tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80313789815722693182024-03-13T05:38:41.969-07:00Just Another Day in KinderA place to share all things Kindergarten!Jennifer Wintershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547371609974777958noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031378981572269318.post-84387614009302954172012-10-15T14:59:00.001-07:002012-10-15T15:00:14.201-07:00Drowning in Flash Cards!!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
So, I don't know about you, but I have flash cards with those stinking sight words all over my room! I have them on the word wall, in the word work center, at my small group table, in the writing center and at my teacher easel for whole group reviewing. My teammate and I were talking the other day "If I have to write one more sight word flash card..." well, you can imagine how that ends! We got the brilliant idea to get rid, once and for all, of one set of flash cards. The set we are getting rid of is the set used for whole group sight word review. The cards still exist at small group table, word work center, word wall, and the writing center (for now until another epiphany is had!). Now, instead of just flipping the cards, saying the words and tapping it out (ex: "can. c-a-n spells can." where students tap left hand on right knee, then right hand on left knee, and on for each letter and clap on "spells"), we start this PowerPoint and students follow along with it saying the words and tapping them out. It switches between words automatically after 6 seconds (longer for bigger words). Best thing about this little idea - you can get it for FREE in my TPT store! I plan to switch the slides around occasionally for my kiddos so they don't become cheaty-faces and just memorize the order of the words. I don't do the whole slide show each day. I stop it when it goes through the words we've covered. There's one for sight words and one for color/number words also! Click the pics to get to the one you want!</div>
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Jennifer Wintershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547371609974777958noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031378981572269318.post-24063662109212212892012-10-02T14:50:00.004-07:002012-10-02T14:50:28.849-07:00My Crazy Life....<br />
Well, it's the beginning of October and my kiddos have already gotten me sick! I spent about a week just exhausted and dragging myself to school (because we all know it's easier to teach sick than to get together sub plans!), then coming home and sleeping. Turns out I had a sinus and respiratory infection! All better now, though, so back to blogging! In addition to all this fun, my school had a big event and broke a world record today for most kids at a Read-In! Check out the news feed <a href="http://www.wate.com/category/248120/karns-elementary-school-read-in-event">here</a>!<br />
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So, here are some cool activities we did last week throughout all my sickness...<br />
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Love this chart a friend came up with to help kiddos understand the differences between letters, words, and sentences. Each day we filled in one box, then underlined all the parts of the "I can run." sentence in its corresponding color. <br />
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So, for example, we underlined all the letters in blue, then the words in red and the whole sentence in green. It really helped the kids understand these concepts!</div>
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We also did our apple unit...here are some cute activities we did with that... We tasted the three different kinds of apples, students chose their favorite, wrote their name on the corresponding apple and put it on the right tree. </div>
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The next day, we made these cute little apples showing our favorite kind of apple. I just gave the kids a square of paper and they had to cut it into the shape of an apple. Some of them turned out very tiny! They also did a mix and fix at the bottom that says "I like _____ apples." and they had to fill in the color word. </div>
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We were finishing up our sorting unit and culminated the unit with this project where students had to sort by color.</div>
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Well, that's just a glimpse of some of the things we did last week! Barring any future illnesses, I should be posting again soon! </div>
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Jennifer Wintershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547371609974777958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031378981572269318.post-73582108041998316462012-09-09T09:57:00.000-07:002012-09-09T09:57:04.108-07:00Chicka Chicka Boom Boom! What's Going on in my Room?Whew! It has been a while since I've had time to get on here and blog! I just come home every day absolutely exhausted! But, I will try to do better and here are some things we have done in my class up to this point. We spend a little time each day talking about how we should act in school and sometimes we even come up with charts to hang up as reminders! <br />
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Another day we come up with this chart after reading "Harold and the Purple Crayon" and discussing what all he did with his crayon and what we should do with our crayons and other supplies. I showed them some broken pencils and broken crayons I had found and then we talked about how to treat our supplies. Again, I wrote down the rules the students came up with. Please ignore the illustrations - I am so not an artist!</div>
