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cute math center was created for only $3 and put together in about 15
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found these cute plastic mini bubblegum machines at the Dollar Tree in the
seasonal </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;">isle and then headed over the to
craft section and got 2 packs of wooden beads to use as the “bubblegum”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think plastic or glass marbles would work
as well but they didn't</span><span style="font-family: "kg corner of the sky"; font-size: medium;"> have those at my dollar tree so I used the large and medium sized wooden beads
from the pack. The blue and green were too dark but I am not complaining - a $3 math center is NOT bad! Bonus - I will keep all the small
beads to use for other projects during the school year so they wont go to
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We will be celebrating our 100th day of school on Tuesday and this year in addition to some of the other fun 100th day activities we are also going to try to do 100 acts of kindness!<br />
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I was inspired by the book Kindness is Cooler by Margery Cuyler. The book is about a kindergarten teacher who teaches her kids that kindness is cooler and challenges them to do 100 kind things. The students get really excited about doing kind things for not just other students but in their community too. Its a fun book and once I read it I decided to challenge my kids to do 100 acts on our 100th day!<br />
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So my plan is to use a simple kindness chart to have students color in a square each time they do an act of kindness during the day. I made a big banner with a bucket and empty 100 chart grid. As students preform an act, I will color in a square! </div>
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If you would like to use this in your classroom click <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxh28fqEUhl2MUVwdHhwU2N0bkE" target="_blank">here</a> to grab the flip chart and <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bxh28fqEUhl2aVIwVjhwRHByakk" target="_blank">here</a><span id="goog_877984421"></span><span id="goog_877984422"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a> to grab the grid for tracking acts of kindness. </div>
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This year I started something fun in my classroom for my guided reading instruction that my students and I call Flexible Fridays! <br />
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All week my students work with their guided reading groups that are leveled. Of course I change the groups with student growth and tweak groupings to my students needs but often these groupings stay fairly consistent. For the most part this is a good thing, students learn to work together and are comfortable with their groups but change is a good thing too. <br />
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My reading specialist inspired me to try some flexible groups from time to time and because I need a schedule for everything :) I decided to pick a day of the week for my flexible groupings. Friday works best because students have been working on their guided reading books all week and are ready for some extra challenges come Friday. <br />
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So on Fridays the student groups are done by table groups instead of reading levels! I use my regular <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Laura-Ado/Category/Automated-Center-Rotations-25559?aref=kce02b3o" target="_blank">reading rotation powerpoint</a> and changed it to a bright funky design (see pic above) and entered their table groups in instead of their regular groups. The first time I did this I was worried because in my little first grade classroom I have students reading from level 8 all the way to a level M.<br />
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It was great! Students read their books to each other and then helped each other complete the follow up assignment. I have been doing this each Friday ever since and some weeks they give each other spelling check ups, or practice their site words. They really look forward to working with a different group of students and love being able to share their guided reading books with each other! </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11827392450140876783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129087518088071762.post-25093011851132861572016-07-31T07:30:00.000-04:002016-07-31T07:30:25.015-04:00Colorful Organization & Cleaning CaddiesHi - I can not believe how long it has been since I blogged last! Yikes! Well leave it to Tara at <a href="http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">4th Grade Frolics</a> to motivate me to post to her awesome Made It Monday linky! <br />
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My first project was to transform my old yucky black in boxes! Honestly, when I packed up my classroom at the end of the year I was going to throw them out and go purchase new white ones from Staples! Then I had an idea… Spray paint + yucky old in boxes = COLORFUL organization! I love, love, love spray paint and have accumulated quite the collection of colors over the years! <br />
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So I cleaned them off and got to work spray painting them! I used an old plastic table cloth as my drop cloth so the hardest part was making sure the boxes didn't stick to the table cloth - SO my advice to you is to use newspaper and don't spray them in the grass like I did! ;)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8jN6-DSAVqKp0unIHwOWm7hY026mbyG-OyMW1rliThaNz4LztqSAMlLo2ghxFg5pGx9JzzgqdTBlCgWmLzSaKCQmJV0TTRGTgA_dsz9e_zo9w8Y8ogSm2ZGnSzV1KBjaYKErIrleXpZ4/s1600/madeitmondayinbox2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8jN6-DSAVqKp0unIHwOWm7hY026mbyG-OyMW1rliThaNz4LztqSAMlLo2ghxFg5pGx9JzzgqdTBlCgWmLzSaKCQmJV0TTRGTgA_dsz9e_zo9w8Y8ogSm2ZGnSzV1KBjaYKErIrleXpZ4/s320/madeitmondayinbox2.png" width="320" /></a></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11827392450140876783noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129087518088071762.post-88755990482953558952016-07-30T00:04:00.001-04:002016-07-30T00:18:12.757-04:00Kindness Updates & a GiveawayI have been busy this summer working on so many projects! One that I am especially proud of is the updates that I made to my Keys to Kindness unit! I love starting my year out with these keys to kindness and going over our classroom expectations with these keys in mind. This summer I created mini posters with cute graphics to show each key and some fun word work to keep my little kiddos busy during those long first days of school!! <br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11827392450140876783noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129087518088071762.post-12012550731070955762016-02-05T17:43:00.000-05:002016-02-05T17:43:00.141-05:00Dollar Store Clipboards & Pebble Go FreebieI LOVE the dollar store - really The Dollar Tree!! I know most teachers do too - so I just had to share my latest dollar store creations with you all!<br />
