tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11915204325701158762024-03-05T21:02:38.817-05:00Teacher Will Run for BooksIf you can read this, thank a teacher. -AnonymousTeacherWillRunForBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878988868960792405noreply@blogger.comBlogger232125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1191520432570115876.post-86564544725433292912015-07-02T08:00:00.000-04:002015-07-02T08:00:07.920-04:00Solve the Room (again!)I posted about Solve the Room back in <a href="http://teacherwillrunforbooks.blogspot.com/2015/01/solve-room.html">January</a> and I'm here to share some more...<br />
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Those of you who don't know about Solve the Room... you might know about it but just call it something different... Read the Room.... Scoot.... Roam the Room.<br />
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It is a very easy to implement... you put cards up around the room (by mid-year or earlier I have my kiddos put up and take down cards)...<br />
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Give students an answer sheet & a clipboard... (all of my Solve the Room products have a similar answer sheet like this one...)<br />
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And then let your students move about solving the room!<br />
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Solve the Room is DEFINITELY something I have to model at the beginning of the year... Voices are off (unless you're asking a friend quietly for help to find a card), look at the card, figure out the answer, then record - in the correct box! The modeling time pays off because after one or two sets of Solve the Room cards, my students can do this completely independently during Math rotations, allowing me to teach the small group in front of me without putting out any fires, and that makes for a happy teacher!<br />
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Clicking <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Teacher-Will-Run-For-Books/Search:solve%20the%20room">here</a> will bring you to my TPT store with the search "Solve the Room" already plugged in. You'll find Solve the Room products that will work with grades 1, 2 and 3.<br />
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And here are some of my newest Solve the Room products - great for 1st and 2nd grade!<br />
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Do you use solve the room in your class? Let me know in the comments!<br />
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Since it's the first day of July, I HAD to choose my favorite summertime things!<br />
I LOVE LOVE Summer! It's kind of hilarious how much I like summer because my husband hates the hot weather! He works on a golf course and so when it's super hot out, he has to work even harder... so my less than busy months are his busy months! <br />
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1 - LOVE LOVE LOVE the beach & live about a mile away from it, which means I can hit the beach up for an hour or two or camp out the whole day there.<br />
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2 - We share a driveway with our neighbors and they work at the same golf course as my hubby (the golf course is basically our backyard!) so we spend a LOT of time together whether it be brews at the fire pit or horseshoes at the pits we built last year or running our dogs around on the golf course or all beaching together. It is the perfect summer set-up!<br />
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3 - Running - it's my stress-relief during the school year, but in the summer there is SO much more time for running!<br />
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Go link up <a href="http://teachingtrio.blogspot.com/2015/07/favorite-things-spending-time-with-my.html">here</a>!<br />
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I'm linking up with Farley over at Oh' Boy 4th Grade! for Currently July!<br />
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LISTENING - I'm a littttttle [read a lot] obsessed with Grey's right now! It's a realllllly bad thing that I chose it as my next Netflix show - there are SO many seasons!<br />
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LOVING - The hubs and I finally have a membership to BJ's Wholesale club and our obsession with Pineapple juice has skyrocketed since we can get a 24 pack of small cans for cheap!<br />
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THINKING - I just converted my Classroom Jobs TPT product into Chalkboard themed! I made a lot of little things for my classroom last year that were Chalkboard themed and have decided to do a lot more this year! Check out my Chalkboard Themed Jobs by clicking below!<br />
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WANTING - So this morning there was a crazy amount of rain and thunder and lightning and now the weather is a sticky kind of cool (I realize that makes no sense but the weather rarely makes sense in New England) so it's no beach today... Tomorrow is looking like a good beach day though!<br />
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NEEDING - I really didn't do a great job posting on my blog probably since January. I had a student teacher and with finishing grad school there was a lot on my plate and sadly posting on my blog fell to the wayside. This summer though I'm going to try to do a better job - hopefully 2x a week!<br />
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ALL-STAR - I have the best grade level partners like ever! I have always gotten along great with guys and my grade level team is made up of myself and 2 fabulous guys. They are so easy to work with and we always have fun together - all while managing to get A LOT of work done. Even though I'm the youngest I'm kind of the mama bear of the group. I am always making sure they remember deadlines, are ready for upcoming units, have copies of everything and overall make sure that our grade level team is completely on point. After 2 great years I'm starting to think we all couldn't survive without each other and it will be a sad, sad day if one of us ever leaves!<br />
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Now go link up to <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2015/06/currently-july-2015.html">July Currently</a> too!<br />
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So there are 19 days left of school, and we're hanging in there... thank
