tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-39177186321480043172024-03-15T04:24:04.569-04:00Teaching with a Touch of TwangA fourth grade teacher's blog detailing the ideas and adventures in education (and life's other joys)!Sabrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07636198973741863898noreply@blogger.comBlogger203125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917718632148004317.post-85158381860320543142018-07-03T14:09:00.001-04:002018-07-05T15:01:38.658-04:00Books to Build a Reading Community<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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At the beginning of every school year, I always use picture books to kick off our year together. These are not your traditional beginning of the year read alouds. These are the books I use in the first few days of school to introduce our classroom reading community. I teach two classes of ELA/SS and there are very few rules I have when it comes to my classroom library, but the few that I do have are VERY important! Each book below demonstrates a specific rule or purpose for our classroom library and can be used in any order and with any grade. Some of these rules might not apply to your classroom (or might even apply in a different way), but are all excellent reads none-the-less.</center>
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<b><u><a href="https://amzn.to/2tzGf8c" target="_blank">The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore</a></u> by Williams Joyce</b></center>
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<b>PURPOSE</b>: Books can change your life!</center>
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The is the very first book I read with my students EVERY. YEAR. It sets the tone of my expectations for our year together - that being that I fully believe that books can change your life and I EXPECT them to this year! If kids see how much passion you have for books, they will become interested. I have had many students walk through my classroom doors hating reading and when they tell me that I just light up. It's like the best gift I could ever be given as a teacher: a challenge! Don't get me wrong, I love my kiddos who come to me already bookworms, but I especially love watching these "nonbelievers" grow into voracious readers. All it takes is one book and to change their life and together we will find it! That's essentially my whole lesson while reading this aloud to them. They love the illustrations and ask to read it more than once. It's a book that when you read it a second and third time, you always find something you missed. There is also a short animated film (15 minutes) based on the book that I HIGHLY recommend showing after reading as well. It is silent, so you could even show it before hand as a discussion and comparison piece.</center>
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<b><u><a href="https://new.myubam.com/p/4504/bears-dont-read" target="_blank">Bears Don't Read!</a></u> by Emma Chichester Clark</b></center>
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<b>PURPOSE:</b> Reading is for EVERYONE!</center>
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This is a very sweet and slightly exaggerated, yet humorous, book about a bear who wants to try something different: reading. It has good messages about perseverance and kindness, but I also like to point out to my students about the stereotypes found in this story. </center>
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Before we read this story I always ask the students to draw or write on a note card "what a reader looks like." It is usually the same response: a little white boy (or girl) with glasses with a book in their hand, occasionally I'll even get more of a nerd look to the drawing. Then we discuss this as a class and talk about why other people can't be readers... and then we debunk ALL OF IT!!!</center>
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In the book a lot of people in town think the bear is up to no good because he's a bear, when really he just wants to read. These people don't see him as a reader though, they have stereotyped him. After discussing the book and how every person in that room can be a reader, no matter their interests, we watch this clip.</center>
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This video is EVERYTHING! This video is about Malcolm Mitchell who joined a book club in college, goes on to win the Super Bowl, and then writes a children's book. At around minute 1:50 he says that football will never be his biggest accomplishment because "it came natural - that's a gift. I had to work to read." I also love that he admits that he entered into college only being able to read at a junior high level. He IS our students! So many of our students need to see that everyone CAN be a reader but that it might take more work than others. Just because you don't look a certain way or like specific things, doesn't mean you can't be a reader!</center>
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Here is his book (because you know your kids will immediately want to read it after you watch this, LOL). Click on the image to read more about it!</center>
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<b><u><a href="https://amzn.to/2MsQwtX" target="_blank">Alfred Zector, Book Collector</a></u> by Kelly DiPucchio</b></center>
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<b>PURPOSE:</b> Always share your stories.</center>
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Alfred Zector LOVES books. He loves them so much that he wants to read ever single one and collect them! Eventually, he has collected all the stories from the town but realizes he is lonely when he doesn't have any one to share the stories and talk about them with... You also get to see what a town without books looks like (it's a scary place!). Eventually, Alfred realizes that he enjoys sharing his stories with others and talking about them.</center>
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As a class we discuss why it is important to share our favorite stories and the different ways we can share our stories with our friends! Here is a general list of what we usually come up with:</center>
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Book Talks at Morning Meeting</center>
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Write something for the Book Recommendation board</center>
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<b><u><a href="https://amzn.to/2KMzSIB" target="_blank">How to Read a Story</a></u> by Kate Messner</b></center>
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<b>PURPOSE:</b> Getting started reading a book.</center>
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This is a very cute and simple book that would be fabulous to launch a Reader's Workshop (especially in the younger grades)! I still use it with my 4th graders as a reminder of what to do when reading but some of it doesn't necessarily apply to us all the time (like the buddy reading). It begins with Step 1: Find a Story - which is where I insert our choosing "Just Right Books" mini-lesson. Step 3: Find a Good Spot - which is where we talk about our "Reading Spots" around the room and how we like to read in different places than we like to work. Some of the lessons go over reading strategies (prediction, questioning, context clues, emotion, etc.) as well as practicing fluency. A very cute and quick read to remind your students about how to read a book.</center>
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<b>PURPOSE:</b> Reading Ambassadors</center>
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Schomburg is a very moving true tale about a boy who never saw himself, or any one like him, in the history books. When he asked his 5thg rade teacher why not, he was told, "because Africa's sons and daughters had no history, no heroes worth noting." He did not accept that answer and made it his life's mission to amass as much history about his people and their contribution to world history as he could. And boy did he!</center>
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After reading this we talk about what Arturo Schomubrg really was. He was an ambassador, a representative, for his people and their history! We discuss how we can always find information and other things in books and how if we want to know something, or need advice, we go to an expert, like Schomburg.</center>
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In our class we have Reading Ambassadors, or experts, based on genres. If you read over 5 books in one particular genre you are considered an expert at that point and your name goes up on the board underneath that specific genre title. This way, when another students wants ideas on what to read in the Fantasy category, they don't always have to come to me for advice, they can look at the board and see who is an ambassador for fantasy and ask them for the opinion on a selection.</center>
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<b>PURPOSE:</b> No spoilers!!!</center>
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This is probably my BIGGEST pet peeve in the classroom and the kids know this from day one. I hate it when students spoil the end of a story for another student... they take away their OMG moment that the other student got to experience! Now, I know accidents happen and I am okay with that. What I am NOT okay with, and if you're a teacher you know what I'm talking about, is when kids want to show you, or other kids, that they know something that you don't and prove it by telling the ending. They want to show off their knowledge in a sense. They don't always do it to be mean or cruel, most don't even set out to ruin the book per se, they just want to prove to people that they knew what was going to happen and in doing so, spoil the book. Drives. Me. Nuts. Okay, soap box over. LOL!</center>
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This is a really cute book about a boy who is just trying to read a book but all the animals he happens upon keep asking him if he has gotten to specific parts in the book, which could possibly spoil it for him! It is humorous and has beautiful illustrations! This is always a class favorite every year I read it!</center>
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<b><u><a href="https://amzn.to/2KIRpxP" target="_blank">That Book Woman</a></u> by Heather Henson</b></center>
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<b>PURPOSE:</b> There is a book for everyone/Even reluctant readers can enjoy reading.</center>
