tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63584633648738390912024-03-14T09:12:22.162-07:00Whooo Loves Kindergarten?Mrs. McElveen - that's WHOOO!Mrs. McElveenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482025687248798027noreply@blogger.comBlogger43125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358463364873839091.post-47152401995917078202014-07-21T20:43:00.000-07:002014-07-21T20:43:13.700-07:00Sweet Summertime...and a freebie!Hi Everyone,<br /><br />Hope everyone has had a very relaxing summer. I know I have! I can't believe it is already time to start back to school. I start in two weeks...TWO...WEEKS! I don't know how it can possibly already be here!<br />
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I have been using a hodge-podge of things that I've collected over the year for the first few weeks of school every year. Some kids enter my room knowing very little of the "basics" so I made a <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-NO-PREP-Basics-Week-1-1303935" target="_blank">Kindergarten NO PREP Basics</a> </span>series for the first ten weeks of school. This unit is made especially for my lower group, but it can be used with everyone. :) It includes both ZB and DN handwriting styles. Here's a sample of what is included. Hope you can use it.<br />
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To celebrate my new series on TpT,<span style="color: #cc0000;"> I am going to offer my first packet (of a ten packet series) to the first ten people who reply to this post and leave an e-mail</span>. All I ask is that you spread the word about this pack by posting a link on your blog or sharing it on FB. Enjoy what's left of your summer!<br /><br />*You can click <b><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Kindergarten-NO-PREP-Basics-Week-1-1303935" target="_blank">HERE </a></b>to see the packets on TpT.<br />
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<img align="center" src="http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g447/eschaff/Who%20Loves%20Kindergarten/Whooo%20Loves%20Kindergarten%202/sgn5.png" />Mrs. McElveenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482025687248798027noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358463364873839091.post-70694414284513276932013-09-29T14:41:00.000-07:002013-09-29T14:41:29.504-07:00Flash FREEBIEIt has been quite some time since I have posted. I've been busy, busy, busy between school and my kids' after-school activities. Does it ever slow down??? I just finished my Graphic Organizers for Unit 2 that follows the Treasures Reading Series. If you use Treasures, this set is sure to help your students! <br />
<br />Here is a free sample of what is in the packet for anyone who <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6-MgfafB27-aXhvMkZyZm02XzA/edit?usp=drive_web" target="_blank">CLICKS HERE</a>. If you pick up the freebie, all I ask is that you leave a comment below. Enjoy. <br />
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The first person to leave a comment and guess my favorite color will win the whole Unit 2 packet. Be sure to leave your e-mail in your post. Have a great week everyone.<br />
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<img align="middle" src="http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g447/eschaff/Who%20Loves%20Kindergarten/Whooo%20Loves%20Kindergarten%202/sgn5.png" />Mrs. McElveenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482025687248798027noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358463364873839091.post-36589610076357845562013-08-19T21:08:00.001-07:002013-08-19T21:08:41.939-07:00My Classroom and a FREEBIEWell, I survived the first full week of school. I love my class because I only have 15 students this year. That is THE LOWEST number of kids I've ever had since I started teaching 20 years ago. I had 27 last year, and I spent the entire year feeling like a chicken with its head cut off who ran into a dog chasing its tail! That was not a good feeling.<br />
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I finally got around to taking some pics of my classroom. I love looking at other people's classroom pics and hope you enjoy looking into my classroom. Hang in there - this is going to be a long post.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my Back-to-School Bulletin Board outside in the hallway.<br />We focus on Bus Safety as this is many of our students first time on the bus.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my Behavior Clip Chart. The clip chart is proving to be a success <br />this year. I have had years that it did NOT work.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the small area between my bathroom door and door to the hallway.<br />I have my MONEY posters, the "Where are we going today?" sign,<br />and my Emergency Bucket of things to grab on the way out.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is something I inherited from a teacher that retired a few years ago.<br />This is the very famous Monkey Butt!<br />My kids LOVE this monkey and never have a problem with left and right.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my "How We Go Home" display. Everyone starts on the right.<br />All changes are clipped to the left side and reset the next day.<br />You can get this from Caitlin Clabby - Kindergarten Smiles.