tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36627988228248020122024-03-19T03:16:58.335-04:00First Grade and Fabulous~DeAnne~http://www.blogger.com/profile/05821216484089984002noreply@blogger.comBlogger412125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662798822824802012.post-89700491643801034742018-10-24T19:42:00.001-04:002018-10-24T19:53:25.065-04:00Mom Life, Teacher Life*Forgive me for a minute as I talk to Blogger: Wow. So we meet again. I feel that I've neglected you, and even just logging into you, I feel I forgot how to make a post. We were once best friends you and I. I would come home from work and sit down and write my post with new ideas, products or freebies. It's been a year since we have worked together. I hope we can become better friends again because I have some things I would like to share with our followers. I just know that I quit using you so that I could have more family time and take care of me. Now it's time to go back to what I once enjoyed! Thank you for waiting around.*<br />
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A lot has happened in the past year. My kids are growing up. My daughter is now a junior, driving, and could graduate early. She is continuing taking her college classes. She has a job. She's being a responsible adult and I'm wondering how I was ever so lucky to be blessed with her. I have a hard time thinking she will be leaving our nest soon---her hope is to go into the biomedical field, I believe. <br />
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My son, is now in 7th grade. He keeps us on our toes that's for sure. We try to keep him involved in sports, but if Fortnite were a sport, I think he'd be going PRO. I DESPISE FORTNITE!<br />
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As for me, I am still plugging away at the mom life, teacher life gig. Still holding out for that bakery someday---and I roped the hubby into helping as well! :)<br />
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As for the teacher life, I am still currently in the Title position. We have a brand new building. This year, instead of working with 1-3 in reading/math, I am only serving 2nd grade reading.<br />
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I started the school year doing DRAs on about 200 2nd graders. It was cumbersome, but I enjoyed it and feel that I know a little bit about all the students. It was also a great way for me to learn names.<br />
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When my groups started, I had several in that level 2 DRA. Scary, right? I struggle trying to figure out how to help them when I know what the state mandates at their level. My groups are only 20 minutes long, so I try to do as much as I can in a short period of time. Fact of the matter is, I just want them to read and enjoy it. I came across these quotes the other night and it truly hit home for me.<br />
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Within 4 weeks of group starting, my lowest reading group (exception of 2 students) is now at a level 6. While I know that is still far away from where they should be, I am seeing growth. They enjoy their group time. That is a win for me!<br />
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I do have a few students who are still working on CvC words for skill. They were still struggling with vowel sounds. I have taught them other strategies to use for decoding purposes while reading, but I wanted to hone back in on the short vowel sounds today as a review. We used this as a quick little warm-up activity.<br />
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I had the students sort these by vowel sound. I actually just turned the backs of the game boards (shown below) over, and wrote a vowel on each page with a dry erase marker. I turned all the pumpkin cards over and had the students choose 1 at a time and determine the vowel sound, then place it on the proper board. Then they worked together to do the CvC game word sort.<br />
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I liked this activity because I can also share it with the Intervention Specialist and it can be used in a variety of ways. Students can choose a pumpkin and write the word. Students can work on just one vowel sound at a time. Students can use all the boards together. There is a variety of ways to differentiate this to meet the needs of our groups.<br />
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I am still using our Fry Fluency Books. I truly believe these have helped my students. I even had a parent tell me that her child's fluency and confidence soared after taking one of these booklets home!<br />
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And sometimes my groups are so small that if teachers are assessing, students are absent, or their is a classroom activity going on, I'm not able to always get my students. On those days, we improvise. Today was one of those days! Thank goodness for Hot Dots! :)<br />
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Oh and it's almost Friday! :) Thanks for sticking around!~DeAnne~http://www.blogger.com/profile/05821216484089984002noreply@blogger.com81tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662798822824802012.post-81276924930547623912017-10-17T20:27:00.000-04:002017-10-17T20:27:09.130-04:00Math Groups and GamesFirst, I have to say that I know that I blog hit or miss. It has been VERY sporadic through the past year or so, and I want to thank you for hanging around with me on FB, as I do tend to post there more often than blogging. I do want to say that I feel that I kept up with reading blogs, and creating things when I was spending more time blogging myself. With that said, I used to teach, come home, blog and repeat. I felt I was neglecting family, my husband and myself. It's hard to find a healthy balance when you work full timevso it comes in spurts for me. <br />
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I realized that my daughter is growing up on me. Some of you have watched her grow up through FB, my blog and IG. She just recently attended her sophomore homecoming and is busy as a high schooler and taking Freshman college classes. I had a wake up call that she will soon be leaving the nest and I best make the most of it! <br />
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My son, and if you follow me on IG (@mrsdavis_76) you know that he has now broken TWO bones in the past 30 days. Yes, exactly a month apart. He was seeing a chiropractor for neck problems (we noticed it during baseball season) and the chiro said that he had whiplash from his bike accident when he broke his wrist. Then, playing football at school, he broke his foot. He is one expensive child. We decided that his Halloween costume (not what we originally planned) was well suited for him.<br />
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If you've been following me for the past few years, you know that I have wanted a bakery (mobile or store) for quite some time. I have been busy trying to get that started as well, and try to create something new at least every other week or as time allows. I believe in baking therapy!!</div>
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This is what I left on my desk for my sub when I had to leave for yet another Doctor's appointment. Refer to image above this one to know why! :) </div>
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After making this, I ended up with several orders. It is a 16 oz jar cake made of layers of pumpkin cake, homemade caramel sauce, cream cheese buttercream, and candied pecans.</div>
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Finally, I have been trying to take care of me for the past couple years. While I may not have lost the weight I had hoped (hence image above), I am physically stronger than I have been in my entire life. </div>
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I benched (smith machine, but still) 180 last week!! I WAS PUMPED! </div>
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I can generally do 120-130 x10 reps, but this was pretty exciting!! </div>
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Hubby said I have bragging rights, so I am going to go with it! :)</div>
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Now, if you've stuck with me through all of that, I have some math goodies for you.</div>
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Nothing special, but when my 3rd graders said OHHH spinner games, I knew I found a winner!! </div>
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(I worked with them in reading last year, so when I got them for math, I think they expected a game..I had to follow through!) :)</div>
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The bump game is only in a x3 at the moment....but there is also a Doubles +1 I was working on with my 2nd graders. For multiplication, they spin the spinner and x3. For the Doubles +1, they spin the spinner, double it and add one. If you need directions to play BUMP, I can post them later or feel free to email me at mrsdeannedavis@hotmail.com</div>
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I have x3-6 as the spinner page. My 3rd graders did enjoy this activity. I hope your kiddos do too.</div>
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Click <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3D5Bsh09DJKcTd0NTZtbUFycnM">HERE</a> to grab the Bump game, and click <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3D5Bsh09DJKUUFOcWJ3dV84RXc">HERE</a> to grab the spinner games!</div>
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First, this is like crazy. I haven't blogged, or created much of anything since January. Well, I can't say that I haven't created anything because if you follow me on IG, you know that I've created some things. Here are some of my creations. </div>
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So, maybe it isn't school related, but it is a great stress relief. For those of you that are new to following me, I have wanted a bakery for quite some time. I get orders now and again at home, but I'm still holding out for a mobile bakery. Some day---but for now, the teaching gig.</div>
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I began my reading groups last week. I knew that the students I was working with were low. I feel that this new group of first graders may be lower than those in the past by looking back at old lesson plans. I needed to go back to Kinder skills and make sure we truly master those skills before moving on. I believe that a lot of times we are under so much pressure to cram things in that we don't always know how much information is being absorbed. That's the great thing about small groups. You can focus on specific skills, and work on those problem areas. </div>
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This past week, I spent time in my Intervention groups working on rhyme. The majority of my students (15 of them) couldn't tell me if given words rhymed, let alone orally produce rhyming words. I spent class time reading rhyming stories, having the students repeat the rhymes, giving them silly name rhymes (for example Nayden Jayden). They thought that was a hoot. I would go around the table each day and give them a new rhyming name. We also played rhyming games, and we did quick assessments with a thumb up, thumb day based on pictures of rhymes. It is definitely important that they repeat those rhymes. Some students didn't want to repeat me, and they had the most difficulty. Most often, if they are repeated, in a series of rhymes, they can hear the difference. </div>
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By Friday, I was impressed with how well they were rhyming. I was left with 2 that couldn't produce a rhyming pair. We worked with a rhyming activity and assessment out of this pack as well. </div>
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There are several literacy activities that are coming in handy as a review for my students in this pack.</div>
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Click the image above to see what is included in this pack. </div>
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Just a little background.....</div>
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I am currently a Title teacher serving 1-3. </div>
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The majority of the students I service are being monitored closely. </div>
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A portion of my day includes me tracking data, and filling out paperwork for SSMT.</div>
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Last year, around 10 students that I had worked with qualified for an IEP.</div>
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My job as a Title teacher isn't what I envisioned, but it is definitely what is needed in my building. </div>
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So when you see me post things that I am working on with my 1st, 2nd, or 3rd graders</div>
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and I post on IG or FB, keep in mind that my students may be performing up to 2 years behind their peers. I felt that may be important to say to help clarify some of the things I may have posted. </div>
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BUT, the good news is, most of the students I serviced last year, I am not seeing in my groups this year. I truly believe that my 2nd graders retained their sight words. I fully believe that the fluency reads helped them master those. You can check those out by clicking the image below. If you have questions, please don't hesitate to ask. </div>
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All of my first and second grade groups have been working out of our Roll and Read fluency binders.</div>
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I have taken the pages from this set, and placed them back to back in a sheet protector.</div>
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I am able to work on tracking print, or letter naming with my first grade groups, and short vowel sounds with my 2nd grade groups. They have enjoyed these games and ask to play them often.</div>
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You can click the image above to check it out on TpT. It's a $3 set, and it has been a lifesaver for me and great for time fillers or sub planning! :)</div>
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Another activity that my first graders have enjoyed is our popcorn game.</div>
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I just placed all the pieces in a popcorn container. </div>