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Now on to some of the more fun activities we have done! We read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and watched the video to it as well on Discovery Education (the song they turned it into is so catchy!). Then we made coconut trees with the letters to our names climbing up the trees. The text at the bottom of each tree says: </div>
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We have also been talking about colors and had a little book with blank monsters that the students had to color different colors. There was not a page to make a black monster in the book, so when we talked about the color black, we made a black Angry Bird! The students LOVED this! They got so excited when I said that we were making an Angry Bird. Below the Angry Birds is a name practice activity we did where I wrote each student's name really big on a strip of white construction paper and they tore paper and glued it down on each letter. It turned out so cute and was such a great fine motor activity!</div>
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We did this on the first day of school. Love this keepsake idea from another teacher - I got each student's handprint, then backed it and laminated it, hot glued a clothespin to the back and stuck a sticky magnet on the back of the clothespin. Then I clipped this little saying to the clothespin:</div>
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Isn't it pretty and very cool? </div>
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So cute! The last thing I want to share (I know its a long post....like I said I'll try to do better about posting more!) just really made my day when I saw it! When we were lining up for lunch on Friday, I was checking out my line, making sure everyone had a "bubble and a ducktail" and I noticed this. One of my little kinders had one of the old timey plastic Beauty and the Beast lunch box. Oh my word - I totally had the EXACT SAME lunch box when I was in Kindergarten!!!! She didn't have the thermos, but it was so weird to see this lunch box with another kid 20 years after I had used it!</div>
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That's all for now, but I am working on an Apple unit to add to TPT! Be on the look out and hopefully it won't be as long before I post again!!</div>
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<br />Jennifer Wintershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547371609974777958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031378981572269318.post-10674340258246904162012-08-23T13:04:00.001-07:002012-08-23T13:04:51.531-07:00Where I Teach Wednesday - on a Thursday!Here we go again with Blog Hoppin for Teacher Week. Yesterday was Where I Teach Wednesday - surprise, surprise...I'm behind! Maybe tomorrow will be Thursday and Friday, but for today, here's what I've got...<br />
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Now, I took this two different ways. First off, I teach in Knoxville, TN. You may recognize it as this if you are a football fan:<br />
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The second way I took this was where in my classroom do I teach, which is the idea I chose to really run with. I spend most of my time teaching here:</div>
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I spend most of my time at the ActivBoard when we are doing whole group lessons while the kiddos sit either on the carpet or at their tables. In the pic, you can see my ActivBoard, my pocket charts underneath (a normal red/green one and a yellow/blue/green Venn Diagram), my big book stand and on the bulletin board my post it note anchor charts. I put a half tablet of chart paper on the big book stand normally and we list things there. The blue thing with white cards in front of the big book stand is a pocket chart with ABC cards where we build word family and sight words. The three green posters on the bulletin board contain a Story Map poster, a Schema poster, and a Literacy Vocabulary Poster. In that teeny white space beside the ActivBoard are my brand new directions cards on magnets so I can tell students what order to complete activities (right now its set to write, color, cut, glue). Below that is my rainbow tracing chart that has the order students go in when they trace something like their name or the letter of the week.</div>
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The other place I do most of my teaching is at my reading table:</div>
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The chair pockets on each student chair have a pencil box inside them with crayons, pencils, scissors, and glue. That way these materials are always close by for guided reading groups. That brown bookshelf is home to all the different lined writing paper (in the clear and white bins), my whisper phones, testing materials, office supplies, and finger pointers. The colored drawers beside the bookshelf is where I keep my weekly activities. Each day has its own drawer. On the counter is where all those other papers go - things to copy, go home, etc, etc. The yellow pocket chart on the wall is for my literacy center rotations and the purple pocket chart is for math center rotations. The images on the bulletin board are for my reading groups (cupcake, popsicle, ice cream, candy). Once I figure out who is in what group, I'll write their names on a sentence strip and stick it up beside their icon.</div>
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Whew! Any questions? I'd love to know where you all teach!</div>
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<br />Jennifer Wintershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547371609974777958noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031378981572269318.post-53709981023671443832012-08-21T15:37:00.001-07:002012-08-21T15:42:42.272-07:00Technology Tip Tuesday!I'm linking up with Blog Hoppin again for Teacher Week! Today is Technology Tip Tuesday, so here are some great websites I use in my class!<br />