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Last Friday my grade level partners' butterflies were ready to release and none of our chrysalises had opened yet... I was so nervous we wouldn't have any butterflies in our room, but thankfully we came into school Monday and ALL our butterflies were ready! Butterfly release day is always an exciting day, and we got to have 2 this year!</div>
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This year instead of the 2D/3D shape snack sort we normally do, we built shapes with marshmallows and toothpicks. The kiddos had a ton of fun and had to think about the number of sides and vertices/edges, vertices and faces while building. Grab the recording sheets <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4ZdCnpJ-56VTzhjZXpSZlRwb00/view?usp=sharing">here</a>. <br />
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One of my girls came in with this and it made my heart smile! There are NEVER 'name things' with my name spelled correctly who would think there'd be a bottle of coke with it spelled correctly!!! Proof that it is the little things in life :) </div>
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Loving our end of the year door! I have families sign up at the beginning of the year to decorate the door each month. Families that work schedules that don't allow them to volunteer love to help out by coming after school and decorating the door! I also love to see how proud the kiddos are when they helped their parents.</div>
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Shadow day is always a hit! We ventured out on a breeze day in April to measure our shadows every hour-hour and a half. It is such a fun but crazy interrupted day! We love seeing how our shadows move and shrink throughout the day. One of my grade level partner's kiddos said "my shadow shrunk like my underwear does in the dryer!" Out of the mouths of babes!<br />
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We just started our shape unit last week and have been using tons of foldables from Blair Turner's <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Math-Interactive-Notebook-2ND-GRADE-COMMON-CORE-942855">Interactive Notebook</a>! <br />
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We also played some guessing games, asking questions to guess our shape. The questions were: how many sides does the shape have? How many vertices does the shape have? How many corners/angles does my shape have? Are any of the sides equal length? Are the sides parallel? <br />
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We worked hard through April and are just now wrapping up our Fairy Tale unit. Some of my high flyers used this 3-way comparison chart to compare 3 different versions of Cinderella. They did such a nice job showing the very specific similarities and differences! <br />
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Finally, I'm hoping to do a full post on having a student teacher, but here's a peak at my student teacher playing a Mystery Place Value game!<br />
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WOW it felt awesome to post again on here :) Thanks to those of you tuning in! <br />
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We've been working on time. We had such a fun time timing each other to find out how long different actions would take! The actions they chose were too funny... swinging arms dancing, disco dancing, push-ups, hand washing... you name it, they thought of it!<br />
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Our amazing reading consultant worked with my student teacher to introduce found poetry. If you've never heard of found poetry it's so easy and fun! Take a book with beautiful language like Owl Moon, read it asking students to listen for beautiful language. Record the beautiful language on chart paper. Put these phrases and words on sentence strips. Students then manipulate these sentence strips to create a poem. It was awesome having 3 teachers in the room for this! <br />
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The poems they came up with were pretty awesome!<br />
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My kiddos have been doing an awesome job making inferences. I found an awesome what's in the teacher's bag? activity <a href="http://theinspiredapple.blogspot.com/2012/01/whats-in-my-teachers-bag-making.html">here</a>. The students LOVED it!<br />
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We also made picture inferences! I found some awesome pictures for making inferences thanks to pinterest and we did a "carousel" activity where each group made an inference about the pictures around the room.<br />
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Our student teacher came up with the idea of turning ourselves into clocks! We had fun figuring out what time our bodies were showing.<br />
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The Harlem Wizards visited our school and one of my kiddos was picked to do a few tricks with "Big Mike" so cool!<br />
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Also doing a little blast from the past in this post because it's been a while!<br />
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A few weeks ago we were delving into our money unit! We love the game Rich Robots! I found it <a href="http://moneymathforfirst.weebly.com/activity-9-rich-robots.html">here</a> a while back. It's a great introduction to coins.<br />
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More Money, Money, Money! We love Blair Turner's Interactive Notebook! This great activity had flaps that made this sheet into a fun flap book. Check it out <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Interactive-Notebook-ALL-2ND-GRADE-STANDARDS-MEGA-BUNDLE-942855">here</a>.<br />
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For my grad class, I did a co-teaching action research project on topic & detail with one of my favorite co-workers! Here my kiddos are getting serious about topic & detail!<br />
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I have a student teacher right now (part of why I haven't posted much, it's actually a lot of work!) but let me tell you, it is making it SO much easier to do reteach! I grabbed a group of kiddos who struggled with subtraction with regrouping and did a little reteach activity today. I got this game from Amy Lemon's <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/I-Can-Regroup-Addition-and-Subtraction-with-Regrouping-Centers-194849">I Can Regroup Addition & Subtraction Centers</a>!<br />
