Productive Weekend Giveaway!

Oh my goodness.  I need a 3 day weekend at least once a month!

I feel like I accomplished so much this weekend.

I finished my Phonics Dance Smart Board slides. 

When you click on the picture, it takes you to a sort, a link to a Raz-Kids book that has the chunk and an activity page.  They are sorted with like chunk sounds.  I have printed off this screen, laminated it and taped it down to my reading table.  My students use it so much more than when I had the sounds separated.  The phonics Dance also has you chanting the chunks each day.  We NEVER have time to do this.  So we just point to the picture and students chant just the sound.  We pick 1-2 each day to do the LONG chant so that they remember.  We also chant a new chunk each day after we learn it.

I finished the next unit for our Journey's Reading Word Sorts on a Smart Notebook Slide.

I added an "I Can" statement to each slide and also the CC standards.  I also have the second grade sorts so that I can differentiate instruction for my two word groups.  Students have a book where they complete the sort individually.

 

I finished my telling time to the hour and half hour items.

 

There are teaching posters, a pre-assessment, post assessment, a LOT of worksheets, I Have, Who Has, Bingo and Concentration cards.

I also finished my Red/ Irregular Words intervention unit.

There are 19 words and each contains a short fill in the blank story, 2 research based intervention pages and independent worksheets.

 

And to top it all off- I actually BLOGGED today!  :)  Bring on more weekends like this! 

I can't give away the Journey's and Phonics Dance items because of icons and other tidbits that are not my property. :(

However, I can give away the telling time items and the red word items!  :)

The first 3 people to leave a comment and their email will receive the time and red words files.  ;)

Enjoy your short week!

Bathroom pass

I just love learning new management tricks!

Teachers at my new school use a bathroom clip for their students.

After having a fire drill with my math class (kids from 5 different classes). I decided that their system would be great to use.

I wrote each of my students name on a clip and put the initial of their teacher on the end.

If a student is absent- I immediately clip them to my shirt at the beginning of class.

When they go to the bathroom- I clip them to my shirt and then they put it back on the chart when they return.

This should work out so much better for drills because I will have the students clipped to my shirt that I am missing. :-).

I still use a different system for my class but I find this PERFECT for the students that I only see for an hour each day and that move in and out of my class every few weeks. :-)

I highly recommend this simple management technique. Especially during drills- you don't have time to think about who is absent etc. :-)

Lego "Fowdashun"

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I LOVE my students.  They are the most sweet and thoughtful bunch.  I appreciate them so much!

Here is a sweet story...

I have wanted to buy Legos for my students since I began teaching.  They cost so darn much!  I spends thousands of dollars each year on items but won't buy legos because they are JUST a recess toy.  I always do a drive by at garage sales trying to find them but never any luck.  :(
I told my students when we had enough all positive days that I would buy some Legos.  When it happened I just bought one tub and told my students that I am going to buy more but am going to look around for a deal because they are so expensive.



Lo and behold... a darling little girl in my class brought me 2 typed up signs the next day.

Lego Fowdashun

 

Lets by Legos for are class!  Bring extra money to school and we will by more Legos!

 

 

 

 

It was ADORABLE!  :)  There was much more to it but I left it at school.  I'm going to save it forever!  :)

 

I thanked her it and explained that it was an excellent idea but I really wanted to buy them for the class myself because they are such great kids.  :)

 

 

I just love the sweet little things that they do.

  Have a great Tuesday!

 

 



 

 

FREE Addition and Subtraction Assessments and Graphs

The PTO at my school is awesome and has sponsored a "kings club".  Grade levels 1-4 have assigned facts that they need to answer fluently.  Grade 1 has to answer addition and subtraction facts to 10.  If they complete it- their picture is taken, given a crown and they are given candy as well as are featured on the morning announcements.   

I made these for my fantastic first grade teammates and I to use. 

 

There are 3 different versions of the addition and subtraction assessments.

 

 

 

There are graphing choices for students to record their progress after each assessment.

 

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I also am sending home addition and subtraction homework flashcards with each of my students as well.  :)


Click the cover pages to go to the products in my TPT store.  :)  Have a great weekend!  :)

Red Words Intervention

These words are the "irregular" sight words.  These follow the common core standard that is boxed in red.

 

 

I am completing this intervention based off of the Student Word Assessment 1 that I gave my students. 

 

 

Click on the image to go to it on TPT.

 

 

 

 

There are generic 3 day plans.

Students are given a sight word card.  One side has the word in isolation and the other side has the word in context.

 

 

 

 

Each of the 21 red words includes a sight word poem or story, 2 days of lesson pages and 2 independent practice worksheets.

 

I have about 3/4 of my yellow words intervention plans finished.  They definitely take A LOT longer to complete because there are so many rules and word chunks!  :)

Green Words Intervention

This is designed to use with my Student Word Assessment 1. From the assessment- if students struggle with the "green" or words that can be sounded out- students work on letter sound knowledge and then applying the knowledge to nonsense words. 

The green words follow the common core standard that is boxed in green. 

Included are generic lesson plans that can be used for 9 weeks.

Students start with reviewing the alphabet chant. 

Nonsense words introduce one vowel sound at a time then every other week reviews the vowel sounds that have been introduced. 

Students also practice applying the skill/ sounds that they learned by listening, segmenting and then writing simple words.

You can get a copy of the Green Words Intervention here.

YAY for finally being able to upload images on blogger again!!! :)

I also have been trying to change the license for all of my TPT items.  I felt that it was silly that I was selling things for only one classroom use.  Seriously what was I thinking?!?!? 

Even if I haven't changed the wording on it- all of my items are good for one school. (not district)  I hope that you share with your teammates!  So if you haven't already- please share away!  :)  Hopefully this doesn't come to bite me in the rear end but I think that it is a good thing to share with your peers.  :) 

If you feel like buying more than one for your school still- I'm fine with that too!  Especially is it is not out of YOUR pockets!  lol...   ;)

Student Word Assessment 1

This is a continuation of research that I conducted while completing my masters.  This is a portion of a year long action research project that I worked on identifying why students struggled with reading.  Through my research I found Orton Gillingham Strategies, using context clues and multiple intelligences to help students master sight words.

With this Student Word Assessment, I am attempting to take my research a step further and to identify specifically which type of words students need to practice.  The words on this assessment have taken multiple hours to decide.  I have included words with word chunks, words that you can sound out, words that you need to know a rule to figure out and irregular words. 

Depending on how students score on the assessment I have interventions for the green, yellow and red words. 

 

Here is a peak at the assessment:

Sorry I still cannot upload images!  Thank goodness for Blogger phone app! 

I need my super smart hubby to figure out what is wrong!  :)

 Students read off of a copy with words in rows.  Many of my students always lose their place and I was hoping that this would help keep them on track.  ;)

  

 This is what my copy looks like.  I borrowed this format from my district.  I love how they have multiple columns next to each other so that you can easily compare words correct on different dates.

Next to each word in parenthesis are either a (G), (YC), (YR) or (R).  Those tell you what type of word that it is. 

 

After the student takes the assessment- you record how many of each word type that they missed on this sheet.  (You can see it on the cover sheet)

 

You can find the Student Word Assessment here.

We had a surprise 2 hour delay this morning so it gave me time to finish my grade cards and blog!  For such a short week- I sure feel like I have accomplished a lot!  :)