tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30700372667159579802024-03-05T05:46:59.945-08:00apples and papersJessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462263404774957943noreply@blogger.comBlogger210125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070037266715957980.post-37533538439463984112014-12-02T18:06:00.000-08:002014-12-02T18:06:33.151-08:00To Italy and Back Today...Travel Tips for Holidays Around the WorldWe started our Holiday Around the World travels today. I honestly don't know who was more excited me or the students.<br />
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The morning started with them finishing decorating their suitcases. It was awesome hearing them walk in already talking and wanting to show their parents their suitcases.<br />
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I really like to use videos to help give the students a better understanding of the place. Here are a few that were helpful and the students enjoyed.<br />
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This is told from a child's perspective about the differences between Santa Claus and Befana. Also has good views of the markets. Some of it is in Italian, but there are subtitles so it is easy to understand. This was my students' favorite! </div>
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This shows many different images from Italy. It would be a good one to use to compare their decorations to ours. </div>
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A longer video but does explain more about the markets and shows what is special about different cities. I would have definitely used this video with my third and fourth graders last year if I had known about it. </div>
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Also I was grocery shopping tonight and saw that Meijer (the Michigan's largest grocery chain) had panettone- the popular Italian sweet bread at the holiday for sale. If I didn't have food allergies we would be enjoying that tomorrow. So be on the lookout as it might be at your grocery store.<br />
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Now I have to go shop before the TpT cyber sale is over. Praying I don't forget to use the code like I have in the past.Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462263404774957943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070037266715957980.post-62038664918589331662014-12-01T11:41:00.002-08:002014-12-01T11:54:14.576-08:00December CurrentlyGlad we have finally reached December since it has felt like it here for a few weeks already. Gotta love Northern Michigan weather. Here is how beautiful our school looked last week. <br />
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Listening: I just read <i>As You Wish</i> by Cary Elwes. It is a must for anyone who can quote most of <i>The Princess Bride</i>. I had to rewatch it and see if I noticed some of the things they were talking about. </div>
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Loving: I love winter and Christmas movies. The fact I get to enjoy both right now makes me happy.</div>
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Thinking: There is a lot going on right now and I keep worrying about it all. I need to stop thinking the worst scenarios and just accept what will be. </div>
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Wanting: This goes with what I am worrying. Teleporting abilities and health of everyone are what I want the most. </div>
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Needing: I experienced my first complete blinding and painful migraine yesterday. I have had both parts separately but never together. Still going on today.</div>
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Giving: First I am giving away two copies of my newest Holiday Suitcase to the first two people to comment. </div>
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With everything going on, don't forget to enjoy it. Life is short so helping to make it a better place as we do as teachers is quite something. So thank you!</div>
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And with that time to go shopping! Happy shopping for all!</div>
<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462263404774957943noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070037266715957980.post-21917176634974413942014-11-28T05:30:00.000-08:002014-11-28T05:30:00.368-08:00Essentials for Holiday Around the World Traveling<div style="text-align: center;">
After teaching Christmas or Holiday Around the World for the past few years, I decided I needed a better option for students to keep all their maps, passports, fact sheets, pictures, project and project pieces in. Folders didn't work. The scrapbook approach didn't work when I started projects. That and I wanted a passport that was authentic looking.</div>
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So I made exactly what I wanted. </div>
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A suitcase and my authentic like passport</div>
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Pack my suitcase? (Any other Home Alone fans read this sentence in a Macaulay Culkin's voice?)</div>
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I have included photo and step-by-step directions for each part of the suitcase you and your students will create. </div>
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Passport pages</div>
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World Map</div>
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Country and continent stamps to use for passport or suitcase</div>
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Luggage Tags</div>
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Pattern templates for suitcase pieces</div>
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Extra stamps to decorate suitcase with</div>
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Here are what the directions look like. </div>
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We will be busy making and packing our suitcases on Monday. Can't wait to see how students personalize theirs. </div>
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Happy and safe travels on your Holidays around the World!</div>
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An island</div>
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A marble run</div>
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A museum</div>
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Yes, building has become a daily part of our day. Actually it is how we start our day. Yes I am probably crazy for doing this. Especially since I much prefer the little or no chaos to any chaos, but I have started to let go a little bit and I am enjoying it more and more. I'll admit sometimes it is the highlight of my day.<br />
