tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10133898192623823212024-03-14T01:06:49.413-07:00First Grade PandamoniumAmyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434979940008600779noreply@blogger.comBlogger38125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013389819262382321.post-37767384664801687382012-05-07T17:27:00.000-07:002012-05-07T17:27:48.662-07:00Real Quick....for Mother's Day!Hello all!<br />
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Just going to type up a real quick post on what we are doing in our room for Mother's Day. First, we wrote our Moms a Cinquain poem using Cara Carroll's amazing planning sheet for cinquain poems. We will be gluing these onto our gift bags (a.k.a. a brown paper bag...lol). I will post the template we used to make them look all cutesy and such. <br />
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Then, we made these SUPER cute sun catchers which we EXTREMELY easy to make and a great time filler. All you need is an array of torn/cut butcher paper, a sheet of wax paper, a clipboard, a glue stick, and a heart print out. Lucky for you I did remember to download my pattern onto Google Docs. What you have the kiddos do is take the heart print out and wax paper and clip it onto their clipboards. Then have them spend a countless amount of time gluing piece by piece of the torn/cut butcher paper until their is not more sunlight shining through the wax paper. It is VERY IMPORTANT to let them know to overlap the pieces so when you pull it off the wax paper it does not fall apart. Once their heart is completely filled out with no more empty holes, you can SLOWLY peel it off of the wax paper and attach the hanger that says "I love you to pieces." I hope this makes sense and isn't too confusing. I will try to post pics tomorrow of a finished heart to give you an idea of what it would look like. OH and I laminated mine so they would hold up better.<br />
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We will also be making this week a fabric flower corsage. Here is the link from Pinterest where I found this great idea. I CANNOT wait to make them. <br />
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Also, instead of a pom pom center, we are going to use the Crayola magic dough to make a small circle thumbprint heart for the center. Will post pics as soon as possible.<br />
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One last thing, the card! We made ones like the picture below. They turned out super cute! Be sure to check out the link!<br />
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Hope you enjoy and it's not too late! Come back tomorrow to see some pics!<br />
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<br />Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434979940008600779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013389819262382321.post-16848460524673899582012-03-12T16:00:00.004-07:002012-03-12T16:02:43.456-07:00Good for nothing...I know, ladies (& the occassional gent), I have been MIA for what seems to be forever! I am basically good for nothing! I have a few things I have been meaning to post and just haven't had time to spare to get it done. How in the world some of you blog every day is BEYOND me!!! <br />
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I should have posted this back before Valentine's Day and I was tempted not to post it at all since it is a good month later but I thought some of you might save it for next year. I am sure by now everyone has seen the cute little love monsters that have been floating around Pinterest and blog land. Well I created a template for you all to have in one document. Just click on the picture to enjoy this little freebie. I hope to have more coming very soon!<br />
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Thanks for sticking around!<br />
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<br />Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434979940008600779noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013389819262382321.post-25645721175030242552012-02-26T06:07:00.001-08:002012-02-26T06:07:39.297-08:00Say WHAT?!?!Did you know that you must have permission to pin things to Pinterest?? If you did, you are one step ahead of me because I had no clue. Please, feel free to pin anything you see on my blog that you like. It is here to help....lol!<br />
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Check out <a href="http://corkboardconnections.blogspot.com/2012/02/do-you-have-permission-to-pin.html" target="_blank">Laura</a>'s blog post to find out more and grab this button for your blog.<br />
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<br />Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434979940008600779noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013389819262382321.post-12951970482278053162012-01-27T15:12:00.000-08:002012-01-27T15:12:44.743-08:00Money...Money....Money.....MONEY!<div style="text-align: center;">
