tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21944703087857260832024-03-13T08:55:14.282-07:00It's Elementary!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864442355339517243noreply@blogger.comBlogger91125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194470308785726083.post-2678925637527012412017-10-28T18:31:00.004-07:002017-10-28T18:31:46.256-07:00Tips for a Spooktacularly Easy School Halloween PartyIt's that time of year! Classroom parties and sugar crashes have just begun. How does an elementary teacher survive? Well, until you can get home to that bottle of wine, here are some tips to calm the chaos.<br />
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Tip #1: Set the mood early. I like to put up my Halloween decorations at the beginning of the month. It saves a lot of stress getting everything ready the day-of. In our school district, parent/teacher conferences fall during the last week of October, as does Nevada Day, so decorating early keeps me from getting overwhelmed. It also sets a festive mood for the entire month!<br />
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Tip #2: Delegate! I ask my 5th-graders for volunteers to plan our party. This year 2 boys took it upon themselves to put everything together. They polled the class on treats and activities. They set all this up on clipboards, so their classmates could look it over and make choices during their free time. No class time was lost. The boys even typed up a family letter explaining the event and what everyone needed to bring.<br />
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You don't have to teach older grades to take the weight off your shoulders. When I taught first grade, I asked for a parent to plan the party. I simply gave them a list of other parents who offered to help and let them take the reigns. On the day of the party, all I had to do was sit back and watch!<br />
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Tip #3: It's all about the kids. Remember, this party isn't an extravaganza to show what a marvelous teacher you are. Let your students set the tone. You know your classroom dynamics better than anyone...and you know how much that changes from year to year. One group of students might be able to handle a craft, while another can only handle a fun story or holiday movie. Some years you have oodles of parent "helpers" while other years you're completely on your own. Take cues from your students before planning something that may be overwhelming for them and you.<br />
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Tip #4: Keep it simple! Sometimes less truly is more. I've done parties where I set up centers for students to rotate around with a fun, creative holiday activity at each one...anything from decorating sugar cookies to turning each other into mummies. While definitely memorable, they can be a bit much. Remember, most of your students are going trick-or-treating or to Halloween parties after school, and all of them will come back the next day crashing from the sugar overload. Your party just needs to get them started. A light snack (preferably sugar-free) and single activity, whether that's a costume parade, movie, or craft, are plenty.<br />
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So take a deep breath, get ready, and remember...you still have that glass of wine waiting for you at home!<br />
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Here are a couple of fun activities to get you started:<br />
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It's once again time for some show and tell! It has been an exciting fall, and I have so much to share...it's hard to limit it to just four :)<br />
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Our area of Nevada is known for brush fires. We had a dry-lightning storm during the first week of school that started this beauty right across from my home. This is the view from my front porch. Thankfully, the wind drifted away from all the homes, and our wonderful firefighters kept the damage to only about 300 acres.<br />
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When we're not enduring wildfires, we're enjoying the amazing mountains. My brother and I took our girls on a nature walk adventure where we found a multitude of interesting sticks, leaves, and snow...and yes, we did have a snowball fight.<br />
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I have a student-teacher this year who is planning some great activities for our class. Here are her milk carton totem poles to emphasize the culture of the American Indians of the Northwest Coast.<br />
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And, finally, one of my favorite activities from my days as a first grade teacher...making words. I'm offering my Halloween edition as a freebie. Enjoy!<br />
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Earlier this month, I came to my classroom and found this:<br />
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So much to do, but this year I had some help. I get to work with a student teacher, and I'm so excited! Between the 2 of us (and meetings, training on a new reading program, Leader in Me training, and more meetings, multiple changes to our class list, and did I mention the meetings?), we have put together the perfect country classroom, inspired by small-town Nevada, for our 5th-graders. Enjoy!</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">adorable map sticky wall art I found</td></tr>
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Open house was a success, and we're all set for school to start on Monday. Have a wonderful year!</div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864442355339517243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194470308785726083.post-51228782428683262672017-08-15T03:00:00.000-07:002017-08-15T03:00:24.418-07:00Show and Tell Tuesday<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Welcome back to school! I am so excited to get this year started, and happy to be participating in Show and Tell Tuesday for August.<br />
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To start with, I want to share one of our school's end of the year traditions. On the last day of school, once we've seen all the kiddos onto the buses, we all run to the back of the schoolyard and wave goodbye as they leave.</div>
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This summer my 3 sisters came to visit with all their children. Together we had 12 kids running around! When they got tired of my yard, we took them up to the mountains to wade in the stream at our favorite park. This picture is my son, Jaden making a face behind my nieces, Kaitlyn and Fae.</div>
