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The first art exchange of 2022 was a resounding success. I've affixed postage on 202 envelopes that go out on Monday. Now I have the pleasure of sharing some of the amazing art that I exchanged. I couldn't take 200 photos of all the submissions unfortunately, but I have about 20 sets to share with

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With the excitement of the Product Shares (please check them out here if you missed them) and my video on Friday (it's here if you missed that one), I forgot about my original plan of dedicating the week after Christmas to Thank You cards. To make up for the two

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I've been thinking about this party since last spring. When my best friend Mac suggested we throw a party together with our other best friend Chelle, I knew this would be the perfect theme. Chelle is a graphic designer (who I'm trying to convince to open an etsy site) and Mac has great taste in decorating and is the most awesome baker ever - as one guest said when "our powers combine parties happen" - ha ha ha. The idea of the party is to bring a book to exchange with someone else. We had the guests fill out this book plate (which we sent with the invite) and place it inside the book that they were giving away. The book table decor. Behind the table are garlands strung with book pages and circles of scrapbook paper. We gave book bags with a book journal and book marks to each guest. We played a little literature quiz that Chelle created, really cute and surprising how much you forget! For the actual book exchange we had each guest write their name on a piece of paper and then everyone drew another person's name to see whose book you would get. We had all the guests wrap their books before coming and so we each took turns unwrapping them and seeing what book we received. That created a lot of conversation and some of the guests left with a list of new books they "needed" to read. Of course no party is complete with out delicious food: I created the food labels from this card catalog generator. We did a soup and grilled cheese sandwich buffet. The grilled cheeses were to die for - parmesan sourdough bread from great harvest yum! We cooked them on the George Foreman grill which made it super quick and easy! Mac made the deserts, pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting - her own recipe! Chocolate cupcakes with gnash centers and cookie dough truffles - heaven. Water bottles wrapped in paper from a book. Great party - thanks ladies! Because we've had a lot of requests Michelle decided to give us a free download of the invite! Just open it in photoshop and add your text! Book Check Out-Template

Aloha Friday!! My favorite day of the week! Thought I would write a quick post and share some fun activities from the week. Our cute Thankful Turkeys bulletin board. The art teacher came in and did a lesson on Gyutaku. It is Japanese fish painting and they literally painted a fish and put their paper on top to print. It was a bit gross for me, along with the smell, but the kids loved it! These are a few of our Turkeys In Disguise that came back. I thought they were all so fun and they were so eager to share and read about their disguises. We have been receiving postcards from classrooms all across the country. So far I think we have 35 postcards. Each time we receive a card I read it and then we color in our map. I have been displaying all the postcards on our window ledges around the room so the kids can read them anytime. It was a gorgeous afternoon and my daughters and I hit the beach. I had planned to surf, but it was a bit too windy and it was pretty flat. My favorite surf spot has been taken over by the Triple Crown of Surfing. The Hawaiian Reef Pro is the first competition and the beach was all set up with tents, bleachers, and the stage for all the happenings. We decided to take advantage and have some fun. It was a perfect way to end the week. Hope you had a great Friday and have an even better weekend!

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Yesterday I had the privilege of hosting a literacy bag exchange. WHAT???? Earlier this spring I held a toddler busy bag exchange for my 2 year old with neighborhood moms and I was blown away with the new activities my little guy got! Then I took my new bag of treasures to school and showed my amazing team. ****Then the literacy bag idea was in full planning mode. WH0: k and 1st grade teachers in our county HOW: We have 6 members on our team but only 4 were returning so the four of us invited 3 people each. Then to get some people that we did not know before the exchange, each of our invited guest was able to invite 1 person as their guest!!! We had the potential of having 24 people participate in the exchange. We had 18 people confirm and committ to making 18 games to share with the group!!!!! I am going to share some the 'are you kidding me?' creative activities that we got at the exchange! I am always impressed with the creative genes that are in teachers and the desire to make learning fun! My game was simple--- or should have been! I bought the cutest alphabet clip art on Etsy and made beginning sound clip match up! To jazz up my game I bought wood clothes pins and dyed them 'sunshine orange'. (messy and I have to say my color choice did not look too different from wood grain in the end) Then I added one letter on each clothes pin! You can grab this printable on my new TPT store for FREE.....Here;) Here is a QUICK over view of a few of the games I got yesterday!!!!!! This is sight word pancake flip!!! I love that she included the spatula too! :) I am a blog stalker and a I am always on the hunt for a new game....BUT I have never seen this one...IF you have please tell me! This is from a new and super creative teacher. You play by driving the skateboard over the words as you read them!!! HOW fun? I know my little ones will love this!?!?! This is an old but a goody!! :) You can sort your letters multiple ways! My sweet little ones love to do this at the beginning of the year. Power Towers are ALLLLLLLL over the web and Pinterest! My friend made this work sheet that goes with 4, 3, 2 and 1 letter words. Then she wrote the letters on the bottom of the cups! I loooove the super cute pink container....(run to the Dollar Tree NOW) Everyone loves Roll and Record games. AND I love things that are color coordinated. (This maybe why Lakeshore is not a place I can visit too often) I love how she matched the BRIGHT colored paper to the cube with sight words! This was a SOUND sort...I like how she put the blends into the same spoon. I feel like I may need to invest some more money into spoons. The game possibilities are endless!!! This game was made by a K teacher at my school and she shares my obsession with vinyl. SHE is super creative and really particular about her activities....(SHE SOUNDS LIKE THE PERFECT TEAMMATE....HUH) I love her amazing sort games. She made several of them ending, middle sounds, vowels and she shared this one yesterday. I love the way the vinyl looks on the tray AND I love how she put a red trim on the sort cards! Mystery words.... I know it will be LOOVED by my sweet little ones. First you take a piece of card stock and write the word with liquid glue. Once it is dry you seal it in the envelope. Then the students use their Mysterious Sight Words book to rub over top the envelope and see what the word is!!!! This is way easier to prepare than painting over white crayons because it reusable! I don't know about you BUT I am impressed! There were some amazing games presented! I am blessed to work in a school district that allows us to work together and learn from each other! I know what you are thinking...this is NOT 18 games...YEP you counted right...I will post about the other games later! :)

