tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91546241063587971862024-02-18T20:29:48.455-06:00Confessions of a 3rd Grade TeacherAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705986462005630671noreply@blogger.comBlogger100125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154624106358797186.post-26793324242865121872015-10-26T14:08:00.001-05:002015-10-26T14:08:48.898-05:00It's A Dream Come TrueHave I ever told you how much I love purple??!?!?!?!!!<br />
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Purple is my absolute favorite color!<br />
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My daughter's room is purple. My favorite fruit (grapes) are purple. The college I went to colors were PURPLE and orange! I bleed purple! My phone is purple. Purple is just the best color out there!<br />
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Awhile back I was contacted about reviewing <a href="http://www.classroomfriendlysupplies.com/">Classroom Friendly Supplies</a> brand new pencil sharpener. As soon as I heard the details I jumped on board. As many of you know I have reviewed their sharpener before and I absolutely fell in love with it. I even got my school to buy a whole bunch for other classrooms! This pencil sharpener is the real deal. And now it's even better!<br />
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It comes in purple!!!</div>
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Purple is my absolute favorite color! (I know, I know, I already said that)</div>
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Look at this beauty!</div>
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I seriously jumped for joy when this amazing product arrived at my doorstep!</div>
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I loved this pencil sharpener already because of how fast it sharpens and how sharp my pencils get. But they now have me super sold on this sharpener since it comes in purple. I quickly switched it out and took my black one home for pencils at home. My students all thought I just took the time to paint it. They're too cute!</div>
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Here is my pencil sharpener in place (notice I have purchased the extra piece that they sell so it can be mounted to my shelf. My students kept knocking it off with the clamp these sharpeners came with. I definitely think the mount is worth the investment).</div>
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Look at how sharp these pencils get!</div>
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I love it!</div>
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And this sharpener even sharpens those cheap decorative pencils that our students all love so much!</div>
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Head on over to <a href="http://www.classroomfriendlysupplies.com/">Classroom Friendly Supplies</a> to get your sharpener today! Now available in Popular Purple! I definitely recommend that one!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705986462005630671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154624106358797186.post-59609755861757809342015-08-03T18:12:00.001-05:002015-08-03T18:12:20.060-05:00Summer is Ending! Oh no!I cannot believe two months flew by that fast! I had full intentions of getting back and blogging this summer, but that precious little girl required my time and attention! I can't believe in a week and a half I am back at school and no longer spending my days with her!<br />
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She loves to go to school and help Mommy set up her room though! Here is a picture of her helping me out!<br />
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First up with some help from <a href="http://schoolgirl-style.myshopify.com/">School Girl Style</a> I am redoing my classroom with a monster theme! I used her monster cutouts to make a new door decoration for my main door. The main monster says "In our class we..." and the rest of the monsters have different things listed.</div>
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I also used one of her pom-poms to make a monster to hang on my door.</div>
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Next up, (using the monster cutouts again) I created my going home charts and my lunch count charts. I got mini clothespins and put the students numbers on them. They will clip in on the appropriate monster. For lunch count, every day they will start out on the blank one and will move their clip to either school lunch or lunch box. This allows me to also do attendance easily!</div>
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Next up, I made my BE board thanks to <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Classroom-BE-Board-character-traits-1946849">Tonya's Treats for Teachers</a>. I love this board! We will choose one word a week to focus on and I will encourage my students to BE!</div>
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Last up, is my favorite! Leaving my baby girl is not going to be easy so I decided to make up a picture collage so I can look at her pictures when I am missing her like crazy!</div>
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Now here I am on summer break getting to spend a little over two months with my now 3 month old! Say what? Three months? Really? Man she is growing up.<br />
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This post is going to be a little recap of what has happened since October. I won't overload you with bump pictures but I will show you the last bump picture we took so you can see how big that bump got. Here she is! That bump was taking over! She had a lot of extra fluid in there with her (more on that later)!<br />
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At this point I had been off work for almost two weeks because we thought she was going to come early plus mommy was having a lot of problems with high blood pressure.</div>
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A couple days after that picture I went in for my weekly appointment and the doctor decided it was time to induce this little one since she wasn't coming on her own and my blood pressure was still high and she was getting VERY big (or so we thought; that extra fluid made it difficult to know for sure how big she was)!</div>
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We went in that night and started the induction with cervadil. When I first got hooked up the nurse asked me if I was feeling any pain and I told her no. Well it turned out I was having some pretty strong contractions. She was a fabulous nurse and I was sad when it was shift change and she left at 11. I got put with two nurses who were working together (we assume one was being trained, but not quite sure which one since they both weren't very good). Once they took over I no longer got any sleep. They couldn't get the monitors on very well so it was causing it to appear that the little one didn't like me being on my side. They forced me to be on my back the rest of the night (for those of you that have never been pregnant, that position is extremely uncomfortable when you have a huge watermelon inside of you). Shortly after that my back labor started and they still told me I had to remain on my back. I cried and cried for the next 6 hours until it was time for another shift change. That was when my parents showed up and I just broke down and cried on my mom's shoulders. She talked to my new nurse about the issues I was having and this nurse was fabulous. She instantly began helping me get some relief. She also informed me that my little one hated me being on my back so no more of that position. I was able to get a nice shower and eat some breakfast after the cervadil was removed. My doctor agreed that we should wait a few hours before beginning anything else so that I could get some rest. I showered, ate, and attempted to sleep for a couple hours (that was hard since it was light out and I need complete darkness to sleep). </div>
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The next step was to start to pitocin. That really brought on the contractions. After a few hours of the pitocin I was done with the pain. I was having contractions one on top of another for over an hour. I finally decided to get an epidural. After the epidural I was able to get some rest, but still no sleep. The doctor came in late afternoon to check me and I had made no progress. She thought that it might have been because of all the excess fluid I had so she made the decision to break my water. That took awhile since I had so much fluid. She told them to up my pitocin and see what we could get.</div>
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Every time they got the pitocin up where they wanted it my baby girl didn't like it and her heart rate would drop so they would have to drop it back down again. This resulted in no progress for many hours.</div>