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It is hard for them to manage the keyboard and paper with our limited space and even more challenging for some of them with the larger clipboards. So I headed to the dollar store in search of mini clipboards. They didn't have any at the time but I found 6"x8" chalkboards and these cute colorful metal clips.</div>
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So I pulled out my trusty hot glue gun and glued the clips on the chalkboards to create my mini clipboards!! The best best best thing about these clipboards is that they have a handy little handle for hanging them. So while I had my glue gun fired up I hot glued some hooks to the edge of my computer tables and hung those suckers up!! It makes me so happy to see them all hanging there all neat and tidy!</div>
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We are fortunate enough to have access to Pebble Go so I made some note taking sheets that work perfectly with my mini clipboards. </div>
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If you are like me and my little ones you know that we work so hard at the beginning of the year on becoming good listeners! We practice and practice sitting on the carpet and I have even started teaching using Erica Bohrer's cute Whole Body Listening posters! Thank you Erica - click picture to grab some for yourself!<br />
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They are great visuals and teaching points for getting us all ready for school! Well, after winter break or a bunch of snow days ;) we seem to have forgotten and need some new reinforcements! </div>
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About this time last year I was teaching a whole group lesson and after redirecting a bunch of friends several times I just had a spark of inspiration that instead of constantly redirecting some friends I should give some reinforcements to those kids who were always doing a great job. My hope was to inspire the distracted ones to try harder in order to get the "reward." So I walked over to my closet and stuck my head in looking for something to use as a reward and I spotted my container of stuffed animals. I grabbed all my care bears and put them all on my lap (I have 5 or 6 of them). I continued the lesson and didn't even mention the bears - I am sure they thought I was a little crazy for a few minutes! </div>
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As soon as I spotted someone who was one of those great whole body listeners, I leaned down and handed them a bear and simply said, "great listening" and kept on teaching. It was awesome and the kids really responded. </div>
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You don't have to drag out your sewing machine like I did because the care bears were just as effective! Give it a try and let me know how you like using them or better yet let me know what little tricks you are using in your room to keep your sweetie pies on track!</div>
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Wow - we just had ourselves a Blizzard in Maryland and all over the east coast!! School was closed on Friday in preparation and has been closed already for Monday and Tuesday!<br />
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I grabbed an old board from the garage and my trusty hot glue gun and glued down all sorts of things that I thought might be fun ways to measure our snow! Legos, markers, straws, bugs and of course some rulers! I used some sharpies to mark the measurements and wrote a cute little title on my board and bam! I was ready for the snow to come!</div>
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So now I know how deep the snow was...</div>
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<b>The blizzard of 2016 was 3 1/2 straws deep </b></div>
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<b>22 inches deep</b></div>
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Whenever we get back to school I am going to share the pictures with my students and hopefully my principal will let me take them outside so we can measure the snow ourselves! </div>
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Tip - In order to stand the umbrella and palm tree I used 5 gallon buckets from Home Depot that I filled with water bottles to weigh it down. I bought PVC pipes from HD and they cut a hole in the top of the bucket lid so the PVC pipe would fit perfectly. </div>
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Here is my new writing center! I am really excited for this area and I am trying something new by having my writing center menu fully displayed this year. I love having my writing center activities already set for each day of the week - it gives my student a schedule and they look forward to different days of the week and once they get into the routine they always know what to do at the writing center. <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Daily-Writing-Center-Menus-with-how-to-posters-and-follow-ups-410603" target="_blank">Check it out here for more details</a>.</div>
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It was all shiny and clean and in the corner where you can't see there are boxes and boxes of supplies for the whole first grade team!</div>
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So last Friday I went in and with the help of 5 awesome helpers, we got all the supplies sorted and delivered to each of my teammates classrooms! </div>
