Join me over there to read about the books I am going to use!
Showing posts with label back to school. Show all posts
Showing posts with label back to school. Show all posts
Back to School Read Alouds
Back to School? Do we hafta?? Well, since we do ... how about some different read alouds? I just blogged on the Virginia is for Teachers blog about some of my new books I am going to use this year!
Join me over there to read about the books I am going to use!
Join me over there to read about the books I am going to use!
Organize the Mess!
How can it be?? School in my district starts on August 15 and I return on the 5th, but at the same time I'm trying to still make the most of my time off!
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I wanted to share some of my mini projects that I have had going in the living room this summer. I think my husband will be happy when I get all of this out of here!
What's Going On ... at Virginia is for Teachers
I am part of a collaborative blog at Virginia is for Teachers. Today I blogged about fabulous back to school pins. Check out the preview below!
Back to school can be a very stressful time of year. I started thinking that in less than a month, I will already be back. No more shorts or flip flops. Or multiple cups of coffee. No more bathroom runs whenever I want. I have a lot that I still want to pack in this next month! But I still want the beginning of the year to be a smooth transition.
Setting up the *new* classroom
We have several new teachers coming to our school this year, due to a school closing nearby. So ... I moved classrooms. Since I've been teaching summer school, I have been able to unpack, organize, arrange, and rearrange. Here's what it looks like so far.
I found magnetic hooks in the spring and they are perfect for hanging my sight word cards on and placing on the air conditioner! I need to get some more for my sight word phrases!
Tubs of books and a "friend" to read to! Along with our 3 school wide rules.
Inside my closet. Most classrooms in our building have a closet. This will be my first year to share a closet - to the left of this first picture is my teaching partner's space!
This is also inside my closet - across from the counter in the above picture. I'm trying to take advantage of every inch of space since I will have 25 desks in my classroom!
One of my favorite ideas is to tape my crafts to the inside of the cabinet doors. They stay there neatly so I don't lose them from year to year.
Another one of my crafts, along with a peek into one of the cabinets with books.
I still have 17 days until returning for our first professional development day! Hope you have longer than I!
Five for Friday {August 8}
Happy Friday!
It's time for Five for Friday!
I started back yesterday with our first teacher workday. What a busy two days! Here's a snapshot of my week!
My husband turned 40 last Friday and I had a surprise party for him on Saturday. My grandma gave him this over the hill cane! We had such a great time celebrating with our family and friends! I am so thankful to God for Josh!
Went shoe shopping yesterday for school appropriate shoes and I am so excited about these new ones and hope they don't hurt my feet!
Our faculty is being trained in Responsive Classroom and the school has chosen 3 school wide rules. A lot of what we teach in first grade at the beginning of the year is character education. I found this adorable clip art from Educlips this summer, which put a picture with various character qualities. I love the children who portray these different qualities!
I had SO much to do this afternoon, but was very distracted. Instead of putting things away and working on my math group differentiating plans, I put pictures up!
Today is my birthday! Denise, the kindergarten teacher who is next door to me, has the same birthday! We went out to lunch today to celebrate!
One of my kiddos last year gave me this adorable owl at the end of the year. I found these cute flower stems at Michael's over the summer and I love how bright it looks on the corner of my desk!
Have a great weekend! I am for sure going to enjoy sleeping in tomorrow!
August ... already?!?
The first of August ...
... my husband's birthday
... new school supplies
... a new Currently from Farley at Oh' Boy 4th Grade!
I have enjoyed catching up on some TV shows and finding new ones this summer. One of my favorites is "Castle." I bought season five on DVD and it's great!
I was stuck in a rain storm last night and then again this morning while running errands! I'm glad that now I'm warm and dry inside!
The first friend I made at my school was Melanie. After teaching in fourth grade for eight years, I was able to move to first and teach with her the last four years. She was transferred to another school and the first day back is going to be sad without her!
I return on Thursday. I still have a lot to do before then! The students return the following Thursday.
On the first day of school I read Chrysanthemum and we do an activity about how words hurt - I have a huge heart cut out of bulletin board paper and the kiddos take turns crumpling it up. Then we try to smooth it out, but we can never remove all of the wrinkles. The children take a band aid and "fix" the heart. This has been a great visual on how what we say can hurt each other. In math, we play with manipulatives to get it out of their system before we use them correctly. I did it last year for the first time and very rarely during the year did I need to speak to any of the children about the correct use.
On the first day of school I read Chrysanthemum and we do an activity about how words hurt - I have a huge heart cut out of bulletin board paper and the kiddos take turns crumpling it up. Then we try to smooth it out, but we can never remove all of the wrinkles. The children take a band aid and "fix" the heart. This has been a great visual on how what we say can hurt each other. In math, we play with manipulatives to get it out of their system before we use them correctly. I did it last year for the first time and very rarely during the year did I need to speak to any of the children about the correct use.
How do you spend the first day?
VA is for Bloggers - Southern Hospitality Freebie Blog Hop
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In my first grade classroom much of our time is spent on sight words. This summer I have worked on creating and updating many of my sight word units. Here is a back to school freebie of first grade words for you! It includes word cards, Write the Room with 2 different recording pages, "I Spy" with recording page, "I have ... who has?" game, and "Late for School!" game with word cards. Click here or on the cover page below to grab your free copy!