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It has been a fun way to review (or in some cases) learn their sounds.</div>
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You can pick up this FREEBIE from this old blog link.</div>
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Finally, if you have made it this far with me, here are a few things I am working on with groups next week. This is several days of instruction as I review letters/sounds daily, and only have my groups for 20 minutes. We will be working on letters/sounds/sentences, and number of words in sentences.</div>
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I have for you an 18 page activity reviewing those skills with sorts, teaching points, and independent activity for checking mastery. This is my way of saying thank you for still supporting me though I have slacked as a blogger. I do try to post on FB often, so be sure to check me out there! </div>
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The last few pages is a sight word activity. I used a little pocket chart at my teacher table often. (All of these activities were actually designed with my teacher table or pocket chart in mind.) </div>
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With the sight word activity, the first colored background are the first 25 FRY words. The yellow colored set is for Fry words 75-100. </div>
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To play the game, sight words are placed in the pocket chart with the squirrel card hiding behind 1 of the sight words. Students take turns saying a sight word. When the squirrel is revealed, the game is over. My kids like these silly games, so I hope to make one with all Fry words for each month/season. This game, because they always ask me the name of it, is, The Squirrel stole my nut!</div>
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If you would like this activity pack, please click <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3D5Bsh09DJKSklHTlhSTmxDNnc">HERE </a>to be taken to the Google Drive link.</div>
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Now, I have to get back to the kitchen because I have jar cakes to finish. </div>
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Here's the order for today. </div>
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Oreo! :)</div>
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~DeAnne~http://www.blogger.com/profile/05821216484089984002noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662798822824802012.post-68202760041888192852017-01-09T19:49:00.000-05:002017-01-09T19:49:21.753-05:00Back to Life--Back to RealityOkay, am I completely dating myself with my blog post title?<br />
*Still singing*<br />
<i>Back to life, back to reality Back to the here and now---</i><br />
now I make up some lyrics because for some reason, I never remember song<br />
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Okay, anyway---<br />
We just had our OFFICIAL first FULL day back since Christmas break. We had an inservice last Wednesday, and started back with students Thursday, only to have an early release due to incoming weather.<br />
Then Friday, with weather and cold---we were closed. <br />
Friends, let me tell you---the first day back after vacation is BRUTAL. I felt like I was dragging by 10:00. <br />
But, I survived---and all in all, it was a good day.<br />
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Before we left for break, my firsties were working on place value. I wanted a fun little game to review with them before moving on in our lessons. They truly enjoyed this game, and wanted to play it again. <br />
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How I played with my group:<br />
They had to draw a card and read what it said.<br />
Example: <i> <b>4 tens 2 ones.</b></i><b> </b><br />
Then they had to tell me what number it made. <b><i>42</i></b><br />
Finally they got to put the piece on if it matched. If it didn't match a game board (as there are 6 and I only had 3 in group today), then we put it into a discard pile. <br />
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I am glad I played it this way because I got to hear who needed more guidance. For example, I have one that is still struggling with numbers in the teens. He wants to read 50, as 15--and has that confusion for all tens, and teens. We will definitely continue working on this for him. <br />
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If this game is something you think you could use, please click the image at the top with the game directions.<br />
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Several years ago I created this little reader for a group of firsties I had. They loved it! </div>
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I have used this little reader every year since--and now that I teach Title, it is just the perfect fit for my kids.</div>
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Here is how I use this little activity.</div>
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First, I introduce the vocabulary with a read and write the room.</div>
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I not only use this as our vocabulary for our unit, but it gives us review of proper letter formation --</div>
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We use Fundations, and the program uses the words sky line, worm line, etc. </div>
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We review these words and also talk about them being tall letters, short letters, and letters that hang. </div>
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Then we work on sight words. </div>
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There is a roll and write activity included, should that be a skill that your students need. </div>
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Some groups use the picture matching activity.</div>
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This is also a good lips the fish activity--and teaches them to look at the whole word.</div>
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For example, both Santa and snowman are listed words.</div>
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We review that names begin with capitals as well.</div>
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I have used this activity AFTER reading the story as well.</div>
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Students go back to the book and find the matching words and match pictures that way.</div>
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What a good intro activity for having them learn to go back to the text to find answers!</div>
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Then of course, we read the story.</div>
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What's great about this little reader is it's predictable text, repeating pattern--</div>
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and to make it easier for some of the more difficult character names, when it is printed in black and white, the images align in the book and you can see it "hidden" beneath the image of the page you are reading.</div>
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It makes them feel super smart that they know what the next image is--AND can read it! :)</div>
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Then of course, we do the sequencing and writing component--</div>
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Below is an overview of what's included-- </div>
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You can click the image above to see this on TpT--and read feedback from others.</div>
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While reindeer are on the brain, my first grade math group is working on tens and ones.</div>
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I made a quick activity for our lesson tomorrow that maybe you could use for a math station</div>
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or teacher table time as we head into the last days before Christmas break. </div>
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Included in this freebie is your I can statement card with center directions. </div>
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You have 12 tens/ones cards with matching feed sack numbers to help assist for self-monitoring. </div>
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I want to <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/Search:kg%20fonts">KG Fonts</a> and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Krista-Wallden">Creative Clips</a> for the ADORABLE Graphics in this set! </div>
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click on any of the images for this activity above to download your own copy. </div>
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If you download it, please leave me a little comment so I can see where all it has traveled! :)</div>
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Happy (we're getting there) almost Friday!! </div>
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Lets start with math. Last night I shared this tens and more activity. My students really seemed to enjoy it...and considering I am trying like crazy to hold their attention for the next 11 days, I am happy with that! Click the image below to read about the game.</div>
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We have also worked on sets of ten. I had made loops from colored yarn, and the students physically looped each set of ten as they counted them out. This was a great visual for them. We counted by tens, and the numerals were written and placed under each set as they counted by tens. I asked them if they noticed anything about the numbers. They recognized that the numbers were getting bigger, and that each one had a zero. I took that answer and ran with it. I covered up the zero, and had them look at the first number. This number tells us how many sets of ten we have. The number was underlined. I then placed out a few more sets and gave students the numbers and they ordered them for me under each set of ten. I stopped at 50 and asked what the next number would be, and how many sets of ten would we have. They were able to identify that it would be 60 which is 6 groups. WHOO! We nailed it! I was worried about doing it this way with this group of little learners, but they did very well, and I believe that the visual helped with manipulatives much better than looping a group of ten from a math worksheet. </div>
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We have worked on fact families, fact fluency, and missing addends. Here the students were to sort number sentences by family numbers, and determine the missing addend. AND how cute are those graphics?? Anything with a cupcake is perfect to me! :) You can see more about these activities by clicking the images below. <br />
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We also practiced our double facts to 6. We shake our dice in little containers picked up from the Dollar Tree (as well as using red and green dice that also came from the Dollar Tree.) If you want this little activity, it was a freebie from a few years ago. Click the image to grab your own copy. <br />
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One way I've been working with my students with math facts is by using a deck of cards. They were so excited when I got these out. (I have also picked up character cards from the Dollar Tree with Minions, Frozen, and Jumbo cards.) I shared this on IG last week. You can read my post on my IG photo below on how we used playing cards as a manipulative for subtraction. <br />
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For reading, here are some fun things we've been doing. Of course I have to refer back to my sight word fluency reads. I have passed these out to coworkers, and parents to use at home. I see a huge difference when these are being used. These little triangles are by far one of my favorite go to activities, and the students really feel successful when they read them as well. It's a great way to work on sight words IN text, and NOT in isolation. They have been made in both Dolch and Fry Words. I do use both of those sets as the words may overlap between the two lists, BUT the fluency reads are DIFFERENT in each set. You can click below to check them out. I also have a few blog posts on them <a href="http://firstgradeandfabulous.blogspot.com/search/label/fluency">HERE</a>. </div>
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One of my groups of kiddos are still working on CvC words. We are using activities in the Reading Detectives pack. We tapped out/read all the CvC words and colored/highlighted the words that followed the vowel sound we were focusing. Then we transferred that sound into a story where we read it, and illustrated it for simple comprehension. The next day, we read the story again and answered the comprehension questions (not shown). If you are interested in checking these out, there is a blog post with a freebie <a href="http://firstgradeandfabulous.blogspot.com/search/label/reading%20detective">HERE</a>.</div>
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Finally, this game was a HIT with my kiddos. </div>
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They had so much fun reading the sentences and determining the missing word.</div>
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Great for skippy frog activities, sight words, cloze exercises, AND comprehension.</div>
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They wanted to play again and again. Hey, when they are reading, who is to argue with that? :)</div>
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Yep. This is my current situation.</div>
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I. AM. TIRED.</div>
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My mother-in-law and I had a discussion about working this weekend.</div>
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There is something so different between mental exhaustion and physical exhaustion--</div>
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but when you're struck with both...it is brutal. </div>
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*Side note--I will talk about all this exhaustion on my<b> <a href="http://chitchatandchocolatebars.blogspot.com/">personal blog</a> </b>later this week--</div>
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Today's blog post is going to be a bunch of random--</div>
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basically I feel like that's my job in a nutshell.</div>