So for some strange reason all week long, my stupid computer would not work with blogspot. It kept telling me to download Google Chrome and well to be honest I didn't want to because it is just ONE more thing on my desktop. Long story short...it's back to working.</div>
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So for all of you who have stuck around from my dry spell of blogging, I have a freebie for you! This week we basically just reviewed all of the coins (penny, nickel, dime, and quarter). We decided as a team to just kind of refresh our sweet firsties memories...lol! We started each lesson making anchor charts very much like the super cute ones from <a href="http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com/search/label/President%27s%20Day" target="_blank">The First Grade Parade</a>. </div>
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Then we proceeded to fill out our coin collection book to keep us on our toes. The kids did great and you can definitely tell it is one of their favorite things to talk about...lol! So I have posted the Coin Collection Book below along with our exit tickets we did daily with each coin. We use our exit tickets as quick assessments to see who might need a little extra time with that particular skill. Hope everyone enjoys the freebie and have a FABULOUS weekend!!!</div>
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<br />Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434979940008600779noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013389819262382321.post-57335922361128443322011-11-13T15:51:00.001-08:002011-11-13T16:11:15.619-08:00Short /U/ Pumpkins RTR and some visualizing!Can I just say that I absolutely LOVE blogging! Boy how boring would teaching be without great ideas from others. I have to admit that although some things are my original ideas, most of the stuff I post about is things I have found on other blogs and just had to share. <br />
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This past week, we have been working on the short u sound in Reading. Before we start each new sound for the week, I head over to Youtube and see if they have any videos from Hooked on Phonics for that sound. Here is the one for short u and trust me your kiddos will love it. Mine can't wait to hear it every day.<br />
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I also created a little read the room activity with short /u/ pumpkins. I saw this on <a href="http://firstgraderatlast.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2010-11-28T08%3A14%3A00-08%3A00&max-results=50">First Grader At Last</a> and just had to do it! Here are the pumpkins I made for my room and the recording sheet I made to go along with it.<br />
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Our skill was visualizing for last week too! I found so many great things on Pinterest for this skill. The kids totally got the skill after these activities. The first one we did was "The Green Giant" from <a href="http://mrswilliamsonskinders.blogspot.com/search/label/mental%20images">Mrs. Williamson's Kinders</a>. They turned out so cute and so very different which was one thing I really emphasized to my kids. Not everyone sees the same image.</div>
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The other visualizing activity we did was during our station time and sorry I don't have a picture of that but I do have the printable I created for it. I saw this idea on <a href="http://snippetsbysarah.blogspot.com/2011/02/visualizing.html">Snippets By Sarah</a> but I tweaked it a little to be more kid friendly for my kiddos. I used the poem by Ding-A-Ling by Jill Egglton because it had words I knew my kids could sound out on their own. Here is what we did...</div>
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<br />Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434979940008600779noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013389819262382321.post-32960933223782639742011-11-13T15:24:00.001-08:002011-11-13T15:48:18.404-08:00Hocus...Pocus....Fairy Tale Fun!We did our week long Fairy Tale unit the last week in October and I wanted to share a few things we did for fun. Sorry there are no pics...I totally forgot my camera.<br />
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First, we read Rapunzel and did this great activity I found at <a href="http://anotherdayinfirstgrade.blogspot.com/2011/05/fairy-tale-unit-part-one-free-and.html">Mrs. Tabb's First Grade Awesomeness</a> . The kids loved making the tower with the long hair. We did make a little bit of change to our tower. We wrote the things we would do in the tower and created one person we would let climb up our hair to hang out with. They were cracking me up with who they would let climb up their hair.<br />
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Next, we read Cinderella and created her a new slipper that would definitely not fall off as she was leaving the castle. I got this idea from Amy Lemons blog. My kiddos came up with the same kind of ideas just like her kiddos. Many of them created sticky shoes or fancy shoes with laces. Every girl's dream!<br />
