tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75371332431222406742024-03-13T10:44:52.071-07:00Southern Fried TeachinA blog for educators to find teaching ideas, tips, tricks, and inspirationAngela Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07739637263310484794noreply@blogger.comBlogger152125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537133243122240674.post-3376337768721029462017-08-25T09:58:00.002-07:002017-08-26T13:49:40.726-07:00A Listable...Tips for Parents at Home in Math and Reading<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I taught for years in Title 1 schools, where it was sometimes hard to get parents involved with their kid's education. I truly believe it's not because they didn't want to help their child...I believe it's because they didn't quite know how. Let's face it....school is much different than 20 or 30 years ago.<br />
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So I have created a listable of tips for sharing with your parents. I like to pass these out at parent conferences.<br />
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Valerie at <a href="http://www.allstudentscanshine.com/2014/04/reading-at-home-tips-for-parents.html">All Students Can Shine</a> shares a wonderful printable "Reading at Home" sheet with tips for improving fluency and comprehension. Thank you Valerie!<br />
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Lyndsey at <a href="http://www.ayearofmanyfirsts.com/2013/05/summer-review-websites-for-kids/">A Year of Many Firsts</a> shares a fabulous list of 10 free learning websites for kids at home. Dude. This is awesome! Thank you Lyndsey!</div>
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Julie from <a href="http://blog.maketaketeach.com/dolch-220-sight-word-assessment/">Make, Take, & Teach</a> has some great ideas on learning sight words. Love these ideas!<br />
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I heard so many times from my students that they didn't read because "we had to visit my grandma in the hospital", "I had soccer practice", "I didn't have time". Parents HAVE to know how invaluable reading is. There is just nothing that compares to reading every day.<br />
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This visual is wonderful to share with parents. I don't know about you, but I'm a total visual learner and understand things SO much better when I see it all laid out. Click on the image to have it blown up. I would have it up on my laptop to show parents. Credit goes to <a href="http://www.usd343.net/vnews/display.v/ART/5060992ac7eb2">Perry Public Schools of Kansas</a>.<br />
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I love a good game. And using games in reading? BONUS! Jodie from <a href="http://Growing Book by Book">Growing Book by Book</a> has 4 fun reading games that parents can play with their child. And what's great is that they use a muffin tin, which you can get at the dollar store!<br />
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Selfies are the rage nowadays, so why not use this with your parents? <a href="http://imgur.com/OqVhQk9">Math Teachers are Hip</a> shares this fantabulous and hilarious way to solve math problems. I think it's a great way to show parents that math problems are not one-step problems. They involve critical thinking, sometimes guessing and checking, persevering, and explaining.<br />
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Looking for some math printables for your parents to use at home? <a href="http://Growing Smart Kids">Growing Smart Kids</a> has several free math printables for you to print out for your parents or for you to share the site with your parents so they can print them out.<br />
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Some of the printables included: fraction strips, number lines, hundreds chart, number cards, tangrams, place value mat, and more.<br />
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Looking for some ideas on how to get your parents more involved? Carla at <a href="http://www.comprehensionconnection.net/2014/04/think-about-it-thursday-parents-as.html">Comprehension Connection</a> has some fab ideas on how to increase parent involvement. These are some great ideas. Thank you Carla!<br />
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I created this <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Parent-Tips-Handouts-2048035">Parent Pack</a> to pass out to my parents at parent conferences, and they really appreciated all the tips, strategies, and easy-to-implement games that they could easily do at home with little or no preparation.<br />
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I included three different easy-to-implement math games, using only dice and deck of cards.<br />
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Answers to the question "How can I work with my child in math?"<br />
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I teach one of my favorite games for practicing math facts...Eggo.<br />
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Answers to the question "How can I work with my child in reading?". Included are three different super simple ways to help kids in reading. I've used these strategies for years, and kids and parents all love them because not only are they easy to do but they are also fun.<br />
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What are some of your favorite tips for parents helping their child at home?<br />
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Angela Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07739637263310484794noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537133243122240674.post-46361862073170995152017-08-07T18:13:00.002-07:002017-08-07T18:13:19.997-07:00Fun and creative ways to partner students<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I use cooperative learning every single day in my classroom. Sometimes in every subject.<br />
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I always set up my classroom so that each student always had a partner. However, sometimes I liked to change things up and pair them up differently. I mean wouldn't you get tired of working with the same person day in and day out?<br />
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What I LOVE about these ways to partner students is that it gets them all up out of their seats and moving around the classroom. Anything that gets students up and moving is a win in my book.<br />
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Basically if you have 20 students, then you would need 10 pairs. 24 students, then 12 pairs. Pass out one card to each student. When you say "GO", students stand up and walk around the room trying to find their partner. When they find their partner, you can have them stand together, high five each other, or sit down.<br />
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If you have an odd number of students, then you get to play too. And when it's time for them to sit down and get to work with their partner, then either they can pick which partner pair to work with or you can pick for them.<br />
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You can use playing cards and have students find their matching number. If you wanted a group, then find four Kings, Aces, etc.<br />
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I created these <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pick-a-Partner-Cards-for-Cooperative-Learning-2604791">Pick a Partner Cards</a> for my classroom since my students were so visual. They absolutely LOVED them and requested that I use them all the time. I included 108 card pairs so I could easily rotate them and they wouldn't get bored. I also included holiday ones to use during the holidays. One of my favorite things about them is that I included places from around the world, and they often had to ask about it and where it was. For this teacher who has traveled to many places around the world, it made me heart smile.<br />
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We as teachers know that reading at home is crucial to becoming a better reader.<br />
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If you're like me, you have used one of these.<br />
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I used a reading log like this for years and didn't think twice about it. However, I did think it was interesting that most of my students read exactly 30 minutes every night. Who reads exactly 30 minutes?<br />
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Instead of using the tired, boring reading log, here are some alternatives you can use.<br />
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Have you ever heard of Choice Boards? What's the big deal with them? Why should you use them in the classroom? Click <a href="http://southernfriedteachin.blogspot.com/2017/07/why-use-choice-boards.html">HERE</a> to read my post on the top ten reasons for using Choice Boards.<br />
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Basically each choice board has 9 activities or projects to choose from. You can have the students do as little or as many as you want, and you enforce that students do one or two activities in particular if you choose. You can have the Choice Boards be independent projects or partner projects.<br />
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Included are Choice Boards for fiction, nonfiction, and mixed.<br />
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Students LOVE them because they get to CHOOSE which project to do. When students get to choose something in their learning, then they get excited about their learning.<br />
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Here are a couple of choice board activities that my students have done.<br />