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This is one of my favorite books! It is about a boy named Cal who lives up in the Appalachian Mountains where there are no libraries to be seen for miles. A Book Woman keeps showing up to his house delivering books for his sister but he would rather do anything else than sit and read a book. The fact that this woman delivers these books through all kinds of weather (especially the dangerous kind) starts to intrigue Cal as to what is so special about these books that she would be willing to risk her life to deliver them.</center>
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It is a fabulous read that shows your readers how special, and valuable, books and reading can be and how there really is a book for every reader, even the most reluctant of readers. I always like to tell the kids that I am their own personal Book Woman! I would happily go through the rain and fog and cold to get them a book!</center>
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I use this book as an introduction to our #truestorytuesday for #classroombookaday. If you have never done #classroombookaday, I cannot recommend it enough!!! As a class we read a picture book every day - for fun and community building experiences. I don't always have a plan when it comes to the books, just whatever our class needs at that moment. But I always do a true story on Tuesdays and I will say this is by far their most favorite day! This is the book I use to introduce different types of non-fiction picture books as well as #truestorytuesday and talk to kids about the real Pack Horse Librarians from American history!</center>
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{This is also a fantastic book to use when teaching context clues and dissecting unknown words and phrases.}</center>
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<b><u><a href="https://amzn.to/2NkaBUm" target="_blank">Hooray for Books!</a></u> by Brian Won</b></center>
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<b>PURPOSE:</b> Try new genres, formats, and titles.</center>
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This is a very cute and simple story about having a favorite book and wanting to read it but also how it is okay to try new things. After Turtle has searched and searched for his favorite book and declined everyone else's suggestions on what he should try, he finally realizes that maybe there are other good stories out there that he should read.</center>
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This is a perfect story to share for reader's who have an absolute favorite (which I totally get!) and to show them that it is okay to branch out and read what other people suggest.</center>
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I hope you have found some new titles that will help you set up your own classroom reading community! What books do you read to help your students begin their reading journey?</center>
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Sabra</div>Sabrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07636198973741863898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917718632148004317.post-16095171802472910752018-06-04T23:43:00.001-04:002018-06-04T23:43:08.812-04:00All the Books!<center>
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My classroom library is home to over 1,000 books. Yes, you read that correctly - over 1,000 (EASILY). Every year I probably add about 100 new books to the lot: chapter books, picture books, informational text, etc. I am constantly promoting new books and buying books that I think my current readers would be interested in. This is not always an easy feat on a teacher's salary, but it can be done! Here are the top five methods I have used to add more books to my classroom library:</div>
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<a href="https://clubs.scholastic.com/home" target="_blank">Scholastic Book Clubs</a> is my all time favorite way to get books! Just by sending home flyers each month and promoting a love of reading in your classroom, you can earn points and free books to help build up your classroom library! I work at a Title 1 school so I run the average book order every other month. Some months are better than others but in general I get about 4-6 student orders each go around. Just form that alone I am able to accumulate enough points that I can purchase AT LEAST 40 new books each year with points alone... that means I didn't pay a single penny for those books.</div>
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1. You can get books for <b>cheap </b>for your classroom library. There are also $2 and $3 books as well - still a great deal! If you are like me and work at a Title 1 school, your families don't always have a ton of extra money to spend on books, so them being able to get classics and favorites for just $1 is an AWESOME deal! </div>
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2. I use these $1 books to build my novel study or literature circle libraries. I will buy anywhere from 5-25 copies (whole class set) of a book to use in my class. </div>
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3. I will also purchase the $1 books for our "Christmas Book Pass" game (for the students who can't bring one in), and for an end of the year gift. I keep an eye out all year for a perfect summer book for my kiddos. I want it to be something that is a good piece of literature but also a series, this way if they love the book they can keep the momentum going with the rest of the series throughout the summer!</div>
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Also, if you are a first year teacher, Scholastic Book Clubs offer even more extras to help you build your library! Don't forget to look at other flyers besides the ones for your grade levels as well. I am a big believer in using picture books to teach my standards as well as reading a classroom-book-a-day picture book. Purchasing picture books through Scholastic Book Orders are a very inexpensive way to build up this portion of my library as well!</div>
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I LOVE using <a href="https://www.donorschoose.org/" target="_blank">Donors Choose</a> and I try to do at least one a year for books for my classroom. I usually have something specific in mind and ask for diverse books, non-fiction, classroom-book-a-day, etc. But that's the joy of Donors Choose, you can ask for whatever your classroom needs! I usually try to ask for my more expensive books through DC because sometimes they will offer half-price matching. The only draw back to DC (in my humble opinion) is that you never know when it will be funded so you never know when you will receive the books. Better late than never, but if you need them by a specific date this might not be the way to go. Also, ALWAYS check with your school or district about what their parameters are for Donors Choose and if those books get to stay with you as your teaching career advances, or do they belong to the school...<br />
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If you would like to get started with your own Donors Choose account and project, I recommend this page to get you started: <a href="http://allkindsoflearningadventures.com/2016/03/get-started-donors-choose/" target="_blank">5 Steps for a Successful Start on Donors Choose</a>.</div>
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Every Goodwill might be different but ours sells paperback books for $0.29 and hardback books for $0.59. Y'all, you cannot beat those prices! It can be hit or miss like anything, but it's always worth a shot! I also like to go to the Goodwill in my school's neighborhood because they always have a better children's book selection than my neighborhood one. Probably because of all the kiddos! LOL Another good tip is to at peak times, like before and after Christmas and around Spring, for bigger selections.</div>
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Scholastic Warehouse Sales are events in major cities that usually occur 2-4 times a year. If you sign up for their email list you will get notifications weeks in advance as well as coupons for $10 off and more! You can even sign up to volunteer for the event and my understanding is the volunteers get even more discounts/perks! Every warehouse sale is different in what they offer (book-wise and sale-wise). There are usually two sales a year that offer 50-80% off of their books. Be sure to check the email to see what sale prices are being offered. Some of the events also offer Build a Box. This is where you take a box inside a specific section of the warehouse and fill it with as many books as you can for a set price! There was a time where this was my main source for classroom library books.</div>
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Another way to get more books into your classroom is to ask your families! You will be surprised how many students want to donate something to their classroom library. Let them promote and talk up their books to the class before you put them out for circulation! This will make the students feel more special, allow them to share their love of these particular reads with their friends, and inspire another student to do the same. Trust me, I know! My principal even gave me the idea that if you have a classroom economy or ticket system, that any student that brings in books (as long as their parents give permission) get "X' amount of money or tickets toward their class account. </div>
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Everything is worth a shot once! In this case, I recommend giving all of these options a shot more than once! There are a lot more ways to get books into the hands of your students but these are the top 5 ways that add to my classroom library the most. Later I will tell you about some other, less common, methods (especially if you work at a Title 1 school like me)! Do you have any other tried and true methods to get books? Let's hear about them in the comments below!</div>
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Monday was a whole new ball game folks. </center>
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First off, my shoulders were KILLING me from the day prior. All those bags weighed down with those books was no joke. I had no idea how I was going to carry the new books today. (Yea, yea #firstworldproblems)</center>
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Secondly, I had little man with me and that was a gamble right there friends. It could have gone either way. Luckily the little ham bone did amazing and won over many very sweet people with his smile and manners. </center>
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Now I was nervous to bring him for a variety of reasons but one of the main ones was that I didn't want to be this giant stroller in the aisle. Then I remembered how many people were walking around with rolling suitcases and how large your load is with bags of books hanging off both sides of you and I immediately stopped feeling guilty.</center>
