Young Teacher Love: Math and ELA Student Data Tracking Binders and a Freebie!! This post was updated on 12-29-13Note: For those of you that are familiar with Robert Marzano, you can see I am following his fabulous book, The Art and Science of Teaching.
EduKate with Whole Brain. 4th Grade Frolics: MLK Mobile Activity and Sharing some Love. Happy 3 day weekend all:) I wanted to share the Martin Luther King Jr. activity we did yesterday (in case maybe anyone needed an idea for next week.....or, there's always next year) First my kiddos watched two video clips about Martin Luther King Jr. that I had downloaded from United Streaming.
They were super intrigued and I have to say, I even got goose bumps during the parts of his famous speech! After the video clips we brainstormed some of the words that stood out and were important to Martin and what he stood for: Pink Slip. The Polka-dotted Teacher: Goodbye Class of 2011-2012. Wednesday was our last day of school.
This has been such a challenging school year that really tested my nerves and skills as a teacher. I was very happy to have almost all my students pass the C.R.C.T. (just my one E.S.O.L child did not pass...but she has only been speaking English for a year and a half and was expected to pass all of the tests! Umm...yeah ok...passing the English/Language arts section alone was pretty amazing...) Common Core State Standards Checklists for the Classroom. Our common core standards checklists are just what you need to help you keep track of the standards taught in your classroom.
Use these to make sure you are addressing all that you need to teach throughout the course of the school year. Keep track of when you have introduced, retaught and assessed each indicator. The most important parts of the common core are the anchor standards that carry through from kindergarten to high school. About WritingFix: Our Bibliography of Mentor Texts. IMG_4176. Random Name Generator. Simply 2nd Resources: My Resources. Create●Teach●Share: Boggle Board w/ Printable!!! I have been working on some new ideas for my students to do during their Daily Five "Word Work" rotation.
A couple days ago I posted about my Word of the Week Graphic Organizer. Another idea I had was inspired by a couple different sources. I first saw the idea for a Boggle bulletin board on Pinterest. Click here to see the pic. Then I saw a post on Clutter-Free Classroom that further inspired me. The Real Teachr: Strategy Grouping Template for Reading, Writing & Math. Happy Friday!!
Yesterday I talked about different types of lesson planning sheets, and even gave you a copy of my lesson planning sheets. Another thing I used last year was a Strategy Group Planning Sheet for Reading. I came up with the idea towards the middle to end of the year, and I wish I had come up with it earlier. This planning page is a quick reference page that you can either keep in your lesson plan book, or you can keep it in your anecdotal reading records binder (I'll talk about this at a later date). This page will give you a way to plan your strategy/skill groups and what days you want to meet with them. Books to Read Aloud for Grades 3-5.
When I look back on my own elementary days (so very long ago), I can't remember what books my teacher read out loud to us, with one exception: My fourth grade teacher, Mr.
Watson. Mr. Watson read us the best books and he always stopped at the most exciting part, with all of us begging for more. 67 Books Every Geek Should Read to Their Kids Before Age 10. Confessions of a Teaching Junkie: My Teacher's SECRET Life! In an effort to add a little levity to the seriousness of testing week we did a reading/writing innovation lesson that I got from Cristie Fultz over at Ms.
Fultz's Corner. I started by reading the book My Teacher's Secret Life by Stephen Krensky. Then they brainstormed about what MY secret life might be, and created circle maps to include any ideas they had. Then they created a flow map to create their "secret life" story. Don't get booted! Follow these rules! Classroom Rules We will work to be our best every single day!
Our school rules apply in our classroom- be safe, be respectful, be responsible. Kelly's Knack: Teacher Life. I'm going to post on the main page of the blog instead, so it can be separated by posts. 2012-2013 I reorganized some parts of my room.
Here are the latest pictures. July, 2012 First off, I wanted to make a poster that listed all of the things to do when you finish something early. Fabulous Fourth Grade: Favorite Sites. Here are some websites that we enjoy. Just click on the title and the link will take you to that site. Teaching with a Smile: Classroom Library Linky Party. Reading Journals.
