Having Fun With Fluency! Part 2 — Strategies Readers Will Enjoy. Shutterfly. Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits. A Love for Teaching. Crafty classroom / Use Wordle for class list and then frame to display... This would be a cute sign on the door for back to school night :) Education. Job Charts - Setting Up the Classroom Series.
This post is part of my Setting Up Your Classroom Series. As we continue to get those room ready for the fall, let's chat about the Classroom Job Board. Which is also a classroom management topic. Much like my mailboxes, jobs in my classroom have evolved over time. I started with an elaborate system where students received new jobs each day because I was told that the responsibility and sense of community was important. It is. But so is your sanity. I'll skip all the middle stages and tell you about where I am now. In my classroom everyone has a job.
This means the classroom runs very smoothly. Table Captains Line Leader Caboose Clip Chart Carrier Mail Carrier Homework Clerk Librarians You know, the usuals. When I rotated jobs too often my friends would forget to do their job or else wouldn't know exactly what the role involves. When I do change jobs (maybe 2-3 times a year), each student is responsible for training their replacement.
I do still have a job chart. Mrs. Pick Up States. Do you remember the classic game "Pick Up Sticks? " I created a new game for my class last week based from the childhood game. My fourth grade social studies curriculum is the regions of the United States. I have been trying to find games to help them learn their states and capitals. You need to collect Crystal Light canisters and Popsicle sticks. To play the game the child or children dump out the sticks and take turns naming the state or capital.
Here is the document...sorry about the first one. Do you have any ideas for learning states and capitals? Social Studies Flash Cards. DIY Map Magnets. I picked up this puzzle at a yard sale a few weeks ago. I intended to frame it in Matthew’s room, but unfortunately I realized one piece was missing. Bummer! I still love the look of the pieces, so I decided to turn the individual states into magnets. I used sticky magnet strips on the back of each piece. The magnets weren’t sticking well, so I ended up using hot glue to stick them on. I attached a locker door front on this little empty wall space in Matthew’s room.
It’s the perfect magnet board for a narrow space. When my kids saw it they thought it was really cool, but my little two year old nephew seemed to enjoy playing with it the most! This ended up being a really fun and easy project. As for the locker door front, I love it so much as a magnet board I decided to put one in my studio too! Anchor Charts. Our Reader's Notebooks. Today we had a 6th grade Language Arts teacher planning day. I was really excited about it, but I am bummed at the lack of things we actually got planned today altogether. I wish I could have just had a whole day to plan alone because I know I could have at least gotten a 6 weeks taken care of. I was actually excited to dive into the C-SCOPE materials because I have really struggled with not having a real scope and sequence to use this year.
Well, I know what I am going to be doing over the Christmas break! I know that I have blogged about our reader's notebooks a few other times, but I just love them. I am so glad that I decided to bite the bullet and get lots of spiral notebooks when they were on sale during back to school time. Sorry for the bad quality, they are from the phone.
The Picture Book Bonanza Continues! It's part two of. . . Picture Book Bonanza! More picture books as recommended by you. (No giant asparagus included.) Becca of Whole Words uses Children Make Terrible Pets to teach plot diagram. I love that title! Fiona uses Diary of a Worm to teach point of view and voice. "Dan" uses Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street to introduce narratives. Jennifer likes My Great Aunt Arizona to help her students write about what inspires them. Nari uses Charlie Anderson to teach questioning. Tracy at Grade 3 Top Dogs uses Big Chickens to discuss story elements. Allie-Gator of And so it begins. . . likes to use Peanut Butter and Jelly to teach sequencing. Prudence likes to introduce writing workshop with Born Yesterday, The Diary of a Young Journalist.
Stjstinn uses a Patricia Polacco classic, Thank You Mr. Michelle likes to use The Important Book at the beginning of the year to help the students share things about themselves. This is a list that could go on forever! Lessons with Laughter: Reading. Custom Classroom Newsletter Printable - Sample Home. Using Google in the Classroom-A Series. Today I am going to be starting a week-long series on how to use Google in the classroom. We were very fortunate this year and transitioned over to Google for our e-mail system. We got all of the perks that came along with Google, including Google Docs, Calendar, etc. I am my school's technology coordinator and I am a huge advocate for using technology in the classroom. Please understand that my district does not have a lot of money. The first post in my series is creating a library book checkout system using Google Forms.
Once you are logged into your Google account, you will want to go to documents. On this page, you will create your form. In the first box "Question Title," I have Name and "Question Type" is Choose from List. On all Google Forms, you are only given sample question 1. Next, click "Add Item" again and add another text box. If you want to spice up your form, you can select a theme. Click here to see my sample form. Free Printable Graphic Organizers - Freeology. Confessions of a Teaching Junkie. Heart Maps.