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my FOCUS WALL of sorts. It is placed up high near the door<br />so that we can review info when we line up.<br />My picture has our class motto - "Just do your best".</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my Classroom Calendar (with $ review).<br />We practice patterns using this great set from Creative Teaching Press.<br />I have an interactive math calendar that covers all the bells and whistles.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am fortunate enough to have 8 student computers in my room.<br />Did I mention that they are all TOUCH screen? Well, they are...<br />We have the HATCH all-in-one systems.<br />While I am not crazy about the HATCH software,<br />I do LOVE the touchscreens.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are my reading groups. Last year I had so many kids<br />that I had to have five small groups. Can you say C-R-A-Z-Y!<br />This year I only have three - - blue, green, and yellow.<br />Hooray for small miracles.<br />I put pics of the kids in each row. (Removed for privacy)</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is where I display letter-of-the-week picture cards<br />that are labeled with the word in my Writing Area.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is one of my favorite parts of my room. It is my Writing Station.<br />Here you can see Deedee Wills's August/September Writing Station cards.<br />My kids can remove the cards from the pocket chart to use as needed.<br />When we change to a new month, these are put on a ring and left at the station.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my super Chevron themed Alphabet line in D'Nealian<br />created by Nancy over at Fun Times in First. She was nice enough<br />to coordinate the pics to match the pics in the Treasures reading series.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every week I put up a poem (sorry it is blank) that focuses on our <br />HFW of the week. I usually get my poems from a Sight Word Book<br />by Rozanne L. Williams. <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sight-Poetry-Pages-Fill---Blank/dp/0439554381/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1376969073&sr=8-1-fkmr1&keywords=rozanne+lanczak+williams+poem" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> to see this book. It is fabulous!</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Every week we have an Animal-of-the-Week. Not only do we learn<br />five facts about the animal, but we do a writing and drawing activity.<br />Kids LOVE animals and this is a very popular activity each week.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are my classroom mailboxes. The chevron boxes on top <br />hold three math station activities and three reading station activities.<br />These are changed weekly. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is "Got It - Swat It". We use swatters to slap the word called.<br />Winners get to stay up until they lose. It is SO much fun.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the area directly behind my teaching table.<br />Each drawer holds a Unit from Treasures.<br />ALL my materials from each unit are housed here.<br />BEST INVESTMENT EVER.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is something new our district implemented this year.<br />Instead of using Depth of Knowledge (DOK) levels,<br />we are using this house model in our classrooms.<br />The happy face magnets are used to show what types<br />of questions we are answering (and asking).<br />The kids LOVE when their happy magnet moves up.<br />Very simple concept that our little ones understand.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The corner behind my teaching table.<br />Lots of reading materials - big books, readers, and other stuff.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My kids love playing pocket chart games. <br />These are from Jamie Maya's Kissing Hand Activities.<br />Chester is like part of our family the first few weeks of school. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my bulletin board without the words "Fly High".<br />It is also my Word Wall for words we already know.<br />You can see my Really Good Stuff book bins that are NOT<br />labeled yet because I haven't gotten around to doing that.<br />I got some great labels from Sharing Kindergarten that are <br />just waiting to be printed. Not enough hours in my day.</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Greatest piece of classroom furniture - EVER.<br />This is where a group goes to work on station <br />activities when it can't be done on the rug.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my Classroom Library and Math Corner.<br />I only put out one tub of books the first week of school.<br />These are mostly board books until I can teach the kids<br />how to handle books properly. It still amazes me how<br />little some children have held books prior to coming to K.<br />You can see my math manipulatives neatly stored<br />in the shelves on the counter. I also have a 100s chart<br />and a math game in the pocket chart. I think that <br />"Lost My Lunchbox" from Marsha at A Differentiated Kdg.<br />is what is in the red pocket chart here.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the "fun" stuff. I have Moon Sand in the pink containers.