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My name is Olivia and my blog is<a href="http://livtoteach.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> Liv to Teach</a>. I am so excited that<a href="http://primarypossibilities.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> Primary Possibilities </a> arranged this great blog hop and that I get to guest blog for 1..2..3 Teach with me! <br />
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With the recent events in Connecticut and with Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday this month, I wanted to share a wonderful program my school has used for the last few years. It is called “Rachel’s Challenge.” It is a program used to inspire kids to “start a chain reaction” of kindness and compassion. It is named after its founder, Rachel Scott, who cared about everyone and made it her life’s mission to touch the lives of everyone she came in contact with. She would go out of her way to help and encourage others. She believed in finding the best and beauty in everyone!<br />
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Sadly, Rachel was one of the 13 people killed in the shooting of Columbine. After her death, her father was cleaning her room and found her hand traced on the back of her dresser. Inside the hand she wrote “These hands belong to Rachel Joy Scott and will someday touch millions of people’s hearts.” Her father wanted to see his daughters' mission continue, so he began “Rachel's Challenge.” The program inspires and encourages acceptance, unity, and random acts of kindness. It is so amazing to see our kids motivated to do kind acts for others and over the last few years we have seen how these kind acts inspire others to pay it forward, which starts a chain reaction…which could change the World. <br />
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Rachel and Martin were a lot alike. They both had big dreams, they both stood up for what they believed, they both believed that only love could concur hate, and they both had their lives taken much too young. But most importantly, they both made a huge impact and truly touched millions of people’s hearts! Their dreams came true! <br />
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This month my students and I are going to discuss and reflect upon our dreams. We are going to talk about what it takes to accomplish dreams, how we can make change happen, and what they can do to one day touch millions of lives ourselves. We will also talk once again about how our differences make us special and discuss how boring the world would be if we were all exactly the same. Then, we will end on a high note by celebrating the lives of Rachel and Martin with “I have a dream day.” This day is always very special to the kids. They are able to get out of their school uniforms and dress up as what they want to be when they get older. <br />
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For the product swap I was teamed up with the fabulous Latoya from <a href="http://www.flyingintofirst.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Flying into First</a>! I was so excited when I got to choose any product from her <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Latoya-Reed" target="_blank">amazing store</a> (psst---we are both having sales to celebrate this awesome swap!)<br />
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Since Martin Luther King Jr's birthday is coming up, I chose to review her "Martin Luther King Jr Unit including Literacy and Math Centers" which is 81 pages full of resources, perfect for a week long "MLK" celebration! <br />
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The pack includes these wonderful activities that I will use for morning work each day! Each one is great for reinforcing skills, while also staying with the Martin theme of the week!</div>
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We are going to read "Martin's Big Words" and they are going to watch the MLK brainpop. Then spend two days using these great graphic organizers to help plan our writing! </div>
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Once we have our ideas down, there are a variety of great writing papers the kids can use to publish their work!</div>
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The kids will also compare their own character qualities to Martin Luther King Jr. as well as Obama to MLK jr.</div>
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Another exciting part of this pack are the literacy and math centers! </div>
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I especially like this one. The kids will use the letters of the word "peaceful" to spell other words!</div>
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This week we are learning about place value, so I was really excited when the pack included a place value game! So perfect---the kids will LOVE it! </div>
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There you have it! An awesome unit, about an amazing man, designed by a very sweet blogging buddy and fellow first grade teacher! I can't wait to use this unit with my kiddos next week. :-)<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> <i><span style="font-size: large;">A Passion For Peace</span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ha<span style="font-size: large;">ppy New Year from</span> <a href="http://literacyteachermomof3.blogspot.com/">Teacher Mom of 3</a><span style="font-size: large;"> !! <span style="font-size: large;">I am so very happy to be guest blogging today at <i>Liv To Teach</i> as part o<span style="font-size: large;">f the linky party/blog hop hosted b<span style="font-size: large;">y <a href="http://primarypossibilities.blogspot.com/">Primary Poss</a><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://primarypossibilities.blogspot.com/">ibilities</a><span style="font-size: large;">!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is a p</span>i<span style="font-size: large;">cture book and audio Cd set<span style="font-size: large;"> of King's famous speech.