Plans, Freebies & Station Rehab x3*

Last week almost tops my list in one of the worst weeks I have literally ever had. I am ready though for a new and exciting week with my kiddos! They keep me smiling each day and forget about all of my worries!

This week is really only going to be a four day week because on Friday we have a 2 hour delay and a Fall Party! Woohoo! But, that isn't stopping me from teaching my little boogers all they need to know about their batty friends and text features!

Monday is my formal observation and I have worked so hard to create something that is going to run super smoothly and hit all those requirements in 1 lesson! So, here is the BAT book!

This week students are learning to identify 10 different text features so we can begin diving deep into non-fiction text! We're going to discuss our schema, identify features and their purposes and then go on a text feature hunt!

I will definitely be doing a post on this unit when finished. But, for now here it is for you to grab up!



Here are the visual plans for this week!
I made a new... pretty in pink template--I needed more room to type! :)

Link your plans up at Mrs. Wills Kindergarten!

Click below to get your own editable lesson plan template!!

Last week I began teaching sight words in a new way and OMG my kids loved it!

I simply printed out the sight words on cards, taped them to a piece of paper, put the learning target on top and here it is!

Each day we added two-three sentences. Then on Thursday the kids got out their I-pads and we used an app called screen chomp. The kids wrote their sight word on their I-pad, recorded themselves saying it and then listened to it. Then, once we finished that they wrote the sentences, read them and listened to them. Can you say hello fluency?! PLUS they loved it!!

Here is the app & it's free.

Now, don't forget I am just a 2nd year teacher who is still trying to figure out my classroom and realizing that my students this year are nothing like my students last year so things have had to change... like stations... so welcome to...

In my classroom I am still trying to tweek stations to make them work because I just haven't figured out what works best for this class. I have tried stations about 4 different ways.

One thing I know about them is... they can only do an activity for about 10 minutes before they're bored---so Daily 5 rotations are back in my classroom with a little twist! They also need some sort of assignment to stay on task and a reward for when they're done. Hence... Cara's dinner and dessert vocabulary that is now used in my room.

Here are some pictures of my new station set up!

This is my new set up for literacy stations. You will see that I have completed part of the recording sheet for the kids so it is a visual reminder of what they are supposed to do.

Each child also now has a folder that contains all of the recording forms for the week. When they go to word work the choose which dinner activity they want to complete. When they go to writing they choose a dinner activity to complete. Once all activities in their folder are completed then they get to go to dessert! I am going to have them keep all of their recording forms in their folders all week and on Friday we will empty our folders and fill them with next weeks recording forms.

I am hoping that this works and to help keep them accountable and organized. Their folders will always go back in the blue basket so their papers and folders do not get lost!

I always keep my math station and literacy station set up about the same so the kids do not get confused. Only difference with math is they complete 1 activity per day (by choice) and then they can complete their desert bin!

In their file folders are their recording forms for a week. The different colored file folders also identify ability level in math. For instance, students who have yellow and orange file folders are my extra support/at level students. The red are my advanced students. So, in my advanced students folders I put a different activity that is built to challenge them a bit more. So, in return they are not completing the, "what's missing' activity because they have beyond mastered it!

This is what is working in my stations....

 Students are grasping the concepts and working together! :) Just keeping track of and knowing to finish all of our work is the trouble part. :) We will get it!!

Here are some freebies that I put into my desert bins this week. Just click the picture!!

Now, to end this post I need to give a big thank you to these two! They came to school with my on a Saturday night to help me cut and revamp all of my stuff! They got Chipotle out of it so they weren't to upset! :)

Fiancé on the right and soon to be cousin in law on the left! :)

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Let's Press Rewind Here!

Let's press rewind and do a photo purge of a past week in my classroom! Putting up visual plans is so easy and I do it all the time... but taking the time to actually blog about those plans and what we did in the classroom is a lose-lose situation for me! Time is not on my side here!! But, I am making a point to do it & first up is FROGS!!

We read Froggy books one week and the next week learned some pretty cool stuff about the little creatures! They loved iiiitt!!

This blog post we will just focus on FROGGY! :)

So, we focused on retelling Froggy stories all week!

First up we read this book and we recalled events from the story as a whole class.
Then students completed a reading response sheet where they drew a 2 pictures of their favorite event from the story and wrote 2 sentences about their 2 favorite parts.
Students glued these into their reading notebooks! Love!

 

 

 

 

The next day the students and I read this book...
When I read this book the kids made me feel like I was comedian of the year...
I had them rolling!!


With this book we focused on comparing and contrasting ourselves with froggy. They love, love, loved doing this. Throughout the whole story they were making connections with themselves so the activity feel perfectly into place!

Last, but not least we focused on recalling 3 of our favorite parts of the story (even though the directions stated otherwise)!



I had the kids draw a picture of each of their favorite parts is sequential order! Then, they were asked to write one word to describe their part. They did a great job and of course LOVED this story!!

We of course had to add a craft to end this Froggy extravaganza!!!

 

 

Do you not love their mouths? Love my kids this year!! :)

 

 

Here is one of the finished responses!! :)

 

 

Our Froggy week was so fun and to add onto the fun and excitement of the week I got one of these...

 

Guided reading is seriously so much easier now with this little beaut! The kids are not in each others business and it just makes life so much easier!

Since I got this lovely little table I had to completely change my room around and here it is!
It created a better flow to my room and staying organized right now is so much easier! The kids love & I love it! SO--- we end all this with a win-win!!

 

 

 

If you love the froggy stuff then check out Deanna Jump's Froggy Packet!

 

See you soon!!

 

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Peek into my week!*

My plans this week are once again all about Frogs! I love the frog theme and it is our first mini non-fiction unit! We are going to be filling out our first tree map of the year and pulling information from a non-fiction easy ready to write our own book about frogs! Since, I don't have much time in the day I like to find reading standards that also meet those science standards! Why is it always so hard to fit in science and social studies?!

 

Here are my plans!

Click HERE to go to Google Docs!

 

 

Check out other plans with Dee Dee!

 

I have also been working on a short vowel word family sort packet and I finally finished it tonight!

 

Here it is to check it out!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I promise I will soon be blogging about what I am actually doing in the classroom! It's been a crazy year so far with cheerleading and now with a WEDDING to plan!!

 

I am backed up on pictures and need to have a blog marathon for like a straight week on here!! :)



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Is this really happening?!!!!

 I have to share some really big news with you!!!!!
(Then will come the visual plans)

 

 

It was a huge surprise and it was so unexpected!!!

 

So, here is the story in the short & sweet version!

 

We were 'meeting' friends at a mall called Levis Commons to go to a comedy club (or so I thought). We get there a little early to do some shopping. Once we shopped, we put our stuff into our car and Andrew told me that we were meeting our friends by the water fountain. We are walking up there and he says, "We need a picture." So, he hands his phone to some random lady sitting on a bench with her husband (they were celebrating their 10 year). She takes one picture...

 

 

Then, he looks at it and gives her back his phone and then...

 

 

 

I can't tell you how happy I am!

 

After this we went out to eat and then come to find out our entire family was already at the restaurant waiting for us!! The best day ever!!

 

 

 

 Here are my visual plans for the week!!

 

Click HERE to see them in Google docs!

 

 

 

 

Link up with Dee Dee to see other great plans from fab bloggers!

 

 

Have a great night!!!!!

 

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