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Then, we read The Three Little Pigs and The True Story of the Three Little Pigs and discussed the differences between the two. We also talked about the different points of view from which the stories were written and who we thought was actually telling the truth. I told my kids we were going to make wanted posters for the pigs or wolf, whoever they thought was lying. They did such a great job!<br />
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The last thing we did was discuss our favorite fairy tale of the week. We read so many that it was very hard for them to choose just one but most of them liked Hansel and Gretel. I think it is mainly because they had never heard it before. I created this little sheet for them to review their favorite fairy tale and they did an excellent job.<br />
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<br />Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434979940008600779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013389819262382321.post-70811719252482105962011-11-13T14:52:00.001-08:002011-11-13T15:19:40.563-08:00Remodeling Noun Town!As I mentioned in my previous post, my class made a Noun Town for one of my observations this year. Our town turned out great...especially once we created proper nouns for all of our common nouns. <br />
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Since we were down with Nouns, I hated to trash our town so I hung on to it and I am so glad I did! We moved on to verbs after nouns and we began a little remodel on our town. First we watched this School House Rock video on Verbs...which they LOVED!</div>
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Next, we went to Noun Town and did a little remodeling. We went through the town and talked about all of the verbs/actions we could do at each stop. They thought this was just madness that we could do so much in our little town...it was super funny! I have attached the verb pows we made in our town.</div>
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After we went through our town, I gave each child an action card (I cannot take credit for this idea...my co-worker did it for her observation). Without talking, each child had to act out their card and find their partner in the room. I don't think I have ever laugh so hard! It was hilarious! <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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After the action cards, I told the students we were going to create our very own action heroes (thanks to <a href="http://theteacherwife.blogspot.com/2011/05/action-verb-unit-is-posted.html">The Teacher Wife</a>). They were SUPER excited! We made a circle map and discussed all of the actions a hero can do. Then, we created our own heroes and let's just say they are MEGA cute!</div>
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<br /></div>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434979940008600779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013389819262382321.post-17780389500629997302011-11-13T14:38:00.001-08:002011-11-13T14:51:32.049-08:00Noun Town!This year, our school district adopted this new teacher evaluation system. So, for my first observation I chose to do Noun Town. Now, I have seen several different Noun Towns on Pinterest which is where I got my inspiration from. I started our Noun Town by giving each student an index card and a plain sheet of white paper. The index card had nouns on them that we would see around town. I told the students to create the noun listed on their card. They turned out so great! <br />
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For my observation, we went through our town and made everything a proper noun. We talked about how proper nouns are more specific and start with a capital letter. I let each student take their common noun they made and tell me a proper noun to replace it. They were so good at thinking of proper nouns. It was a great visual to have!</div>
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I created some extra practice pages for morning work and they could totally find all the nouns. Thanks to all of you bloggers out there for your great idea of Noun Town!</div>
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So back like a month ago we taught some subtraction. LOL! Just like I did for addition, I made an anchor chart with key words used for subtraction as well as an independent anchor chart for my students to complete. They are doing fantastic with subtracion! </div>
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After subtraction we went into missing addends and when I searched high and low for stuff dealing with it, I couldn't find a thing. So I began creating my own powerpoints for missing addends and my kiddos did very well grasping the concept. The first one I made was about how to be a good detective to find the missing addends. We talked about the many ways we could look for missing addends, such as we might just know the fact or we could use a number line/fact bracelet. This was a great visual for my kids and helped them greatly.</div>