<span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nominated for Best Picture Books 2012 by Amazon<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="btAsinTitle"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Facts about King's life<span style="font-size: large;">:</span> includes a timeline, speeches, and quotes. Facts about civil rights and ci<span style="font-size: large;">vil diso<span style="font-size: large;">bedience.<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>Includes pictures/photographs. <span style="font-size: large;">The re</span>ading level and quiz are appropriate for older readers- intermediate-<span style="font-size: large;">middle school. Includes a crossword pu<span style="font-size: large;">zzl<span style="font-size: large;">e!</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="btAsinTitle"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Check<span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="font-size: large;">out this site for (5) cr<span style="font-size: large;">eative w<span style="font-size: large;">ays for celebrating MLK day with <span style="font-size: large;">children<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </h1>
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Wow. What a busy time of year! I have no idea what my husband and I were thinking when we decided to buy our first house in the middle of all this craziness! But we did---and we are so thankful and excited to finally have a place of our own to call home. We are also thrilled for the opportunity to have all of our family over for the holidays! <br />
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My students and I had lots of fun this month! We started by exploring how many other countries celebrate the holidays. We read a book, viewed a PowerPoint, filled out a fact page and a craft for their suitcase, and had traditional food from each country. It was great! <br />
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(Love these packs! I can't remember who I bought it from, but I will look at the copyright when I get back to school and let you know!)</div>
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The kids also helped decorate the classroom with these beautiful snowflakes! They did such a great job that no one believes me when I say that the kids made them! </div>
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Another very exciting event was the visit of Tinsel, our elf on the shelf! Tinsel was a very sweet and funny elf. He kept us all entertained with his silly antics! He also left very tiny letters for the kids each day. :) </div>
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To end the fun we had a huge party. The kids all wore their P.J's and we had a huge cookie decorating party! :) <br />
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18 dozen cookies! </div>
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Each kid decorated 12 cookies to bring home for their family and Santa! :) </div>
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I'm back! I'm sorry for being MIA the last two months! Between moving to our first home and all the fun Thanksgiving/Christmas activities, time completely got away from me! <br />
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My heart and prayers go out to everyone at Sandy Hook. The events are so unthinkable. It leaves me sad, angry, scared, and speechless. I can't imagine how scary it must have been, but those teachers not only kept the kids calm, they also did everything in their power to keep them safe. They put their lives on the line and their students safety above their own. Those teachers are heroes and protected so many kids. It breaks my heart that so many families won't have their kids home for the holidays, they won't see them graduate, get married, or have kids of their own, all because of one persons need for attention. I hope our media will stop giving criminals the attention they desire and instead focus on the innocent lives lost, as well as the amazing heroes that kept that number from being much greater. <br />
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Last week I caught strep throat. I've had it several times before, but the pain I experienced due to this strain of the illness was unlike anything I have ever felt! I was completely miserable for 4 days with a 102 temp! I actually missed 3 full days of school (which I've never done before)....it was not fun! <br />
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Thankfully I was there to celebrate the 50th day of school, which was a real blast from the past! <br />
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I started that morning decorating the classroom with lots of 1950's inspired decorations. It really helped set the tone for the day and it was so fun watching the kids faces light up when they walked in that morning!<br />
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The kids and I had a wonderful time last week "going batty." I must say, it is one of my favorite units to teach because all of the kids LOVE learning about bats!<br />
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We started our unit by reading "Bats Creatures of the Night" and other non-fiction books on bats. Here is my collection of bat books incase you would like to expand your own collection!<br />
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All of these activities can be found on my TpT "<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Creatures-of-the-Night-Bats" target="_blank">Bats - Creatures of the Night</a>" </div>
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The unit aligns with the common core exemplar "Creatures of the Night" by Joyce Milton.</div>
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We all know kids say the darnedest things! Well, my classroom is definitely no exception! Hopefully these adorable little moments will put a smile on your face! :) <br />
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This week has been all about bats (more about this later). Well today the kids and I were brainstorming for our bats "can, have, are" chart. We got to "are" and one of the kids announced that bats are mammals (My thought, she's right--- yay!).<br />
