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I really enjoyed teaching about the U.S.S.R. and what it looks like now.<br />
My kids found it really interesting because of the <strike>high school drama</strike> conflict between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. and the Cold War. We really got into a fun discussion that lead them to ask questions that I had no clue what the answers were (the very best kind) and we looked them up together.<br />
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We started off looking at Russia/U.S.S.R.'s timeline<i> (you can see the slideshow on my <a href="https://tackk.com/@DianaTeel" target="_blank">tackk board</a> and all my other lessons are there also by week if you want to check it out!) </i>creating a timeline together as we went. Then we looked at the Soviet Union looked like then and now, labeling a map of what countries use to be apart of the Soviet Union.<br />
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The next day we took a closer look at Russia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine by creating a Fact Book. Students explored and discovered more about these places and were all all about the interesting facts <i>(ie. there are 9 million more women than men in Russia, so if you are looking for a husband don't move there... you will have a lot of competition!)</i></div>
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A conversation I had with one of our academic coaches several weeks ago has really stuck with me. </div>
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I had asked her what some of the best things she has seen in classrooms this year and she told me about an elementary teacher who tiered her desks.<br />
I had read about this idea and seen in on Pinterest so many times, I was excited to hear about a teacher in my district doing it.<br />
This teacher surveyed her students to see how they learn best: on the floor, sitting at a desk, or standing up. She then took that information and altered her desks to meet her kiddos learning style. </div>
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I was beyond impressed with the idea, but had so many uncertainties about how I could make it work in my classroom...</div>
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how would that look for 6th grade? </div>
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I teach 6 classes, I can't please them all... what if one class has 3 students that want to sit on the floor and another has 12 that want to sit on the floor. </div>
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After watching some of my kids in each class choose to work standing up at the back counter while others always move to the floor to sprawl out, I finally decided to take a chance and just ask my 160+ students how they learn best. </div>
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The overwhelming majority said they would rather sit on the floor. </div>
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Amazingly enough, 8-10 kids from each class said they would rather stand up and only 4 or less students from each class said they like sitting at a desk. </div>
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During my conference I dashed home to get my hubby's drill, a few screwdrivers and back to school I came to get to work. I enlisted the help of a couple of men on my campus to help me right away (you could say I am a little bit <strike>crazy</strike> eager) and then finished up the desks after school when I <strike>bossed</strike> asked my hubby to come help. </div>
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What we did was remove the legs off most the desks so it would make the perfect lap desk, while raising the legs of 8 other desks to make it the idea standing height. I left 2 desks and a table normal height so 4 people could sit down. </div>
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I am in LOVE with how it turned out. </div>
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I had some desks already lowered on the ground for our collaboration today and the kids LOVED it. Many of the ones who said they would rather sit or stand changed their minds to sitting on the floor. </div>
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I am very anxious and excited to see how it work tomorrow with my kiddos...<br />
I really think it will be a great success since it is how <b><i>THEY LEARN BEST.</i></b></div>
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I encourage you all to try the same!<br />
Adjusting your classroom to meet your kiddo's learning styles could be as simple as removing some desk legs or raising them up higher.<br />
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As you can see from the pictures, the standing desks are still too low for my big 6th graders, so over Thanksgiving break I added some bed risers that I got from target for only 5 bucks!! They are now the perfect height...</div>
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Everything else we have done this year has been so heavily research, and "self exploring" based, why stop now just because it is the holidays?? </div>
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In this book students will research different ways Thanksgiving is celebrated around the world. </div>
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I created a slide for the kids to help guide them in what they need to research. </div>
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Students will be able to record what they have learned about the celebration in any way they would like!! </div>
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One reason I LOVE my new teaching position as a 6th grade World Cultures teacher is because I get to explore the world with my students. It is naturally engaging and the students and I both really get into it! </div>
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SO, since we are constantly traveling to new locations and studying their culture, I figured I would create several culture interactive notebook templates that could be ready for the students to use to record their research. </div>
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While these activities were designed with my World Cultures class in mind, I got to thinking about how versatile these activities really are! </div>
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When I was teaching 3rd grade ELA, these would of been PERFECT for my higher small groups to use as mini research projects. They could be used for GT/early finishers to work on when they complete their work. You could use one template to direct teach the culture of one region on a continent and allow the students to use a different template to research a different region on that continent. So many reading standards are used during these activities, from researching, reading about it, summarizing information, cause and effect of migration on the culture of a region, comparing and contrasting two regions... the list goes on!!</div>
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<b><i>These activities are truly made for student self discovery. </i></b></div>
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<b><i>Just hand them a template, and let them discover about the world for themselves. </i></b></div>
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The possibilities are endless, just like our student's curiosity about the way people live. </div>
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The first thing I created was a reference sheet for students who are doing a "self discovery" research project. This includes the terms they will be seeing on the different templates along with the definitions, guiding questions and real world examples. </div>
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Next I added a few different types of recording foldables that students can use in their interactive notebooks or on a piece of construction paper and turn it into a mini project! </div>
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I love this learning diamond that folds out to reveal the different cultural traits! Perfect for the kids to illustrate or record their discoveries of the new place they are at.</div>