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That stroller was clutch y'all! There was no way on God's green earth I could have carried all my new books with my shoulders the way they were. Why yes, I am a wimp. But seriously, I should have taken a picture of how red my shoulders still were the next day from the "strap rash" (I don't know if that's a thing... It seems like a sketchy disease one gets...).</center>
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Monday is different than the other two days in that it is shorter. The conference was open from 9-2. There are fewer people as well, not by much but still smaller. There were also fewer authors than on Sunday but still a very good amount! We got to meet Jonathan Fenske who is the author of <u><a href="http://amzn.to/29s433B" target="_blank">Barnacle is BORED</a></u> and the illustrator of <u><a href="http://amzn.to/29GlJY9" target="_blank">Maxi the Little Taxi</a></u>, Henry Cole. Both very nice men!</center>
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Sunday night after the conference I saw on social media how many books, authors, and publishers I missed so I devised a game plan of who I wanted to see and where I needed to be for the next day. So on Monday I got to visit at least half the conference room and my same three aisles from yesterday ;)</center>
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Same sort of goodness happens on Monday that happened on Sunday... "Free book?" "Want to meet this author?" "Would your son like a book?" Just as nice as nice could be.</center>
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Now not all publishers/vendors did this but the majority and definitely the big name ones did. Here's the rub: they all do it at the same time so you need to figure out which vendor has the most goods you want and get in line. And I do mean a line. Some people even started getting in line around 11. That was not going to work for us. You should also be aware of their rules. Some places only let you pick 3 books, some would let you get 5, some were as many as you could hold. Know what you're getting in line for! This was not an easy decision. So many good books I wanted but you just didn't know what you might get...</center>
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Around 11:58 (because I wasn't even sure we were going to make it to this point since lunch time was vastly approaching) I jumped eighth in line for a distribution company who had one side of their set-up for free and the other for super cheap! It was surprisingly organized! I went in with a number of other people (they do police how many can be in at one time) and grabbed what I wanted, paid for my goods and left. What was a nice surprise was the diverse selection of books I got because it was a distributor and not a specific publishing company.</center>
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This weekend I had the opportunity to attend the American Library Association Annual Conference in Orlando, FL and it was beyond anything I could have ever imagined! In this three part blog series I am going to tell you about each day that I was able to attend and my final advice for you should you ever get the privilege to go!</center>
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I knew it was coming a couple months ago, I had even said to myself, "Hey! A lot of my favorite authors are going to be there, I want to go." And then mommy-hood and teaching life got in the way and I completely forgot about it. Fast forward a few months to this past weekend and what pops up on my Instagram feed but pics from the conference (#alaac16)! Well since it's in my own backyard I decide I'm just going to get an exhibit pass (for $65) and go the next day! The exhibit pass gets you in for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. At this point I have already missed Saturday and because of other plans already made I would only get to go for a short while on Sunday and Monday, but that's okay because I'm a HUGE book nerd and it's worth it to me.</center>
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So I wait in line and meet the fabulous Frances who I can say is an absolutely a doll and funny to boot! She was so nice and personable. We even got to talking about my kiddos and how we like to Skype with authors and she offered to do a Skype visit with my students! When she signed my book she even wrote her email inside to get connected. Just so friendly!</center>
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I finally make it to Scholastic, but on my journey I pass many different children's publishers along the way. And at every publisher they are giving away free books. I don't mean some dinky boring book that no one wants. I mean the new release you have on your Amazon Wish List but are waiting until it comes out on paperback (because we're teachers and have no money), or the sequel to a book you and your kids have been dying to get your hands on. It's all there just waiting for you to claim and take back to your room! Usually it's not even just one freebie, there are three or 4 to choose from and guess what... You can take all three or four! So I did! (<b>Disclaimer</b>: I offered to pay for almost every book because it just blew my mind that they were giving them all away for free. Every time they said, "Oh no take it, it's free!")</center>
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I got to meet <a href="http://www.pammunozryan.com/" target="_blank">Pam Munoz Ryan</a> and I LOVE her! She gets me. Or she could have just been really nice and saying what she thought I wanted to hear but either way, it worked for me! I am so excited to read her new book ECHO.</center>
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I made the fatal mistake of not branching out and/or preparing for this visit. To be fair, I had no time to plan because I registered on site where I got my goodies then but I was also short on time so I was trying to get as much in as I could. I also assumed that the three aisles of children's publishers was it because on either side was book technology. So those three aisles are where I stayed and got all my goodies. Rookie mistake.</center>
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This was my first time I ever had FOMO (fear of missing out). Seeing how many authors I almost missed, or did miss, and looking at other people's posts and seeing the books they got that I didn't definitely put FOMO into high effect, haha. It also made going back the next day all that more exciting! You remember that feeling you got on Christmas Eve as a kid just waiting to see what would be under that tree the next morning? It's like that but tenfold because it lasts way longer than 30 minutes!!!</center>
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Part 2 is all about Monday (which was different than Sunday!) and Part 3 is my advice to anyone going, especially the first time! I will also be giving you a list of all the titles I received.</center>
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New year, new blog I say! I got a whole revamp from the lovely Gabby over at <a href="http://www.gabbysclassrooms.com/" target="_blank">Gabby's Classrooms</a>! I love the brightness and cheerfulness it brings me every time I look at it. The perfect way to start off a new year! Thank you Gabby!!!</center>
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This time of year is all about resolutions. What are some of yours? I have had many in the past which have worked out well and some which have not. This year I was getting real about what I was actually going to do. Now with little man on our hands our time is a lot more valuable (and non-existent).</center>
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I'm not committing to exercising because I don't love it and I wanted to focus on the things I love this year. But also because at the end of the day when I have my 15 minutes left after baby time, mommy and daddy time (aka dinner), and finishing school work or my gifted courses, that last 15 minutes before I completely pass out, if I haven't done so already on the couch, are spent brushing my teeth, taking out my contacts and escaping into a book for 15 minutes for my sanity. Without that it gets ugly people. UGLY.</center>
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This year I have a resolution with my hubs and two with myself. So for those of you counting at home, that's three! A bit gutsy for me if I do say so myself but let's just see where this takes us shall we.</center>
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This year my hubs and I have decided that we would like to go on one date night a month. Sounds easy right?! Surprisingly, that time just flies by and you realize with a new baby, who is now almost one, that the last date you went on was right after he was born. Unacceptable!</center>
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We challenged ourselves to each come up with six dates, this way we would have one for each month of the year already set up. Sometime this weekend we will share our ideas and start to plan them out! The nice thing about this is the flexibility. We can do these whenever we want! We can even swap them out if we need to. I made these little cards to fill out (because have you met me... it's what I do) and when we decide the date we'll circle the month, check off the day and write down the date in the box. If you want your own date night cards, click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxAFi6iqfP0qM3lQOC1PM1pRbkk/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here </a>for your free copy.</center>
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I've seen her scrapbook stuff in the craft stores but remember, I only have 15 minutes a day people. Aint nobody got time for that. So I move on to the next tab which says Project Life Digital. I can totally do digital! But the digital is a SMIDGE over what I want to spend right now. Because let's be honest. I'm going to need more than one of those cute kits.</center>
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Then you see there is an app that let's you do all this while only spending a few dollars here and there for the kits you want. UMMM yes please! I can totally rock this resolution with this and print a super cute book at the end of the year. I even made one page from New Years already. Can't beat that!</center>
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Super simple y'all. I'm going to try and read 60 books in 2016! I got the idea from my friend Amanda at <a href="http://www.myshoestringlife.com/2015/12/readers-gonna-read-in-2016.html" target="_blank">My Shoe String Life</a>. You can even sign up at <a href="http://sixtybooks.com/">SixtyBooks.com</a> to sign the pledge and make reading a part of your every day life. I've already started my first one for our Literary Leaders Book Club : <u>Masterminds </u>by Gordon Korman.</center>
