tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67888331606518220262024-03-18T17:55:13.140-04:00Going Strong in 2nd GradeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger150125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6788833160651822026.post-81154421601071086072018-05-17T19:30:00.000-04:002018-05-17T19:30:13.752-04:00End of Year Classroom Transformations<center>
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Anywho...I wanted to share with you a couple room transformations that I have done the past couple years and never blogged about! 🙈🙈🙈</div>
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My first end of year room transformation was two years ago and we had Beach Day! I transformed our room to The Crystal Coast complete with beach sound effects on YouTube, a "sandy" beach, and a perfectly blue ocean! Most of the materials I used for this room transformation came from Dollar Tree and Party City - so I didn't break the bank!</div>
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Sandy Beach Canvas was from Amazon</div>
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Blue Tablecloth from Party City made our ocean</div>
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Inflatables all came from Dollar Tree.</div>
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This year, I already had the Adirondack chairs as part of my flexible seating classroom - the fit Beach Day perfectly! The kids had a blast complete Beach Day centers all the while lounging around on the beach.</div>
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I collected lots of summer and beach themed books from Scholastic so they had plenty to read when they finished an activity. Kids love to read books that are on the teacher shelf or that they never get to read! They are like gold!</div>
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Some of the centers had students sorting cards - like Fact vs. Opinion - so I got these sand shovels from Dollar Tree so students could sort them in their group.</div>
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Reading and working on arrays!</div>
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I covered our cubbies with this scene setter from Amazon! Binder clips on top and then it covered all our stuff and brought the beach to another corner of our classroom!!</div>
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It wouldn't be complete without a special snack! We had fruit cups, water bottles, and goldfish! Again, all of the cups/plates came from Dollar Tree! Make a stop before all their beach stuff gets gone!</div>
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Working on sentences by the seashore - literally! hehe</div>
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Here's a preview of the activities my kiddos were working on!</div>
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Last year, I went a totally different direction and we went CAMPING!! The year before many of the first graders had had a beach day in 1st grade - so I had to come up with something different! </div>
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We pitched a tent on what had been my beach last year! And made a fire using sticks, rocks and tissue paper! But I didn't dare get close to it and breathe wrong - or it would have collapsed! I'm not an outdoorsy person so...not the best fire builder!</div>
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This was the reading tent! We did rotations around the classroom and each group had a round where they got to read some of the camping themed books I had found - they LOVED it! I brought a huge bear from home to stick in the tent as well as a sleeping bag to lay in the floor and make it comfy.</div>
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But it wasn't all just fun...they did work too! After they completed each activity, they earned a camp badge - like a Brag Tag! You could also print these on full sheet label papers and make them into camp badge stickers!</div>
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I feel like I've neglected my blog...it's been just over 2 months since my last post - what what?!?! Well, life happened! School got settled down, but my personal life went on a roller coaster so no ideas were flowing and my little ole' blog just got ignored!</center>
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Back in August, my kiddos would take anywhere from 5 to 9 minutes on most days to clean up from Reader's Workshop and it was eating into our lunch time (pun not intended!). So, I started timing them and they couldn't see or hear the clock, so that didn't work.</center>
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Then, I had the issue of transitioning during Reader's Workshop taking forever too - they'd walk around getting their mess together for 3-4 minutes and they were losing time and distracting the entire classroom in the process.</center>
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Then, pops up this wonderful idea on Instagram - and I can't for the life of me remember who posted it to give credit for this marvelous idea!</center>
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But - it worked! The beat of the music and the thrill of trying to beat the timer has made transitions so much faster and smoother. They aren't perfect and always in their seat when the timer goes off...but it is A LOT better and most are ready when the timer is done!</center>
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All I do is play this timer!</center>
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The beat and intensity of the pace in the music gets my kids up and moving and actually on a mission. Before they had no sense of urgency - not anymore! They hear "the game begins in 3...2...1" and they are off to the next thing.</center>
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During Reader's Workshop, I play it for the one minute. I was hesitant to use it during Reader's Workshop because I wanted a quiet and smooth transition - but I'll take the 60 seconds of somewhat chaos over the 3-4 minutes of talking and lingering around wondering what to do.</center>
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When we are cleaning up, I play it twice so they have 2 minutes to clean up their things from Reader's Workshop, get their lunch, and get to their seat. I do the same thing at the end of Math Workshop.</center>
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I actually have this video bookmarked on my computer so I can easily pull it up and keep it up for the day whenever I need it.</center>
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Try it for yourself and I hope it'll work for you and your kiddos!</center>
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Hi friends! It's been a couple weeks and I've now completed 4 weeks with my new 2nd grade friends - we are almost halfway through the first nine weeks! A lot has happened in the past 4 weeks - both in my classroom and my school - but I made a big change this week...I went back to traditional seating in my classroom.</div>
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Now, please don't throw the arrows and rotten tomatoes at me! Let me explain!</div>
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Back in January 2016, the flexible seating trend starting sweeping the education world. It seemed like everyone was doing it. Many at my school threw out the tables and chairs and brought in couches, wobble stools, and more...me included. I believed all the research that said this was better for kids and I, like any teacher, want to do whats best for my kids - so I followed suit.</div>
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I didn't get rid of all of my tables - but I did have different height tables, 3 Hokki stools, some barstools I brought from home, and this past spring I even got 2 yoga ball chairs.</div>
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Now, I have to admit, I am a person that runs on structure and so as much of a step out of my comfort zone as this was, the kids did okay with it. They knew how to sit on the seats appropriately and we did pretty well with it. I also have to admit, that I never saw that it affected my kids attention and helped those that struggled to focus. I wanted to see that it worked, and I told others that I did - but in my heart of hearts - I just didn't see it.</div>
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But, I forged forward and this year I had lots of seating options for my students and I was going to keep going with it. If anything, I didn't have to stack and unstack their chairs each afternoon and every morning - there were far fewer seats and they were easier to handle - haha!</div>
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After meeting my new group of kiddos, I knew I had to do something different. Every group of kiddos is different, and my group this year needed structure. I could sense it day in and day out. The yoga ball chairs were being bounced on constantly. The paint bucket seats were being rolled around on all the time. I had kids spinning circles on the Hokki stools - and those that weren't sitting on the Hokki stools were finding them unoccupied and spinning them like they were spin toys. I felt like I had no control in my classroom.</div>
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So, over the past two weeks, I have gradually phased out all the "fun" seats and brought in chairs and even swapped tables with an awesome teacher friend so I could have normal tables for all my children to sit at.</div>
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It's okay to not want to do the latest education trends - because like most trends - it may come and go. I'm sure some are fuming steam right now reading this and please let's just agree to disagree. I enjoyed flexible seating while I used it, but it was just not working for me and my group of kiddos. I wholeheartedly agree that not everyone works best sitting in a hard chair at a table - but I also know at some point, they are going to have to learn to do that very thing.</center>
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It might be that you, like me, run on structure and organization - so you yourself can't handle flexible seating. Please don't let someone make you feel bad because of it you are doing something because of you rather than "because it what's best for kids". What is best for kids is having a happy, less-stressed teacher that has control of her classroom - that is what is best for them. </center>
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It might be, that also, like me, your group of kiddos can't handle the flexibility. Even though my kiddos have assigned seats and I moved the special sets around the room so they could have the opportunity to sit on different seating options, it was just too much choice and opportunity to make a poor choice for them to handle, at least at this point in the year. </center>
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Did I keep most of my flexible seating options or have a teacher friend that will give them back if I ask for them - yes!! My Hokki Stools are stored in our (unused) classroom bathroom turned closet. I wasn't letting those bad boys get out of my classroom - they were from Donor's Choose! But other things I have let other teachers have and I know they'll let me have them back if I ever ask for them.</center>