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Check out my new favorite app <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/shadow-puppet-edu/id888504640?mt=8">Shadow Puppet</a>! My students wrote How To stories and recorded them using this app! It's basically a really fun presentation app. You can do a lot more with it than my kiddos did on their first try, but seriously so fun & such great final products.<br />
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Check out one of my favorites by clicking the image above.<br />
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So this brings me to the topic of today's Whole Brain Teaching...<br />
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Today I'm going to share how I'm "amping' up the WBT in my room during this winter weather slump!<br />
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You know the feeling... (or at least you do if you live somewhere where it snows a lot!)<br />
<u>Delays</u>... 2 hours off of instruction time, kids all amped up from extra sleep or play time!<br />
<u>Early Releases</u>... If it's announced early, all day feels like a half day, which we know is out of the normal schedule and crazy! If it's announced part way through the day.... chaos ensues as kiddos go to the office to call home or as it begins to snow and all eyes are out the window.<br />
And then, <u>Snow Days</u>... one fewer day of summer and don't even get me started on the day after when they're still all jacked up about playing in the snow!<br />
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So how can WBT help get you through the winter slump?! I'll tell you...<br />
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#1 Amp up the Rules!<br />
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We practice the rules every day... but what about practicing them multiple times during the day? Before your reading block, after recess, before specials! Help the kiddos remember the super-easy-to-follow rules that make the classroom so successful! If you don't know about the rules... click the picture above to check them out. Or, if you need a set of rules for your classroom, go visit my TPT page <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Whole-Brain-Teaching-Rules-Procedures-Chevron-1381209">here</a>.<br />
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Also, encourage your kiddos to help their friends out by holding up a number to represent the rule a friend is breaking. It makes your job easier, and let's be honest kiddos love to boss each other around ;) <br />
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#2 Amp up the Super Improvers Wall!<br />
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If you don't know about the Super Improver Wall, check it out by clicking the photo above! I am handing out improver stars left and right since the winter slump hit! Even if it only is a burst of motivation, it's enough to get us through a few more minutes! I'm giving them out for even the tiniest improvements... YES! You started your independent work right away, improver star! YES! You came to the rug quietly, improver star!<br />
Check out some of my WBT Super Improver Walls <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/WBT-Super-Improver-Wall-Sports-Theme-1459332">here</a>. <br />
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#3 Amp up the scoreboard!<br />
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Click the picture above to read about the scoreboard! The scoreboard is SO easy! It doesn't have to be fancy, it can just be a smile & a frown drawn on the white board. So there is NO excuse not to amp it up. Give out those smiles & frownies constantly... every lesson, every transition, every time you use class/yes, etc.<br />
And of course make sure you follow through with a little fun time at the end of the day. We do a lot of games from <a href="http://www.abcya.com/">ABCya</a> on the Promethean board before buses as a reward for more smiles. We also have played Around the World and other fun (& quick) games as rewards. Some teachers in my building do an extra <a href="http://www.gonoodle.com/">GoNoodle</a> video at the end of the day for their reward. There are lots of other things you could do too that are quick and fun!<br />
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Hope you're motivated to Amp It Up with the WBT to help get you through the winter slump!<br />
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Super excited to share a non-related teaching item! I just became a Jamberry Consultant because I am IN LOVE with the nail wraps & lacquers! It's a great company & I'm getting paid to have pretty nails!<br />
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Email me if you'd like a sample! All I need is your # sample selection and address. I also can host a facebook party for you... I do 95% of the work and you get free stuff!<br />
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At our school we have a H.E.A.R.T. motto... it stands for Helpful, Effort, Acceptance, Respect, Thoughtful... the kiddos can earn Hearts from teachers when they display Heart qualities. Their hearts go up on the wall and have created these beautiful giant hearts in the hallway! We took Valentine's photos in front of them for our parents and put them into cards! The kiddos thought it was fabulous because they got to stand on a little table we pushed up against the hearts haha!<br />
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I just had to share this cute picture... we had to change our "assigned" rug seats this week because we are officially too big to sit around the rug comfortably. It's amazing how much these kiddos have grown. When we were all set up with our new spots they insisted I take a picture of them, so I had to oblige! <br />
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We are staring to learn about money in math! I am in love with the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Interactive-Notebook-ALL-2ND-GRADE-STANDARDS-MEGA-BUNDLE-942855">math interactive notebook</a> by Blair Turner, I bought and the money activities are probably my favorites so far! We need to buy bigger math notebooks next year because we have had to start making the foldables on paper instead of in our notebooks :( <br />
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Last but not least, on this lovely Valentine's Day, I have to share my February classroom door...<br />
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If you want to know more about classroom doors, go visit my post about it <a href="http://teacherwillrunforbooks.blogspot.com/2014/11/you-oughta-know-november-blog-hop.html">here</a>.<br />