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Child 1 chimed in with: "What's a mammal?" <br />
Child 2 replied: "It means they give birth to live babies and the mommy feeds the baby her milk (Right again, yay!)."<br />
Child 3 gets this look of total confusion and says: "But how does the baby come out of the tummy?"<br />
Child 4 (his mom had a baby a week ago) says: "AWK....WARD!" <br />
Child 5 then announced: "the bat has a c-rection and gets baby is cut out of its stomach."<br />
Child 4: Slaps his forehead and shakes his head. <br />
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I quickly asked "What else are bats" and the subjects is changed for good (thank goodness)! It was all I could do to keep from laughing though! I quickly grabed my notebook and recorded this cute moment! :-) <br />
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Boy 1: Mrs. Cason---he is going to tattle on me! <br />
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Boy 2: “Mrs. Cason, he said he didn’t like me!"<br />
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Boy 1: I told you he was going to tattle!<br />
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Me: “Did you say you didn't like him?"<br />
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Boy 1: “Yes, but I told him it was opposite day!" <br />
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Me: “Did he tell you it was opposite day?"<br />
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Boy 1: “Yes."<br />
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Me: “Do you know what opposite day is?"<br />
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Boy 1: “No."<br />
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Me: “Ok, I want you to go back to your seats, and he can explain what opposite day is to you."<br />
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Once they left a sweet girl chimes in: “That’s why you can’t trust boys, they never just say what they mean!!!"<br />
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<strong>One question: Does this sound familiar?!</strong><br />
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I can definitely say school is now in full swing. The kids are expected to know their routines and procedures and they are learning lots of new skills! Report cards are about to go home, so grades are due in the grade book and in our reading database, and pacing calendars for the next 9 weeks will soon be due. The evidence from my current reading goal needs to be gathered and my new reading goals need to be written. Students need to be assessed and I have loads of conferences that have already begun. Also, because I teach the lowest quartile of first graders in our school for reading, I need to begin tutoring and get kids started on the RTI process. <br />
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It seems like this time of year we have meeting after meeting. There are the data meetings, RTI meetings, reading goal meetings, grade-level meetings, faculty meetings, literacy committee meetings, technology meetings, team meetings, IEP meetings, vertical team meetings, PMP meetings.....it just goes on and on and on. Then there are the weekly lesson plans to write (and submit to administration), the weekly newsletter, field trips to plan, parties to organize, and oh so much more. Just reading that list makes me tired....but the crazy thing is that all of that happens *behind the scenes!*<br />
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Before, during, and after all of that stuff, my main, most important job, is meeting the needs of my kids <em>INSIDE</em> the classroom. It is making sure I cover every standards and differentiate my instruction as needed. It is keeping my kids engaged, making learning fun, and providing a safe learning environment where kids are free to speak their mind and make mistakes. It is creating a "caring community of learners dedicated to making the world a better place" <---part of our mission statement. It is my job to <em>TEACH</em> these kids. Yes I can assess them, I can chart them, I can analyze them, I can plan for them, but at the end of the day---my real job is to<em> teach</em> them. And THAT is the part of my job that I <strong><u><span style="color: red;">LOVE</span></u></strong>. <br />
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What other job can you get paid to receive sincere hugs all day? (I counted today---out of curiosity---I received 84 unsolicited "just because" hugs in one day.<br />
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What other job will kids tell you that you are the BEST teacher they've ever had, that they love you so much, or scream "This is the best day EVER!" with a huge smile on their face---every day? What other job will someone daily tell you that you have the prettiest hair, eyes, clothes, and maybe even feet they've ever seen?! How many other jobs will someone compliment your art and singing abilities regaurdless how average they may be?! <br />
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Most of the world probably couldn't tell you when Johnny Appleseed's birthday was, but ask a teacher and not only will they know when it is, but they might just celebrate it more lavishly then their own birthday! I know we do!<br />
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This week has been all about apples and I must say, if might just be my favorite week of the year!! I will apologize now for the number of pictures! I just love pictures!<br />
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(Many of the activities below can be found in my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Johnny-Appleseed-Day-Apples-Unit" target="_blank">Johnny Appleseed</a> pack on TPT)<br />
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We started the week with this fun experiment to determine if there was a way to slow down the browning process of apples. Each child had their own experiment journal to record their information and they enjoyed being scientists! <br />
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Practiced writing acrostic poems about apples!</div>