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Flexible seating is not a bad thing. That is NOT what I'm trying to say and it can look different in many different classrooms. I have just seen, in many different Facebook groups this summer, teachers that are feeling pressured to do flexible seating. Everyone is running to find scoop rockers and yoga balls for their classrooms. It's okay if you don't want to do it, or are even starting out and don't have the funds to purchase or make these options available to your students.</center>
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So, please don't beat yourself up if you don't want to jump on the flexible seating bandwagon, you've fallen (or jumped) off like me, or you never understood it to start with. If you are comfortable in your classroom, then your kiddos will be comfortable as well - they will feed of your energy. Do what YOU think is best for YOU and YOUR classroom full of students.</center>
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Hey everyone! Whew - I'm about to finish up my 2nd week of school and my kiddos have loved starting math centers this week! This past summer I spent a few days updating my math centers and giving them a totally new look. </div>
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With that, meant I had to update how I organize my math centers - just a little bit! So I wanted to hop on here with a quick post about how to storage your math centers - making it easy for you and your kiddos!</div>
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New this year, I have decided to print my directions page and put on the front of the bag. When printing my centers, I selected only the directions pages (on a Mac use Command and then select each page; on a Windows use Control and then select each page). After selecting the pages, I use the Multiple print option and select 4 to a page. This will print just the pages I selected and will print them smaller because there will be 4 to a page - save ink and paper!</div>
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I do laminate these pages and then just tape to the bag. In the past, I just had labels with the names of the centers on the front and my kids relied more on the look of the center cards to remember what each center was. This will help them if they have to go back at a later time to finish a center because they will have the "image" to more easily find the center they need.</div>
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I have revised all the directions pages so that the directions are written "to the kids" rather than to the teacher. I have tried to make them easy to understand for the kids. So if my kiddos don't listen...and you know that never happens...ha right...they can read the directions to complete the center.</div>
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This is also great because if you have adult helpers, or even if your admin walks in, they can see what your kids are up to just by reading the front of the bag. The directions have been taken off of the recording sheets and put on the bag instead.</div>
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I store all of my answer keys and master to copy in a 3-ring binder. I have 2 sheet protectors for each month - one with the answer keys and one with the masters to copy. When I'm ready to copy, I pull out the masters, copy them, and then return them when I'm done - easy peasy!</div>
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I staple all of my answer keys with the cover page on the front so that I can easily pull my answer keys when I'm checking math centers. </div>
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Below are links to my updated math centers - August through December! I'll be updating January through May in the coming months!</div>
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<span style="background-color: #fefefe; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.classdojo.com/studentstories/">Student Stories</a> replace boxes and binders of students’ work with beautiful, simple digital portfolios that are shared between school and home, sparking meaningful conversations on what students are learning every day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“I like having my own Story to add my own photos to because then my mom and my dad see it and we can talk about it at home,” said Galen, a third grader in San Francisco. </span></span></div>
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ClassDojo’s back to school <a href="https://www.classdojo.com/studentstories/">Student Stories</a> update includes:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Post with any app:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> students (and teachers!) can post photos and videos to their Story from other apps directly, or by uploading from the camera roll. “App smashing” becomes a reality!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Any device:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> students can post from any device: iOS, Android, Chromebooks or web</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Easy and secure access:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> no need to remember usernames or passwords - students can log in instantly by scanning their secure class QR code</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Journal entries:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> the easiest way for students to reflect on their work, they can now create written journal entries</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Drawings: </span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">when words fall short, students can let their inner artist shine by creating a drawing all their own!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Filters, frames, and stickers:</span><span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> students can add a dash of fun to their posts, creating portfolios as unique as they are (coming soon)</span></span></div>
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Hey y'all! I'm gearing up for my new kiddos that'll be walking through my door next Monday morning! Where did my summer go?!?! It's okay though - in 9 weeks, I'll be tracked out for 2 weeks and the first nine weeks always seems to fly by!</center>
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I have been a loyal Class Dojo user for years and love how the creators have improved the program so that it's now so much more than a way to track student behavior. Now, I can communicate with parents via messenger, share class pictures in a closed and safe environment - i.e. away from social media, and there's more exciting things on the way!</center>
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If you have followed me for a while, you maybe have read about my Class Dojo Super Pack that allows you to implement a classroom economy in your classroom and it works perfectly with Class Dojo. Well, earlier this year, this set got a MAJOR facelift and a new name - Monster Marketplace! </center>
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When I looked at the set, I realized that teachers could use this resource with any type of system - whether you were giving Dojo points, tickets, or coins - so a new name was needed! The theme of monsters is still included, but I now have this super cute monster kidlette clipart that I had made just for this set!</center>
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So, if you have my original Class Dojo set - go download the update - if you haven't seen it already! The concept of what's included is the same - it just has a new look!</div>
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Let me show you all of the new awesomeness that's included!</div>
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Let me start with something I use EVERYDAY! These behavior calendars are the perfect way to communicate the child's daily behavior with parents. Since I do use Class Dojo, my students record their number of points in the circle. Parents initial and then when they "cash in" their points for Dojo Dollars, I use the Total line to total up their points (more on that later!). When I used a clip chart my first year or so, I had something similar to this and my students would record their color in the circle. If you use a clip chart, you could do the same - you don't have to use Class Dojo to use this!</div>
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The best part is that the calendars are now editable!! The circles and text boxes in each day's box are editable so that if you have a school holiday, field trip, etc. you can delete that days items and add in a text box to let parents know what is going on that day!</div>
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My old set only included graphing sheets like above. Now that I use the calendar, but I know that's not everyone's choice, I have included blank graphs that you can use and add in the dates before printing and copying.</div>
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Above I mentioned credit cards and cashing in points for Dojo Dollars. Instead of having all kinds of printed bills that my students have to keep up with - my students have joined the 21st Century and have their own credit card!</div>
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So how do my kiddos "cash in"? I have my students assigned to days where they can cash in their points and I take those points and magically turn them into money on their Monster Express Card! Each point is $1 - so when I total their points, if they have 25 points, they will get $25 on their credit card.</div>
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I assign my students a day so that I am not cashing all of them on one day - or having students cash in every day. They have one day a week where they can cash in their points - if they miss it - they have to wait until next week!</div>
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To make adding and subtracting money on the card easy - I laminate the cards and use Sharpie and a Mr. Clean eraser to write and erase off the laminate.</div>
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Once students have money on their credit card, it's time to spend it! I have the Monster Marketplace set up in my classroom using regular sized library pockets with tickets inside. The covers pictured above are attached to the front of the library pocket and tickets go inside the pocket. Students go pick out the item(s) they want to buy, bring it to me and I take that amount off their credit card.</div>
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Short term goals are great for students and that is one reason I love the Monster Marketplace store! They are able to set a small goal for a small item or experience they want to purchase, work towards it, and then buy it. But long terms goals are also great incentives. That is where Point Clubs come into play.</div>
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You will find classroom circles to display your point clubs (as pictured above), as well as certificates and brag tags if you utilize brag tags in your classroom. There are LOTS of point club options. I chose to do my point clubs in increments of 100 - but others requested them to be in increments of 50 because of how they did their points in their classroom - so you have LOTS of options with certificates and brag tags for each one. Print and use just what you need!</div>
