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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com87tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067429965053566813.post-51752576860492666102014-11-12T09:37:00.002-07:002014-11-12T09:39:20.251-07:00Update for Lory's URLPlease visit me at my WordPress Site by clicking the image below. Thank You!<br />
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I retired from teaching, and I started lots of fun projects from home! My husband and I look for awesome <strike>junk</strike> stuff, and then decide how to make it better. Sometimes we actually leave it as is, sometimes we chalk paint it, and sometimes we turn it into something else! Here are a few pictures of some things we have done:<br />
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I mentioned the other day that I would share a completed "Teens" number sense activity that we did. Here is a picture of the first one:</div>
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I also wanted to mention how cute Jennifer's Penguin packet is from <a href="http://www.firstgradeblueskies.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">First Grade Blue Skies</a>. I love it! We did the penguin glyph last week. Here is a picture:</div>
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We are also in the process of planning for a wedding. Our "baby" is getting married at the end of April. Wow! We are so fortunate that we love his intended like family already. :)<br />
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My first graders sure came back from break ready to learn! It is so amazing to see how mature and capable they are becoming. . .the end of the year will be here before we know it!<br />
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Black Friday is upon us. I rejoice for several reasons:<br />
1. I haven't been out of this county since last Black Friday.<br />
2. I get to spend 3 days with my BFF and her mom in a hotel!<br />
3. I buy ALL, yes ALL of my Christmas gifts in one weekend and spend the rest of December relaxing and enjoying the holiday specials, concerts, etc.<br />
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Here is a photo of last year's trip. This is my friend's mom in the back seat of my SUV! I learned the hard way NOT to post pictures of gift buying on Facebook. My friend's13 year old daughter is my friend on Facebook and she saw her gift in the photo.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">If you were a follower at therobinsnest.com you will want to hop on over to <a href="http://therobinsnestdesigns.com/">therobinsnestdesigns.com</a> and start following there!</span> Even if you weren't a follower before, come on over!</div>
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Before I get to my post I wanted to tell you that we had very exciting news this week! Our son and his girlfriend got engaged! They are a delightful couple and we are thrilled for them!<br />
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One of the things we have been learning about lately is Singular and Plural. We worked on it over the course of a couple of days with the first day being an introduction to the concept by teaching the vocabulary followed by demonstration of singular and plural using examples in the classroom.</div>
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I took pictures of my class for Halloween and did some super cute special effects with PicMonkey and then put them on my <a href="http://funtasticinfirst.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">classroom</a> blog for parents.</div>
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Hello friends. Did you survive Halloween? It is kind of exhausting to me . . .and then we have the problem of the leftover candy which is a problem for my Weight Watchers Points!!! Speaking of points, we recently found a great recipe that is really low in points (<span style="font-size: x-large;">only 2 per cup</span>) but really tasty!! It is <a href="http://www.food.com/recipe/weight-watchers-broccoli-cheese-soup-2-pts-per-cup-210757" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Broccoli Cheese Soup.</span></a></div>
I made it for a school luncheon recently and lots of people want the recipe.<br />
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I started something new and daring this week. (daring for me anyway!) I started trying out digital lesson plans on the <a href="http://planbook.com/">Planbook.com</a> site. I have always been very traditional about a paper and pencil plan book, so we will see how this goes. I like the idea of being able to attach documents and links. Here is a screenshot of what I have done for next week so far,<br />
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Each day I record the students who don't end the day on green, blue or purple. If they have more than two days of red, yellow, or orange, they can't participate in Fun Friday activities! If the student ends the day on blue, purple, or pink, I give them a sparkle(sparkly pom pom). They put in in their bucket because if they end the day on blue, purple, or pink, they are filling MY bucket. On Friday, they trade their sparkles for Mustang Money(to buy stuff in the Mustang Market).<br />
I like this method because, students can move up or down on the chart during the day. They know they have to do something really great to move up so they're always thinking of ideas. The students that clip down have to really work to move back up so they try really hard to impress me! Fun Friday is so fun that they would do just about anything to get to participate! I also LOVE the beginning of the day when I hear "Ready to learn" over and over. It makes me smile!<br />
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Does your school allow Halloween costumes at school? Our school does as long as there are no masks or fake weapons. This year we are planning a First Grade costume parade.<br />
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We are hoping for nice weather. Where we live in Southern Utah we have very unpredictable weather. We sometimes have pretty nice weather for Halloween but have also had years where there was a good amount of snow on the ground. Crossing fingers for the former rather than the latter!<br />
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Don't you just love Teachers Pay Teachers! It wasn't that long ago that you had to buy/order teacher books to get ideas. Now you have dozens of books that you have to store somewhere and don't know what to do with! On TpT you can just find anything you want that other teachers have made. One of my favorite finds is the Smart Calendar Math by Mrs Magee! Her clip art is so cute and the activities are editable for your math program. I start off the year with just a few pages and add to them each month.</div>
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Do you ever take pictures of your class on your phone because a camera wasn't handy only to have them languish on your phone because there are too many to email them to yourself and you are too lazy to actually hook up your phone to your computer?<br />
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You are looking at the worst offender in the history of all cell phone camera users. In fact, when I couldn't find my phone at school a couple of weeks ago (and yes, I freaked out. A LOT.) the first thought that came to my mind was all of the pictures I had on it including the ones I took of the kids on the first day of school. (Well, I was a bit worried about my personal pictures as well.)<br />
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<a href="https://bu.mp/" target="_blank">Bump</a> is an app that allows you to transfer selected pictures from your phone to your computer without connecting a cord to it. It is internet based so you can do it on any computer. Pretty slick, huh?<br />
