tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53832039205760911852024-02-18T22:29:21.936-06:00Teaching is a Royal AdventureTeaching is a Royal Adventurehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141714046635137481noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383203920576091185.post-52851108804307855662016-06-30T19:06:00.002-05:002016-06-30T19:06:29.337-05:00Please Visit My New SiteTeaching is a Royal Adventure has moved! <a href="http://teachingisaroyaladventure.com/">Click here</a> to see the new and improved site or visit <a href="http://teachingisaroyaladventure.com/">http://teachingisaroyaladventure.com/</a>.Teaching is a Royal Adventurehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141714046635137481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383203920576091185.post-35512218550427933532015-06-09T18:39:00.001-05:002015-06-10T09:32:00.721-05:00Nashville Teacher Bash 2015!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG Next to Me Solid;">Last weekend I was very blessed to meet so many </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: KG Next to Me Solid;">awesome</span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG Next to Me Solid;"> </span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: KG Next to Me Solid;">teacher-bloggers</span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG Next to Me Solid;"> at the Nashville Teacher Bash. We had a great time meeting cyber friends in real life, and also connecting with so many new people. It's amazing how we all <i>love</i> </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: KG Next to Me Solid;">teaching, </span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: KG Next to Me Solid;">blogging</span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG Next to Me Solid;">, and </span><span style="color: #a64d79; font-family: KG Next to Me Solid;">creating</span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG Next to Me Solid;">!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';">We started our weekend Friday night to </span><strike style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';">watch</strike><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';"> the Nashville Sounds </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';">win</span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid'; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';">at their brand new baseball stadium. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';">....</span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';">okay to be honest</span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';"> we were chatting the whole game, and had no idea who won till the next day. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';">Our host </span><a href="http://www.thekindergartensmorgasboard.com/" style="font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';">Greg</a><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';">, </span><a href="http://flyingintofirst.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';">Latoya</a><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';">, </span><a href="http://www.commontothecore.com/" style="font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';">Dana</a><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';">, </span><a href="http://classroomactionwithmsjackson.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';">Alexandria</a><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';">, and </span><a href="http://exploringiselementary.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: 'KG Next to Me Solid';">Cindy</a><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG Next to Me Solid;"> did an incredible job reaching out to companies to sponsor our weekend. They raised $14,000 in prizes and gifts!!!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c;">Hi everyone! I could not be more thrilled to announce that my </span><b><span style="color: #666666;">Fluency and Skill Based Comprehension Notebook:</span><span style="color: #2c2c2c;"> </span><span style="color: #741b47;">BLENDS EDITION</span></b><span style="color: #2c2c2c;"> is now available! This packet took </span><span style="color: #666666;">THREE</span><span style="color: #2c2c2c;"> weeks to finish, so I am excited to finally be able to share these with you. There are </span><span style="color: #660000;"><u>40</u> blend reading passages </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c;">included!!!</span><br />
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I was able to choose one product from her store to print, laminate, and use in my classroom. I was so excited to find her<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Football-ABC-Activities-1408062"> Football ABC Activities</a>, since a student in my SPED class, is working on his ABC's, and he LOVES football. I knew he was going to LOVE learning with this resource. She has so many</div>
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This packet if full of engaging activities, with a football theme! My student matched the picture to the sentence on our pocket chart, and read the poem several times to build fluency. </div>
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There is a printable version available to put in his reading journal. He found and colored the sight words and read the poem. </div>
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We played "Football ABC" where you laminate, and cut out the ABC footballs. All the ABC Football cards went into a bag. He chose a letter, and told me the letter and sound. If he got the letter correct he got to color the football on his recording sheet, and then he received a trophy card for writing the letter. </div>
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He begged me to play again at the end of the game! This resource is such a fun, and engaging way to learn for kids to practice their letter and sounds.</div>
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Heather is so sweet to have this product <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Football-ABC-Activities-1408062">on sale</a> now in her TPT store. Be sure to grab it at a discounted price while you still can!!!</div>
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Teaching is a Royal Adventurehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141714046635137481noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383203920576091185.post-40201756341109836322015-03-28T12:46:00.000-05:002015-05-02T13:41:22.050-05:00Five for Fraturday and $50 TPT Giftcard<div style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Red Hands '; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px; text-align: center;">