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I am addicted to creating these little books in my classroom. They are so perfect for what I am teaching, since it is so heavily based on research!! </div>
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A "My Culture Traits" activity for students just learning the culture traits and how they relate to their own life. </div>
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AND one of my top sellers, the Cultural Traits and Terms activities to use to first teach the vocabulary. This set also includes posters! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474973553679070676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5266197863807040176.post-72610227070969313902015-09-27T16:53:00.002-07:002015-09-27T16:53:55.413-07:00I am expected to hang up what?? <div style="text-align: center;">
If your district is like mine, you are probably expected to have certain things displayed in your classroom like your objects, I Can or We will statements, ELPS and a ticket out the door or closing question. </div>
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They aren't too big and are broken up by TEKS Resource 6th Grade Contemporary World Cultures units. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474973553679070676noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5266197863807040176.post-85381186104996457592015-08-30T21:19:00.000-07:002015-08-30T21:20:17.255-07:00LANDFORMS and TYPES OF GOVERNMENT interactive notebook activity<div style="text-align: center;">
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I am just so glad that I made the move over. The older kids seems to be my perfect niche. :) </div>
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I am trying to stay way ahead of the class with creating these interactive activities and this weekend I whipped out TWO more!!</div>
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I am really excited about this one. It takes two pieces of long construction paper and the activity which can be bought in my TpT store <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Landforms-Interactive-Notebook-Sort-AND-Posters-2063039" target="_blank">HERE!</a></div>
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GET THIS <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Limited-and-Unlimited-Types-of-Government-2065010" target="_blank">HERE!</a></div>
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This includes two flipbooks for unlimited and limited types of government for the kids to write the meanings and research examples. </div>
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Get this activity <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-WORLD-and-PARTS-OF-A-MAP-interactive-notebook-activities-2046735" target="_blank">HERE!</a></div>
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This interactive notebook activity gave me some heartache trying to figure out the exact sizes the continents need to be, the best order to glue everything down, what kind of glue to use.... it has been a mess. </div>
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a flip book of definitions the students create to go along with their world inside their interactive notebook. </div>
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I tell them it is creates a "hula skirt".<br />
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They apply glue behind where it says "parts of a map" so that the hula skirt strips can still be lifted up.<br />
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give each student a piece of blue construction paper.<br />
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They should fold this in half, longitude way<br />
(hamburger, not hot dog)<br />
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Then using the scissors they need to round off the corners so that you get this:<br />
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The edges should be nice and rounded.<br />
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Have students fold this back up in half twice.<br />
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When opened it should make a + going longitude and latitude in the middle.<br />
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After teaching to the students what longitude and latitude is, and the main named lines on the globe </div>
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(equator, prime meridian, tropic of Cancer, tropic of Capricorn, Antarctic circle, and Arctic circle)<br />
Students will fill out the definitions of the first 8 flaps in their flap book independently, with partners, or as a whole class.<br />
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You can fill out all the definitions at once, but I am breaking it up with the world map and doing just the first longitude and latitude map lines.<br />
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you will pass out 6 different colors of curling ribbon or yarn.<br />
I will precut mine but the kids can cut them themselves. (I am on a time crunch and every minute is needed!)<br />
The students will glue down the ribbons/yarn to make the longitude and latitude lines they just learned about.<br />
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I did the longitude and latitude lines first since they are dead center. </div>
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Followed by the tropics lines about 3 thumb widths away from the equator line.</div>
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Then lastly the arctic circle lines about 2 thumb widths down from the top and bottom. </div>
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<b>LET DRY.</b><br />
<b>This will end my day one, but if you are self contained or have longer than 45 minutes, you can set this aside and move onto the next part. </b></div>
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<b><i>why am I not starting with the continents first? </i></b></div>
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<i>These longitude and latitude lines create a grid for us to use to guide us where exactly to glue down the continents in the next part. For example, the Tropic of Capricorn cuts Australia in half and the top of Africa is above the Tropic of Cancer. </i></div>
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<i>This is an example of the activity when I put the continents down first, then the longitude and latitude lines. The lines in my activity don't fall where they are suppose to. It is easier and more accurate to do the longitude and latitude lines first. </i></div>
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<b><u><i>DAY/PART TWO:</i></u></b></div>
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<b><u><i>First</i></u></b><br />
After teaching the students about what continents and the oceans are, have them fill out the definitions in their flip book.<br />
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Give each student a copy of the continents and labels page found HERE!<br />
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Have students use the map pencils to color each continent and the label, matching them correctly. </div>
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cut out all the parts. </div>
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Using the longitude and latitude lines we glued down earlier, students will glue the continents down where they are suppose to go. Also glue down the ocean labels. This can be guided or independent. I am going to have my students use an atlas to determine where each continent is suppose to be glued down at. </div>
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LET DRY. </div>
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After it is dry, students fold it in half, and glue the back of one side down into their interactive notebook. </div>
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The key and compass rose is glued down on the other folded side.<br />
**I wait until this part to glue it down and not at the beginning just in case a student makes a mistake and needs to start over they can without tearing the page out**</div>
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<b><u><i>DAY/PART THREE:</i></u></b></div>