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1. Teacher Tube. I just got on this one to find the little song for Pete the Cat: Rockin in My School Shoes, which my class is doing next week. It has lots of little school videos for free once you sit through a 30 second ad. It's great, since we can't get YouTube at my school. Plus: it has Schoolhouse Rock! Hooray!</div>
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2. Discovery Education a.k.a. United Streaming. No, I promise, we do not just watch videos in my class! But this is another amazing site! I think you have to have a subscription, though, but you should definitely inquire about it if you don't have this at your school! It has a bunch of Magic School Bus episodes and Reading Rainbows and so many educational videos! It's great for those rainy days when we can't go outside - we just pop on a Magic School Bus related to what we're talking about in Science and the kiddos love it!</div>
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3. Starfall. My kids LOVE this! We use it at the computer center and first thing in the mornings to help us review our letters and sounds. They also have a store with the best journals for very, very cheap!</div>
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4. Brain Pop Jr. This is so helpful in explaining difficult concepts and even has little games at the end of each short video. There are so many topics, you could probably incorporate one each day into whatever you're teaching! Plus...the kids love the robot character! (Needs a subscription again, though, but is totally worth it.)</div>
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Please feel free to share any Tech Tips you may have! I know kids today LOVE technology, so I try to incorporate it as much as possible. Like I posted yesterday, I could not live without my ActivBoard!</div>
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<br />Jennifer Wintershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547371609974777958noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031378981572269318.post-41797534615254003382012-08-20T16:26:00.002-07:002012-08-20T16:26:36.699-07:00Must Have MondayI'm linking up with Blog Hoppin for Teacher Week! I'll do my best to post each day....We'll see how this goes!<br />
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So today is Must Have Monday. Here are some things I must have to keep my classroom rolling as it should:<br />
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1. Coke. I don't go for the Diet version. I need the real stuff.<br />
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2. Lakeshore Instant Learning Centers. These are FABULOUS! I currently have only the Math and Science ones, but they are wonderful for throwing out for a center one week. Sometimes I make a recording sheet to go with them, but they are self explanatory with great picture directions and the kiddos LOVE them.</div>
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3. My Activboard. I taught for one semester with an overhead before I got my activboard. I hated it, the kids hated it and it just was a prime time to take a nap with those lights off. I love my Activboard and my kiddos just think it is the best thing ever when they get a turn to write on it. </div>
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4. Project Popperz. They just make your anchor charts POP! And they come in such bright and fun colors! And they are super thick, so your words really stand out.</div>
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5. No pic for this one, but - my teamies. I LOVE my other K teachers at my school and we all do everything we can to support one another. I am so blessed to work with such a supportive and cohesive team! We see someone else doing an activity and no matter who it is, they are more than happy to share. And let's face it - teaching is much, much easier as a team sport!</div>
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<br />Jennifer Wintershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547371609974777958noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031378981572269318.post-59166321295171881632012-08-18T10:41:00.004-07:002012-08-18T10:42:53.493-07:00School Supply Extravaganza!I absolutely LOVE the beginning of the year...mainly for the school supplies that roll into my classroom! My first year of teaching I was hired late and was an "added" classroom, where they pulled kids from other rooms to make up my class, so I didn't get to enjoy the plethora of supplies. Last year I piled all the crayons in a box, all the glues in a box, etc and had community supplies. The only thing the students got to keep that they specifically brought was their scissors. This worked fine for a while, but then when my whole community supply of glue ran out in about March, I realized I was not so much of a fan. I just didn't think it was fair that there were kids who had only used one glue bottle the whole year and there were some that used gobs and gobs of glue and used up about five bottles. Enter this method...<br />
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I have students put all their supplies in their cubby until I have time to sort through it. Then, I fill up the pencil box they brought with their scissors, one glue bottle, and one box of crayons. The rest of the glue bottles and crayon boxes go in a gallon bag, labelled with the child's name, and into the big basket. The tiny baskets you see are for those optional supplies, like extra glue sticks, colored pencils, markers, dry erase markers and pencils. These things do become community supplies because not everyone brings them and we don't use them all the time. </div>
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Everything gets labelled that is not a community supply! Binder, composition books, 2 cans of playdoh (one for my fine motor center and one for word work center), pencil box, and scissors. You can see the binders labelled and some of the labelled playdoh in this pic. </div>