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At about 8:30 PM I was told the news I had been dreading. Our little one wasn't going to come the way we wanted her too. I had been in labor for over 24 hours and had only had one hour of true sleep in the past 28 hours. I was only dilated to barely a 3 and had had no changes since they broke my water. The decision was made to do a c-section. I broke down and refused for awhile, but finally agreed to it.</div>
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When I got in to the operating room I was in so much pain because my epidural had run out and they decided not to put the new medicine in since I was getting ready to head to the operating room and would get hooked up with something else. I had so much pain from the catheter and it took forever for the other medicine to begin working. They finally got me numb on one side but the other side would not go numb. They had to turn me on my side to finally get it to work.</div>
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They cut me open and our baby girl was stuck. She did not want to come out. I could feel the doctor right by my face trying to pull her out. She had to get up on a stool and a nurse had to go in and push. Finally they got her out and she was having trouble breathing. They had to give her a few puffs of air. </div>
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She was born February 27th at 9:55 PM. She was 8 pounds, 6 ounces and 23 inches long. She was a long skinny baby.</div>
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I was planning to breast feed but because of the circumstances I was unable to attempt it that night. It wasn't until afternoon the next day before I could (since she had a very bad tongue tie that had to be clipped that morning). Luckily she latched right on and we have been successful ever since.</div>
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We battled jaundice that first week and actually ended up readmitted in the hospital for it. It took her two and a half months to fully get rid of her jaundice.</div>
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She is totally worth it all. I am looking forward to these two months with her. Now that it is summer break I hope to get back to blogging. I will do my best!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705986462005630671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154624106358797186.post-6530414055783053332014-10-06T21:18:00.000-05:002014-10-06T21:18:16.235-05:00Bumpdate- Weeks 12 through 19Wow! Life has been major CRAZINESS lately! But here I am with HOPES of blogging again!<br />
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I am bringing you a baby bumpdate along with a big announcement about the gender!<br />
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I was very tired this week! I accidentally put that we still had 38 more weeks! I promise I know that 38 plus 12 does not equal 40!</div>
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14 chose girl and 5 chose boy (several wanted to choose twins but I wouldn't let them)</div>
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Robot= boy, Caterpillar= girl</div>
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It's a girl!!!</div>
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But first I just want to say I am so happy! My Daddy is home and recovering super well from his surgery! Much better than I expected! His pathology report was great and indicates that they were able to get ALL of the tumor. Now just for the last round of chemo and then he will have won this battle! Thank you for all of the prayers!<br />
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At our last appointment we got a surprise picture of the baby. The doctor was afraid she wouldn't be able to hear the heartbeat so she just HAD to sneak us in to the ultrasound room! I love my doctor! My baby actually looked like a baby this time :) It was also a very active baby! So cute!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705986462005630671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154624106358797186.post-68967935893201242202014-07-28T21:05:00.000-05:002014-07-28T21:07:13.702-05:00I'm BACK!!!! Recap of What Has Happened Plus a Monday Made It!Hey ya'll it has been so long since I have blogged. My world has been wild and crazy and my life was totally turned upside down. I'm finally trying to get myself back to a normal, but I can't make any promises as I am going along this crazy path.<br />
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When I last left you I had no clue how much my life was about to fall apart. I had mentioned a challenging student in my classroom, but I had no clue how challenging it would get. I don't want to go in to full detail, but let me tell you this, the second half of the year was my worst nightmare. Things went downhill quick because of his family life. That mixed with the issues he already had caused things to get REALLY bad. He even ended up being hospitalized for a week because of one of his meltdowns. I did my best to keep pushing through it all, but I wanted to give up so many times. I was emotionally, mentally, and physically drained by the end. I felt like I had done a disservice to the rest of my class and I considered giving up on my one true passion. After taking some time this summer I have realized that it was not me and that I had a lot going on in my personal life at the time that did not help. I am now recovered and ready to go back for a new year with a new perspective.<br />
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So there was all of that going on in my classroom all while my life was crazy busy as my husband and I are Jr. High track coaches. This track season was the hardest on me and I contribute a lot of it to the situations I dealt with all day and the personal life stuff (I'll be getting there in a minute). There was a lot more drama than normal and several of our athletes no longer showed me respect. There were many days I went home from practice and cried thinking that I was a terrible coach. I felt like I also was doing a disservice to my athletes this year. Hopefully next season will be better even though I know that will be a wild ride (see the section on personal life craziness coming up).<br />
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I also had the crazy idea to start selling Thirty-One in February. I do not regret that decision one bit, but it did make life a little crazier for me. I joined and less than a week later I was taking off to go on a training trip with complete strangers (the girl I joined under was the only one I kind of knew and I hadn't actually met her in person). This was totally different for me and way out of my comfort zone, but was an amazing experience. Since then I have met many amazing women and have felt totally inspired to do amazing things.<br />
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Now on to the personal life craziness. This was the thing that made me finally crack and feel like giving up entirely. On May 1st my whole world shattered. My dad had been having some health issues that he had put off getting checked for 9 months. When he finally decided to go to the doctor to get checked out the results were devastating. My father was diagnosed with colorectal cancer. It was so advanced that it was a complete blockage of his colon. My world was really thrown for a loop. You see my father is my rock, my best friend, my shoulder to lean on and all of this happened. He was also our assistant coach for track and this dramatically changed our team (granted some of it was for the better, because the drama finally stopped). Over the following few days and weeks we had to learn what the treatment plan was. The path was finally decided to treat with chemo and radiation first to try to shrink it. The problem was it would expand first and there was no room to expand with out causing issues so an ostomy had to be put in. There were several complications with that surgery and he ended up being hospitalized for a week. He had not been in a hospital overnight since he was a child. This was a very scary time. Luckily he finally recovered from it and was able to proceed with the treatment. He has now completed the treatment and is in the recovery stage waiting for surgery. He is scheduled to have the tumor removed on August 5th. We are hopeful that this surgery will go off without any complications.<br />
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Unfortunately because of all of this he was unable to attend the state track meet for our athletes in person. This was an extremely hard time for him as he had worked so hard to get one of our distance runners there. We decided to take him with us and send him pictures all weekend long of his adventures. Here is my favorite picture. He was just hanging out with me watching some races.<br />