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Listed lots of words to describe apples.</div>
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Read the book "Amelia Bedelia's Apple Pie" and did this sequencing activity</div>
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Did you know that there are over 7,500 different types of apples??? Well my class was bound and determined to try them all! Unfortunately time, money, and small stomachs only allowed us to try 8. It was so funny watching their faces as they tried the apples! The "early" and "golden delicious" won when we graphed our favorites, the "gala" and "granny smith" lost miserably (much to my surprise---I happen to like gala apples!)! One cool thing I discovered was that my "pampered chef" apple corer sliced almost all of the apples in to 19 wonderfully even 'skinless' circles (perfect my 18 sweeties and myself!). Once we tasted them we recorded color, texture, flavor, and appeal! :-)<br />
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This fun foldable book was great for explaining the apple life cycle!</div>
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I absolutely LOVE these Johnny's! I added their Johnny Appleseed reports underneath! Too Cute!<br />
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The kids thought the star in the middle of the apple was amazing! They loved apple stamping! </div>
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These mosaic apples were a wonderful "time-filler" for earlier finishers while I prepared the plates of food!</div>
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We all know that no party is complete without food, so to celebrate apple day we had all kinds of yummy apple treats! </div>
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The kids helped me make homemade applesauce which tasted great *and* made the classroom smell <u><em>amazing</em></u>! We also had apple chips, apple breakfast bars, apple turnovers, apple cider, apple juice, and caramel apples.</div>
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The kids also liked getting out of their uniforms for the day and (attempting) to dress like Johnny! They loved their little "pot" hats! I wish you could see their adorable faces in this picture! <3 </div>
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This year my students absolutely love science! Each morning they ask "What
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We started our year with a "What is a scientist?" unit (inspired from Pinterest). We read the book "Meet Einstein" and then they brainstormed lots of different words to describe what a scientist is and what they do. The words they came up with were astonishing! They put all of their words on this adorable anchor chart. Once they finished adding words to the class anchor chart they began working on their own personal anchor charts. They did a really great job!<br />
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For our first science experiment they practicing predicting, observing, and recording during a density activity. We had 7 different liquids of various density's. They made their predictions, did the experiment, observed the results, and then recorded the results---what fun!<br />
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Here are their predictions!<br />
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<strong><u>It is my favorite because...</u></strong><br />
This is my favorite game for many reasons, but the main reason is because it is my students' favorite. I love watching the excitment on their face as they play the game. It is fun watching them enjoy reading!<br />
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I use this pack during word work time or as a literacy lab on assessment days. It works well during this time because there are very few directions and the kids happily play the game for long periods of time. :-) <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01405761267690901114noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4826089009846983880.post-51420055797252027252012-09-03T18:20:00.000-07:002012-09-22T06:04:36.762-07:00First Grade is a Blast School has gotten off to a great start! We spent the first two weeks getting to know eachother and working towards building "a caring community of learners." It has been great learning all about my new kids, getting to know their unique personalities, and watching them come together to create a really cohesive, supportive school family. <br />
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Our school has accepted "Rachel's Challenge," which is a program used to inspire kids to "start a chain reaction" of kindness and compassion. It is named after Rachel Scott, who cared about everyone and made it her lifes misson to touch the lives of everyone she came into contact with. Sadly, she was killed in the shooting of Columbine. However, after her death, her father found her hand traced on the back of her dresser---inside the hand she wrote "These hands belong to Rachel Scott and will someday touch millions of people's hearts." Her father wanted to see his daughters' mission continue, so he started Rachel's Challenge. It really motivates our kids to do kind acts for others in hopes that that person will be inspired to pay it forward, which will start a chain reaction that could change the World. It's amazing.<br />
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In our classroom we also read "How Full is Your Bucket?" and "Have You Filled a Bucket Today?" These books go great with Rachel's Challenge because it teaches the kids that everyone has an invisable bucket over their heads (or in their hearts) and when you do kind things it fills their bucket. Likewise, unkind acts "dip" from their bucket and leave the person feeling empry. The kids love this visual and are really motivated to fill eachothers buckets. To keep the message alive in our classroom, each child has a little metal bucket of their own. Anytime they are caught filling someone elses bucket (doing kind and compassionate acts), I fill their bucket with little jewels as well! <br />