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Happy Valentine's Day!<br />
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If you live in CT or MA you know that this week was all sorts of
wacky with the "blizzard"... we had an early dismissal, 2 snow days and 2
delays... crazy, crazy! The pup enjoyed the snow!<br />
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About 2 weeks ago my Donor's Choose project was funded to get 2 iPads for my classroom, we were SUPER excited and since they came in and FINALLY have apps on them, we've been using them during Daily 5 for word work! Can't wait to use them for other fun projects in the classroom. <br />
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If you're looking for a few fun and FREE apps for word work, I downloaded:<br />
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I've had this game (I don't even know the name of it) that someone gave me and it has these awesome buzzers that all make really silly sounds. I've been dying to use them and haven't been able to come up with a great way to use 4 buzzers... Then one of my grade-level partners bought buzzers just like mine (without the game) and I decided I needed to find a way to use them...<br />
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We learned how to check our subtraction problems using addition. So I paired my kiddos and put 2 pairs and a buzzer at each table. One partner solved a subtraction problem that I put on the board. When that partner solved the problem, the second partner checked the answer using addition. When they were done and their answers matched, the partnership rang in with the buzzer at their table. I would stop the class and we'd decide if the pair was correct. If the pair was correct, I put a new problem up and the partners switched roles. It was a lot of fun and everyone at least got to finish the subtraction problem each round (I very purposely paired my kiddos in hopes that this would happen). I'm pretty sure using the buzzers is a new favorite activity for my kiddos!<br />
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One of the other things we managed to squeeze in during this very bizarre-no full days of school- week was Topic & Detail cups! Unfortunately, I only have a picture of my example, but what the kiddos did was read a nonfiction article with a partner, highlighting important words. Using what they read and highlighted, the kiddos decided what the topic was and at least 3 details. The topic went on the outside of the cup and the details went inside the cup. <br />
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I mentioned the <a href="http://teacherwillrunforbooks.blogspot.com/2015/01/hello-new-year.html">last time I liked up here</a> that as a second grade team we are partnering up with one of our reading consultants and one of the special education teachers to do fluency groups. Unfortunately this weather has been a disaster for our fluency schedule, but we have been able to meet a few times over the past couple weeks.<br />
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The kiddos seem to be enjoying being with students from the other 2 classes and hopefully I wil be reporting back soon that we are seeing improved fluency!<br />
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I want to share a really great idea one of my co-workers is doing with her WBT Super Improver Wall. If you don't know about WBT's Super Improver Wall, please click the pictures below to check out my posts about it. It is a FABULOUS motivation for students in my room and in many other WBT rooms!<br />
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So back to my co-worker... she turned her classroom over the WBT after I did a few informal PD sessions for my district early in the year. She was seeing a lot of success but wanted the super improver wall to be even better. So, she attached an individualized improver goal to each students' pencil box to remind them what they can do to improve in the classroom. The students wrote out their goals on their own to help them really take ownership over their goal.<br />
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SUCH a great idea, I especially love it for those tough kiddos because it gives them a focus throughout the day and they are reminded of it every time they open their pencil box! And super easy... just taped into the front cover of the pencil box.<br />
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I'm thinking I might need to put some individualized goals on my kiddos book boxes! How do you keep your super improver wall goals on your students' minds?<br />
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You might call it Scoot or Read the Room or Write the Room or Roam the Room... in my room we call it Solve the Room.<br />
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I have created and downloaded lots of these activities and my kiddos LOVE them! I am all about learning while moving and motor breaks and brain breaks and lots of transitions to keep them up and moving. I usually make Solve the Room a rotation during math Workshop. It is usually the favorite rotation.<br />
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Right now I only use Solve the Room for math, but I'd love for any thoughts you wonderful readers have about using these types of activities in reading or writing!<br />
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I want to share some of the products I've created and are tried, true and tested in my room and my grade level partners' rooms!<br />
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Solve the Room Addition...<br />
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Solve the Room Money...<br />
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Check these products out! My kiddos love them and they align with CCSS standards in our math units that I use them in. I hope you either like these products or are motivated to create your own to get your kiddos moving around the room and doing math at the same time!<br />
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We called each of the lessons a "mission" so here's <span style="font-size: x-large;">Mission 1...</span><br />
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The kiddos were read the Mission 1 sheet that is in my TPT product (click product image above). It basically told the kiddos that they would work in groups to go on a scavenger hunt and create a nonfiction text feature poster.<br />
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We had 5 groups of 3-4 kiddos and myself and our reading teacher walked around, talking to the kiddos about what they were noticing.<br />