<br />Kids can use dough stamps to write words in the Moon Sand.<br />I have Leapsters, Leap Pads, and a few other Leap Games.<br />There are lots of floors puzzles, Lincoln Logs, Play-Doh, and Legos.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is my cabinet that has all my Math "stuff" in int.<br />Love the shape posters from Julie Shope.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Color Words from same pack as Shape Words - Julie Shope.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I HATE filing cabinets. I put things in and then I forget about it.<br />So...I keep a crate out and only keep a few weeks of copies in it.<br />Green has morning work and extra skill pages.<br />Red has reading copies.<br />Blue has math copies.<br />Yellow has "other" stuff.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This year I am fortunate enough to have to sit only three kids per table.<br />This allows me to push their table cubby to the 4th chair<br /> and give them extra work room. LOVE these clover tables <br />b/c they all have a spot that is very easy to find.<br />I also love my seat back covers that my mother-in-law made for me.<br />More on my table cubbies in next pic.<br />*Also - do you see the green round thing in the seat?<br />Those are sensory cushions that I got for every seat<br /> in my room last year. Oh, my...they are FABULOUS.<br />I love them and never want to be without them.<br />All the kids love sitting on them, and they are <br />very beneficial to my "wiggle-worms".</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of my best investments I've made in my K classroom.<br />I ordered some of the table cubbies from RGS.<br />Well, they weren't really good at all. As a matter of fact - they were junk!<br />So...I had a local carpenter build me six of these table cubbies. <br />They are perfect for holding four pencil boxes.<br />Kids can also put half sized books in their "hole".<br />The top has an edge so I can put Morning Work out without it falling off.<br />Kids can put unfinished work on top of their table cubby.<br />LOVE these. :)</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I finally joined the Letter Bead party. I bought Marsha's (from<br />A Differentiated Kindergarten) bead packets and the supplies.<br />I am waiting on my High School helpers to arrive on September 3rd<br />before I even think about getting all these beads out! Ha</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These are my classroom rules. Thanks to Leslie Panaro <br />for the super cute Bird-themed posters.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brain Power Pellets - a.k.a. M&Ms<br />A little M&M goes a LONG way with a K kid.<br />I might add that M&Ms are my fave, too.</td></tr>
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Well, if you made it through this post - you deserve a treat...because I think it was my longest post to date.<br /><br />I will give five lucky winners one item from my TpT store just for leaving a comment about something you like about my classroom. Doing this the old-school way - no Rafflecopter - just drawing five #s out of a hat. I will draw the #s on Thursday night. GOOD LUCK! Hope everyone has a great year.<br />
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I will e-mail a FREE copy of my super cute Chevron Touch Point Math Posters (with both D'Nealian and Zaner Bloser print) to anyone that responds by 10 p.m. CST on Thursday evening! Then, they will be available on TpT. :) Have a great day!<br />
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I am using Rafflecopter to give away two sets of Graphic Organizers. <br />
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Please leave a comment and let me know if you would be interested in having a set of Graphic Organizers for all 10 units of Treasures. :)<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">I promised to give away 3 journals, and Rafflecopter generated the following winners...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;">* Entry #195 - Heather J. Bryant</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">* Entry #293 - Pamela Guerra</span><br />
<span style="color: #274e13;">* Entry #162 - Sarah Wenzinger</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Because I was SO excited about getting to 142 followers, I had Rafflecopter choose a 4th winner. :)</span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;">Please reply with your e-mail addresses, and I will get your ABC Writing Journal to you in a jiffy.</span><br />
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I loved all the suggestions of ways that y'all would use this ABC Writing Journal in your classroom. Some were exactly what I had in my mind for my own classroom, and others were great ideas I hadn't thought to do. <span style="color: #cc0000;"> I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE that Jennifer L has an area of her Writing Station called "Letter Expert". Since I am gonna have to <strike>steal </strike>implement that in my own classroom, I am going to give <span style="color: #274e13;">Jennifer</span> the <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Amy-Mcelveen" target="_blank">ABC Writing Journal</a> for FREE as well. :)</span><br />