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Through it all my dad has been a trooper and has kept his head held up high. He is truly inspiring. My dad is a distance runner. He has completed several marathons including the Boston Marathon. He is determined to be back there running once he has fully recovered and kicked cancer's butt. All of this has caused him to not be able to run like he used to, but he set out on a mission to run/walk a 5k for Colon Cancer Screening. He put together a team and set out on a mission to just finish the race. It was amazing because once he got out there running, he just couldn't stop. He ran the WHOLE 5k just a few days after finishing his chemo/radiation treatments. It was such an inspiring thing (especially since I couldn't even run the whole thing).<br />
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Here we are walking in the last of our group as a team.</div>
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Now onto my Monday Made It. This Monday Made It was actually made a little while ago, but I am just now getting around to it. After my post head on over to <a href="http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com/2014/07/monday-made-it-summer-week-9.html">4th Grade Frolics</a> to check on some more Monday Made It's that I am sure are actually school related. I promise to show you some school related ones next time. ;)</div>
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I created this video about a month ago to announce that the hubby and I are having our first baby. This was a blessing that was much needed in our family. We are very excited about it even if the timing means the beginning of track season. We're just going to have an extra coach...lol. Our due date ended up getting changed to March 2nd after I had posted the video saying February.</div>
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Here are a couple of pictures we have taken. I will be taking another one tonight so I will have to post it for you sometime in the next couple of days. I'm pretty sure my bump has shrunk in the past week though. I did a lot of walking while I was at Thirty-One National Conference.</div>
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Most of this week's focus I have already been doing successfully in my classroom the past few weeks, but I am going to work on improving it this week.<br />
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In order to implement Rule 1: Follow Directions Quickly, you should use the three-peat procedures. I started the three-peat two weeks ago and it was pure magic.<br />
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You give students a one word direction (i.e. when you want them to turn in papers say "papers" or when you want them to line up say "line") and students repeat the direction word three times and follow the directions. When I do it I begin slowly counting and they have a certain amount of time to complete it. The amount of time I give is based on what the direction is. This has sped things up in my room and I am not having a lot of wasted dead time. We have actually had time at the end of the day since doing this because we actually get everything done on time. It is F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S!<br />
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<u>Rule #2:</u><br />
In order to implement Rule 2: Raise Your Hand for Permission to Speak, you must first decide if you are serious about it. If you are serious you have to stick to it. This is one I have struggled with and I plan to really focus on improving this week.<br />
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When a student talks out without getting permission you call out "Rule #2" and all students should respond with "Raise your hand for permission to speak". After a while of that if certain students are still having problems give them a silent two fingers and the individual student should silently do the gesture. If after several months that still hasn't worked, practice cards will be started.<br />
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<u>Rule #3:</u><br />
In order to implement Rule 3: Raise Your Hand for Permission to Leave Your Seat you should do the same as you do for Rule #2.<br />
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Rule 4: Make Smart Choices applies to EVERYTHING. In order to implement it you ask students if it is a smart or foolish choice to... (fill in the blank with examples) and have the students give their reasoning. Take time each day to go over some things that might become issues.<br />
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When you want to stop backtalk call out "Rule 5" and students respond with "Keep your dear teacher happy".<br />
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For all of these it is important to practice, practice, practice both the wrong way and the correct way. This is the key to success with implementing all of the rules. Rehearse one rule at a time and wait for them to master it before moving on to the next one.<br />
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Now for the mastery challenges:<br />
~Rookie level: students master rules 1 and 2<br />
~Pro level: students master rules 1-4<br />
~All Star level: students master rules 1-5 (you have virtually eliminated challenging behavior from your classroom)<br />
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For students who constantly do not follow the rules start making them do one minute practices at recess. If they won't do it tell them "It's one minute my way or two minutes your way".<br />
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That's all I have for you for tonight! I hope my summary of each of the weekly videos is beneficial to those of you reading.<br />
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Power to the Teachers!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705986462005630671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154624106358797186.post-41613499636362934932014-02-08T21:18:00.001-06:002014-02-08T21:18:59.865-06:00Common Core Assessment WorkbooksI am here today to tell you about a fabulous resource that has recently been released. Last year I purchased the Third Grade Common Core Workbook and couldn't believe all that was included with it. I have been pulling things from it all year to work on. Next year I would like to have it a little more organized so that I am using it more.<br />
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Today I discovered that they have released their Common Core Assessment Workbook. It includes an assessment for every standard, answer keys, and progress reports. I downloaded the Third Grade Sample and was very impressed with the assessments that I saw. I cannot wait to get my hands on the full download and use it in my classroom. I can see this as being very valuable in assessing the standards to ensure I meet all the standards.<br />
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My favorite part about this and the workbook that I purchased last year is that there is something for EVERY Math and ELA standard. Sometimes it is hard to find items that meet some of the standards. Those times are the times when I am grateful to have the workbook and now will be thankful to have an assessment tool as well.<br />
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I definitely recommend you head on over and check out these fabulous <a href="http://www.corecommonstandards.com/common-core-standards/common-core-assessments/">Common Core Assessment Workbooks</a>. They would be a valuable addition to your classroom.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705986462005630671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154624106358797186.post-76152433395347084392014-02-02T21:46:00.000-06:002014-02-02T21:46:03.306-06:00Whole Brain Teaching- Week 3: 5 RulesI am here bringing you my post on the 13 Week Master Class for WBT. Week 3 focuses on the 5 rules. I am posting about the 5 rules, but my focus this week won't be too much on the 5 rules because we have been practicing since the beginning of the year and I have already mastered all three levels of the mastery challenge this week. I want to share with those of you who do not know about the 5 rules yet.<br />
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Whole Brain Teaching has five classroom rules that pretty much cover every behavior issue you may have in your classroom.<br />
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Rule #1: Follow directions quickly (gesture: make your hand swim like a fish really quick)<br />
Rule #2: Raise your hand for permission to speak (gesture: raise your hand and then make your hand talk)<br />
Rule #3: Raise your hand for permission to speak (gesture: raise your hand and then make two fingers walk across your arm)<br />
Rule #4: Make smart choices (gesture: point to your brain)<br />