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I asked each student to bring in two composition books (one for math journal and probably the other for the math journal when the first gets full). I stack them into two piles with names on all of them so I have my two class sets. I also asked students to bring in a pencil pouch to be their money pocket for the daily folder I send home each day. I stuff these in a pocket of one of the folders I will use (in the blue basket) and stick a label on the front of the folder. When I get time, I'll put the pencil pouch and the behavior chart, etc. in the prongs!</div>
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Whew! That is my supply organizational system for this year. When I get done, I'll store all the extras in the closet of my room. I would love to hear how you organize your supplies, so leave me a comment! </div>
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Now for something fun...I was so excited about this stuff! My parents this year are fabulous so far! Some of them even brought me little goody baskets to Meet the Teacher, but I thought this was so creative:</div>
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I know it's sideways, but it's one of those jars of scenty-good smelly stuff that you stick the reeds in to make your room smell good. And it's cotton candy scented, which fits perfectly with my sweet shop themed classroom! Now you walk in and see all the candy, cupcakes, ice cream and can smell cotton candy! Love it! It's such a great accent! Glad I don't have a frog or dog themed room....not sure how awesome a frog-scented room would be!</div>
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Jennifer Wintershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547371609974777958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031378981572269318.post-6374393796244296292012-08-12T10:51:00.003-07:002012-08-12T10:51:57.826-07:00Just in time for the TPT sale!Hey everyone! I've been working on this pack for a few weeks now and just got it ready! So, go pick it up while it's on sale! It's got lots of activities about pumpkins, spiders and bats to help you get ready for fall....<br />
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As most of you know, TPT is having a Back to School sale tomorrow and Monday and ALL of my products are 20% off! On top of that, TPT is giving an additional 10% off the discounted price when you use the code BTS12. Check out my store by clicking on the image!<br />
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And I promise you that I will post more pics of my classroom soon, but I'm sure you know how crazy things have been at school during this Teacher Week back at school. So, I'll take pics when those little squirrels of "I need to do this...no this needs to happen first...Oh my gosh! How did I forget to do that!" quit running through my head! </div>Jennifer Wintershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547371609974777958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031378981572269318.post-88959221075420663472012-08-04T06:56:00.001-07:002012-08-04T06:57:41.942-07:00Second grade freebie!Since I promised myself I wasn't going back to school before I have to on Tuesday, I decided to spend my time re-organizing the files on my computer, which, frankly, has turned into a bit of a mess since I've been playing on it and creating things all summer long. I was so amazed at all the stuff I found! I had some fun reading some of my papers I had written in college and thinking "Wow! Look at all those big words I used!" Anyway, I ran across my Second Grade file from my first year of teaching and all the goodies I made then. Because I can't really use them now in Kinder Land, I am giving away some of my grammar posters as a freebie on my TPT site! Click to grab them now!<br />
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I printed these off, backed and laminated them, then used them as a reference for my kiddos when I was introducing a new grammar skill. After the week of intro was over, I moved them to a different part of my room where the kids could use them as they completed a literacy center about the skill the next week. Hope they become useful for you! </div>
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<br />Jennifer Wintershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547371609974777958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031378981572269318.post-52720447408358825362012-08-03T11:59:00.001-07:002012-08-04T06:57:27.794-07:00Classroom Sneak Peek #1 and a Freebie!Whew! I officially go back to school on Tuesday, but I feel like I have not stopped doing school stuff all summer long! Not complaining though - I love creating materials and organizing my classroom. As promised, here is a link to the new Math Journals I've been working on. These fit on Avery 5160/8160 labels, so you don't have to cut them apart and deal with kiddos using globs of glue on them, then inevitably sticking the pages of their journal together. <br />
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Now, on to the classroom tour! I only took a few full room shots while I was at school, but will upload more specific pics showing my centers and teaching areas later. Here is my door, with my new Where Are We? sign (grab it by clicking on the pic!). </div>
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This is the view when you first walk in the door. Cubbies are on the right and my "Information Wall" is on the left. The blue shelf is where kiddos will put their lunch boxes, folders, name badges, and the clipboard we have to carry to special areas and lunch.</div>