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<b><i><u>First</u></i></b><br />
After teaching about what a map key, the world hemispheres and compass rose are, have students fill out the last 3 definitions in their flip book.<br />
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<b><i><u>Then</u></i></b><br />
give students the final page with the hemispheres, map key and compass rose.<br />
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Pass out strips of the color ribbons for them to create their key.<br />
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You have an AMAZING world map along with the definitions of all the map parts!!</div>
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They have been time tested and work. Tickets have mainly been used for behavior management, which is a good way, a way that I use in my own personal classroom. </center>
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Here are my top 7 best ways to use tickets in your classroom of any age or grade!!</center>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03474973553679070676noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5266197863807040176.post-9593784959358136372015-08-14T20:32:00.002-07:002018-02-14T18:05:13.257-08:00Types of Maps Interactive Notebook Activity!!<div style="text-align: center;">
I am on a ROLL getting my interactive notebook foldables and activities ready for this new school year!! My goal is to have the ones I need for the first month or two done and ready before the first day of school in just one week!! </div>
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This foldable is also a pocket one (I promise the next one will be something totally different!) with 6 different types of maps (physical, political, thematic, climate, resource, and topographic). The kids will make the six pockets and glue the correct definitions down next to them. They will then cut out the maps and sort the maps into the pockets. I love how they will always be able to go back and get a refresher on what the different types of maps are and tucked safely inside are examples!! </div>
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I have looked at all the interactive world cultures/geography/social studies interactive notebooks out there for upper age kids. I even bought one the one I thought looked the best. I hate it! It uses the same boring foldables over and over again with NO pictures! I need variety in my life and I know if I got tired of looking at the same thing, the kids will too! </div>
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We will do the pocket kind all together and go over what each theme means, writing the definitions as we go. I will then turn the flip up kind over to them and they will have to find their own examples for each theme working on chromebooks. We willl then share our examples to the rest of the class!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Get your map skills on!!</td></tr>
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I am IN LOVE with this little geography review/practice question sticks activity!!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Geography Task "Sticks" instead of cards! :) </td></tr>
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These question sticks paired with an atlas would work perfectly as a station, center, early finisher, or individual/partner/group activity and they fit PERFECTLY on a fat Popsicle stick.<br />
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I am using it as an early finisher activity that the kids can go grab a few sticks and an atlas, head back to their desks and answer the questions.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I will use a clothes pin to show the kids which activity they can do if they finish early. If the clothes pin is on "Practice Map Skills" they will do this activity! </td></tr>
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1. Print and cut out the question strips. </div>
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2. Laminate for durability </div>
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4. put them in a pail or cup next to your atlases and you have a ready made center/station/early finisher activity! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Students can quickly and easily practice their mapping skills using these questions in a fun way! </td></tr>
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This activity can easily be modified by adding "hints" for each question on the back of the Popsicle sticks!<br />
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Moving to a higher grade makes any teacher reevaluate how she will run her classroom. In elementary using a clip chart is totally normal... but in 6th grade - I don't think so!! </div>
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One thing I am doing differently is my reward system. Since I am teaching 6 classes everyday for only 45 minutes I needed something quick and simple. Something that not everyone is stopping to count up and turn in dojos or bucks for prizes. Something that wouldn't eat up too much time and I could be very flexible with....</div>
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TICKETS. </div>
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-Kid is spotted on task/participating/helping someone/ect...</div>
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-I say loudly "OH WOW! Billy is doing such a great job working on his map skills!"</div>
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-I give Billy a ticket (or 2 if I am feeling generous) </div>
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-Billy writes his name on the back of it and keeps it at his desk.</div>
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-Move on with class, passing out more tickets to other children. </div>
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-At the end of the class, when we line up, Billy will drop his ticket(s) into his class pail. </div>
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...The next day or 2 days or a week later... </div>
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-I decide it is time to draw a ticket (or 2 or 3) out of the pail.</div>
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-I tell the class that I am going to draw some tickets! </div>
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(I envision them just bubbling with excitement!) </div>
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-I draw BILLY's ticket!</div>
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(He is just beside himself with joy) </div>
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-He rushes up to "SCRATCH OFF SURPRISE BOARD" </div>
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-He scratches off a prize and gets it either immediately or the next day </div>
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(depending on when I drew his ticket and what the prize is) </div>
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-He bounces with glee and everyone else can't wait till their ticket gets drawn!!</div>
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I love this idea because I can control when and how many tickets/rewards are given.</div>
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With dojos or bucks I felt obligated to let everyone cash in for a prize at the same time for fairness and it would eat up a lot of time. With this new system I am trying out if I have 10 minutes I can draw several tickets, if we are about to leave I can draw just 1. </div>
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Below are the step by step guide if you are interested in making your OWN scratch off board to use for individual prizes or as whole class prizes: </div>
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1. Gather your supplies. You will need: </div>
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Poster board, glue, scissors, scratch off stickers or scratch off paint.<br />