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Choice Boards are great alternatives to reading logs because they are so versatile. They provide choice and differentiation for students, and you can diversify them for your classroom's needs. You can also assign a certain number of projects to students to complete in a certain amount of time, and you can also cut down the number of options for students with special needs, maybe giving them three options for them to choose from.<br />
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I also have monthly choice Choice Boards with reading stems where students can choose a stem to respond to.<br />
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Weekly Reading Homework Charts are a simple way to have students do reading homework!<br />
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Each weekly reading homework chart has 5 days for homework, including:<br />
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There are 4 weekly reading homework charts for each month:<br />
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<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/stephaniewhalenportfolio/home/reading">Mrs. Whalen's Classroom</a> has a great anchor chart for students to use when writing about reading. This would be great to hang in the classroom for students to use during independent reading or reading stations. It could also be great to reproduce this chart for students to glue into their notebooks so they could use it at home as well.<br />
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As you're reading the book, stop every now and then and "say something". You can write down thoughts, feelings, questions, predictions, connections, etc. One box = one say something.<br />
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This one is very simple. All you have to do is have the students divide each page in half (you can have them do the whole journal in the beginning...put some fun music on and let them jam out). Each day students write the date and write about what they read. You can have them write a summary or have them write their thoughts on what they read. Easy peasy!</div>
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Reading Response Choices are great for student choice, creativity, and differentiation. You can use them with ANY book, even the textbook. They are great for whole class, small groups, literacy stations, and especially homework. There are 14 different responses, all of which require critical thinking and students to explain their thinking.<br />
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A choice board is included, which includes all 14 reading responses to choose from and a "free choice" one as well. You can have the students do as little or as many as you want, and you enforce that students do one or two activities in particular if you choose. You can have the choice board be independent projects or partner projects.<br />
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You can have your students work on their reading responses during Daily 5, small group reading instruction, or assign them for homework.<br />
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This is a super simple reading response strategy that can be used during reading or after reading. It can be used in any subject and with any book. I've used it in reading, science, and social studies and with picture books, chapter books, articles, and textbooks.<br />
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I wish I was one of those awesome teachers who used Google Docs on a regular basis. I would be the hip teacher. But alas....I am not. I am hip in other ways. Incorporating Google Docs is one of my teaching goals, and I found a fabulous post shared on <a href="http://theelementaryentourage.blogspot.com/2016/04/going-green-using-google-forms-to.html">The Elementary Entourage</a> from Hannah at The Friendly Teacher on using Google Docs for reading responses. She shares exactly how to get started and set them all up. Hannah, you rock! I totally want to implement this!<br />
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Kids love index cards, and they are cheap...that's a win-win in my book! I have the students get one index card (you can do two index cards if you want them to hang them up for display). After reading a part of the book or the whole book, they write about what they read on one side and draw a picture on the other side. These are great for using them for book talks or having students share about their book with their partners or groups.<br />
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There are so many things to hang up in your math classroom. So WHY do you need to hang up problem solving posters too?<br />
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Teaching math today is not what it used to be when I started teaching 20 years ago. How I miss those days. Math today involves so much more critical thinking and problem solving than the simple one-step problems when I was in school. We have to teach our students how to problem solve. We have to teach our students how to rethink a problem when they first don't get the solution.<br />
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I have found in solving problems in math, many students don't know where to even start.<br />
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That's when problem solving posters can really come in handy.<br />
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Included are 16 problem solving posters which can hung around the room or even printed out 4 to a page for students to glue in their math notebooks.<br />
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I am big on modeling how to do things, so I would model each of these strategies for my students with a sample problem. Students have seen some of these strategies before, but they honestly don't know how to use them themselves.<br />
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I also really like poster on mistakes. I think kids need to know that mistakes aren't bad. Not bad at all. Mistakes are ok and not something to be ashamed for...after all that's why God invented erasers!<br />
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This idea is from <a href="http://Math Equals Love">Math Equals Love</a> and she has a lot of good problem solving ideas.<br />
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Does the word "RESEARCH" invoke fear? Anxiety? Uneasiness? Panic? Terror?<br />
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Especially when it comes to having your students research?<br />
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Do you have your students research different states?<br />
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This will make research fun and enjoyable for your students. REALLY!<br />
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Here's what some students had to say about my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Country-Research-Project-Posters-2592544">Country Research Project Posters</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Perfect! Really helped my kids stay organized and asking the right questions." </span></span><br />
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All 50 states are included.<br />
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I also included a student-friendly bibliography page so students can cite all their sources.<br />
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They fit in a lot of information within these two papers! And what's great is that they look perfect on a big 12x18 piece of construction paper and displayed on a bulletin board or in the hallway!<br />
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I also have the same kind of research projects for countries. Check them out <a href="http://southernfriedteachin.blogspot.com/2016/06/country-research-projects.html">HERE</a>.<br />
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Angela Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07739637263310484794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537133243122240674.post-56520735198290835782017-07-20T16:31:00.001-07:002017-07-27T06:11:55.470-07:00Why use choice boards?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I LOVE LOVE LOVE using choice boards with my students.<br />
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Here are my TOP 10 reasons why I love using choice boards in my classroom.<br />
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I use choice boards in every subject, with several different grade levels.<br />
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Here's an example of some of my choice boards in math, reading, and science.<br />
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A big reason I love using them is that they work with students of different abilities. For students that are struggling somewhat, I might pair them up with a partner and narrow down the choices to 2 or 3 instead of 9. For my higher students, they love the freedom in being able to do more creative projects. Some of the stuff they have come up with is amazing. I just love seeing their creativity shine through.<br />
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Here are some of the choice board projects that my third grade students have created. They absolutely loved working on them and creating them.<br />
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These students created little books on the rain forest.<br />
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She created a foldable and designed it all herself.<br />
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She wrote about the different connections she made while reading.<br />
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This student created a poster on multiplication and explained it in her own words and used pictures.<br />
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She created a math quiz on multiplication. The answer key was included as well.<br />