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This is a close up of my "information wall." On the right is my How We Get Home chart (available for free on my TPT page). The middle is my Wish List where parents can take a candy cut out and send in the item listed on it (I'm still adding to it). The left is my class helper chart. I have little cupcakes with each student's name on them and velcro on the back to stick to the "plates."</div>
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Stepping in to the classroom a little more, you see the student's tables. I LOVE the chair pockets. Our Kindergarten has an Intervention Aide who sews in her spare time and she was kind enough to make these (and my curtains) for me!</div>
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Here is a shot of my reading table with my teacher stuff in the back. The yellow pocket chart on the wall is how I rotate my students through literacy centers. I put their names beside a letter (A-J) and then move the letters down when they need to switch centers. </div>
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More teacher stuff goes on this counter, which is right beside my reading table. Ignore the fan! It's in my room still from when we painted the walls before school got out! The purple pocket charts on the wall is where I will assign students to go to math stations. These are numbered, while my literacy centers are lettered, so I don't confuse myself! Hanging from the side of the counter is my new Brownie Points tray that I saw on Pinterest! I am so excited about this! Each time they get a whole class compliment, they get to add a (paper with a magnet on the back) brownie to the tray. When the tray is full, they get something special. Still haven't figured out the something special...any ideas?</div>
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Bulletin board behind the reading table (not quite finished!). The left has symbols for my reading groups (cupcake, popsicle, ice cream and candy) and the student names will be put beside their reading group. The right side has signs for punctuation and noun, verb, and adjectives at the top (found somewhere on Pinterest...) and the green poster is a Story Map that we can add post its to in order to describe our story we are reading. I'm also going to add a Schema poster (to add post its to as well) and an academic vocabulary poster (from one of Kim Adsit's packs...check it out <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Literacy-Vocabulary-Packet-and-Word-Wall">here</a>). Above are my ice cream scoop number words (available <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ice-Cream-Scoop-Counting-Posters-1-10">here</a> on my TPT site).</div>
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Here is my carpet area. It's to the right of my reading table. In the far corner is my classroom library. On the back wall is my word wall. </div>
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Here is a shot facing the outside door. You can see my writing center on the left. </div>
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This is kind of a management wall. The blue pocket chart will be home to my class partners. This is something new I'll try this year - assign each kiddo a partner, so when we have an activity that they need to do with a buddy, they always know who to go with. Hoping this will eliminate some of those partnerships they choose sometimes that may not be such good ideas! I also have the common core standard posters from Deanna Jump and the gumball machine will be where I will put info so the kids know what we are doing that week, such as sight words we are working on, math skill words, etc.</div>
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That's all for now! I'll take more pics when I go back on Tuesday. I promised myself I wouldn't be back before then, but we will see if I can stay away that long! </div>
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<br />Jennifer Wintershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547371609974777958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031378981572269318.post-10959452711334141582012-07-31T17:05:00.000-07:002012-08-04T06:57:53.805-07:00Math Journals and an Award<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">I just wanted to let you know about a new Math Journal packet I uploaded to TPT! I am really excited to use this bad boy in my room this year. It is organized according to the enVision math series, but is appropriate for all Kinders (and probably some firsties). Now, this is just a PDF where you will have to cut up the strips before passing them out to your kiddos. A friend of mine suggested that I make it to be able to be printed on Avery labels, so the munchkins can just stick it right on their paper, so that's what I'm working on now. Warning: it may take a while because Microsoft Word is always such a pain in the you-know-what with label templates! As soon as I get done fighting with it, I'll let you know. If you want to wait for the Avery label version, I totally get it, but still check it out and I'll let you know when the new version is ready!</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;"></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">Hip Hip Hooray! Today's my lucky day! I was nominated for an award and I am super excited because it's my first one! Thanks so much to Cheryl at <a href="http://spottedaroundtheschool.blogspot.com/">Spotted Around the School</a> for nominating me! </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">Ok...here's the rest of the rules and who I am nominating!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">1. Thank the blogger who nominated you. (done!)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">2. Include a link their blog. (done!)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">3. Include the award image in your post. (done!)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">4. Give seven random facts about yourself. (done!)