up on that rug for whole group instruction. My kiddos will be able to use the computers for listen to reading. I also have my tape recorder the for the children to listen to books as well.</div><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">I am going with a Hollywood theme this year. Sorry the top of the board got cut off. This is going to be where the students will check-in for their lunch, sign-out to go to the bathroom, exchange their pencils, and get paper. I will put some clever movie type saying here. </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This will be my supply/check-in area.</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"> This will be where the students will get the materials for Word Work. I have stamps and pads, pipe cleaners, reading rods for Making Words, magnetic letters, pencils boxes with sand and clay. On the top in the pop corn container there is write on wipe off handwriting cards, mini magnetic erasers, fine point expo markers, and pointers for working with the word wall.</div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is where I plan on keeping my Work Work materials.</td></tr>
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">Tell us a little something about you.</span></u></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I am a wife and a mom. I have been married to my husband for almost 17 years. I took a short break from teaching and became a sales associate for a now defunct home improvement chain and met my husband while I was working there. He even proposed to me on bended knee in the flooring department. How romantic don't you think? Three years later while subbing in my now school district I had my first child, a son, Joshua. Five years later while teaching in my now school building I had my second child, a daughter, Elizabeth. They are now 13 and 9. And I am old. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">How long have you been teaching?</span></u></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">I taught at a small christian school for 3 1/2 years, took a break, subbed a year, and now I have been at my current job for 14 years. So my grand total is 18 1/2 years. Yikes!!! You would think that I would have my act together by now.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="font-size: large;">You might not know...</span></u></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">I have always wanted to be a rock star. When I turned 40, I somehow knew that was not going to be my reality. But, I have been able to have some pretty awesome singing gigs. I sang to my husband at our wedding while holding his hands and looking into his eyes. Not a dry eye in the house. I had to however threaten my now husband of 17 years, that if he cried I would kill him. Then I had the opportunity to sing the same song at the vow renewal for my parents 25th anniversary. Priceless memories.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b> </b></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>What are you looking most forward to this school year?</u></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">Teaching third grade and Daily 5 and CAFE in the Classroom.</span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><strong><u><span style="font-size: large;">What do you need to improve?</span></u></strong></span></b></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">I really need some help in paperwork and material organization. My way of thinking says, "If I put it on my table, I will know where to find it when I need it." Here is the problem I don't have a desk. I station myself at my "U" table. After about 3-4 days, I look as if I am barricading myself behind a walled fortress.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: small;">I would also like to improve on timely feed back to my students regarding their daily work and homework. I end up with stacks and piles of work to grade when I go to do report cards. I am trying to solve this problem in two ways. Less more meaningful work grading many items together as a class.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: small;">Lastly, I want to use more formative assessment, especially in the area of literacy.</span></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><u><b><span style="font-size: large;">What teaching supplies can you *not* live without?</span></b></u></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">This past year I was given an Elmo and digital projector to use in my classroom. Can I just say, It was one of the best tools that I have ever been given to teach with in my teaching career. I packed up my overhead and got rid of it. I never want to use that thing again. I could show clips off of the Internet, put a picture book up and read it and the entire class could see it, put up student work, and much more.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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Rachel gets dresses from all 50 states and has gotten thousands of dresses donated. The shipping of these dresses to Africa can be costly. That is what the fundraiser was all about. They were also collecting school supplies for a school in Malawi. It was a great day and in the end they were able to raise over $13,000. <br />
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If you are looking for a good service project for your classroom or your school, please check out all of the good that <a href="http://www.littledressesforafrica.org/blog/">Little Dresses for Africa</a> is doing. <br />
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