Paper Bag Books: A Simple Way to Teach Story Elements. Have you ever made a paper bag book? I hadn't, but I'd seen them floating around pinterest and finally decided we had to try! One of our current favorite activities is creating books. I like to staple a few pieces of paper together and have my son draw pictures on the pages and then we talk about the pictures and I write down what he says or have him write down his own stories.
He can spend hours on this. There is no real plot yet in his stories... and if there is, it is really confusing and hard to follow. My goals as we created the book were to... have funbe creative togethermake a paper bag book (since I really wanted to try this)teach the basic story elements of conflict and resolution (in a simple way) These concepts seemed easy to introduce since I feel like we spend a lot of time each day talking about problems and how they could be resolved! Materials Needed for Paper Bag book:several paper bags (I think we used 3-4?) How to Make a Paper Bag Story Conflict/Resolution book: Teaching Ideas / Single sheet of paper = mini book. 20 Ways to Keep Your Students' Attention.
As the end of the year approaches, it can be more and more challenging to keep your students' attention. Brain Breaks are important, but there are plenty of things you can do within a lesson to keep kids from day dreaming...or worse yet, nodding off. Here are some ideas:Desk Switch: Students have ten seconds (count down from ten) to find another desk to sit in that is in a different part of the room than his or her normal desk. Students stay in that desk for the rest of the lesson. Why? Did you get a new idea? The kids liked this game! They each come up and... Sweet Floweret: Printable Lunch Bags! Tutorial. I have a cute teeny tiny little stamp that I use on tags that I use when wrapping up an order. It's a cute touch. However, sometimes, I just want more impact. At the beginning of summer, I purchased 100 lunch bags for 1.99.
I only needed 6 or so to make my summer banner. Needless to say, I was left with 96 paper bags and nothing to do with them. I wondered if I could print on the lunch bag. Turns out, you can!!! I used Microsoft publisher to make mine. Here are the steps. 1. 7. Click on "Paper Type" Click on "Custom" and enter the dimensions (5.2x10.2). Out will come your beautiful bag creation! Reading/Writing / When do you use a new paragraph?This is so hard for kids. It is a great chart to add to a minilesson next year.
4 Types of Sentences flip book...and snow! My students were giddy this morning when everyone woke up to the first snow of the season here in Kansas! It wasn't much, but enough to get everyone excited. So when we did this little activity about the 4 types of sentences today, (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, & imperative) we wrote our 4 sentences about snow! 4 Types of Sentences flip book! I introduced the 4 types and then the students put the flip book together. One of my teaching partners also suggested stapling 2 sheets of the lined paper underneath and using one to describe the type of sentence and the other for the example! Click on the picture below to download a free copy... I've been working like crazy putting together a unit all about regrouping! Full of strategies, games, anchor charts and lots more!
I'm going to start selling some of my units on either Teachers Pay Teachers or Teacher's Notebook so I'm hoping to get that set up this week...fingers crossed! I love teaching regrouping with the activities and games so no worries. :) Classroom DIY: DIY No Sew Classroom Curtains! 2. Measure your Stitch Witch by placing it on top of the bandana and cut a strip the length of the bandana. 3. Fold the top of the bandana over the curtain rod and on top of the Stitch Witch making a pocket.
Make sure the pocket is snug. 4. 5. Connecting K-2 Set 1 | Clever School Teacher > Categories > CS K2 Connecting. Foldables. FoldiFun Factory. Welcome to my Foldables FoldiFun Factory! I absolutely love foldables! And if YOU love my foldables please leave me some LOVE in the form of comments :) Here is my take on them :) I hope you like them and find them useful in your classroom. Please leave a comment sharing your feedback with me. Foldables are a registered trademark by Dinah Zike. They are interactive 3D graphic organizers created from all types of paper goods and are cut up and folded in different ways, to present different information.
They have flaps that fold and can be lifted to reveal information. 4 year ago I attended my first Foldables workshop by the amazing Bag Ladies! As a 1st year teacher I felt so fortunate that my first PD was a hands-on one. When I got back to my school I got the whole school hyped up about foldables and still run the foldables workshop every summer during in-service week at my school. My kids absolutely love making them and are now pros! Here are some pictures of foldables we make in my class. Math Monday Blog Hop - Place Value Sliders. I can't believe I have been blogging for 3 weeks now! I realized it had been 3 weeks when I started thinking of what idea I would submit for love2learn2day's Math Monday Blog Hop - how quickly time flies! This week, I am posting my Place Value Sliders. I like to use this to supplement our current textbook. Unfortunately, our curriculum does not have enough place value practice and I was desperate for a way to have the kids play with numbers that was kinesthetic.
To make the sliders, I give every student a set of number "slides" and one "holder" (the green slip of paper in the picture). As for using the sliders in the classroom, I often ask students to make a 4-digit number, a 2-digit number, etc. Number Sliders How would you use Place Value Sliders? Thanks for stopping by! Cool paper toy. [VIDEO] FlipSnack | PDF to Flash page flip - flipping book software.