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A bunch of randomness.</div>
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Not that I don't plan for my job, I do.</div>
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But I get these spur of the moment last minute ideas that </div>
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MAY kind of not be what I wrote down--at all--</div>
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and somedays--I think that's okay.</div>
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I mean technically, this is what is written in my plans for the next three weeks.</div>
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Now, where was I?</div>
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Oh yes, lesson plans.</div>
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My first grade group is working on place value.</div>
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Our adopted series is McGraw Hill--My Math.</div>
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The unit they are working on begins with numbers 11-19--but I focused our game on 10-20.</div>
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This is ALWAYS such a hard concept to remember the numbers in the teens.</div>
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I made a Bump game for my kiddos.</div>
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I had asked on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/FirstGradeandFabulous">FB</a> if you would perhaps want this as a freebie, </div>
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and many of you mentioned that it was a hard concept for your students as well.</div>
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So--I tried to think of some other ways you could use this activity to get in more practice.</div>
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For example, you can use these cards for a game of Memory.</div>
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You could place the tens frame cards in a pile, and students could read it, self check, and color the corresponding number with this activity page.</div>
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This would also work great as an independent or small group station.</div>
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Or, you could do what I did--and play Bump.</div>
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How we played:</div>
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<li style="text-align: center;"> I printed and laminated two sets of the ten frames cards.</li>
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<li>On their turn, they drew a card and read the bottom</li>
<li> They identified the number aloud and self checked themselves with the images at the top.</li>
<li>They found the corresponding number and placed a unifix cube on top.</li>
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Now the fun part of the game--the Bumping.</div>
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If Player A has a cube on the given number, and Player B draws a card that matches the same spot, Player B can bump Player off of the matching spot. (Remember I made TWO copies of the cards.) However, if Player A draws a card, and then on another turn, draws the matching card again, he can lock his spot by joining two unifix cubes together. Once two unifix cubes are joined, that player can no longer be bumped.</div>
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The cards were placed back into the pile.</div>
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My boys, because I only have boys in my math intervention group, (how did I get so lucky? 😂) truly enjoyed this game. We thought maybe your students would like it too. </div>
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I should have shared this activity with you about a month ago...when I did it for my classroom observation.</div>
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Where has time gone? What on earth have I been doing?</div>
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I tell ya, the struggle is REAL people. </div>
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I can't believe the school year is half over! CRAZY!</div>
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Back on topic...Guided Reading</div>
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First, I should note that it is important to understand the dynamics of my student groups.</div>
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I am a Title I teacher teaching students with disabilities.</div>
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Students who are qualifying for IEPs...</div>
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so the work that we do during our guided group time is at their level (just like you would do)</div>
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and the skills/words that I have chosen to use in our activities are things I've noted in which they need help.</div>
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**WITH that said, my students are showing growth and retaining the use of these strategies, so I hope that these mini-lessons will help another group of struggling readers. </div>
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Okay--now back on topic--Chunky Monkey</div>
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When I first did this lesson with my 2nd graders, I was being observed for my teacher evaluation for OTES.</div>
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I haven't been observed formally for a couple years, so I was a little apprehensive, we have a new principal and I didn't know his expectations--therefore I decided I best NOT take pictures during my lesson. :) </div>
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*Side note, he enjoyed the lesson and liked the differentiation as he stayed for TWO of my groups! EEK!</div>
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Today, I did a modified version of Chunky Monkey with a group of firsties. </div>
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I tried it with two of my groups, but truth be told, only one group was truly ready for this strategy.</div>
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We have been working on word families during our group time.</div>
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I was hoping this would also help them learn small "chunks" to aid in reading.</div>
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They've loved playing the CVC Roll and Read Games.</div>
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They are two to a page-back to back.</div>
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The activities are easily marked by word family choice in the top corner of each page.</div>
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I used one vowel per strip.</div>
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Today, we read a big book and I was teaching them how to chunk words </div>
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sentence strip above. Our school uses Wilson's Fundations so I choose to use several words from <i>am, an</i>, and <i>all </i>to get them used to looking for those chunks. They did very well.</div>
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We did an activity that I had previously made before class using the word small.</div>
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I wrote the word on a sentence strip. I also had just the letters of the word, and then two pieces that read <i>sm</i> and<i> all. </i>The activity consisted of them building the word small with all of the letters, and also building the word small with the two pieces: <i>sm</i> and <i>all</i>. They determined it was quicker to put together the chunks than looking at all the letters, and made the connection. Mission accomplished! </div>
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*Note, I simply placed our activity in a sheet protector and then I have it to refer back to when/if I need to encourage the use of this strategy again. I also stored it in a big gallon baggy labeled Chunky Monkey so that I have it for other groups (or next year). </div>
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My 2nd graders are doing well with this activity as well as the previous ones we've worked on.</div>
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My first graders can tell you what each decoding strategy is that we've worked on and how it helps us.</div>
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I'd like to say these activities are helping my students with their reading, and I do believe they are working.</div>
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They are enjoying them too, so that's always a win! </div>
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If you'd like a copy of this activity for your students, here is what I've designed.</div>
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This gives me time to ask each student 1-1 how the strategy helps us decode.</div>
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First, I'm going to ask this...have you ever planned your guided reading groups and then only had 1 kid at the table? That happens A LOT with one of my groups. The bad thing is, I never know if I will have a group or not. Therefore, I am "winging" last minute lesson plans so that I can work 1-1 with the student that I do have. Luckily, I have the Fry Fluency Reads to help me out. As the student is reading, I quickly have time to grab some materials for one-on-one. Plus, it's a great warm up, it helps me hear if the child is fluent, needs sight word help, if they are decoding unknown words, if they are using picture clues, etc.</div>
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On this day in particular, I focused on sight words. </div>
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I quickly jotted down a few sight words she was having trouble with </div>
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and made a little practice sheet.</div>
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This added great practice for reading fluency as well.</div>
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Just simple, but meaningful.</div>
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Then, my next group only had 2 kids in it.</div>
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Where were my kiddos people?</div>
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Truancy is a huge issue for the students I service, </div>
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and yet, somehow, we as teachers are responsible for the student's academic growth?!</div>
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Anyway, it was a good time for me to try our our sight word game.</div>
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The kiddos LOVED it.</div>
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It's a close type Bingo game.</div>
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Students read the sentence, determine the missing sight word, and</div>
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all students playing cover the word on their board if they have it. </div>
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They asked the next day if they could lay it again.</div>
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You can download a sample copy of this Fry game <a href="http://firstgradeandfabulous.blogspot.com/2016/10/fry-words-games-and-some-freebies.html">HERE</a>, and </div>
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because my students enjoyed it, I am in the process of completing the Fry first 100 set.</div>
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So, when I finally had a full group to introduce a new strategy too,</div>
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we brought in Stretchy.</div>
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My kiddos have been using Stretchy A LOT already.</div>
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In fact, my second grade groups rely on him too much..</div>
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so this little Stretchy lesson was used as an intro lesson to Chunky Monkey for them.</div>
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*Stay tuned for that in another post soon.</div>
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Anyway--Stretchy was a big help for me as a teacher.</div>
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Just like any other reading strategy, I introduced him with a story.</div>
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Modeled how I sound out unknown words, and then put back together.</div>
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Then we discussed stretching out with a rubber band that I hesitantly gave my groups.</div>
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We practiced a few words while stretching the word.</div>
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*Note, these are differentiated to meet my groups abilities.</div>
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These are the words we tapped out.</div>
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Each group had 3 different cards that we practiced together.</div>
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I simply folded the picture along the line and held it together with a paperclip.</div>
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We stretched out the sounds while using the rubber band, and then I unfolded it to check our answer.</div>
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Then we practiced stretch reading the words words without the dots.</div>
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Again, based on their level:</div>
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I wanted them to practice the sounds in words while writing also.</div>
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We practiced writing our words with our stretchy snakes.</div>
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Again, for differentiation purposes of my students, we have different letter boxes on our snake.</div>
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I held the card up, or laid it on the table, and students named the picture.</div>
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(HUGE Thank you to Creative Clips, Whimsy Clips, Educlips, Pink Cat Studio, Scrappin Doodles,</div>