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This year, all of our bloggers are focusing on free tips or ideas that they can share with you to get your school year off to a great start. Some ideas will have a freebie, others might just be a stand alone concept. The idea is to try and share things that will solve problems and create a happy and stress free first few weeks!</div>
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Last year one of my old teammates and teaching soulmates, Tia, sent a letter home asking families to send in a framed family photo with their child to help decorate her room. Well, I LOVED that idea! Her room looked amazing, it was like a second home, and the kids really had an investment in it because it was part them.</div>
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So, what do good teammates/teaching soulmates do? They steal/share the idea!!! She's also the brains behind the Parent Homework Letter the first week of school that I blogged about earlier this year. If you want a freebie that will have an amazing impact on your year and how you view your students (no big build up or anything), click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxAFi6iqfP0qMzA4SVdKRUlhWU0/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>. I just don't know where I would be without that woman!?</div>
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Here is what mine will look like this year! Yep. You read that right... What mine <i>WILL </i>look like this year. So school hasn't started yet for me (one more week?!) and Tia didn't have any pictures so I <strike>made</strike> asked some of my past and present teammates that had kids at our school to bring in framed family photos so I could post them here for y'all! Once a teammate, always a teammate. For better or for worse. #they'restuckwithme</div>
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We will be having an Instagram giveaway again! At the bottom of each post, there will be a letter. The letters all work together to give you the name of a type of orange! This year is a bit tricky...it's a two word name! Who knew there was such a fancy two-named orange out there?!</div>
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**<b>Fun Fact</b>: Starting at the first blog, Mrs. Russell's Room, and going through will give you the right answer!** </div>
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Post it on instagram and hashtag it with #orangehop2015. We love original ideas...so, do something fun with your image! Check out these ideas from last year!</div>
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Hey y'all! Well, it's that time again... That bittersweet time where you're sad to see your summer ending but secretly excited to see Crayola in the aisles again. To help you through this Back to School season, I'm joining with these wonderful Florida bloggers to give you some great back to school ideas (and freebies!!!) that will help you start the year off right! You can look forward to seeing tips from the following Florida PreK-5 bloggers!</div>
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The book I'd like to share with you is <u>Sisters Grimm: Fairy Tale Detectives</u> by Michael Buckley. I know this isn't your normal first week of school read aloud but it is definitely a novel I love to start my year off with!<br />
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<i>In book one of this bestselling series, sisters Sabrina and Saphne are sent to live with their mysterious grandmother, Relda Grimm. The sisters learn they are descendants of the Brothers Grimm, whose famous book of fairy tales is actually a collection of case files. The girls are the latest in a long line of fairy-tale detectives, and their new hometown is filled with Everafters (as magical folks like to be called) - some good and some very, very bad. When a mysterious Everafter setes a giant loose on the town, it's up to the Sisters Grimm to save the day.</i></div>
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<b>Here are just <i>some </i>of the reasons it's one of my favorites!</b><br />
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<li>It's about a town of fairy tale characters that we all know and love but they are not who they seem! The villains might be bad guys, the good guys might be wicked, but you never know what anyone is up to in Ferry Port Landing (and that keeps my kids on their toes!). The kids know most of these characters but I have found as the years go on, they don't necessarily know their stories - unless it was made into a Disney movie, lol. So you might want to do some referencing or pre-reading :o)</li>
<li>It's a mystery... my favorite! Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are on hot on the trail to find out who stepped on Mr. Applebee's farm and the even bigger mystery... What happened to their parents?</li>
<li>It's a series! There are 9 books total and a companion guide. I read this my first year at my new school and our media specialist had to buy the rest of the series because so many kids came to ask if she had it! LOL So get book two ready to go!</li>
<li>There are TONS of reading skills that can be taught using this book and with all the wondrous foods that their Granny Relda makes, you could easily have yourself an end of book celebration with those funky treats!</li>
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One of the very first skills I ever teach, and use with this book, is Point of View. The reason for this is because it is an ongoing skill. For every book we read after this, we can use our notes and skills from the Sisters Grimm to figure out the POV of our newest read aloud. Usually one of the harder skills for students to grasp, I have made it easier with a student friendly power-point, four different ways for them to take notes and a Point of View Road Map that will help them figure out what POV any story is written in!<br />
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Even though my Open House for back to school isn't for a few weeks, I'm trying really hard to get as much done now as possible! I usually don't mind the late nights to get stuff done during pre-plan but with a 5 month old... I'm thinking I might be getting too old for that (at least this time around, lol)!</div>
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This year I am doing something different! Our Open House usually starts out with the entire fourth grade in the cafeteria and all the teachers talk about what they can expect from 4th grade this year: curriculum, field trip dates, etc. Then they are let loose up to our rooms for exploration time! It never fails that parents are busy filling out paperwork or talking to me. The kids, for the most part, are shy and trying to scope out the room from the safety of their parents side, LOL. Well I want all that to change...</div>
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I created this by uploading my own picture to ThingLink and made it interactive from there! If you have never heard of <a href="https://www.thinglink.com/" target="_blank">ThingLink</a> (don't feel bad, neither did I!), it is a program that essentially can make any photo or video interactive! Think of all the possibilities!!! There is a free version but I caved and paid for the year subscription because it has <b>SO </b>many cool features that I want to try with my kiddos this year. I think it would also be an incredible tool to use if you happened to be doing a Flipped Classroom!<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Sabra</div>Sabrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07636198973741863898noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917718632148004317.post-88828604560970671342015-07-05T09:00:00.000-04:002015-07-05T09:00:01.314-04:00Sunshine State Book Review: Athlete vs. Mathlete<u>Athlete vs. Mathlete</u> by W.C. Mack is probably my favorite book so far! I love the characters, the main and the secondary! They are real children. They have mood swings, they're loyal, they worry, they have fun, they make mistakes. I think it's very important for kids (especially my student's age) to see that you're not the only one going through these feelings but it is important how you handle them and that some mistakes cannot be undone with a sorry. I also liked how the books shows the positives to both cliques: the "jocks" and the "nerds." There is a great life lesson in here as well; life isn't always fair but how you deal with it is what matters.<br />
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<b>Summary from Scholastic:</b><br />
<i>Owen Evans lights up the scoreboards. His brother, Russell, rocks the school boards. These twin brothers couldn't be more different. They've long kept the peace by going their separate ways, but all that is about to change. The new basketball coach recruits Russell for the seventh grade team and a jealous Owen has to fight to stay in the game. When someone tries to steal Russell's spot as captain of the mathlete team, will the two be able to put aside their differences in order to save his position? Or will they be sidelined?</i><br />
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<b>Genre</b>: Realistic Fiction<br />
<b>Lexile</b>: 610<br />
<b>Grade Level</b>: Grades 3-5 (3.4)<br />
<b>Pages</b>: 208<br />
<b>Skill</b>: Point of View (the chapter jumps between Owen and Russ' point of view)<br />
<b>Food</b>: Doughnuts (it's the best seller in the Mathlete's bake sale, even if the "enemy" brought them)<br />
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Athlete vs. Mathlete is definitely one of those books that will appeal to boys! We all know how hard it is to get them to read and this will do the trick, even if he's not an athlete or a mathlete ;o) One of my absolute favorite things about this book is that it's a series! I hate it when my kids fall in love with a book and want to keep the adventure going, only to find out that it's a stand alone book. Athlete vs. Mathlete has two other books in it's series: Double Dribble and Time-Out! Click on any of the photos to find out more info!<br />
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If you would like a copy of the award for reading this book click <a href="http://teachingwithatouchoftwang.blogspot.com/2015/06/monday-made-it-sunshine-state-awards.html" target="_blank"><b>here </b></a>to grab your free copy! There are three different versions: SRC test, AR test and just reading the book.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Sabra</div>Sabrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07636198973741863898noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917718632148004317.post-80457367328923773042015-06-25T14:44:00.001-04:002015-06-25T14:51:46.540-04:00Building Minds, One Bag at a Time<div style="text-align: left;">