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I also use them for spelling homework and vocabulary practice. My students and parents loved them! I use many of the same activities and rotate them throughout the year so that they could feel confident in the activities but still have choice.<br />
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Yes, I know it's been a LONNNNNNNG time since you've seen me on here.<br />
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A LOT has happened.<br />
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I got married.<br />
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Hubby got mobilized for active duty.<br />
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I resigned from my teaching job.<br />
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We moved from the big Dallas/Fort Worth area to a small town two hours away.<br />
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This city girl life is not used to the country life, but I am loving it. Our little town has no chain restaurants and only two main places to shop, but I do not miss the big city. Or the traffic. Or the construction.<br />
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The one bad things about moving here is that my allergies have gone NuTS. Just haywire. I've never gone through so much Zyrtec and Kleenex.<br />
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I pray it gets better. Hopefully I won't have to wait until winter when everything dies.<br />
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I wanted to share what I've been working on.<br />
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As you know, I LOVE to travel and love photography. I love incorporating my travel and photography into the classroom. Teaching in Texas many of my students have not traveled outside of their small bubble. They think that Six Flags over Texas is a big place to go into and haven't even thought about traveling to a place like China or Peru. I want to show them that there is a whole world out there just waiting to be explored. The photographs included are all ones taken by me on my travels around the world.<br />
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Here's one week looks like. This photo was taken in Thailand when my friend and I got a Thai pedicure. I was pretty excited about it, but my friend was terrified. She literally closed her eyes and screamed a little for the first five minutes. The fish literally eat the dead skin off your feet. Talk about tickling!<br />
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The photographs were taken in countries all over the world.<br />
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I also included large color photos for each week so you won't have to worry about wasting your color ink on the student pages. These would be great under the document camera or in a station. I would definitely laminate them beforehand because we all know how dirty little hands can be.<br />
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Are you traveling somewhere this summer? Let me know where! I am a little addicted to traveling (as if you couldn't tell), and I won't be going anywhere big this summer.<br />
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Angela Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07739637263310484794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537133243122240674.post-46309004436350025932016-12-11T15:11:00.001-08:002016-12-11T15:11:29.068-08:00I'm getting married!!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
That's right! I'm getting married!<br />
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I have waited a LONG LONG time to meet the man of my dreams. When I say a long time, I'm not exaggerating.<br />
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But he was SO worth it! I feel so incredibly blessed.<br />
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We got engaged about a month ago in San Francisco and am getting married a little less than a month away. Yes, I know. I'm a little nuts. But when you know you know, and we're both older. So why wait?<br />
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So that's why I haven't blogged much lately. Planning a wedding in two months and having a BUSY stressful year teaching has taken all my time.<br />
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Trying to keep things simple and not stressing out about the little things. Because it's not about the wedding. That's only one day. It's about the marriage.<br />
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Those of you who are married, do you have any marriage advice to share?<br />
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Some of my students struggle with reading. Looking around the room, looking at the back cover, looking at the front cover, looking around the room again, etc....sound familiar to any of your students?<br />
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So we decided to create mini anchor charts on what reading looks like and what it doesn't look like. They did great with it, and it was so simple to have them do. The only materials were a half sheet of white paper and their pencils and crayons. Easy peasy!<br />
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Here are a few of my favorites. We had a class discussion on it, and they came up with most of the descriptions themselves. I think they did pretty good!<br />
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I taught my students a couple of strategies to help them during silent reading. I had them try each strategy, and if one worked for them then use it.<br />
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<li>Whisper reading - I taught my students to mouth the words or whisper them quietly enough so that only they can hear themselves and no one else.</li>
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<a href="http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/post/2016/05/25/how-i-made-in-class-silent-reading-work-for-me">We Are Teachers</a> has some great ideas to help students during silent reading.<br />
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One of their suggestions is to have some pillows and cushions for students to use during reading. Although I am concerned that my students will play around or fall asleep, I might be picking up some pillows and cushions at Walmart today.<br />
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Here is another idea that I totally want to try! Every student would have to bring their own flashlight which if I demonstrated it once then I don't think it would be a problem. I would love to give credit to the person that thought of this idea, but I can't find it.<br />
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Three weeks have school have now gone by. And I FINALLY feel like I can breathe long enough to sit down and actually blog. WHOA.<br />
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PLEASE tell me that I'm not the only one who feels like this!<br />
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Here are some pics of my new classroom. I am teaching 5th grade self-contained this year, and I love my class. They are challenging (they LOVE LOVE LOVE to talk), but I look forward to seeing them every day.<br />
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Fifth graders are at an important age...when they are trying to decide the person they want to be and the dreams they want to pursue. I wanted to use my classroom to inspire my students. I wanted to inspire them to go to college, to travel, and to not give up.<br />
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Here are some ways I used my classroom to inspire my kiddos.<br />
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I went to Texas A&M University and am all about <strike>brainwashing</strike> inspiring my students to go to my college. Even if they don't go to Texas A&M, I still want them to start thinking about college. This is my bulletin board in the hallway outside my classroom for hanging student work.<br />
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These three areas are for anchor charts, vocabulary words, and student work in each of the subject areas. It's at the back of the classroom.<br />
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This is my inspiration wall right when you walk into my classroom. As my students line up, they often look at the wall. In fact I saw one of them reading one of the posters today. These are in my TpT store if you're interested in getting some for your own classroom. Click <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Failures-of-Famous-People-Bulletin-Board-1357419">HERE</a>.<br />
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Here is the front of my classroom. I found this quote on another blog and loved it so much that I made it for my own classroom.<br />
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Here is the side wall of my classroom. I LOVE all the cubbies! Now you would think that these would be perfect for my students' textbooks and backpacks, but I didn't want to give up the storage! So my students keep their textbooks inside their desks and their backpacks in a huge tub at the front of the classroom. And I get to keep my cubbies!<br />
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Here is a up close pic of my college area. I told you that I went to Texas A&M University and am a HUGE Aggie! I wasn't kidding!<br />
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My reading area....I wanted to incorporate my travel photos from around the world somehow and inspire them. I think I did the trick.<br />
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This is my favorite inspiration area in my classroom....where I share about my dream. I really had always wanted to live in another country, and I got to when I taught English in Korea. BEST experience of my life! I also have my scarf I wore this past summer when I was in Poland watching the Euro Cup and photos from my past travel experiences. My students just love to look at my photos. I often get "Where's that picture from? What is that? Where is that? and You've been everywhere!" I love it! I don't remember any of my teachers sharing their travel experiences with me. Maybe if they had I wouldn't have waited until I was 26 and my mom had just died to finally decide to just do it and travel.<br />