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The last set of items included in this set are Monster Labels. If you are using a Monster theme in your classroom - these could be used for a lot of reasons. But, I used them to display students in the Point Clubs. Add student names to the black rectangle in each square and then print. There are 2 sizes - small and large - so choose the size that best fits the space and how you want to use these in your classroom.</div>
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I pre-write the date and how many days we have been in school using my Mimio Pen - just screen capture and write right over top of the PDF. Don't have a Mimio or Smartboard type program and pen - just use an Expo marker!</center>
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Now, I will say at the beginning of the year, I do use a large wipe-on/off poster that looks like notebook paper to show my students how to set up their morning work. I usually try to do this for the first week or so. I tape it to the side of my whiteboard, so they have a visual of how to set it up in their notebook. </center>
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The skills included in the morning work spiral about every 10 days - so about every two weeks your kids will be practicing the same skill. As the year progresses, the skills gradually get more difficult - more so with math than language arts/grammar. Some tasks are open-ended so students have the ability to be creative in their responses.</center>
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I have used this morning work in my classroom for 2 years and love it! My kids know what they have to do each morning when they come in and that consistency and expectation is there and makes for smoother mornings.</center>
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Now, I will tell you - the first couple weeks of this morning work - just like with learning any new routine - may be a little difficult for your students. I try to make sure that I don't have many tasks to do during our morning work time so that I am available to help students. When students don't know what an answer is or how to tackle the problem - I tell them to do their best and give it a try. Then, when we are going over our morning work, I take more time on those problems to help students understand the process and the answer. Then, when we get to that topic - let's say arrays in math - my students have been practicing arrays all year and it makes a little easier for them because they've heard that word and know a little something about it.</center>
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This summer, I took on the HUGE task of making morning work for BOTH 1st and 3rd grades!! The set-up is the same as the 2nd grade set. The only major difference - besides the content and difficulty of content - is that instead of a Fun Fact of the Day, each day there is a Joke of the Day. The jokes are the same for both 1st and 3rd grade. Hopefully if you have teachers in your school that are using both grade levels of morning work, students will forget the jokes between 1st and 3rd grade!</center>
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Hey y'all! Happy Summer! My summer is quickly fading as I head back to work on the 17th - ack! Can't believe it's almost over. I wanted to share with you a quick and SUPER FUN activity that we did back in April when we studied contractions with our phonics program.</div>
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To make things a little more realistic for my kiddos, I got them shower caps and masks from Dollar Tree - cost maybe $10. I picked up band-aids while I was there. And I did bad math and didn't correctly calculate how many I would need - note to self for next year!</div>
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I opted to not do gloves - I knew adult gloves wouldn't fit them and that would make all the cutting and gluing way harder for them. Saved myself a few bucks and a lot of sanity by opting for no gloves!</div>
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We put on a heartbeat monitor sound effect on the board and off into the surgery the kiddos went. They were SO focused...to start with! They did a great job, they really did, but their excitement got the best of them after a little while and they got a little loud - but they were learning - that's for sure! </div>
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And a video of them in action! We all called each other doctors - so they even got in on calling each other Dr. {last name} - it was so fun!</div>
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Now - where did I get my awesome contraction surgery set - well TPT of course! I didn't make my own because this one was too good not to buy! Munchkins Inc did an awesome job with making this activity - it was perfect for my 2nds! Copied into booklets for them and they were set!</div>
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I'm sure you're not quite ready to hit the ground running tomorrow to start a new week - but that just means we are one day closer to summer - so there's a good way to look at it!</center>
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I wanted to pop in and share an idea with you and a new freebie that's in my TPT store to help you with student behavior as we wind down the school year.</center>
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For the past few weeks I have been using the phrase "show me how almost 3rd graders would..." when I am wanting my students to show me the right way to do something. I usually try to follow that up with what I am expecting to see (quietly and quickly walking, looking forward, etc). Most times this quick and easy phrase does the trick and they show me exactly how to walk in line, go back to their seats, whatever it is.</center>
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It's all about a mindset shift for them. At this point in the year, they are eagerly anticipating summer and knowing that they are going to get to move up to the next grade level when they return to school. But with that comes a greater responsibility to act a certain way - that's what I tell them at least! So when I saw "show me how almost 3rd graders would..." their mind shifts to acting like an older student would act.</center>
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But in the last 2-3 weeks of school, I add a visual reminder for them as well! I am going to give each of my students a lanyard with a "3rd Grader in Training" name tag attached. They will wear these each day and when they are not acting like a 3rd grader, they may lose their badge. In addition to it saying "3rd Grader in Training", it also says "How am I doing?" When other teachers on the hall see my students wearing these and see them acting responsibly, they can easily compliment their behavior and encourage them to keep up exactly what they are doing. This verbal praise from another teacher (or better yet - the principal!!) is exactly what they need to hear.</center>
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Now, before I give my students these badges - before I even SHOW them to them - I have them sitting in a brown paper bag with a note on them. I'll leave them there for a few days, if not a whole week before they find out whats in the bag. I will refer to this bag throughout the week - "Oh, you know almost 3rd graders are the only ones that get to find out what's in the bag - if we can act like we are 3rd graders, then we'll find out whats in the bag." Play it up really big - because to them - it could be a bag full of candy!</center>
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When I introduce them to my students - we most definitely will talk about what we should and should not do with our lanyards - and how they could lose their lanyard. Putting them in their mouths is definitely NOT a 3rd grade behavior - so they would lose their badge. Swinging them around in the air like a lasso is MOST definitely not a 3rd grade behavior, so they could lose their badge, and so on and so forth.</center>
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Now, at the end of the day, all of my students will return their lanyards to the hook where we are keeping them in the classroom. And at the end of the year, I will bag them all up to keep for next year! I found my lanyards over at Amazon and they seem to be good quality! Hopefully they will stand up to my 2nds!</center>
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Are you counting down the days till summer yet? We have 25 days left - but there is so much to do between now and then!! Assessments, report cards, countdown to summer, end of year activities, awards, and more! But one thing I'm super excited about is our 2nd Grade Camp Day during the last week!</center>
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Last year, I did <a href="http://www.goingstrongin2ndgrade.com/2016/05/making-it-to-summer-part-4-beach-day.html">Beach Day</a> as my end of year review classroom flip, but another teacher in my building did a very similar thing and so I wanted my kiddos to be able to have a different experience this year - thus Camp Day!</center>
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I am going to transform our classroom into a campground complete with tent, lake, and even bears! I found lots of ideas on <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/suttonal/camp-day/">Pinterest</a> - so I'm excited to put it all together!</center>
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But behind every classroom transformation - there has to be some educational value! On our camp day, my students will rotate through centers - Language Arts centers in the morning and Math centers in the afternoon. Each center will be a campground with a fun camp name!</center>
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To set the ambience, I like to pull up a video with a "scene setter" as well as background noises to make us feel like we are really camping! Here are a few YouTube Videos you might want to use as your scene setter on your whiteboard or classroom TV. I like to run my videos through <a href="http://viewpure.com/">ViewPure</a> to make sure we don't get any ads.</center>
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After a camping warm-up morning work and reviewing expectations for the day with my students, we will dive right into learning and having fun! My students will be split into small groups to rotate through each of the centers.</center>
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For Crystal Lake Contractions - I'm going to set up a lake in my classroom! Easy-peasy using blue bulletin board paper!</div>
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In addition to having each of these language arts centers set up, I am also going to have a tent set up for students to read in - this will be Camp Read-A-Lot (camp sign included). I found this AWESOME tent at Amazon for less than $20 - it should easily fit at least 5 kids - especially since they don't mind being close to each other! It's super easy to assemble - took me maybe 10 minutes to set up in my living room one afternoon! My kiddos also LOVE using finger flashlights each week for Flashlight Friday - so I got a new box of finger flashlights so they can have one to keep after Camp Day!</center>
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I'll keep the tent up in our room all day with a basket of books about summer and camping. My kiddos love to read - so I know they'll be excited about getting to read in a tent! I'll share suggested books later in this post.</center>