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Some of the kiddos were super insightful saying they found lots of headings because there were so many different articles or that they noticed that almost all the photographs had captions. There was also a lot of discussion about the nonfiction text features they couldn't find and why.<br />
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They loved the freedom they were given to explore nonfiction text features. Their finished products were pretty great too!<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Mission 2</span><br />
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For mission 2, we gave the kiddos 1-page articles with all the nonfiction text features blocked out. I used Times for Kids articles, but you could use anything that is short. You could even retype the article if that was easier.<br />
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The kiddos' job was to figure out what they thought was missing which led to a discussion about WHY they thought these text features would be important.<br />
After this mission we had a class discussion about how each of the text features would help the reader and I revealed the original articles to the pairs.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Mission 3</span><br />
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For our last mission, which I used as an activity AND an assessment for nonfiction text features, consisted of kiddos looking for nonfiction text features and explaining why they are important. Each kiddo picked out a nonfiction text, and recorded 4 nonfiction text features they found and why that text feature was important.<br />
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Students then paired off and shared what they thought about the nonfiction text features. I loved how when they got to the sharing part that many of the groups actually went into the text to talk about the text features they chose.<br />
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The kiddos had a lot of fun with these "missions" and it really helped them to learn the nonfiction text features. The only other suggestion I have that I think helped the kiddos a lot is that I've had them give me a thumbs up during every nonfiction read aloud when they saw a nonfiction text feature. I would stop after every page or so and call on a student with their thumbs up and ask him or her to explain how that text feature helped us as readers.<br />
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I hope you can use one or more of these ideas to teach nonfiction text features in your classroom!<br />
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This month, You Oughta Know about Classroom Websites!<br />
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I am so excited to tell you all about the classroom website I created. It was originally for a grad class assignment but I've kept it going and it's been a big hit with the parents & students this year!<br />
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First, sign up for a Weebly Education site. A normal free Weebly site will limit the number of "pages" your site can have, but free education sites are not limited.<br />
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Once you sign up, you'll have to pick a "theme" (there are LOADS to choose from!)<br />
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Then you should think about what you'd like to include on your site. These are the pages I have...<br />
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An important component on this page for me is if you click advanced... you then have the option to make the page "unsearchable" I select this for EVERY page of my classroom website. This makes it impossible for someone to search my name and find the site. It makes me and my students' parents a lot more comfortable about having their children's pictures online. You can also change the visibility (above) but that means you have to give your website a password.<br />
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From this page, you "drag and drop" components onto your page, whether it be text or a document or photos. Some of the features can only be used if you pay for your site, but this hasn't been an issue for me yet.<br />
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The only drag and drop that I wish I could use is the HD Video, however, you can upload to Youtube and set your video as "unlisted" and then it cannot be searched on Youtube.<br />
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Once you have your site set up, you can add sites for you students too. I haven't experimented with this yet, but I hope to (and will certainly post about it!). Right now, I have a few "blog" pages set up on the site and log in and let students post about our day or post their published writing. I've only had the site for a few months and have LOVED it as a connection between school & home. I don't print out newsletters anymore, I just post them on our website. I no longer email photos home, I post them on our website!<br />
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I would love to share the link to my website, I'm really proud of it, but I'm uncomfortable posting the site link for the whole world to access. If you'd like to see my class website, email me and I'd be happy to give you the link on a more personal basis. Weebly is SUPER user friendly, and I think you'll find yourself able to catch on to the tools very quickly!<br />
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TeacherWillRunForBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878988868960792405noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1191520432570115876.post-6655358637974054782015-01-10T21:47:00.000-05:002015-01-10T21:47:24.716-05:00Hello New Year!Well I haven't blogged since before our winter break... but I'm back! Anddd linking up a day late to Doodlebugs Teaching for Five for Friday!<br />
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New Year's Resolution time... My teaching resolution is to work even harder to get Whole Brain Teaching techniques into every lesson and into our day more often. This means... more gestures, more use of the scoreboard, more references to our rules & more consistent use of the Super Improver Wall. If you want to know about any of those wonderful WBT goodies, check out my WBT tab & hop into a WBT Wednesday (which I PROMISE I will get back into!!! especially now that I "met" fellow WBTer Heidi over at <a href="http://www.droppinknowledge2.blogspot.com/">Droppin' Knowledge</a> who also does a WBT Wednesday.<br />