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The second powerpoint I made was just some practice finding missing addends. My kids LOVED trying to guess what was behind the magic curtain...lol!</div>
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<br /></div>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434979940008600779noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013389819262382321.post-35012755354540017492011-09-11T14:08:00.000-07:002011-09-11T14:08:27.804-07:00Number sense and number words fun...So at the beginning of the year we all want to see what exactly our new sweet babies know. Well, I have found two fun ways to check for number sense as well as number words.<br />
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I am not going to lie that I totally stole this idea from Mrs. Carroll over at <a href="http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com/2011/08/free-for-all-friday.html">The First Grade Parade.</a><br />
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Next, while on pinterest, I saw the cutest activity for number words. This is the original picture I found on pinterest and below it is my version of it for you to download. All your students have to do is recognize the number word and glue the accurate number of Fruit Loops/suckers onto the octopus legs. I added two things of seaweed into the corners so we could have the number words one and two. So I had a parent cut out pipecleaners for them to use for the seaweed.<br />
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First, we began with an introduction to addition. We watched the Basic Addition Brain Pop and created an anchor chart for word clues used with addition.<br />
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Here are the words that were part of the vocabulary listed in our curriculum.<br />
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We use <a href="http://www.thinkingmaps.com/">Thinking Maps</a> at our school and I made this as a type of circle map for my kiddos to find the word clues for addition. They will just cut and glue all the word clues for addition.<br />
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<img align="center" src="http://i1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc363/bnz16/signature-1.gif" style="border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" />Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434979940008600779noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013389819262382321.post-4214177505187735182011-09-11T12:25:00.000-07:002011-09-11T18:05:51.467-07:00Map it out!For the past two weeks we have been studying map skills. So as I was on my newest addiction, pinterest, I found the coolest way to teach the differences between a neighborhood, city, state, country, and continent.<br />
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First, I started by making a car magnet on Vistaprint. The magnet sticks to my board and my students can see what our daily stations are. This is what the magnet looks like:<br />
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Then each student has a blue station folder with their station "schedule" in a page protector. The names of my stations stay the same but the activity is what changes. My students keep all of their station work in their folder for the week then on Friday if they have finished all of their work, they can have fun friday where they get to do game like activities. They have to turn in their folder into a crate that has hanging files in it with their number on the tag. This allows me to make a quick check to see who is not finished. My students LOVE it and so do I! They are very organized and try extremely hard to finish all of their work by Friday. If they do not get finished, they have to finish up on Friday. Once they complete everything if they are behind, they can join in on Fun Friday.<br />
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Part of my daily stations is computers. Last year, I was not organized at all with monitoring where my students went or what they did on the computer. So this year, I created a daily schedule for them to follow. The schedule was printed out and laminated then I used contact paper and made a make-shift mousepad. My students can follow the schedule just by looking under the mouse. I also use <a href="http://tizmos.com/">tizmos.com</a> now instead of porta-portal. It allows me to organize the sites by day and lets my kids see a quick picture of what they will do. If you have never heard of it you need to check it out. It is FABULOUS!<br />
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So how do you organize your stations?<br />