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May favorite math center is the Build Your Own Campsite using arrays! Students will get to design and create their own campsite using arrays - so all of the tents, cabins, lakes, etc for all students should be the same size - but they get to design the layout!</center>
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All of the centers are aligned to 2nd grade Common Core State Standards! I have tried to include a wide variety of skills that I have taught my own kiddos this year. And this isn't just a "fun" day of easy review centers - some of these will definitely get your kids into using their brain to problem solve.</center>
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What I love best about these centers is that the kids can check their own work!!! It's the last few days of school - one of the last things I want to have to do is to go behind my students to check their work - ain't nobody got time for that! So, all but one of the centers have self-checking QR codes so students can check their own work!</center>
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After students check their work - just like at camp - they will earn a badge! I use brag tags in my classroom, so my students will earn their camp badges to wear on their brag tag necklace. I have included both round and rectangle camp badges so you can choose what is best for your classroom.</div>
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I love the look of the circle camp badges - BUT - cutting all those circles gave me a nightmare just thinking about it! But, Fiskars came to the rescue! I got an XL Circle Hand Punch that allowed me to easily and quickly cut out all the camp badges in no time at all. </div>
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If you don't use brag tags in your classroom, I have included camp badge collection sheets that students could put their badges on. I'd suggest using <a href="http://amzn.to/2p3XgUh">8.5x11 Avery label sheets</a> so that these are like stickers for students - just cut out for students and they can add to their collection sheet.</div>
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I've also included LOTS of other goodies in this set to make for more than a days worth of camping fun in your classroom!</div>
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I mentioned earlier that I'm going to load my Camp Read-A-Lot tent up with a basket of books about summer and camping. Here are some of the books that I'm going to include for our Camp Day reading!</div>
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Testing season is rapidly approaching - or you may already have started! Here in NC, we don't start state standardized testing until 3rd grade, so my seconds don't have to do the standardized tests, but we do pair up with a 3rd grade class to provide encouragement - through candy!</center>
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This will be a quick little post - and a freebie included!</center>
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Each year each 2nd grade class pairs up with a 3rd grade class to encourage the 3rd graders on their EOG. It is such a nerve-racking test for the kids and with it being their first time - we know they need a little encouragement.</center>
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So, we send up testing treats starting about a week before the tests. the easiest way I have found to do this is to one large bag of candy with one tag - rather than individual. I a couple of my students deliver the candy to our partner class and then the teacher can pass out the candy when she finds it convenient for her.</center>
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If you have students paired up, or if you are using these for your own students, I have also included smaller tags that you can attach as well.</center>
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Well that's about it friends! Hop over to my TPT store to grab your testing treat tags!</center>
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First of all - you might be asking "what is Kahoot?" Kahoot is a game-based learning platform that allows you to quiz your students on a variety of concepts. This is a great platform to review a concept before a test or quiz. We use this as a type of practice spelling test on Thursday before our actual spelling test on Friday.</div>
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First, you'll need to set up an account at <a href="https://create.kahoot.it/register">www.getkahoot.com</a>. Setting up a quiz is easy and Kahoot will even walk you through the set up. You can find quizzes made by other teachers or you can create your own. You input your questions and then up to 4 choices for answers. At least one must be marked correct, as this is how student accuracy and points is determined. After you set up your questions and answers, you save, and then your ready to play.</div>
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I utilize Kahoot! for spelling by making my students become very careful word detectives as they read the 4 choices of a word spelling and have to determine which one is correct. I have created quizzes for almost all of our spelling units that align with our spelling curriculum. Some weeks we will have multiple spelling patterns that make the same sound but use different letters (such as air and are in the images below), so students have to determine which pattern is the one for that word.</div>
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When it's time to play you will login into your Kahoot! account, select the game you want to play, and choose the way you want to play. We play Classic, since I am 1:1. If you want students to play in groups, you can also choose that option.</div>
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Students will then see this screen projected that will have their game pin. Students will input this code to join your game. That will keep others from all over the word joining the game you are playing. </div>
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As students login on their devices they will choose a username. I usually make students put their first name only, but if they choose to do a silly name - I can delete them and make them log in again. They will have a confirmation screen on their device that says they are logged in and their name will display on the board.</div>
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Once everyone is logged in it's time to begin!</div>
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Because I tell the students the word that they are choosing the spelling for, all of my questions are the same "How do you spell...?"</div>
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After the question is displayed, the time begins to choose the answer. Students will see this screen on their device for EVERY question.</div>
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For Question #1, students are deciding the correct spelling of the word "square". I do sometimes get a little funny with my misspelled spellings and the kids enjoy it! I sometimes try to channel my inner 2nd grader and think of some of the misspelled sounds that they make in addition to including our different weekly spelling patterns.</div>
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You can also trick them by making two answer choices correct! I don't have one pictured, but sometimes I get so stumped on funky ways to spell the spelling word that I just make 2 choices correct and spell the word correctly for 2 answers. Because I have selected both of these choices to be correct, any students that choose either of these get it correct.</div>
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You can change the amount of time that students have to answer the question. I have mine set to 30 seconds and most times all answers are in within 10-15 seconds. Once every has answers, Kahoot! will automatically show the correct answer and how many students got the answer correct.</div>
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Woohoo! I got it right! haha</div>
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In class though - we do celebrate it everyone gets one right!</div>
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At the top right, you see the "Next" button. By clicking that, you'll be taken to the scoreboard screen. Students get answers for getting the correct answer as well as how quickly they answer (you can turn that off though). My students LOVE competing against each other and themselves to up their score and get on the leaderboard.</div>
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We go through all of our spelling words in the same fashion. I usually do between 10-12 words depending on the list, which sometimes leaves us time to play GHOSTMODE! After you have played one round of a Kahoot! game, you'll have the option to play Ghostmode. The order of the questions will be the same, but you'll have twice as many players because each player has a ghost. So my 22 players in my first round would become 44 players during Ghostmode.</div>
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In Ghostmode, students are competing against their ghost, as well as their peers to get on the leaderboard. We have figured out that the ghosts are their score from the first game, so we make it a class goal to improve our score and keep those ghosts off the leaderboard.</div>
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Be warned - this is not a quiet game! I do try to make my kids keep their excitement and agony (when they realize they picked a word to quick and chose the wrong one) to indoor voices - but it doesn't always work. But, I can guarantee that your kids will LOVE this game and don't even get upset that they are practicing spelling words (or whatever other subject you choose!).</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Meet Gerald the Giraffe - our class (stuffed) pet!! Isn't he the cutest?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Back in January, I got an "itch" to have a class pet for my kiddos - but I've been there done that years ago with a hermit crab and I didn't want a living class pet - it needed to be a stuffed animal - so after searching high and low for the best one, I found our Gerald on Amazon!</span></div>
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So, Gerald stays in our classroom during the week and on Fridays he rides home with a kiddo in his bag along with his journal. </div>
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Inside the front cover of the journal, I have some directions for parents and then at the end of the weekend, the kids write about what they did with Gerald that weekend. Hind sight is 20/20 - next year I'll do a better job of setting expectations for student writing in the journal each week. I didn't want to make it another homework assignment, but we struggle to write complete sentences (all the time!), so I've got to make sure I set the expectations better next year!</div>
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The first weekend, Gerald went to Taekwondo with one of my sweet girls. She fed him snack at Taekwondo and then they went to Applebees for dessert. They had to go to their babysitter's house for a little while and then on Sunday she took him to church to learn about Jesus!</div>
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The next weekend Gerald got to go to the Park, Farmer's Market. While at the park, he got to play soccer and Pokemon. Then he had to come back to school on Monday!</div>