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<b>to see how to make your own scratch off paint visit my post: </b><a href="http://www.terrificthird.blogspot.com/2013/09/classroom-incentives.html">HERE!</a><br />
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<b>Buy the ones I use from amazon! </b><br />
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For me, spending 7.50 is a fair trade off for what it took me to make my own scratch off paint! :)</div>
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You will also need COUPONS!<br />
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2. Cut out your coupons and glue them down on the board. Don't forget the sign! </div>
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3. Laminate your poster. </div>
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4. Apply the scratch off stickers or the paint. </div>
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5. Display somewhere the kids can see it and be excited about it, but not in a place where they can walk up to it and start scratching all your hard work off!!</div>
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These Gel Pens are the #1 prize (Get Your Gel On) on my scratch off board. The older kids LOVE them!!<br />
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AH! Another school year is among us!! </div>
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I know I was terrible at posting last year, (It has been 6 days shy of a year...) BUT I was juggling a lot!!</div>
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This year I am making a BIG change. After spending 5 years teaching 3rd grade ELA, I am moving across the street to teach 6th grade Social Studies. I am a little nervous about this change since I haven't taught 6th grade kids and I am not really sure what to expect, but I am a lot of excited about this new adventure!! </div>
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I am really focusing on my procedures and expectations so the kids know exactly what to do from the moment they step foot in my room till the moment they leave. I know that routine is important and it doesn't matter if your teaching 8 year olds or 18 year olds, if they know what is expected of them and you as the teacher implement your expectations -- they will thrive. </div>
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WELCOME TO MRS. TEEL'S CLASSROOM!! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My big ole classroom with the smallest desks I have ever seen! Love the U shape for kids, no one will have their back to the promethean board and or their back to me! </td></tr>
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<span style="text-align: center;">The first thing you see walking in is the CHAMPS spot. I am so excited to implement CHAMPS this year, I have not used it in the past but since it is now a requirement in my district I figured I better get to it. ;) </span><br />
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I love how I can flip through them! Since this is something I haven't used before I decided I needed to hang up something that is interactive, that will make me go back there and actually use it.</div>
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I only get 45 minutes with each of my classes (6 classes, who I see everyday) so I needed something quick and easy for behavior management. I love DOJOs and I used them in 3rd grade, but when it came time to turn in the points for prizes it would eat up an hour of our time -- something I can't afford in 6th grade. SO, I decided I would try tickets. I plan on passing them out when the students are working nicely, on task, participating, ect... and they would write their name on the back of them and keep them on their desk until the end of the period. </div>
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On their way out the door they will drop their tickets in their class pail. I will randomly draw for a prize that I have already chosen (coupons for various things, gel pens, treasure box). For example, everyone is working and I will say "I think it is time to draw a name for this gel pen" draw a ticket and give that child their prize. I may draw every other day, once a week or twice in one day! Who knows! I am hoping it will keep them on their toes! Later in the school year I will put the prize choices on a poster board and cover them up with scratch off stickers, and when I draw their name they will be able to go scratch off for their prize!<br />
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Bathroom Visits. That is one procedure I was concerned about, until I found these amazing POTTY PASSES!! Each student will get 1 sheet of 5 potty passes for the entire 9 weeks that they can use during "work time". Any tickets that they have at the end of the 9 weeks will earn a prize! A few of my teammates loved the idea and we are hopefully going to do it team wide. If the students have 1 ticket left over they will be able to buy themselves into a movie during our collaboration time and if they have more tickets leftover they will get to buy snacks to go with their movie. The goal is that this motivates them enough so that they stay in their classrooms unless it is an emergency!!<br />
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If they do use a potty pass, after they turn it in to me they would get their hand sanitizer and but it on their desk. This way I know who is gone and I don't accidentally send a bunch of boys or girls to the restroom to socialize AND they get some hand sanitizer when they return!</div>
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"I am DONE! Now WHAT?" the question that haunts all teachers. I am not foreseeing a lot of this since I only have 45 minutes, but you always have those few kiddos that finish eons ahead of everyone else!! </div>
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"Finish Work" = any unfinished work they have from any class. </div>
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"Silent Read"= I am a reading teacher at heart, so I can't not have this option! Any book from the school library or they can visit my classroom library. </div>
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"Get a Bucket Game"= I have buckets on my back bookcase that will have social studies games in them. </div>
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"Practice Map Skills"= On Popsicle sticks I have written different places for the students to find in an Atlas. </div>
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My back bookcase. The bucket games are kept here along with the tubs for each classes interactive journals. I plan on creating their journal activities as we go which will go up for sale in my TpT store in June 2016. I will also post our activities as we go along here. </div>
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A condensed version of the one I had in my 3rd grade classroom!</div>
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This year I was blessed with a class set of chromebooks and I AM SO EXCITED. I can't wait to get my Google Classroom on and go digital with these techy kids!! These chromebooks and their incredible organization system was donated to me by Brooke Lowery, an INCREDIBLE teacher who has gone onto a bigger and better role in our district. They are in 5 crates that have been separated by a strong foam like board you can get from Hobby Lobby. Using different tapes she taped the computer, the board and the charger (not pictured). The chargers are fed through the holes and are all connected using extension cords that are hid behind the tubs. INGENIOUS!! They are numbered so each kid is getting the same chromebook and can be traced back to them.</div>
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The 5 Chromebook tubs sitting on the back counter, and you can't even see the chargers! </div>
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NO FUSS! NO MESS! I plan on getting a board to go on top of the crates that my sweet hubby will drill holes on both ends so I can lock them up to prevent any sticky fingers from walking away with them. </div>
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Love this shower curtain world map! It is the perfect addition to my classroom since we travel the world learning about all the different places and people! I love that it is educational while still letting in that warm Texas sunlight!</div>