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Ashley Hughes and KG Fonts for the graphics too!)</div>
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So far the lesson was really opening my eye to some student deficits.</div>
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Blends--ending blends--is still a hard concept.</div>
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Those little letter boxes sure did help my students stretch those sounds out to get a letter in each box!</div>
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The next day, I wanted to warm up with a Stretchy activity.</div>
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I wanted to give the students a word by stretching out the sounds myself, and see if they could put it together.</div>
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---I had them draw the picture of the word I stretched out.</div>
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Breakthrough...It is happening--even with that pesky suffix s that some of my students have trouble with!</div>
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Some other great things that are helping us with blending is this little pack.</div>
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For some fluency fun with CvC words, as a warm up and a Hey, my group is half gone activity--</div>
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This is me. A lot of the time. </div>
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Do most of us feel this way?</div>
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We want to always do what's best for our students.</div>
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I mean let's face it, we have a pretty awesome job.</div>
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Our students are always on our minds.</div>
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So it has to be natural that we always wonder if we are doing enough, </div>
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could we do more, is what we're doing the right thing...</div>
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But, in reality, we are sometimes the only caring adult in that child's life.</div>
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For me, personally, so many of the students I work with need much more</div>
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than just what's on my lesson plans. Sometimes my plans change right at last minute--</div>
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to incorporate something a child said, or to build on something that will spark their interest.</div>
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Yes, I still teach reading and math in there too--but I have students </div>
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who struggle in more ways than one. </div>
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I always wonder how my students are performing.</div>
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I know the kids I see are struggling learners.</div>
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But every little bit of growth I see makes me happy.</div>
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For example, here is how I taught some of my boys to use the number line.</div>
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We used green dots as our go number.</div>
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So many of them were struggling with wanting to count the starting number.</div>
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Making it into a stop and go with monster trucks was a hit--</div>
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With my reading groups, some are still working on decoding.</div>
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All groups are working on various Fry Words as well.</div>
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Of course, we are still using and LOVING the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/First-Grade-And-Fabulous/Category/sight-word-fluency-reads-233076/Order:Most-Recently-Posted">Fluency Reads</a> </div>
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These are also great for my kiddos who are having trouble with decoding.</div>
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We have been discussing our Decoding Strategies.</div>
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I teach my kiddos that they all work together to help us be better readers.</div>
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See, Lips the Fish, is a difficult one for some of my students as they don't </div>
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I don't know if it's necessarily the right way to teach it, but I know that it is working for my learners.</div>
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I do Eagle Eye because I want them to draw from picture clues.</div>
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Then I tell teach them Lips the Fish, and he works with Eagle Eye because they are good friends.</div>
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I chose a Halloween story to model for my students.</div>
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See they all go together for all my readers--Skippy is easier for some due to decoding.)</div>
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This prompted a good discussion among groups, and provided challenges for some as they wanted to just guess the word. After reminding them to get their mouth ready, they caught on to the idea behind this activity and did very well. (Refrigerator and husk were hard words, but the r for rest, brought up vocabulary like recline, rocking, relaxation. I was PRETTY IMPRESSED!) </div>
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If you have been following my blog for a while, you know that I swear by the Fluency Reads in helping my students gain their sight word knowledge. They have become a favorite for my struggling readers to read, and we use them often as our daily warm up. </div>
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I have them choose their favorite to read to me. THEN, they get to pick one for a friend at the table to read. They try to find the hardest one they can, the one with the most words, and just giggle when they hand it to their friend to read aloud to me. They really do enjoy these little stories and feel successful when they read them. They have even begged to take them home. Who am I to argue? Of course you can have a copy to take home with you to practice! WINNER WINNER! :)</div>
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If you are interested in these for your classroom, you can check them out by clicking one of the images below. I have them available in Fry, Dolch, and a Bundled Set of the two. The stories do NOT overlap within each other, even when both the Fry and Dolch words are the same. I wanted added practice for my students, so even though we have adopted Fry Words this year, I can use both the Dolch that I used previously, and the Fry Word Set. </div>
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We do other things with our sight words to throughout the week. </div>
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One game that they have really enjoyed throughout this month is "Eye Spy." </div>
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It's a Freebie that I've shared over on TpT.</div>
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You can find it by clicking on the image below.</div>
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While you're there, maybe you would like to click the "Follow Me" </div>
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so you don't miss out on sales and freebies that I post in the store! :)</div>
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My groups really have some reading deficits, and their ability to stay focused is not for a long period of time.</div>
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I try to find different ways, and strategies to help keep them engaged, entertained, and learning. </div>
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Sometimes, that is a very difficult task. </div>
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Luckily for me, games have helped keep them motivated.</div>
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These Roll and Read Games are a must have. </div>
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They are also a great warm up for my groups.</div>
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I simply copied them back to back.</div>
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I flipped them so that one side was "upside down" when flipped. </div>
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This helped when putting them into binders. Then when the page was flipped in the binder, the fluency reads all remained the same way and the binder doesn't have to be twisted 100 different times.</div>
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My kiddos, as I said, have some various needs.</div>
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I am always looking for ways to keep up motivation, comprehension, reading, etc.</div>
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Honestly, friends, I struggle many times.</div>
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I think it's because even though I'm a Title teacher (bubble kiddos) I am </div>
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truly a Special Ed teacher in my building. It's okay. I love it....but I really don't have the background knowledge for it. So if some of my lessons, or resources, seem low for the "normal" first or second grader, that is why. I work with what I have and take them as far as I can. I couldn't be more proud of the growth they make each year! :)</div>
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SOO--with that said, allow me to introduce you to my Bingo CLOZE game.</div>
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It uses the first 10 Fry words, in a cloze sentence format.</div>
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There are a total of 6 different ones.</div>
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They will cover their free space.</div>
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A reader will be selected to go first.</div>
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Rock, paper, scissors? Closest Birthday? Oldest? Dice Roll?</div>
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However you choose is fine. ;)</div>
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Then, on that readers turn, they will select a card from the face down pile.</div>
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*There are 10 cards--one for each Fry word in the set.</div>
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The reader will read the card aloud to the group, select the word that completes the sentence, and give the answer aloud to the group. You can always pull in "does that sound right" and a thumbs up/thumbs down to assess the rest of the group. Then, students will cover the sight word on their board if they have it. </div>
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I have included this Freebie in both color and black/white.</div>
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I would love to know if you can use it with your groups, and if you use it, how it works for you! </div>
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You can grab it by clicking the image below! :)</div>
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Our students had a 4 day weekend. </div>
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I thought, hey, let me just wing it this week and get back on track next. </div>
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Why do I even think I can wing it?</div>
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I now have TEN--TEN groups to plan for during my week.</div>
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I am doing more planning as a Title teacher than I was as a classroom teacher. </div>
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It's a bit cumbersome, and I do get a bit overwhelmed.</div>
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BUT-----</div>
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It's not like I'm truly winging it--</div>
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I have a purpose for my lessons.</div>
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However, I will admit that I sometimes go off from one topic to another.</div>
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and then I just hope that whatever little mini-lesson </div>
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I just gave is interpreted by my group. <br />
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But in all seriousness, today's lesson was on the Eagle Eye Strategy.</div>
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I will be honest and say that I used this lesson for both my first and second grade groups.</div>
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It is a valuable strategy, and it is one that my second grade friends quit using and needed to review,</div>
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and one that my first grade friends are being introduced. I may have tweaked a few things here and there between the groups, but I know my students can now tell me how to use this strategy.</div>
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The lesson:</div>
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I always ask my kiddos to do a picture walk through the story. </div>
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Often, it is a guided picture walk as I like to "feed" some background vocabulary to them.</div>
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Today, I just asked them to do a picture walk for me, and I observed and took mental notes.<br />
This was just a random book that I pulled off the shelf. <br />
I hadn't read this particular story with any of the groups. </div>
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I watched how several of them flipped through the pages, then looking up at the ceiling, around the room.<br />
Some didn't even look at the pictures, they just tried to start reading the book.<br />
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I, then, asked them:<br />
When you go to the library, how do you choose your books?<br />
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I was hoping that many of them would say they look at the pictures to see if they are interested in it. <br />