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Number 3 is another summer picture. After my wonderful family left, we visited more family in Montana. You can't go to Montana without visiting the beautiful Glacier National Park...my favorite place in the world!</div>
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And finally, a preview of posts to come. Once again the time has come to set up my classroom. I'm going for a shabby country theme this year. More pictures will follow in the next 2 weeks as I get ready for Back-to-School Night on August 24. But for now...</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Welcome back to school with this fun activity pack!</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864442355339517243noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194470308785726083.post-55813771292903608642017-07-31T07:27:00.001-07:002017-07-31T07:27:42.907-07:00Teachers Pay Teachers Sale!!!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864442355339517243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194470308785726083.post-56031433713895928422017-07-28T08:27:00.002-07:002017-07-28T08:27:30.209-07:00Back to School NightmaresI don't know about you, but I always begin having first-day-of-school nightmares around the end of July. I had my first last night! They're always pretty much the same...I have no lesson plans, my students aren't listening, my classroom isn't prepared. My coworkers and I like to share our nightmare stories. Each is more ridiculous than the last! Share your first-day-of-school dreams in the comments below.<br />
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I'm always a little nervous about the first day of school. But the more predominant emotion is excitement! I can't wait to get back and meet my new kiddos, catch up with my colleagues, and get the ball rolling again. It's not that I don't love my summer off (who wouldn't?), but just that I really love my job!<br />
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We really have the best job in the world! We get to play with and inspire children. Of course, there are challenges...that child you just can't get through to, the uncooperative parents, the constantly changing regulations...but the benefits far outweigh the hardships.<br />
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Stores are already starting their back-to-school sales, and I thought I'd offer a treat of my own: my back-to-school mini-packet is marked down right now.<br />
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It offers these fun activities:<br />
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<li>Guess Who?</li>
<li>Beginning of year and end of year letters to self</li>
<li>goal bunting</li>
<li>top-10 lists</li>
<li>flexible partner lists</li>
<li>Technology lists</li>
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I can't wait to try this one out on my own students! Enjoy the rest of your quickly passing summer vacation!</div>
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I'm joining Forever in 5th Grade once again for her monthly show-and-tell post. I missed September, so I'm catching up for 2 months.<br />
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To start off, we spent the end of summer, and the first part of fall remodeling both our bathrooms. This was a bigger project than we anticipated! But, after 3 months, we are all but finished. We just have a bit of trim-work to do. Below is a picture of the master vanity.<br />
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Halloween is my favorite holiday! I think it's because Halloween is the start of the holiday season. I start decorating for fall on September 1, and continue to the end of December. Yesterday, I attended a craft class and made a few new goodies to add to my collection. Now where, oh where, to store it all?<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I did the spider wall just to terrify my mom :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Made the wreath at a craft fair last year.</td></tr>
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Now, on to my classroom. Our district is focusing on science right now to familiarize everyone with the Next Generation Science Standards. I get to be our school's facilitator, though I'm not exactly sure yet what that means. I love teaching science, so here are a few of our latest projects:<br />
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In September we made mold terrariums to study the effects of decomposers on dead tissue.<br />
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Finally, our school put on a Parent Pep Rally as part of our Leader in Me process. 5th grade's display showcased the 5th Habit: Seek First to Understand, then to be Understood. So we made big-ear boxes and wrote poems to show how being a good listener helps us avoid conflicts.<br />
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Link back to the original post by clicking on the Show and Tell button at the top of the page. See you all next month!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864442355339517243noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194470308785726083.post-70043356869556175572016-10-11T17:50:00.002-07:002016-10-11T17:50:35.624-07:00October Product Spotlight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Fall has totally gotten away from me! I meant to post this on the first, but life happened :) So here are my products for October...<br />
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These first 2 products come from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Tied-2-Teaching" target="_blank">Tied 2 Teaching</a>. Just in time for the election!<br />
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This next 2 products are from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Teacher-Down-The-Hall" target="_blank">The Teacher Down the Hall</a>. These look like a lot of fun.</div>
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And the last 2 products are mine...<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Natalie-At-Its-Elementary" target="_blank">Natalie at It's Elementary</a></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "geneva" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">These back to school survival kits are a terrific way to ease first-day jitters! Just put together in a baggy or paper cup with all the items listed in the poem. There is a copy for kindergarten through 3rd grade in this kit.</span></div>