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I am a day late, but yesterday officially started our SPRING BREAK so I took the evening off! Did yesterday officially start your Spring Break?<br />
I would love to hear your plans!<br />
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I love this hands on learning interactive sight word emergent reader! </div>
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I could not be more thrilled to announce the launch of my Fluency and Skill Based Comprehension Notebook! Students can now keep the phonics skills they have learned throughout the year in one place to refer to during the year<br />
and review at the end of the school year. We have tested these in our<br />
classroom and my kiddos have really loved reading these stories.<br />
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During Daily 5 my students have always had a fluency passage where they had to find the words and write them down. However, I wanted a passage that would not only cover fluency, but comprehension and vocabulary as well. Thus, I created the Fluency and Skill Based Comprehension Notebook. Now students, each week, will be able to review a Phonics Skill, Comprehension, Fluency, Vocabulary, Writing, and will be able to store it in a composition notebook. Throughout the year they can refer back to their notebook for each phonics skill and at the end of the year they will have a notebook with all the skill based patterns they learned throughout the year. <br />
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Students can highlight the phonics skill words. Then, they answer three comprehension questions and one vocabulary question. To further their comprehension they will draw a picture to illustrate the story. To build fluency each time a student reads the passage they can color a picture clue from the story. Students can cut between the lines to the top of the passage line and paste the writing activity underneath the comprehension questions. <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Short-Vowel-Reading-Passages-Fluency-and-Skill-Based-Comprehension-Notebook-1777987"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTwkNc8S1OujTI2_aqlNTaE1DfUPqtjaUscbz95U9ECfN2ukGwdkuQ3d9I1caMTA3zZdRGdM0j7gr19UOZdexRfPmWbOMWesvA9JvBA-Vma7UYe1RgYOxM0LeMyyjacx8ZYo3N3ydmSid1/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-04-29+at+6.59.54+PM.png" height="494" width="640" /></a><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Short-Vowel-Reading-Passages-Fluency-and-Skill-Based-Comprehension-Notebook-1777987"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXG2oDjNUBclc4sCUgl0MeVXGmTtz5Y-pM_2xZlZctMJX7Kyz0zC60lZmbaldr0vrx4PywMkT12UjA_fW5SBDuoYsH7LDXLP6OOJH9JxhFbfaCzvC54jwvavVax_R5n77347Wsv-XUqj-3/s1600/Screen+Shot+2015-04-29+at+6.59.42+PM.png" height="500" width="640" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG Blank Space Sketch;"><span style="line-height: 23px;"><b><span style="color: #2c2c2c;">Hi y'all! This week we worked on my </span><span style="color: #783f04;">Wild West Unit</span><span style="color: #2c2c2c;">. Every year the SRO officers host a Rodeo event for the special needs students in our county. We had so much fun learning </span></b></span></span><b style="font-family: 'KG Blank Space Sketch'; line-height: 23px;"><span style="color: #2c2c2c;">about all things cowboys and the Rodeo for the past week!</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Blank Space Sketch'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;"><b>We started the week with a text evidence passage on Cowboys.</b></span><br />
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<b style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Blank Space Sketch'; line-height: 23px;">This is the circle map we created while brainstorming and </b></div>
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<b>writing </b><b>adjectives to describe cowboys. </b></div>
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<b>completed a bubble map listing cowboys clothing.</b><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Wild-West-Math-and-Literacy-Unit-1734178"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Z_rqe235hog/VPfDBd60frI/AAAAAAAAC8g/pPDeC9BNnhc/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2015-03-04%2Bat%2B8.28.24%2BPM.png" height="640" width="440" /></a></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG Blank Space Sketch;"><b>In Work on Writing one of the activities this week was to create a </b></span><b><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG Blank Space Sketch;">poem </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Blank Space Sketch';">for a cowboy and cowgirl.</span><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Wild-West-Math-and-Literacy-Unit-1734178"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ru0Kyb9sUr0/VPfDDMrZOXI/AAAAAAAAC8o/chbU1dIc9os/s1600/IMG_3610.JPG" height="300" width="400" /></a></b></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG Blank Space Sketch;"><b>Students unscrambled sight words and dabbed it on their </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Blank Space Sketch';"><b>They worked hard finding the pronoun that takes the place of the noun(s) and writing their own sentence with that pronoun.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Blank Space Sketch';"><b>Every cowboy loves eating beans so I had to bring some out </b></span><br />
<b><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Blank Space Sketch';">for </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Blank Space Sketch';">math stations this week.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG Blank Space Sketch;">Every cowboy and cowgirl needs a pair of boots, so we </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG Blank Space Sketch;">went</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG Blank Space Sketch; font-weight: bold;">Unfortunately, for the Rodeo a winter storm hit our area so we will be out of school tomorrow for our field trip</span><b><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Blank Space Sketch';">. </span></b><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Blank Space Sketch';"> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Janda Closer To Free'; line-height: 23px;">I absolutely LOVE having an Elf on the Shelf in our </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Janda Closer To Free'; line-height: 23px;">classroom! </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Janda Closer To Free'; line-height: 23px;">It's always a </span><br />