Rule #5: Keep your dear teacher happy (gesture: frame your face and bob your head from side to side)<br />
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Rookie Mastery Challenge: Review the rules 5 times a day for a week<br />
Pro Mastery Challenge: Have five students lead the rules at least 5 times a day for a week<br />
All Star: Call out the rule number anytime throughout the day when students need a review of a rule due to it being broken; use this a minimum of 5 times a day for a week<br />
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When using the All Star level, you are not rehearsing the rules, you are implementing and reinforcing the rule. This is the direction you must take in order to get to Teacher Heaven!<br />
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Rule Strengths:<br />
~Rules 1- 3 cover the most common, specific classroom problems<br />
~Rules 4 - 5 are universal and cover everything else that is left<br />
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If you are at a school like mine that is a PBIS school, your PBIS rules are included in Rule 4<br />
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If you have students who don't go along, create a leadership team of 5-8 kids (no more than 2 rebels). Stand next to the weakest rebel and review the rules, have the leadership team follow your lead. Praise any improvement by the leaders and rebels. If you do this, there is no place for rebels to hide. It is a LONG year so keep this in your back pocket and don't use until you absolutely need to.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705986462005630671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154624106358797186.post-15233690816335366352014-02-01T20:48:00.003-06:002014-02-01T20:48:53.438-06:00Currently FebruaryI am linking up with Farley again after a few months for Currently February.<br />
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I am loving the impact that WBT has had on my classroom over the past few weeks. I do not think I will ever go back. I have felt so inspired since having such a successful day yesterday. I had been following Mrs. Shipley's blog for awhile, but hadn't really gone back to read the posts from before I started following her. Oh man, I did that this weekend and it is a wealth of information. Mrs. Shipley inspires me. She is who I want to be! So if you are reading this, thanks Mrs. Shipley!</div>
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This past week I decided to put the 13 Week Master Class on a pause due to a VERY rough start to the week (a couple of my kiddos had some rough days that through off everything for the week). I plan to start Week 3 this week so check back for my post on the focus of the week. It will be posted sometime this weekend. Plus, I have more WBT topics to talk about!<br />
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Today I am linking up with <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2014/01/five-for-friday-linky-party-january-31st.html">Doodle Bugs Teaching</a> for the weekly linky of Five for Friday:<br />
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Today we did a super cute craftivity to put up on our bulletin boards. Unfortunately I forgot to snap a picture of it so I will just share the product with you and then I will post a pic later this week. We made Valentine's Day robots. It is a product from Aimee over at <a href="http://www.primarily-speaking.blogspot.com/">Primarily Speaking</a>.</div>
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I had a lovely stranger donate $25 to my Donor's Choose project yesterday and I was jumping for joy. We still have quite a bit to go before my project is fully funded, but we are one step closer. We are working on getting some stability balls, floor cushions, and floor pillows to use as options for my students to sit during independent and small group time. I am currently doing my research and looking in to possibly doing alternative seating next year. These items will help with that and will definitely help this years group of students. They do so much better when they can choose where to sit. If you would like to donate to my project it is found <a href="http://www.donorschoose.org/project/finding-balance-and-fun-with-alternative/1170223?challengeid=310901&utm_source=dc&utm_medium=proposal&utm_campaign=copyURL&rf=copyURL_dccontent_2014_01_teacherid_1901026">HERE</a>!</div>
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Like I mentioned earlier I have some posts coming up on the WBT strategies I have recently used in my classroom. It is a part of my Whole Brain Teaching series of posts.</div>
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I am so excited for my evaluation in a couple of weeks now that I have these fabulous WBT strategies transforming my classroom. I can't wait to share with my administrator how amazing WBT is.</div>
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Sorry, in case you can't tell, I have majorly jumped on the WBT bandwagon!</div>
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For those of you who don't know, I am also a Jr. High Track coach and our season starts in one month! I cannot wait! I am already preparing for our season. Last year, we started having a fabulous fundraiser that is not very common. Actually I don't know of any place that does it around us. We have a track meet that is open for the public to participate in. It is a fun filled day and raises quite a bit of money. We have started preparations for this years event.</div>
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I have saved this last one to brag on one of my kiddos. He was one of the ones I was talking about earlier having a rough start to his week. He is autistic and ADHD. They have recently determined that they also think he may be ODD. Anyways he has often has issues and Monday and Tuesday were really bad days for him. Things settled down Wednesday and Thursday, but they were not perfect by any means. Today this little guy came in and was absolutely FABULOUS. He really struggles with not talking out, but today, oh man today, he raised his hand ALL day long when he wanted to talk. It was so fabulous, I just couldn't keep it to myself! I have been bragging to everyone about his day! He paid attention all day, participated, and was so well behaved! I am just so stinking proud of him.</div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705986462005630671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154624106358797186.post-13459230456589105212014-01-23T16:00:00.000-06:002014-01-23T16:00:05.109-06:00Whole Brain Teaching- Crazy Professor Reading GameHave you heard of the Whole Brain Teaching strategy the Crazy Professor Reading Game?<br />
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I first tried the Crazy Professor Reading Game last week and it completely transformed my students' comprehension of the weekly story. I saw so much progress in their scores on the weekly test. Almost every student passed this week (compared to my normal of only having about three fourths pass).<br />
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It is a variation of Buddy Reading the improves reading comprehension. Since we are still learning it we have been doing it as a whole group. We will slowly start transitioning to doing it as Buddy Reading.<br />
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Paraphrasing- reader reads in dramatic tone AND makes gestures while the listener silently mirrors; the reader should be paraphrasing what the story was about<br />
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Q and A- questioner and answerer BOTH use gestures and a dramatic tone<br />
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Connecting- any connection between reading and anything known/imagined is a good connection; students clap hands together every time they make a connection; when first practicing do it as a group with students saying "connection" and clapping hands whenever a connection is made<br />
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Silent Skimming- students move one finger down the page as they skim ahead for key information; this one should not be done aloud<br />
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Silent Summarizing- students silently or quietly tell story to themselves while making gestures<br />
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Last week I read our weekly story selection in a dramatic tone and my students were encouraged to make BIG gestures. I enticed them by telling them I was looking for students with the best gestures to come up and lead the class. That made their gestures even better. This practice helped my students to better understand the story and we had so much fun with it!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705986462005630671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154624106358797186.post-87676324233240136012014-01-22T16:00:00.000-06:002014-01-31T17:14:57.179-06:00Whole Brain Teaching- SuperSpeed GrammarToday I am sharing another Whole Brain Teaching game that my students absolutely love playing. It is called SuperSpeed Grammar.<br />