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">5. Nominate 5 other bloggers for the award. (done!)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">6. Include a link to the blogs you nominated. (done!)</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">7. Let the bloggers know they have been nominated. (done!)</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">Since I just did the Tell me more, Tell me more linky, I figured I'd tell you seven school-related facts about me:</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">1. My classroom is decked out in a sweet shop theme because I have an enormous sweet tooth and it makes me happy looking at candy, cupcakes, and ice cream all day long. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">2. My favorite teacher was my 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Adams, because she always joked around with us and I try to do this with my kiddos as well.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">3. I would much rather have tables in my room than desks - so much easier to do collaborative and group work!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">4. I spend a lot of money on Scholastic books for my classroom. Seriously. I think I still owe them money from last year. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">5. I can't leave school each day until my teacher table is cleared off and my materials for the next day are moved from my weekly storage container (labelled Mon-Fri) to a basket in my big book stand. Otherwise, I just don't feel prepared when I walk in the next morning.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">6. I LOVE looking at data and seeing the progress and differences in my kiddos. Mind you, I do not love <i>getting</i> the data, but if someone else would test my kids, I could look at and analyze their scores all day long.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">7. I end up barefoot at least once a day at school. I just can't wear shoes that long! Especially not while chasing around a bunch of Kinders!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">Here are my people I nominated for the award. Check them out!</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 27px;">1. <a href="http://heathersfirstgradeheart.blogspot.com/">Heather's Heart</a></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">2. <a href="http://www.miss-kindergarten.com/">Miss Kindergarten</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white;">3. <a href="http://littlelovelyleaders.blogspot.com/">Lovely Little Leaders</a></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">4. <a href="http://teachingwithloveandlaughter.blogspot.com/">Teaching with Love and Laughter</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">5. <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/">Doodle Bugs Teaching</a></span><br />
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<br />Jennifer Wintershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547371609974777958noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031378981572269318.post-55967629707840582142012-07-28T10:06:00.001-07:002012-07-28T10:08:45.446-07:00First Day Jitters Blog HopI told you I love these linky party blog hop things! Here is another one from Fierce in Fourth:<br />
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The site glitched out when I was trying to link up, so I don't have the links to all the different people participating in this, but if you click the image above, it will take you to Fierce in Fourth's page where she has all the links for you!</div>
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Here's how this one goes...we are supposed to list three things about the first day of school that gives us the "jitters."</div>
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1. This is my second year teaching Kindergarten. Last year, most of our Kinders left at 1:00 and each teacher had 4-6 students stay for "After School Intervention" until 2:30. This year, everybody stays all day. While this will give us A LOT more time to get stuff done this year, I am a little concerned about having them all day long. I was exhausted by the end of the day last year and I can't imagine how tired I'm going to be this year.</div>
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2. We got our tentative class lists when we went for an inservice on June 14. Then, each K teacher at my school had between 18 and 20 kiddos on her roll. In June. Before new student registration. Last year, at this time, we each had about 14 on our rolls and ended with about 20. You do the math. Yep. I've got the jitters about the 24 kid Kinder class that may be headed my way. </div>
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3. My last (well, probably not <i>last</i>, but third) jitter is the mystery that Kindergarten brings. First grade teachers and up have the sometime benefit of being able to talk to their new students' previous year teachers about which kiddos are great helpers and which are not so much. Kinder teachers don't get this. We walk into a dark room, not knowing what's going to happen. This is probably the biggest jitter of all to me...the mystery. </div>
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What are some of your First Day Jitters? Are they similar to mine?</div>
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I am absolutely loving these linky parties! It is such a great way to discover new blogs! This one is from <a href="http://stepintosecondgrade.blogspot.com/2012/07/tell-me-more-tell-me-more-linky-party.html">Step into 2nd Grade with Mrs. Lemons</a>. <br />
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1. The title of this, "Tell me more, tell me more!" brings that song from Grease straight to my head! I loved that movie when I was a kid and watched it probably everysingleday. For real. I still remember all words to all songs. And now that I'm older, I understand the meaning of some of the more...hmmm...how to put it...risque ones! Can't believe my mom let me walk around singing some of those!</div>