<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Janda Closer To Free'; line-height: 23px;">treat seeing the children light up each morning trying to find elf. </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Janda Closer To Free';"><span style="line-height: 23px;">Having a classroom elf is also a great tool for behavior </span></span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Janda Closer To Free;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">management.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Janda Closer To Free;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">The next day the front office called our room to let us know we had a package from Santa Claus. I had put the package in our freezer the night before so when the kids felt the package the next day they could feel how cold it was. I printed out a "Special Delivery" tag found at </span><a href="http://kindercraze.com/2013/12/preparing-for-my-classroom-elf-freebie/" style="line-height: 23px;">Kinder-Craze</a><span style="line-height: 23px;">. The children were excited and couldn't believe they received a package from the North Pole. </span></span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Janda Closer To Free;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">We opened the package and found a letter from Santa Claus. </span></span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Janda Closer To Free'; line-height: 23px;">Our classroom elf was secretly hidden in one of our table caddies until the package was opened. Right away my students voted on the name, Chippy for our classroom elf. Here are a few pictures of Chippy in action.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-family: HelloFirstieBigGulp;">Happy November </span><span style="font-family: HelloFirstieBigGulp;">everyone! Today I'm linking up with <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/">Farley</a> for her monthly link up. Last week was certainly <strike>busy</strike> between Red Ribbon week, the Special Olympics Bowling event, and Halloween festivities. But I am <u>thrilled</u> November is here! The month that reminds us to be thankful. Even though <u>everyday</u> I am thankful for my Savior and everything He has blessed in my life, I especially love being with family, friends, and my students celebrating what all we are thankful for. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: HelloFirstieBigGulp; font-size: large;"><u>Listening</u>: To Hallmark Christmas movie!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: HelloFirstieBigGulp; font-size: large;">Loving: Our Christmas tree in the living room. It's tradition to set up the </span><u style="font-family: HelloFirstieBigGulp; font-size: x-large;">Christmas</u><span style="font-family: HelloFirstieBigGulp; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: HelloFirstieBigGulp; font-size: large;">tree on November 1st. I love celebrating Thanksgiving with Christmas decorations up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: HelloFirstieBigGulp; font-size: large;">Thinking: I'm a proud VOLS fan this week! The boys did good this week and pulled out a win during OT. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: HelloFirstieBigGulp; font-size: large;">Wanting: To visit my sweet buddy Erickson, from the Dominican Republic. I got a sweet card from him two weeks ago that completely melted my heart. I just love this little guy and the La Repressa community! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: HelloFirstieBigGulp; font-size: large;">Needing: Have you heard of the <a href="http://www.reddressboutique.com/">Red Dress Botique</a> from Shark Tank? Honestly ever since the show I can't seem to stop looking at their site. The prices are pretty reasonable & their site offers the entire look, which makes shopping a pretty easy experience online!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: HelloFirstieBigGulp; font-size: large;">Reading: The Best Yes. This book has so much wisdom! This book is really helping me learn how to please others, but making sure I save time for Christ, my family, and me. </span><span style="font-family: HelloFirstieBigGulp; font-size: large;">"It's amazing what God teaches me when I slow down enough to listen."</span><span style="font-family: HelloFirstieBigGulp; font-size: large;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">My kiddos did a candy corn word work activity for their phonics skill a_e. Also, here are a few Halloween decorations for the classroom this year. Love the little ghost I found at a retired teachers yard sale!</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">This month my kiddos have used this packet during Word Work & Work on Writing stations. It's so easy to stock our Writing stations, just Print and Go! You can click the picture to check out this resource.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">I woke up at 5:00 this morning to make mummy dogs for my kiddos! But it was definitely worth getting up early seeing how excited they were when they saw them. I didn't mention they were turkey dogs. ;) </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">Have you Filled a Bucket Today? is a great book to introduce How to be a Bucket Filler? in your classroom. I especially love this book, because it has a </span><span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">positive behavior message that children can see through illustrations how everyone has an invisible bucket that has the potential of being filled, or can be emptied. This is my first year implementing Bucket Fillers in my classroom and it really has helped my students use kind and encouraging words towards each other. They are learning that when you fill someone's bucket your bucket is being filled too. And when we are negative, we are dipping not only their bucket, but also emptying ours. In my classroom I have notes that a student fills out when someone fills their bucket. Then sometime during the day, when I notice one has been turned in, I call the two students and we share the bucket filler. Each student gets to put a pom pom in their bucket to show when you fill someones bucket, your bucket gets filled too!