I’ve started using reading journals with Sprite. It’s a way to encourage her independent interactions with the novels she’s reading. Lincoln Novel, Bookmark, and Journal I printed and laminated these bookmarks and made a simple single fold book for her Abraham Lincoln biography (shape template). It seems that the bookmarks linked there have disappeared from the web. Common Core / Fourth Grade Science. Common Core / Fourth Grade Math. Math Journal Sundays. With Easter last weekend, I didn't get around to posting our math journal from last week. So, I have two entries to share with you today from our Interactive Math Journals. We're just finishing up our 2D Geometry unit. This journal entries for polygons was near the beginning of the unit. I gave each student an envelope and some coloured paper, and had them work in pairs to construct as many polygons as they could think of.
They were to write the name of the polygon on the front, and on the back they were to write some of the attributes of the polygon. GoogleEarthLandforms. Young Teacher Love. Teaching Vocabulary. Jump To FREE Vocabulary Activities Page Traditionally, teaching vocabulary often involves pre-teaching lists of words, copying down definitions from the board, and children spending endless hours looking up definitions from dictionaries. But here is what we know regarding vocabulary development: A vocabulary gap exists among students in different socioeconomic groups. Vocabulary knowledge affects long-term student achievement. Vocabulary growth accumulates over time. We should not wait to teach children words. 100 Best Children's Chapter Books of All-Time. Chapter books-that final leap into the world of literature where pictures matter less and less.
Young readers are now able to be spirited away to strange and far off places, without the limitations of what is drawn on a page. It’s a beautiful thing, to see that door open up for them. Below you will find a list of some of the best children’s chapter books, suitable for a wide range of ages. 4_Overview_of_SIOP_model_Thrower. August Bulletin Board Ideas & Classroom Decorations. Dandelions and dragonflies. Hello Mrs Sykes - Resources for Teachers: Guided Reading Guide and a Freebie Cheat Sheet! Cvc worksheets short a, short e, short i, short o, short u. Classroom Architect.
Editor's Marks Colos - MC-V1613 - TeacherStorehouse.com - Teacher supplies, school supplies. Back to School! Literacy Centers {free printable} Last year my district started using McGraw-Hill's reading series. While the station ideas for each week's main selection are good, sometimes I find myself spending a lot of time explaining the directions. E is for Explore!: Spelling Battleship. Writer’s Workshop Anchor Charts. I’ve always been a big fan of writing. Create●Teach●Share. Growing Kinders: It’s Calendar Time! Phew. Teacher Login. Freebie and Lots of Pinterest Ideas! Reading Is Thinking: Inference lesson/poetry. This poem, was in the 4th grade state standardized test (MCAS ) one year. The open response question asked "What feelings does the speaker have throughout the poem? " In order to thoroughly answer that, the student would need to have the ability to infer characters feelings by identifying clues in the text .The poet does not come right out and us how the speaker feels.
Greetings from the Asylum: Fun In a File Folder. *sung to the tune of "Love In an Elevator" by Aerosmith* Boxed Children's Books - Books by the Foot. These boxes are ideal for donations to crisis centers, daycares, or schools with low budgets for books. If you buy these for personal use, please be aware that as "GRAB BAGS" you hopefully can use a majority of the books.
IPEVO Point 2 View USB Camera: Electronics. Qualitative Reading Inventory: Word Lists. Cheap Student Books & eBooks. Rockin Resources: Paragraph Writing. Teacher Tips on a Snow Day. Magic Play Dough. Addition & Subtraction Games.
Setting Up Your Student CCSS Data Binders. ClassDojo. Www.rainbowswithinreach.blogspot.com. Guided Reading. Guided Reading Binder 101: Calling All Guided Reading Gurus! WTW. Leveled_book_list. To do. Games/Experiments. Math. 4th grade/classroom websites. Reading/Writing. How does it work? A Teacher's Treasure. Amazon. Freebies. Learner.org - Teacher Professional Development. Harcourt Social Studies. Total Recall: Helping Our Students Memorize Multiplication Facts. Interactive Bulletin Boards Get Students Involved! Classroom Organization. Helpful Websites (Used Weekly) Buy for Next Year.