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Thanks again for the great response. I will be posting lots of FREEBIES and new <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Amy-Mcelveen" target="_blank">TPT Creations</a> throughout the summer. My district uses the Macmillan McGraw-Hill Treasures Reading Series so lots of my units and freebies will correlate with the Treasures Kindergarten Series. <span style="color: #cc0000;">Please leave me a note and tell me what Reading Series you use in your classroom.</span><br />
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Here are some samples from the packet that show types of pages for EACH letter. All pages are available in D'Nealian and Zaner Bloser options.<br />
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Please leave a comment and let me know how you would use this in your classroom. Thanks!<br />
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We are going to be fully immersed in OCEAN fun this week. I'm excited about this week because the kids LOVE making sharks and whales and all those other fun crafts we squeeze into the week. (I'm also excited that I am almost to 100 followers.) :) Our district uses the Treasures Reading Series so most of the following activities work with Unit 9 - Week 2 of that series. Even if you don't use this series, you can probably work these into your ocean unit in some way or another.<br />
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I always send home a newsletter on the first day of the week. My parents love this because it keeps them organized. Click the picture below to see this week's Newsletter.<br />
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My kids LOVE doing any activity that requires using a magnifying glass. I made these sheets last year to review color words and HFWs. I usually cut apart into squares and have them pull them out of a mini fish bowl. This year I decided to just laminate the whole sheet and give each child his/her own sheet to investigate. This works MUCH better with this group. This activity ca be differentiated by having groups write WORD OLY or a SENTENCE USING THE WORD Click below on each image to get your free copy!<br />
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*All clip art and most fonts are from the <a href="https://www.djinkers.com/" target="_blank">DJ Inkers </a>collection. LOVE all her things!<br />
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How many of you all send home a Weekly Newsletter? This is something I started many years ago, and it has been one of the best things I have ever done in my classroom. This one little piece of paper keeps my parents informed, and it holds me accountable. I am going to start making these available on my blog in case my parents want to look online at them.<br />
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I am currently working on a whole packet of unique Newsletter templates. :) This is going to be my first item for sale on TpT when it is finished. If you use this type of communication, please leave a note to let me know what you include on yours. Have a great week everyone.<br />
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Well, do any of you all feel like you just get something figured out and then "POOF", it changes to something else? Our school required us to use the terminology from the Depth of Knowledge Chart for years. We had to include all those words in everything we did with the kids. Now that we are slowly implementing Common Core, we are switching back to the old-school Bloom's Taxonomy...but, wait...it isn't the original Bloom's Taxonomy, it's a newer version of Bloom's Taxonomy. REALLY????? So...being the good little soldier that I am, I have whipped up some new posters for me and my Kindergarten teammates so that we can make sure we are all using the correct terms. If you would like a copy of these new posters - <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B6-MgfafB27-Z251Q2JpRFYxVEE/edit" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a>. As always, if you pick up this freebie, please leave a comment. <br />
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It has been quite some time since I have made a blog post. I decided to freshen up my blog by letting <a href="http://honeybunchblogdesign.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Honey Bunch Blog Design</a> redesign my site. Do you love it as much as I do? "WOW!" was all I could say when I saw the finished product. It was exactly what I wanted.<br />
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I love February for many reasons. First, it means we have finished January which is always the hardest month of school for me (and usually the students as well). It is so hard to come back after Christmas Break, not have outside recess, complete winter benchmarking tests, and take our achievement tests. All those things together make for one <strike>crazy,</strike> busy month!<br />
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My kiddos have been super busy learning and LOVING all the great activities shown below. What are some of your favorite February activities?<br />
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This is a great activity made by Marsha at A Differentiated Kindergarten. You can see it <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Toadally-In-Love-With-Sight-Word-I-Spy-Differentiated-and-Aligned" target="_blank">HERE</a>. </div>