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Yay! We got pictures! The kids are encouraged to take pictures of what they do with Gerald to add to the journal. This weekend, he got to play at the playground with one of my sweeties and her little sister. They played on the swings and the slide. Gerald had a blast!</div>
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Now...this one is my favorite so far! The family who was taking Gerald home this weekend was going to the NC Mountains to go snow tubing and have some fun in the snow. BUT, my sweet kiddo accidentally left Gerald at home - so he didn't get to join in on the fun! So instead of Gerald having fun snow tubing, mom emailed me that Gerald had a weekend with their dogs!</div>
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His journal entry made me laugh!</div>
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"I had a bad time with Gerald because he was at home while I was in the cabin with my friends for my mom's birthday part in Boone, snow tubing. </div>
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Photoshop is an amazing thing! The family sent down an empty snow tube for Gerald and then photoshopped him in when they got home! I LOVE IT!</div>
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I manage all of my parent sign-ups on <a href="http://www.signupgenius.com/">Sign Up Genius</a>. Directions and info for parents goes in at the top and then parents can scroll to the bottom to select the weekend they want to host Gerald. Then on Friday, I check to see who Gerald is spending the weekend with and off he goes! </div>
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This is seriously the EASIEST class pet in town and my kids enjoy seeing what Gerald does on the weekend.</div>
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On Mondays, when Gerald returns to school, we take a couple minutes during our morning routine for the child who took him home to share with us what they did.</center>
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What's Gerald up to this weekend?!?! Well, we tracked out for 2 weeks for our spring break/track-out on Friday, so today Gerald is jetting off to Florida with me and hoping on a Disney Cruise tomorrow! Can't wait to share pictures with the kiddos when we get back!</center>
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Happy Birthday to 2 wonderful people - Dr. Seuss and my Grandma! My grandma passed away in April 2013 and I miss her everyday. But, she always treasured children and reading with children, so I think it is very fitting that she shares a birthday with Dr. Seuss!</center>
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Happy Birthday in Heaven Grandma!</center>
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Throwin' it waaaayyyy back!! This is probably in 1990 or 1991 - my cousin Lillie, me, and my Grandma!</div>
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Now that Read Across America week is almost behind us, it's time for those little pesky Leprechauns to start popping up everywhere! This year, I will be tracked-out from school during the week leading up to St. Patrick's Day, so I won't be able to do all the fun things that come with this famous green day, but that doesn't mean we won't be missing out on all the fun.</div>
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There are lots of different activity sheets you can have your kiddos do with this project. You don't have to have the book to do all of the activities in this set, but it definitely will provide your kiddos with some inspiration!</div>
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Last up are March Math Centers! Since we will be out of school for 2 weeks of March, we started our March math centers this past Monday. February has been so long and the weather is looking and feeling like spring, why not start the next month's centers a couple days early?!?!</div>
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These boys picked one of the harder games for their first Tic Tac Toe game - but I know they can handle the challenge! They are adding 3 and 4 2-digit numbers - so they needed scrap paper to solve their problems. In the game set, I have "work pages" included that you can copy for your students to use to show their work, but I always have a basket of scrap paper and that worked just as good!</div>
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Before a student can place their X or O on the square they have chosen, their partner has to agree to their answer. So my boys above who were adding 3 & 4 2-digit numbers, both boys were solving them problems so they could check their partner's work! I definitely believe that when playing games, in particular educational games, there doesn't need to be "down time" for one or more of the players - they both need to be working their brains the entire time. So having both players agree on the answers is the way to remedy that problem of down time.</div>
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When it came time to prep these games, I was so ever thankful for my <a href="http://try.hpinstantink.com/dG3bt">HP Instant Ink subscription</a>...</div>
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because I wanted to print the games in full color!! With HP Instant Ink, I didn't worry about how much color it would take because I pay each month based on how many pages I print and they send me more ink when I need it. It's the most economical way to print and super easy! You can sign up <a href="http://try.hpinstantink.com/dG3bt">here</a> for a free month!</div>
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If you don't want the full color games or don't have easy access to a color printer and color ink, I've got you covered! I made a black/white version as well. Now, some of the boards that include full color clipart, such as some of the geometry and money games will only contain the full color clipart. But, they look great printed in Black/White on color cardstock!</div>
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Before I started flexible seating, all of my students had chair pockets that they kept their <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/COLLEGE-Bound-Kiddos-Editable-Classroom-Display-COLLEGE-Notebook-Covers-1915382">COLLEGE</a> notebook, binders, bags of books, etc in. So when I went to flexible seating and went to only having 4 normal chairs in my room - I had to rack my brain as to where I was going to keep all their stuff!</div>
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I know many other teachers have expressed the same concerns, so I hope this will provide you some ideas as to how you could streamline and utilize some shelves and things you may already have (or could purchase somewhat cheaply) to help your students.</div>
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Now, I am a VERY organizer person and I believe in teaching my students to be organized as well. This is a life skill that isn't in Common Core, but I know that if they are going to be successful after they leave my classroom, they need to be able to keep track of their belongings in a somewhat neat fashion.</div>
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that my students keep their bookbags, jackets, and lunch boxes in. Each of the sections is shared between 2 students. It isn't always the neatest looking thing during the day - but it fits their stuff!</div>
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In our classroom, we do community supplies. Each table has a spinner caddy that holds pencils, scissors, crayons, and markers. The cups are on the caddy with magnets so they can easily be taken off and moved around the table if needed (or cleaned!). This is so much easier than each student having their own box of supplies - especially since I don't have individual student desks. </div>
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Most recently we added this clear file boxes from The Container Store to each table. When the students come in in the morning, part of their morning routine is to get their green & purple <a href="http://www.goingstrongin2ndgrade.com/2015/06/monday-made-it-june-29th.html">work folder</a> and put in this box. These folders are awesome because I took 2 folders and made it so they now have 4 pockets instead of just two! They told me a few weeks ago they would like to have their folders at the table with them each day, so I happily obliged!</div>
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Since my students choose a new "home base" table each day, their folders couldn't stay only at their tables day after day. So they are kept in these <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/30091452/">Ikea Trofast frame</a> & <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/80089239/">buckets</a> at the end of the day. </div>
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The groups are organized by their classroom number, which is in alphabetical order. Each green drawer is for 5-6 students to store their folders.</div>
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Also in these frames are <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20089242/">bigger buckets</a> for their bags of books. Each students has 1 gallon sized bag to store their books they are reading in. The frame/bucket on the left are for my students numbers 1-11 and the one on the right is for students numbers 12-22 - folders and books. </div>
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I love how these drawers can easily slide off the tracks and back on - making it easy for them to pull out those heavy book drawers, dig around to find theirs and then put it back.</div>
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These frames are not super cheap, but it's Ikea so they are not overly expensive either. When I first started planning my Ikea trip (since currently our closest one is 3 hours away), I wanted each student to have their own drawer (like the green ones) above, but I just didn't have the room in my classroom to make that happen.</div>
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Our students have home-school binders that we call <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/COLLEGE-Bound-Kiddos-Editable-Classroom-Display-COLLEGE-Notebook-Covers-1915382">COLLEGE binders</a>. Children Organizing, Learning, and Leading Everyday for a Great Education. When my students had chair pockets, they kept them at their seats, but with flexible seating - that went away. I cleared off a shelf on this black bookshelf and all the binders fit there. </div>
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Each morning when my kiddos unpack they put their binder on the shelf. If I need to put something in it - I can easily do that with them all in one place. At the end of the day when we clean up to pack up, they all grab their binders and go to their seat.</div>
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Our Ready Common Core books are also store on the shelf below.</div>
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The last area of "student stuff" that I have is another Ikea Trofast frame for our different journals we use. Each morning the Morning Work Journals <a href="http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/95685100/">bucket</a> goes on the counter for students to grab their journal. Then we have our Rooted in Reading Journals and Spelling Notebooks (for homework).</div>