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Books that are falling apart and need to go to the hospital?<br />
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I am heading back into the classroom next year and am pretty much starting from scratch when it comes to my classroom library. I am scouring all the thrift stores looking for books for my classroom library. As you know many thrift store books have seen better days, with tears and rips on the covers.<br />
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All you need for your book repair toolkit are worn-out books, Contact paper, and scissors. That's it!<br />
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Step one:<br />
Lay out your book and cut along a line on the Contact paper, leaving about an inch on the top and bottom of the book.<br />
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The Contact paper has lines which makes it super easy to cut a straight line.<br />
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Put the book, spine down, in the middle of the Contact paper. Draw a line at the top and bottom of the spine. Then cut out a space for the spine. Notice I cut it wider than the actual spine.<br />
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The Contact paper will have a big hole at the top middle and bottom middle.<br />
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Step three:<br />
Start peeling back the paper gently. I like to put the book on the opposite side and pull it back starting at the bottom corner.<br />
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Place the book in the middle of the Contact paper with the spine lining up with your "holes". Then slowly press the back cover down onto the Contact paper.<br />
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Cut out a rectangle from the top and bottom edge like shown below.<br />
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Flap over the top and bottom, pressing down at the edges to seal. Then flap over the side, pressing down the edges to seal. I start at the middle and press outward to not have any bubbles.<br />
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Repeat on the other side.<br />
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Here is what your book will look like in the end. Doesn't it look much better?<br />
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The torn edges are now protected with the Contact paper which means it will last a lot longer and you won't have to worry about it falling apart!<br />
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So binge watch your favorite show on Netflix and get going on repairing your old and worn out books!<br />
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Btw....I'm watching one of my favorite cheesy movies on Netflix....Grease 2.<br />
I want a C-O-O-L...R-I-D-E-R.<br />
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Long time no see! As I hope you are doing, I'm busy enjoying my summer!<br />
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I have been relaxed with the pups, gone to the aquarium, shopped with friends, binge watched How to Get Away with Murder (this show is addicting by the way), and gone to several concerts including the Oak Ridge Boys.<br />
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My new city puts on these free outdoor concerts. Last Friday my friend and I went to hear Humming House, a band I'd never heard of.<br />
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They. Were. Amazing.<br />
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Just listen to them sing Billie Jean.<br />
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They were so good that I bought a CD that night and came home and immediately bought their other albums on iTunes. Wow!<br />
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In between all the fun I've had I worked a little on a new project.<br />
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Do you have your students research different countries? When I taught 6th grade social studies, I had my students choose a country and research it. They then had to use their research and create a poster on it. Some of their projects were not the neatest, so I had the idea of creating these posters.<br />
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I wanted to create something that was student-friendly, making it super easy for students to figure out what to specifically research. Many times if you have students research something they have NO idea where to start. This resource gives them a really good place to start.<br />
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They fit in a lot of information within these two papers! And what's great is that they look perfect on a big 12x18 piece of construction paper and displayed on a bulletin board or in the hallway!<br />
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I also have the same research projects for states. Check them out <a href="http://southernfriedteachin.blogspot.com/2017/07/state-research-projects.html">HERE</a>.<br />
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We as teachers have a huge impact in our students' lives. We teach them, we listen to them, we nurture them, and we inspire them. Our students often come to use unmotivated...unmotivated to do their homework, unmotivated to study for tests, unmotivated to do their best.<br />
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So how do we inspire our students?<br />
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Author and speaker Zig Ziglar says, "People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing -- that's why we recommend it daily."<br />
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Here are some different ways we as teachers can motivate our students. Hopefully you can find at least one new way to motivate your students!<br />
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1. My number one way for inspiring students is let them know you value them as a person, not as number for your testing data. Ask them questions about themselves. Notice things about them....even if it seems little to you it may not be little to them. I'll never forget a student that I had in 5th grade, the year I did student teaching. We didn't know it at the time, but his mom was very sick. He would often forgo showering so that his mom could use the soap and shampoo and be clean when she went to the doctor. One day I had talked to him and just placed my hand on his shoulder. I don't even remember what I said. But he told my mentor teacher that that had meant the world to them...that he knew I cared about him. Sometimes it's the little things.<br />
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2. Talk less. You know how you go to teacher inservice meetings and are bored to tears because the presenter just stands up there talking? The. Whole. Time. And you're so bored that you could scream? That's what happens to our students. Let them talk and discuss and share with their peers. Discussing things gets you to think about what you feel and think.<br />
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3. Create an inspiration board. Include inspirational posters that you have found and have your students bring in quotes, photos, etc. that motivate and inspire them. One of the teachers in my school has an inspiration board when you first walk in her classroom, and I just love it.<br />
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4. Do a "Quote of the Week" or "Quote of the Day" in your classroom. Throughout the week talk about the quote...what it means to you and how it inspires you. Use the quote to spark a great discussion.<br />
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5. Using quotes from famous people, have your students research the famous person. Why do they think this person wrote that quote? What do you think it meant to them?<br />
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6. Create a mini book or such on inspirational quotes. Introduce new quotes and have your students write and illustrate them in their mini book.<br />
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7. Talk about your own learning. I am always striving to learn new things. Whether it be about a place I am traveling to, learning how to cook new foods, learning a new skill or hobby, etc. I LOVE to travel, and I LOVE to talk about the places I've traveled to. Traveling to new places always inspires me to learn more about that place. I traveled to Auschwitz and Birkenau and couldn't wait to learn more about it. Your students will see and feel your passion and will be changed because of it.<br />
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8. Have you heard about Growth Mindset? It's a way to get your students thinking differently. I love it. It really does get your students to think and reflect...and to not give up when the going gets tough. It's a whole new way of thinking. It not only helps them think about the current task but also will help them in their future. Here's a poster to share what it's all about.<br />
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I LOVE this "not yet" concept in this video. I am definitely going to teach my students NOT YET next year!<br />