Every year I come up with new goals for myself or my classroom for the next year. This years goals are:</div>
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I'm already working on goal number one with Learn Like a Pirate and I've got some new ideas and activities up my sleeve for goal number two (thanks to some of my BBBs!). Goal number three was a big one and I wasn't sure how I wanted to go about it but knew that I needed the help of Donor's Choose (LOVE THEM!). They are a wonderful organization that allows teachers to post projects that will benefit their students and people all around the world can donate to those projects!<br />
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I know people are busy and have lives/multiple jobs and if that is the case, I want to capitalize on their time at home then! I have lots of parents who want to help their kids but aren't really sure where to start or what to do and sending home a review packets isn't really helping anyone (especially if that student wasn't getting in class that day either).</div>
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My solution? Family Learning Bags! Think <i>Literacy Bags</i> (mixed with other subjects and activities) meets <i>Family Game Night</i> meets <i>The 7 Habits</i>. That's a lot to think about, I know! Let's have a picture, shall we?</div>
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We are a Leader in Me school and Habit 7 is Sharpen the Saw! In a nut shell that means taking time for you. Do what you love to relax your mind, heart, body and soul. These bags will have activities to do all of those things with your family: books, games (educational - some more obvious than others), recipes, activities/crafts, and more! With these bags I'm hoping to help students reinforce skills, bring families closer together, introduce everyone to new activities or topics they wouldn't normally be exposed to, and chances to sharpen your saw! Now that I have my own little family, I want to spend all my time with them and I definitely don't want to be grading papers while I'm doing it. I can only assume my student's families feel the same way about homework during family time. Who wouldn't rather be playing a game than doing math problems on a worksheet?! Click <a href="http://www.donorschoose.org/project/building-minds-one-bag-at-a-time/1587781/?rf=link-siteshare-2015-06-account_projects_teacher-teacher_1786551&challengeid=284590" target="_blank"><b>here </b></a>for more information on the project!<br />
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Usually I send a letter home to kids and get the donation ball rolling but since we're not in school, and I would love to have these ready to go the first week of school, I'm coming to y'all for help. I believe in these bags so much that I wanted to do a giveaway to help promote them! If you donate even a dollar to this project for my kiddos, you can enter in the drawing to win your choice of <i>any </i>MINI sign from <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/TallahasseeSunday?ref=l2-shopheader-name" target="_blank">Tallahassee Sunday</a>! <b>You can also use the match code SPARK to double your donation!</b> </div>
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This is the one I have! Let me tell you that this was not an easy decision! I couldn't decide if I wanted the apple (red or green), the pencil (SO many options there - polka dots, chevron, glitter, etc.), the puzzle piece (my heart will always be with my ASD kids), or make a custom one! They also have signs for other special area teachers! Even a cute band-aid if you work in the clinic :o)<br />
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<b>Summary from Scholastic:</b><br />
<i>While Alice's Aunt Polly, the Pie Queen of Ipswitch, passes away, she takes with her the secret to her world-famous pie-crust recipe. Or does she? In her will, Polly leaves the recipe to her extraordinary fat, remarkably disagreeable cat, Lardo... and then leaves Lardo in the care of Alice.</i><br />
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<i>Suddenly, the whole town is wondering how you leave a recipe to a cat. Everyone want to be the next big pie-contest winner, and it's making them pie-crazy. It's up to Alice and her friend Charlie to put the pieces together and discover the not-so-secret recipe for happiness: Friendship. Family. And the pleasure of doing something for the right reason.</i><br />
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This was a very cute story set in 1955 about a little girl trying to find her place in her family now that the only person who really loved her for her is gone. It's a great story that shows how all your "special little quirks" that make you <i>you</i>, isn't something to be embarrassed or ashamed of, but embrace it and see what amazing things can happen! There is also a little mystery, Nancy Drew style, thrown in there with a GREAT twist at the end! You might have to explain a few things since it is set in the 1950's but not much. It definitely won't deter their reading or understanding if they read this on their own.<br />
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There are TONS of great characters in this story, all with their own quirks. I think this would be a perfect book to discuss character traits and why you think characters are making the decisions they are making (motive). There are also some good sections early on in the book that lend itself to foreshadowing. My friend Joanne over at <a href="http://headoverheelsforteaching.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Head Over Heels for Teaching</a> has this fabulous product to promote higher level character analysis! The best part is you can leave it up all year long and add to it as you read more books. It's something I am definitely implementing next year! Click on the image if you would like more info or a set for your own classroom!<br />
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<b>Genre</b>: Realistic Fiction/Historical Fiction (not a lot of history though)/Mystery<br />
<b>Lexile</b>: 930<br />
<b>Grade Interest Level</b>: Grade 3-7<br />
<b>Pages</b>: 192<br />
<b>Skill</b>: Character Traits, Foreshadowing<br />
<b>Food</b>: Pie (there are all sorts of recipes in the book!)<br />
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If you would like a copy of the award for reading this book click <a href="http://teachingwithatouchoftwang.blogspot.com/2015/06/monday-made-it-sunshine-state-awards.html" target="_blank"><b>here </b></a>to grab your free copy! There are three different versions: SRC test, AR test and just reading the book.<br />
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Next up for review is Athlete vs. Mathlete by W.C. Mack!<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Sabra</div>Sabrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07636198973741863898noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917718632148004317.post-8113660561705010882015-06-21T10:03:00.001-04:002015-06-21T10:05:08.976-04:00Learn Like a Pirate: Peer Collaboration<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Now we're getting into the nitty gritty of what PIRATE really means! In this section we find that the P stands for "Peer Collaboration." Again, this is one of those things that I kind of prided myself on. You could walk into my classroom and see students collaborating together. At least I thought you could. From reading this I'm starting to think that sometimes they weren't necessarily <i>collaborating </i>so much as just <i>working together</i>; which is fine and dandy sometimes, but not what I want.<br />
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We as teachers have to set the stage for a collaborative community. A place where we are hands off (No more micro-managing! This will probably be the toughest of them all, lol.), give lots of support and feedback and set our goals and expectations high. The second I read this I instantly thought of the company GOOGLE.<br />
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This video reiterates how the employees come up with ideas talking with people from other departments, how the bosses are very hands off and trust their employees, how they are a family, etc. Everything this book talks about! Fair warning, the end of the video does talk about how Google promotes women in the work place, so that might not necessarily be as relevant to your students if you decide to show them this video.<br />
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<b>1. Encourage Leadership with Give Me Five</b>: This gives students to power to interrupt at any given time. Now, the southern girl with matching manners in me instantly broke out in hives. BUT he makes a valid point. A lot of the times the kids will interrupt what you are doing to ask you something, tell you something or share something and that interruption could cause the student you are working with to lose focus. Of course now all I can think about is Horshack from Welcome Back Kotter, "OOH, OOH, OOH!" You know we've all got one...<br />
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By giving students the power to interrupt you are letting them become leaders. Telling them it is okay to share what they have found so no one else runs into that problem. It is okay to ask different students for help. It is okay to clarify something we are learning about or ask questions. Even when they interrupt and it is inappropriate, that's a teaching moment! Show them how to do this correctly, it will take some time. When you allow this to happen you will see a significant change in how much they rely on you to tell them what to do and how they become problem solvers and leaders themselves.<br />
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<b>2. Space that Encourages Learning</b>: Let them roam free and pick a spot in the room they want to work in. This is something I do A LOT and it works out fabulously! If another group is too loud my kids make the executive decision to get up and move themselves, no hinting from me or anything. I mean, look back at that GOOGLE video. Who wouldn't want to work in tent!? You don't even need fancy settings like that, trust me, your kids will love to just get out of their desk and lay on their tummies. But if you do feel the need to have a cool space, you can always add an igloo! Get it, <i>cool </i>space??? Punny, I know ;o)<br />
