tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-734209305371887072024-03-12T21:24:24.078-07:00First With Mrs. BAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10599813395243645307noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73420930537188707.post-25196572597572848152016-01-06T11:00:00.000-08:002017-07-15T10:43:25.867-07:00A Peek at Guided Reading & a FREEBIE!!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">So I've realized I'm a super lazy blogger and I feel bad because I put a lot of time into starting a blog and finding someone to make it beautiful. I had goals. Serious goals y'all. You know... "I'm going to blog 3 times a week" goals. Then life happened and life said "Nice try." So.. that's that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, I figured if I had an actual topic to discuss and one that I could plan out a blog post for, then I would be motivated to write more. So here we are! I have decided to give you all a peek into my guided reading block and share one of my weekly outlines for a guided reading group this week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I currently have 25 students in my class and 5 differentiated guided reading groups. These groups range from reading below a level A all the way to a reading level N. I have to meet with these groups every day. However, it is just impossible for me to meet with 5 different groups every single day within 60 minutes, so I meet with my two highest groups every other day on an A-Day, B-Day schedule. When they aren't meeting with me they are completing independent work at their seat. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is how my rotations look throughout the week. I keep labels in a pocket chart in the back of my room for my students to see. You can see a post of how they look in the pocket chart from the beginning of the year (when I had 4 groups) by clicking <a href="http://firstwithmrsb.blogspot.com/2015/09/classroom-tour-long-post.html" target="_blank">here</a>. I keep the B-Day labels behind the A-Day labels for easy switching. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">When I really get into my planning groove, I like to get all fancy with my documents and really plan out my week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just kidding. Not fancy at all. Sometimes I enjoy the simplicity of a sheet of paper and a pen/pencil. </span><span style="font-size: large;">This is weekly outline one of my on-level groups and this week we are reading a biography on Michael Jordan. It's amazing that not one of them knows who Michael Jordan is! This organizer is a <b>freebie</b> in my TPT store and you can find it <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Guided-Reading-Group-Weekly-Outline-1520417" target="_blank">here</a> or clicking on the picture below. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So if your wondering, Monday is crossed out because every other week I have to spend small group time teaching spelling patterns to my differentiated spelling groups. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">These pink storage baskets are how I keep my guided reading books that I am using organized. The construction paper in between the sets of books just lets me know which group the books are intended for. With 5 groups things can get pretty confusing. I'm sure there's a prettier way to house this, but it works for me. Underneath the organized books I keep books I plan to use that I haven't planned out yet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So there is this weeks peek into my guided reading block. I'll be back next week with a peek into a different group and what they are working on. Don't forget to grab your <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Guided-Reading-Group-Weekly-Outline-1520417" target="_blank">FREE</a> organizer for your guided reading block!</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10599813395243645307noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73420930537188707.post-32459484878927611732016-01-05T16:31:00.001-08:002016-01-05T16:31:12.225-08:00January Currently<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">It is officially 2016! Where did the time go? I've linked up with <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Oh Boy 4th Grade</a> for another Currently. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Listening: I started binge watching The Office during winter break. I've seen episodes here and there but I never watched episodes back to back. And it's hilarious :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Loving: I got real lazy with my planner for a while and I just picked it back up. I'm loving my organization again and the fact that I have dinner planned out for the whole week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Wanting: It's been a warm winter so far and it's finally gotten cold so I'm crossing my fingers for a snow day soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Needing: More sleep of course! I need to set a bed time and stick to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">One little word: Exhausted. So. So. Tired. *Yawn*</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10599813395243645307noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73420930537188707.post-7905359228414928432015-12-03T15:47:00.002-08:002015-12-06T19:36:52.638-08:00December Currently<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I've reached that point where I am blogging once a month, which makes me sad :( I had high hopes for October, and November and then it became December </span><b><span style="font-size: large;">so</span></b><span style="font-size: large;"> fast lol. I wanted to recap all the cool things that happened in my classroom during those months, but by the time I get home from work every day I just end up crashing on my couch. So... here I am, linking up with <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Farley for the December Currently</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Watching:</u></b> Don't you just love ABC Family during the holiday seasons? No matter how many times I've seen these Christmas movies I will still tune in. I'm going to be a little disappointed though when ABC Family changes to "Freeform" in January. I get it - all the shows aren't geared towards a family audience, but I'm so used to the name lol. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Loving:</u> Christmas, duh! I love decorating my classroom, and doing Christmas/winter crafts. I haven't had any kids in any of my classes yet who can't celebrate holidays so I consider myself lucky in that area lol. IDK what I would do the whole month of December.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Thinking:</u> Of how much <b>stuff</b> I have to do. Luckily grad school for this semester ends next week so that will be one thing off my plate. But interims are due next week, and I've got to get busy on my SLO, go Christmas shopping, clean/decorate the house, prepare for baby D (because for some reason my mind thinks this baby is coming next month), etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Wanting:</u> Ice cream! I went to the grocery store and bought 3 different types of ice cream, chocolate syrup and whip cream (totally forgot sprinkles and cherries!) but I can't wait to eat it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u style="font-weight: bold;">Needing:</u> Motivation to write my paper, grade papers... just motivation period!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><u>Real or Faux</u>:</b> Fake all the way! We save money and time from having to clean up. Plus I'm sure the dog would destroy it. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10599813395243645307noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73420930537188707.post-67605037922326354762015-11-02T18:38:00.000-08:002015-11-02T18:38:13.385-08:00It's Currently November (Oh my!)<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Where oh where did the time go?? Like seriously, it was just September where I felt I was staying afloat. October kind of went by in a blur and I'm so happy it's over because that means Thanksgiving is right around the corner! (My favorite holiday). </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm linking up with <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2015/11/currently-november-2016.html" target="_blank">Oh Boy 4th Grade</a> for the monthly linky party. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You know how sometimes you have to have background noise so you don't feel alone lol... yeah that background noise happens to be the Simpsons. What is happening?? Lol. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am definitely loving leggings. It's all that fits me right now (In my Regina George voice) lol. They're so comfy, soft, and stretchy so is there any other reason not to love them? </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and this year my house is hosting (pray for me y'all!). My MIL is coming in town from Hawaii and I'm excited about that. Thanksgiving also means a break! We don't have fall break here on the east coast so I am ready!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Someone <b>else</b> to clean my house. Is that too much to ask for? Lol. Idk about you but I am on lazy level 1,000 and I want no part of cleaning. I am proud of myself because I emptied the fridge and cleaned up the dining/living room. #progress #reallife </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyone else swimming in a sea of desperation when it comes to grad school, a full time job, and first trimester (yes, I'm pregnant hence the laziness lol)? Unfortunately grad school has become my last priority as I am getting paid to work, and I am tired all the time. One of these days I will open my school bag and stop goofing off - maybe this weekend lol. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Everyone seems to be all over pumpkin pie, but you don't know love until you have eaten my wife's sweet potato pie. I am patiently waiting for her to say "okay, time to go get the pie crusts and ingredients" but I'm thinking I'll have to wait another week or two. #woeisme </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope to be posting some education related stuff before December so stay tuned! <3 </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hello friends! If you are like me than you had a lot of free time over the summer and you were even able to create some awesome products for your room that you wanted to use. If you're even more like me, then you like to wait until you get it into your classroom to see how it looks before you post it for everyone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well with school shenanigans going on I didn't have </span><b style="font-size: x-large;">any</b><span style="font-size: large;"> time to actually finish my products (title and credit pages) and post them onto my TPT store. But I can finally say that one thing from the summer has made it into my store! WOOHOO!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This poster set includes 8 of the most common parts of speech that are learned in elementary schools. I also added 3 bonus ones. The little monkeys are too stinkin' cute and I just love them :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This product is new to my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Parts-of-Speech-Posters-2122176" target="_blank">TPT</a> store <b>today</b> and you can go snag them <b><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Parts-of-Speech-Posters-2122176" target="_blank">here</a></b>! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Post around your room, place in your writing center, decorate a bulletin board, print 2/4 to a page and place on key rings for student use, or to glue into interactive notebooks, glue onto popsicle sticks and have students hold them up for quick assessments. I'm sure all of your creative minds can think of other ways to use them. If you can think of any other ways feel free to leave a comment so someone else can take your brilliant ideas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hey guys! Idk about you but I am so incredibly tired (like every day!) I just finished up my 4th week of school and it's been a rocky start to the school year: I've got a new curriculum that I am having a difficult time adjusting to, a wide variety of learners and behaviors in my classroom from non-English speaking to a reading level M (F&P), and my grad classes just started! So yeah... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, I wanted to share a bit of what's been going on in my classroom lately through some pictures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My district uses the Lucy Calkins Units of Study, but before we begin writer's workshop with our first graders, my team likes to review sentence structure. We realized that a lot of our students would be able to write these creative stories, but still had difficulty writing a complete sentence with capital letters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We spent about 2 weeks just going over capital letters at the beginning of a sentence, punctuation marks, and writing a "whole idea." Daily I would review the parts of a sentence and give them different writing prompts for their journal. I've seen a lot of improvements so far but we still need continued practice. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I introduced literacy centers around the middle of the second week of school. Here is a picture of my kiddos working on their handwriting. I pulled back small groups to introduce the handwriting booklet they are working on. Now they complete it for morning work unless I have another activity for them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The first unit in my new curriculum is our study on Monarch caterpillars and butterflies. We typically collect caterpillars from our courtyard but because of the construction and rough heat, we didn't have any. Instead, we had to have them shipped to us from the local environmental literacy center. The kids get to observe the caterpillars lifecycle and then release them as butterflies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">At our exploration center there are a group of children observing the caterpillars and completing an activity called "I think, I see, I wonder..." It really gets their brains thinking and I had some great responses. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After a majority of our caterpillars died (oops!) I had to think of ways to keep the kids engaged while still thinking about butterflies. So I gave them the challenge of creating a butterfly with only 3 pipe cleaners and it had to be better than mine. They were SO quiet for this activity and thoroughly engaged - it was awesome. And some of them turned out <b>really</b> good. I wish I would've taken pictures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last little tidbit I've got for you is that my iPads from Donor's Choose arrived!! The iPads don't have access to the internet, which is okay because we have 3 computers in the room that do, but they have tons of educational apps as well as art inspired apps and "fun" apps that teach them how to use technology in a different way. The kids are really enjoying using them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So what's going on in your teaching world? :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hello guys! I'm a little late but I'm linking up with Farley for my first ever </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2015/09/currently-september-2015.html" target="_blank">Currently</a></span><span style="font-size: large;">! I'm excited for September because that means the state fair, the renaissance festival, cooler weather, and better clothes :) My favorite season is fall just because of my wardrobe and the awesome color tones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Listening:</b> My guilty pleasure reality show is Little Women: LA and Terra's Little Family. I don't typically watch reality TV but I'm addicted to these women. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Loving:</b> I am so grateful for this labor day weekend. I went to a musical playing at a local theatre on Friday and hung out at the Annapolis waterfront. Yesterday I went to an awkward high school reunion lol. Not mine so I couldn't just leave when I wanted. Today I'm going to watch some basketball at the neighborhood high school and the state fair this evening and tomorrow a cookout! Talk about a busy weekend!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Thinking: </b>I am two weeks down into the school year and I am sooo tired! I know you all can understand! My classroom is so humid that by the time I get home I can fall asleep on the couch. It doesn't help that the top floor of my house is stuffy and humid as well lol.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Wanting:</b> I <strike>am obsessed with</strike> love FROYO. It's kind of a problem!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Needing:</b> Okay now when I say meal prep I mean, figure out what I'm eating for the week and stop winging it lol. I need to get on my game by first going to the grocery store! Then I can figure out my menu for the week and get crockpot meals ready. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>3 Goals:</b> Next Tuesday is back to school night, and Wednesday starts my first grad class of the semester (3 more classes left!) so my goal is to decrease the stress! I also need to have a set bedtime, that I stick to, during the week so I can get more sleep. I'm sure exercise is one of everyone's goals. I need to get into the gym more! It will definitely give me more energy and make me feel better about myself!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hey everyone! I'm back with </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://imbloghoppin.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Blog Hoppin</a> </span><span style="font-size: large;">to share my classroom this year! I so wanted to join in yesterday's posts but I received a new (non-English speaking) student and between trying to help that cutie out and still in the groove of back to school, I was pooped!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyway, I am so excited to share the massive amount of pictures I have of my classroom. I have a new, large classroom this year an the amount of space excites me every time I walk into it. Disclaimer: I am not a photographer so my pictures may range between dark and light and horrible and great lol. You may also notice that some things are different in one shot than another and that's because some pictures were taken at different parts of the day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I promise to edit this post and include links to where certain products are from, but for now, just pictures and quick descriptions. </span><span style="font-size: large;">So here goes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is the what you see when you first enter my room. I took a picture of my door and my wreath which was Pinterest inspired but can't even find the picture. The schedule cards are in my store and you can find them <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Bright-Polkadot-Schedule-Center-Labels-1927358" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is my birthday board where I put kids pictures up under each month. You can find it <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Board-Bright-Polka-Dots-and-Owls-835157" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Kids can grab activities out of the drawers or take the whole drawer to a desk around the room for their word work center. The labels can be found <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Word-Work-Center-Labels-1459013" target="_blank">here</a>. You can see some teacher resources on the floor for small group. I also lost my y from the glue bottles lol. It fell one day and disappeared. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next to that is my Wonder Wall - during different lessons the kids write down things they wonder, questions they have, or predictions they have made. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A closer look at my rotation chart. My district doesn't do Daily 5 anymore so it took a little while to figure out how I wanted to set up rotations with all the different centers we have now. You can see I forgot to print out a label lol. Had to be a "problem solver" as I tell my kids. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here I put math centers & manipulative. The rolly cart holds games that I will switch out into the tubs. The kids are only allowed to touch the first drawer and the cookie sheets when it is time for place value. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next up is my Book Nook. The top shelf holds read aloud books that I will use for my curriculum and/or when a substitute is in. I got the READ letters from Michaels, painted them pastel colors, then used a stencil with white paint to add some flair. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Next to the Book Nook is the technology center and Literacy bulletin board. I hang anchor charts, posters, and other related materials on this board. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The technology center in my room includes the listening center. You can see that below with my iPads I received from <a href="http://www.donorschoose.org/" target="_blank">Donors Choose</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The rainbow basket is where students turn in classwork. The brown basket holds reading buddies of read aloud or in the Book Nook. I still haven't found a spot I really like for it so it's there for now. You can also see my fan in the background lol. My room is very humid. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here is my teacher desk. Everything is built into the room so there's no removing it for me. My calendar is also behind my desk. I have assigned a student who is in charge of keeping it updated and the whole class does calendar on the smart board. My guided reading books are on top of my desk - I plan to reorganize & move them soon and then put them in my cupboards .. but I'm super lazy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Here are my front boards. Yes, I have to write all of these I can statements lol. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I track the noise level in the classroom with those letters. This board also holds our exploration question for the day - which is pretty much the focus point of all our lessons. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The word wall letters are from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/LARGE-Bright-Owls-Polka-Dot-Word-Wall-Headers-Two-Size-Choices-721050" target="_blank">here</a>. The banner on the wall is from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Editable-Banner-for-Back-to-School-1356405" target="_blank">here</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This counter holds my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/EDITABLE-Brag-Tag-Storage-Labels-1956540" target="_blank">brag tag storage container</a>, tidy tubs, pencils, my buckets that organize the classwork/assignments for the week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And last but not least is my writing center. In the blank spaces I will be posting anchor charts and student work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hey guys! I'm linking up with <a href="http://imbloghoppin.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Blog Hoppin'</a> for day 1 of Teacher Week 2015! Today is 5 facts about me and since I have yet to update my About Me section, now is a good time :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. I have been married to this gem for 2 years now. We have been together for 6 years and got married 8/2/2013. Which is conveniently my younger sister's birthday - but everyone who's been married knows that Friday weddings are cheaper lol.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. I <b><strike>HATE</strike></b> strongly dislike school! Isn't that ironic? Lol. In high school I was kind of a floater - I floated on by through my classes haha. In college I didn't enjoy classes until they were directly related to education and although I like what I'm studying in grad school, I just don't want to be there haha. Luckily I have 3 classes until I graduate and am a certified reading teacher. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. I'm born and raised in Maryland where the seasons are intense and the crabs are delicious! I love Maryland with all of it's annoying weather/humidity. It's such a diverse place and you can drive 30 minutes in any direction and see something new. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Okay, granted it was Fear Factor at Universal Studios, but it was still scary just the same! See I like to try new things so I signed up BUT I definitely did not think I was going to be chosen haha. I was out in the first round because it consisted of hanging 20+ feet in the sky holding on to an angled type pull up bar. You can say your not afraid of heights all you want to, but once you get up there and don't see the ground and your hands start sweating, it's terrifying!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">5. I love all things Harry Potter :) I read the series annually and binge watch the movies. I wanted to go to Universal Studies JUST to visit Harry Potter World. You can see Kreacher up there in the window. If you know what I'm standing in front of then you're awesome!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Okay before I get into my first week, can we all just take a minute to check out my new blog design?! *Moment of silence to look around and click things* It's beautiful and I love it! It's so me: colorful and pretty, yet simple. The wonderful <a href="http://designsbyyukari.blogspot.ca/p/pricing.html" target="_blank">Yukari</a> designed my blog and she was fabulous to work with. Her pricing is amazing and she was even able to start my design a week early. You should definitely check out her <a href="http://designsbyyukari.blogspot.ca/p/pricing.html" target="_blank">blog</a> if your looking for a new design. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now to talk about my first week. I <strike>promise</strike> will try to make this short and sweet! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have 22 little first graders and I completely forgot just how small they would be! Seeing them so tiny and fresh faced brought me back to reality that summer is over lol. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This week we spent a lot of time going over routines and procedures, getting to know each other and trying to introduce the new curriculum (which I will need to dedicate a whole post for). For some reason I like to take most of my pictures during math so you'll see a few pictures of math last week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I introduced a few games the kids will be playing during math centers and during Structure Discourse & Play. They learned to play "Domino Addition War" - you know, I Declare War with addition. As well as the traditional I Declare War. And let me tell you, they <b>love</b> this simple game. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Book Nook was introduced to my class on Wednesday. We have <b>a lot</b> of work ahead of us but I'm confident my littles will get there. I mean, it was only the 1st week of school. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">During social studies we held a lot of discussions on how they have grown and changed since kindergarten. We ended the week talking about classroom/school responsibilities. We came up with this list of things the students are responsible for when they are at school (love that one kid said keep your mouth to yourself!) and everyone signed their name. This is like their "responsibility contract" and they will be held accountable for them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The whole week we reviewed writing complete sentences. Our curriculum wants us to jump straight into Lucy Calkins, BUT let's be real, first graders need a review on sentence structure...and Lucy doesn't really cover that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Other random parts of the week that I didn't get pictures of include teaching my students how to play Jenga & Connect 4 for Structured Discourse & Play, as well as a lot of counting games and read alouds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Okay so maybe this wasn't short and sweet like I said but I appreciate you sticking around to read about my first week. And for that, I am going to provide you with a totally random, unrelated to this post, FREEBIE. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I have black chevron set of storage box labels in my TPT store that you can find <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/BlackChevronSupplyLabels-1364011" target="_blank">here</a>. I wanted to make a polka dot set to match the other decor in my room so I quickly made these one week. You can click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BxqAnbPLcLVDT0hkRC1QSlNjWUU/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a> to grab this freebie. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for stopping by!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10599813395243645307noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-73420930537188707.post-71670203828088422412015-08-24T18:15:00.005-07:002015-08-29T10:38:33.641-07:00My Classroom! (Alright, alright, from last year!) <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hey friends!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So today was my first day of school with students and the official start of my <b>fourth year</b>! I felt wonderful waking up and beginning my day. I didn't have that nervous, worried, anxious, un-prepared feeling like previous years going into the first day (you guys know what I'm talking about!). Instead, I felt confident and excited! :) Idk... maybe it's the realization that after 3 years I must know something about what I'm doing lol. Anyway, it was a great day and I can tell that it's going to be an awesome year!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Now for my classroom:</b> my plan was to take pictures of my classroom right before Meet the Teacher last Thursday - you know... when it's super cute and organized before new students and their siblings come in and <strike>destroy</strike> pick through things. However, a few tables in my classroom were taken out so that Kindergarten could borrow them. See, we got a new addition built on to our school and unfortunately the furniture for that wing hasn't come in yet. So the custodians had to go around collecting tables from all the rooms to furnish the K hallway. Which means, my room is not completely the way I want it and I don't want to take pics yet. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">INSTEAD.. I thought it would be nice to share pictures from my classroom last year (maybe it's not... idk lol). I'm in a new room this year, however, most of the decorations and bulletin boards are the same.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So this was my door back in August last year and my schedule board. The whole school is required to have their schedule displayed on this bulletin board. It's kind of a relief because it's one less bulletin board I have to plan for. My theme last year/this year is owls but I also have a lot of bright colors and polka dot patterns around the room.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In front of that board was my listening center. Originally the table had all of the computers lined up horizontally but that was really difficult to squeeze 3 computers and 3 kids on. So this table was turned and so were the computers and it was very helpful in making sure everyone had their own personal space and wasn't distracted. Here is a view of my classroom library. I spent the summer prior to the start of that school year getting all of my books organized. It was dreadful but definitely worth it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then came my listening center and my sink. As I told you, all the storage in my classroom is built in which I LOVE. I would keep sandwich/gallon bags, clorox/baby wipes, trash bags, hand sanitizer, tissues & arts and crafts supplies in these cabinets. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And here is my bathroom and small group area. My school is lucky enough to have a bathroom in every. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oops! I almost forgot my writing center and word wall. Included is a horrible panoramic shot from my iPhone lol. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alright, enough of me being a Chatty Cathy. I hope to be able to have a post within the next week of my current classroom. Although the AC doesn't really work, it's much bigger and I love it! Time to get ready for the second day of school tomorrow :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I just wanted to introduce myself into the blogging world. My name is Ophelia and I am a first grade teacher in Maryland. I've had this blog for quite some time but I haven't posted anything because... well... I didn't want to put my blog out there and it wasn't "pretty". There are so many awesome teacher blogs that are ridiculously interesting as well as eye-catching, and mine is (currently) just blah lol. And let's be real, we teachers enjoy things even more when they are pretty. The good thing though is that I am on the wait list for a fabulous blog design and it should be done by early September. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am so excited to start this blogging journey and open the door into my classroom and life. Be sure to follow my blog to stay up to date on all the wonderful things going on in my classroom. You can also find me on <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Ophelia-Baker" target="_blank">Teachers Pay Teachers</a>, <a href="https://instagram.com/firstwithmrsb/" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, Periscope: FirstWithMrsB, <a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/people/firstwithmrsb-13808685" target="_blank">Bloglovin</a>, and <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/ogw90/" target="_blank">Pinterest.</a> </span></div>
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