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2. My husband and I have no kids of our own yet. Our doggie is PLENTY for right now. This is Jasper:</div>
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And our house belongs to him. We just live here. Seriously - that shirt he is holding on to belongs to my husband. Jasper is in charge and what he says goes. If he wasn't so darn cute, it may be a little different around here....</div>
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4. We don't have cable. No TV service at all. Most people can't believe this. Don't get me wrong, we still have TVs, but we just watch movies and iTunes on them. </div>
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5. I don't drink coffee. Ever. So gross. I would much rather have my glass of orange juice each morning. In fact, it is necessary to have my OJ. It is my coffee. If I don't have it, my day just does not go right. </div>
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6. Best book ever that will change your life - The Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman. Check it out. You will never be the same. For real - the subtitle is "A Book that Changes Lives" and it does not lie. Click the pic to get it on Amazon. I would seriously buy 1000 copies of this and hand them out to people if I could. </div>
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7. I love making things for school on my computer. My friend at work calls it my "creative therapy." </div>
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8. When I was little, I wanted to be a veterinarian. Then, when we had to put a dog to sleep, I decided I couldn't do that. So I decided to be a lawyer. I was NEVER going to be a teacher because my mom was one and I saw all the junk-ola she had to deal with. Well. Look how that worked out. And I wouldn't trade my teacher junk-ola for anything. :-)</div>
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9. Some day I would like to go back to school and get my Ph.D. so I can teach future teachers about actually being an elementary school teacher. I don't think there was but a handful of my college professors who actually did teach elementary school at some point. The ones who did were the ones I learned the most from. Still, though, there should be a college course entitled: Boogers, Snot, Wet Pants, Projectile Vomiting, Nose Bleeds, and Difficult Parents. I think I would have gotten more out of that class than I did in my whole 5 years of college!</div>
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10. I secretly wish that I could teach Kindergarten all day long, then moonlight as a 4th or 5th grade writing teacher. I LOVE teaching about writers' craft and making your writing beautiful. Don't really get to this a lot with my Kinders. I wish I could do both, though! </div>
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<br /></div>Jennifer Wintershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547371609974777958noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031378981572269318.post-24924709778148564372012-07-27T12:21:00.000-07:002012-08-04T06:57:02.735-07:00Back to work!I have spent a few days this week working in my classroom. We don't actually have to go back until August 7, but I've found that those teacher inservice/work days are NOT the time to try to get your classroom together. Instead, I like to get it completely ready BEFORE we are even supposed to go back, so I can deal with all those extras that come flying my way during that first teacher week back. Anyway, I promise more pics will find their way here soon, but for now here are two pics and a freebie. First up is that completely finished (except for student names!) behavior chart I was so jazzed about earlier:<br />
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I just love how it turned out! The second pic has a freebie with it. Have you seen this thing on Pinterest? It's such a fabulous idea:</div>
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I know last year I did the typical poster and wrote on it how my kiddos go home. By the end of the year, it was pretty much completely wrong, because for some reason, this Kinder teacher just never could find the time to change it when a kiddo started going home a different way! Imagine that! Hopefully this will help me keep my act together since all I'll have to do is move a clothespin when a car rider becomes a bus rider. Click the image to get it at my TPT store. That's all for now!</div>
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I went to an inservice last summer on Math Workshops and one of the activities we had to do was to, in groups, create an anchor chart on some math topic that we could duplicate with our class. After everyone made their charts and shared, they were placed on tables in the back for us to look at. This was last year and I am just now figuring out a way to get the pictures off my phone so that they might actually be useful! First up is graphing - tally marks and bar graphs:</div>
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Different ways to sort (I love the illustrations on this one!):</div>
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Different ways to make ten. I liked this one so much that I made a flip chart for my ActivBoard where you can plug in any number from 0-10. Get it for free at my TPT store!</div>
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I liked that one so much that I tweaked it for Kindergarten and made a flip chart for my ActivBoard where you can plug in any number from 0-10. Click this image to get it for free at my TPT store!</div>
