tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34114196132826231992024-03-13T20:05:51.405-07:00Spunky K TeacherSandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13198177967392788217noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3411419613282623199.post-90867102136113032462014-06-14T05:01:00.000-07:002014-06-14T05:01:32.724-07:00I'm still here...I've taken so much time away from the blog because of my program at UGA. I'm finally done!!! I've also moved and gotten a new teaching position in a neighboring county! So, I will no longer be teaching kindergarten. :( I am heart broken over this, however, I am excited to begin a new chapter! I will be a first grade teacher again!<br />
Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13198177967392788217noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3411419613282623199.post-65718995229695537172012-05-10T13:40:00.001-07:002012-05-10T13:50:19.746-07:00Subtraction Bowling<div style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">
We have been working with different manipulatives to become comfortable with composing and decomposing numbers.My kinders have really enjoyed bowling to see how amounts can increase and decrease. Michelle at <a href="http://inspiredbykindergarten.blogspot.com/2012/04/subtraction-game-freebie.html" target="_blank">Inspired by Kindergarten</a> has a great freebie to go with this game!!! </div>
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We didn't use the sheet until the students felt comfy with telling me how they were solving how many pins remained up. Then, they began recording it together and discussing how to record. Lastly, the game became a partner activity with desk versions of bowling. So much fun!!!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Today we used the blue ten-frame trains to work on factors to ten. It is a review for some, but additional practice for others. They used dice to find out how many more they needed to get to ten.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> Another activity was representing teen numbers as ten and some more. They really liked this activity. They used two of the clear ten-frame bases and then helped each find out what Ten and _____ more is 16 or another teen number. Then they wrote those numbers as a number bond.</span><br />
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<br />Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13198177967392788217noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3411419613282623199.post-80069173610642108792012-04-30T04:57:00.000-07:002012-04-30T04:57:13.123-07:00Fair Exchanges with Money<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sometimes working with money can be difficult to understand for young students because it is an abstract concept. When you show them different ways to make those connections, it gets easier and becomes less abstract. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Making fair exchanges with money is difficult unless students have concrete experiences with it. Here is one way to make fair exchanges. It's like the rolling to 20 game, but you have to keep exchanging fairly and with the makeshift base ten blocks. The blocks are cut and hot glued or super glued together. If you look closely, you can see the small "n" written (for nickel) on the base ten block that is a group of five</span>.<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"> When I tried to skip a trade, I was encouraged to keep making fair trades correctly. You can see that they're glued together in groups of 2 tens and 5 ones and can be fitted together like a puzzle to make groups of fifty and one-hundred. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Anytime you can make learning fun, students learn!</span>Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13198177967392788217noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3411419613282623199.post-70931402336231692032012-04-27T05:47:00.000-07:002012-04-27T11:33:17.244-07:00Spotlight: Subtraction freebies and Clipboard storage<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I always tell others that you can find anything online, because there are so many creative people out there actually creating!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Well, Mrs. Hicks at the <a href="http://hicks-thealphabetgarden.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Alphabet Garden</a>
has posted a freebie Eric Carle subtraction packet. I think it's a
great addition to a subtraction unit! Students will already be familiar
with the characters and will love working with the colorful pictures for
manipulatives! Thanks Mrs. Hicks!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ashely at <a href="http://www.thekinderpolkadotpatch.com/" target="_blank">The Kinder Polkadot Patch</a> has a fab, fab, fab idea for storing all of those great but pesky clipboards! If you hurry to Target, you'll be able to find to same container she uses for around $5.00. Thanks for help with this issue!</span>Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13198177967392788217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3411419613282623199.post-4524818913931772862012-04-26T06:01:00.001-07:002012-04-26T06:19:37.143-07:00Ten Frame Pinterest Creation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I am so excited that I took a break from school work to create this from a pin that I pinned! I had enough to make one for one of my colleagues too! This is for next year and will help my students with number sense. I got this from <a href="http://www.fuelthebrain.com/Printable/detail.php?ID=208" target="_blank">fuel the brain</a>. How great is this!?!?