tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54333137111963734752024-02-20T15:02:13.431-08:00Crayons & Pencil ShavingsSmall town teaching on a budgetUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433313711196373475.post-34885421083380346562014-04-24T16:30:00.000-07:002014-12-13T22:16:37.912-08:00Science Vocab<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm always looking for <span style="color: #e06666;"><span style="font-size: large;">interesting </span></span>and <span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-size: large;">different ways</span></span> to help my students remember the <span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="font-size: large;">vocabulary </span></span>in our <span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;">science units.</span></span> I'm pretty sure I do something different for each unit. That can be good and bad. On one hand it is good for them to learn different strategies. But on the other hand, consistency is helpful. </div>
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For this unit I broke them up into pairs and had them define and draw a picture of each vocabulary word. I definitely saw some good group work and some not so good group work. But that is part of life and they really do need to learn how to work through that. </div>
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I <span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;">love </span></span>some of the pictures that showed up on these posters!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433313711196373475.post-88914872873157915132014-04-23T07:21:00.003-07:002014-04-23T07:21:52.915-07:00Electricity<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We had fun learning about <span style="background-color: yellow;"><span style="font-size: large;">electricity </span></span>a couple of months back.<i> (Ha! Now that I look at this picture I see that he spelled "electric" wrong! Oops!)</i> The students had to color and label the open and closed circuits. Then they had to explain them on the inside of the paper. We even labeled the light switch in the classroom with <span style="color: #741b47;"><span style="font-size: large;">"open circuit"</span></span> and <span style="color: #45818e;"><span style="font-size: large;">"closed circuit."</span></span> My students loved it when I asked one of them to open the circuit. </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433313711196373475.post-65455400655338578422014-04-22T11:17:00.003-07:002014-04-22T11:17:41.465-07:00Mad Libs<span style="font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">I <span style="color: red;">love </span><span style="color: #93c47d;">love </span><span style="color: #6fa8dc;">love </span>using <i>Mad Libs</i> in my classroom. They are such a great way to practice grammar. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">And the students think they are hilarious! </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Often I'll have a list of types of words on the board in the morning. As the students wait for class to start they write a list of those words and we put together the silly paragraph as a group. You never know what is going to happen. That is the fun of it. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><i><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Baseball (noun): a game <u>ran </u>with a bat and a <u>rainbow
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</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433313711196373475.post-1111920917960129352014-03-29T19:02:00.000-07:002014-03-29T19:02:03.394-07:00Winter Olympics<div style="text-align: center;">
I dedicated the month of February to the Olympics on my classroom. </div>
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We had a blast. I found some great activities on Pinterest and TPT. </div>
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Here are a few of the things we did. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433313711196373475.post-64015982629544446452014-02-24T20:58:00.000-08:002014-02-24T20:58:00.418-08:00Poetry Unit Coming Soon! My poetry unit is coming up soon! I'm excited!<br />
This year I'm teaching a combo class of 2nd and 3rd grade. When I previously co-taught a combo class we did the poetry unit all together, but because of scheduling I've decided to keep in a 3rd grade thing this year. I have a gut feeling that next year it won't be a combined class so I figure the 2nd grade will get to do it next year when I have them all on their own.<br />
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I can't wait to share some of the poems my students write this year!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433313711196373475.post-34260288018572794152014-02-20T20:52:00.000-08:002014-02-20T20:52:00.147-08:00Columbus Unit<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
We made these back in the fall. Not sure where I found the ship to cut out, but they turned out really cute. Under the water they students wrote 4 facts of what they learned about Columbus. </div>
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Another great Pinterest idea for my Geometry Unit! </div>
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After learning about right, acute, and obtuse angles they students used popsicle sticks to create snowflakes. Each snowflake had to have each kind of angle. </div>
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Also fun decorations for Christmas/Winter! </div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433313711196373475.post-84554447439039755132014-02-15T20:43:00.000-08:002014-02-15T20:43:11.382-08:00Lines of Symmetry <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
I had so much fun teaching my 3rd grade Geometry unit this year! I was able to find so many great ideas off of pinterest. </div>
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My students had fun creating symmetrical objects with a definite line of symmetry. They were sad when I said they had to stop for recess. :) </div>
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I have a new obsession in my classroom. I've begun making paper dolls to go with the Bible stories I tell. My students love them! I love teaching my students Bible stories and it is fun to have these little paper dolls as a visual. All I take is coloring pages, color them, cut them out, and laminate them. Fun fun!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433313711196373475.post-5394661383604721652013-02-08T16:00:00.000-08:002013-02-08T16:00:08.772-08:00Personality Poems<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Here are some examples of my students' <span style="color: #274e13;"><b>personality poems</b></span>. They really loved writing this one. Each student had to choose a person to write about. It could be someone they know or a fictional character they liked. </div>