Most did--THOUGH--interesting fact: <br />
My first graders said that during their library special, they aren't to open the book<br />
until they get it checked out. I was really surprised.<br />
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I collected the books, and I did a model of looking at pictures through this story.<br />
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First I looked quickly through the images, and flipped through the book.<br />
They laughed and said that I didn't do a very good job.<br />
I said, do you think that maybe some of you did the same thing?<br />
It got quiet quick! ;)<br />
I did a second model of the book, taking my time, stating what I saw happening aloud and talking about the pictures with the kids. We did this for a few pages until I knew they were understanding<br />
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I will say that I knew that this story had interesting images and it would help prove my point<br />
that it's important to look at the details in images as well. <br />
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I then explained that I like to look at the pictures for a reason.<br />
1) It helps me understand what the book is about--that I can use it to make predictions.<br />
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The pictures can help me read the story---like in D5 when then are
reading the pictures, OR when I come to a word that I can't read.</div>
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I gave my students all a paper that looked like this and asked them to read it. </div>
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They tried their best. Then you hear the "I can't read this"</div>
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I told them...Okay, just turn it over and read the other side.</div>
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Some kiddos said, "But there is nothing to read."</div>
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I just said, "Okay--what do you see?"</div>
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*Note I had the above images in a sheet protector back to back. </div>
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One sheet protector for each student in my group. </div>
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At this point, some students were beginning to catch on and tried to turn the paper over--</div>
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but I collected them and presented a mini lesson with this book.</div>
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I had gone through this story, and covered over the words that I thought </div>
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I read the story aloud and then they students were trying to help me figure out the word.</div>
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Some said blanket (word was sheet) so I was unable to uncover the word and I snuck in some lips the fish.</div>
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Here they wanted to say "I am a ghost" as that is how the story started.</div>
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I reminded them to look at the picture. He is no longer in a white sheet. </div>
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Look at the mask. So they ended up saying monster.</div>
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They were excited that their answer was right. :)</div>
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This page was good for lips the fish as well.</div>
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The missing word was boots.</div>
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They enjoyed the story--but even more exciting for me...</div>
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After we finished this story, I passed out this page.</div>
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It is a great scripture. Have you heard it?</div>
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Overwhelmed. How many of us feel overwhelmed at the beginning of the year?</div>
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How many of us feel overwhelmed throughout the year?</div>
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How many of us feel that we just can't get it all done?</div>
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That's me. I have a hard time staying afloat. </div>
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I hate to admit it, but I think I get so consumed in feeling like I HAVE to do things, </div>
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that all too often, I forget to do things that I enjoy. </div>
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I believe that's important in life. </div>
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I LOVE blogging and creating, so I'm trying to find a healthy balance. </div>
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I have to say though, I believe that it was much easier to blog<br />
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Currently, as a Title teacher, I am working with 7 reading groups, 2 math groups, </div>
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It's a struggle to stay afloat some days. </div>
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Let alone trying to plan lessons, create meaningful games/activities, or find time to go to the bathroom. I jokingly put this, but we all know that in fact, that is sometimes reality.</div>
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You see....The past two weeks have been a whirlwind in my life.</div>
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I got my car back from a hit and run that I was not involved in--my car had been in the shop for 6 weeks!</div>
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We closed on our new house (We are building..a process that should be fun, but there are hangups)</div>
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My grandma passed away. God blessed this woman and her 103.5 years of life! </div>
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My kids lost one of their pet rabbits. (It was a hard loss on my son) </div>
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My kids are in sports--does baseball and softball ever end??!??</div>
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Some where among all of that, I still have to find gym time--I mean I have to take care of me! </div>
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Then--we worked on my son's Halloween costume. </div>
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This was a pain in the patootie--but the things we do for our kids.</div>
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He won, he was happy..he was excited. </div>
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It was a pretty cool costume!</div>
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So as I sit here and think about all the things<br />
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it's no wonder blogging has been pushed to the side.<br />
I have to find time to take care of me. </div>
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I have to take care of family.</div>
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I'm amazed at those that can do it all: cooking, cleaning, laundry, blog, create, teach, </div>
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So again, little by little, I'm going to find a way to bring back things that make me happy.<br />
First and foremost, I have to go back to handling it all over to God. He is my rock.<br />
I found out that I have a hard time in just letting go and letting him...but praying about it sure has helped. I have been a little calmer the past few days. As I put my trust in him, I have found little pockets of time to allow me to do things that I love to do (blogging now, for example). I know it sounds so simple, but really, it is something hard to do--give it all over. As much faith as I thought I had, I have struggled in allowing him to take care of it all for me. </div>
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Since school has started, I've found myself feeling a bit "off" on planning.<br />
So I went back to the tried and true Fluency Reads.<br />
I have seen my students retaining their sight words.<br />
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~DeAnne~http://www.blogger.com/profile/05821216484089984002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662798822824802012.post-78905451012267687722016-09-12T19:23:00.000-04:002016-09-12T19:23:27.793-04:00Back in the Swing of Things--(or Sometimes Last Minute Interventions)I have finally assessed all first and second graders with a DRA, helped with AIMSweb, helped with Sight word checks, helped with Star Data----do you see the trend here? I have been assessing out the hiney for our starting data points for intervention groups....so today, when my classes finally started, I was so shocked at how quickly the day went. My little intervention groups are about 20-30 minutes.<br />
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So today, I'm feeling all good about classes starting. Lessons plans done on Friday before I left school... I have all my things ready to go in my basket on my guided reading table--books laid out--things organized for most of the week......and it dawned on me. I am teaching MATH this year too. Oh no! <br />
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So, I do just like any teacher would do, and I "wing it." I knew that our 2nd graders were struggling with fact fluency, so we went back to the basics. <br />
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We talked about adding 0 and adding 1 to numbers. We talked about turn-around facts. The page has the numbers listed in order from 0+0 to 10+0 and 0+1 to 10+1, with the 2nd column flipped. There are a total of 44 math problems, I believe on the page. <br />
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My students have always liked time tests. I don't make them as a way to "beat" other people--just that it's always a competition with yourself. They have always loved racing with their last time to see if they can go farther. Today, we did the same thing...I gave them 2 minutes to see how far they could get. I then boxed the portion they missed after their 2 minutes and had them complete it, untimed, and then checked their paper. <br />
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We followed up with a spinner fact game of adding 0 and 1. Having the answers at the top helped some of my students look back at the answer ,but they were reading their math problems as they were doing it. I thought surely it is going to stick. I think as one of my students finished up, he had finally got the hang of adding one and 0, and was moving much faster than he did when he started out. The fact that when the students spun a math problem and the sum wasn't on the paper, helped constantly reinforce math facts as well. <br />
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They enjoyed this activity. I try to model a lot of my classroom activities like this where they practice a skill, it's checked, and then there is a game to play. It seems to follow the "I do, we do, you do" that we often do as educators. <br />
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The activity is nothing fancy, but if you'd like to grab your own copy, simply click <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3D5Bsh09DJKbVROQTRjT1hJcW8">HERE. </a><br />
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I have also finished and uploaded a new Sight word activity. It is called Fun Phonics. <br />
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<br />~DeAnne~http://www.blogger.com/profile/05821216484089984002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662798822824802012.post-58602770402650135942016-08-21T21:14:00.002-04:002016-08-21T21:17:57.621-04:00Fry Words--Check list and a FreebieI've mentioned a few times that our district finally has agreed on what our sight word list should be. Most of the teachers I worked with used Dolch words. Then the past two years, we had some sort of CRAZY combo that I have no clue where some of the words on the lists came. This year, it has been determined that we are going for Fry words.<br />
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I started transitioning to Fry last year when I heard that this was the direction we were going. I even made Fry Fluency Reads that were similar to the Dolch Fluency Reads that I mentioned I was finding much success with. I even decided that I was going to continue using the Dolch reads as it adds more fluency practice...AND when the words overlap in both sets, it's a different practice page. There are NO duplicate reads. You can click the images below to check them out! (And they will be on sale tomorrow--8/22/16)<br />
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I keep these as a guided reading warm-up, for book boxes, for homework practice, for one-on-one--they are by far my FAVORITE product I've created to date. (<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/First-Grade-And-Fabulous/Category/making-words-240741">Making Words</a> rank right up there close too!) </div>
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After these were created, I got to thinking, I would like to have a check list to progress monitor their sight words...one that I can keep right at my fingertips...or a book that I can use to track their known words. Seeing how I never know exactly what my schedule looks like, or what grades I'm servicing (since I'm Title One now)--I needed something simple for me to manage, something that I could share with co-workers and/or parents. </div>
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I divided the Fry words into 4 lists. There are 25 words on each list. I often try to fold in 5 new sight words with the words that they already know. I think that arranging it like this will make it easy for me to help monitor their progress. Also, since the sight word fluency reads I've created review previous Fry words, this will go hand in hand!</div>
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First, I've taken all the Fry words for the First Two Hundred and put them all on one page for a quick check guide. </div>
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Next, I created the booklet pages with 25 words per list.<br />
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I also took the Fry Phrases and created lists for them. I came across 81 phrases for the First Hundred and 91 for the Second Hundred. They were divided into four lists as well.<br />