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I'm so excited to be working with one of our amazing reading consultants & my fabulous teammates & one of our special education teachers to start a new fluency block during our week. We sorted our second graders into types of readers and are each taking a group of 10 or less kiddos and teaching fluency geared at the types of reader we have.<br />
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Our reading consultant introduced this awesome fluency book that is really guiding us through this process. Right now we are meeting 2x a week for 15 minutes and will reassess in 6 weeks to see how much our students' fluency has improved.<br />
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I've had the somewhat bad habit of coming up with math games on the fly lately... but this one was a hit for working with double digit subtraction WITHOUT regrouping. Grab it for free...<br />
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To play, just have your kiddos roll a dice 3 times (I had them roll a double dice and a 12 sided dice - 10, 11, 12 kiddos picked any number). They fill in the boxes with the numbers they rolled, being sure they create a larger number on top.<br />
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I also created this one this week to practice counting back by 10's before we delved too deeply into double digit subtraction. It was a nice little refresher on Monday to get back into school mode.<br />
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We've been working hard on nonfiction text features. The kiddos loved this super simple activity this week. We had a shortened amount of time due to our new fluency rotations so I gave each partnership a nonfiction book about animals (National Geographics for Kids series) and 4 pieces of highlighting tape. Their job was to try to find a heading, a caption, a map and a label and they only had 5 minutes to do it. They did SUCH a great job. Every group whose book had all 4 of these features found them. A few of the books didn't have maps, but those groups found the other 3 without a problem :)<br />
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And finally, I just can't help but share the AWESOME gift my students' families got for me... talk about the coolest teacher chair ever!!! I am so lucky for the group of families I have this year!<br />
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I'm sharing all the fun we do with PENGUINS! The last 2 years I've done
a mini penguin unit to end the time before winter vacation. It is the
perfect segway to nonfiction when we return. Almost ALL the awesome
activities, worksheets & more are from Amy Lemon's AMAZING penguin
unit <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Waddle-With-Me-A-Penguin-Unit-986171">Waddle with Me</a>... go check it out, it's worth EVERY penny!<br />
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We
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stories) and retelling them on this foldable/organizer...<br />
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Next we talked about what we already know and want to learn about penguins... <br />
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I would read a couple sections then have them do a different organizer each day. We even compared most birds to penguins.<br />
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After reading the nonfiction text, we were ready for our first research experience!!!<br />
I found this amazing site: <a href="http://www.penguinworld.com/">penguin world</a>
that they used to research their penguin. They had A LOT of fun doing
this! I am lucky enough to have 6 computers in my room. I also used my
personal iPad and my teammates iPads so that each pair had a device (I
only have 17 kids, so 7 pairs and 1 3 group). I've been trying to raise
money on <a href="http://www.donorschoose.org/mrskonow">Donors Choose</a> so we can have 2 classroom iPads... we're about halfway there!<br />
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minute so they know EXACTLY what they will share when it comes to them
and then you "whip around" the circle having everyone share. The kiddo
who is next starts sharing as soon as the person in front of them is
done. It takes a few times for them to get good at it, but they like it
and it's a super fast and effective closure for really any lesson!<br />
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Now
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writing the story as if they were the actual penguin telling about
itself... too cute! Can't wait for them to finish up and share with each
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We also did a few FUN penguin activities, also from Amy Lemon's penguin unit. Here's a peek at our penguin hats!...<br />
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I've loved how engaged my kiddos have been with this mini-unit. Do you do any really engaging mini-units in your class?<br />
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My teammates and I have been traveling "around the world" with our students, learning about various holiday traditions! We got some of these awesome ideas from Rachelle Smith's <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Holidays-Around-the-World-Unit-literacy-and-social-studies-168973">Holidays Around the World Unit</a>.<br />
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We first travel from our school to the country using google Earth.<br />
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The kids think this is BEYOND awesome! If you have a smart board or promethean or even just a computer projector and you don't have google Earth, you should download it! I plan on using it a lot more since my grade level partner thought of it for this mini-unit.<br />
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Next, we read a book or watch a video about the country (sometimes both). We also have been adding information ourselves with the help of some google searching about holiday traditions.<br />
The kiddos then fill out the "suitcase" packet filling in the blanks about what they learned about that country.<br />
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Then finally, we make a fun craft or do an activity to go with what we learned. <br />
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Here are some of our highlights...<br />