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If you're looking for more Fixed vs. Growth Mindset activities, <span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I have a set <span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 16.003px;">Growth vs. Fixed Mindset sort cards and wall display cards for your bulletin board. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 16.003px;">Give them the yellow word sort cards and have them sort or categorize them into fixed or growth statements. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; line-height: 16.003px;">Then you can use the red fixed (red for STOP) and green growth (green for GROWTH or GO) cards for a bulletin in your classroom to remind students the difference between growth and fixed mindset statements.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #202020; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="line-height: 16.003px;">10. Hang inspirational quotes and pictures in your classroom. Quotes and photographs can help trigger two things in our minds. When you pair a quote with a photograph it helps reach more than one place in the brain. I myself am a visual learner so seeing a picture or photograph really helps it sink in. </span></span><br />
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The testing season is over. No more cramming for THE big test.<br />
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It's the end of the year, and you've still got to teach the kiddos and keep them thinking, learning, and creating.<br />
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I have put together this list of fun and engaging activities for the end of the year.<br />
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1. Math games - Put all of the main math topics that you've covered this year into a hat. Let each child pick a topic and create a board game on that topic. I have my students create at least 24 question cards (they need to be up to your standards, so you might want to check them after 1 or 2 questions) and a game board. It can be a fun themed game board like the jungle or circus. My students LOVED to make games like this!<br />
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2. Fractured fairy tales - Have the students choose a fairy tale. Then they rewrite the fairy tale, making it fractured. Change the characters, the setting, point of view, or plots. I'm sure you've heard of the The True Story of the Three Little Pigs. That's a fractured fairy tale. I did this years ago, and my students loved it! A couple of my students changed the setting to today's time, and they were hilarious. I had them create picture books with their fractured fairy tale and then present it to the class. Great fun!<br />
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3. Be the teacher - Brainstorm a list of all the topics that were covered this year. Have students choose one of the topics and create a lesson to teach it to the class. They have to create the lesson and the materials and then present it to the class. Have you ever heard of this before? Pretty profound.<br />
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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">4. ABC book - Create an ABC book on how to survive the 4th grade (or whatever grade/subject you teach). Come up with something for each letter of the alphabet and then illustrate it.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">5. Classroom awards - Instead of buying awards for your students and having to choose them yourself, have your students come up with the awards (all positive of course). They will probably come up with some pretty creative awards, maybe ones you've never heard of. Then either they can vote for each student/award (every student should get one), or they can each choose who gets what and deliver them themselves. Makes it very personal when they do that.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">6. Game day - Have your students bring in game boards and have some good game time. Game boards encourage bonding and problem solving. I grew up playing games, and many of our students today don't play games at home. They will love you for it!</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">7. Scrabble tournament - Put all those learned vocabulary words to good use! Bring in some Scrabble games and have a tournament. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">8. Literature circles and book clubs - Choose some books (4-6 books) and let your students choose a book to read. Students meet up with their book club and discuss the parameters....how many chapters to read, what they are going to discuss, etc. Give them the ownership and let them have fun with it.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">9. Brochure - create a brochure for future students on how to survive the 4th grade (or whatever grade/subject you teach). Include what they need to know, what they will learn, tips, and advice.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">10. Compliment day - Have students write their name at the top of a piece of paper. Pass the paper to the person next to them. That student starts at the bottom and writes a one line compliment. </span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Encourage them to not focus on physical characteristics.</span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;"> </span><span style="line-height: 20.8px;">Then they fold up the bottom of the paper, covering their words, and pass the paper to the next students. Another way I've done it is to have my students write all the students' names on a paper. They write a compliment next to each name. Then cut out each line. Call each student's name out and everyone brings them their compliment line. Students glue each compliment line onto a big piece of construction paper. Each student will go home with a page of compliments. What a way to build their self esteem!</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">11. Class Jeopardy - Create a class Jeopardy game together. Put students into groups, with each group having a different subject area (if you are self-contained). If not give each group a separate topic that was covered this year. Have groups create Jeopardy questions and answers for the class game and input them into a class Jeopardy powerpoint.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">12. Reading/Math buddies - Team up with a younger or older class and practice reading or math. If you're an older class, your students can read with the younger ones. Teach your students to ask thinking and metacognition questions. They can even prepare some questions on cards. You can also play math games with the younger classes. Games for math facts would be perfect. Board games would even be great.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 20.8px;">13. Memory book - Have your students create an end of year memory book on this school year. It's a great way to reflect on the school year, thinking of everything they have learned, the friends they have made, the accomplishments they have made, and all the wonderful memories. You can create your own, or I have one that you could use too. All you have to do is print and copy! Check it out <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/End-of-Year-2543154">HERE</a>. </span></div>
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I have totally revised my Star Bucks due to copyright laws and wanted to share the new version with you! I think they turned out pretty darn cute! <br />
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I am a firm believer in having a positive reward system. Even as an adult, I love to hear positive things from my supervisors and colleagues. Kids are the exact same way. They want to be rewarded. I'm sure you have rules and consequences for your classroom. But do you have a reward system? I personally cannot imagine teaching without one.<br />
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I have done many things as a reward system in the classroom. Passing out tickets (carnival tickets) where the students put their name/number on the back, merit money, etc.<br />
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A couple of years ago I came up with Star Bucks. They used the Star Wars characters, with each dollar denomination having a different character. To make it easier, I printed them out in colored paper, with each denomination having a different color. (Disney bought the rights to Star Wars, which means that we can no longer use any Star Wars clip art without violating copyright laws.) So...I totally revamped them with a space theme. Love the new clip art!<br />
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Star Bucks made my life easier. I never went back to another system.<br />
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My students LOVED it! I passed out Star Bucks for great behavior, going above and beyond on their homework, coming to Open House or Meet the Teacher (I taught in Title 1 schools where it was tough to get parents to come), doing great on quizzes and tests, being respectful and helpful to one another, etc. Be creative!<br />
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Included are denominations from 1 Star Buck to 10,000 Star Bucks. Hey...you know you have those kids who will earn 10,000 Star Bucks by just being them! They are those students who always do the right thing. And why shouldn't they be rewarded?<br />
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Now students can owe you bucks as well. Together as a class, come up with a list of "no no's" and how much each "no no" would cost.<br />
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Every Friday, my students could trade in their bucks at the bank. Star Bucks help reinforce place value too. Hey! You didn't know these were great for math too, right?<br />
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Once we had had Bank a couple of weeks, I chose 2-3 students to be the bankers. They took their job extremely seriously and it only helped to boost their math skills and confidence.<br />
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I also worked with my students to create a list of rewards that students could buy with their Star Bucks. I'm all about not spending any more money than I have to (if you're like any teacher I know, you spend hundreds of dollars already), so the rewards were all free. I also got some McDonald's toys from a friend of mine...her kids weren't playing with them anymore. I also let my students bring in things to sell. They loved that! I called it the student market, and they brought in books they had read, toys, things they had made...basically anything they wanted.<br />