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The favorite building materials. Something I can best describe as a treehouse. </div>
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I have done the traditional or more popular morning approaches with morning work. Each year it is a little different with sentence work or math exercises. I tried the no morning task approach too where students got to come in and socialize. It had its up and downs.<br />
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This year I start with morning work yet not in the traditional sense. Some days it is getting a head start on an art project I know we won't have time to completely finish. Another day it might be choose a spot to read when we get new books in the room. Another day it might be make as many words as you can out of a larger word. Another write sentences about a recent event to put on our class blog. Then after since I have such a difference between when students arrive...it can be 45 minute difference...I give them three options everyday- read, work on their journals, or build. Build is again and again the most popular option and I am loving the result.<br />
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Why chose build?<br />
It lets students be creative and problem solve with each other.<br />
It provides a daily opportunity for students to work as a group. They come up with the task and the process.<br />
It is student led.<br />
I have a class with many who like to be leaders. It helps give students the opportunity to lead and follow.<br />
It creates problems but also opportunities to talk them out and figure out different solutions.<br />
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Here are some of our more recent creations.<br />
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Both of these are islands. Just within these building processes there had to be a solution to where to use the dark blue pieces (It is where the deep water is. They figured out deep water is not always far from shore). </div>
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They had to figure out the best place to put a house, how to do it, and who was going to do it.</div>
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They had to decide if there was going to be a bridge and where to put it to connect to another island.</div>
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As a teacher I love watching this daily process. I'm always amazed at what students come up with. </div>
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It was our 50th day of school on Wednesday. We looked at the toys and clothes from back then. We used lincoln logs and legos for math that day. We learned the hand jive. We tried root beer floats. I was amazed how many of them have never had tried root beer before. My favorite of the day was having my students do this:</div>
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Favorite quote was "Are we watching the one where Lucy thinks she is going to get murdered?" Ahh, a kid who knows what good TV is. </div>
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Since I had some long gaps between my conferences I had time to completely prep for the week. I got my new reader theater's all highlighted too.</div>
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IT SNOWED!! More is coming. I love snow. It makes everything so pretty and makes it feel like the holidays. I am one Michigander that has no complaints about the snow, even in May it is an adventure.</div>
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View of our playground</div>
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View from my house. Sorry for the screen effect.</div>
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I know it is hunting season or at least rifle season here. It is a huge deal. This year was the first time I have ever gone out bow hunting. I loved it. Didn't manage to get anything yet. Here was the view last night from the blind. Can you tell it has a bit cold here?</div>
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<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462263404774957943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070037266715957980.post-67102156673364685412014-11-12T16:30:00.000-08:002014-11-12T16:30:01.104-08:00Class Book FreebiesOne of my most popular freebies has been my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Homophone-Class-Book-352238">Homophone Class Book</a>.<br />
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I have used this with my first and second grade classes. From the wonderful comments teachers have left, I have learned others have used it with first graders to even fourth graders as a review. Some teachers have added pages as they introduce certain homophones and some do it all at once.<br />
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My class this year has loved sharing and reading our book to parents at morning drop off.<br />
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This past week we worked with Amelia Bedelia and idioms. One of our activities was making our class <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/It-is-All-Greek-to-Me-Idiom-Class-Book-Freebie-1544153">Idiom Book- It's All Greek To Me</a>.<br />
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Each page has an idiom at the top. In the left box, students draw the picture they visualize when they hear or read the idiom. In right box, students draw a picture they visualize when they think about what the idiom really means. The lines are used to explain what the idiom really means. You could also have students include the idiom in their own sentence.</div>
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Here are some of my second graders' pages.<br />
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I made a product in one day!! The whole start, finish, and make it all pretty. </div>
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I can't wait to use it with my second graders these next few weeks. Yes that was the point of rushing around today. </div>
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So tada... Click <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Native-American-Readers-Theater-Scripts-1548224">here</a> to check it out. Plus it is on sale until Tuesday!</div>
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I have actually used some of these last year but finally added more to the collection. My third and fourth graders did a school play with these scripts. My second graders are just realizing how much fun these scripts can be. </div>