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Superspeed Grammar covers 10 units: nouns, verbs, sentences, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and prepositional phrases, pronouns, articles, conjunctions, and appositives. Each unit builds upon the last. It is important with this SuperSpeed game that you move slowly and carefully. You should stop often and have the students explain the concept to each other. This ensures that they are fully understanding the concept.</div>
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In each unit, students learn what the concept is and are given examples. They then are given practice for identifying the concept and giving examples of the concept.</div>
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My students have worked through the nouns unit. It first taught them each part of a noun. Starting with a person, giving examples, moving on to place, giving examples, and then moving on to thing and giving examples. They were then given a variety of pictures and challenged to give as many nouns as possible. They started out with the obvious nouns, but after a few slides they started to think about the more detailed nouns such as eye, mouth, hand, etc. It ended with a Big Hairy Test in which they had to identify nouns in pictures.</div>
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We started on the verbs unit at the end of the week last week and have continued working on it this week. This unit starts out focusing on verbs being action words. It goes through examples of verbs and then students have to come up with verbs that are taking place in the pictures. After they get the verb concept down it loops back around to nouns by having students identify the noun and verb in sentences and then in pictures. </div>
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My students beg to play SuperSpeed Grammar every day. They love coming up with nouns and verbs. They can now tell me without hesitation what a noun is and what a verb is.</div>
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It is used to develop student speaking and writing skills. We play it for 15 minutes every day after lunch. It involves creatively uses nouns, verbs, adjectives, and prepositions while writing complex topic sentences and tightly focused paragraphs.<br />
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It starts out with a blah sentence. A blah sentence consists of an article noun verb. Very simple and very blah. Students take turns replacing the verb in the sentence as many times as they can. Students then take turns replacing the noun in the sentence as many times as they can.<br />
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After the blah sentence we move on to the spicy sentence. A spicy sentence consists of an article adjective noun verb. Students take turns replacing the adjective in the sentence as many times as they can.<br />
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The next level is the extender sentence. An extender sentence consists of an article adjective noun verb extender. It is important for students to understand that an extender is a phrase that adds important information to the story. Students take turns replacing the extender in the sentence as many times as they can.<br />
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Move on to the next level when ready (I have not done this level with my students yet; we are focusing on the previous levels for a while before adding this in. The next levels are the Genius Sentence and the Genius Paragraph. Students take the sentence created by adding the extender and add adders on to it. Adders must be about the target word which is the noun in the sentence. They must support the key noun in the topic sentence. At this point students should transition from speaking to writing. They should practice writing as many genius paragraphs as they can in a time limit (ten minutes is a good time frame). Each paragraph should contain the topic sentence and at least two adder sentences. After the time limit you should show some examples. The students should also have the opportunity to share their examples if they would like to.<br />
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Students will improve tremendously in their writing the more they work through the Genius Ladder. On the <a href="http://wholebrainteaching.com/">Whole Brain Teaching</a> website they have free ebooks. One of the ebooks is a Genius Ladder document. It contains over 500 slides with examples of each rung of the genius ladder. It is broken down into three levels (Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced) and it gets harder as you go.<br />
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My students absolutely love the Genius Ladder. They beg for more and cheer every time I tell them we are going to play.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705986462005630671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154624106358797186.post-50113339869052979442014-01-20T19:43:00.003-06:002014-01-20T19:43:50.654-06:00Whole Brain Teaching- Week 1 Recap and Starting Week 2: 100% Engagement!Here I am for my weekly recap. As I mentioned last week I am going back and doing the 13 Week Challenge found on the Whole Brain Teaching website.<br />
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Last week's challenge was focused on attention getters. I did not do as well as I would have liked, but with the exception of Monday, I was able to get the goal of using attention getters at least 20 times a day. Friday I only ended up with 15, but we did have a two-hour early dismissal so I am still counting that as meeting the goal. I am hoping to step it up a little this week and have set a personal goal of using attention getters at least 30 times each day.<br />
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Week 2's challenge is focused on 100% Engagement; the video can be found <a href="http://www.livestream.com/wholebrainteaching1/video?clipId=pla_926cc2b8-af80-402a-ae84-2b11b9041ced">here</a>.<br />
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Rookie: use Mirror Words at least ten times a day<br />
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Pro: use Silent Mirrors at least ten times a day<br />
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All Star: use a mixture of Mirror Words, Silent Mirrors, and Magic Mirrors at least twenty times a day<br />
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Just like last week I will be keeping track of these with a tally sheet.<br />
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For those of you unfamiliar with WBT, let me start out with explaining what Mirror Words, Silent Mirrors, and Magic Mirrors are. For Mirror Words, you should say "Mirror Words" and hold up your hands. Students respond with "Mirror Words" and hold up their hands. They now will repeat after you and do the same motions as you. Silent Mirrors is done the same way except students do not repeat your words, just your motions. In Magic Mirrors, you put your hands behind your back and students create their own gestures for what you say.<br />
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Mirror Words (and the other variations) involves students' motor, visual, and auditory cortices, resulting in Whole Brain Learning. The best learning takes place when the motor cortex is activated. Everything is retained in our brain through the motor cortex.<br />
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Student do better with Teach Okay if they have practiced the gestures ahead of time by using Mirror Words.<br />
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Mirror Check should be performed every so often to make sure students are doing it properly. When you do a Mirror Check you say "Mirror Check" and then move your hands around wildly. Watch to make sure all students are following along.<br />
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Mirror Words is used to tell a story, describe a process, teach a state standard, for crowd control, or to wake up a sleepy class.<br />
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This week I also tried out three other components of Whole Brain Teaching that I would like to share with you. They are both completely transforming my classroom. They are Genius Ladder, Crazy Professor Reading Game, and SuperSpeed Grammar. Stay tuned in the next couple of days to learn about these other Whole Brain Teaching strategies.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705986462005630671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154624106358797186.post-18517640374637846562014-01-19T16:29:00.000-06:002014-01-19T16:29:17.903-06:00New Brag TagsI have posted a new set of Brag Tags in my TPT store. There are several more to come. I will leave these free until tomorrow and then I will put a price on them.<br />