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</div>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434979940008600779noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013389819262382321.post-14173404718524034572011-09-11T10:37:00.000-07:002011-09-11T10:37:34.241-07:00Classroom Discipline<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> I had somebody ask me about my form of discipline in my classroom. I have several things going on it my room so we will start with my clip chart. Last year, I created this system using a worm. My students received a ticket every morning for getting their agenda signed. Then at the end of the day they got to get a sticker from my treasure chest for keeping their ticket. The ticket served as a warning and if at the end of the week they had all 5 tickets the could go to the treat drawer. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1_8LkM4aYjMWnGMRIhRJfIQKN1_vnaQ7qmuq4OeLfQccMp-xq52ShmYnfXrwys5X9i1XaYozS14PEZiI9jxhbmelRfgQy9_nHWLRFDDaSJIkkK3GDvITO_-ijb_1n1bhtXhFS8D1nEEz1/s1600/DSC01956.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1_8LkM4aYjMWnGMRIhRJfIQKN1_vnaQ7qmuq4OeLfQccMp-xq52ShmYnfXrwys5X9i1XaYozS14PEZiI9jxhbmelRfgQy9_nHWLRFDDaSJIkkK3GDvITO_-ijb_1n1bhtXhFS8D1nEEz1/s320/DSC01956.JPG" width="214px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">This worked fine for my first year but I quickly realized that my behavior worm only monitored bad behavior instead of both positve and negative behavior. By mid year, I had added an apple for my kids to clip up to which really changed the behavior of my classroom.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">So this past summer, I sat and thought what I could do for the upcoming year. Although I loved my worm, it was not exactly what I wanted. Then I was blog stalking and saw a post from Jodi over at <a href="http://fun-in-first.blogspot.com/2011/06/behavior-system.html">Fun in First Grade</a> where she had created a clip chart on Vistaprint. I thought....how GENIUS! I could actually create EXACTLY what I wanted and make it EXACTLY how I wanted it to look. So here is what I am using this year.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT705QIPDnuOtRbbr_gjB-Hxa2VQDh6rpOZOWI5_VOfFKlHKt0aM6to5Ex3JZt4VqNBzOKvk_sR8W4kT9Xq4eDgECWubxNALarZPMCgikCRWDd24xEv0AdwJuHjPgAODklXpzZW2rM-3hS/s1600/DSC04866.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT705QIPDnuOtRbbr_gjB-Hxa2VQDh6rpOZOWI5_VOfFKlHKt0aM6to5Ex3JZt4VqNBzOKvk_sR8W4kT9Xq4eDgECWubxNALarZPMCgikCRWDd24xEv0AdwJuHjPgAODklXpzZW2rM-3hS/s320/DSC04866.JPG" width="214px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">It is PERFECT!! My kids have responded so well to it too! My chart is a large banner from vistaprint. It is fairly big but I think it is a good size. My students can clip up or down however once they pass the yellow/friendly reminder they cannot clip up anymore. I have not had any MAJOR issues with behavior (knock on wood) so far this year. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">I also created a sort of money earning system in my classroom as well. I bought small paws of four different colors. Each paw is worth a different amount: 1, 5, 10, and 25 (sound familiar??). My students can earn paws throughout the day for positive behavior and I can take paws for negative behavior. Then at the end of the week my students can shop in our classroom store (just a shoe organizer full of goodies). I forgot to take pictures of it but my students LOVE it! It really encourages them to stay on task as well as to be on their best behavior. Each students receives a paw first thing in the morning for having their agenda signed and if my students clip up to red or orange they can earn extra paws. It is a GREAT system.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Also to encourage "Paw"sitive behavior we use a "Paw"sitve push pin chart. Students earn push pins if I see them doing something I feel is positive for themselves or others. Then the students can earn passes once they reach 25. There are three different passes to earn: computers instead of morning work, rolly chair for the day, or lunch with Mrs. Walker. They try VERY hard to earn them and it encourages very positive behavior to one another.</span></td></tr>
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</div>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434979940008600779noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013389819262382321.post-81544776906989188222011-09-11T10:08:00.000-07:002011-09-11T10:08:11.788-07:00Classroom Tour<div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;">WHEW! What a first month of school!?!?</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">It has been extremely busy around these parts and I have neglected my blog something horrible. Lucky for all of you, my hubby is playing golf today so that means I have time to catch up!</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">I just wanted to start out by giving just a few pics of my classroom.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;">Welcome to my "Panda"monium....</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">This is a picture from my desk looking towards the door. I forgot to do from the door to my desk (imagine that!). The BIG cut outs on the wall are anchor charts for us to add to throughout the year to teach synonyms, antonyms, compound words, pronouns, homophones, and multi meaning words. I also have a GIANT question mark on the wall that has all of the "question words" on it. These work great for a constant reminder to my kiddos!