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Getting to know eachother and all of our fun, first week activities, was a real blast. To celebrate this blast, the kids and I read the book "Hedgie Blasts Off!" The kids then wrote using the prompt "First grade is a real blast!" Once they finished their writing we went outside and had a REAL blast!! What fun!<br />
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I always love hearing what others do on their "first day" because there are so many fun ways to celebrate this great milestone with our new kids. <br />
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Today I arrived at school at 6:30, even though my school doesn't "start" until 8am.<br />
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During orientation I gave each of my kids this book to read on "The Night Before First Grade." <br />
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They all loved it, so for morning work they wrote about what they did on the "Night Before First Grade. I was happy when almost all of them wrote that they read the book! :-) </div>
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Then, after going over several procedures and a couple fun "getting to know you" activities, I read "The Kissing Hand" to my new students. We did several activities related to the book (from my own Kissing Hand unit) and then had kissing hand cookies for snack. The kids loved biting the two middle fingers to make their cookies say "I love you" in sign language! <br />
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Next we practiced a few more procedures and went on a scavenger hunt tour of the school. The kids and I had fun practicing good "hallway behavior" and they enjoyed shooting big cheesey grins towards every hallway camera! I secretly hope that our administrators were watching the security t.v's at that time because they were so stinking cute!<br />
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When we came back to the classroom, I pulled out the magic play-doh and told the kids that they could make a wish on their play-doh and if it turned colors their wish would come true! They all wished for a great year, with lots of fun and friends....and all of their play-doh changed colors---so we know this year is going to be amazing (okay, it could have something to do with the 10 drops of food coloring hidden in the center---but we don't need to tell that to my sweet 6 year olds!). <br />
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Next they had wheel (Music), P.E., and lunch. We eat in the cafe with our kids, so it was fun talking to them more informally and hearing their stories. When we came back we did our first math lesson and reviewed procedures again! Finally, we began talking (again) about how Chester (from the Kissing Hand) felt on his first day, and how we felt as well. We then read the book "First Day Jitters" and decided that we all felt (at least a little) jittery this morning. We wrote about our first day jitters and then drank jitter juice to get rid of our jitters. Our juice had pink lemonaide, sprite, sherbet, and marshmallows---they LOVED it...but it was not really my cup of <strike>tea </strike>juice. <br />
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By this time it was 2:35 and I told the kids to pack up. It warmed my heart when they all announced "What?!?! It's already time to go home?!?!" <3 I must admit, I was jittery this morning thinking that all the procedures would completely bore them, but their sweet comments reassured me that despite the lengthy procedures and summer being over, they all enjoyed their first day!<br />
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achers.com/Store/Bridget</b></a></div>
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Samantha-Kelly"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Samantha-
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<b>Be sure to visit Samantha’s blog at </b><a href="http://mrskellysklass.blogspot.com/"><b>http://mrskellysklass.blogspot.com/</b>
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Linda-Nelson"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Linda-
Nelson</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit Linda’s blog at </b><a href="http://www.primaryinspiration.blogspot.com/"><b>http://www.primaryinspiration.
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Doodles-And-Kreations"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Doodles-And-
Kreations</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit their blog at </b><a href="http://spanishbeginnningsounds.blogspot.com/"><b>http://spanishbeginnningsoun
ds.blogspot.com/</b></a></div>
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<b> at <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Brenda-Martin-12">http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Brenda-Martin-12</a></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit Brenda’s blog at </b><a href="http://teachingdreaminglearning.blogspot.com/"><b>http://teachingdreaminglearni
ng.blogspot.com/</b></a></div>
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Jennifer-Findley"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Jennifer-
Findley</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit Jennifer’s blog at </b><a href="http://www.teachingtoinspirein5th.blogspot.com/"><b>http://www.teachingtoinspi
rein5th.blogspot.com/</b></a></div>
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Peanut-Gallery"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Peanut-
Gallery</b></a><b></b><br />
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Mrhughes"><b>http://www.teacherspa
yteachers.com/Store/Mrhughes</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit his blog at </b><a href="http://educatorslife.blogspot.com/"><b>http://educatorslife.blogspot.com/</b></a>
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<b>at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Tinas-Teaching-Treasures"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Tinas-Teaching-
Treasures</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit Tina’s blog at </b><a href="http://tinasteachingtreasures.com/"><b>http://www.tinasteachingtreasures.com/</b></a>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Cynthia-Vautrot" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Y6ASyl-KA0c/UCLEnfTgyyI/AAAAAAAAAjo/ISjphSOkapw/s1600/BTS25.jpg" /></a><br />