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">At the beginning of the year we learn the difference between tattling and reporting. Now my students tattle to "Tattling Toby" by writing their thoughts on coupons. They place the coupons in the basket and I "read" their coupons after they leave. I have a good laugh most of the time and I don't have to hear any tattles during the day. I was amazed after my first year trying "Tattling Toby." Honestly I hardly hear any Tattles anymore. You can check out this FREEBIE in my TPT store by clicking the picture or <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Tattling-Toby-poster-Editable-and-coupons-719716">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">Positive</span></span><span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"> talk!!!! I have a mirror in my classroom for my students to say something positive about themselves when they come into class. Then, throughout the day if a student starts to say anything negative about themselves they go to the positive mirror where they speak positive words while looking in the mirror. It's really encouraged my students to start thinking and saying positive words about themselves. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">Have you tried Social Stories in your classroom? I absolutely LOVE Sasha's social stories, because they are short and to the point. They have helped so many of my students with behaviors, communication, personal space, emergency, etc. She has so many themes to choose from. You can check out her social stories by clicking the picture or <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Sasha-Hallagan/Search:social%20stories">here.</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">Having a Cool Down Spot somewhere in your classroom where your students can take a break when needed. I have a tent that serves as the cool down spot and read with a buddy during our Daily 5 time. Another alternative for a cool down spot would be a your work on writing area if a student likes to draw/color when needing to take a break.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">Having individual visuals to help students that struggle learning the routine at the beginning of the year. Here is an example of a visual morning routine that I made for a coworker that is placed on one of her students' desk. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">Organization has to be one of my most favorite things! I am constantly looking on Pinterest for more organizational tips. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">Here are a few of my favorite for an organized classroom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">Writing station: I love the display </span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Ultimate-Writing-Station-1136324" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">Mel-D-Seusstastic</a><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;"> has for the different writing activities for Work on Writing. I organized the different actives in a mailbox I found at a retired teachers yard sale. I painted it blue to match my classroom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">Thirty one bag: This utility tote holds everything! I love having everything in one place. I purchased a <a href="http://www.containerstore.com/shop?productId=10029415&N=&Ns=p_price_sort%7C0&Ntt=file">medium size open-Top File Box</a> at the container store to store my files. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">Drawer Labels: These have made my life so much easier! I store the following weeks </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">activities in the Morning Work, CC HW, Fluency bins.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">Math Bin Labels. I found these when I first started teaching. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">These bins are perfect for storing math and literacy stations. As a special education teacher I have two groups, on different grade levels for stations. In math writing each bin has a math prompt and activity for when they finish the prompt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">I really love this </span></span><a href="http://www.reallygoodstuff.com/five-up-organizer/p/157746/" style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">Five-Up Organizer</a><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;"> found at Really Good Stuff. It's a great visual for when my students return papers and materials by subject area. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">Have to LOVE these clear bins. I bought most of these </span><a href="http://www.reallygoodstuff.com/snap-tight-clear-activity-storage-boxes-small/p/159377/" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">Storage Bins at Really Good Stuff </a><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">, but later found some at the Dollar Tree. I was so was excited I grabbed them all! I store all my math and literacy activities that I have bought on TPT and created. Some bins have different colored stickers. Since I teach SPED and have different grade levels those bins have a full bin of one grade level. Each envelope has a sticker to help differentiate the grade level for each math and literacy activity inside the bin.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">By my small group area I keep leveled assessments, fluency, and sight word lists/activities in <a href="http://www.containerstore.com/shop?productId=10029415&N=&Ns=p_price_sort%7C0&Ntt=file">Open-Tile File Boxes at the Container Store</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">For the table bins I made a picture so students know what supply goes in each section. After the first week of school I added numbers, because at the end of the day there wouldn't be any pencils, etc. So far this system has worked well in class.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">My read aloud books are stored in my storage room. I labeled these boxes the labels from my book bin and basket labels. You can check out classroom book basket and bin labels by clicking <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Lawren-Christianson-3716/Category/Classroom-Library-Labels">here</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">I just love our classroom library. My students just gravitate to this area in our classroom. I created labels to go on book bins and baskets and stickers that goes on each book to match the basket label. </span></span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">I organized my classroom library to match our school library by putting the color sticker to correspond with the books reading level. </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">My students have kept our classroom library so neat this school year! </span></span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">They know exactly where the book goes when switching out. By</span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;"> corresponding