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From time to time I do miss my chair pockets, as with those, my students had pretty much everything they needed right where they were. However, I'm loving not having to wash those things every track-out and not having to get my mom to mend the holes! It doesn't take me long to pass out notebooks when needed, and sometimes I have students pass them out which they LOVE to do!</div>
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If you have already implemented flexible seating in your room, I hope this might have helped you come up with an idea for how to store all your student's things. If you have not, but have been wanting to - I hope I've inspired you that it can be done, you just have to get a little creative!</div>
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A quick post this Monday morning to brighten your day - because guess what?!?! There's going to be a site-wide TPT sale starting tomorrow!!</center>
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You can save up to 28% off in my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Allyson-Sutton">TPT store</a> and many others by using code LOVETpT when you check out. Don't get caught up in the excitement and miss the extra discount by using the sale code - trust me, I've done it!</div>
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28% off - that's weird - I know what your thinking! My entire store will be 20% off. Then TPT offers an additional 10% off the sale amount using the sale code - so it comes to a total discount of 28%.</div>
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Today - while you are waiting for the sale, go check your My Purchases page and leave feedback for any products you have purchased and not left feedback on. Leaving feedback on paid products will earn you feedback credits. </div>
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Then, when you are checking out, use some or all of those credits to save even more money. 20 TPT credits equal $1 - so if you haven't left feedback in a while - RUN, don't walk, to leave feedback and rack up your credits.</div>
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Buy a lot of products on Day 1 of the sale and then come back for a 2nd dose on Day 2? Leave feedback and save more money!</div>
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Now, isn't your Monday a little brighter?</div>
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A TPT sale has a way of doing that to people!</div>
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It's February y'all and LOVE is in the air - so let's talk about things teachers love!</div>
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I'm linking up with my friends over at <a href="http://www.pelicansandpipsqueaks.com/">Pelican's & Pipsqueaks</a> and <a href="http://www.techandteachability.com/">Tech & Teachability</a> to share 5 things this teacher loves.</div>
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Can I get an amen?!?! Target is just about a must for everybody - I love my weekly trips to Target on Saturdays. It's probably a good thing there isn't a Target between my school and my house (just Walmart - boo!) so that it isn't as convenient for me to stop after school. But I guarantee you there isn't a Saturday that goes by that I'm not at Target wandering around the Dollar Spot and the up and down all the glorious aisles! When we had a snow storm hit last month and I couldn't get out of my house from Saturday through Tuesday - I was miserable because I missed my Target trip!</div>
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Next up, my <a href="https://www.erincondren.com/customer#">Erin Condren Lesson Planner</a>. This is a major MUST in my teacher-world! I take it with me to every meeting at school so any notes are here too. I'm just a tad OCD so each week I type my lesson plans into a <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Erin-Condren-Lesson-Planner-Template-Editable-PDF-MS-Word-Mac-Pages-Versions-1852759">template</a> and glue in, but a pretty planner just makes me happy which makes writing lesson plans a little easier! <a href="https://www.erincondren.com/customer#">Save $10</a> on your first order!</div>
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Now, every teacher needs a good cup and my Ozark Trail definitely gets some frequent flyer miles! I have a large cup for my water and a smaller one for my morning coffee! Staying hydrated is important and I definitely have to have my drink cold - and this does the trick! Put ice in it in the morning and I still have ice when I get home - score!!</div>
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I use my Mr. Sketch markers for EVERYTHING - anchor charts, grading papers, notes to myself, etc - you name it! They smell so yummy and last too! I usually buy a set of chisel tip and thin tip at BJ's for less than $10 - and I have sets at home and school. Like I said - I use them ALOT so I have them everywhere!</div>
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Last up, my Vera Bradley backpack! This is the Campus Backpack style and in one of my favorite patterns - Midnight with Mickey (Disney nerd here!) I love the pockets on the sides for my laptop charging cords and the zipper pockets on the front fit all the little things - pens, markers, etc. It definitely saves my left shoulder from all the weight I used to put on it lugging my tote bag to and from school everyday. This helps to distribute the weight and it much easier to carry and gives me a little more freedom with my arms - which means some days I end up carrying more in one trip (I like to try and be Rachael Ray and only make one trip)!</div>
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This is my first full week back to school and it is already the L-O-N-G-E-S-T week ever!! I wanted to pop over tonight and share some ideas for how to easily prep and organize math centers.</center>
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Often times teachers get so overwhelmed by prepping math centers and they just decide to not do them at all. Now, I will preface this with I do not use all the cute Target Dollar Spot buckets and erasers for my math centers - my kids would ruin them and it saves me some money! My 2nd graders are just as happy with task cards and some black & white clipart they can color when they have finished all their math!</center>
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So, I am on year 3 of using math math center cards - so once I got those prepped the first year - it makes it super easy for me to pull them out of the closet and they are ready. How can you easily get task cards prepped? Print them and laminate - and then - have a parent volunteer cut them out!! I think I had parents cut out almost all of my math center cards for the first year - and they were more than happy to help. So, if you have parents who want to help and can cut straight lines - let them help make your life easier!</center>
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I prep my math center copies a month at a time. If you caught <a href="http://www.goingstrongin2ndgrade.com/2017/01/happyteacher.html">My Plan Box</a> post from a couple weeks ago, I use file folders to sort my copies by weeks for the quarter. I keep all of my original copies and my answer keys in a 3-ring binder. Each month's answer keys and copies have their own sheet protector, so I can easily pull out what I need to copy.</center>
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So this week when I went to make my weekly copies, I found my February set of centers I had filed earlier in the quarter. I prep my centers the week prior to the new month, paperclip them, and store in a box in my classroom closet.</div>
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By the way, I LOVE these clear paper baskets from The Container Store! I set them out with papers for my kiddos to pick up each morning to take home and they are perfect for hauling back my weekly copies from the copier!</div>
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I store my math centers in plastic ziplock bags - gallon sized and freezer size.</div>
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Each set of task cards is stored in a quart-sized and I use address labels to label the bag with the title of the center and I've also included the CCSS standard on the label, just for reference. All of the quart-sized bags go in a gallon bag and I store the gallon bag in my monthly storage boxes.</div>
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Each Friday as I am prepping my Mon-Fri boxes for the next week, I pull out math centers - both activity sheets and task card bags for the next week and file in the box. Then, when it's math time, my centers are ready to give directions and let them at 'em!</div>
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Now, we all have kiddos who don't use their time wisely, or take a little longer to get their work done. I have a metal wall organizer that hangs right next to our "math center table". When the kiddos clean up from math centers, they put the task cards in the bottom bucket. That way, when my friends have time to go back and finish their math center(s), they know where to go to find the task cards. Every couple weeks, I'll clean this bucket out so there is room for more bags of cards.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So, my quick and easy steps for prepping and organizing math centers:</span></div>
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1. Print and laminate center cards. Have a super helpful parent cut out the task cards for you.</div>
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2. Copy activity sheets once a month (or once a week if that works for you) so they are ready when it's time for math.</div>
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3. Store your math centers cards in ziplock bags (clear and easy to see).</div>
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4. Find a place to store task cards after math centers for friends to easily grab and finish at a later date.</div>
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Want easy to prep math centers that are meaningful and fun?!?!</div>
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Check out my math centers in my TPT store!</div>
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You can grab my math centers individually by month or bundled together August-December and January-May. Please note - these are not aligned to Engage NY. I have used these for the past 2 school years with different curriculums. <br />
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Any who, I'm not too stressed about going back to school, whatever day it may be this week, because of this system to help me stay prepped and ready for this week and coming weeks. It is not a fancy system, but I'm sure there are others who don't want to spend their weekends planning and then running to the copier Monday morning to be ready for when the kiddos walk through the door.</center>
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If you followed me last year, I had a couple blog posts about staying organized and making copies in advance. I myself stopped using that system this year and started this, more weekly, system that doesn't require me to spend big chunks of time at the copier making copies in bulk.</center>
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Now, I have to preface this with, I am not a procrastinator - I do like to plan in advance. With some of our different curriculums and programs we use, it does make it kind of easy to plan in advance because I am following the lesson order.</center>
