My turn as the student. PD today!!

Hello! Hey! What's up! Hola! (went to a Rich Vocabulary class)  :)
Had a Professional Development Day! Discovered a ton of great resources! Learned some new ways to enrich the vocabulary of students. Put a word (hello) in a circle and students must come up with other words that meant the same thing (hey, what's up, hola, etc). Fun!
 Learned about this great site to make word clouds. You can even type in the address to your blog and it will create one from that. There are so many cool things you can do, I I LOVE it and can't wait to use it for the classroom!! Here is the one it made from my blog. You can customize color, font, etc. Check it out then tell me what you think!

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What I have been working on in the hotel room in Myrtle Beach! Too much relaxing makes me think of all the things I want to create for my classroom! What about you, do you do the that to? Check it out on TPT and leave some feed back for me!

Wow! We survived our 100th Day of School yesterday! This year seems to be flying by! I had a fantastic day planned for the kiddos and when they arrived at school the frenzy started! I found this great unit on TPT by SOS Lesson Plan Teachers, you can find here and used most it but also incorporated my own activities. I gave each group a different color headband (I was going to get bandanas but they were almos $2 each so I went with tribal looking ribbon).They started off making banners and naming their tribes.  It consisited of a 100 Marshmallow Hunt, a 100 Chart puzzle, an Acrostic "One Hundred" poem, a map scavenger hunt, and building something using 100 cubes. All I can say is they had a blast and I was exhausted! It was so worth it though and hopefully will be something they always remember!!

Freeeeeebie for you!! Trying to figure out how to different things on my blog. Here is a Math Daily 5 Pack that I have on TPT for free. It is all you need to get started.....

Enjoy (and leave me some comments or feedback)!! :)
I also made it in a Polka Dot background, if you want that just leave me your email and I will send it to you. :)

Mid Year Assessments

Hello all! Don't know about you but I have been crazzzzyyyy busy with mid year assessments!! I am almost done and thankfully can get back to actually TEACHING next week! I am so excited about that! I am planning on hitting the writing hard! Since I have done assessmsnts most of my kiddos are doing pretty well in the reading area. I really need to focus on the writing to get everyone where they should be ready for 3rd grade! We do Reading 3D Assessments with MClass. What do you do?? Love to hear your comments.....

Literacy Organization

So I have been a busy bee today, (even though I took the work day off) he he! I made a Literacy Organizer much like the ones seen on pintrest but I got the idea from Sarah over at Snipets for First Grade( http://snippetsbysarah.blogspot.com/search/label/literacy%20center)  and how she organizes her Literacy Centers/Daily 5. I am going to change up my literacy blockand do something similar to hers with running some centers during Daily 5 time. I will choose each day who goes to centers, reads with me and does Daily 5. In Daily 5 is when they will have choice of what they will do. I only have time for about 3 rotations a day so students will still get some variation. Here is my final project and some label freebies it you would like them. How do you do your Literacy Block, I would love to hear from you!!!
                                                                        Click on the labels to get them all.........

 

Whole Brain Teaching

Well, I have been having trouble with my class listening and following directions lately. A comment from one of my followers suggested I try Whole Brain Teaching. After reading about it and watching some videos on youtube, I am thinking I will give it a shot. I have a class with 18 boys and 10 girls so I REALLY need something to get their attention and keep them engaged!! I am super excited to try it out! I was just about to create some cutsie little posters to go along with the Rules when I found someone had already done it on TPT. Thanks Tracy from Creekside Teacher Tales! You can find them here: http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/WBT-Rules-Poster  
Why recreate the wheel right?? Anyone used WBT and what are your thoughts on it??