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I just haven't decided if we'll write the number in each block of the ten-frame or just use a bingo/paint dabber to mark off each day of the year. We also have 10 furlough days, so we'll only use 17 of the 18 ten-frames to mark the days of the year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have watched the DVD and read a good portion of it. Then, I took what I was learning and brought it right into my classroom. Now I'm at a point where I've had to talk to the students about how to see it in the most efficient way. I was worried that I would putter out with it, but my sweetie pie friend and I enjoyed revving up the faculty about number talks! So that re-energized me, but what to do about my Kinders who need more? My brain is fried with APA papers, homework, and finals coming up in my UGA math classes. What to DO?</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Ta Da...<a href="http://www.amazon.com/It-Makes-Sense-Ten-frames-Number/dp/1935099108" target="_blank">It Makes Sense!</a></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">This is the next step! It arrives in two days (thank you Amazon Prime!) I am so pumped to get going on this! I have used ten-frames, dot cards, tally mark cards, large dominos, etc. to do talks with. I know my Kinders will love these! When I was viewing some of the pages, the ideas from this book were great. Updates to come...</span>Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13198177967392788217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3411419613282623199.post-87391734474086719432012-04-24T04:35:00.000-07:002012-04-27T11:35:27.006-07:00KEY words...<div style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;">
<i>Disclaimer: I am not known for being tactful. I apologize in advance!</i></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><i><span style="font-family: Times,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></i></span><i><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Because my way of thinking about mathematics is changing, I am sharing and ready for discussion. Because we are moving to the Common Core, I feel that discussion about current and previous methods should occur. Let me know what you think!</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I have seen some of the cutest Key Word (for addition and subtraction) anchor charts all over Pinterest and on others' blogs. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">While key words may work in some problems, we cannot always rely on key words. This is teaching students in an instrumental way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Before instrumental learning is taught (teaching the rules), Relational learning (knowing the how and why) should begin. When working with word problems, students (even Kinders!) can usually find strategies to figure out how to find the answer to the problem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Problem-solving strategies show students how to solve problems that they will eventually encounter when there are no key words, or the key words are used in a different way! </span><br />
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Backwards</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Guess and Check</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Draw a Picture</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Make a List</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Write a Number
Sentence</span><br style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Use Logical Reasoning</span></i></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Amy has 12 ladybugs. How many <i>more </i>ladybugs does she need to have 21 ladybugs <i>altogether</i>?</span></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Katie had some pencils. After she <i>gave away</i> 8 pencils, she had 11 <i>left</i>. How many pencils did Katie have at first? </span></span></span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">2 <a href="http://www.kpmathematics.com/KP_Mathematics/KP_Ten-Frame_Tiles.html">KP ten frame tile kits </a></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.enasco.com/c/math/Math+Manipulatives/Counting+%26+Sorting/Rekenreks/" target="_blank">Rekenreks</a></span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Our school district is really giving us training in how the Common Core is shifting the way we facilitate learning. Also, with my mathematics classes at UGA, my thinking and teaching has evolved in a way that the students are leading my instruction through their findings and discussion! Math is exciting-even my Kinders think so! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">My next grant will be for these <a href="http://www.didax.com/shop/productdetails.cfm/ItemNo/2-2200.cfm" target="_blank">ten frame trains</a>. However, I have ordered the starter kit below!!! I cannot wait to use them in my class! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The above items are tools that Kinders will need to explore the Common Core. Yes, I have ten frames galore, but prefer more concrete tools for daily use! The ten-frame trains are larger than the KP ten frame tiles and easier for less coordinated beginning Kinders to use!</span></div>
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Shark word problems and writing activity. I found the shark pattern online (maybe Heidi B.) and drew out the tree map. Students worked together to solve the word problems and used a tree thinking map to organize their thoughts about sharks when writing. They used goldfish crackers to work with the problems. I had the teeth and fish cut and ready. I used fuzzy yarn from my closet to help the display;) They loved it!