</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja4RLWaW4u7csKnpg2gACOuF0yfmxrsueszyVsXVklJ-mD7X2m8OE-BltdO3KVwfN5XurqEyvnZZGYS5nr9fahLXunhm2Oy21ikgCywV2031Q5Edclsgw1WfV1N1vQKSuqxAKvX1Gtf3fT/s1600/DSC04875.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEja4RLWaW4u7csKnpg2gACOuF0yfmxrsueszyVsXVklJ-mD7X2m8OE-BltdO3KVwfN5XurqEyvnZZGYS5nr9fahLXunhm2Oy21ikgCywV2031Q5Edclsgw1WfV1N1vQKSuqxAKvX1Gtf3fT/s320/DSC04875.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is a look at our birthday cupcakes. The candles have their names and birthday on them.</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF99tNQLDmph2GzjCgkslLXB3-qdyXcw73wSKeOIblNLEZokU7qaDo0TRDVr7qFkEV6yZcCzMJLMGpWhDttfmelSP7KyefUulQgy7GHBZ9rCIwiQUXm6qMtq8AIYWCLsiyUlk8zf5upow4/s1600/DSC01953.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="214px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF99tNQLDmph2GzjCgkslLXB3-qdyXcw73wSKeOIblNLEZokU7qaDo0TRDVr7qFkEV6yZcCzMJLMGpWhDttfmelSP7KyefUulQgy7GHBZ9rCIwiQUXm6qMtq8AIYWCLsiyUlk8zf5upow4/s320/DSC01953.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;">Here is our calendar area. It is not as fancy as some I have seen but it works for us. </div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0ywVQjJLqY5Aj5pRWX4rxiplq1IlgElxc7FTSBAxXYXGAMcaHpWEXk_IEI3kSTU1YMtiOeJ9swWaDyufZnuFdO_evI-owjozWtGenGbBRqPP7pA059vG9wDdgFv5T-i6WoMDsbcrRkBsH/s1600/DSC01954.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="264px" nba="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0ywVQjJLqY5Aj5pRWX4rxiplq1IlgElxc7FTSBAxXYXGAMcaHpWEXk_IEI3kSTU1YMtiOeJ9swWaDyufZnuFdO_evI-owjozWtGenGbBRqPP7pA059vG9wDdgFv5T-i6WoMDsbcrRkBsH/s320/DSC01954.JPG" width="320px" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Amyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04434979940008600779noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1013389819262382321.post-2946026233118972662011-09-08T17:47:00.000-07:002011-09-08T17:47:55.520-07:00WOWZERS!!!Oh my sweet teacher friends, I am so sorry to neglect you. I have been OVERWHELMED with school and getting organized. I am planning Math this year and we just adopted a new curriculum so I have been a little busy. BUT thanks to all of these awesome blogs I have gotten so many great ideas.<br />
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I am overhelmed by the responses of my giveaway...thank you all for being so interested. I have sent out all of the packets to everyone who left their email addresses. If you realized you left a comment but forgot your address just leave another one with it. If anyone has had any trouble opening the file please email me at <a href="mailto:firstgradepandamonium@yahoo.com">firstgradepandamonium@yahoo.com</a>. Thank you all so much! Stay tuned for some classroom pictures and some ideas I received from my past two days of training!<br />
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Also, some of you have commented and did not remember to include your email address. Please double check your comment to make sure you included it. Thanks for following!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> Last year, I had several high readers in my classroom. Therefore, I created book clubs for them to do in small group and well they LOVED it! This fourteen page book club is a basic "stay on track" as they read kind of thing. I have the pages in the most random order just because I would be working on one page and thinking of something totally different on the next page. All I do, however, is print all of the pages off and then put them in the order I would like them to go in. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(Sorry for the inconvenience)</span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmMxX7YfD2dag7Fh2Iyy0uHresSGaLOWouyEeK2TnYzmyObpMf0UQBgKE0OJ8LKf23-s-jPzYFHvzFSDNHuTpTp8DQJ1n0lAI7mf6RPCL_Y3SX0-roEPOuOWBbC2KPR8hYK_SRFbZ3q9DI/s1600/book.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmMxX7YfD2dag7Fh2Iyy0uHresSGaLOWouyEeK2TnYzmyObpMf0UQBgKE0OJ8LKf23-s-jPzYFHvzFSDNHuTpTp8DQJ1n0lAI7mf6RPCL_Y3SX0-roEPOuOWBbC2KPR8hYK_SRFbZ3q9DI/s320/book.png" t$="true" width="247" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"> I started by getting a book on each animal from our library. Then each student got to draw an animal from the jar, by the end of it I had 7 groups total. Each group got together and read the book aloud. I made this little sheet to help them keep track of what they were discovering about their animals. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">We did the practice sheet one day and then the next day, I gave them a lid, butcher paper, and crayons. They created some cute habitats and they were very proud. Each group was able to share they habitat with the class. They did such a great job, I just had to share! Hope you all enjoy as well!!</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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