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Oh, and if I ever forgot Bank, they would let me know!!!<br />
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One of my students' favorite game is I Have Who Has. They literally BEG me to play it.<br />
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They beg again and again and again.<br />
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And it's fine with me!<br />
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Why do I love this game?<br />
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<li>It's so easy to implement. </li>
<li>It works in ANY subject. </li>
<li>It's a quick and easy review. </li>
<li>And kids love it! </li>
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What more could you ask for in a game?<br />
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I have created a simple one-sheet template for I Have Who Has. It's perfect to print on card stock, cut out, and then keep in a baggie.<br />
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Click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_i4yIaRUJCzQXM2amNsOW5TUTQ/view?usp=sharing">HERE</a> for my free template in that you can use in your own classroom.<br />
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Do you teach math?<br />
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Click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_i4yIaRUJCzUFl5allsLWRBVk0/view?usp=sharing">HERE</a> for my free math vocabulary I Have Who Has game.<br />
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I use them often to review math facts in a quick couple of minutes. My students LOVED it and would beg to play again to beat their time.<br />
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I have addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and mixed facts, and I like to review them throughout the year. Even in our multiplication unit I like to review addition facts. You can check them out in my TPT store <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Southern-Fried-Teachin/Category/I-Have-Who-Has-137782">HERE</a>.<br />
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Here is a pic of my multiplication I Have Who Has game.<br />
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Have you played I Have Who Has in your classroom?<br />
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What topics do you play I Have Who Has with?<br />
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Angela Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07739637263310484794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537133243122240674.post-14164418259540247492016-03-31T16:45:00.003-07:002017-08-12T07:47:21.195-07:00Math Problem Solving Strategies<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
We hope every year that our students will come to us being excellent problem solvers. Right?<br />
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Sadly, that's not the case. We have to teach them to be good problem solvers.<br />
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We can't just give them one strategy because one strategy doesn't work with every single problem.<br />
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So we teach them multiple strategies, so they can choose to best one for each problem.<br />
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Through research and seeing how my students process their thoughts, I have put together a list of 16 problem solving strategies.<br />
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<u>Math Problem Solving Strategies</u><br />
~ Draw a picture<br />
~ Look for a pattern<br />
~ Guess, check, and revise<br />
~ Make a table or chart<br />
~ Make it simpler<br />
~ Make an organized list<br />
~ Use logical reasoning<br />
~ Work backwards<br />
~ Act it out<br />
~ Use a model<br />
~ Use a number line<br />
~ Part part whole<br />
~ Use key words<br />
~ Write a number sentence<br />
~ Use objects or manipulatives<br />
~ Make a flow chart<br />
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To teach these to my students, I show them a problem that would fit well for each strategy, and then we solve the problem together using that strategy. We do these in their notebooks, so they always have them to look back to.<br />
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I also created posters for each problem solving strategy to hang up in my classroom. Here are a few of them. I think they turned out pretty cute. You can find them <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Problem-Solving-Strategies-Posters-2138940">HERE</a>.<br />
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I included a half sheet for students to glue into their notebooks and a sheet where students can tell what their favorite strategies are.<br />
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To read more about WHY I believe problem solving posters are essential in the math classroom, read my post <a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7537133243122240674#editor/target=post;postID=6473775175120412947;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=2;src=link">HERE</a>.<br />
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Happy problem solving!<br />
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Oh, and by the way....I won't be able to blog for over a week. I'm going on a cruise to Key West and the Bahamas!<br />
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Bon voyage!<br />
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Angela Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07739637263310484794noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537133243122240674.post-890662502178113132016-03-22T20:03:00.004-07:002016-03-22T20:03:56.446-07:00The FuN way to clean the classroom<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It's the end of the day, and your classroom is a mess. There is trash ALL OVER the floor. What do you do?<br />
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I've got the answer! I learned this "game" years ago, and it's the best thing I have ever found for getting my classroom clean at the end of the day.<br />
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And the best part?<br />
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Kids LOVE it! They think it's awesome.<br />
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Kids love it so much that when I forget, they remind me. Seriously.<br />
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So here's how it works.<br />
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When it's time to clean up, you pick a piece of trash on the floor and announce that you have chosen the "magic piece of trash". It can big or small. To really make your kids work (especially when it's super messy), pick a piece of trash that's really tiny or hidden.<br />
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Then you say "go" and all the kids work to find the "magic piece of trash". They will get on their hands and knees to find it. It's awesome just to sit back and watch them clean your room.<br />
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I always watch to see who picks up the magic piece. Otherwise you'll have 20+ students coming up to you showing you their pieces of trash. I'll admit that sometimes I don't see who picks up the magic piece, so I'll have to look at their trash.<br />
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The winner in my classroom got <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/STAR-Bucks-Classroom-Economy-991072">Star Bucks</a>. I would give away a random number of Star Bucks...6, 9, 23 (if the piece of trash was hidden). They LOVED it!<br />
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You could use whatever classroom management system you use in your classroom...tickets, classroom cash, etc.<br />
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Let me know how it works!<br />
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Angela Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07739637263310484794noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7537133243122240674.post-46078844076387600052016-03-19T22:56:00.004-07:002016-03-19T22:59:08.265-07:00Mission: Jewelry Organization<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I have a confession to make.<br />
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I am a jewelry fanatic. I love jewelry.<br />
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I do. I really do.<br />
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I have a lot of jewelry.<br />
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A lot of necklaces. A lot of earrings. And some bracelets.<br />
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I had my necklaces in small snack-size baggies in my standing jewelry box. But I would always forget exactly which necklaces I had. So some necklaces felt left out and didn't get worn a lot.<br />
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I needed a solution. I needed to organize my jewelry.<br />
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Since I moved a couple of months ago and was decorating my house, I figured it was the perfect time for a change.<br />
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Here is my solution!<br />
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I went to <a href="http://www.lowes.com/pd_379352-1471-DN1824BRB_1z0x14w__?productId=3567428&pl=1">Lowe's</a> and bought a <a href="http://www.lowes.com/pd_379352-1471-DN1824BRB_1z0x14w__?productId=3567428&pl=1">towel bar</a> and <a href="http://www.lowes.com/pd_40370-336-96RBMV___?productId=3033127&pl=1&Ntt=shower+hooks">shower hooks</a>. These particular shower hooks are awesome because they are double, having a hook on the front and the back...which means MORE necklaces!<br />