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If so, you can click below to grab you a copy of the sets. </div>
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~DeAnne~http://www.blogger.com/profile/05821216484089984002noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662798822824802012.post-12490568370908011702016-08-17T19:50:00.002-04:002016-08-19T10:39:33.010-04:00Back at It...<div style="text-align: center;">
I have to keep asking myself, "Where did my summer go?" </div>
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We didn't go anywhere. We didn't do anything. But, I honestly can't tell you where my time went. I think it was probably spent on a ball field or two--or waking up early to get everyone up and at it so the darling daughter could get to Softball conditioning. It wasn't a summer spent vacationing---but it sure did quickly vanish.<br />
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Don't get me wrong. I LOVE my job. I really do. It's just to be able to feel like a family for a few weeks out of a year is HEAVENLY. I get to see my kids, talk to my kids, play games---and not feel rushed to get everything done, plan lessons, clean house, do laundry, run 50 places during the week---it's just nice!<br />
---even if sometimes I DID want a vacation from my own kids! :) You would think with a 14 year old and a 10 year old that this wouldn't be the case---BUT some days---it most definitely was! Ohh that TOGETHERNESS! :)<br />
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So that brings me to the start of my school year. I always have these thoughts that I'm going to work on school stuff during the summer. However, that didn't get accomplished either. I will chalk it up to the fact that it's because I'm not sure what grades I'm working with this year, or what subjects. True story. I will probably be servicing 1st and 2nd...and probably back to doing reading AND math this year. Regardless, I base my instruction around my students levels, so it's hard to guesstimate what to work on.<br />
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So I thought to myself...why not try another story? After all, my kids started back to school today, and I was home with hubby. If I made myself busy or at the very least ACTED busy, he would eventually find his way to the laundry and housework.<br />
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I thought about the what I could probably use for intervention with my students. Our district adopted Fry Words for this school year. I have already made Fry Fluency Reads like the Dolch Fluency Reads that I've shared on this post. See link<a href="http://firstgradeandfabulous.blogspot.com/2016/01/sight-word-fluency.html"> HERE</a>. You can check out the Fry Reads on TpT from this link <a href="http://teacherspayteachers.com/Store/First-Grade-And-Fabulous/Category/sight-word-fluency-reads-233076">HERE</a>.<br />
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Since we are working with Fry words, I wanted to stick with using the first few words on the Hundred list. I came up with this story called The Dog.<br />
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Where is summer going? I even want to ask where did spring go? Between softball and baseball, life sure has kept me busy. One would think that both of those would be over--but my son decided he wanted to try travel ball---and now he's talking Fall ball. Mom's thinking, it's not even Fall---let's just calm down for one week. Heck, next week is 4-H judging for general projects--then the fair for our market animals isn 't too far away either. Life would be simpler without kids, that's for sure---but I definitely think they add some excitement to my life. As a matter of fact...that's where some of my ideas come from--my kids. </div>
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We spend a lot of time camping. We're always looking for new things for "entertainment" when we go. Did you know that with kids---camping isn't supposed to be relaxing. Who knew?! My husband built us a new Hillbilly Golf set as our old one wasn't very stable. I love this. We just store it in an old folded chair bag and it has worked perfectly for us.</div>
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**NOTE, you do not have to play this game with the big dice. </div>
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<br />~DeAnne~http://www.blogger.com/profile/05821216484089984002noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662798822824802012.post-18824605296446271952016-04-14T21:31:00.002-04:002016-04-15T11:53:34.436-04:00Read it, Build it, Write it!---A Engaging Hands-on Freebie!<div style="text-align: center;">
As you may know by now, from Facebook posts or last night's blog post, I was kind of unprepared for my week. I didn't know how my week would look with state assessing going on....I knew Monday would be normal, so I was good there. Then Tuesday, I thought I wouldn't have kids--but I did. So I just went with the flow...I thought I may not have kids Wednesday, but I did--so I just rolled with it.</div>
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I made it to today--winging it--so what's the point in having plans with just one day left to go! :)</div>
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I mean I have ideas of what I'm doing--</div>
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I shared this on FB a few nights ago and I had people message me and ask for a copy.</div>
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Students will love this activity, and it's great for groups because you can easily assist students one-on-one as the others are working. You can also use this activity as a game for students. Students can partner up and one can draw the card and name the word, while the other tries to write it on their own (without seeing it). </div>
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My kids know I make the majority of our games/activities.</div>
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Last week they asked me to make them a new game.</div>
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I think that between school, gym, housework, baseball and softball life for my own children---</div>
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I forgot. It wasn't on my weekly plans--they asked me on Thursday, and life just happened.</div>
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BUT--you know, we teachers can make a game out of anything!</div>
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SOO--when my kiddos entered my room Friday and asked about our game for the day, I quickly looked around the room, thought real hard about what we could do, and said, </div>
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They looked confused. I hear "Mrs. Davis, that's not a learning game."</div>
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I said okay--well let me just put some of your spelling words and phonics words in the grid.</div>
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Students had to read the word before placing their counter on the board.</div>
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Play continued like normal Tic-Tac-Toe.</div>
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We played a few rounds, with a variety of game boards. Students switched partners and played again.</div>
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Then they wanted to challenge me. </div>
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Who am I to argue with them reading words? :)</div>
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Later in the day, I had another group that was working on the same skill.</div>
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They, too, played the game for a few rounds and enjoyed it.</div>
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But they said, what other games do you have to play?</div>
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Thinking off the top of my head--oh we can play this game.</div>
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(Never let them see you sweat--I just act like I know what I'm doing)</div>
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They ask, "What game is this?"</div>
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Me: "Ohh, a sight word game" </div>
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Me: "Well, uhm, we have to flip all the words over."</div>
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They quickly flipped them all over.</div>
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Then I told them the rules.</div>
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Roll the die.</div>
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That's how many words you have to select and read.</div>
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If you read them correctly, you keep them.</div>
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Then it's the next person's turn.</div>
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The person with the most words at the end, is the winner.</div>
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Shwoo..that was a close one! It sounded like I know what I was doing! :)</div>
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Plus side, they LOVED it.</div>
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We even threw in a a little math.</div>
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We grouped our words into rows of 5 to aide in quicker counting.</div>
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Then we compared numbers to see who won, and did some subtraction to see how many more they had. </div>
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Great review of the 100s chart for adding/subtracting sets of 10! </div>
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When they left one student said, "But we didn't do any reading today."</div>
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Now I don't try to make it a habit to "wing it" or shy away from my lesson plans, </div>
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but some days you will have that in our jobs. </div>
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If my students are actively engaged, and learning--then I know I have done my job. </div>
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Now, some of you know that I get pulled occasionally to sub or to assist/administer our state assessments.</div>
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This week, I thought that was what I was doing. Therefore, I didn't plan on having my students.</div>
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THEN--I find out the day of the state assessment--that I'm not being used for assessing </div>
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I wasn't told I wasn't being used, but no one came to get me---therefore my groups of kiddos show up AND......I have no plans. This is where I have to get creative and wing it....So I do </div>
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(and I still am--EEK! Shh!!---Winging it all week so far)</div>
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We did a word sort. This was a fun way to spruce up our sorting activity.</div>
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They are working on Wilson's FUNDations sounds of ew, oo, ue, and ou. </div>
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We read it, highlighted the words that made the long u sound, and then sorted them onto the flowers.</div>
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Each flower held its own sound. We then added other words to complete the flower.</div>
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They truly loved this...so simple and effective for them to see the different spelling patterns. </div>
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As our week has progressed, I have yet to have helped with assessing.</div>
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Basically, I'm just going with the flow and enjoying my groups of students.</div>
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We're taking it easy and working on our phonics patterns.</div>
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Another engaging activity for them was the Riddle Me This pack.</div>
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It is differentiated to assist with instruction.</div>
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Some riddles contain the words and the pictures together as seen here:</div>
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You can see that there is a word bank down at the bottom of the paper.</div>
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You can download a sample of this activity by clicking the image below.</div>
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As we near the end of our school year, I have been given a few new kiddos to some of my reading groups. Part of me is sad to see the kiddos that I've been working with go--but yet, I'm happy that they "graduated" from me too. Then I get a new feeling like--OH MY GOSH! I only have a little over 30 days to get this new group of kiddos up to par. AND---with Spring in the Air, it is so hard for <strike>me </strike>my littles to stay focused! </div>
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I decided to go back to old school me, and pull out some of our songs to help us remember our sight words/spelling words. The songs I used to use as a classroom teacher. </div>
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Let me tell you, I have the best singing voice EVER too! HA!</div>
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But it really doesn't matter to my kiddos because they seem to be loving it!</div>
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AND--it's working.</div>
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Let me tell you what we're doing.... </div>
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I assessed the new groups last week on reading levels, and sight words.</div>
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With some of my new groupings, interventions were changed around where </div>
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the really below level kiddos are working with me 1-1. </div>
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(This is where I wished I had been trained in Reading Recovery.</div>
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The teacher in Title before me was, and I feel I learned a great deal from her--</div>