the stickers to the library it has really helped my students choose the right book for them not only in class, but also when checking out books in our school library. </span></span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">Editable Teacher Planner: All my important papers are now easily stored in my teacher planner. (This year I'm using the Chalkboard planner, you can check out the spine label in the picture above for the thirty-one bag) My life has been made so much easier having everything in one place. You can check out my Teacher Planners that are editable to meet your classroom needs by clicking <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Lawren-Christianson-3716/Category/Editable-Teacher-Binders">here</a>. </span></span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">Daily 5 Folders: For Daily 5 I have my students store all Word Work activities in the front and Work on Writing activities in the back. <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Lawren-Christianson-3716/Category/Work-on-Writing">Click here</a> to check out the monthly Work on Writing activities I use in my classroom. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">Homework: Honestly preparing homework for Special Education has to be one of the most challenging task just because it's preparing homework that meets each kids individual needs on different grade levels. But I created a system that has made preparing homework a breeze! In each binder holds <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Common-Core-And-So-Much-More/Category/Reading-Fluency">fluency passages</a> for each grade level and <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/2nd-Grade-Common-Core-Homework-263873">weekly grade level work</a>. </span></span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">Students also get a weekly Language skill and Math skill worksheet. I do homework packets so everything is due on Friday.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">As a special education teacher I searched for a visual system for my students to put their work where it can be easily stored at their fingertips. Then I found these Store More <a href="http://www.reallygoodstuff.com/store-more-folder-organizing-chair-pocket/p/161469/">Organizing Chair Pockets last summer on Really Good Stuff</a> this past summer and had to try them out. So far they seem to be pretty sturdy and I'm really happy with these chair pockets.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">The toolkit and drawer labels are not only adorable, but keeps everything in one place without taking up a lot of room. In the cabinet closest to my desk is considered the teacher's cabinet. These fit perfectly in the shelf! I found these bright and colorful labels at <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Lets-Get-Organized-Melonheadz-Kids-Edition-Teacher-Toolbox-and-More-1270171">Toolbox at Learning in Wonderland.</a> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;">So here are a few of my favorite organizational tips. Would love to hear your tips!</span></span></div>
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Teaching is a Royal Adventurehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141714046635137481noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383203920576091185.post-17975070454157701042014-10-13T00:28:00.001-05:002015-04-02T22:10:30.214-05:00Welcome to the Jungle: Before & After<!--StartFragment-->
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I am so excited about this post! I have been meaning to find the time to share my classroom before & after pictures. Before I was hired, my classroom was considered the Occupational Therapy room in our school. The first thing I remember noticing when I saw my classroom were the blank white walls. My mind was going in a million directions wanting to create a room that was inviting, bright & colorful.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Our classroom Palm Tree. I just love when it's decorated during Christmas (picture was taken last year). This is the center of our classroom. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I found the tutorial how to make a palm tree on </span><a href="http://mrsjumpsclass.blogspot.com/search?q=palm+tree" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #042eee; letter-spacing: 0px;">Deanna Jump's blog</span></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"> and had to make one! Not only is it adorable, it's used as a divider that helps keep my students focused in our tiny classroom. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This is our Writing Wall. I was obsessed when I saw this on Melissa's, from Seustastic, blog. You can check it out by clicking <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Ultimate-Writing-Station-1136324"><span style="color: #042eee; letter-spacing: 0px;">here</span></a>. Before posting the anchor charts I had a mini lesson. Under the display is where all Writing and Handwriting activities are stored. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">This is our Work on Writing desk. The desk was found at a yard sale. </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">I adore the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Desire-to-Inspire-Subway-Art-Chalkboard-Brights-and-Pastels-738363">Subway Art posters</a> by Hope King</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">! </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A Year of Many First, <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Writers-Workshop-260218">Writer's Workshop anchor charts</a>,</span><span style="color: #042eee; letter-spacing: 0px;"> </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">are great visuals and reminders of what was covered at the beginning of Writer's Workshop.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Laurie, from </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Laurie-Cole-Designs/274703157041?ref=ts&fref=ts" style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span style="color: #042eee; letter-spacing: 0px;">Laure Cole designs</span></a><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">, painted this teacher stool for me. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">She is amazingly talented!!! I just LOVE it!</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">The teacher desk that was originally in my classroom took up way too much room. I found this little desk at a yard sale. It holds all I need and doesn't take up a lot of room. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Our Adventure in Reading classroom library. My students just LOVE this cozy area in our classroom. I display our CAFE strategies here. On top are the student's book bins that also hold their Daily 5 folders. We don't have a window, so I created a felt board window for our classroom. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'KG Red Hands '; font-size: 16px; letter-spacing: 0px;">These bins are perfect for storing Math and Literacy stations. </span><br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Goodbye desk! I am so thankful SPED donated our classroom another kidney table at the end of my first year teaching. Now our classroom has two kidney tables which gives us a lot more room. This area is used for guided reading. </span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">A new station I'm trying this year is the I'm Done! Now What! station. So far I am absolutely loving it. Now when my kiddos finish early they can make a choice. <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Early-Finisher-Board-The-Complete-40-Weeks-252376"><span style="color: #042eee; letter-spacing: 0px;">Shelley Gray</span></a> has created activities that are not only fun, they are meaningful! My students are loving it so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">Today I am linking up with the lovely </span><span style="font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">Kacey</span><span style="font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';"> at Doodle Bugs Teaching for her<a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/frame?post=3518967057&group=0&frame_type=a&blog=2714679&frame=1&click=0&user=0"> </a></span><span style="font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';"><a href="http://www.bloglovin.com/frame?post=3518967057&group=0&frame_type=a&blog=2714679&frame=1&click=0&user=0">Five For Friday weekly linky party. </a>This week felt like it flew by! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; font-size: large;">Lights, Camera, ACTION! Our class rolled out the red carpet this week with Lyndsey's, from A Year of Many Firsts, Hollywood themed Verb Unit. At the beginning of the week, we met two celebrities, Vicky Verb and Vince Verb. In stations this week they had auditions, where they acted out the verb on the camera. They got to read scripts & act them out, toured the Walk of Fame, where they found the verb in a sentence on each star around the classroom, and did a Verb snapshots, where they went around the classroom to find verbs. Yesterday they wrote their own movie! Thanks Lyndsey for a jam packed unit on verbs! You can check this packet out by clicking </span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Lights-Camera-ACTION-Verb-Activity-Packet-605376" style="font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; font-size: x-large;">here.</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; font-size: large;">October is here so I was excited to bring out the new QR Codes for our listening station this week. My kiddos just love this station and it truly has made the Daily 5 rotations run so much smoother. My students just choose a story, scan the QR code, and press play. You can check these out by clicking </span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/QR-CODES-for-24-Stories-in-your-Listening-Stations-OCTOBER-1140378" style="font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; font-size: x-large;">here</a><span style="font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; font-size: large;">.</span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/QR-CODES-for-24-Stories-in-your-Listening-Stations-OCTOBER-1140378" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CaNZN6Iu3Ek/VC8_EcFz3cI/AAAAAAAACYs/78RDWisKXHs/s1600/Slide2.jpg" height="400" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten; font-size: large;">Words cannot describe how much I love this Intervention Binder. I started it this week and it has simplified my life so much and I know that it will help my students that struggle to read! This will also be a great way to track my kiddos progress this year. Thank you Mrs. Decarbo for this amazing resource!</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; font-size: large;">I</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; font-size: large;">t was picture day this week! The kiddos were super excited.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'KG Blank Space Sketch'; font-size: x-small; line-height: 23px;">Clip art: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Krista-Wallden">Creative Clips</a> Font: </span><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Kimberly-Geswein-Fonts" style="background-color: white; font-family: 'KG Blank Space Sketch'; font-size: small; line-height: 23px;">Kimberly Geswein</a> </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">I'm linking up with the lovely <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2014/10/october-currently.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+blogspot%2Fjtmhg+%28Oh%27+Boy+4th+Grade%29">Farley</a> for Currently.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">Listening: </span><span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">To <a href="https://www.facebook.com/inspirationforentrepreneurspodcast">Kimberly Geswein's Inspiration for Entrepreneurs Podcast. </a> I loved listening to Deanna Jump's story. Four years ago I was in my Student Teaching when I found Deanna's blog. She is such an inspiration! As a teacher and entrepreneur. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">Loving: </span><span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">The crisp air so I can wear dresses with leggings, sweaters, and boots! Pumpkins, Hayrides, Bonfires, S'mores, goodness gracious I just love this time of year!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">Thinking: </span><span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">Tomorrow is our last day before Fall Break! I will miss my sweet kiddos, but looking forward to a couple things I have planned for next week.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">Wanting: </span><span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">For it to be Saturday so I can watch some college football! Go Vols!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e69138; font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">Needing: </span><span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">To finished my October Word Work and Work on Writing packet! Almost finished, will be up this weekend. </span></div>