In my first grade classroom much of our time is spent on sight words. This summer I have worked on creating and updating many of my sight word units. Here is a back to school freebie of first grade words for you! It includes word cards, Write the Room with 2 different recording pages, "I Spy" with recording page, "I have ... who has?" game, and "Late for School!" game with word cards. Click here or on the cover page below to grab your free copy!
The next stop on the hop is EnRiching Kinders!
Thanks for stopping by!
Week One -- Done!
We stayed BUSY in my first grade classroom this week! When you have 23 6-year-olds, you must have a plan or they will eat you alive! Click {here} to see my post earlier this week about several of our projects.
From Pinterest - this is a quick way to create a graph based on a given question. One of my kiddos said that we should do this every day so we know who is at school. Now I have to come up with 175 more yes/no questions so that I have one question for each day left in the year!! Click {here} to see the original pin.
I am SO excited about the little box that arrived at my home last night from Classroom Friendly Supplies.
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| My new pencil sharpener! |
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| the broken pencils |
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| sharpening the pencils |
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| In under a minute, these 6 pencils were all sharpened! With great points! :) |
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| And we tried a colored pencil - it worked on this, too! |
Day 2 is in the books!
After a rough first day, the second day was much better! My firsties have been busy ...
Our fish glyphs - we created by boy (blue) and girl (pink); car riders had colored pom pom balls and bus riders had cotton balls; and the number of stickers shows how old he/she is!
After reading There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books, we created the old lady and finished the sentence to tell me what is in his/her book bag. The old lady pattern came from First Grade Wow.
Have a great Tuesday!
Have a great Tuesday!
Overwhelmed already??
Anybody else overwhelmed? I have had a difficult week going back, mainly because of the few hours that I have had to work in my classroom and the many hours that I have had in various trainings.
However, Monday is coming quickly, but Thursday is coming even faster - when my new kiddos and their parents come! Lesson plans for the beginning of the year are always difficult, but due to Pinterest and various blogs, I have so many ideas running around my head! The only area I haven't had ideas for is some creative writing responses. Like most primary grade teachers, I have a lot of back-to-school themed books, so this idea came about. Click {here} to get the packet. I have also included a title page in case you would like to put all of writing pages together into a book. {This might be a great writing activity to save for evidence of progress throughout the school year!}
My husband and I got back from visiting family and my sister-in-law took some great pictures of us; I had to share one! Have a great rest of the week!
However, Monday is coming quickly, but Thursday is coming even faster - when my new kiddos and their parents come! Lesson plans for the beginning of the year are always difficult, but due to Pinterest and various blogs, I have so many ideas running around my head! The only area I haven't had ideas for is some creative writing responses. Like most primary grade teachers, I have a lot of back-to-school themed books, so this idea came about. Click {here} to get the packet. I have also included a title page in case you would like to put all of writing pages together into a book. {This might be a great writing activity to save for evidence of progress throughout the school year!}
My husband and I got back from visiting family and my sister-in-law took some great pictures of us; I had to share one! Have a great rest of the week!
back to school ideas
Well, it's here. Whether we want it or not! Back to school - buying new boxes of crayons and notebooks with crisp pages. And early bedtimes and even earlier alarm clocks! But, even better - a couple of freebies in celebration of my birthday!
I'm doing "Leap into Learning" with frogs for my theme this year. Check out these letters for a bulletin board and name tags for your children's desks. Click {here} for the bulletin board letters and click {here} for the name tags - both are freebies!
Here are the word cards for my schedule. There are extra cards included for special events that might come up during the year. I love that the clocks have both the analog and digital times to write in! Click {here} to get these.
I am using one of my bulletin boards for words that are specific to that month. There are 14 word cards along with 2 blank cards to make one with your name and one with the name of your school. I have also included a header card that has the names of the months. Click {here} to get the August and September packet from my TPT store.
Use these "Welcome Back!" letters on your classroom door or on a bulletin board. I have made two sizes for you to choose from when you are ready to print. Click {here} for this freebie from my TPT page.
Sorry for such a long post; I wanted to get as much in as I could before the year begins!
Check out this post on {Classroom Freebies}.
I'm doing "Leap into Learning" with frogs for my theme this year. Check out these letters for a bulletin board and name tags for your children's desks. Click {here} for the bulletin board letters and click {here} for the name tags - both are freebies!
Here are the word cards for my schedule. There are extra cards included for special events that might come up during the year. I love that the clocks have both the analog and digital times to write in! Click {here} to get these.
I am using one of my bulletin boards for words that are specific to that month. There are 14 word cards along with 2 blank cards to make one with your name and one with the name of your school. I have also included a header card that has the names of the months. Click {here} to get the August and September packet from my TPT store.
Use these "Welcome Back!" letters on your classroom door or on a bulletin board. I have made two sizes for you to choose from when you are ready to print. Click {here} for this freebie from my TPT page.
Check out this post on {Classroom Freebies}.
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