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So - let me introduce you to my "plan box". I got this file box from <a href="http://www.containerstore.com/s/open-top-file-boxes/d?productId=10029415&q=file%20box">The Container Store</a> (I have several of them actually) and it's perfect because hanging file folders will hang inside.</div>
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Inside my plan box are hanging file folders and then a regular file folder for each week of the quarter. That way I can pull the file folder out when my team is planning or I am off to make copies and it has a spot to go back to when I'm done.</div>
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It's hard to take pictures and let you see things when it's full already! BUT, each week's folder is labeled "Week 1", "Week 4" etc through "Week 10" as we have some quarters where we have 10 weeks, even if one week is only 2 days (like at Thanksgiving).</div>
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As I am making plans, whether the week before, or WEEKS before, I keep this nearby so I can plop things into the correct week. For example, I know that Week 5 will be when I need my February math centers since the calendar will be flipping over to February, so back in December, I already plopped my February math centers into the Week 5 folder. Then, when I pull that folder to make copies, those centers are already in there and I'll copy them when I make my copies for Week 5.</div>
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I also throw all my other copies for each week - like math problem sets, spelling lists, Rooted in Reading copies, etc. Because we complete one unit a week with our spelling/phonics program, Letterland, I already have those originals filed for the entire quarter. It maybe took me 2 minutes to do this one morning while my kiddos were getting unpacked - but saved me many minutes this nine weeks pulling what I need!</div>
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Here is Week 3's folder "unpacked":</div>
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Most everything I'll need for Week 3 was filed in this folder when I came back from winter break. We will be celebrating <a href="http://www.goingstrongin2ndgrade.com/2015/01/102nd-day-recap.html">102nd Day</a> in Week 4, but we'll send this reminder home the week prior - so into the Week 3 folder it went!</div>
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Rooted in Reading copies, Engage NY problem sets, and reading comprehension passages for Reading Workshop - ready to be copied!</div>
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Our Letterland copies. I keep each unit's printables in one sheet protector together - then I just pull the sheet protector from the binder and file it in the correct week's folder.</div>
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Week Spelling Menu - we have 10 of these so this one for Week 3, will stay in this folder ALL YEAR! Whether it's Week 3 of Quarter 1 or Quarter 4, I'll have it ready to copy in our HW packets.</div>
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Now, after I make my copies (usually on Tuesday or Wednesday) after my team has planned, I come back to my room and take 5 minutes to paper clip my copies and file them in my Next Week file box. In this box, I have a file folder for each day of the week, Mon-Fri. And I don't think much about it again until Friday afternoon.</div>
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Friday afternoons I'm cleaning up the classroom for the weekend and getting prepped for Monday. I pull my Next Week box off and then sort my papers into the Monday-Friday boxes pictured above. All of my weekly copies are quickly filed and ready for the next week.</div>
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Since there are a couple things I make copies for a month at a time, like math centers, I store those in a bigger filing box in my closet. A quick trip over to my closet to pull out how many math centers I need, get those filed, and I'm ready for the next week!</div>
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With this system, I'm not running around at the end of the week trying to make copies for the next week, and I'm hardly ever running to the copier the morning of to make copies for that day. I used to do that, but it stressed me out! And with our temperamental copier - I NEED to not rely on having it on a particular day!</div>
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So I hope you picked up an idea or a trick to help you stay a little ahead of the game for the rest of the school year. If you can get yourself in a system, it'll become a habit and a good habit that helps you be a happy teacher is always a good thing!</div>
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Happy Sunday friends and if you are heading back to school this week - have a great first week back!</div>
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Centers - my best friends! Math centers are a part of my daily routine, but sometimes as the holidays approach, I like to do some special holiday centers for Language Arts as well. These Christmas Jammies centers are just too cute and include both ELA & Math Centers.</div>
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Does your classroom have an elf? Our elf Curtis will be making his return this coming week and the kids are already waiting for him! </div>
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Our "Elf Door" made an appearance this past Monday. The immediately started guessing what it was and how it got there - they soon decided that it must be a door for the elf!</div>
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During the month of December I like to change up our morning work routine and let my kiddos track Curtis' nightly adventures and also practice math and language/grammar skills each morning. My Elf Fun At School set includes 18 days of morning work and much much more including the Elf Writing Craftivity. You can also purchase the elf craftivity separately.</div>
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I don't know about you, but my rack of Christmas books is practically overflowing...and I have even more on my bookshelf at home! Adding in some comprehension activities and book studies makes them educational...cause you know...that is why we are at school!</div>
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One of my newest and favorite activities - Ugly Christmas Sweater writing craftivity. We did this activity this past Tuesday before we left for Thanksgiving break and my kids had so much fun. Each child designed their own ugly Christmas sweater. I showed them some examples online so they could get some ideas. Then, after they designed and created their sweater, they wrote a paragraph describing their sweater. We wrote them so that it makes our bulletin board like a guessing game - they had to describe their sweater and then ask the reader to find their sweater. </div>
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If you are anything like me, you are already thinking Christmas! I've got an easy parent gift that you, your kids, and their parents will love.</center>
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A couple months ago I was on Pinterest looking for craft ideas for my mom and came across these cute snowmen made out of landscape timbers and I just knew that I needed to these for my parent gifts this year.</center>
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Here is a quick how-to of how I prepped my materials and assembled my example snowman that I'll use to show my class when we make them the last week of school before Christmas.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Gather your materials:</span></div>
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Christmas Fleece - I got mine from JoAnn, but can't find it online</div>
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Here is the Christmas Felt I got from JoAnn's. I purchased 1 1/3 yards to make 24 scarves.</div>
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1. Cut your landscape timbers. I cut each timber into 8 pieces, between 11.75" and 12" for each piece. My dad was able to cut them for me, but you may also be able to get them cut at Lowes (asking never hurt anyone!)</div>
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2. Sand and paint your landscape timbers. I painted my pieces first using leftover Kilz that we had from previous painting projects. One coat was perfect so that you could still see some of the wood grain through the paint - exactly what I wanted. I sanded after I painted, just on the edges, to clean off the rough edges left over from cutting. You could also quickly sand the edges before painting - that's probably the better thing to do rather than waiting until after painting.</div>
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3. To make assembly easy for me once I'm surrounded by kiddos I also cut the fleece for the scarves, cut squares of the orange felt for noses, and then the ribbon to tie for the hats.</div>
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Fleece - I purchased 1 1/3 yards of fabric, so I had 4 feet. I was able to make 24 4" wide scarves out of that fabric.</div>
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Orange Felt - I purchased 3 sheets and cut 8 rectangles out of each sheet</div>
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Spool O' Ribbon - I cut ribbon into approximately 18" pieces</div>
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When it comes time to assemble with your class, it's basically putting everything together and gluing on the wood timbers. I used Gorilla Glue super glue when I made mine, but you can also use hot glue. I haven't decided which I'm going to use when I make them with my kiddos - I can just imagine super glue all over their fingers...so it might be hot glue!</div>
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1. Cut orange triangles for the nose</div>
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2. Glue on eyes and nose</div>
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4. Put 1 toe sock on top and use ribbon to tie hat so it'll "poof"</div>
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5. Tie on scarf around neck - students can cut slits in the ends of the fleece to make a fringe on the scarf</div>
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6. Glue on buttons under scarf</div>
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7. Use sharpie to write their name and year on the bottom - that'll be something parents will appreciate in 10 years!</div>
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This can be a somewhat time consuming project to prep the materials, but go ahead and start now and do a little at a time - that's what I did! It may have taken me 45 minute to an hour to paint the timber pieces and then another 30 to sand. But once that was done, assembly was easy!</div>
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I can't wait to make these in a few weeks and I know the parents will just love them and I hope they'll remain part of each family's Christmas decorations for many years to come.</div>
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Have a great week y'all! It's a short week too! I'll be on Thanksgiving break come Tuesday and lunch. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving break with your family. We do have so much for be thankful for.</div>
