After a very wet soccer game this morning, I headed into school to work on my loooong to-do list. I am proud to say that I got a lot accomplished....finally! So here I am sharing what I have been working on.
First on the list...change my bulletin board. We just finished week 6 and I have had the same bulletin board up since day 2. I am trying something new so I can easily change out projects and not only display art projects but other academic work. I hotglued clothespins to a piece of cardboard and stapled them on the wall near my vines. I then added some leaves on top of the clothespins to mask them a bit. I was trying to come up with a catchy saying to keep up all year, but I am not sure. "Treemendous Work" ?!
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After
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Next on the list...organize myself for parent helpers and interventions. So I put together a file box with student names where I can easily put work to be corrected with parents, flashcards or any other things that my students need help with. There are directions on the lid as well as a ziploc bag of materials and a notebook to keep track of the help given. The nice thing is...I can use it too when I get a few extra minutes (LOL)!
**I just posted some more information on my kit, as well as some great {FREEBIES} to use to help get/stay organized when it comes to interventions. Just click on the word {FREEBIES.}
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| My "Intervention Kit" |
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| Intervention Instructions
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Wanted: Poetry Station. So I finally figured out how to get this station going. We have been working on poetry almost since day 1 for fluency purposes. I decided to carry them over to my new poetry station. Space is limited in the classroom so I had to get a bit creative. It is located on the inside of our classroom closet door. To keep it organized I clipped the sentence strips together with a binder clip as well as the title of the poem on the outside. Then I could hang the poems up on the closet wall (with the use of a pushpin). I put all of the poems we have worked on in a binder and put that in a tray, also attached to the wall with pushpins. I also made some highlighter pieces to use to highlight rhyming words in the pocket chart.These are in a baggie in the tray. So when students go to poetry station they can: (a) read poems in the binder (b) arrange poems in the pocket chart (c) highlight the rhyming words. We just started talking about visualizing as well so I will add some new poems to read then draw a picture of their mental images. Whew! That was alot....here are a few pics.
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| Inside the closet |
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| Highlighter transparency |
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| On the door |
I also put up a Boggle board for my stations and my new agenda slips that include pics and times for my firsties that kept asking "is it time for....?"and "what does that say?"
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| *Pinterest inspired Free letters available at my Teachers Notebook store |
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| Love my new agenda cards! |
More organization complete....overhead letter tiles are organized and ready to be used thanks to Pinterest! Also made a file tub for graded papers throughout the week. That way on Fridays when I work on my students' weekly reports all their week's work is ready to go!
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| Ice cube trays for my overhead tiles |
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| As I grade papers, they get filed in student files to go home Friday! |
I am exhausted, not only from the work I did today but from this long post! I am hoping this makes up for the lack of blogging since school started. Now....time to relax and enjoy the rest my weekend!