<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Cynthia-Vautrot"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Cynthia-
Vautrot</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit Cynthia’s blog at </b><a href="http://www.2ndgradepad.blogspot.com/"><b>http://www.2ndgradepad.blogspot.co
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<b>at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kathy-Goosev-Howell"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kathy-Goosev-
Howell</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit Kathy’s blog at </b><a href="http://kafysbooks.blogspot.com/"><b>http://kafysbooks.blogspot.com/</b></a></
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<b>at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Keeping-It-Captivating"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Keeping-It-
Captivating</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit Rebecca’s blog at </b><a href="http://keepingitcaptivating.blogspot.com/"><b>http://keepingitcaptivating.blogspot
.com/</b></a><b></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Science-Penguin" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-d9ymGF6QjBY/UCLEoVeFEjI/AAAAAAAAAkA/w_qFdyRfkGI/s1600/BTS28.jpg" /></a><b> </b></div>
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Science-Penguin"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Science-
Penguin</b></a><br />
<b>Be sure to visit their blog at </b><a href="http://www.thesciencepenguin.com/"><b>http://www.thesciencepenguin.com/</b>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Wild-About-Words" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hZEPhqI3ZNY/UCLEol5AkoI/AAAAAAAAAkI/EnR1KIYDCVM/s1600/BTS29.jpg" /></a><br />
<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Wild-About-Words"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Wild-About-
Words</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit Heather’s blog at </b><a href="http://www.wildaboutwords.blogspot.com/"><b>http://www.wildaboutwords.blog
spot.com/</b></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Diving-Into-Learning" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kurI3SkAahQ/UCLFrz_ImII/AAAAAAAAAkU/fQEPhfwB08g/s1600/BTS30.jpg" /></a><br />
<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Diving-Into-Learning"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Diving-Into-
Learning</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit her blog at </b><a href="http://divingintolearning.blogspot.com/"><b>http://divingintolearning.blogspot.co
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Linda-Kamp" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zbNTHzzO0gU/UCLFsLthPiI/AAAAAAAAAkc/nOuelWJdeCA/s1600/BTS31.jpg" /></a><br />
<b>at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Linda-Kamp"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Linda-
Kamp</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit Linda’s blog at </b><a href="http://aroundthekampfire.blogspot.com/"><b>http://aroundthekampfire.blogspot.c
om</b></a><b></b></div>
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Mrs-Seymours-Super-Stars"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Mrs-Seymours-Super-
Stars</b></a> <br />
<b>Be sure to visit Jeannie’s blog at <a href="http://www.mrsseymourssuperstars.blogspot.com/">http://www.mrsseymourssuper
stars.blogspot.com/</a></b> </div>
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Martha-Moore" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-R4PmmRnhfl0/UCLFswKsBaI/AAAAAAAAAks/R7rGFEKRlG4/s1600/BTS33.jpg" /></a><br />
<b>at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Martha-Moore"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Martha-Moore</b></a><b><br clear="all" />
Be sure to visit Martha’s facebook at </b><a href="http://www.facebook.com/PrimaryResourcesByMarthaMoore"><b>http://www.fac
ebook.com/PrimaryResourcesByMarthaMoore</b></a></div>
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Rebecca-Bettis"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Rebecca-Bettis</b></a></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Teachingrocks" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LonFAjO5q-4/UCLFtuR2pWI/AAAAAAAAAk8/D-5FVH0G9ew/s1600/BTS35.jpg" /></a><br />
<b>at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Teachingrocks"><b>http://www.teache
rspayteachers.com/Store/Teachingrocks</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit their blog at <a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.teachingrocks.ca">www.teachingrocks.ca</a></b>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Games-4-Learning" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AZ4qo1QRJwE/UCLG0Kw2RzI/AAAAAAAAAlE/k7OKlgASH5M/s1600/BTS36.jpg" /></a><br />
<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Games-4-Learning"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Games-4-
Learning</b></a><br />
<b>Be sure to visit her blog at </b><a href="http://fungames4learning.blogspot.com/"><b>http://fungames4learning.blogspot.c
om</b></a> <b> </b></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Jessica-Tobin" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-sXbEGzDu9SA/UCLG0lAolkI/AAAAAAAAAlM/vEvQcgPTG54/s1600/BTS37.jpg" /></a></div>
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Jessica-Tobin"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Jessica-
Tobin</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit Jessica’s blog at </b><a href="http://secondgradenest.blogspot.com/"><b>http://secondgradenest.blogspot.com/</
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Cassandra-Geiser-46" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CfhcL14JCNE/UCLG046ZjhI/AAAAAAAAAlU/RjER1kUgAZs/s1600/BTS38.jpg" /></a></div>
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Cassandra-Geiser-46"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Cassandra-Geiser-