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It's Thursday and I'm throwing it back to last year to our first ever Pumpkin Week!</center>
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This year, I'll just be doing one day of pumpkin celebrations (on Halloween) because of other events going on, but I can't wait to do some pumpkin investigations with my kiddos in a couple weeks!</center>
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We've had a busy week in 2nd grade this week!</center>
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We had Pumpkin Week Monday through Thursday and then went on a field trip today. So...this teacher is T.I.R.E.D but satisfied with all of the fun and learning we had this week!</center>
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We started the Pumpkin Week fun last Friday. We had an Early Release day so families could enjoy the NC State Fair without pulling their child from school, so after we finished up some things from our Spider unit, we "planted" pumpkin seeds to germinate. The kids were so excited to see what would happen to their seeds. We ended up having quite a few to germinate, so they got to take their seeds home yesterday to plant and try to grow a pumpkin.</center>
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We did all of our pumpkin fun at the beginning of this week focused in Language Arts.</center>
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We kicked Monday off with a nonfiction book called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Pumpkin-Circle-The-Story-Garden/dp/1582460787">Pumpkin Circle</a> about the life cycle of a Pumpkin. The photographs in this book are awesome.</center>
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After reading Pumpkin Circle, we did an activity with Main Idea - a concept we did before track-out back in September - so it was time to cycle back to it again to jog their memory. They did a good job coming up with the main idea and finding details to support the main idea.</center>
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On Monday we also did a KWL about pumpkins as well as using adjectives to describe pumpkins by size, color, shape, and texture. It was a full 40 minutes of Language Arts on Monday -we were almost late to specials!</center>
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On Tuesday we read a book with one of my favorite characters - Splat the Cat!</center>
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We read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Splat-Pumpkin-Picking-Plan-Catherine-Hapka/dp/0062115863">Splat the Cat and the Pumpkin Picking Plan</a> to talk about author's purpose.</center>
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Obviously Rob Scotton writes all of his books to entertain his readers, but I made them come up with some details from the book as to what was entertaining. We brainstormed together and worked on writing our details as a class. Then they got to color (their favorite part) and put their pumpkin together!</div>
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We worked on the top chart together retelling the story. I have used SWBST with some of my reading groups, but not everyone had used this retelling strategy before, so there was a good bit of guidance with them helping me fill in the boxes. Then, I gave them time to transfer the information from the chart to their retelling paragraph. Maybe this strategy will stick, but I'm sure I'll have to keep going back to it.</div>
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I only wish I had had time to read all of the pumpkin books I had - we had so much going on there wasn't time to touch even half of them unfortunately. Note to self for next year - gotta read more of them :)</div>
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We made life cycle of a pumpkin flip books!</div>
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We did read a couple books with one of my groups that covered the life cycle a little more in addition the Pumpkin Circle we had read on Monday. Most of my kids didn't know about the Green Pumpkin stage.</div>
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Then, came Thursday - the day - Pumpkin Day!</div>
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After a couple of assessments we had to complete, we finished our Pumpkin Diagrams that we started on Wednesday. We have been talking about diagram and labels a lot recently between spiders and now pumpkins. While they colored, I set up our Pumpkin Taste Test snack!</div>
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Mixed review on this picture of the inside of the pumpkin I had taken for them last weekend - some said "eeewww" and some said "cool!". I love how it looks, so I'm with the "cool!" kids on this one!</div>
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I wish I hadn't been so busy passing out snack, doing our graphing, and dealing with a fire drill (of course!) to take pictures of all our pumpkin food.</div>
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Because we were doing some graphing of our favorite pumpkin treats, I made my kids take at least one taste of the following so they could pick their favorite:</div>
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Pumpkin Seeds</div>
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Pepperidge Farm Pumpkin Swirl Bread</div>
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Little Debbie Pumpkin Delights</div>
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The favorite was the swirl bread. I have quite a few picky eaters this year, plus 7 and 8 year olds haven't all acquired a taste for pumpkin quite yet, but they loved this bread!</div>
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Krispy Kreme Pumpkin Spice Doughnuts (MY FAVE!!!)</div>
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Apples with Pumpkin Fluff (most just wanted the apples - okay - more fluff for me!)</div>
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Keebler Pumpkin Spice Fudge Stripe Cookies</div>
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Needless to say - they had tons of sugar - which probably explains part of their hyper-ness that came later in the day - I should have known better. We also made pumpkin hats with facts about pumpkins - I let them loose on this one, no guidance at all - so it was interesting to read their facts!</div>
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After lunch, we became scientists and mathematicians! We covered our tables and pulled out our pumpkins. A couple had rotted, so I was glad I had extras so that each table could have one.</div>
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For each activity, they would estimate and then actually measure/count.</div>
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So we started by estimating the height of their pumpkins using unifix cubes, tens sticks, as well as inches. Then they got to use the tools to measure. We haven't covered measurement this year, so considering that, they did well with this activity.</div>
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I LOVED how this table decided to measure the height of their pumpkin with the unifix cubes - I hadn't thought about going across to make sure that they had the height right.</div>
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We also measured the circumference of our pumpkins and talked about the right tool to measure around the pumpkin - and guess who forgot to bring the right tool to school?!?! This teacher! So, we modified and I pulled some old Christmas curling ribbon out of the closet, they worked together to measure around the pumpkin, and then cut it, and then we laid it up against a yardstick (or 2!) to find their circumference.</div>
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After measuring the height and circumference, we moved on to weighing our pumpkins. Unfortunately, but fortunately, the scale I ordered to weigh our pumpkins did arrive in time (it came today - ugh!). BUT, since our school nurse is directly across the hall and she has a doctor's office scale in her room, she was nice enough to let us pull it in the hall to weigh our pumpkins and it actually turned out better! So Nurse Sami for the win!!</div>
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After each group weighed their pumpkin we ranked them from lightest to heaviest. Two groups were tied at 11 pounds, followed by an 19 pounder, and our biggest pumpkin at 22 pounds!</div>
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We then did a quick Sink or Float experiment with a big storage box full of water and one of the pumpkins. Almost all of them thought it would sink, so it ended up being a good lesson about how the inside is hollow and the air keeps it from sinking below the surface.</div>
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Then, came the most time consuming, and loud part of our afternoon - cutting the pumpkins open and counting all the seeds. As I carved each table's pumpkin open, I talked to them about strategies for counting their seeds. They were going to put them in groups of ten, circle the ten, and then move on. That would help them when it came time for counting.</div>
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"YUCK! Pumpkin guts!"</div>
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"This feels awesome!"</div>
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"Cool!!"</div>
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And the counting begins...</div>
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By the time it was all said and done, this table came in at the winner with 583 seeds! Of course, it was the 22 pound pumpkin too!</div>
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Little tip for you - as I was helping this last group count their seeds, to make sure that we didn't count a group twice, as I helped them count, we moved 10 groups of 10 seeds into piles of 100. Then once we had all the groups grouped and counted, it was easy to count the hundreds, tens, and ones. Goes back to place value - wish I had thought of it WAY earlier to help the other groups count their seeds!</div>
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And that was our pumpkin week and day!</div>
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Did I get to everything I made for my Punkin' Day unit?</div>
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Did my kids have fun?</div>
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And those last two are what matters most. At the end of every special day like this, I always go "Why am I doing this to myself?" But then I have to think about these two last questions. If they learned something and they had fun, then it was worth it - messy floors and all. Seeing their excitement this week over something has simple as sprouting pumpkin seeds made me realize why I went into teaching. They were exploring something new and that was so exciting for them and me.</div>
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Where did I get all of these activities for Pumpkin Week from you ask?</div>
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You can find them in my<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Its-Punkin-Day-Hands-on-activities-for-a-day-or-week-of-Pumpkin-Fun-2108801"> It's Punkin' Day</a> unit in my TPT Store!</div>
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