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Here is a group working on a Roll to 100 game. This is so simple, but they always love it.</div>
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Students at this table were rolling the big cube and writing the HFW one letter at a time in the 100 chart. The first person to complete the chart wins! This is such good spelling and handwriting practice. After the grid is filled, students use a one minute sand timer and read as many of the words as they can in that time.</div>
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It is a CVC word puzzle where kids cut out letters and spell CVC word to match picture. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Here, two of my guys are working with two very popular things in my room - the big, soft, rolly dice and the bingo dotters! Those things are awesome. Wish my teachers would have had them when I was a kid. Here they were working with the HFWs - I, can, we, the AND letters Mm and Aa. If they rolled it, they could find it and dot it on their page. If they had already covered it, lose a turn. Lots of oohs and aaahs during this activity. SO MUCH FUN and learning going on at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Above is The Great Shape Trace which comes from<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Schools-in-Session-Beginning-of-Year-Activities-and-Centers" target="_blank"> Julie Lee's Schools in Session Packet.</a> Julie has some of my favorite things out there when it comes to station activities. I LOVE her stuff - ALL of it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Those of you who read my blog posts know I am a HUGE fan of Reading Eggs. My students love it. We only have one rule - You cannot go to the play or game room except on Fridays. Well, I took the picture above on Fridays b/c I couldn't believe it. This little girl didn't go to the play or game room - she kept right on going with her lessons. It is because of this determination that she is on LEVEL 39 already! Woo-Hoo!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I will leave you with one of our independent writing assignments from last week. Students were asked to write the sentence "I am _______." making sure to fill in their first name on the line, make a capital at the beginning of the sentence, and putting a period at the end. Then, students were asked to illustrate the sentence by drawing something they like to do when they are not at school. We ALL know what most kindergarten handwriting looks like - especially when you give them lines to write on at the beginning of the year and LET THEM GO indpendently. Well, you can imagine my surprise when I was going through my papers at the end of the day and saw this little "jewel". WOW! Not only did this student neatly write his sentence - he wrote his entire name and drew a picture that was actually recognizable. I was SO impressed with this and many others in my room. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This week we will be wrapping up Unit 1 - Families on Monday and Tuesday. Then we will take our Unit 1 Assessment <strike>BOOK</strike>, oops, I meant, TEST on Wednesday. It is about 20 pages long. That is entirely too long, but I'll leave that discussion for another day! On Thursday, we will begin Unit 2 - Friends. I told ya - the Pacing Chart makes things VERY weird!!!!! Hope everyone has a great week full of learning fun.</span></div>
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Mrs. McElveenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482025687248798027noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358463364873839091.post-81275569851117640062012-09-02T19:13:00.000-07:002012-09-02T19:13:16.914-07:00An Apple a Day...<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">First - I want to apologize to my parents who actually take a look at my blog. I did take pictures last week, but it is hard to post them when I leave my camera at school! :/ Sorry! I will take twice as many this week and post a lot of pics next weekend to make up for it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Well, maybe I need to eat an apple a day b/c I had to go to the doctor today! (This sounds like a Dr. Seuss book in the making, huh?) I'm fine - got a super strong antibiotic to fight off the junk and have an extra day off tomorrow to rest. Anyway...I decided to make an apple-themed page since one of our stories in Unit 1 is <i>Picnic at Apple Park. </i>My kids have been "eyeballing" the magnifying glasses sitting on my desk all last week. Every time they would go by I would catch them looking <strike>desperately wanting to snatch them up</strike> and then the question would come from more than one of them at the same time, "What are those for?" My answer was always, "I don't know...it's a surprise...you'll have to wait and see." Oh, the grins and giggles! Well, I am going to put them at the word work station this week. I am certain there will be more grins and giggles - lots of them!!! I use the Treasures reading series so these pages deal with letters (Mm and Aa), HFWs (I, can, we, the) and color words (red, blue, yellow, green) b/c those are the ones we have covered so far.</span><br />