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We also have made shoes for the Netherlands, played Dreidel for Israel, thought about what Christmas would be like in the summer, made brooms & reindeer hats... so fun!</div>
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So what do you do for the holidays? And be sure to click on the link at the top to check out what other people are doing in their classroom for the holiday!</div>
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My December door is up! Too cute... the family that decorated the door bought each of the kiddos an ornament to decorate. I added their pictures in the ornament and they came out great!<br />
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Talk about engaged! The kiddos are working on typing up their personal narratives. Luckily writer's workshop is working true to its intent and we don't have a line-up of kiddos waiting to type. Some kiddos are done and onto a new writing project, others are still writing or editing or revising.<br />
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Double digit addition is happening in second grade land! Which means we also learned about regrouping too! The kiddos are doing a great job regrouping with manipulatives. Making the transition from manipulatives to on paper is tough every year! <br />
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We started our "mini" penguin unit this week. Who doesn't LOVE Tacky? We read <u>Tacky the Penguin</u> and compared Tacky to what we know about real penguins. As the weeks before Winter Break continue, we'll learn more about penguins and compare penguins and birds. The kiddos will also do "mini-research" projects on different types of penguins. We'll be using a lot of Amy Lemon's Penguin Unit: <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Waddle-With-Me-A-Penguin-Unit-986171">Waddle With Me</a>.<br />
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This kiddo used voice to text on my iPad to create a blog post for our classroom website. He struggles to get his thoughts down on paper and his difficulty listening for sounds in words makes the process really strenuous for him. He was super excited to be able to get a blog post done for our site!<br />
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TeacherWillRunForBookshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17878988868960792405noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1191520432570115876.post-830105283794496752014-12-03T07:34:00.002-05:002014-12-03T07:34:58.810-05:00Whole Brain Wednesday: My StoryToday I want to take you on the journey I traveled when deciding to introduce Whole Brain Teaching in my classroom. I've shared it briefly in other posts, but after meeting with a few colleagues to share some WBT strategies, I thought it was important that I share my journey for those of you who need a little push towards WBT in your classroom.<br />
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During my first year of teaching I had a very tough class. I loved them dearly and still look back fondly on that year and those students, but I spent a lot of the first half of the year questioning my job choice. It killed me to question it too because I had literally wanted to be a teacher since I could remember. I had four students who were identified or would later be identified with ADHD and all were either un-medicated or inconstantly medicated. Now please don't get me wrong... I am not a "medication" pusher. I totally get that there are SO many interventions that can happen instead of medication and I also have seen medication be super successful for some students. But these students doing "gymnastics" on the rug during every single lesson and crawling under the tables daily added to a majority of students below grade level and students with little support from home equated to a really tough situation as a first year teacher. I would lay awake literally every night either worrying about my kiddos or trying to figure out where I was going wrong as a teacher.<br />
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My students WERE making growth, but I left every afternoon feeling exhausted and frustrated and on the verge of tears. And let me be clear on one thing, although I am an emotional girl and have been known to need a "good cry"... since starting WBT I think I've left school near tears maybe twice... nearly every day compared to maybe twice. Huge change.<br />
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Anyway... there was a big New England snow storm that year right around the 100th day of school. We had probably 5 days off including the weekend. I took this as "research" time. The teacher across the hall used WBT and I thought if it could work for her class of nearly 30 students, well then maybe it could work for me!<br />
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I watched video after video. I read article after article, blog post after blog post. I was addicted to the amazing behavioral management I was seeing. I was impressed by the growth teachers shared in their testimonials I took notes, decided what I liked and what I didn't and above all I knew WBT was for me.<br />
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I walked into school on the 100th day and printed out all the WBT rule and procedure posters and told my kiddos I'd been waiting until they were "ready" to try out something new in the class. I told them that the 100th day of school was the perfect time for 2nd graders to be "ready." I mustered up as much energy and excitement as I could and I sold WBT to these little 7 and 8 year olds and they ate it up!<br />
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In a few days my classroom was completely different. It was calmer... We had more fun during lessons... I was able to get all their energy out in PRODUCTIVE ways... I could get their attention with no effort... I had students focused - completely focused - during lessons. I couldn't believe how well it was working. A week or so later, I introduced mirrors and on our next math post-test I had one of my most severely ADHD students, standing at his desk, making all the gestures he had learned for regrouping to help him on the test. It was at that moment I knew WBT would be in my classroom for a LONG LONG TIME!<br />
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The rest is history... 3 years of WBT & a National Conference behind me... I even hope to become a "trainer" once I'm done with Grad School. I've done informal PD sessions for teachers and shared relentlessly with my grad class. I now walk down the halls in my school and HEAR WBT IN ACTION! Grad class friends tell me about the ways they are using WBT every day... Talk about amazing...<br />