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These are just in time for Native American Heritage Month but are great to use when studying folktales. </div>
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Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462263404774957943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070037266715957980.post-59853267533762559012014-11-08T05:31:00.000-08:002014-11-08T05:31:00.259-08:00Our Spider Writing PotpurriI must preface this post in that it is not oh so pretty. Also I am a little late in posting. This is one of those things that kept growing and working as part of our mini writing lessons tied in with our spider theme and skills for the week.<br />
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It started as a review to what a sentence is and should have at the beginning and end of it while tying in our spider theme. It seems like we are always working on this skill, but we are getting it. But this mini writing lesson grew into just about a week of mini-writing lessons.<br />
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<b>Day 1</b>- I had posters taped around the room. Each had a different picture of a spider. Students went from poster to poster and wrote down something they observed in the photo. Students moved once they heard music. I like to use the many alarms sounds on my phone for this to spice it. <br />
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<b>Day 2</b>- We were also working on adjectives that week. I noticed with our observation sentences many were used. So students were paired up. They were each given a highlighter and shared a poster. They worked together to find and highlight adjectives. We even got into a discussion on similes thanks to one student's sentence. Love when teachable moments happen like that!<br />
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<b>Day 3</b>- We revisited our posters after working with facts and opinions. Just like Day 2, students paired up with a poster and each with a highlighter. They had to read each sentence decide if it was a fact or opinion and marked it with an F or O once they decided. As a class we kept a tally of facts and opinions to see what we wrote more of. </div>
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This is definitely an approach I plan to use again. Thinking it would be a great thing to do when we working more in depth with inferencing.<br />
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October flew right by. It is time for the wonderful holiday season to start! Thank you November and thank you Farley for bring us all something fun to do once again. </div>
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<b>Listening: </b>Gilmore Girls is one of my favorite shows. Loving the fact all the seasons are so easily available for me to enjoy for the third or fourth time...or maybe more. </div>
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<b>Loving: </b>At times I would say fall is my favorite season. The food, clothes, boots, all the colorful beauty around me. </div>
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View from one of my hikes</div>
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A tree on a camping trip. Picture doesn't even do it justice.</div>
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<b>Thinking:</b> We had the craziest Halloween day. In short there was a potential raccoon, two different school power outages, tree falling down in the road, and having to eat a school wide lunch by jack-o-lanterns and candle light before having to close school. So I need to catch up. A relaxing day will be nice. </div>
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<b>Wanting:</b> I have been traveling a lot. Teleporting abilities would greatly help. </div>
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<b>Needing: </b>To find balance to do all the things I need to do and fit all the people in that I need to.</div>
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Math has become my favorite. It is so easy to incorporate games and crafts while still doing math. I know that is still a shocker for some. This week we reviewed place value and starting to work on expanded notation. To make it even more engaging we practiced these skills by making our Place Value Monsters.<br />
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All that is needed for this math craft is founded in my newest packet. <span style="text-align: center;">I have four monster fact sheets that allows students to work on recognizing hundreds, tens, ones, adding them, multiplying or doing expanded notation. Here are two previews.</span><br />
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Happy Saturday!Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462263404774957943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070037266715957980.post-51353713510542063522014-10-20T17:34:00.002-07:002014-10-20T17:34:31.745-07:003-D Pumpkin ArtOne of the many fun things about my new position is I get to teach art. I know I have much to learn about teaching art, but I absolutely love seeing how students take the basis of a project and make it their own. This past week's project was a hit with parents and students.<br />
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We have been working on the characteristics of art. So far we have done line, color, and texture. This week was a combo project to work on being more familiar with the color wheel and how to make colors...really how to make orange and shape. This is an <u>EASY</u> two day project.<br />
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Mix red and yellow paints to make a desired orange color. Paint the entire 11x18 white construction paper. Let dry for the next art time. </div>
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1. Cut the orange paper into strips. </div>
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<u><i>Note:</i></u> The thicker the strips the easier the rest of the steps will be. Students had the choice of what way to cut, whether they wanted really long strips or short ones better know as hotdog or hamburger style strips. Strips must be around the same length for the pumpkin to take shape. </div>
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2. After all the strips are cut, push them one at a time onto a green pipecleaner. All strips just need to slightly be on the pipecleaner. This will become the bottom of the pumpkin. </div>
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3. Repeat step 2 with each strip. This time put the unattached end of each strip on the other end of the pipecleaner. Do this with every strip. Strips do not need to stay near the top of the pipecleaner. Pushing them further down helps to make a rounder pumpkin. </div>