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These pointers I got for a buck in the Target dollar section is perfect for the kiddos and me to point out different places on our giant shower curtain map! </div>
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Underneath my giant back counter are the perfect little spaces for my many crates and tubs. There are also 3 cubbies that are stuffed full with different things that I covered up with fabric. </div>
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Here I have my 6 tubs that will hold their PBL group projects. I did this in 3rd grade with their projects being kept in a team ziploc and it worked out quite well, of course that was with 22 kids and just 2 classes...</div>
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One thing I am VERY excited about is that our curriculum will take us to each continent, exploring the countries, the people, the geography, the culture traits and so much more. I created this "Where in the WORLD are We?" section on one of my dry erase boards to highlight the continent we are in. We begin our world adventure in North America. I already have each continent in a baggie and ready to go when it is their turn to make it to the board! :) </div>
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I am SO excited for this coming up 2014-2015 school year! I got a new classroom (one with a WINDOW and I am SO excited!!) this classroom is smaller than my last one, but it feels more cozy. </div>
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Our theme this year is detective/investigation. The 3rd grade team lucked out and snatched up the adorable pink panther for us. My classroom this year is completely in school theme, I went with bright chevron theme (which you can grab at my TpT store) and with a few pink panthers scattered in there. </div>
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I will write each students name on the Popsicle stick and rotate them through each job on Mondays. The sticks not in the rotation will go in the Job Names pail. </div>
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This bookshelf is to the right of my door once you walk in. It houses dictionaries, textbooks, and the trays (with labels you can get at my TpT store) is for papers from office to pass out, a tray for things to turn into office, a spot for notes from home, and the colored ones are for my 2 classes (one blue, one green) to turn in any signed failing papers. </div>
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"KEEP CALM AND ALWAYS RETURN MY PENCILS"</div>
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The cabinets above my sink. Love that all my storage bins above my cabinets are all labeled and I know exactly what is in each one! </div>
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Here is another view of my room looking at the door and that bookshelf! </div>
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My small group table and my WINDOW!! :) </div>
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Love my bucket seats I created. Bought the tubs from wal-mart, and turned them upside dow, cut out a circle of memory foam and hot glued the fabric down! Easy peasy. </div>
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The shelf behind my small group table.. label CRAZY!! </div>
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My back cabinets. I really wanted a spot for all the major topics we cover in 3rd grade reading, especially the ones that are important to the STAAR test!! </div>
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Here is my bucks system that I will put the student names on and store their behavior bucks they earn. Next to that is "Text Features" bulletin display. Text features is one thing the 3rd graders must know. I will move the pink star to the text feature poster we are studying throughout the year so the kids know which one we are focusing on. :) </div>
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Here is the adorable Figurative Language display and the Grammar display. Again, I will move the pink star to emphasize the skill we are currently focusing on. </div>
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Here is how I keep track of where each student is at during the writing process. </div>
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As you can see, each of my classes (the blue class and the green class) have a numbered clip that they will move up and down the process. </div>
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Here is a peek into one of my cabinets... I clearly went LABEL CRAZY this year!! </div>
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I love this arrangement for my desks. Their supply buckets stay perfectly between the desks (the bungee cords help with that) and the kids are not pushing it to each other desks.<br />
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I am also in love with my library. I bought tubs and labeled/organized my library by genres (labels available on my TpT store also!) I LOVE my crate seats too. Turns my library into a very cozy corner. </div>
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I made these by taking milk crates and covering them with an old green curtain I had, the memory foam, wood and covering the top with fabric. </div>
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The inside of the crates. Perfect for those books that don't exactly fit in with a certain genre or over flow books!<br />
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I found this adorable Book Hospital label on TpT and just fell in love!<br />
Of course I have my EEKK! Framed and ready to go!<br />
Love framing different posters.<br />
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This year I am also going to try my hand at the popular library sticks we have all seen all over pinterest! </div>
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A wide shot looking onto my small group area and library. </div>
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Here are my prefix and suffix boards you can see above the shelving.<br />
These are available at my TpT store at:<br />
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My MEGA desk. I have never had such a large desk area before but so excited that all my wires are hidden and I could decorate the from of my desk with my name!! </div>
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A shot of behind my desk. Covered an ugly board with fabric. It is so bright and cheery!</div>
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Here I will write what we are doing each day in the my reading class! </div>
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Plus the too cute rules I found on TpT! </div>
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My promethean board, floor space and white board. I don't have any student backs to the board, and it is where our lessons take place! </div>
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My Blurt chart. You can read more about this behavior tool I use here:</div>
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This is the side chalkboard directly to the left of my door. Here I have this board broken into 2 parts: Writing and Reading. Each with different important skills we learn throughout the year. The pink star will be pinned to the type of writing we are currently doing. </div>
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Here is the reading side. Again, the pink star will move next the skill we are focusing on that week! </div>
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Next to the chalk board is a bulletin board that I have created into my genre board. I bet you can guess what I will use that pink star for huh?? :) </div>
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I have created a working on words station next to my desk for students to spell out spelling words.<br />
On top of the magnet desk is their turn in bucket.<br />
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On my campus we each get 6 Chromebooks. I am so excited to use this niffy charging station I created!<br />