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Below are the printable post its I'll use:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">I really enjoyed the lesson that Deanna Jump taught during my visit! She used this book and did a text to self activity with her students. It was so good that I purchased her unit from TPT. This story focuses on Little baby mummy and how scared he gets because he cannot find his mummy. It's one of my new favorites!</span></div><div align="left"></div>Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13198177967392788217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3411419613282623199.post-63436953911753908462011-10-15T10:56:00.000-07:002011-10-15T10:56:27.881-07:00It's Great to be Back!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="http://mrsjumpsclass.blogspot.com/"></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm so sorry that I've been away for so long!!! There are never enough hours in the day to do what is needed. It's also been quite a challenging year, but has gotten better each week. However, I have been "stalking" this great teacher, <a href="http://mrsjumpsclass.blogspot.com/">Deanna Jump</a>, for the past year! I finally got a chance to meet her! I've looked forward to it for quite some time and am so appreciative of her time and effort when allowing my cohorts and me to visit! We did this on our Fall Break-we're so dedicated! ;) She is great and her room is just perfect!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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<ul><li><span style="font-family: Arial;">After the beginning of school rules and routines are practiced and mostly learned, I model how to get into a group or with a partner to practice.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Students will get a partner close to their level and the cards they are working on and sit together in the classroom.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">They will take turns being the teacher and flash the words while the other says them. If there is a word that they don't know, they raise their hands and I'll help them. Later, they'll use the ask 3 before me rule.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Once they master this way of practice, I'll bring out the sight board game boards, then the sight word fishing game, then the popcorn word game, etc.</span></li>
</ul><span style="font-family: Arial;">This has worked for several years in my K class. I've had more students than ever master more than 220 sight words each year after implementing it! I also keep a chart on the wall where each student gets to color in the list after mastery. They already love it and I've only had it up a week!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a closer view. It's organized in groups of ten. R1 corresponds to red list 1, R2: red list 2 and continues to Gold 22. We also have color and number words.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In math, we'll review sorting and work on positional words. We'll also work on numbers, counting, graphing, identifying coins, months of the year, days of the week, and five frames on our calendar wall. We'll continue working on color words and incorporate graphing by using gummy bears to graph. One center we'll use is the <a href="http://www.amazon.ca/Magnetic-Pattern-Blocks-Scholastic-Inc/dp/054521372X">Magnetic Pattern Blocks Alpahabet</a> G sheet. Another center we will use this week:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got this sorting idea from <a href="http://www.makinglearningfun.com/">making learning fun</a> and modified it because I don't have purple bears. Students will use a sheet to record their findings and share with the group. Recording has been especially difficult this year, but we'll get it eventually.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I see this activity other places, so it's nothing new.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This is the site where I located the letters: <a href="http://curry.virginia.edu/go/wil/Chicka_Lesson.pdf">Webbing Into Literacy</a>. I pulled up the CCBB lesson and the letters are on the last page. Then I typed up the headings: letters in my name and letters not in my name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our big class news is that one of the students is a Sight Word Queen!!!! She is very pleased and will receive a sight word queen crown and get to run in our school's clap-out. At her desk, she will have a Sight Word Queen chair pocket for the day. I'll present her with an award and treat for her accomplishments!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Our clap-outs allow the students to run through the school's hallways while everyone claps and cheers them on! Students really look forward to this!! Students can run in the clap-outs for mastering each sight word list, getting a VIP for doing something great, or great bus behavior. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Below are the checklist (color words in an earlier post) and Red 1 words that we learn first. I use the snap word cards from child-1st to introduce and practice in class. They get a partner and use the flashcards to practice after I've assessed each student. It is differentiated based on sight word knowledge. I'll soon post where I keep the words so that students get to use them daily!</span><br />
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I run these on card stock and laminate them. Then, I punch holes in the top left corner and put a ring through them. I write the list name on the back and it corresponds to the label on a peg board where it belongs. The students learn where each set belongs and they are in control!!Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13198177967392788217noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3411419613282623199.post-17083992695987035252011-08-22T18:36:00.000-07:002011-08-22T18:36:11.536-07:00News<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is our third week of school and we're rolling right along! Below is our class newsletter. Don't forget to clean out the agendas and sign them daily!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, we have begun to track print. Some students already have some background knowledge about tracking and students will use different books to practice reading skills. Below is one of the early readers I created to practice tracking print and using the pictures to help figure out unknown words. We are working on so many skills like letters, words, and sentences, that it's difficult to list everything we are learning! The other books are coming from reading a to z. When I cannot find exactly what I want, I just make it!</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">During centers tomorrow the students will use this graph to practice shapes. My previous students enjoyed doing these graphing games! (I have no idea what's up with the words at the bottom!) They loved using the clear spinners to play this! A Kissing Hand graph went home last Friday that was very similar to this shape game.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You have a new homework calendar coming home tomorrow. Please let me know if there's anything that needs to be explained. Also, we need volunteers to send in the Oo and Gg snack this month. Please let me know if you would like to help out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Have a fantastic weekend and I'll see everyone Monday:)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*We won a gift certificate from Pre-K pages on Facebook. I've used the gift certificate to buy alphabet books, a school CD, and tracing font to use in class.</span>Sandrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13198177967392788217noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3411419613282623199.post-30235884604759611762011-08-11T02:30:00.000-07:002011-08-11T02:35:34.434-07:00Behavior Plan and Classroom Newsletter<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is our first newsletter. When it comes home today, there will be a copy of our Specials schedule attached. We are group A and have visited music and art so far. Please be sure to allow your child to wear tennis shoes on the days we have P.E.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We've begun to use our behavior stop light in class. Students have already learned what it means and how it works. Below is a plan that explains it. Please sign it, have your child sign it, and return it tomorrow. </span><br />
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