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for the </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">Liebster</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';"> Blog Award! The </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">Liebster</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';"> Award is where Bloggers nominate
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">-Our classroom really has everything we need! So thankful for the great technology and programs that have been given to our classroom. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 26px;">If I had to say one item it would be a Smartboard. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">- In Kindergarten I was a peer buddy with a friend that had Down Syndrome. We were friends all though elementary school. Since I was little I have always wanted to be a teacher to help children. My Senior Year in high school was when God placed the opportunity for me to work in the Special Education classroom. That year will always be dear to my heart, because that is when God let me know the type of teacher I'd </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">always </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 26px;">had the passion to be. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 26px;">-Each grade level does team planning at our school. Once a week the grade meets to go over lessons. Each teacher plans for one subject and then once a week we go over plans. Since I teach Special Education I have several grade levels where my students are developmentally. I love planning with Second Grade on Thursdays after school and then I finish my plans on Fridays </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 26px;">during my planning time or after school.</span></div>
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1. <span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">I am 6 feet tall.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: +mj-lt; mso-special-format: "numbullet3\,1";">2. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">I was part of a group of four peer tutors that started a Special Education prom for our
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<span style="font-family: +mj-lt; mso-special-format: "numbullet3\,1";">3. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">Christmas movies are my favorite! I watch them year round.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: +mj-lt; mso-special-format: "numbullet3\,1";">4. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">My first time on a plane was to Hawaii, at 16, for a school trip with our Theatre department in HS.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">5. My mom is my best friend. She is the most amazing woman I have ever known!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: +mj-lt; mso-special-format: "numbullet3\,1";">6. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">I love my </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">malitipoo</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">, Luke.</span></div>
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7. <span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">I love taking photos and creating scrapbooks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">8. I love watching football! Any game!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">9. I am an only child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">10. I love working out, constantly keeping wholeness the main focus keeping spiritual and emotional health and connecting it to my physical health.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">11. I love creating products for teachers on TPT and blogging.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten'; text-align: left; text-indent: -0.38in;">Alex at The Kindergarten Connection has a variety of post to inspire Kindergarten teachers. Her classroom looks like a lot of fun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"> Tara at Learning to Speak Autism's blog is exquisite! Tara's posts just melts my heart. I have really enjoyed reading her posts about her precious family and now her newest follower!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"> Jen's Blog at 2nd Grade Snickerdoodles is packed with lessons that are fun and engaging! I have really enjoyed reading her latest post on her Owls unit. I think the photos and videos are very effective in this blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">For His Glory Teaching is Founded be Ashley & Amanda who provide a biweekly Scripture linky party on Sundays. I just adore these girls & just have an immediate connection with them. I love the pictures of their classroom & know any boy or girl would be very fortunate to have Ashley & Amanda teaching them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"> I just adore my sweet friend Cara's at Creative Playground blog where she can display here beautiful clipart. We connected when I found here clipart on TPT and she reached out about her precious little boy. I love knowing when she has new clipart sets available on TPT through her blog posts. I especially love her new Native American Thanksgiving set.</span></div>
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How long have you been teaching? What grade is your favorite?</span></div>
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How do you unwind after a long teaching day?</span></div>
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List 5 words to describe yourself.</span></div>
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What are your top 3 items on your bucket list?</span></div>
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If you weren't a teacher, what other career would you have?</span></div>
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Who is someone you'd love to meet?</span></div>
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What is your favorite movie? </span></div>
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Are you a morning or night person?</span></div>
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Where is the best place you've ever traveled?</span></div>
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What is your favorite season?</span></div>
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What is your favorite quote or motto?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;"><b>I can't wait to read all of your answers!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">Hey </span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">yall</span><span style="color: black; font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">!