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4. As more and more strips get attached, the pumpkin will start to form. Here students can start designing the exact shape of their pumpkin. Also space out the strips to make sure there aren't any big gaps. </div>
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5. This step is optional but adds to the pumpkin. Have students curl the top of the pipecleaner to make it look more like a pumpkin stem or vine. Also I had some students use black paper to design a jack o'lantern face to glue onto their pumpkin. </div>
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<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462263404774957943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070037266715957980.post-2361970918887572542014-10-04T12:09:00.000-07:002014-10-04T12:12:45.081-07:00October CurrentlyI love October! What's not to love? It is such a beautiful month and fall is in full swing. Also time for Farley's Currently...<br />
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Listening: I have been on the road every Friday since school has started. So listening to the eclectic music collection is part of my weekly routine.</div>
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Loving: Summer used to be my top season but Fall has climbed the chart recently. Our school campus is beautiful with all the leaves! Just had pumpkin ice cream today. Second grade is so much fun as well. Can't wait to start Charlotte's Web unit this week. </div>
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Wanting: All this gorgeous weather and color makes me want to go to the U.P. aka. Upper Peninsula. It is definitely a paradise. </div>
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Needing: Seriously shouldn't have teleporting been invented by now? </div>
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Treat: Pumpkin Breakfast Smoothies are my favorite thing for breakfast this time of the year. It is best to make them over night and let them sit in the fridge. </div>
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1/2 c pumpkin pie puree</div>
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1/2 c oatmeal (I use quick oats)</div>
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Mix all of the ingredients in a blender together. Put in cup and keep in fridge until morning. </div>
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Note: This recipe is very flexible. At times I have added yogurt and other times didn't add honey. I don't use these exact measurements every time, but they are good guidelines to follow for a yummy breakfast. </div>
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<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462263404774957943noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070037266715957980.post-53382557909863123882014-10-01T16:46:00.001-07:002014-10-01T16:46:36.978-07:00Fact Families & Communities {Freebie}Last week we wrapped up working on fact families with this little activity with a twist. Introduce our Math Lane.<br />
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Students were allowed to pick what fact family they were going to use. They completed the facts on the doors and windows. Instead of putting them on the roof like many too, I changed it up a bit to connect with our community unit we have going on right now.<br />
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Students used their three fact family numbers to create an address for the house.<br />
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The next day at math I had created math lane. We declared one side even and one side odd. Students were put in odd and even groups based on if their fact family house address was odd or even. Once in groups they had to figure out what the order of the addresses from the least to the greatest so we knew how to put them on Math Lane.<br />
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<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-pGHSPw4jWrSVhLUFpJTWpGXzA/edit?usp=sharing">Here </a>is the fact family house we used if you want to use it.<br />
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Happy Wednesday!Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462263404774957943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070037266715957980.post-78720896021082512022014-09-24T17:53:00.001-07:002014-09-24T17:53:07.875-07:00Short Vowel FreebieLike everyone else I am loving interactive notebooks. My students have a math one and a word study one. They work so well.<br />
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I have made things here and there for them because I can picky and like things my way...what teacher doesn't?<br />
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I wanted to share with you my latest creation for our short vowel review. Maybe someday I will actually put them altogether.<br />
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After reviewing the short vowel sounds we made an anchor chart and became word detectives to see what we noticed about them. We made many great observations, but the one that stuck with us is that when it is a short vowel it only has one vowel. Brilliant, right?<br />
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That is what the short vowel is to help us remember. This is what it looks like in our notebooks.<br />
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<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462263404774957943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070037266715957980.post-33264157572543062652014-09-21T19:29:00.000-07:002014-09-21T19:29:23.944-07:00Making Number Lines Come Alive- One of My Favorite ThingsBy far our calendar routine is my favorite part of the day. Since I have a little more freedom this year, I decided to try something my mentor teacher introduce me to it when I student taught first grade. However, it was not used quite to the extent I have made it this year. I have never seen or used it since. It is all about making a number line come alive!!! Our classroom number line will not just be used for keeping track of the number of days we have been in school or practicing addition and subtraction. I am not saying those skills are not important. Our number line is going to be so alive with knowledge we will be referring back to it all year even when multiplication and division come around at the end of the year. If I kept them until they were fourth graders we would still be using it. It is that handy!<br />