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I just used it to download the 26 pictures that I took of my students on the first day of school so I could email them from my desktop computer (saving my phone data) to our reading specialist so she could use them for a computer reading program we will be starting next week. Needless to say I was IMPRESSED. Try it, you may like it!<br />
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Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07512337276600290998noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067429965053566813.post-42651989618242654492013-09-21T18:50:00.003-06:002013-09-21T18:50:34.749-06:00SEP'SWe are getting ready for Fall SEP's here. I like to have a check-off sheet so I can remember what to tell parents. I also make notes on it of things we discuss with parents. I keep mine and refer to them when I check up with parents. They also help me remember what we talked about.<br />
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I don't know about you but I love FaLL! It is my favorite season of all. It makes me start to think of Halloween.</div>
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It is so cute! Here is a little freebie just for fun (and because I couldn't wait to do a little something with this set).</div>
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It has always been one of my favorites. I try to read it every year to my students (I have been even known to read it to "big" kids).<br />
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When I was thinking of activities to get the school year started off, I got thinking about this book. I love how it emphasizes how your name is unique to you and it is special because you are special. I have some students with some unique names this year, and my personal children also have unique names (they will never get a pencil with their names on it unless I order them, what a bad mom I am!). I wanted to have a chance to spend some time with the students talking about how everyone's name was unique and special because they are special.<br />
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But just reading the book and talking about it didn't sound like too much fun for the students, I mean they get talked at enough on the first day of school so I thought of an activity that they would be able to easily complete on the first day of school that wouldn't cause me to pull my hair out.<br />
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I printed each of their names as large as I could with a font that outlined the letter and let each student color them as uniquely as they were. They did a great job. Then I realized I could actually use their artwork to help me out. I laminated them then hung them next to a clothespin in the hall where I hang their work. It looks pretty neat if I do say so myself.<br />
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Hey everyone. I hope you are having a good weekend. If you are like me you have probably spent some time working on stuff for school . . .that's just kind of what we do . . .my focus this weekend has been re-doing my plan book FOR the 3rd TiMe! LoNg StOrY, not my fault. We keep having grade level schedule changes. Anyway, I got it done and I am not redoing it again no matter what!</div>
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My other big task has been getting ready for parent conferences. Printing data, gathering interventions for parents to help with at home and making flashcards. In black and white. So that it is not a drain on color ink. Yay! I posted the links to the flashcards on my classroom blog so that parents can have access right away. </div>
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Wow! Can you believe it . . .here I am 2 days in a row! I am actually about to go to bed, I am so sleepy tonight. We had a really busy weekend around the house and an even busier Monday at school. I have to tell you about this cute little class (all 26 of them) I was a couple of minutes after the bell getting into the classroom because I had to get a couple of kids from the cafeteria that were finishing breakfast, WELL, I walked into the classroom and all children were in their squares on the rug and they had started the QuIeT GaMe, on their own, as in <span style="font-size: x-large;">without. me. there. </span></div>
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Gosh it has been so long since I posted . . .I have suffering a bad case of the "tireds" and the "blahs". Have you ever experienced this? Low energy, lack of sleep, blah, blah, blah . . .I'm sure you know the story. </div>
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Anyway, I am trying to pull out of it and get back with my routine! I am starting this by actually posting something!</div>
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I have 26 students this year and they are a super cute class. How is your year going?</div>
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I know, I know. I've been absent from the blog for a REALLY long time.<br />
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I spent most of last school year feeling like this:<br />
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I promised myself that it wouldn't happen again. So I spent most of my summer planning, pouring over our new math program and preparing.<br />
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Guess what? It hasn't helped! 7 days into school and I am feeling like this:<br />
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Maybe if high school football and a non driving player didn't coincide with the beginning of the school year things would be better. Oh, and 27 students (one of which is still in Saudi Arabia, so I'm scanning everything that we are doing to email to him until he gets back), and there is that new math program.<br />
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This summer as I was facilitating core academy I learned about a new math manipulative.<br />
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It's called a Rekenrek. It is a visual tool for students to be able to conserve numbers.<br />
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I bought my teacher Rekenrek from <a href="http://www.enasco.com/product/TB22814J" target="_blank">eNasco</a>. They also have student versions, but at $5 a student I couldn't afford it this year. BUT, using my favorite website Pinterest I found a way to make some from foam and pony beads thanks to <a href="http://mathcoachscorner.blogspot.com/2013/06/diy-rekenreks-take-2.html" target="_blank">Math Coach's Corner</a>. I think I made an entire class set for about $7 (don't you love a good sale?). Here is what her's turned out like. Mine are all the same color.<br />
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Beccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07512337276600290998noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7067429965053566813.post-38825116756888156172013-08-23T21:28:00.000-06:002013-08-23T21:32:26.231-06:00What A Week!Well the first week is over. It was such a long week training first graders on procedures, rules etc. Lory and I wanted to do something fun so we had the kids make these smiley faces to display in the hallway. Lory's husband Kevin made the awesome schoolhouse. The kids just decorated a 9 inch manilla circle with construction paper hair and bows. When one of my students brought me his finished masterpiece, it had a strip of brown paper glued straight across the top of its head. He said, "I found it on the floor and just glued it on. I guess that's just like re-cycling!" Oh the things they say...<br />
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