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Daily-5-and-Math-Daily-3-Poster-Set-and-Timer-Bundle-2652479" target="_blank"><img alt="Daily 5 and Math Daily 3 Poster Set and Timer *BUNDLE*" src="https://ecdn1.teacherspayteachers.com/thumbitem/Daily-5-and-Math-Daily-3-Poster-Set-and-Timer-Bundle-2652479-1469100605/original-2652479-1.jpg" /></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "geneva" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">This is for Math Daily 3 and the Daily 5. There are posters for each station and a rotation timer with a spot for you to write your student names in each section. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "geneva" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">CVC Middle Sounds Task Cards, or SCOOT, builds fluency, segmenting, letter-sound correspondence, and writing letters. 24 Task Cards, a recording sheet, and answer key included. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "geneva" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">Students </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">say and write</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "geneva" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;"> the middle sound of the picture shown on the task card. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "geneva" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">Great for PreK, Kindergarten, and 1st grade back to school review. Use in centers, guided reading groups, as morning work, an activity for early finishers, in a home-school activity bags, for tutor activities, and/or assessments. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "geneva" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">24 CVC Middle Sounds Task Cards. (Full color) 4 on a page. </span><br />
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<br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "geneva" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.003px;">Standards for Mathematical Practice flaps for interactive notebooks.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.003px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.003px;">Compatible with enVisionmath2.0 (follows their videos) but can be used with ANY math program/series.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.003px;" /><br style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 16.003px;">2 versions allow for versatility and differentiation.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">Poems of the week can be a powerful shared reading tool to teach a variety of concepts. These original poems focus on building classroom community, demonstrating good character, and solving common behavior problems. The poems invite discussion and promote a positive classroom environment. As part of a Poem of the Week program, the poems can also be used as the basis for lessons in comprehension, fluency, phonemic awareness, phonics, and vocabulary. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">The following poems and resources are included (topics are noted in parentheses).</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">Suggestions for implementing a Poem of the Week in your classroom.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">A Kind and Caring Classroom (building community; suggestions for use included)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">General Directions for Using the Poems</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">Friends (friendship)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">How Would You Feel (teasing/bullying)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">I Can Use My Words (using words to solve problems)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">Tattle or Tell? 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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864442355339517243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194470308785726083.post-67494007707695859982016-08-27T19:01:00.000-07:002016-08-27T19:01:13.249-07:00Classroom Reveal Part 1I've decided to do something a little different in my room this year. I put up the necessities and my students will do the rest over the next couple of weeks. So, this is where I started...<br />
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And this is where I am now...</div>
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I used my school colors this year...teal and black with lime green because I love green! I have 25 students (so far), so I put the desks into groups of 8 in order to have more carpet space. I have 3 gathering areas on the floor for mini-lessons. I'm still trying to find a black and lime green rug for the other 2 spaces, but this will be used mainly for reading and writing workshop; the easel is the perfect size for anchor charts.<br />
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I don't have a table for small groups, so I improvised with my 3 extra desks...</div>
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I'll have to get a new president picture for my social studies wall this year! Below, I have my Eureka math board, which won't stay empty for long, and my goal board. We will start on goals a few weeks into the year, so for open house this was my "Meet the Teacher" board.<br />
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We are on the second year of being a Leader in Me school, working towards being a Lighthouse School. This is another wall that will evolve as the year moves along. The tree branch is for our Leadership Roles (jobs) which my kiddos will choose during the first week.<br />
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I ran out of wall space, so my word wall is a word door with a magnetic dry-erase board. Again, this will fill up throughout the year with student-picked vocabulary words.</div>
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I'm trying a new behavior chart this year. Instead of keeping it on the wall (which I have very limited space), each student is in charge of monitoring their own behavior...with my help, of course! Thank goodness for tiny clothespins :)<br />
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Finally, a little motivation for my windowsill...hoping to get curtains up soon!<br />
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More pics to come as my students finish making this classroom their own...have a wonderful school year!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864442355339517243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194470308785726083.post-33416179519133750092016-08-21T14:10:00.002-07:002016-08-21T14:10:48.355-07:00Sale and Give Away!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Tomorrow only, my store is 28% off. As a bonus, I'm doing a give-away.<br />