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Meet our ever growing number line!<br />
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How are we making it come alive?<br />
Every day after we complete our calendar routine we add a number to our number line to keep track of our days in school.<br />
I show the number then ask "How can you get to this number?" During the first week it was "What can we count by to get to this number?" So right away when we are building our number line we began practicing counting by 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, 10s, 11s, and yes 12s is built into our routine.<br />
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Once we discover the different ways we can get to a number we use a symbol to represent it. Note: since we can get to any number by counting by 1s, 1 does not have a symbol. Every other number does. For example we represent 2 with two matching dots as they are a pair. 4 is a square for its four sides. 7 is a rainbow for the seven colors it has.<br />
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The symbols get taped right on the number so pretty soon it starts looking like this.<br />
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We also tie in money to it so every time we reach an amount that a coin or dollar is worth that gets taped there too.<br />
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Now you can make your number line come alive too with my newest packet. <br />
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It includes everything you need to make your number line do so. Click <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Lines-Are-Alive-1459852">here</a> to check it out.<br />
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My students don't know it yet and yours won't either, but they are creating a number line that shows odd and even numbers, addition and subtraction facts, prime and composite numbers, multiplication and division facts, factors for each number. That is on top of what they do see: what numbers you use when you count by a certain number, addition facts, and money values.<br />
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I am currently working on a packet of activities to go with the number line to make it even a greater math tool.<br />
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Have a great week!Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462263404774957943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070037266715957980.post-23527741739667614282014-09-17T17:47:00.002-07:002014-09-17T17:47:38.942-07:00Zero the Hero Arrives in Second GradeI have missed the Zero the Hero train in the past. Not sure how, but I am on it now.<br />
As we were counting <strike>down</strike> up our days in school (one of my favorite things to teach...more to come on this), my students kept asking about Zero the Hero and if he/she were appearing this year. I couldn't say no especially since I have big plans for the 50th day of school.<br />
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I knew I wanted to spice it up for what had been done in Kindergarten and first grade. This is what I came up with.<br />
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I found this book <i>Zero</i> by Kathryn Otoshi and loved it. My students love stories. So perfect fit! Love when this happens. The story is about how zero goes from trying to fit in and then realize how it can be important. This happens by finding the light. Notice how the "o" is different colors. I figured the round object to go with it would be glow sticks.<br />
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To make it more then just a treat, Zero the Hero left notes on everything. The note on the book told why we received this story.<br />
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Here we are with the first present and reading the note. </div>
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Opening the second goodie. </div>
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<br />Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462263404774957943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070037266715957980.post-42590214644752634132014-09-02T19:22:00.001-07:002014-09-02T19:22:26.391-07:00Welcome to My Second Home!!It is time for the big classroom reveal. But we all know it is more than just a classroom.<br />
It is my second home.<br />
It is a safe place for my students and me.<br />
It is where magic happens.<br />
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View from the entrance. All three tables ready with goodies and an activity for tomorrow. Also that's our word garden on the real chalkboard. Forgot to get a close up of it. </div>
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Probably my favorite area of the whole room. Reading nook filled with books pillows but also where calendar and math instruction will be thanks to great finds at Costco and Jo-Anns. </div>
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Two shelves of math manipulatives. Why yes please!</div>
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Another view of our tables and all the word work materials and reading games. </div>
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Art supplies, BRAVO door, and sink area. I really don't know why all lower elementary classrooms don't all come with sinks.</div>
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Four years but I finally have a love seat in my room. Makes my heart happy. </div>
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Oh September, your arrival is so bittersweet. Excited about all the new possibilities you bring but bummed you bring the ending of the summer that never was. </div>
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Listening: Spending my last days of summer at the cabin doing a mix of family time, last minute school prep, reading and playing tourist. It is particularly wavy today.</div>
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Loving: My new school. Classroom pics soon. I can't believe a gem like this school exists or that I am encouraged to be as creative as I can be as a teacher. </div>
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Thinking: My first day is Wednesday and the plans for the first day and week keep changing. So much I want to fit in. </div>
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Wanting & Needing: As a small town let's just say we have been hit hard with bad news this summer. As has my family. I just keep praying that soon it will be good news filling the papers and phones. Praying for a successful camping trip at the end of the month and everyone that should be there will.</div>