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<b>3. Responsibility Partners</b>: And I shall call you Accountability Partners (because it's part of our 7 Habits lingo - Sorry Paul!). A lot of you probably do something for this already: clock partners, phone partners, Popsicle sticks, etc.<br />
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This will not always be a normal partner scenario though, in fact sometimes you're not even working with them! They are there to make sure you are on track, bounce ideas off of, or even ask for help. "How are you doing? Do you need a water break? What do you think of this?" and back to their assignment they go. They are responsible for each other which gives them an interest in one another's success! Paul suggests you keep responsibility partners for a while so they get to know one another and feel comfortable in their pairing. This partnership really helps keep your students on track and in charge of each other (leaders anyone???). Loving it!<br />
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<b>4. Classroom Meetings</b>: This is something we will be starting this upcoming year and I am very excited about it! Paul suggest that this is where you talk about class issues and solve them together. This is also the place and time you will really talk about how people are different, what they can bring to the table and empathy for one another. When kids understand differences they are more accepting of others. This is not something they are necessarily born with, some yes but not all, and we need to teach them this concept. In the book he has a lot of ideas and topics for this category but one thing he recommends is a WONDERful (man I am on a roll!) book: <u>Wonder </u>by R.J. Palacio, to help you show and teach your kids these skills. Click on the image to learn more about this amazing book!<br />
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<b>5. Competition:</b> Don't make the focus of your classroom the end result, the grade, completing the task. Make it about the process, the learning. As I was reading this section and he was talking about how he could see competition having a negative effect on his classroom, I thought "my kids handle it well, so no worries there" but it's not a matter of how they handle the winning or losing, its how they get there. When I assigned problems it never failed that my kids would always split them or one person would find the answer. No matter how many times I tried to explain that that wasn't the purpose or that's not how I wanted it done. I realize now I was not starting off with a good foundation and I was making the end result more important than the learning. This was a HUGE eye opener of a section for me and it's really probably the smallest section, lol.<br />
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Needless to say, big changes are coming my way and I'm excited to implement them and I think the kids will really be excited by these shifts as well! Again, if you have not gone out and grabbed this book, you must! Click on the image below and you can have it at your door in two days time ;o) Got to love Amazon Prime!<br />
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I hope you enjoyed my thoughts along the way! Next up is the I in PIRATE... What do you think it stands for?<br />
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I'll be joining some other amazing teachers for this book study thanks to <a href="http://www.theprimarygal.com/" target="_blank">The Primary Gal</a>! Click on the images below to see what everyone else thought about these sections! I am going to try my best to condense these as much as I can since I combined them into one post.<br />
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<b>What is a student-led classroom?</b><br />
"A student-led classroom is one in which students make decisions and choices throughout the day without consulting the teacher." Everyone in the classroom appears to have equal power and equal say in what happens, although they understand that you, as the teacher, have the final word.<br />
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For the most part, I thought I had a good chunk of my day as "student-led." Even reading through some of the concerns, I didn't feel like a lot applied to me so I thought I had this in the bag! I. Was. Wrong. I'm on the right track for the most part but it is not as amazing as it could be and that is my goal for next year! Paul gives you some really great tips, ideas, words to calm your nerves (lol) and videos to help you through this process.<br />
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Is my classroom a student-led classroom? <i>Eh</i>.<br />
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Yes, my students make decisions but they aren't always <i>the best</i> choices (GASP!) and they don't always think about how their actions will effect themselves, their peers, or even me. Reading through this book has shown me by taking control they are really starting to see things in a new light. They are actually taking control of the class (interruptions and all - this makes me a smidge nervous as there is a fine line between teaching moment and bad manners, but Paul says it works so I'm going with it!), teaching each other, <i>helping </i>each other and learning from one another! I've got a lot of work to do but I'm very excited for the journey and I think my kids will be too!<br />
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Don't worry, it's not a free for all! You still have teacher led time (mini-lessons) and there is also collaborative work time and time to reflect or synthesize. This is a scary endeavor to embrace wholeheartedly though, let's be honest. We're teachers. We're perfectionist and micro-managers by nature usually.<br />
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Here are some of the main concerns (not all mind you):<br />
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<li>"I'm worried about giving up control to my students." <span style="color: #990000;">(Let's be honest... WHO ISN'T?!)</span></li>
<li>"I can't do this. I'm definitely going to make a lot of mistakes and fail." <span style="color: #990000;">(Yep! We sure are! But that's okay because we can use them as teaching experiences and if your kids see that it's okay to fail and try again, they won't be as hesitant to embrace this experience with you.)</span></li>
<li>"There's just too much at stake. I can't risk this not working." <span style="color: #990000;">(If you fail at a student-led classroom, you end up with a teacher-led classroom! At least you tried!)</span></li>
<li>"This will be too much work. I can't take on another thing right now!" <span style="color: #990000;">(Hopefully your kiddos will take on most of it after a while. That's the whole point. Consider this the epitome of the "work smarter, not harder" saying.)</span></li>
<li>"I'm overwhelmed. I don't know where to begin." <span style="color: #990000;">(Begin by getting this book! It's amazing!)</span></li>
<li>"But won't my room get loud?" <span style="color: #990000;">(I have a love/hate relationship with my loud room. <b>Love </b>that they talk and collaborate and really, they are a little family because of it. That being said... they talk and collaborate about things that are not necessarily academic or even what were working on sometimes. You probably don't have kids like this in your room, lol. I need to find my happy medium. All in all, I'd prefer talking to no talking.)</span></li>
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There are many other concerns and Paul addresses them all beautifully in the book. By the end of the chapter you have this wonderful self-confidence that you can do this... and you can!<br />
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This won't necessarily be easy. It will take LOTS of practice for your kiddos to be comfortable making decisions without you. They are used to "perfect classrooms." Where the goal was to make the perfect choice, the perfect grade, etc. Here, you want them to make good choices and do well, but you want to see improvement, growth, thinking, taking risks all while being comfortable enough to make those decision and feeling safe with their choices. Make sure to show praise for making an effort, even if it didn't go as planned. For this to work, your students need to feel safe with you (and not in a "I got your back in a fire drill" kind of way). They need to know you care about them as people: how their soccer game went, what their hobbies are, working one on one with them throughout the week, etc. If they know you care about them, they will strive to make this work.<br />
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Every day you'll want to provide learning opportunities and show them what a student-led classroom looks like. Because as new as it is to you, it's definitely new to them too! Some things, like the interrupting, you are going to have to show them when and what is appropriate to interrupt for and what isn't. And this will take you more than one day. More than one week even, but you can do it! You will have some push back from your students, co-workers, maybe even admin. It's going to take work but by the second semester, you'll see a student-led class in action (Paul says so, so I'm taking his word and keeping my fingers crossed)!<br />
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All in all I'm very excited for this journey and I hope you continue along with me and the other fabulous teachers over at <a href="http://www.theprimarygal.com/" target="_blank">The Primary Gal's</a> blog.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Sabra</div>Sabrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07636198973741863898noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917718632148004317.post-52713717685161018792015-06-16T09:00:00.000-04:002015-06-24T11:52:36.948-04:00Sunshine State Book Review 2015: Fortunately, the MilkMy first Sunshine State read of the summer is <u>Fortunately, the Milk</u> by Neil Gaiman. You might recognize his name. He also wrote <u>The Graveyard Book</u>. I have to tell you, this was one wild, crazy, adventurous, imaginative, stupendous, wonderful, and quick read! I'm not even going to try and summarize it for you because this description on Amazon from Booklist is amazingly spot on!<br />