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I had a friend help me hang the towel bar, and then I hung up the shower hooks and necklaces.<br />
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I LOVE it! It is so easy for me to pick and find a necklace to wear with my outfit! And I love that it looks like a work of art on my wall!<br />
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Then my friend had this awesome idea of hanging shelves to show off some of my vintage purses. My mom had all these awesome vintage purses, and I inherited them when she died. I am so glad my mom saved them. I also have a couple of purses from my travels.<br />
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Don't they look great?<br />
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And yes, that picture is of me. I was a flower girl in my aunt and uncle's wedding, and my mom had my picture taken in the dress....at Olan Mills of course! Remember Olan Mills?<br />
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Critical thinking is a big buzz word these days. With the standardized testing getting more challenging every year, incorporating critical thinking into our everyday curriculum and teaching has become a necessity.<br />
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OK. I agree, you say. Sounds good, you say.<br />
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But just HOW do you do that?<br />
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I've got an answer for you.<br />
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And it's simple.<br />
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And you can use this strategy for any subject.<br />
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And you can start using it tomorrow.<br />
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Raise your hand if you watched Sesame Street growing up.<br />
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Yes, I am totally raising my hand. I LOVED Sesame Street.<br />
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There was a song/game that they played on Sesame Street. It's one of those songs that gets in your head and won't go away. Don't you just love those songs?<br />
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This song/game is called "One of these things is not like the others". Simple concept, right?<br />
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I started using this strategy in my classroom several years ago, and wow....it made a huge difference. And it forced my students to think. Really think.<br />
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Let me show you some examples of how I use it in my classroom.<br />
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In 5th grade math with prime numbers - 28 does not belong because it's the only composite number<br />
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In 6th grade world cultures with forms of government<br />
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I would use them as warm-up questions, and I would make my students explain why their answer did not belong.<br />
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I have also created some task cards using the same cards. This really did help my students better understand their math facts.<br />
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This concept works with any topic and any subject. Here's something I created to help my students with finding the sums.<br />
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This concept is so easy to implement! Try it in your classroom...I'd love to hear how it goes!<br />
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St. Patrick's Day is right around the corner. I cannot believe it's almost April!<br />
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Looking for some fun classroom activities for St Patrick's Day?<br />
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1. Check out this fun "would you rather" <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/St-Patricks-Day-Would-You-Rather-Questions-119297">FREEBIE</a> from Rachel Lynette!<br />
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2. These <a href="http://happyhomefairy.com/2012/03/03/treasure-pots-a-fun-family-craft/">treasures</a> would make an adorable bulletin board!<br />
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3. Have your students <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/St-Patricks-Day-Make-A-Wish-Lucky-4-Leaf-Clover-1733499">Make a Wish</a> on a four leaf clover!<br />
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4. <a href="http://thebubblyblondeteacher.blogspot.com/2013/03/st-patricks-day-craftivity-free-writing.html?m=1">The Bubbly Blonde Teacher</a> has some adorable writing activities like this one which are perfect for St. Patrick's Day. Perfect for reinforcing figurative language!<br />
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5. Looking for some great read aloud books for March? <a href="http://www.peppyzestyteacherista.com/2016/02/books-teachers-love-march.html">HERE</a> is a fantastic list!<br />
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6. Looking for a fun math activity? Use Lucky Charms cereal to make a <a href="http://howtohomeschoolmychild.com/st-patricks-day-activities-lucky-charms/">graph</a>. Now why didn't I think of that?<br />
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7. Looking for some creative activities? I created a choice board for <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/St-Patricks-Day-2434435">St. Patrick's Day</a>, which includes 9 activities for students to choose from. They are great for creativity and differentiation. And not to mention students love to be able to choose!<br />
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Go wear green and enjoy St. Patrick's Day!<br />
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It's spring break here this week. And it's been raining.....<br />
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All. Week. Long.<br />
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I like the rain. Makes me feel all cozy. Like I want to watch some good reality TV and curl up with a blanket.<br />
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I don't have children that need to get their energy out.<br />
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But I do have dogs. Two in particular that do not like the rain too much.<br />
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Kobe is a hoot and just makes me laugh. He comes to the back door and sticks his head out, with his body halfway in and halfway out. He sees the rain, contemplates going outside, thinking "Do I really want to go out there?". And then....uh uh. I'll stay inside.<br />
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I don't know about you, but I sure am glad that my bathroom is inside!<br />
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I am excited to share that I got an interventionist job at a local elementary school. I am so excited to be working with kids again.<br />
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It's sharing time! Don't you know that sharing is caring?<br />
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I wanted to share how I teach skip counting and multiples. When I was in school, we wrote the multiples over and over again on a piece of paper.<br />
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Bor-ing. Right?<br />
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It doesn't have to be boring! Not at all!<br />
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First of all, I ALWAYS had multiple posters hung in my room. When I first started teaching, I used sentence strips hung vertically on the walls. Each sentence strip had a separate set of multiples.<br />
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However, then I learned how to do it even better than using sentence strips. I started grouping the multiples together. The posters are grouped in specific colors for a reason. When students see how they are connected, it helps them truly know the multiples. I saw that it really did make a difference.<br />
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I created these posters to use this year with my students. One set of posters for skip counting and one set for multiples.<br />
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These are great for hanging up in the classroom, printing 2 or 4 to a page and gluing them in notebooks, or projecting them up on the big screen.<br />
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Not only did we use the posters, we also always practiced our multiples using <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Skip-Counting-980983">funny voices</a>. We might say them like a country boy with a good ole twang. Or with a southern belle accent. Or like Dory when she spoke "whale" in Finding Nemo. My students always loved to practice their multiples, and it was never a chore or a "have-to" thing.<br />
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I put all the funny voices together into a FREEBIE! Go grab it <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Skip-Counting-980983">HERE</a>!<br />
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Here are some sample voices...<br />
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What I did was print them, laminate them, cut them out, and put them in a basket. When it was time to practice our multiples, I let one of my students pick a card out of the basket. Fun times!<br />
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Are you like me and don't watch the news? I don't watch the news because it's depressing. But it's also not a good thing because sometimes I don't know what's going on in the world.<br />