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Here is that back shelving unit by my library. It holds my stations/buckets for daily five. I am missing my tape recorder for my books on tape!<br />
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Here is my big books station for daily five. It is underneath my big whiteboard by my Promethean board.<br />
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This is also apart of my daily five stations. I use this for creative writing.<br />
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Also on that back shelving is my colorful pens and revising/editing pens for students to use during the writing process.<br />
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I also have their paper stored here...<br />
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and different supplies they need during their time with me!!! <br />
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STAAR is right around the corner and I don't know about you but my kids are in need of a good dose of MOTIVATION with a sprinkle of ENGAGEMENT! Nothing gets my 3rd graders ready and rearing like some good ole competition... enter CANDYLAND GIANT WALL GAME BOARD!! </div>
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Completed Game Board!<br>
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Several weeks ago I stumbled upon task cards on teacherspayteachers.com and have been swept up in them completely. I bought, laminated, cut out, put on rings and ect. over 30 different task cards. They are seriously the best way to review those difficult reading STAAR concepts in small groups and for independent practice without shoving full passages in their sweet little third grade faces. After doing all this work, <strike>and spending an ungodly amount of money</strike> I introduced them to my students and seriously a week later the "newness" was all gone and they were fizzing out quickly -- BUT -- I knew these tasks cards would work for review if the kids would just take them seriously and actually DO them.<br>
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At my school we have been talking a lot about motivation and what we can do to actively engage our students. We talked about what they naturally want to do (games, tv, sports...) and how we can incorporate that into lessons and activities we do that aren't as fun, especially around STAAR time!!<br>
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Keeping this in mind, one day while I was wondering what I could do to make my kids engaged and as excited as I was about these task cards, it came to me to turn my <strike>completely abandoned</strike> word wall into a game board that the kids could roll and move their little game piece each time they completed and passed a set of task cards!! I told my WONDERFUL student teacher this and she, like an angel, took on the project and added her own great ideas and turned my terrible, naked word wall into a work of art!!<br>
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My word wall before the transformation at the beginning of school. (it did have SOME stuff on it...)</div>
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Some of the squares the kids can land on!! </div>
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What the kids do during workshop time (when I am with my small groups and they are working independently on different things) are task cards (along with other daily five things.. see my daily five post). They choose a set of task cards, answer the questions on the recording sheet, turn it in when completed and check off that set by their name.<br>
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Bucket I keep all task cards organized in and the check list for the kids.<br>
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As I grade them the kids get to roll and move their little game piece face and get STAAR beads.<br>
My kids are now super motivated and are getting these task cards done! Some even want to do them during recess!! Ahh, what sweet competition can do... and one outstanding, all-star student teacher can create!!<br>
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Partner teaching is wonderful in many ways- I love only teaching 2 content areas (ELA/Social Studies) but I run into some problems having two classes... especially one in the morning and one in afternoon. My morning class is focused and ready to go, engaged and eager. My afternoon class - after lunch and specials - are sluggish, tired and mentally tapped out (like me)! </div>
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To solve this dilemma my partner teacher and I brainstormed several ways to fight the "afternoon slumps" we were facing. One idea we came up with, tried, and FELL IN LOVE WITH is having all our small group time in the afternoon. This works so beautifully for us because we teach BOTH of our whole classes in the morning - 1 and a half hours each and then go to lunch, specials and come back and do mega small groups. Here is a look at what my schedule looked like before and after we began our mega small groups. </div>
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<b><span style="color: blue;">My Homeroom: BLUE CLASS</span></b> </div>
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<b>7:30-8:00~</b> Blue Class comes in, puts away their backpacks and gathers their materials and goes to math. Green class comes in, eats breakfast, does warm-up, restroom. Announcements.</div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>8:00-9:15~</b> Whole Class teach Green Class. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>9:20-10:20~</b> Small Group time with Green Class. </span></div>
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<b>10:20-10:25~</b> Clean up/Restroom/Switch Classes </div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>10:35-10:55~ </b>RECESS</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>11:05-11:35~</b> LUNCH</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>11:45-12:45~</b> SPECIALS/CONFERENCE</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>12:50-1:55~</b> Whole Class teach Blue Class. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>1:55-2:50~</b> Small Group time with Blue Class.</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>2:55-3:10~</b> Pick Up/Pack Up/Get ready to go home. </span></div>
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<b>7:30-8:00~</b> Blue Class comes in, puts away their backpacks and gathers their materials and goes to math. Green class comes in eats breakfast, does warm-up, restroom. Announcements.<br />
<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>8:00-9:30~</b> Whole Class teach Green Class. </span><br />
9:30-9:35~ Clean Up/Restroom/Switch Classes<br />
<span style="color: blue;"><b>9:30-11:00~</b> Whole Class teach Blue Class. </span><br />
<b>11:05-11:35~</b> LUNCH<br />
<b>11:45-12:45~</b> SPECIALS/CONFERENCE<br />
<span style="color: purple;"><b>12:50-2:30~</b> SMALL GROUP/Workshop time </span><br />
<b>2:30-2:35~ </b>Clean up/Go back to homeroom<br />
<b>2:35-2:50~</b> RECESS<br />
<b>2:55-3:10~</b> Pick Up/Pack Up/Get ready to go home.<br />
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The way we work our small groups is with six 15 minute rotations each day. We had to schedule each student for each rotation, each day something different so they don't get bored (and we won't have to recreate them every other few weeks!) Each child has 3 rotations of math focus activities in the math class class and 3 rotations of reading focus in the reading class. When they are scheduled to meet with us their schedule says "Meet with Mrs. Teel" and that tells them to come to my small group table. We also scheduled in our specialists (math and reading). They meet with them for 30 minutes - so rotations 1 & 2 a students card may say "Meet with Mrs. Castleberry" so that tells them to go to her for those 2 rotations.<br />