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<i>"<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">A little boy and his little sister awake one morning, milkless. Their mother is away on business, their father is buried in the paper, and their Toastios are dry. What are young siblings to do? They impress upon their father that his tea is also without milk and sit back to watch their plan take effect. But something goes amiss, and their father doesn’t return and doesn’t return some more. When he does, finally, he has a story to tell, a story involving aliens; pirates; ponies; wumpires (not the handsome, brooding kind); and a stegosaurus professor who pilots a Floaty-Ball-Person-Carrier (which looks suspiciously like a hot-air balloon). There is time travel, treachery, and ample adventure, and, fortunately, the milk he has procured is rescued at every turn. Gaiman’s oversize, tongue-in-cheek narrative twists about like the impromptu nonsense it is, with quick turns, speed bumps, and one go-for-broke dairy deus ex machina. Young fills the pages with sketchy, highly stylized images, stretched and pointy, bringing the crazed imaginations to life with irrepressible energy. Children will devour this one, with or without milk."</span></i></div>
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It is very funny and will definitely keep kids on the edge of their seats to see what happens next! The illustrations are very intricate and well done as well. I haven't decided if this would be a better read aloud (because there are so many twists and turns and it occasionally jumps back to the present when Dad is telling his story- but you only know that from the font change) or if it would be better for kids to read it by themselves. I feel if they read it by themselves they would probably devour it in one sitting (which is not a bad thing) but they might get a little confused with plot twists or some vocabulary, depending on their reading level. Although, if you read it aloud, don't wait too many days in between readings (like your students would even let you!). There is a lot that goes on in the story and it might not be as easy for some to remember or catch up.<br />
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In the past we have always done a Sunshine State Feast (click <b><a href="http://teachingwithatouchoftwang.blogspot.com/2012/05/sunshine-state-feast-2012.html" target="_blank">here </a></b>to read more about it) but sadly last year it didn't happen because of various reasons but one being... I wasn't there! Oh, maternity leave :o) That's okay though, it just means we'll have to have a bigger and better one this year since my 4th graders will be in 5th and we combine forces for the Feast! That being said, whenever I provide you with the information below and you see the category for "Food," that's what I'm referring to.<br />
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<b>Genre</b>: Science Fiction<br />
<b>Lexile</b>: 680<br />
<b>Grade Level Equivalent</b>: 4.3<br />
<b>Pages</b>: 128<br />
<b>Skill</b>: Sequence/Chronological Order<br />
<b>Food</b>: Milk (are you even surprised???)<br />
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One of my all time favorite things is when a book or movie says the title in the book or movie! This book says the title A LOT! I LOVE IT!!! At our Feast we will have a Trivia Game (thanks to one of the books being Olivia Bean Trivia Queen) and that is one of the questions: How many times does <u>Fortunately, the Milk</u> say it's title in the story?<br />
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Earlier this week I posted Sunshine State Awards for your students if they read one of the 15 books. If you would like a copy of the award for reading this book click <a href="http://teachingwithatouchoftwang.blogspot.com/2015/06/monday-made-it-sunshine-state-awards.html" target="_blank">here </a>to grab your free copy! There are three different versions: SRC Test, AR Test and just reading the book.<br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Sabra</div>Sabrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07636198973741863898noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917718632148004317.post-14577659647743765082015-06-15T07:22:00.000-04:002015-06-15T07:22:32.606-04:00Monday Made It: Sunshine State AwardsIt has been a while since I've last linked up with Tara from <a href="http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">4th Grade Frolics</a> for Monday Made It but I'm excited to be back in the swing of things!<br />
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As some of you know last year our school started Leader in Me. We were just kind of dipping our toes in the water if you will, but this year we are going full force (especially because this year's symposium is in our county and they will be visiting our school!). Some of the changes that we are making are to our Leadership Notebooks. You can find more information on them <b><a href="http://www.teachingwithatouchoftwang.blogspot.com/2014/10/leader-in-me-mini-series-leadership.html" target="_blank">here</a></b>. We are changing up our tabs a little and one of the new tabs is "Victories" and (obviously) that is where we will place our achievements!<br />
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So my first and only (Listen, I've got a new baby. Making at least one thing a week is progress!) Monday Made It is Sunshine State Awards for the Victories section of our Leadership Notebooks!<br />
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Here in the <strike>ridiculously hot</strike> lovely Sunshine State, we have a yearly reading program called Sunshine State Books. Every year 15 new books from all different genres are selected as the latest and greatest for 3rd-5th grade and 6th-8th grade. When I taught 5th I always let my kiddos start to read the 6-8 selection <i>after </i>they finished the 3-5 selection, but now that I am in 4th I will only be focusing on the 3-5 selection! Here is this year's line-up:<br />
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We try and make as big of a deal as possible with reading these books because the state brings in fun voting machines at the end of the year, we have a Sunshine State Feast for our grade and our Media Specialist throws an amazing party if you read all 15! What better way to keep the motivation going than with Sunshine State Awards every time you read one of the books? I've already earned one! Hey, teachers get victories too! ;o)<br />
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I created these beauties using <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kimberly-Geswein-Fonts" target="_blank">Kimberly Geswein Fonts</a> and clipart from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Krista-Wallden" target="_blank">Creative Clips</a>. And because I want to share the love and motivation, I am giving them to y'all for free to use in your classroom! You don't even need to be a Florida teacher to still read these goodies! Just click on the images below to download your freebie :o)<br />
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Here are the 15 certificates if you use <b>AR Tests</b> in your school!</div>
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Don't use either of those programs? That's okay! Here are the 15 certificates that have no test attached to them!</div>
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I just printed them off on colored card stock and called it a day! Now they are just waiting for student's names to go on them :o) If you are curious about these books, I always do a review of them including what foods we eat at our Feast based off the book, skills you can incorporate and much more. The first review is coming up this week and it is for <u>Fortunately, the Milk</u> by Neil Gaiman.<br />
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Maybe by now you've heard of the upcoming TPT sitewide sale...<br />
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...but have you entered to win one of the five $25 TPT gift cards yet? Today is the last day to enter. If you win, that extra cash will come to your inbox just in time for the sale! Click the image below to enter if you haven't already... winners will be announced tomorrow!<br />
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Now, let's get down to business! What is on your wishlist? I love seeing what other people are buying for their classroom. As if I need any other excuse to buy products from TPT...<br />
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The number one thing people have wish listed from my store is my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Cooking-with-Science-Physical-and-Chemical-Changes-1071016" target="_blank">Cooking with Science: Physical and Chemical Changes</a>. I really love this lab! I'm usually not a big science girl but I just got inspired when we came to this unit in Science last year and saw all the amazing possibilities this world had to offer to show these kids the difference between physical and chemical changes.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">This set includes </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.0030002593994px;">Literary Connections, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.0030002593994px;">Recipe for Homemade Butter, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.0030002593994px;">Recipe for Homemade Pancakes, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.0030002593994px;">Homemade Butter Lab Sheet, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.0030002593994px;">Homemade Pancakes Lab Sheet, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.0030002593994px;">Enrichment Activity and </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 16.0030002593994px;">Teacher Tips! It's a wonderful way for your students to get a hands-on experience when learning about physical and chemical changes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The second most wish listed item is my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Prefix-Parlor-Bundle-Sets-1-4-1078278" target="_blank">Prefix Parlor Bundle</a>! This bundle includes the first four sets of my Prefix Parlors. <span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 16.0030002593994px;">Prefix Parlor is a fantastic game for literacy stations or small groups. It allows students the opportunity to review, explore, and understand prefixes while using their context clues to decode vocabulary terms. With the Prefix Parlor your kids will master the concept of prefixes through building words and take it a step further by applying their knowledge with the Enrichment Cards.</span></span><br />
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Out of all of our Word Work stations, they ALWAYS go for this one first! One of the reasons I love it is because they can complete portions of it whenever they are at that station but can also always come back and complete more later in case they didn't finish. It usually takes them one rotation to figure out all the definitions and meaning of the prefix and then there are ten enrichment cards for each set that requires the students to apply their learning in different fashions. All in all, one of my all time favorites and their's!<br />