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L3 - loves ____</div>
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L4 - fears ____</div>
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L5 - needs ____</div>
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L6 - gives ____</div>
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L7 - believes ____</div>
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Once again I loved seeing the different people/characters my students chose. No two poems were alike. This class loves that opportunity to be creative! I really should give them more opportunities. </div>
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Couplets are next! Those are a little more tricky. Can't wait to share them! </div>
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Anyway, I wanted to share a few of my students' Count-A-Word poems. Sorry that the pictures are a little fuzzy. It is on the dark side in Starbucks.<br />
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A Count-A-Word poems is not a rhyming poem. It has a specific amount of words on each line.<br />
L1 - 1 word<br />
L2 - 2 words<br />
L3 - 3 words<br />
L4 - 4 words<br />
L5 - 3 words<br />
L6 - 2 words<br />
L7 - 1 word (same as the first)<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433313711196373475.post-80000935184457424542013-01-16T04:00:00.000-08:002013-02-18T09:03:25.407-08:00Gotta Love the Impromptu Projects! Our current science unit is on <span style="color: #134f5c;"><i>Stars and Constellations</i></span>. I love studying the stars! After we finished reading a lesson today I decided that it would be fun for my students to create posters about what we have learned so far. It was random, but I love what I see coming from these students. They are following a check list and working well as groups. It is interesting to see the leaders come out, leaders clashing with each other, compromising, creativity, silliness, and art. All of these things are important in the learning process! I can't to share pictures of this project!<br />
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<i><u>Here is the checklist I gave to them. </u></i><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings;"></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Title</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Information</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Correct Spelling</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Cursive</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Easy to read/Neat</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Names of people in the group</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Pictures </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Color</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Creative</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Bookman Old Style";">Everyone participates</span></span></li>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433313711196373475.post-10465493359767757722013-01-14T11:53:00.003-08:002013-01-14T11:53:59.234-08:00CursiveI always forget how stressful <b><u><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">cursive </span></span></u></b>is in January.<br />
I teach cursive in the first half of the year and in the second half we use cursive in every subject.<br />
It never fails that first time I ask them to do an entire assignment in cursive there are several students who panic. I try to remind them that it will take us longer, but there are some that I just can't convince. A handful of them are <span style="color: lime;">whining </span>about it, one is <span style="color: blue;">crying</span>, and the rest are <span style="color: #e69138;">frustrated </span>over it taking a longer time. Good grief! I guess I'm just torturing them.<br />
Muah ha ha ha! (yes, that is my sinister laugh)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433313711196373475.post-63822184576838336432012-11-28T15:34:00.000-08:002012-11-28T15:34:16.218-08:00Phases of the Moon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I found this great idea on Pinterest! (I love finding things on there!)</div>
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The students used Oreo Cookies to model the phases of the moon. </div>
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They had a blast and were excited to munch on a few when they were done! </div>
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I had them working in pairs because I wasn't sure if I would have enough cookies. I find that when I randomly pair students together it works the best. They all got right to work. It was a huge success!</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433313711196373475.post-2469703984850635732012-03-08T16:30:00.000-08:002012-03-08T16:30:01.445-08:00Keep Those Lesson Plans!I'm only a beginning teacher, but I've gotten some great advice from my peers this year. They all tell me to keep my lesson plans. This may seem logical to you, but I'm not just saying to keep your lesson plan book. It <b>is</b> helpful to be able to look back at your lesson plan book for sure. But I'm thinking about it in a more electronic form.<br />
At my school we have to post our lesson plans, including the objectives, onto the program RenWeb. This how parents and administration can see what we are doing in our classrooms (other than coming into the classroom of course). Before I post them on this program I type them all on a Word document. That way I have them all in one place to look at next year when I'm planning out my lessons. Some of them will change slightly since I am learning what works and what doesn't, but at least I won't have to rethink every single lesson. <br />
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Sometimes kids are so funny. It cracks me up what I find in their desks. I don't look through their desks very often, if at all, but I asked them to clean them out on Friday due to a school preview day coming up. A few of my students didn't really understand the task apparently. What makes me laugh is the amount of children who have accumulated a lovely rock collection in their desks. No wonder they can't fit anything else in them (!) they are full of rocks! </div>