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This set features brag tags for when students lose a tooth, to celebrate the 100th day, to recognize students for not having late homework, and to recognize students for bright thinking.<br />
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Motivational-Brag-Tags-Set-1-1067688">Motivational Brag Tags Set 1</a></div>
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I am linking up with <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2014/01/five-for-friday-linky-party-january-17.html">Doodle Bugs Teaching</a> for the weekly linky party Five for Friday.</div>
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First up, I am loving having another computer in my room. I have recently started using Spelling City to have my students take their weekly spelling tests. That definitely called for needing more devices in my room. My hubby had a computer sitting around the house that he no longer uses so it got moved to my room. Last year my dad was getting rid of an old computer so I also have that one. My room originally had the two laptops in it. I now have two laptops, two desktops, and two iPads. This means I have six devices when the wireless internet is working. When it is not I have the two desktops with a direct connection and then there is my teacher desktop that I will let them use during those times.</div>
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I have seen such a major change this week in my abilities to teach using the Whole Brain Teaching method. I will be posting my weekly post one day this weekend letting you know how this week's challenge went. I will also be sharing with you about the Genius Ladder and SuperSpeed Grammar. These two programs made a huge impact in my classroom this week! I can't wait to see how much more of an impact it can make!</div>
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We added a new item to our indoor recess selection and the kiddos are absolutely loving it. My sister got me this as a Christmas present and it is perfect! It is called a Flash Pad. There are several different games that can be played on it. This is their new favorite thing to play on snowy days like we had this week.</div>
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As I talked about in an earlier post, I have ended my relationship with Dropbox and have started a new one with <a href="https://copy.com/?r=GaZANb">Copy</a>. Boy am I ever glad I did that! I have loved having Copy and it is so easy to use. At this point I have a total of 40 GB of storage now! I am looking forward to organizing my files this weekend and moving over my clipart/backgrounds/frames/fonts to use in making products.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705986462005630671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154624106358797186.post-60804453239905307902014-01-13T21:04:00.002-06:002014-01-14T20:27:44.871-06:00Have you heard of Copy?Oh my ya'll; it was a crazy weekend. I was fully prepared to post a Five for Friday last Friday, but the photos were on my phone. I went to add them to my dropbox so that I would have them on my laptop for my post. Well my Dropbox went in to overdrive and froze up.<br />
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I spent many hours working on it over the weekend. I gave up on it fixing and decided to set up another Dropbox account. I added my files to it and because of the whole ordeal some of my files were messed up. I finally decided to break up with Dropbox. I have been a diehard Dropbox fan, but I was running out of space and after all of these problems I decided it was in my best interest to just move on.<br />
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And boy am I ever glad I did! I found my new love! I did a little research and came across <a href="https://copy.com/?r=GaZANb">Copy</a>. Have ya'll heard of it? Well it is pretty awesome. It is VERY similar to Dropbox, but it starts out with 15 GB instead of the 2 GB that Dropbox starts out with. And for every person you refer you get an additional 5 GB. I will be set on space for a good while.<br />
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Copy has an app for all of my Apple products so I can access my documents on every device I own. Have I mentioned that I am a diehard Apple girl? Well I am. I don't personally own any devices non apple brand anymore. There are some non Apple items in my classroom, but that is completely out of my control...sorry I got off on my obsession with Apple. Back to your regularly scheduled blog post.<br />
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I highly recommend Copy to you all especially if you're really into TPT, whether a buyer or seller. I now have the ability to store all my free and purchased products that I have found, all my fonts/backgrounds/frames/clipart, and all of my own created products. Plus so much more.<br />
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Now if I have you totally convinced to jump on the Copy bandwagon I would super appreciate it if you would follow this link <a href="https://copy.com/?r=GaZANb">Copy</a>. If you do you will find yourself with 5 GB of additional storage! I call that a big WIN!<br />
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A little update on my weekly challenge for Whole Brain Teaching. Today I tracked my Attention Getters (well I tried...I think I missed a few). I recorded a total of 16 times. I would like to see an improvement on that tomorrow. We'll see how that goes!<br />
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I am linking up with <a href="http://fourthgradeflipper.blogspot.com/2014/01/tried-it-tuesday-norwex.html">Fourth Grade Flipper</a> for Tried it Tuesday.<br />
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Good night ya'll!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705986462005630671noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154624106358797186.post-71234879911781552142014-01-09T13:20:00.000-06:002014-01-19T16:29:53.958-06:00Another Snow Day! Whole Brain Teaching 13 Week Challenge!I am in the middle of my third snow day this week after being off since December 20th. I am ready to get back to teaching with my kiddos.<br />
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All this time has helped me to stick to my resolution of blogging, making more products for TPT, and researching Whole Brain Teaching.<br />
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I have been researching all break and am so excited to try again with WBT. I tried it at the beginning of the year, but had a hard time sticking with it because I was trying to focus on all of the components. I have discovered the 13 Week Master Class that was started back in September. The purpose of it was to focus on just one component at a time and to slowly build up to reaching Teacher Heaven. I am going to start with week one as soon as I get back to school. If you are unfamiliar with Whole Brain Teaching you should definitely check it out and if you are interested in starting I would recommend doing the 13 Week Master Class.<br />
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Week 1's focus is Attention Getters. Here is the video: <a href="http://www.livestream.com/wholebrainteaching1/video?clipId=pla_851ad63b-fd92-4d02-abed-93608addd882">Attention Getters</a>.<br />
I am going to try to at least master the Rookie level, which means I have a goal of using a variation of Class, Yes! to get the students' attention at least 20 times a day.<br />
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Class, Yes! is used to start lessons, reduce the hubbub of the classroom, for crowd control, before entering/leaving class, or to interrupt an activity. It works by you saying a variation of Class and students responding with the same variation of Yes and immediately look at you with their hands folded. If they don't remember to fold their hands you remind them and practice, practice, practice until it becomes natural. Students have fun doing this which helps to get the part of the brain involved with emotions going. The goal of Whole Brain Teaching is to have the Whole Brain activated in order to get the best learning.<br />
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This is one feature I use a lot still, but I do not feel like I use it as much as I should. I will start tracking how many times I use it so that I am holding myself accountable.<br />
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Some variations I use are:<br />
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If I master the Rookie level before the week is over I will move on to the Pro level. The Pro level is to you use Class, Boom! variations at least 10 times per day. This is the same as Class, Yes!, but there is a boom added at the end.<br />