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Over the weekend I chalk painted a table in my room that turned out so cute! I used cream colored chalk paint from <a href="http://www.joann.com/decoart-americana-chalky-finish-paint-8oz-serene%C2%A0/zprd_13030143a.html#q=chalk%2Bpaint&start=2" target="_blank">Jo Ann Fabric</a> (Lace) and mixed and in my own acrylic paints to create some bright colors! Mixing the paint was pretty low key, I poured some chalk paint into a plastic ziplock storage container and then added just enough acrylic paint to get the color I wanted. For my table, I mixed 3 different colors and still had some left over! Gotta love chalk paint! If you have not tried it yet you need to!!! I am going to chalk paint an old night stand that I have sitting in front of my classroom, it holds books for kids to read while they are waiting for school to start! I will post a few pictures later this week...</div>
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I also managed to move all my books and set up the library. This year I added a few new Seuss Turffula trees and moved my palm tree to my reading table (more on that later this week)! They were super easy to make and <a href="http://www.bombshellbling.com/dr-seuss-room-truffula-trees/" target="_blank">Bombshell Bling</a> has a great blog post with lots of pictures to help you make your own! Since the trees are made of pool noodles they are super light and I was able to simply tie them to my class library using pretty ribbon!</div>
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Happy BTS everyone - my flash freebie is perfect for you! It is a back to school themed Word Work unit full of fun worksheets that can be used for morning work, independent work OR literacy centers!</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ok so it's not Monday but I am still linking up with <a href="http://kindergartenplanet.blogspot.com/">Kindergarten Planet</a> and <a href="http://thekindergartenconnection.com/">The Kindergarten Connection</a> with their super fun Must Read Monday linky party!!</span></div>
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This week's theme is Just For Fun! If you are like me and you LOVE books then as soon as you read the theme funny books are probably popping into your mind! </div>
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One of my favorite activities to do with my students is working collaboratively to set the tone for a kind classroom! To begin the activity, I hand out the 10 keys and have students work in groups to talk about what each key means. After 10 minutes or so, we get back together as a class and they share what their groups have come up with. <br />
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The 10 keys are:<br />
Be Kind<br />
Be Friendly<br />
Share<br />
Be Helpful<br />
Take Turns<br />
Be Respectful<br />
Do Your Best<br />
Be Patient<br />
Smile<br />
Have Fun Learning<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">After we have talked about each key, they go up on our Kindness bulletin board! For the rest of the week, I devote some time to our new mission of creating a kind classroom by reading books, doing fun follow up book study work and finally we create a class book of ways that we can each be kind in our classroom.</span></div>
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What are your favorite books that promote kindness? I love adding new titles to my collection!</div>
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A few of my favorites are:</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11827392450140876783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129087518088071762.post-90583771867570791332015-01-09T20:26:00.001-05:002015-01-09T20:36:59.615-05:00#BookitForwardWow! It has been so long since I blogged! Apologies my blogging friends, I just checked out of my little blog for a bit!<br />
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Today we did something so fun that I wanted to share the #BookitForward movement with everyone!<br />
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Ever heard of Kid President? He is an adorable little boy who makes these really uplifting YouTube videos about all kinds of fun things from Making the World More Awesome to interviews with President Obama. <br />
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Well recently he started a movement of paying it forward in the form of books! <br />
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Here are some pictures from my awesome teammate's and my classrooms. We ordered $1 books from scholastic book clubs and hit the jackpot with A Bad Case of the Stripes and Bad Kitty! Kids were so happy with their new books!<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11827392450140876783noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7129087518088071762.post-45624163117791851132014-11-23T13:56:00.000-05:002014-11-24T08:03:44.040-05:00More Thanksgiving Fun & a few Freebies<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I can't believe that it is almost Thanksgiving. It still feels like it should be October - this year is flying by! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I have blogged about this fun thanksgiving activity before but this year I have added a few more fun activities to my Pass the Turkey product and wanted to share it again! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I love projects that involve families and this one is my absolute favorite! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Here is a completed Thankful Turkey from last year:</span><br />
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<span style="color: #464646; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>I have just updated my Pass the Turkey Please product to include some other fun activities to do with my kiddies this week!</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To go with the Thankful Freebie, here is a link to a safeshare read aloud of the story <a href="http://safeshare.tv/w/bqCyjJRMVZ" target="_blank">Bear Says Thanks by Karma Wilson!</a></span><br />
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Now for a few fun freebies! Check out Enchanted Learning's fun and FREE <a href="http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/thanksgiving/scarecrow/" target="_blank">printable scarecrow pattern</a>s! My cuties just loved making their own scarecrows! </div>
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Another fun scarecrow FREEBIE that I found was this great math center. Click the picture below to check out Teach With Laughter's Roll and Add Math Station. In case you have never used Roll and Cover centers for your class, they are the cutest simplest math centers that allow students to practice adding using 2 and 3 dice. </div>
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