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<script src="https://widget-prime.rafflecopter.com/launch.js"></script>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864442355339517243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194470308785726083.post-44309970754326669962016-08-16T00:00:00.000-07:002016-08-16T00:00:02.940-07:00Show and Tell Tuesday: August Edition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm participating in another show-and-tell with forever in fifth grade. This month I want to show off some summer fun. When you're finished reading, click on the picture above to go back to the original post.<br />
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In June my entire family came to Nevada to celebrate my parents' wedding, my youngest sister's first baby, and 3 birthdays! My favorite part was spending a day at the Lamoille Fair with most of my nieces and nephews. This is me with my daughter, Allison, and my niece, Candace.<br />
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In July we went to Montana to visit my husband's family. The weather was perfect (mid-80's the whole time!) for picnics, hiking, horseback riding, and lots of shopping. My kids love to spend time with the horses. This is their best friend, Fabio.<br />
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In August we worked a booth for National Night Out. In case you don't know, that's the first Tuesday in August where public safety (firemen, police, emt's, etc.) cook dinner for the community and offer tons of safety information. We worked at the drug awareness booth hosted by the Elk's Club. My son dressed up as Elroy Elk to bring people over to the booth.<br />
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Finally, August is also time to put my classroom back together. Here's to another exciting, wonderful year in 5th grade!<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: "verdana" , "arial" , "geneva" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">This is a fun and easy activity for the first day or week of Kindergarten! The pages are created to be half page size books for cheaper printing and include activities easy for kinders to complete at the beginning of the year.</span><br />
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Great for centers, small group review, or whole class!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">Included:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;"> •150 pages of content!</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;"> •5 games (with multiple versions for </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">differentiation</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;"> and </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">low/no prep</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;"> •Reading and Writing Numbers to 120</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;"> •Understanding Tens and Ones</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;"> •Comparing Numbers</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;"> •Ten More, Ten Less</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;"> •17 printables (including 2 </span><strong style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">open-ended</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;"> pages that can be used over and over!)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">The games are designed for math centers or stations, but could also be used as whole class activities. 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font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">The images will have high resolution, so you can enlarge them and they will still be crisp. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Geneva, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16.003px;">Making Words is a great activity to build phonics and word recognition skills. Each word list begins with 2-letter words all the way up to a mystery word. This activity is perfect for covering grades 1-3 foundational and language standards.</span><br />
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I'm once again linking up with Stephanie from Forever in 5th Grade for the Show and Tell Tuesday linky. Is it wrong to feel so happy that SCHOOL'S OUT!!!??? Check out my "show and tells", then click back on the button above to go to the original post.<br />
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We had some great activities for the end of 5th grade this year. First, I want to show-off our awesome field trip to see the Lehman Caves in Great Basin National Park. We focused on national parks this year for the 100th birthday of the National Park Service. Along with research projects, online activities, and a <a href="http://troutenitselementary.blogspot.com/2016/04/national-park-day.html" target="_blank">National Park Day</a> (check out this link to see the awesome job they did), we took the 4 hour bus ride up to the cave system for students who <i>earned</i> it (they had to meet certain criteria to go).<br />
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My 2nd show-off is our "Science Day". Once each quarter we decide on a subject and rotate our entire 5th grade through different activities and lessons. It's a great chance to get to know all the kids, not just the ones in our own classroom. For the 4th quarter we decided on science for the subject space for our theme since we always build and launch rockets at the end of the year. My lesson was creating, measuring, and comparing "moon" craters made from different sized objects. The kids had a blast and my classroom was covered in "moon dust" aka flour.<br />
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Our school began the process of becoming a Leader in Me school this year. We focused on teaching kids the 7 Habits as well as taking on more hands-on leadership roles within our school. Though we still have a long way to go, the kids really rose to the challenge. They did everything to keep our school running like helping out in the lunchroom, putting on assemblies, raising and lowering flags, and monitoring attendance. It was great to see them so excited to do the things we all consider as work, and they were motivated to make our school the best it could be.<br />