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Hi all! I can't believe that it is already OCTOBER. There is so much going on but I'm still loving every second of it. I forgot to post about this previously, but for all the non-ELA related things (including my most recent hall pass invention), you can visit my second blog at MyClassyRoom.wordpress.com I like to try out different formats and settings, so I used to have a blogger "for life", then I created that one on wordpress, and now I'm back on blogger. Besides, there are so many teacher pages on blogger that I wanted to access. Enough rambling. Week 3 centers went the best yet. The frantic business has subsided. Also, they were very "active" centers, which could have gone either way. Then I remember back to my 9th period 7th graders last year who were off-the-wall. If we did a play or a game or something where they moved (even sometimes just taking their notes from standing up around the room), they were 7million times more well behaved. There's got to be some science to that. Anyway, here are the pictures for the board; this week's topic was "Main Idea" Read to Self: Still in the library, logging their minutes in their center folders. Students read their "Book Club" choice book. I used bins from the $1 store and labeled them with index cards. There are 2 more baskets as well, I don't just teach 12 students! There are 5 more in each of the other bins. The stories are all under the Realistic Fiction genre. They had a choice of reading Granny Torelli Makes Soup, Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key, Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 1, Who Ran my Underwear up the Flagpole, School Story, and There's a Boy in the Girl's Bathroom. These books are easier so that they can be worked on independently for all of my students. We will be working more with non-fiction and more challenging texts after our Book Clubs. Read to Someone: Around the classroom, still working with their "Book Club" books. We added "Checking for understanding" with a blue checkmark. Students asked each other the 5W's at the end of each chapter. I cannot wait to show you what I am adding to the "Read to Someone" station in the coming weeks! Listening: Students listened to an audiotape of 3 short Aesop fables. In their center folders they recorded the main idea for each. Teacher/Group: I had to add the "/" in there. I just finished all but one administration of the BRI (Basic Reading Inventory) for my own record keeping. Next week, I need to pull my students for at least 30-40 minutes each day to administer 5 different students benchmarking with F&P. So, while I wanted a strictly "teacher" group, that isn't going to happen. So, therefore, over the next few weeks, I am going to have that bunch of students play a game as reinforcement of what we are learning. This week they used cards with a "secret decoder" that shows the answer to work on Main Idea. They kept a score tally on the whiteboard. Also, which I forgot to photograph, I made "A B and C" answer cards using paint chips from WalMart. The free ones. I wrote a letter on each of the colored sections and students slide a butterfly clip to the answer. Yay! (I was in Troy by my alma matter, Sage, this weekend for "Chowderfest." I had Tom stop the truck so I could go and pick up some of the game sets they have!) Writing: Students finished publishing (final copy, cover page) their Pro/Con of 6th grade essays. Word Work: By far, the biggest hit of the week. I had 3 of my students stay after just to play it again! This week was a review week for spelling. So, I created Spelling BAM! What is that, you ask? Well, I took a container from the iced tea mix I finished up (*goodbye, summer*), and decorated it. I was in a rush, but it looked pretty good. I can always cover it in the future. Next, I filled it with cut up index cards that had all of the spelling words (1 time each), two cards that said "swipe" and two cards that said "BAM!" The final step was to secure the rules on the back with packing tape. Basically, kids sit in a circle and take turns pulling out a card. They give it to someone who reads the word. The first student needs to spell it correctly. They do, they keep the card. They don't, it goes back. A "swipe" card allows students to take a card from another player's pile, if they can spell it correctly. A "Bam!" card means all of that player's cards goes back into the jar. At the end of the centers, the student with the most cards wins! (This could me modified for vocabulary practice too) On to planning Week 4! Have a wonderful weekend!

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Last night I started on this bunch of cards with plans on using up the entire 6 x 6 paper pad. I had made a some cards using some of the papers from the pad before starting on this lot, and it is now officially all gone. I had some small squares/rectangle pieces and they all went in the recycle bin. I am left with 45 cards. I used a BoBunny paper pad, some white card stock, navy card stock, brillant blue card stock, circle punches, scissors, photo corner punch, WeRMemory Keepers sun rays embossing folder, Scor-Pal and Dimensionals. thanks for looking ~ have a great airborne day! God Bless All Our Military.. each and every one of them

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The Picture Exchange Communication System / PECS is an alternative communication system, developed to support autistic children.

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