46</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit Cassandra’s blog at </b><a href="http://room5teacher.blogspot.com/"><b>http://room5teacher.blogspot.com/</b></
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<b>at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Nicole-Rios"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Nicole-Rios</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit Nicole’s blog at </b><a href="http://mrsriosteachessecondgrade.blogspot.com/"><b>http://mrsriosteachessecond
grade.blogspot.com/</b></a><b></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Daily-Alphabet" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-kE4uNsArMss/UCLG16tGzUI/AAAAAAAAAlk/8hKOt7D1w8E/s1600/BTS40.jpg" /></a></div>
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Daily-Alphabet"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Daily-
Alphabet</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit her blog at </b><a href="http://dailyalphabet.blogspot.com/"><b>http://dailyalphabet.blogspot.com/</b></a><b></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Heather-Schmidt" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-66fqeTa3hww/UCLG2ETEyLI/AAAAAAAAAls/nGAEOtNJcas/s1600/BTS41.jpg" /></a></div>
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Heather-Schmidt"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Heather-
Schmidt</b></a><b></b></div>
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Deana-Thelen"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Deana-
Thelen</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit Deana’s blog at </b><b><a href="http://www.firstgradechatter.blogspot.com/">http://www.firstgradechatter.blogspot
.com</a></b> </div>
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<b>at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Richi-Reynolds"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Richi-
Reynolds</b></a></div>
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Erin-Schneider"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Erin-
Schneider</b></a></div>
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<b> </b>at <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_854188223">http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/
Store/Julie-Locke</a><b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Julie-Locke" target="_blank"> </a></b></div>
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<b>Be sure to visit Julie's blog at <a href="http://www.teachingthelittlepeople.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://www.teachingthelittlepeople.blogspot.com/</a></b></div>
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Leslie-Hope"><b>http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Leslie-Hope</b></a><b></b><br />
<b>Be sure to visit Leslie’s blog at </b><a href="http://thegroovyteacher.blogspot.com/"><b>http://thegroovyteacher.blogspot.com/
</b></a><b></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Teachermomof3" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cRclNTI2kcg/UCLH_rX8CzI/AAAAAAAAAmc/tdjFVOCIjgA/s1600/BTS46.jpg" /></a></div>
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<b> at </b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Teachermomof3"><b>http://www.teac
herspayteachers.com/Store/Teachermomof3</b></a><b></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I decided to take part in this fun linky party to explain
how I plan my lessons! It is amazing how many aspects there are to planning. After
all, lessons have to be engaging, aligned to standards, sequential, designed to
meet the needs of ALL students, and educational---wow, so much to consider. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My planning sessions take place with my amazing team. The 4
of us get together, usually at school, but sometimes at someone's house, and
tackle this task together (school requirement---but amazing none-the-less). We
begin by looking at the schools vertical pacing guide. Our school wants all
grade levels (k-8) to teach the same basic theme at the same time (i.e. poetry
in April), so our vertical teams develop a general schedule for us to follow which tells us when to teach each concept.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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schedule. It breaks the year down into months and then into weeks. I fill in
what we will teach in each subject each week and what standards we will cover
for that week. I also map out field trips for the year and all special days
(i.e Johnny Appleseed day) this allows us to plan ahead and make sure we don't
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decide how we will approach the topic/theme mapped out in the pacing guide. We
usually try to include a book and culminating craftivity for everything we
teach. We also use a lot of brainpop, bookflix, and TpT/Blog finds in our
planning. As we plan we fill out our lesson plan template with our plans, which
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At our school the teachers make their own copies, so once everything is planned out someone is assigned to making copies and prints out everything needed for the next week (usually this is the person with the most time during breaks). This is often a lifesaver for me because I teach the lowest reading class and usually have LOTS of RtI meetings and conferences during my breaks. It's nice to have a team to rely on! </div>
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This week my first grade team and I went to Atlanta! We had a blast bonding
as we went to the aquarium, IKEA (AHH--any teachers dream store!), and the mall. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I highly recommend this type of team building trip,
it was so great!<o:p></o:p><br />
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Once we came home it hit me that school starts back in 3 weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve begun feeling rather overwhelmed by the
number of things I need to get done, but I have begun crossing things off one
