Ett lagom stort semesterprojekt kan vara att bygga en fantasifull, rolig och mysig koja. En koja är inte bara till för barn. Varför inte skapa en rofylld plats åt dig själv.
This past Wednesday, I shared a wonderful Roll-a-Dice Freebie for writing story starters (Check it the CF2 post here if you missed it!), but there's more where that came from! Check out my blog post from yesterday Roll-a-Dice Literacy Fun which features two new freebies using dice. Additional resources are provided for those interested in incorporating dice games into your classrooms through this post! Visit my blog post or access the freebies directly but clicking the pictures or links below! Roll-an-Emotion Fluency Activity (Google Doc) Here's a great tool for picking reading partners or reading buddies in the classroom! It's "clock partners" with a twist! Roll-a-Reading Partner (TpT) Happy Back-to-School Teaching!
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I received a question about this topic through the anonymous form for Ask Angela Anything, and I thought it was such a common issue that I’d address it in its own post. KM writes: Usually my grade 3 students are very well behaved when I am teaching them, but if they go to specials, they … Continued
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Happy Mother's Day to all you fabulous mothers out there! I wrote this post early and scheduled it to go out today because I'm celebrating with my family today. We're starting with a fabulous brunch (my own family, my sister and her family, and my mom and dad), then all the girls in the family are going to see the Cirque du Soleil, and then I get to return to a fantastic supper cooked by my wonderful husband (and hopefully cleaned up by my girls). Can't think of a better way to spend the day! OK ... on with the post. I only have one math journal entry to share with you today. I had planned to do another one on Friday, but a coworker of mine brought quite a few of my journals with her to our board's "share fair" on Friday. No journals = no journal entry for the day ... that's all right though, it gave us more time to finish up our Mother's Day activity. We're still in our 2D geometry unit - just need to finish up transformational geometry before we move on to fractions. This journal entry was all about symmetry. Symmetry isn't a new concept for my students, but rotational symmetry is new for my grade 5 students. This is the right-side of our journal entry - the one I model (I use my document camera to project it over the smartboard while I work on it) for the students to copy. We started out with our learning goal, then made a T-chart to compare Lines of Symmetry and Rotational Symmetry. We gave a definition for both, the cut out a trapezoid, square, and parallelogram for each side. For the lines of symmetry, we folded the shapes to check for symmetry, then drew the lines on the shape. We glued the shape down so that it could still be folded to check for symmetry (tricky with the square - we could put glue on 1/8 of the shape so that it could still fold). We discussed the "big idea" that regular polygons had the same number of lines of symmetry as sides on the shape. For the rotational symmetry side, we attached the shapes to the page using brass fasteners, and then traced the shape on the page. We could then rotate the shapes to check for rotational symmetry. Students also completed their "left-side thinking" - learning goal in student-friendly terms, what I know, what I learned, proof, and a reflection. They work on this side independently. I really like how this student completed another example of rotational symmetry, using a different shape then we used on the right side. At the beginning of class the next day, one student reviews the lesson by sharing his or her "left-side thinking". They put their journals under the document camera, and talk us through their thinking. Ever since we have started the left-side thinking, at least one of my students asks me if they can be chosen to share the next day ... now that screams success and engagement to me! What more can I ask for??? Well, that's about it ... Happy Sunday, and Happy Mother's Day! Hope all you mommies get lovingly spoiled today! Interactive Math Journal Interactive Math Journal 2 Building Better Math Responses Math Concept Posters InLinkz.com