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Finally, school is out! We had some great last-week activities: rocket launching, a picnic lunch, kickball tournament (the teachers beat the 5th-graders for the 2nd year in a row), talent show, teacher talent show, field day, and awards ceremonies. Amidst all this we had some fun classroom activities as well.<br />
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Each class was assigned 5 national parks as well as a notable person who contributed to the National Park Service in some way. We put together a <a href="http://sce5nationalpark.weebly.com/" target="_blank">website</a> to guide them along (check out our link!). The groups were then assigned different roles within their park to study: zoologist, botanist, statistician, historian, and tour guide. They had to research and write a report based on their particular role for the park they were assigned. Then the teams put together a tri-fold display to present to the entire school, their parents, and even the superintendent!<br />
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Our kids got 2 and a half hours of public speaking experience! It was a wonderful opportunity for them, and we (the 5th grade teachers) were so impressed with how hard they worked and how they presented themselves, especially to the adults who came to see. These kids never cease to amaze me!<br />
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I have seen my own children bring home "work" that was way too easy for them, or game-type assignments that had nothing to do with the class they were taking. When I as about it, they claim it's extra credit. What is the point of extra work if it isn't allowing the child to demonstrate their knowledge of a subject?!<br />
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So here is the assignment: I gave them a sort of scavenger hunt to fill out as we explored projects at our school's science fair. The questions weren't the usual like: "Which project is your favorite?", but more like "Choose one hypothesis that isn't justified and rewrite it with a research-based reasoning." Because the assignment was time (and place) sensitive seeing as how we were only allowed 45 minutes at the fair, I couldn't make it a required assignment. But I also didn't want it to be "busy" work. The purpose was to see them apply the scientific method to an array of experiments. So I accepted reasonable and explainable responses as bonus points on their own science fair project. The entire assignment was only 8 points, so I felt it wouldn't inflate the grades of those who saved their own experiment for 10:00 the night before, but would show me they understood the scientific method, which is what science fair projects are all about anyway.<br />
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Science Fair projects are finished! My 5th graders have spent the last month learning about and conducting their own science fair experiments. They are presented at the school fair this week, then the county fair in March. This picture is my daughter and 2 classmates testing the evaporation rates of three different liquids by weighing sponges over time that were soaked in the liquids.<br />
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My son auditioned and made the regional honor band. He's the percussionist in the center-back...looks like he's glowing with the stage lights shining so bright. They sounded amazing!<br />
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I don't usually do whole-class novels. I'm more of a book club/literature circle kind of teacher, but since a movie version of <u>The Great Gilly Hopkins</u> is coming out later this month, we wanted all our 5th graders to read the book. After a mini-lesson on plot conflicts (character vs. character, character vs. self, character vs. society, and character vs. nature) we applied it to chapter 3 of the book with this anchor chart...hanging from the top of my unused TV. My kids then filled out a similar chart with a partner for the next chapter. They are really loving this book!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864442355339517243noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194470308785726083.post-18475918400086720472016-01-31T08:59:00.003-08:002016-01-31T08:59:33.150-08:00Are Classroom Observations Beneficial?I just read a really interesting article on the pitfalls of classroom observations and decided to start a discussion. This is such an interesting article. Personally, I've always enjoyed observations, albeit I'm literally terrified: like bungee jumping or sky diving terrified. But they give my students a chance to show-off what they can do. This article goes into some statistics about which type of teacher got the highest evaluations based on observations, but looked even more closely at classroom composition. I agree that classroom composition plays a huge part in student achievement, and just in what I can do with them. This year I lucked out in that I have a class (2 classes actually) that are perfectly suited for projects and investigations (student-led learning) that will overall increase their achievement. Some years I can't do that because of lack of participation, behavior issues, lack of parent support. Last year's class, while I loved them, didn't have the internal motivation for much. They didn't bring back homework, I had very little parent involvement or communication, and 20 of my 24 students were extremely shy, as in painfully so. So I'm sure it looked like was only engaging the 4 students who would willingly join in discussions. I don't think observations are an ineffective tool; but classroom composition needs to be taken into account for what is being observed. Check out this article and let me know what you think.<br />
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First, a show and tell from home. We had 2 very old cats pass away this fall, so we thought it was time for a new member of the family, and let me tell you, it is not easy to find a kitten in December! But we managed to snatch up Elfie 2 days before Christmas. Her first adventure in the Trouten household: climbing up the Christmas tree!</div>
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I have the best students in the world! I was very sick over Thanksgiving break, and even missed the first day back. Still not feeling up to par the next day, I told my students it would be a while before I got the Christmas decorations up in the classroom. Half my class showed up during their lunch recess to decorate for me!<br />