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That's my story! Any other whole brainers who would like to share their story? I'd <span style="font-size: x-large;">love</span> to feature you on my blog :)<br />
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I am going to share some of the fun stuff we did for Thanksgiving on Tuesday!<br />
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We read Twas the Night Before Thanksgiving & made retell turkey hats! I got the turkey hat pattern freebie from Hollie Griffith's <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/BME-Turkey-Hat-974763">TPT store</a>!<br />
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Then we read Turkey Trouble & disguised our own turkeys... the kiddos LOVED this!<br />
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We also made these adorable thankful turkeys... and one of my kiddos made me one with all the things he thought I'd be thankful for, too cute!<br />
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I started a little Christmas decorating! Gotta love the Target $1 bin... that's where I found these adorable little ornaments.<br />
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Have a marvelous remainder of your weekend!<br />
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First I'm sharing yesterday's link up... K is for Kindess!<br />
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Today I am thankful for the kindness of a few important people in my life!<br />
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<li>First, my husband! He is so patient & kind with the lack of patience I have on some days after school. Not to mention he is absolutely my soulmate and holds me together in times I never thought anyone would be able to!</li>
<li>Second, my parents & sister. They are beyond supportive in every single way & always so kind in their willingness to help me and the hubs in any way they can.</li>
<li>Third, the parents of my students are the kindest bunch this year. I adore them!</li>
<li>Fourth, the kiddos... daily they have kind compliments to give me and those small compliments mean SO much!</li>
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S is for Sharing!<br />
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How could I not be thankful for sharing?! That's what teacher blogs are all about right? Sharing great ideas with each other to help us all become better teachers! And what about sharing with those awesome colleagues who SHOULD have a blog but don't have time to have a blog! I get so many amazing ideas from the teachers I used to work with at my old school and from the teachers I work with now... amazing & so thankful for it!<br />
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Well I hope you all enjoyed the week of thanks, I know that I enjoyed taking a moment to think about the little things in life that sometimes I forget about. Go link up! It's not too late :)<br />
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Today we are giving thanks for "Nifty New Things."<br />
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Happy Thanksgiving to you all! After you enjoy your family & feasting... check out my blog posts on Whole Brain Teaching Brainies. They are my "nifty new things" that have transformed my room this year! My kiddos LOVE using brainies to do "oral writing" or to "prove" their opinion or answer. Click on the braines diagram below to check out my posts!<br />
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Today I'm thankful for A Book or Few!<br />
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I am SO thankful for books... teaching kiddos to read every day instills the importance of reading every single day. I am so thankful that I enjoy reading and teaching reading. I am also thankful for the authors who write books that help me teach & the authors who help me to relax and enjoy reading! </div>
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I'm going to share 2 books that save my life as a teacher and 2 books that I love in general... </div>
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If you read my blog often you know how important Whole Brain Teaching is to me and for that reason I'd highly recommend <u>Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids</u>. This book is fabulous not only to help you with those challenging kids but to help you implement WBT into ANY classroom!</div>
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Another set of books I LOVE and transformed my classroom is The Daily 5 & The CAFE Book. We do full-fledged Daily 5 in my room and I'm working on implementing CAFE more this year. Hopefully I can implement CAFE more and more as I get more comfortable and familiar with all the strategies! These books are great and are very fast and easy reads. I felt comfortable to implement Daily 5 in my room simply after reading!</div>
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Onto 2 personal reads that I LOVED over the summer! Unfortunately I don't have a lot of time for pleasure reading, but I try to squeeze in as many books as I can over the summer!</div>
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The dog lover in me loved every second of <u>The Art of Racing in the Rain</u>. If you have a dog or love dogs it's a must-read. The story is narrated by a dog but as "cheesy" as that may sound, not a second of the narration feels unnatural. </div>
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Another book I loved reading over the summer was <u>Reconstructing Amelia</u>. The premise is a single mom trying to figure out what truly happened to her daughter. The narration is super unique in this book as it is composed with normal narration, texts, facebook posts and more weaved together. I was absolutely hooked to this book and could barely put it down! Definitely a great book if you're looking for something a little different and unique.<br />
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I hope you all are having a wonderful Thanksgiving Eve. I'm lucky enough to not have school today... one of the best things my district does is give us this day off :) <br />
Be sure to check out what books other teachers are thankful for <a href="http://imbloghoppin.blogspot.com/2014/11/week-of-giving-thanks-is-for-good-book.html">he<span id="goog_203482808"></span><span id="goog_203482809"></span>re</a>.<br />
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