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Mrs. McElveenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482025687248798027noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358463364873839091.post-15026193918879355552012-08-26T11:54:00.002-07:002012-08-26T11:54:58.128-07:00Run, run, as fast as you can...<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Well, <strike>I</strike> we have survived the second full week of school. My class is already settling in nicely. Most of our kids go to half-day preschool before coming to Kindergarten. Preschool kids go home right after they eat lunch. So...for the first week or so of school the kids always expect to go home when we return from lunch. They are so sad when they figure out that we have to stay for 3.5 more hours! This is a rude awakening to some of them. Because it is such a LONG day for <strike>me </strike>them, I always plan the first three weeks to introduce new things daily to keep them excited. I always save the most exciting "thing" for right after lunch b/c we always need that little "boost" to get through until we go to special class. I am SO thankful for a principal who understands that we must have special class in the afternoon. That is such a small thing that makes such a big difference!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Our school using the Treasures Reading Series. This week's Read Aloud Anthology was "The Gingerbread Boy". This is one of the kids' favorites of the whole year. They just love hearing this story and participating when we get to the "Run, run...as fast as you can...you can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" They nearly squeal in anticipation each time. Even though I do my big Gingerbread Unit right before Christmas, I do pull out a few activities for the kiddos after we read this story. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This activity came from a great packet on<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Gingerbread-Math-Work-Stations" target="_blank"> TpT by Deedee Wills</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Activity 3 - This was a page called Ginger's Walk where the kids traced the letters.<br />One page had uppercase letters. The other had lowercase letters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">These pages came from Pocketful of Centers. <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Gingerbread-Printable-Pre-K-Math-Literacy-Games" target="_blank">CLICK HERE</a> to see unit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Pam, from PofC, makes the greatest creations. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Activity 4 - Oh, my! Yes, I did it - I pulled out the dotters on Day 11!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is an oldie but goodie! I don't know what I did before Write-n-Wipes!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Oh...the power of a dry erase marker and a tissue! HA HA</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I am looking forward to Week 3 with my class. This is our last week of Start Smart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">SS lessons are shorter giving time to teach routines and procedures. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When we return after Labor Day, we will kick it into full gear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Leaving you with a <a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6-MgfafB27-YmJDNU8zbU95ajg" target="_blank">FREEBIE </a>- just a little something I made for my class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We are going to use this to review the Gingerbread Man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I am also going to use this to introduce magnifying glasses! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Enjoy - please leave a comment and let me know what you think. :) </span></div>
Mrs. McElveenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482025687248798027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358463364873839091.post-55258279033520835152012-08-18T20:47:00.001-07:002012-08-18T20:48:32.177-07:00Back to School FREEBIE<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Well, I survived the first full week of school...BARELY! It is amazing how tired a person can feel after just one week back in the routine of things. I slept late this morning and even took a nap late this afternoon! I have 24 kids in my class. Thank goodness they are 24 great kids because that is a whole lot of little people for just one adult to </span><strike style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">entertain</strike><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> teach all day - especially at the beginning of the year when they do not know routines and procedures. Whew - tired just thinking about it. We did accomplish a lot this week. We learned several how to work with several different activities. I was very proud that by Friday we knew how to rotate through our four areas with very little confusion. This might be a record folks! Here are some of the things we worked on this week in stations.