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and she was AMAZEBALLS!)</div>
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I had to get back out the pre-primer sight word stories for the new 1-1 kiddos.</div>
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I used the sight word check sheet to see which words were unknown.</div>
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I isolated the word and used letter tiles to spell it.</div>
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I read it to the student and had the student echo me.</div>
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I had the student write the word on the table with their fingerpad. </div>
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(There is more feeling in the pad than the tip/nail.)</div>
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We read the word again and spelled it aloud, and repeated this 2x.</div>
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I sang it to the student using the songs you will find <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3D5Bsh09DJKcmJkT1ZzTXdicjQ">HERE</a>.</div>
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(*Laminate, hole punch, and place on a ring for quick access)</div>
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Then the student sang it back with me, and we did mix/fix with the word.</div>
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Each 1-1 student was able to do this at this point, but then I wanted to take the word back to text.</div>
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I found the read with the word we are practicing (I know them by heart lol)</div>
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They counted them up, put rings around the words, etc..and then we read the fluency read.</div>
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I did this for 2-3 unknown words each day as our warm-up before working on our story. </div>
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Here's what I feel is good news. I had one student go from knowing 78% to 100% of the preprimer list and another go from knowing 58% of the pre-primer words to 82% since Friday! SAY WHAT!?</div>
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I was PUMPED!</div>
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This routine isn't as easy when I have a full group, so I find a few words that the students have in common that they've missed, and we work it the same way in our warm-up. So far it's working. :)</div>
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For phonics instruction, our building purchased Wilson's FUNdations a few years ago. I thought I'd try to arrange some of our Making Words activities to match the lessons/words in these units. I've struggled with how to best serve my students when I battle with time. My classes are back to back. I have 16 reading groups a day...8 first grade groups, and 8 second grade groups. Each group is roughly 18 minutes to allow transition time from class to class. I have used our Wilson's boards, but this is all I have.<br />
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I thought putting the digraphs and glued chunks in baggies and then storing them on a shelf by my reading table would help make it quicker when going from 1st to 2nd grade classes. Yes, that's how my day works. I have 2nd, 2nd, 1st, 1st, 2nd, 1st, 1st, 2nd....EEK!! Actually it's not as bad as it may sound. </div>
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This idea worked okay, but then I realized that I can't spell words with more than one e or d. My kiddos are working on past tense words, and vowel pairs, and---well more words than just 3 and 4 letters. Soo...</div>
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An idea so simple--so easy--and I'm so silly for having this light bulb moment so late in the game.</div>
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I pre-cut the letters from their Making Words activities. (Actually, I just retyped the letters they needed and they can take the unused portion of the paper home with them to practice). Then I stored them all in my basket on my table for the day with our papers, and pencils.</div>
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Most groups were able to finish their activity (and practice handwriting as we recorded) before our time was up. My making words lessons take about 15-20 minutes to complete, depending on skill level and ability.</div>
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Here is a group of students working. They were having a hard time with the meaning of change TWO letters, so I walked them through it. These activities are such an eye opener on who can manipulate letters, isolate letters, rearrange letters by a given set of directions. You may have a student who is reading so well, and then struggles with an activity like this. I've seen it happen. I had my coworker tell me that when she did the lesson whole group, she saw the same thing with a student in her home room. </div>
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One is a 1st grade lesson using some glued sounds (ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk) and the other is a 2nd grade lesson using the sounds of oi/oy. </div>
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Click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3D5Bsh09DJKZjBxaFhCQmZSNEU/view?usp=sharing">HERE</a> to grab a copy. </div>
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If you like these activities, I have many more on TpT. (Click<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/First-Grade-And-Fabulous/Category/making-words/Search:making+words"> HERE</a>)</div>
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My students have truly enjoyed these through the years.</div>
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I am always trying to find connections to help my students remember things. Like for example, last week, I related a Table of Contents to a table of food. I'm not sure if it was the fact I'm dieting, and was hungry--or if I really thought it was a good idea at the time. But hey, it worked. I asked my students to visualize their big holiday meal (Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, etc.). I asked them to think about the foods...mashed potatoes, gravy, macaroni and cheese, bread, etc--remember I'm dieting so all that stuff sounded good!</div>
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I told them that all of the foods on the table are the contents of what they will be putting in their bellies. They can see what they will be eating on that table. Then related it back to a Table of Contents. It shows you the chapters you will be reading--it's like a preview of the book. Just like we can see all the foods on the holiday table, we can see all the chapters in the table of our book. Maybe it was a bit of a stretch, but we had worked on trying to define a table of contents for a few days, and this was a connection that STUCK! A week later, and they can tell me what one is--so that's big news for me! :)</div>
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Sometimes I really STRETCH to make connections. I look for anything and everything I can to help my students remember certain pieces of information. Here's another example. I try to get my kiddos to remember when to use certain punctuation. My firsties like to put a period (or an exclamation point) for EVERYTHING. So, I have them feel their ear. I said feel that shape? It's like a question mark. It's made that way on purpose. We have to listen carefully when people ask questions, and we have to listen to see if we need to give an answer. Here's a quick little graphic. </div>
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You know what else is working? Those very simple, easy to prepare Fluency Reads.</div>
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I know these are working because my students are retaining their sight words.</div>
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I ALSO used to work with a student who receives special services.</div>
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Today, for the first time in a few months, I got to listen to him read. </div>
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Friends, he STRUGGLED retaining a and the for the first month of school.</div>
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Today, he read ALL of the pre-primer reads to me. </div>
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Then I thought, he just has them memorized....so I wrote down 3 new sentences using various words.</div>
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Guess what???? He could read them to me!! </div>
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WOW! So impressed!!</div>
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By the way--the Fry set DOES NOT have the same reads as the Dolch sets. </div>
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Being a Dolch user, I didn't want to make something that I couldn't use..so I am going to use these interchangeably and have several fluency reads my kiddos can use for their success! :)</div>
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Some of my 2nd graders were struggling with comprehension, and for some reason do not, and almost refuse to go back into the selection to find their evidence. That's where the Nonfiction Fluency Reads come into play. </div>
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That was me this week. </div>
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It dawned on me.</div>
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I hadn't pulled out a making words activity this year. </div>
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I've used our Wilson's FUNdations boards and had "like" activities with them making words,</div>
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but that isn't what my kiddos need. My kids need DIRECT instruction to make them successful.</div>
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They need a set of letters, and be able to add, change, and delete letters based off of directions I give them.</div>
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So I asked myself--why did I stop doing them?</div>
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I think mainly it's because I felt a time crunch. </div>
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I wanted to make sure I was hitting the phonics skill they were lacking.</div>
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So---here's how I managed it in my 15-17 minute-ish time slot.</div>
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For my first graders, I used the Wilson's FUNdations boards.</div>
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If you're not familiar with these, they are basically magnetic tile boards.</div>
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I used the directions sheets that come with the Making Words activities </div>
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and the students used the magnetic tiles to make the words. </div>
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This took about the right amount of time for our lesson.</div>
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As we get faster on these activities, maybe I can bring back the </div>
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**One thing I will note that my students are struggling with is the /k/ or /c/ beginning sound</div>
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We quickly made a little mini-poster that I hand drew.</div>
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Of course, the artist that I am, EVERYONE wanted their own copy.</div>
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(Love how they made me feel all artistic!)</div>
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For you all, though--I will spare you the details and use cutesy clipart instead.</div>
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One of my 2nd grade groups, though, I have for just a little bit longer.</div>
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We were able to work on handwriting (something that a few of them really need).</div>
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For this group, we worked closely together. Our phonics focus is ai/ay.</div>
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Students manipulated their letters.</div>
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This activity starts out simple--</div>
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and then works in ay sounds too.</div>
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We stretched out the sounds and listened for the ai/ay sounds.</div>
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They realized that a lot of the time the a sound at the end is ay.</div>
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We highlighted the pattern in the words we are working on.</div>
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Then I had them flip the paper over, and have them try a few on their own.</div>
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They wrote it in pencil, then we spelled it together (stretching it out) while they wrote it in crayon.</div>
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They were so happy when they had spelled the word right!</div>
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Smiles all around---</div>
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When they left to go back to homeroom today, they said </div>
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OHH!! I just love it when they say that! :)</div>
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If you are interested in more Making Words lessons, check <a href="http://firstgradeandfabulous.blogspot.com/2012/04/making-words.html">HERE</a> to see a blog post with a freebie. </div>
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I also made a game to go with this week's phonics skill.</div>
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It's just a simple Bump Game.</div>
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Basically, you will choose the game board you need.</div>
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My firsties were working on silent e and my 2nd graders were doing vowel digraphs.</div>
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Basically, students will partner up and on their turn spin the spinner. </div>
