In service week begins next week. I'm hoping to have my entire room, minus my new math manipulatives for the new math curriculum, in order! I am SO close. I have a few things left to do. Pictures will be coming next week for sure!
I have my rules and power pix up. I'm going to do my scoreboard this week and I have my mom making the volume meter. Hoping to do the genius ladder and super improver wall next week during inservice. If I don't have them completed by next Wednesday, I'll stick take pics and show what I have so far.
For the scoreboard I am thinking I might take a picture of my baby when she's really happy and one when she's really sad and use that for the Oh yeah and Mighty groan.
Looking forward to teaching heaven in a new grade level.
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Summer School and the fall!
Well - summer school is over! 16 days of reading, reading, reading. I did use several WBT strategies, but in 16 days there was no way to implement ALL of it. I used most of the big 7. I used gestures when I remembered. I realize that will be my biggest challenge this school year. That, and teaching in shorter amount of chunks. I'm planning on showing my kids some of the WBT videos - if THEY don't know what it looks like in action, how can I expect them to produce what I'm thinking about?
I began setting up my class yesterday. I only spent an hour so I just really decided on the room layout. With 30 kids it's a challenge to find a seating arrangement that works. I tried rows but they didn't fit and I didn't want to do groups (everyone does groups, I want to be a little different, plus, I do think it's distracting for kids who have a difficult time focusing always being with a group!) I tried a U but there are too many desks. I ended up looking in my Tools for Teaching book by Fred Jones and found "the double E" which works well with double desks like I have. It's like a square U with desks in between, with the desks being the 'arms' on the E.
I'm still trying to figure out which bulletin boards will be my power pix. I want them to be a board I can easily access since I will be adding to it frequently. I have one HUGE bulletin board but it's on top of the cubbies so I'd have to climb on the counter. It's a possibility though...
I began setting up my class yesterday. I only spent an hour so I just really decided on the room layout. With 30 kids it's a challenge to find a seating arrangement that works. I tried rows but they didn't fit and I didn't want to do groups (everyone does groups, I want to be a little different, plus, I do think it's distracting for kids who have a difficult time focusing always being with a group!) I tried a U but there are too many desks. I ended up looking in my Tools for Teaching book by Fred Jones and found "the double E" which works well with double desks like I have. It's like a square U with desks in between, with the desks being the 'arms' on the E.
I'm still trying to figure out which bulletin boards will be my power pix. I want them to be a board I can easily access since I will be adding to it frequently. I have one HUGE bulletin board but it's on top of the cubbies so I'd have to climb on the counter. It's a possibility though...
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