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Hi friends! Welcome to another Five for Friday where I share 5 things from my week! 1. I Like Myself Writing My teammate shared this activity with me and I knew we had to try it too! My kids loved looking at the mirror and drawing themselves. I set out the book "I Like Myself!" and and the prompt "What do you like about yourself?" to encourage discussion and writing :) I had a lot of questions on Instagram about the faces. My teammate says they are from Scholar's Choice! 2. Measurement Bulletin Board Last week we wrapped up measurement so we finally put up our learning on our outside bulletin board. To show our learning we put out comparing names writing, capacity writing... hot and cold t-charts and heavy and light t-charts. Some of the girls also decided one day to measure the length of the table using unifix cubes so I documented that as well. All of the printables you see on the bulletin board can be found here. 3. Tower Building We learned about 3D figures after measurement. One activity they enjoyed was this tower building activity! Students were encouraged to make a tower and record their tower. I also asked the students to tell me about their tower and documented what their knowledge of 3D figures. I also challenged some of them to find all of the different ways they could build the tower using the figures they were given! If you want to try this activity with your class, you can grab the sign and recording sheet by clicking here or on the image below: 4. Sight Word Play Dough Most of my kiddos this year have learned most of their letters and sounds already but they still love play dough so I wanted to make something a little more challenging than the alphabet play dough mats I had been setting out. So I made these: I like them because the kids who are still working on letters can still practice forming them and identifying them but the kids who are ready can start to practice making sight words! I also added the "read it" section at the bottom. I used pre-primer sight words and a picture cue so that it would be easily decodable by emergent readers. If you would like to grab these mats, you can find them in my TPT store. Click here or on the image below to check them out! 5. Literacy Assessment Binder So many of you have been asking about my literacy assessment binder after I shared my numeracy assessment binder. You can read that post if you are interested here. Truth be told, my literacy assessment binder is nearly not as comprehensive. But I thought I'd still share in case it is helpful to somebody. In my inside pocket I keep my Reading Progress Letters that I send home after I do running records (with the SK's and the JK's who are ready) to help parents understand their child's areas of need and what they can do at home to support them. Our board's expectation is a PM Benchmark level 6 at the end of Kindergarten, so that is stated on the sheet. You can grab the Reading Progress letter for free by clicking here or on the image below: The back of the reading sheet are the reading strategies. Often times I will write a reading strategy to practice on the front and then highlight the strategy on the back. You can find this sheet in my Reading Strategies pack on TPT here. The first thing I have in my binder is this clear binder pouch where I keep the letters/sight words my intervention kids are working on. I put 10 letters or sight words on their ring at a time and they practice them for a week. I check their rings once a week and if they have mastered the letter/word it gets a checkmark and I take it off the ring and replace it with a new word/letter from this pouch. The printables for the letter and sight word rings can be found in the packs below: The tabs I have in my literacy assessment binder are: - Whole Class Data I keep a whole class data sheet of: 1. Letter ID (Uppercase) 2. Letter ID (Lowercase) 3. Letter Sounds 4. Running Records This helps me see general progress and needs of the whole class. - Letter ID I assess all kids on their letter ID at the beginning of the year and reassess as needed throughout the year. I keep track of this using the sheet below (included in the alphabet ring pack above). - Oct - Concepts of Print - Nov - Hearing Sounds in Words - Dec - Word Test - Jan - Writing Vocal The four tests above are all taken from Mary Clay's Observation Survey. We submit this data to our admin each month. I keep the originals in each tab. - RR - Sept - RR - Oct - RR - Nov - RR - Dec - RR - Jan - RR - Feb - RR - Mar - RR - Apr - RR - May - RR - Jun Each month I do running records with the kids who are reading. They go into each tab by month. - Writing - Term 1 - Writing - Term 2 Although I am assessing during guided writing, through inquiry writing etc. I also make sure I pull out my writing rubric and assess at least one piece of writing at the end of term 1 and term 2. I staple the writing to the rubric and keep a copy in my assessment binder. My writing rubric can be found here. - Intervention Planning/Tracking I keep my tracking sheet for my sight words here so I can highlight them as they master the words on their sight word ring. These can be found in my sight word ring resource above. I try to highlight in a different colour each week so that I can see how much progress they are making week to week. I get a lot of questions about the printables I use in my literacy binder. I pulled them from various files originally, but I recently put them all in one place. You can find the bundle by clicking here or on the image below: That's it from me this week! Click on the image below to check out more Five for Friday blog posts! SaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSaveSave SaveSave