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3 Trips: I have wanted to go to Italy forever. I want to do the bourbon trail in Kentucky. I would love to just go exploring in Alaska. Then probably return there because I know there is no way I could fit it all in. </div>
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For the past two summers I spent my summer days donning a tool belt. This summer it even expanded to a pink hard hat. Today was the day I had to put it all on the shelf until next summer. Not gonna lie, I'm <strike>sad</strike> bummed.</div>
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Added more tools to my collection this year. Pry bar does wonders. </div>
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Not gonna lie I love working in construction. LOVE IT! Every day I learned something new became more confident in my abilities, climbed the taller ladders, hauled one more piece of wood on my pile, tried a tricker angle with the nail gun, tried slightly more difficult cuts with the various saws. </div>
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When these thoughts cross my mind, I realize how much it relates to school. For the summer, I get to be the student. Luckily I have a great teacher. Sometimes he let me figure things out myself, other times jump in to help or fix my mistakes. Because of this I know how to:</div>
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pour concrete</div>
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install and place beams</div>
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install beadboard ceiling</div>
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helped design a fireplace</div>
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install stairs</div>
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know construction jargon -legs, beveled, plumb, 45, sheet, stud, plate, rip, header, OSB</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I can only hope that the same is true for my students. That they learn something everyday. That they are excited to come to school. That they feel safe enough to try something new. That they feel supported. That they feel comfortable to share their ideas. That someone takes an interest in them and wants to listen to them and help them. That they are excited about what they have learned and can't wait to show what they know. </span></div>
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Raise your hand if you love a good mail day. </div>
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I'm talking those days where you get real mail that comes in cute or maybe not so cute hand addressed envelope or postcard filled with a thoughtful note and photo. Not those days with ads, bills, and more applications for credit cards than you need.</div>
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Well I am thinking just about most people and that includes students. </div>
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This is where my new packet comes in. It is filled with postcards to send to your students throughout the year for many reasons or a just because reason.</div>
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Last year we had to make a positive contact to students outside of the every day to day contact we had with students and parents. It could be an email, postcard, phone call, or a quick little note. I usually choose postcards.</div>
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Yes it took a ton of time to write 29 postcards each month but I was always amazed at the thank yous I received from students and parents once their mail arrived. I even had one parent say I turned the entire week around for them with my quick little postcard.</div>
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How did I come up with all those ideas to write? </div>
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What I would do was each month I would look for something from each student where they just stood out. Examples for such times:</div>
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<li style="text-align: left;">Taking time to pull me up a chair so I didn't kneel at the guided reading table</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Taking extra time to help a friend</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Finally feeling comfortable to join in our role plays</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Taking the leap to read chapter books and loving it</li>
<li style="text-align: left;">Realizing the floor was a little extra messy and cleaning it up without an instruction</li>
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<li style="text-align: left;">When they brought their folder in every day for a week or two after I hadn't since the folder in months</li>
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In <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Youve-Got-Mail-Student-Postcards-1401155">You've Got Mail</a>, are two postcard designs for each month, two designs for back to school and end of the year, different postcard designs for thank you, Happy Birthday, Congratulations, and Just for Fun!<br />
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I also love learning more about the teachers behind all these amazing blog. So I had to link up with Stephanie for <a href="http://fallingintofirst.blogspot.com/2014/08/meet-teacher-linky.html">Meet the Teacher Linky</a>. </div>
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The great outdoors, a campfire surrounded by my family & friends, pizza, bikes, running, beach days, snow, skiing, racing, nail guns, starry nights, crisp cool mornings, sleeping with a ton of blankets, being greeted by a dog, honesty, the ability to laugh no matter the situation, Target, book stores, northern Michigan, farmers markets, the country life, working with my hands. </div>
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<span data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-reactid=".n.1:3:1:$comment345612555596918_345687722256068:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body"> Barefoot and Fancy Free</span><br /><b><span data-reactid=".n.1:3:1:$comment345612555596918_345687722256068:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"></span></b><br /><b><span data-reactid=".n.1:3:1:$comment345612555596918_345687722256068:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"></span></b><br /><b><span data-reactid=".n.1:3:1:$comment345612555596918_345687722256068:0.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1:$comment-body.0.3.0"></span></b></div>
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The ability to teleport. I would be scared to know how much time I have spent driving these last few years. Plus traffic is crazy here once summer hits. </div>