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I wish growing up in school that I had learned an appreciation for learning what's going on in the world around me. I didn't really start to desire that until I started traveling.<br />
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I have a great idea for getting your students engaged in learning about current events, in your neck of the woods, in your country, or even in other countries.<br />
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Have you ever used choice boards? I LOVE LOVE LOVE using choice boards in the classroom. Did I mention that I love them? Here are my top ten reasons for loving choice boards:<br />
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Top Ten reasons to ❤ choice boards!<br />
1. Students love to be able to make choices in their learning<br />
2. Allow for differentiation<br />
3. Allow for student choice<br />
4. Students can choose according to their multiple intelligence<br />
5. You can have the students do as little or as many as you want<br />
6. You can enforce that students do one or two activities in particular if you choose<br />
7. You can also differentiate among your students how many each activities to complete<br />
8. You can choose to assign them as homework or classwork<br />
9. Students love to be able to choose how they show you what they know<br />
10. Students love them!<br />
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With my current events choice board, you can have your students look for a current event either on the internet or the newspaper, and they choose 1 activity to do from the given 9 activities on the board. Scholastic News would be a great resource as well.<br />
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If you have a student who loves to draw, then they could choose to do a comic strip.<br />
If you have a student who loves to write, then they could choose to do the diary entries.<br />
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One tip I do have is to show them an example of what to expect. You could create an example beforehand or have one of your higher students or GT students do one of the activities as an example before you introduce it to the class. That way you won't have students completing an activity in 10 minutes.<br />
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To save paper you could make a class set and then either laminate them or have the students keep them in a sheet protector to use week after week.<br />
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So...building math fact fluency and automaticity. Is it important? I believe so.<br />
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A couple of years ago I was a math interventionist and worked with students in grades 2-5. I remember working with a couple of 2nd graders, and we were subtracting with regrouping. I only worked with them for 30 minutes, and sometimes we would only get through 2-3 problems. Why?<br />
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Because they didn't know their math facts. Even the simple ones like 6 + 1. Because they didn't know their math facts and had to use tally marks or count on their fingers for each problem, it took us a long time.<br />
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Same thing happened in 3rd grade. We were teaching multiplication in the use of tables. They didn't know their multiplication facts, so our whole 30 minutes was spent making tally marks or pictures to represent the multiplication problem.<br />
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Well what's wrong with that you say? Did they still get the correct answer? Most of the time yes.<br />
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But I believed the bigger problem was that they were spending so much time and energy trying to solve the math fact that they didn't have much energy left for the actual problem.<br />
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In Texas, we take the big STAAR test. Students have 4 hours....ONLY four hours....to complete the test. There are usually about 52-60 problems on the math test. If the students use a lot of that time to figure out simple math facts, then they don't have time to properly solve all the questions on the test.<br />
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So I came up with a plan.<br />
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Now normally plans for math fact fluency and automaticity are boring and put kids to sleep.<br />
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I wanted to create something that kids would love. Something that kids would look forward to. Something that kids would beg for.<br />
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So I created <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/3rd-Grade-Math-Facts-Fluency-Program-1160654">Army Math</a>.<br />
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If I somehow forgot Army Math one day, my students would remind me. It happened every single time! They LOVED it!<br />
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Each grade 1st-5th has a different program, with each grade having different goals.<br />
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Here is what is included in the 3rd Grade program:<br />
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4th and 5th grade also includes addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and mixed.<br />
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However, 1st and 2nd grade just includes addition, subtraction, and addition/subtraction mixed.<br />
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My students LOVED reaching their goal. We had a big class chart in my classroom to keep track.<br />
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They loved being able to see how they ranked with the class.<br />
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When they reached their goal for that level and got the level certificate, they got to sign the wall. They LOVED to sign the wall! Then they would get a 10-finger "woo" from the the whole class. You should have seen the smiles on their faces. Priceless.<br />
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In addition to using Army Math, I also incorporated a lot of math fact games into the classroom.<br />
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<u>Roll the Dice</u><br />
Students play in pairs and get two dice. One player rolls the dice. You add the two numbers. Whichever play says the sum first gets to roll the dice next. Play continues until time is up! It's quick and easy. You could also use the 10-sided dice instead of the usual 6-sided dice.<br />
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~ Add the dice and say a subtraction fact in the same fact family<br />
~ Add the dice and say all the facts within that fact family<br />
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~ Multiply the dice and say a division fact in the same family<br />
~ Multiply the dice and say all the facts within that fact family<br />
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<u>Addition War</u><br />
Using a deck of cards with the numbers 1 (Ace) - 9, players divide the deck up between them. On the count of 1, 2, 3...flip, each player flips over their card. Players add the two numbers. The first player to say the sum gets to keep the two cards and puts them at the bottom of their deck. Play continues until time is up or one player has all the cards. They loved it! I love the sounds of fun and laughter in my math class! This game is also great for multiplying the numbers, which would make it Multiplication War.<br />
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You can also add a different element to the game. Players keep score on their paper, with each player keeping score on their sheet. If Yovanni said the answer first, then we both write down the fact under Yovanni. If Ms. H says it first, then we both write it under Ms. H. It's a great way to make the students accountable.<br />
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I hope I gave you some ideas to make math fact fluency fun and not dreaded and boring!<br />
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I love math games! I always loved teaching math and anytime I could fit a learning game into our day was a win win. Check out these <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/374291419012162205/">math domino games</a>.<br />
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Brownies? Four different ways using a brownie mix? YES please! Here's the <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/374291419012257710/">video</a> on how to make them. Don't they look deeelicious?<br />
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Having a Valentines party in your classroom or with friends next week? Here are some fun <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/374291419012246162/">Valentines minute to win it games</a>. They look like so much fun!<br />
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I simply LOVE this idea! I've used the stoplight technique before, but I love that this is a great visual for students. Thanks to <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/374291419012162205/">Simply the Middle</a> for the idea!<br />
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So...I know I posted about brownies above and this pin is completely opposite. I am trying to incorporate more vegetables into my diet. I wasn't raised on vegetables. I was on the grilled cheese, hot dog, and french fries diet growing up. I had heard that roasted veggies were delicious and definitely wanted to try them. I am making these today. Hopefully they are just as delicious as they look! Click <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/374291419012217393/">HERE</a> for the recipe!<br />
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