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The kids have to be responsible. They HAVE to know where to go and what to do without needing the teachers help. I think is was best that we started this at the end of the 1st 9 weeks. That way we had to first 8 weeks to teach them what are stations are and the expectations while they are there. It helped make the transition into this new routine seamless and relatively painless. The kids knew what to do and when to do it. They knew where to go and how they were expected to behave. The students were already use to do any I/C (incomplete) work before going to their stations, so that worked out easy peasy! :) </div>
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Here is a quick look at the necklace schedules that we created for each student to wear during small group time. We made them necklaces so they can wear them and not lose them!<br />
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I blogged earlier about our first PBL -- "New School Brochure" (which ties our community and mapping lessons together) and thought I would back up and let y'all know what we did to build up to this project. </div>
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COMMUNITY- After spending the first couple weeks talking about what a community is, beginning with our own classroom community! We went over rules and procedures and how they help keep our classroom community a safe place to be. We also discussed how we each bring something special and unique to our community. </div>
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MAPPING- At the same time we were discussing mapping. We read "Me on a Map" and created little flip books of where we are on the map, beginning with our planet and ending with our address. I asked the kids if an alien friend from another planet how would they find you? The students also created detailed maps of their homes. </div>
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COMMUNITY- We then moved on to town communities by reading "Boom Town" (a wonderful story about a family who move for the gold rush to a place with nothing and she begins making and selling pies while convincing others to open up shops like stables, banks, schools, churches....). </div>
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MAPPING- The kids created their own town maps with streets and different businesses, schools, churches, neighborhoods and ect. On the back of their maps they had to say why that place on their map was important to have in a community. </div>
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We learned about compasses. Each student got a compass and we walked around the school finding out which way the nurse's clinic faced, what direction the office was in and ect. The kids LOVED it!!!! They were so transfixed on their compasses and watching them move with each turn that they were seriously running into walls and each other!! They caught on quickly after the experienced the compasses hands-on. </div>
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Ah... our first PBL (project based learning) task. I always have a love/hate relationship with the first project. This is usually the first time they are doing a PBL where they are working in groups and have to rely on each other (a task hard for most adults to do much less 8 year olds...) and they are also use to having examples galore and struggle with the concept "this is YOUR project, if you want to use markers you can! If you want to use tape vs glue you CAN!" oh the freedom... their little brains just can't wrap around it!! BUT-- I do love seeing their smiling faces and sense of accomplishment after the first project. They are always SO SO SO proud of what they have created and I am SO SO SO proud and amazed at what they learned. It is an amazing experience. </div>
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PROBLEM/QUESTION- "We have many new students and families that aren't only new to our school but also new to the community. So the kids don't only know their way around their new school but also know nothing about their new town! How can we effectively let them know about our new school and our community along with a map of our school so they don't feel so nervous?"</div>
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Since this is the first project we guided them to the idea of a brochure or pamphlet with the school map on the inside with some information about our school and community on the outer flaps. </div>
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***(Before they were presented with this problem we had been spending the past few weeks talking about our community and mapping skills.)*** </div>
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FIRST- We went over the rubric and the expectations for their brochures and maps of the school. </div>
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SECOND- I broke them into their groups. They created their contract while discussing how they will resolve problems that arise and how they will treat each other. The group members and I signed their contract. </div>
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THIRD- We toured the school collecting all the information we would need for their maps. Room numbers, teacher names, the hallway numbers, the order of the rooms... ect. (This was very frustrating for the kids and we left a trail of tears down the hallways both mine and the children's...) </div>
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FOURTH- I gave them a full sized poster board, with a blank map of the school already drawn on it. </div>
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This wasn't originally the plan but after we had our Tour of Tears, I desperately needed to modify some -- for my own sanity!! This map they will do together and will act as the "rough draft" for their published maps on the actual brochures. </div>
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FIFTH- the kids created their legend and compass rose. They also numbered the rooms and added the teacher names along with adding parking lots, pick up routes and whatever else they deemed important on their maps. Some added where the fish tank is while others thought the Lost and Found was an important place to know about! :) </div>
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***This is where we are currently at in this process***</div>
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Each group gets 4 of these each time we work on the project. They have to turn in a card each time they ask ANY question, even to go to the restroom. They have to ALL agree to use the card. BEFORE we begin our work that day I answer every single question they have along with going to the restroom together, so they usually don't have to use the cards. This does put a stop to the "Can I use markers? What kind of glue am I suppose to use?" type questions quickly! </div>
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SIXTH- Next week the kids will take their giant posters over to math class where they will add the scale (3 feet = 1 inch) to their maps. Here is where we will also throw a "twist" to the students. They will be presented with a "what if..." What if a legally blind student came and they needs to know the number of steps it took to get from one place to the next. Students will do some math by counting their steps for a bit down a hallway then predicting how many total it will take to get to the end. </div>
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SEVENTH- Back in my classroom they will be researching the community and drafting what information they want to include in their brochures and type it out. </div>
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EIGHTH- They will then each receive a legal sized piece of copy paper with their typed info on the flap and a blank map of the school on the inside. They will then copy what their rough draft map from the poster onto the copy paper map. Each student will receive their own map to publish. </div>
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NINTH- I somehow copy these to create their brochures... I will probably just take their brochures to a place with a color copier and let them create the brochures! </div>
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TENTH- Project OVER! Kids present their brochures to our counselor for our new students and families to enjoy!!! :) </div>