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One of my most favorite finds this fall was Fourth Grade Flipper's <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fall-Themed-Nonfiction-Text-Practice-aligned-to-Common-Core-Claims-1553296" target="_blank">Fall Themed Nonfiction Text Practice</a> and now she has a <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Winter-Themed-Nonfiction-Text-Dependent-Questions-with-Claims-Common-Core-999461" target="_blank">Winter Themed Nonfiction Text Practice</a>!!! <br />
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Sabra</div>Sabrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07636198973741863898noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917718632148004317.post-23648527654848706322014-10-16T15:00:00.000-04:002014-10-16T15:00:03.093-04:00Leader in Me Mini-Series: Leadership NotebooksSomething big is happening at our school this year! We are becoming a 7 Habits Leadership School. If you're not sure what this is, don't worry, I wasn't either, lol. Stephen Covey wrote the book <u>The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People</u> and <u>Leader in Me</u> is essentially the school/kid version of that book. As a school we won't start implementing the 7 Habits until next month but we have started using Leadership Notebooks regularly in place of our Data Notebooks.<br />
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If you use a Data Notebook in your class you'll notice that our Leadership Notebooks are not that much different... Just a few more things added. Now, I will be the first to say that I'm not 100% sure that this is how a Leadership Notebook should look/be set up, or if there even is a way to do it perfectly, but this one works fabulously for us! Here is an inside look at what we have in ours. <strong></strong></div>
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Starting off, every student has a 1" white binder with a page view cover. You can have your students bring in tabs or make your own. We made our own using file folders that we cut in half and hole punched! <br />
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The very first thing the students and parents see when you open the binder is a letter to the parents explaining what a Leadership Notebook is and the expectations for both the student and parents.<br />
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Next up is a Parent Review and Comments page. We will send these notebooks home a few times every month. This page keeps parents updated on what has been added since the last time they saw it and has a section for them to sign or comment and ask questions if need be.<br />
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Every month students create an academic goal and a personal goal to work on. The first time I introduce this I only have them focus on their academic goal. The following month we will write a goal for each: academic and personal. More on this coming up with Leader in Me Mini-Series: SMART Goals.</div>
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Academics is a huge focus in schools, obviously, but you also want to teach your students to be good people! We talk about contributing to our communities in different ways and keep a log of how they contribute to our school. We have many opportunities to do so through fundraisers and Kids Care Club and every time they contribute something (time or money) they get to color in a box. I will tell you that this is what my students gravitate to more than anything! They LOVE being a part of something and helping in any way they can. Since they have started filling out this form I have become inundated with contributions from my kids! Makes for one proud teacher :o)<br />
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<strong>Reading Data</strong>: Here you can find their Lexile scores, fluency graph, graph for Unit Tests, and their Reading DE scores. You can also keep track of how many books they've read, Reading Genre Challenge, etc. Add whatever you want!<br />
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<strong>Math Data</strong>: Very similar to the Reading Data section! Students keep their Multiplication Masters Fluency Tracking Chart, Math Chapter Tests, and Math DE scores here.<br />
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<strong>Science/Social Studies Data</strong>: This holds their science and social studies tests so far... Maybe later on I will think of more things to add but that's about it for now!<br />
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The back also has a special cover that we slide in! Together we made a Class Mission Statement and everyone's Leadership Notebook has their own copy of the statement so they can see it even when they go home. This was written word for word by them! If you want to know how to write your own class mission statement, keep your eyes open for Leader in Me Mini-Series: Mission Statements, coming soon!<br />
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Well I have been keeping a BIG secret from most everyone in the world! I was finally given the okay to tell my kids at school and I wanted something original for my 4th graders to figure it out. So I posed a bunch of riddles. The last riddle in the bunch was this:</div>
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My kids came up with some pretty amazing answers! We had the photographer, photo bomb, a shadow, and even a tree... yes a tree. Have you figured the answer out??</div>
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After about a minute of guesses my kids finally came up my daughter or son, but then couldn't remember if I already had one or not. I told them I would find out if it was a boy or girl in three weeks and you instantly saw the light bulbs! Needless to say they were <strong>VERY</strong> excited! Now I just need to figure out a cute way to reveal the gender to them. Any ideas?!</div>
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Something fun that we've added this year is an instagram puzzle!<br />
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<strong><u>Editable Back to School Packet</u></strong></div>
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This editable Back to School Packet includes everything you need to welcome your students and their parents to your classroom this school year! All the handouts are designed to help you get the most information possible about your new students and easily keep it organized throughout the year.</div>
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Not only are there resources for Meet the Teacher or Open House, there are also many activities and handouts to help you, and your students, learn all about each other that first week of school! The activities will require your students to work independently, in pairs, and even whole group, all while improving their social skills and making new friends in the process! I have also added "Teacher Tips" for each activity. Teacher Tips are just that, helpful hints or directions that let you know the many different ways to implement these things in your classroom. Click on the image above to grab it for yourself!</div>
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Each activity can be used with any set of spelling or vocabulary words. My student's LOVE using these activities for Word Work time. These are also perfect for literacy stations, early finishers, or even homework! Included in this set are three different vocabulary stations and three different spelling stations. Click on the image above to grab your own set!</div>
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<br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Sabra</div>Sabrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07636198973741863898noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3917718632148004317.post-8383759924975739092014-07-26T09:00:00.000-04:002014-07-26T09:00:02.518-04:00Math Journal Prompt NotebooksToday I am getting all my journals ready for my kiddos that are coming to me in two weeks!?!?! I found this pretty impressive product for 4th grade math prompts last year and never ended up using it. Well this year I'm going to give it a shot!<br />
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It's pretty great! This product comes with 90 different math prompts that cover the different standards for the Common Core, a table of contents so you know which standard is covered in which standard, a rubric, ideas for ways to incorporate these into your class and much more! Totally worth $9.95! And no, I was in no way paid or asked to review this product, I'm just that excited about it ;o)<br />
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Thanks to my hubby who cut these composition notebooks in half with his table saw, I was able to get these perfect sized notebooks to use! This product comes with two different rubrics and both rubrics are given in a one page format (to put in a journal) and large enough to put as posters on your wall. Neither really worked for my half composition notebooks so I just retyped it into a smaller format.<br />
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I printed both the rubric and the journal cover that I created on a Post-It Full Label Sheet. You can easily print this on normal paper and have your students, or yourself, tape it into the journal. The truth is, I ran out of Scotch tape and have loads of the full label sheets, lol. They are pretty cheap at our local office supplies store with my teacher discount. All I have to do is cut, peel, and stick and they are ready for my students!<br />
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I placed the rubric on the inside cover so that students can always go back and refer to everything they need to get the best possible score.<br />
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Finally, place the covers on and TA-DA! All done! Once I meet with my team and we discuss lesson plans, I will print out the prompts/labels based on which standards we are teaching.<br />
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One of the things I am most looking forward to with these journals is that not only do my students get a chance to show how THEY like to solve the problem but they also have to EXPLAIN how they solved the problem.<br />
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Well my husband had the honor of picking ten random numbers out of everyone who commented on the giveaway for my Problem Solving Strategies Flip Chart! I made him hide in another room and call out numbers so he couldn't see who he was picking (that's as fair and legit as we get in this house, lol). Here are the winners and you can expect an email with your goodies today! If you would like your own copy you can click on the photo above and find it in my TPT store :o)<br />
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