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A handful of my students have decided to spend their recess time crushing rocks out on the playground in order to find crystals. This wouldn't be a problem except that the school secretary has asked that they stop due to the amount of students coming in bleeding from cutting themselves while breaking the rocks apart. Well I guess they are back at it again. So funny.</div>
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This is my first year teaching 3rd grade. And I completely love it. One of the online resources I've used is <a href="http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/">Beth Newingham's website</a>. She is a very talented teacher. One thing I found on her site was the <a href="http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/">Cereal Box Book Report. </a>Her site gives all the information you need to put it together.<br />
This is such a fun book report. My students were really excited to do it when I explained what they would be doing. I asked each student to choose a realistic fiction book that was at least 100 pages long. This proved to be a little tricky for some of them. I might rethink that for next year. They had about 3 weeks to finish the project.<br />
I was so pleased to see how creative my students were in doing this project. They named their own cereal, decorated the front of the box, created fun puzzles on the back of the box, wrote a summary of the book, and put a prize in the box. It was so fun to go through them.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I showed this to my class this morning </span></div>
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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">It is a great explanation about why we have an extra day every 4 years. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433313711196373475.post-9051881862015011582012-02-28T19:38:00.000-08:002012-02-28T19:38:00.462-08:00Flowers<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFKEAeLq1Kze7IbHUazp95QfflUOsfTa3B2znyGnhWX7_PjVrpO7rJtaTuKyHipYwmUjS6S3z-CXRm23n_neLVvJ-JS_j54xObSI3_0pgp4Zj-uDvGqu25NoDRVjKWxBVBWmmUgAwCBXg/s1600/flower+flip+book.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFKEAeLq1Kze7IbHUazp95QfflUOsfTa3B2znyGnhWX7_PjVrpO7rJtaTuKyHipYwmUjS6S3z-CXRm23n_neLVvJ-JS_j54xObSI3_0pgp4Zj-uDvGqu25NoDRVjKWxBVBWmmUgAwCBXg/s320/flower+flip+book.jpg" width="320" /></a>I found this idea on Pinterest and it led me to <a href="http://theinspiredclassroom.blogspot.com/2011/08/plant-parts-and-their-jobs-science.html">The Inspired Classroom</a> blog. There are great ideas on this blog.<br />
My class just finished up a unit on Plant Life. Before the test my students did these flip books. On the front they colored in a flower (which I drew and photo copied), labeled the parts, and cut them into sections. When they finished this they defined what each part does for the plant behind the flaps.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433313711196373475.post-4370972962428172242012-02-25T07:30:00.003-08:002012-02-25T07:30:37.012-08:00Bird Paintings<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi46KJ5M5mdVymK0-Pb-oAVfzp2KRINdzd-r5hp8YwvmHW3IXfH_HqEx_HPI-u99Ujs-xFaXTUj0_s50PDml5mzUcxzdHIkM67Z-TjLOgi39xH_3bimWEWF7Nf-_mBbALkP5p8cYBoRqSo/s1600/drawing+with+children.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi46KJ5M5mdVymK0-Pb-oAVfzp2KRINdzd-r5hp8YwvmHW3IXfH_HqEx_HPI-u99Ujs-xFaXTUj0_s50PDml5mzUcxzdHIkM67Z-TjLOgi39xH_3bimWEWF7Nf-_mBbALkP5p8cYBoRqSo/s200/drawing+with+children.jpg" width="166" /></a>When I first started teaching I was hired to teach elementary art. This wasn't my strongest area, but I could do it. A friend of mine gave me the best book when she found out what I was teaching: "<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Children-Mona-Brookes/dp/0874778271/ref=cm_cmu_pg__header">Drawing With Children</a>" by Mona Brooks. I had heard of Mona Brooks in an art class I took at <a href="http://www.masters.edu/">TMC</a>, but it was a brief conversation. I didn't realize that she had so many plans for teaching children how to draw. This book is wonderful!<br />
Mona Brooks uses basic shapes and lines to get students started in drawing. Then she gives great <b>step by step instructions</b> on how to draw different things: parrots, lions, still life, etc.<br />
My 3rd grade students loved drawing their parrots. And I love that all of them are different! Once we finished drawing them we painted them with watercolors. This proved to be a little harder than planned and one of my students did have a meltdown, but all of the results were beautiful.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433313711196373475.post-84267133016274933462012-02-23T21:25:00.000-08:002012-02-23T21:25:00.212-08:00Glue Pictures<br />
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One of the best ideas I found in it was "glue pictures." It takes a few days, but it is worth it!<br />
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<li>Once the glue is completely dried paint over it with gold paint. It is ok if the paint isn't overly thick on the paper. Let the paint dry overnight. </li>
<li>Finally rub brown shoe polish over the entire picture. This gives the picture an antique look. They are beautiful. </li>
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My students did this during February. I asked each one of them to do some design using hearts. They are currently looking beautiful in the windows of my classroom. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5433313711196373475.post-68035458905213868302012-02-21T21:09:00.000-08:002012-02-21T21:09:00.825-08:00Current Read Aloud<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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New read aloud book in my classroom. It is a little tricky for my third graders to understand, but I make sure we talk about it as we read. </div>
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I love the Narnia Series!!</div>
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We are just finishing up a unit on plants. This is the bulletin board I put up for the unit. </div>
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One of my students helped me put it together. </div>
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We made this before Christmas but left them up in the window thru January. </div>
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I love how creative these third graders were! Birds, bunnies, and SF Giants hats. </div>
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