A wonderful teacher over at Proteacher shared about the latest Dollar Days...
I've written about my math games and manipulatives before so I don't want to go on too long here...I have a bunch of files to share within those links (for the game baskets and playing cards labels...for EDM).
It's the beginning of a new trimester and I am updating the way I keep my grades.
Last night, I posted about storing extra papers so students could find them if needed (you can see that post here).
It's a busy time of year...science fair, field trips, fifth grade activities...lots of stuff going on! This means lots of papers going home and (in the case of my class, at least) lots of extra papers floating around.
I have mailboxes (aka shoe organizers) for work/forms to be sent home. I usually stuff the extra papers in one slot of the mailbox. But that makes it kind of hard to find certain forms (like those elusive Science Fair papers everyone suddenly needs!).
I've shared a bit about the leveled part of my classroom library in past posts (Leveled Bins and Leveled Labels).
You know how when you click on an image in Blogger, it enlarges? Well, I love that feature for photographs, since you can see even more details in the picture.
This is for a good bloggy friend ;) As you might have noticed, I LOVE having tons of pictures on my blog. I like to keep my pictures balanced with my text...so the text never seems too lengthy and there are plenty of visuals. Must be the ELL teacher in me!
Sometimes older is better. In the case of Blogger pictures, I like the "Old Editor" version. It is easier for me to type my text next to my pictures (more about that further down...).
Our school Science Fair is fast approaching and many of my ELL students are anxious to participate! I love this because, for many of them, this will be their first science fair!
Hi everyone!! Here is Part II of my Word Detectives resource. You can read about Part I here.
This is for my good bloggy friend and fellow ELL teacher Ms. M...and anyone else who would like to use this category as well.
One of the many challenges with my older ELL newcomers is that they have to learn so many different aspects of language that younger students often have already learned. Many of them already have this knowledge in their primary language...it's just a matter of touching upon it or introducing it in English.
This system was inspired by Mrs. Patton over at Patton's Patch. Check out her post on linking spelling to reading here!
At the copier this morning, I found an old vocabulary graphic organizer. It was that one with "definition, picture example, and non-example". I had forgotten about this type of organizer and tried it out with my class this morning. They loved it!
This is Jack. He is 9 years old and still acts like a puppy!! He is ALWAYS happy and continually wagging his tail. I swear he has the biggest heart.
This is Nick. He is Jack's brother. He is enormous and so sweet and gentle. He makes a funny snoring noise with his nose when he wants attention. And he LOVES the snow...especially burrowing in it!
And the newest addition to our family...Phoebe! This is an older picture--she is 11 months old today!! Phoebe is an absolute wild child. She rules the roost among the boy dogs and is really smart! It took the boys awhile to get used to her, but they just love her now.
(though as I post this, she is driving Jack nuts!)
I would love to see your pets too! Link up and share your furry friends! :)
This post is for the wonderful Erica Bohrer from Erica Bohrer's First Grade! I just love her blog, she has many amazing resources!
To organize your blog by labels, go to the Gadgets tool in your sidebar. Select "Add A Gadget".
From the gadgets list, choose "Labels".
Now you will see some different choices for displaying your labels...I like to sort mine by frequency so readers can see what is posted the most first. I also like the list format. I try to keep my label list pretty short (but it's really hard to do!) so I can keep it displayed as a list, but not too long of a list!
There are a couple of ways to label your posts. The easiest of choices is to use the box at the bottom of your posting screen and just type in a label name. It will be loaded automatically into your Labels widget...as long as you selected "All labels" in the Configuration screen.
to maintain them. All you have to do is enter the first character or so of your label name and the full name will automatically pop up! Then, you can just click on the name and you're good to go.
You might wonder why you want to do this. I like to use tables because they allow me to have lots of websites and information on my classroom blog...without making my students have to scroll down tons of page.
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