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">One thing I always like to do for my new students is prepare little goodie bags for them. In the goodie bag each object has a special purpose. For example, the pixie stix is to remind the kids that in our class we "stix" together. I have these tags as a<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Goodie-Bag-Tags-for-Back-to-School" target="_blank"> freebie</a> in my TpT. </span><br />
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I have also been hard at work creating new "bubbles" for my kids. Our bubbles are really blinders or shields, but during my first year of teaching the kids nick-named them bubbles and it stuck! They would always say "time to go into our bubble," which I thought was adorable, so I have used it ever since. <br />
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I make a writing bubble and a math bubble for my kids. Each one has a variety of anchor chart type resources for the kids to use while they are doing their work. They really help the kids develop independence. These are in my store for $4 each. <br />
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I must say finishing these projects left me feeling accomplished and excited. I can't wait to meet my students and start a brand-new year! <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01405761267690901114noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4826089009846983880.post-48309103437151376272012-07-18T16:48:00.001-07:002012-09-11T20:14:47.854-07:00Books GaloreHi everyone! <br />
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My name is Olivia....and I am a children's bookaholic. It's true. I am! I love garage sales, thrift stores, and former students that bring me their old books! Today I went to my mom's school (she's been teaching for over 30 years, teaches kindergarten now) and we went through all of her books. I was literally given an entire library. It was like Christmas! I brought them all to my classroom and spent several hours going through them all. It is definitely going to be quite the summer project. <br />
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Being the very organized person I am it is driving me crazy that I now have so many of certain authors (such as Eric Carle) that even the one or two book boxes I have for each author/subject don't provide enough storage...and my bookcases are currently full....limiting my ability to expand. Ahhh!I've only been in my room for 2 years, how can I have already outgrown three bookcases?! Even though I will be sharing A LOT with my new team-mate, something tells me this is still going to be the summer of rearranging and getting clever! <br />
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Anyway, my question for you is --- What are some of your favorite children's books of all time (I know---it's impossible to pick just one) <br />
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Mine would probably have to be...<br />
1. The Lorax<br />
2. Jillian Jiggs<br />
3. Love you forever<br />
4. The true story of the three pigs<br />
5. Olivia the Pig <br />
....and so many more! <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01405761267690901114noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4826089009846983880.post-28522758370409948662012-07-08T12:47:00.001-07:002012-09-11T20:15:07.970-07:00Organizing Math Games<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Hi Everyone! <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">As a teacher I have so much stuff that at times I feel like
a hoarder (can you relate?!). My team and I always joke that the show
"hoarders" needs to feature classrooms because it is amazing how much
stuff we can creatively cram in our rooms! We are teachers, we are resourceful, and we save everything! We can come up with 1 hundreds reasons to keep 200 coffee filters, a bag of broken crayons, or even a 10 pound bag of rice! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Anyway, one problem I kept running
into my first year was that I had so many great resources scattered all over
the place, that I had trouble remembering to pull them out when I needed
them!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since then I have spent a lot of
time organizing and rearranging my room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is has really helped maximize the use of my materials, especially in
math.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had so many wonderful games I’ve
made and purchased from TpT that I didn’t even use my first year!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They sat filed in a filing cabinet (my first
attempt at being organized) and were rarely being used all year!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So sad! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Here’s what I did to become more organized---<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I realized that our math series (Go Math!) has 9 key
chapters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I bought an inexpensive 9
cube shelf from target and 9 cute (durable!) bins to go in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I put numbers (1-9) on each bin and
organized all of my math games by chapter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now after the kids finish their worksheets in chapter 8, they choose a
math game from bin 8 and this provides reinforcement of the skills featured in their
worksheets that day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>It works great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Best of all, this system allows the previous
chapters math games to stay available all year!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The kids love playing games from previous chapters, which allows them to
constantly spiral down and practice skills from earlier in the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of my kids scored at the highest level on
their math standardized test last year and I really credit this to the fact
that they were constantly revisiting all skills all year!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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So there is have it! That is how I organize my math games! How do you keep track of yours??<br />
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