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The days before my first day ever teaching, I remember other teachers telling me not to smile till December so that the kids new the drill and that I didn't mean business. I remember them saying that the first day is filled with nothing but drills and procedures because we are training our students. I have a bone to pick with that. We don't train our kids, we teach them and remind them. Far to often I see on Facebook that Sammy's daughter came back home on the color red, on her first day of Kin
I love using class call backs and attention grabbers! These are so fun! My class loves them! This freebie is a classroom staple!
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words and drawings from my set of cards... www.pinwheeldesigns.etsy.com thanks for looking!
This past week we started wrapping up our study on Inventors & Inventions in Science/Social Studies. I guess I underestimated the interest my kids would have in the subject because they were SO into it!! We started by learning about a few very important inventors…Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, and The Wright Brothers. We made …
This is my favorite house plan ever! Scanned from one of my 1st edition architectural books. In the early part of the previous century the white pine council published bi-monthly booklets called The White Pine Series of Architectural Monographs ~ A Bi-Monthly Publication Suggesting the Architectural Uses of White Pine and its Availability Today as a Structural Wood. At the end of the year they were hard bound. I have hard bound firsts of volumes 2, 3, and 4. They must be very rare because I have never been able to locate the first volume. I do have a complete set of the modern reprints but nothing compares to the originals! The house pictured above is one of the winners of a contest called: The Second Annual White Pine Architectural Competition for a House to Cost Twelve Thousand Five Hundred Dollars. It was judged at the Greenbrier in White Sulpher Springs, West Virginia on May 17 & 18, 1917. My guy did not win any of the top prizes (1st ~ 4th) but he is the 5th mention for Design No. 194. I wonder if he became famous in his area? Let me know if you have heard of Benj. Schreyer, New York, N.Y. Don't you wonder if this home was ever built and if it is still standing? There are two enclosed porches on the first floor and two sleeping porches on the second floor. Oh, for a sleeping porch! The plot plan is lovely too. I did not scan the detail sheet showing the fireplace side of the dining room, the front entrance, a couple of cornices, the north and west elevations. and the cross section. Hopefully this design will inspire one of my readers and this home will be built again. UPDATE: I have noticed a lot of interest in this post. I reblogged about this house with full sets of plans HERE.
I mean, seriously, how much smarter can my little Firsties get! Check out these awesome blends they came up with today. I am so proud of them!
I absolutely LOVE creating new posters and charts to help my students learn new skills. My co-workers have asked for several of them over the past year, so I have decided to post them all to share. I have gotten a majority of these ideas from other bloggers and pinners, but have come up with some as I have collaborated with other co-workers in Kentucky. Below are some of my favorite posters :)
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[Completed] One True Love Series #1 Lana is living her life on her own terms, free from an arranged marriage and focusing only on her work. And then her husband Jace walks back into her life--as her boss! As if seeing him at work everyday wasn't bad enough, he also asked her to came back home to him, making her an offer she can't refuse. Published in Print 2014 | Pop Fiction
Hello Everyone! I am so happy to be visiting today from over at Whimsy Workshop Teaching. I teach grade 1 and 2, and today I'm sharing with you some strategies for engaging students in daily work. My regular readers will remember that I had the most challenging class in 20 years last year! Oh my - they were so sweet, but simply had no self-regulation skills whatsoever, and as a result 14 out of 23 were not meeting reading levels. The simply could not focus on a book long enough to learn and implement any strategies. However, out of great challenges (or sheer desperation, depending on how you look at it!) comes new understandings. Last year (along with several different management systems) I found one of the most effective things I could do with daily work was to make everything as hands-on as possible. Not a new idea, I know...but last year almost everything got a make-over! I converted almost all of my seat work into manipulative, tactile, and active projects. Here are a few examples: Literacy Centers: For my tactile learners, I brought the word wall right down to their level so they could touch and hold the words. I covered the words with clear glue to make the letters raised and bumpy; students loved the tactile feeling of running their fingers over the letters as they said the letter sound. Another must: lots of word and sentence building materials. This includes letter and word tiles, word family cards, pull-through word and sentence builders, letter beads...I even wrote words on all of my unifex building cubes so they could make sentences using one cube of each color. I also wrote them on stacking cups so they could build towers with each cup they "read". The beauty of this kind of work is the emphasis on collaboration and discussion in small groups - this made their learning experiential and meaningful as they shared ideas and explored collaboratively. Of course they do have to write and record their sentences afterwards, but it was the hands-on stuff that got them engaged. We gradually increased their written output to several sentences by the end of the year, and they were all reading at grade level by June. One of the most popular games was called "Hop Across The Pond". Students made a path across the room with their sight word cards, and tried to hop on each word as they read it aloud with a partner. If they didn't know the word, they picked it up and continued on. Once they got to the end of the path, they had a handful of words that needed more practice! I've included this idea, along with 24 others, in a freebie to share with you today. I hope you find some ideas to use in your classroom. Math Centers and Activities: Thank goodness for math and how it so naturally lends itself to hands-on activities. The blocks, the dice, the game boards, the counting beans - these were every day materials last year. Lots of dice games (love the dice inside dice for differentiation!) Lots of blocks for building and patterning And when I had to think of something quick, my motto was "Make It Bigger or Cut It Apart". So, our number charts were huge! ...and sometimes they got cut up and put back together again! I'm also sharing a fun math freebie with you today - it's called Build A Monster. Just roll the dice and build a monster with the body part you land on (starting with the head, then eyes, nose, etc). My students play this - and the more challenging version I made with addition - for hours! Great fun to share the monsters with the class afterwards, too. Enjoy! Even our art lessons got our hands involved. Here is the poster we made for color mixing! Thanks for reading, and I hope you've grabbed a few ideas to use next time you have a class full of jumping beans! Thanks to Lauren for the opportunity to guest post today! I'd love for you to visit over at Whimsy Workshop Teaching, Whimsy Workshop Graphics, or say hello on Facebook! Thank you to Whimsy Workshop for sharing such fun and interactive learning ideas! Before I go, make sure you stop by my friend Emily's blog to enter her giveaway to win a $25 TpT gift certificate!! Just click the button below and scroll all the way down the page to enter the Rafflecopter!