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Nevada has adopted the Next Generation Science Standards, and fortunately our district offered a free class for anyone interested. Of course I jumped right on that! To celebrate, I'm going to share a couple of my science displays. This first one is a collaborative research project. Students are divided into groups, assigned an ecosystem, assigned individual roles within those groups, and they then work together to make a display for their ecosystem to teach to the rest of the class. Here are this year's displays:<br />
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Another science project: near the beginning of the year we made vertebrate/invertebrate pop-up books. I've been doing this activity for a couple of years now, and it works so well I decided it was time to put my unit together for TPT. So here is a picture of the performance assessment that goes along with my newest product: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/5-Kingdoms-of-Organisms-2278879" target="_blank">5 kingdoms of living things.</a><br />
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1. Carol of the Bells<br />
2. Baklava<br />
3. My kids and I have a book of inspirational and spiritual messages every day for the month of December along with scriptures and carols. We read it together each evening before bed.<br />
4. Twas' the Night Before Christmas<br />
5. Choosing names off one of the many giving trees around town.<br />
6. Playing with all my cousins at one set of Grandparents' house on Christmas Eve, then playing with the other cousins at my other grandparents' house on Christmas Day. It's a good thing they only lived 15 miles apart! Pretty much any time to get together and cause trouble with my cousins was a good time!<br />
7. On my 16th birthday, my grandma bought me a year's worth of piano lessons from a professional teacher.<br />
8. Every year, my kids and I make a gingerbread village. None of us are very creative, so it usually ends up looking like a ghost town.<br />
9. Charlie Brown's Christmas<br />
10. Amazon...nothing beats shopping in your pj's with a cup of hot cocoa :)<br />
11. books, books, and books!<br />
12. My favorite subject to teach is reading, and my current favorite product is a Greek and Latin root packet with activities for the entire year. It is currently marked down to $7.50 for the duration of this linky (today through December 19).<br />
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Make sure you go back to the original page and check out more great blog posts. Merry Christmas!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864442355339517243noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194470308785726083.post-46748639734015093362015-11-01T20:12:00.001-08:002015-11-01T20:12:36.291-08:00What can a teacher do to be a good mentor?I was just featured on Mrs. E Teaches Math with this question: What can a teacher do to be a good mentor?<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15864442355339517243noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2194470308785726083.post-43456220381374831082015-10-24T06:00:00.000-07:002015-10-24T06:00:03.678-07:00Trick or Treat<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm participating in Rachel Parlett's blog hop to share some neat teaching "tricks", and maybe a few "treats" as well. When you finish reading my post, go on to the next blog in the hop for more tricks and treats.<br />
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How about an easy formative assessment trick...exit tickets! For me, these have always been something on the back of my mind. I know I should utilize them more, but when? So this year, I've made exit tickets one of my goals. I don't use them for every lesson, or even every day, but once or twice a week. I never get to hear every kid's thought processes, especially since I have 3 classes of 28 kids each, so exit tickets have opened up a little window into their amazing minds. </div>
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Now for organization...I've seen some teachers who have students hand their tickets to them before they leave, or put them in a basket or bin, but (at least for me), it was too hard to keep track of who turned their ticket in and who just quietly snuck out the door. Rather than catch them the next class, or try to chase them down the hall, I gave each student their own place for exit tickets.</div>
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All of my students in all 3 classes are assigned a number. I have this nifty metal door on my room, so I just put up write on/wipe off magnets with their number on the door (there are a few extra just in case one of the classes gets more kiddos). Students place their completed ticket under their number on the way out. That way I can see immediately who hasn't turned one in. I can collect each set at the end of the class period so the door is ready for the next class.</div>
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Now about topic...these don't have to be elaborate questions based specifically on each lesson taught. The tickets shown above were students own conclusions about the results of a science experiment based on that particular day's reading in the text (you can see 3 students were absent), but there are many generic questions that will work for any subject and almost every lesson. Here are a few to get you started:</div>
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1. Name one important thing you learned in class today.</div>
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2. What is one question you still have about today's lesson?</div>
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3. Pretend your friend was absent. How would you explain the the lesson to him/her?</div>
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4. Write down 1 thing I can do to help you.</div>
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5. What concept has been most difficult/confusing for you in this chapter?</div>
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6. How did today's assignment go? What can you do to improve next time?</div>
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7. If you were writing a quiz for today's lesson, what are 2 questions you would put on it?</div>
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8. What do you need to do to prepare for the upcoming test?</div>
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Keep "trick-or-treating" on around to the next blog! You'll know when you've finished the hop when you get back around to my blog. Happy Halloween!<br />
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