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We also learned how to look at the color board if we don't know our color words yet. The kids loved coloring the Chester Colors Book that I got from Jayme Pierce at kinderbabies.blogspot.com. Check it out because it was FREE and has LOADS of activities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We also learned where the Pocket Chart Station was located and how to maintain it. Kids loved counting Chester and matching the picture with the number. I was surprised how many kids could already count and knew their #s up to 10. I have to say that I am totally impressed with this BIG group b/c not one time did I find my cards scattered on the floor (even though they did leave a book on the floor - ha). The kids did a wonderful job keeping this area clean and orderly. (This activity also came from Jayme Pierce.) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As you can see above, I put out too many cards to start with in this pocket chart. The kids were confused and had cards here, there, and everywhere - seriously, upside-down and backwards! I didn't really mind b/c they stayed in their station area and that was one of the main things I was trying to teach at the time. I did take out the cards and only put five back in - one for each row and that made it much simpler. (Again - Jayme Pierce activity)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Here is one of my little sweeties working on a "red" page which was our color-of-the-week for the first week. We were all about red this week! This is a page where the kids write the word three times, find and color the word in the boxes, and finally find and circle the word in the sentences at the bottom. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">All
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Mrs. McElveenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482025687248798027noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358463364873839091.post-68887134582700895002012-07-29T19:04:00.000-07:002012-07-29T19:04:02.145-07:00Classroom Ring Masters!Mrs. Lirette over at Mrs. Lirette's Learning Detectives is giving away a great package to help your students learn sight words. Please check out her giveaway by <a href="http://www.mrsliretteslearningdetectives.com/2012/07/are-you-kids-ring-masters-giveaway.html" target="_blank">CLICKING HERE</a>. Your students will be RING LEADERS of sight words in no time if you win this packet. If you don't win, you can still pick up this great set for a great combo price by visiting her <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ring-Masters-Sight-Word-Mastery-Combo-Pack-Level-1-and-2" target="_blank">TpT store</a>. Good luck!Mrs. McElveenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482025687248798027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358463364873839091.post-57870460762772533512012-07-18T21:20:00.000-07:002012-07-18T21:20:45.273-07:00New Bloggers!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 25px;">Thanks so much, Crystal from <span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://msjonesjunction.blogspot.com/" style="color: #cc0000;" target="_blank">Ms. Jones' Junction</a></span>. I'm so glad you found my blog and introduced me to yours. :)<span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://applefortheteach.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><br /></a></span></span></div>
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<br />Mrs. McElveenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00482025687248798027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6358463364873839091.post-88334913413187237332012-06-25T18:52:00.002-07:002012-06-25T18:52:51.422-07:00Brown Bear Mega Unit Giveaway!I just discovered a fabulous new blog! It is called <a href="http://pocketfullofkinders.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: cyan; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Pocket Full of Kinders</span></a>. WOW - is it packed with great stuff. You should run over now and check out Shuna's new Brown Bear Mega Unit b/c it is on sale until Wednesday and who doesn't love <i style="color: #783f04; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Brown Bear, Brown Bear</i>?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I created some monthly sheets that I plan to print on card stock and let each child color as a divider in the Memory Binder. If you would like a copy to use in your own Memory Binder that I have inspired you to make (or just want a copy for your students to color), please <a href="https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B6-MgfafB27-bGx1NWJCb1lHbVk" target="_blank"><span style="color: red; font-size: large;">CLICK HERE</span></a>! </span><br />
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Last night I was browsing the web while I couldn't sleep! I came across a Linky Party hosted by Teachery Tidbits. Click on the picture above to see original post. I have never participated in a Linky Party, but FONTS are one of my favorite things! I love, love, love cool fonts. DJ Inkers has some of my favorites. My favorite font collection is <a href="http://www.djinkers.com/DJ_FontCD/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Super Fontastic</span></span></a>. I think it is safe to say that fonts make me happy. The only issue I have with fonts is that some of the cutest ones drive me crazy because they use all lowercase letters with no capitals. (I think this is the teacher in me coming out because this really makes me crazy when I see these all lowercase fonts - especially when they are so cute!)</div>
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