Yay! My first post on my new blog!!!
This will be my first year teaching third grade after many years of fourth and fifth grades. I feel that this would be a good year to shake it up a bit and try new things while I am learning a new curriculum.
I would really like to find a way to give timely and effective student feedback. I find myself bogged down with way too much student paperwork. Our district adopted a spelling program a few years back, but I am not keen on all of the busy work that it entails. I also do not believe in memorizing a list of words for a test. I fundamentally do no want to do this program this year. I am going to a Daily 5/ CAFE workshop on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. It is my goal to implement what I learn this week into my classroom this fall. Two of my coworkers use Daily 5 in their classrooms.
I am doing a Hollywood theme this year and I want to have the students use S.T.A.R. journal this year. I am hoping to get someone to donate them. I really don't want to have to buy them all myself, and students don't really have the money to provide many of their own school supplies in my district.
2 comments:
I can relate to your resolutions. Last year, I purchased a book about effective classroom feedback by Susan Brockhart. It helped a lot (some common sense stuff but achievable, too) It is an easy, inexpensive read!
Keri
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A great modification to your spelling program might be Beth Newingham's word study that she discusses on her scholastic blog. Here is the link:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:y6wb3aTW434J:blogs.scholastic.com/top_teaching/2010/10/my-november-top-ten-list-word-study-in-action.html+beth+newingham+word+study&cd=4&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a&source=www.google.com
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