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<span style="font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">I am so thankful that God gave me the passion to work with children at a very early age and that I'm able to do what I love to do everyday. Christ unconditional love keeps me motivated in everything I do. I'm so excited to announce linking up with Ashley and Amanda at </span><a href="http://forhisgloryteaching.blogspot.com/" style="font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">For His Glory</a><span style="font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">. Bi weekly we will be posting a verse for you to use scripture to give you, a friend, or coworker strength for the week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">Here is my little man, Luke, who I love dearly. Nothing like coming home and relaxing with him when I get home</span><span style="font-family: 'KG miss kindergarten';">.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">Last year God put it on my heart to start creating products to help other teachers. Since then He laid it on my heart to start blogging. I am so thankful and blessed to of met so many amazing teachers and new friends. This past summer I took on the Beachbody challenge with PiYo. Since school has started, after working all day sometimes it's really hard to go home and workout, but Beachbody allows you to find your soul workout and T25 only takes 25 minutes a day to stay healthy during the school year! Lastly, I love reading! Here was my reading list for the summer.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">Being Organized!!! Here is a picture of my Math and Literacy Stations I have bought and made on TPT. I teach Special Education so I color code the grade levels for the bins that I have a whole bin of stations for one grade level. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">I LOVE THE FALL!!!! It's honestly the BEST time of year to be a teacher! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">A few more things would be Photography. Shakeology. Working Out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: KG miss kindergarten;">Traveling. Target. Flair Pens. </span></div>
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<b>IF YOU WEREN'T A TEACHER, WHAT WOULD YOU WANT TO BE?</b></div>
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I would love to open an Autism Horse Therapy Camp. </div>
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<b>THREE LITTLE WORDS THAT DESCRIBE YOU.</b></div>
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Faithful, Passionate, Kind<b></b></div>
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<b>FINISH THE SENTENCE, "________, SAID NO TEACHER EVER!!"</b></div>
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"I'd really love to fill out more paperwork, Said No Teacher ever!"</div>
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Snap and Complete: I would love to be to snap my fingers and whatever it is that needs to be done is completed to perfection! </div>
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“But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well." -Matthew 6:33</div>
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Our dreams are often found when we are not pursuing them, but pursing HIM.</div>
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Growing up I was always a morning person, but now I get so much more done at night.</div>
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I really love any of my QR Codes. They have made our listening station run so much smoother during our Daily 5 rotations. I also love my Teacher Binders. They are completely editable where you can customize to meet your own needs.</div>
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My hair is a hot mess in the mornings so I have to straighten it (even though it's naturally straight) its super thick so straightening helps reduce the thickness.</div>
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Teaching is a Royal Adventurehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141714046635137481noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383203920576091185.post-32161326619888262902014-07-25T21:55:00.003-05:002014-07-25T22:08:37.130-05:00Classroom Decor<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'KG Corner of the Sky';">After numerous request, I've created a Bright Chevron and Owls Classroom Decor pack to match my Ultimate Bright Chevron and Owls Teacher Planner. This sophisticated classroom decor set has everything you need to set up your classroom</span><br />
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<br />Teaching is a Royal Adventurehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00141714046635137481noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5383203920576091185.post-34941052280863069872014-04-12T13:26:00.002-05:002014-04-12T13:28:22.777-05:00Going to the Zoo!<div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; font-family: Amaranth; font-size: 17px; line-height: 23px; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #6b5f57; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">I just adore this time of year! My favorite unit to teach is in the Spring, which is Zoo animals, so I can not wait to begin this unit in a couple weeks. We will be spending two weeks on this unit. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #6b5f57; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">We will be reading nonfiction text on Zoo animals. The students will find each animals diet, habitat, babies, and interesting facts in the text and record their answers. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Century Gothic, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">We discussed events that happened in the a.m. and p.m.. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px;">After the students did their sort they completed a cut and paste venn diagram. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Century Gothic, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">Once my students complete their math stations they grab a math game to play until math rotation ends. Here is one of the board games in the Telling Time Unit. My students LOVED it. They go around the game board until all the clocks are covered by a soccer ball. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Century Gothic, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">On Friday we made glyphs. </span></span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px;">We labeled the soccer clock to the the hour and minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Century Gothic, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 23px;">On Thursday, we did the glyph part and recorded our answers. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px;">I gave them their bag with the pieces they needed. Here is </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px;">a </span><span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: medium; line-height: 23px;">picture of what I gave each student.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: medium;">After the clock was made we glued it onto our soccer kids.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; line-height: 23px; text-align: left;">Today, we started our Winter Olympics Unit! The Winter Olympics only comes every 4 years so my students are so excited </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; line-height: 23px; text-align: left;">to learn about each of the winter </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 23px; text-align: left;">sports in the Olympics. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 23px; text-align: left;">First, I showed them a powerpoint that introduced each of the games. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 23px; text-align: left;">Then we watched </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #2c2c2c; font-family: 'Century Gothic', sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 23px; text-align: left;">a short you-tube video of each game.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c2c2c; font-family: Century Gothic, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large; line-height: 23px;">You can find these stations and Glyph in my Winter Games Unit.</span></span></div>
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