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They read a word with the picture on which they landed.</div>
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If they spin a snowflake, they get a choice.</div>
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If you haven't played Bump before, this is how we play:</div>
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<b>The first child spins, reads a word for the picture landed, and puts a cube on that word. </b></div>
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<b>The winner is the player that has the most towers!</b></div>
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First, I have to celebrate that I was able to hit my goal today--so I am able to sit and blog for a bit!</div>
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YAY! I'm mentally drained from school, physically drained from my exercise, and well--just tired because it is Tuesday. Last week spoiled me y'all! </div>
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Here is what last week looked like:</div>
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<b>Monday</b>: off due to holiday</div>
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<b>Tuesday:</b> 2 hour delay due to weather</div>
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<b>Wednesday: </b> a "normal" day (whatever that means in school terms)</div>
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<b>Thursday:</b> 2 hour delay due to weather</div>
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<b>Friday</b>: early release due to weather</div>
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So, as you can see, getting back into the swing of it is tiring. This is day 2 back to reality! </div>
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And of course, I have kids involved in activities after school--</div>
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and can I say that we procrastinated on my son's book report project that is due Friday!</div>
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Just FYI--I will not be a teacher that assigns book report projects for home. I'm so over them! lol</div>
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Yesterday, I had my little darlings working on a word sort.</div>
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<span class="fbPhotosPhotoCaption" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="fbPhotoSnowliftCaption" tabindex="0"><span class="hasCaption">Student-- "But Mrs. Davis, not all of these are the same."<br /> Me--"What do you see?"<br /> Student--"Well, they all have an a and silent e, but some have a d and a t and an m."<br /> **Exactly....and that is where the sorting took off...I was just there. They are teaching themselves</span></span></div>
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I only have my groups for about 17 minutes, so we finished our lesson today.</div>
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They read the words, and noted the word families.</div>
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They caught on to the words rhyming. </div>
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WOOT WOOT--because that was a hard concept this fall.</div>
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When they realized they rhymed, the fluency was better! YAY! </div>
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I got this--They got this! We are doing well! :)</div>
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Then, they had to name the houses. BOOM! They knew what to do!</div>
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They said well, this is the -ate, this is the -ame, and this is the -ade!</div>
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What! I was so proud of them!! :)</div>
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Other groups of mine are working on other pages in this pack.</div>
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That's the great thing about this resource. When I made it a few years ago, </div>
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That makes planning super easy for my groups this year! :)</div>
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In the picture above, a student is working on a long a/silent e story.</div>
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How I use this in my small groups:</div>
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I read the story to them. </div>
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They echo read it and listen for the long a words.</div>
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They highlight the words. </div>
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We read it together again.</div>
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Finally, we answer the comprehension questions.</div>
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I am trying to teach them to write in complete sentences, but they are not fans of writing.</div>
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I am trying to teach them TTQA (turn the question around).</div>
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We underline key words to use in our sentence---</div>
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they may not be a fan, but they are improving their sentence structure and handwriting! :)</div>
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Let me tell you--it's so hard to get everything accomplished on a school night. </div>
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Then, when you think you're able to do it on a weekend--you're tired. At least I am. </div>
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An extra day sure does help get everything around the house caught up, </div>
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or am I to get school things caught up? You know, honestly, so far, I haven't done either. I went shopping! </div>
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I say it was because I was trying to get all my steps in on the ole' Fitbit, but you know! :)</div>
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See, for the past few months, I have been trying harder to get my exercise in--and eat right.</div>
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Then, on the first, I started a new diet. </div>
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So far, so good--I'm down a few pounds.</div>
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10.6 to be exact! (I will celebrate with a cupcake later!) ;)</div>
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Me taking care of me has become my number 1 priority.</div>
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And because I like what I do--I am telling myself if I get my steps in, </div>
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then I can sit down and work on school things and blog! :)</div>
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So moving on-----let's talk school!</div>
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Some of my kiddos are working on r-controlled vowels.</div>
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I made these activities to help reinforce their phonics skills they are learning in class.</div>
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You can click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3D5Bsh09DJKUjFQVjZxdWJkVkU/view?usp=sharing">HERE</a> to grab a set. </div>
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I shared these pages with my coworkers teaching the r controlled vowel, and as glad as I am they were used, I had to change my plans at last minute! SOO---we worked on/reviewed contractions. </div>
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This is always a great skill to review--the word won't gets them every time.</div>
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I was so glad I had this little activity from a few years back. </div>
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You can grab that freebie <a href="http://firstgradeandfabulous.blogspot.com/2012/01/whatta-day-cooking-cleaning-blogging-oh.html">HERE</a>.</div>
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Some of my kiddos are working on Cloze sentences. </div>
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They have mastered a few Dolch lists, and we want to work on "what sounds right." </div>
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I'm impressed with how far they've come already as this was a struggle a few months ago.</div>
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You can find a freebie for this activity <a href="http://firstgradeandfabulous.blogspot.com/2016/01/comprehension-fluency-and-beginning.html">HERE</a>.</div>
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If you would like to see the set, please click the image below.</div>
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I told you in my last blog that I subbed for Kinder last Friday.</div>
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My struggling kiddos REALLY enjoyed this and I noticed they were picking up<br />
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Last weekend, I had only made a short vowel A pack.<br />
I have now included e and i. <br />
O and U will e added soon.<br />
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You can click <a href="http://firstgradeandfabulous.blogspot.com/2016/01/comprehension-fluency-and-beginning.html">HERE</a> to read more about it--or click <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/CvC-Read-and-Find-Differentiated-Fluency-and-Comprehension-Short-a-2295829">HERE </a>to see it on TpT.<br />
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I have some groups working on Silent E.<br />
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This group said we did this in word work! </div>
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I thought, oh no..not again! <br />But they said it wasn't with silent E. Thank goodness!</div>
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You can grab this freebie and read more about Silent E at this blog post <a href="http://firstgradeandfabulous.blogspot.com/2014/10/what-are-we-up-to-our-week-review.html">HERE</a>. </div>
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Some of my kiddos are working on Nonfiction.</div>
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I am LOVING these Nonfiction Fluency Reads they are using. </div>
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You can click <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rainforest-Reads-A-Nonfiction-Approach-to-Fluency-1973856">HERE </a>to download a sample to try with your students.</div>
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And finally, most of my groups start out with the fluency reads as a warm up.</div>
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I do sight word checks on them to see how they are progressing and to</div>
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see that I'm keeping them at the right level. </div>
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I really do see their sight word knowledge increasing.</div>
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*We have had a few delays and many illnesses this past week, </div>
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and due to this some of my groups had only 1 student. </div>
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UGH--there go the plans again right? WELL--- </div>
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That was a PERFECT time for me to give them a book and flash cards.</div>
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We made flash cards and highlighted the words that were unknown.</div>
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This meant that these were the pages they should practice more often. </div>
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I didn't tell them NOT to read the other pages, just focus on the pages that </div>
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were highlighted to help increase their sight word knowledge. </div>
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After doing this for a student, I thought---why not all the kids I see?</div>
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So I started sending them home..making flash cards..typed a parent letter... </div>
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AND do you know what? What makes me THRILLED about these? </div>
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I have told you before they TRULY enjoy reading from these booklets...</div>
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but when I was able to give them a book to take home--OH my!</div>
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You see, I have end of the day bus duty---and as I was monitoring my section (bigger kids)</div>
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I looked over and saw that one of my students had pulled out her book.</div>
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She and another 1st grader (not one that I see) were taking turns reading out of the book.</div>
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That really made this ole' teacher giddy!</div>
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If you'd like to know more about these Fluency Reads, please check a blog post <a href="http://firstgradeandfabulous.blogspot.com/2016/01/sight-word-fluency.html">HERE</a>.</div>
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Other activities that I've been able to do with my students is our Winter Board Games</div>
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--these come in handy when I have to change plans last minute! ;)</div>
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You can find these activities and more <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/First-Grade-And-Fabulous">HERE</a>. </div>
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Well, that sums up last week for the most part.</div>
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As you can see, I am kind of all over the place with lesson plans..</div>
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And unfortunately, sometimes winging it! ;)</div>
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And no matter what comes my way---</div>
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I'm still smiling about it! :) </div>
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Because you know---we are pretty lucky to have such a great job!</div>
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