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Patterns (I really like how this tells all the different things you can use to make a pattern):</div>
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Ok, this one was a little different. The people who made it said to make it on a paper grocery bag and hang it from a hanger that has clips on it. Then each kiddo can make their own on a paper lunch sack and place manipulatives inside. LOVE this idea! It makes the aspect of an anchor chart so much more engaging and personal. </div>
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Well there you go! It only took me a year, but now these wonderful ideas have finally left my phone and will hopefully be useful to someone! Thank you to all those people who made these wonderful charts!</div>
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I just stumbled across this and thought it would be a great way to see people working on their new blogs just like me! I know I always love seeing blog hops and traveling to the different blogs to "visit" new people, so here's hoping you like them too! This was started by
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"> 2. your current teaching position </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;">Currently teaching Kindergarten and L~O~V~E it!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"> 3. your teaching experience </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;">This will be my second year teaching K, the year before I taught second and the year before I was in college completing a year long internship in 5th. Had a little bit of everything!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black;"> 4. when you started blogging</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #93c47d;"> Just started about a month ago and am still learning. </span></span></div>
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Going back to library pockets (except these were made by my Cricut and are actually open envelopes) with a twist. This time I have these also:<br />
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Tiny buckets from the Target Dollar Spot! Each bucket will have colored popsicle sticks in it that match the bucket - red sticks in the red bucket, green sticks in the green bucket, etc. Each color represents a different place where students could get into mischief - classroom, lunch, hallway, special areas, recess. I am hoping the color coding of "put a stick in your pocket" will help solve another problem - remembering what a student did to get in trouble! By the end of the day last year, if it was a particularly "eventful" behavioral day, I sometimes had difficulty remembering which little darling did what to get their clip on yellow! Hopefully this will help me remember - if they have a green lunch stick, I can probably make a good guess on what they did. Now, my printer is low on ink right now (and I'm waiting on a printer ink sale to occur), but each bucket will be labelled with one of those places I mentioned earlier. Here's the file if you want to use it:</div>
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The link to the freebie also has a half sheet to send home if a student has a really troublesome day. I'm thinking three sticks deserves a note home that has to be signed and returned. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; clear: left; color: black; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"></span><br />
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I used something similar to this last year and LOVED it because it's just a few checks to let parents know what happened to their sweetie that day, instead of writing a whole long detailed letter. Also included in the packet is a "Today I went to red because..." in case you use that system. </div>
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I'm going to run it on fun, bright colored paper and stick it in the take home folder of one AWESOME student at the end of the day. So that's my new classroom behavior plan, we will see how it goes! I'll be sure to post pics of the chart and buckets when they make their way to my wall! Any classroom behavior plans you use that you love?</div>
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Anyway....this was a great use for all my scrap card stock I had laying around that I just couldn't stand to throw away. I am still working on cutesy-fying them (my glitter glue is at school, which is locked), but I am so excited with how they turned out so far! <br />
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All you do to make it into a crown is staple it to a sentence strip! <br />
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I also ran across these on Pinterest that I am working on:<br />
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I've got the balloons cut (Thanks, Cricut!) and instead of using Pixy Stix (because I'm scared of our school nutrition rules) I have a whole bunch of sparkly pencils I'm going to use instead. So that's a crown and a balloon/pencil thingy for each kid's birthday for a grand total of $0 (already had the scrap paper and the pencils!). Same cost as the homemade certificate I had last year but oh so much more fun! What do you do for student birthdays in your class?</div>Jennifer Wintershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547371609974777958noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8031378981572269318.post-80782242065151817212012-06-30T14:06:00.002-07:002012-06-30T14:06:13.731-07:00Hello!Hi everyone! This is my first blog and I intend to use it to keep up with my ideas for my Kindergarten classroom. We will see how this goes! I am so excited about this because I could quite literally spend all day long reading other teachers' blogs, so I figured I'd try one out for myself. Here's hoping I can keep up with it!Jennifer Wintershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00547371609974777958noreply@blogger.com0