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The final level is the All Star level. In this level you ask a question that students need a lot of practice with (for third grade an example would be multiplication facts) then say boom. Students respond with the answer and boom. In the All Star level you should be using all three types equally at least 20 times a day.<br />
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These are brag tags that can be given out each month for perfect attendance for the month. I have more brag tags to come over the next few months.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705986462005630671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154624106358797186.post-25366401589511502452014-01-08T13:54:00.001-06:002014-01-19T16:29:42.850-06:00Finally a Productive Snow Day!!I have been on break since December 20th. We were supposed to go back Monday for a teacher day and Tuesday the kiddos were supposed to come back, but we got hit with snow and bitter cold temperatures. Only about five or six teachers were able to make it in for our teacher day so we were told we could just work in our rooms. I stayed until lunch and got quite a bit done. Then Tuesday was a snow day and I had absolutely no motivation to get anything done...until about 10 PM last night. Good thing today was also a snow day because I worked on some ideas until almost midnight and then I got up this morning and continued working. I was on a roll.<br />
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I have posted four new products to my TPT store (these are the first items I have posted since before Halloween...it feels so great to be posting some new items). Since I haven't really made anything else lately I am linking up this post with Tara's Monday Made It over at <a href="http://4thgradefrolics.blogspot.com/2014/01/monday-made-it-january-little-early.html">4th Grade Frolics</a>; after checking out my products you should head on over to her blog and see what everyone else has been making this month.<br />
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These are perfect for your Valentine's Day items; there are 72 different versions!</div>
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Another perfect item to add to your Valentine's Day items.</div>
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These five little guys were the perfect addition to my next new item:</div>
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They will be perfect to hand out to my students on Valentine's Day with a little goody of some sort.</div>
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I have really gotten in to making brag tags lately. I have many more to come over time. This is my first posted set. They are perfect to give students on their birthday.</div>
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My goal is to organize the house and keep it organized so it does not stress me out. This one I started a little early. For the past few days we have been decluttering and reorganizing. I figured while I had the time off it would be a good idea. We have thrown away seven huge trash bags full of junk and have boxed up five big boxes of things we will sell in the spring. We plan to have a yard sale. For now it is being stored in the basement. Things are looking so much better and I would love for it to stay that way. We coach track in the spring and things get really hectic during that time so it would be nice to not have things so cluttered. On top of that my hubby will have four jobs along with still being in school so he will be very busy, but you have to do what you have to do to provide for the family. I plan to use Home Storage Solutions 101 52 week organizing challenge and 15 minute mission calendars to help me out. Hopefully this will be successful. If you are interested head on over to <a href="http://www.home-storage-solutions-101.com/declutter-calendar.html">Home Storage Solutions 101</a> to sign up for the newsletter and to get your free calendar.</div>
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I would like to go to some trainings this year on Whole Brain Teaching. I have really gotten in to it lately, but have still not been to a training. My goal this year is to make it to one. I would also like to go to some trainings on using the iPad in the classroom. I am going to one in January, but I would like to attend a few more this year as well.</div>
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As I said earlier, I have really gotten in to Whole Brain Teaching lately. I would like to start implementing it more effectively this year. I let it slip the first part of this school year so my goal is to get back on track for the second half and to start off next school year right with it. I truly believe it is a phenomenal teaching style.</div>
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This year I would like to blog at least once a week. During the school year I have a hard time blogging so I am trying to make this goal reasonable. During the summer I will be posting more than once a week. As far as my TPT store, I would like to post a new product at least once a month during the school year and maybe once a week during the summer.</div>
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I used to run all of the time as my stress reliever and I enjoyed it so much. I would love to get back into it and start enjoying it again. I think it would make me healthier because I could go out and run on my bad days. Plus it would get me back in shape. I am not fat, but I miss my muscular arms and legs. And I miss those abs...lol! We'll see how it goes!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705986462005630671noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154624106358797186.post-79717593358455652742013-12-27T10:12:00.001-06:002013-12-27T10:12:18.067-06:0013 in 13Today I am linking up with <a href="http://www.ateenytinyteacher.com/2013/12/13-in-13-linky-party.html">A Teeny Tiny Teacher</a>, <a href="http://www.miss-kindergarten.com/2013/12/13-in-13-linky-party.html">Miss Kindergarten</a>, and <a href="http://www.dragonfliesinfirst.com/2013/12/13-in-13.html">Dragonflies in First</a> for their 13 in 13 linky party.<br />
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This one is definitely infinity scarves. I have fallen in love with them lately! I was just at my Grandma's house yesterday and my uncle suggested that she make me a scarf to match my bright neon socks. I said I would absolutely love that and then I mentioned that I would love it even more if it was an infinity. Guess who is going shopping for supplies to make me one? That's right, my grandma! I sure am spoiled.</div>
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This one is hard since I didn't watch too many movies this year. I had to go to my AMC Stubs to see what movies I even watched this year. I have to go with The Lorax since I am so obsessed with Dr. Seuss; I wish it had been more like the book though.</div>
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This one is a favorite to watch with the hubby.</div>
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That one is hard. I don't like to eat at the same place a lot. My favorite is always changing based on what type of food I am liking at the time. Right now I would probably say it is Montana Mikes since I love some steak and potatoes! Yum!</div>
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That would be Whole Brain Teaching. I have not been the greatest at it, but what I have done, I have loved. My goal is to be better with it the second half of the year. I hope to one day be implementing it fully.</div>
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That is between two gifts either my purple North Face jacket or my binding machine that does the spiral binding. The jacket is so soft and warm. It fits me perfectly and is so comfortable!</div>
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The binding machine is a heaven sent. I have so many ideas of things I can make, but first I have to get some bindings...lol.</div>
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Oh my that one is hard. I am addicted to Pinterest. When I get on there I spend hours on there. I have over 3500 pins. I can't narrow it down to just one, but I love all the pins I have found on Whole Brain Teaching.</div>
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That would have to be this lovely:</div>
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Reviewing the Classroom Friendly Pencil sharpener was so awesome! I love that pencil sharpener and thanks to my review opportunity I was able to convince my principal to buy them for the whole school. Unfortunately that meant I missed out on getting a pink one, but there are extras so if mine needs replaced I can get it in pink.</div>