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My plan was to commit to my shopping cart after work today. My internet had a different plan in mind. Like I am not going to work even after you tried all the normal tricks that get me back working.<div>
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Drive to the next available internet source, double the size of my shopping cart. Now I will spend my night sorting and oogling all the amazing resources I purchased. </div>
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Since my summer job is construction and I have plans for the clip art from <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Scrappy-Construction-Kids-Clipart-for-Teachers-1175921">Graphics from the Pond.</a></div>
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Absolutely love the deal you <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/HUGE-Sellers-Toolkit-Bundle-3-Digital-Papers-Borders-Frames-Accents-936518">Lovin' Lit</a> has with this bundle of frames, buntings and all things cute. </div>
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Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462263404774957943noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070037266715957980.post-81263362377445017822014-08-02T07:35:00.001-07:002014-08-02T07:35:08.735-07:00And BAM It's August...Time for my favorite linky (Thank Farley for hosting!)<br />
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Listening: It is too nice to ever stay inside so I am out at the patio table catching up on blogging, TpTing. I live a mile away from one of the cherry processing plants so huge trucks drive by all day and into the night with tanks of cherries. Definitely a sign of summer in Michigan. </div>
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Loving: Who doesn't love summer? I have been working mine away and still love it. The running is a whole new thing. Started to really get into since July. I can honestly say after a day of work I still look forward to my run. </div>
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Thinking: I would rather be outside so I am <strike>slightly or really</strike> unmotivated to hang out with my computer. So many ideas and packets and not enough cold rainy weather to get it all done. I am not complaining though. </div>
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Needing: I got my classroom yesterday. I have so many ideas that I really need to play around and narrow it all down. Interested in taking a before look at my classroom check it out <a href="http://applesandpapers.blogspot.com/2014/08/sneak-peek-at-my-before-classroom-told.html">here</a>. </div>
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1st Days: I see so many of you getting super prepared for school. It makes me sad that summer is almost over until I learned yesterday I have over a month before school actually starts. I feel like I am the last school in the country to start (which makes me feel very special). Most Michigan schools start the day after Labor Day and we start TWO days after. </div>
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which allows me to get into this building...</div>
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West Grand Traverse Bay is just on the other side of those trees. This fact makes me oh so happy!</div>
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And you might be thinking "Look at all those books, this teacher is on top of it, organized in tubs, and put in the room." First thanks for thinking I put all that time in but no. Nothing you see in the room is mine. It's the school's! Pinch me because seriously I didn't even get a third of that amount of materials from my last school. Heck probably my last two schools didn't provide all of this. </div>
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Even found a file cabinet with activities for author studies. Hello!! That's a great find. Patricia Polacco- one of my favorites has the largest file too. Doesn't take much to make me happy.</div>
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I forgot to mention that my building and most of our campus is on top of a hill. So I will be climbing these stairs at least once a day. However the view is of Lake Michigan (West Grand Traverse Bay to be more specific) and honestly I couldn't feel any luckier to work here. </div>
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Jessicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14462263404774957943noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3070037266715957980.post-74507489963899731892014-07-25T14:59:00.001-07:002014-07-25T14:59:10.248-07:00Five for Friday Hello!! Anyone out there?<br />
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I know I have been more than M.I.A lately, but I can feel the teacher in me become more and more inspired. It took a lot of trampling over last year and my creative juices were squeezed out and evaporated. Not this year!!<br />
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I have resisted school shopping so far but today I went to Michael's and Scento's for $0.40 each. Also I picked up Chalk-a-Doos. Anyone have opinions on those?</div>
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Hello! I couldn't say no and got enough for every student. It is not as many as you think. </div>
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Speaking of my teacher in me being alive and well I started revising some of my packets. AND for those of you who are fans of my YEAH, BUDDY series I am working to complete it. </div>
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I am a working summer teacher. </div>
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I work construction. </div>
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I can now handle table, chop, and hand saw and the scariest of all a Sawzall, but my favorite thing has to be roofing. Thursday was my first day I got to do it. </div>
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Lesson I relearned this week: LAUGHTER is the BEST medicine. It doesn't matter the situation, you should and can find a reason to laugh and be silly. </div>
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Just a thought I was having this week...all my lovely IG teachers I follow I am amazed at how many of you (even those not from Michigan) who have ventured to Traverse City area this summer. There should be a MI Summer Teacher Meet-Up I think. Just a thought.</div>
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My favorite beach at sunset. This was Monday's sunset. </div>
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