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AN AMAZING SITE with GREAT PBL ideas with complete rubrics that are in a word document so they can be easily modified to fit your kids!!***</div>
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One thing I also do is try to always show the connection between reading and writing to the students so they can see that we are READING a book that someone WROTE. One way I do this is the week we are beginning a new writing piece, we will read a story that is in the same genre and do a story map over that book. Then later that week when we begin our new paper we use the same story map for our pre-writing. This way they see that their writing needs to include all the same parts that the book did -- strong characters, a problem and solution, a clear beginning, middle and end, an exciting plot.<br />
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One of the first papers we did this year was a superhero imaginative story. The kids learned about plot and the parts of the plot mountain. Below you can see the story maps I used. When we used these with books I just deleted the super hero pictures and title so it was just plain and could be used with any story. I teach two different classes -- both on two totally different levels. The first one is the story map I used with my lower class, much simpler. The other one I used with my higher group and has all the correct plot mountain lingo. </div>
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After revising and editing comes PUBLISHING!<br />
The kids love to publish because they get to use colorful pens!!<br />
Check out this post to read more about my colorful pens:<br />
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Oh the STAAR test!!<br>
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If you teach a STAAR or state assessed grade you know how stressful it can be. You don't want to assess them to death but you want to make sure that they are mastering the skills and know their testing strategies -- especially if you teach 3rd grade, which is the first year these babies are taking the State test and are expected to bubble in their own answer key.........<br>
and it takes a LOT of practice to master the difficult skill of bubbling!! :)<br>
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I can't tell you how many times I have done really fun, engaging, hands on activities thinking they have it down!! -- BUT then I assessed them and they bombed it when they had to do it paper/pencil style. </div>
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It is important that the students see it "paper/pencil" style because that is what the STAAR test is... but it is also important to have interactive lessons that the kids can get their hands on and take and do. I am BIG on project based learning and giving them some control over their own learning and how they learn it! </div>
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Over the summer I went to a training where the speaker shared <strike>one good idea</strike> some ideas - an idea that seems like it could really help bridge hands on learning to pencil/paper assessing. </div>
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She said that before you teach a new topic to post a question, the type of question the kids would see on the STAAR test (with the answers covered) and tell them:</div>
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So, I created this Guiding Question poster that I will use to display questions in STAAR format for the kids to ponder during our lesson/activity. As you can see, I am introducing my STAAR strategies through this, which is really just an added bonus!! Afterwards, I put the answer choices up on the Elmo and we discuss what the correct answer is and how we can use what we learned during the lesson to answer the question. </div>
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SO far it has been going really well and it provide my kids with some prior knowledge of the strategies when we did our first practice passage today! </div>
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Two years ago when STAAR was first given, our reading specialist and I sat down, knowing that the STAAR test would be more rigorous, with more inferencing and questions that involve the students needing to "think" instead of just "remembering" we came up with the idea of using COVER UP CARDS! </div>
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I absolutely LOVE them. The kids read the passage and when they get to the questions they use their cover-up cards to cover up the answer choices. This give the students time to really think about the question without being distracted or tempted to just choose an answer without really reading all the choices. I expect my students to write their "mental answer" above the question before they even look at the answer choices. This is useful because there usually are 2 choices that could be the answer or are "tricky ones" and it helps keep them focused on what they originally thought, keeping them from second guessing. </div>
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Here is an example from one of my student's work from today.<br>
You can see they highlighted their key words and did their mental answering! :)<br>
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This year I am trying something different with my incentives and I am really excited about it!<br />
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Using Mel B.'s amazing coupons found <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reward-Coupons-Set-2-65-Coupons-593838" target="_blank">HERE!!</a><br />
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First let me tell you the coupons are AMAZING!! I am using most of them as individual prizes the kids can cash their whammies in for along with the same old trustee prizes I just can't let go of like treasure box, special pencils, and sit where ever you want for a day. I separated the coupons into two tubs because to me some seemed more special than others like the "Get out Jail" one where the kids can take their recess back, so naturally those cost more whammies!!</div>
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The other coupons I couldn't really use individually like extra recess time, while some seemed more appropriate for whole class like dance party and eat outdoors (I just had this visual of just one kid cashing in their dance party coupon and dancing away while the rest of us just keep working... HAHA!) Anyways- the coupons that would work better whole class for me went down on this poster board and in the lamination machine. </div>
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Then came the fun part!! I had told my students during the first week that for their whole class incentive they would earn marbles for compliments they receive in the hallways or when they are all on task. After they get so many marbles (in our case fill the little vase up) they will get to scratch off a square to reveal a certain prize! After the first week one of my classes has already filled half their vase up so I decided I better actually make this poster ASAP instead of just talking about it!! Terrible, I know!! </div>
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So, using a "recipe" I had seen made my own scratch off paint using soap and paint. I carefully painted my squares (I didn't have any painter's tape on hand like her post so wisely recommends...) along with a little spot of yellow off to the side to test it after it dries, plugged in the fan and crossed my fingers it works! </div>
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It did! PERFECTLY!! My kids are going to be SOO excited come tomorrow morning when they see it hanging in it new home all ready to be scratched off!! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Using those Scratch Off stickers works just as well!!!<br />
Read about this incentive <a href="http://terrificthird.blogspot.com/2015/08/behavior-management-reward-system.html" target="_blank">HERE!!</a></td></tr>
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Happy teaching friends!! </div>
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