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My best accomplishment I would say is taking the leap of faith to open up my TPT store. I have not been extremely successful, but I have not given up. I plan to work on many things over the summer to make my store better. I am glad that I did not let the fear of failure keep me from it and that I have not let the slow start get me down. I have faith that I will become successful with it in the future when I spend some more time on it.</div>
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That one to me is a no-brainer. It is one of the precious little one that has me wrapped around her finger lately. She has been the best blessing to my whole family. This is my first picture with her and despite all of the other pictures I have, it is still my favorite. Once she is a little older I am sure there will be ones that I like better, but for now this one remains my favorite.</div>
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This is kind of a repeat of the previous one. The day I became a great aunt is definitely my favorite memory. I never imagine I could love this little girl as much as I do. She is my world, my everything. I love getting to spoil her. Since I became an aunt at the age of four, this to me seems like to equivalent of becoming an aunt rather than a great aunt.</div>
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I have several goals. First of all I would like to get better at Whole Brain Teaching. I have been doing my research over the winter break and I am hoping to implement it better after break. </div>
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My husband, father, and I all coach Jr. High track together and we have the goal of taking 15 of our athletes to state. Our first year we took 2, second year we took 8, and this year we feel confident in taking 15 with us. </div>
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I also have the goal of blogging at least once a week in 2014. My last goal is to make my TPT store more successful.</div>
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I have a lot of hope for 2014. It's going to take a lot of hope to get all of my dreams to come true for 2014.</div>
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I am linking up with <a href="http://fabulousinfirst.blogspot.com/2013/12/christmas-questionnaire.html">Fabulous in First</a> for a fun linky of getting to know each other in a fun seasonal way!</div>
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Definitely hot chocolate! I love a nice cup of hot chocolate with gooey marshmallows in it! (Yum! This makes me want a cup now!) I cannot stand eggnog at all!</div>
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As I was growing up Santa set them out all over our living room unwrapped. I loved looking through everything and I did not ever care that they weren't wrapped. The hubby's were always wrapped so who knows what will happen when we have kiddos of our own.</div>
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Normally it is about a week after Thanksgiving before decorations go up at the house. Now my classroom is a whole other story. Those decorations go up the Saturday after Thanksgiving.</div>
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We have a tradition of a Santa hat. Our first year we didn't have tree topper so I set the Santa hat up top and we've been doing it ever since. I call it our Santa tree because we have the hat and then Santa bows. Plus our color scheme is red and silver. Definitely a Santa tree in my eyes.</div>
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As I was growing up my favorite Christmas memories are those of Christmas Eve and Christmas morning with my family! I am a huge family girl. I didn't care about the gifts, I just cared about spending time with my family, especially my aunt who is no longer with us. My new favorite Christmas tradition is my hubby and I exchanging pajamas on Christmas Eve. This is a tradition we will continue with our kiddos and add in a Christmas movie to cuddle up and watch. I also plan to do Random Acts of Christmas Kindness with my own kiddos whenever they come along.</div>
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I most certainly do. One year I asked Santa for a Lee Middleton doll. I loved how life like the seemed. On Christmas morning I didn't wake up to one, but two twin Lee Middleton dolls. I was beyond thrilled! I hope to one day give them to my own little girl. I know they are supposed to be collectors, but that is out of the picture after all the playing I did with them.</div>
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Definitely giving for sure! I love shopping and picking out gifts for everyone and then giving them. This year has been hard since our budget is tight, but I am still making the best of it because I love giving gifts!</div>
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My new favorite is "A Baby Changes Everything"; I first heard it last year when my mom told me about it and I absolutely fell in love with it. But truly I love all Christmas songs! I've been playing them lately while cleaning, taking a bath, or getting ready in the morning.</div>
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Peppermint are all right, not a huge fan though. Now cherry is a whole other story. I love cherry flavored candy canes!</div>
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Photo Cards because you get to see the family and they are always so cute!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705986462005630671noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9154624106358797186.post-64401071075487409782013-12-07T20:17:00.002-06:002013-12-07T20:17:37.197-06:00Five for Fraturday!I didn't get this posted yesterday because I was busy with a snow day and awaiting the arrival of that new great niece I've been so excited about!<br />
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After this head on over to <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2013/12/five-for-friday-linky-party-december-6th.html">Doodle Bugs Teaching</a> to check out the other posts!</div>
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Here is the precious little girl who made her arrival bright and early this morning! 4:41 am to be exact; weighing in at 8 lbs 15 oz and 22 inches long! I love her to death already! This great aunt is super proud of her and her mommy (daddy too!)</div>
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We enjoyed our three days of RACKing this week. My students have loved doing these great random acts. Every morning they come in asking what our next one is. I only have pictures of the first two (Thursday was a little crazy with the winter weather hitting us and causing us to go home early)</div>
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Day 1- Be super sneaky! Leave a kind note for a friend without them knowing it is from you!</div>
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Day 2- Make a Christmas card for a teacher you have had in the past!</div>
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Johnathon Jr. Acklebottom the 15th decided that he wasn't going to be on strike anymore. He has been super sneaky though in hopes that the students wouldn't know where he was spying from.</div>
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He spent all day here on top of the board without being found (until 5 minutes left until bus riders leave). The next day he hid in a hole in the ceiling and hid in the candy basket (I don't have pictures of this either because of the crazy day Thursday).</div>
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My students got their assignment Disguise a Snowman and are absolutely loving it! A few snowmen have already come back.</div>
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As I said earlier I enjoyed my first snow day on Friday and from the looks of it we may have another one Monday! We will see!</div>
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Before he was trapped by the Grinch, he did have a chance to put up a special project for the class. He put up a line of RACK (Random Acts of Christmas Kindness) ideas. One for each day leading up until break!</div>
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We got to open up our first one and complete our RACK task for the day!</div>
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The kiddos had so much fun trying to be sneaky leaving kind notes for their friends (a few even snuck into other classrooms when they weren't there; with my supervision of course)! They can't wait to see what tomorrows RACK is!</div>
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I will continue posting about the adventures of our elf and our adventures with RACK!</div>
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