My Reading Autobiography

Hey folks! I am taking a State mandated reading course online and I am enjoying it thus far! My first assignment was to write the story of how you learned to read, in under 600 words. Well, mine was over the limit a bit, but I am proud of my little story. I hope it encourages other educators to take pause, and reflect on HOW and WHY you like to read. It's a very powerful exercise and I hope you do it before your next school year!

A Day in the Life of a 5th grader



Small Group partner work: Identify Author's Point of View



Fluency Graphs for Individual Students: During Workstations



Aims of Reconstruction Exit Slip: Social Studies



Reconstruction:MAGNET SUMMARY Reading Strategy



Aims of Reconstruction FOLDABLE



Inside of CONSTRUCTIVE PROCESSES: Landform Unit



Inside of DESTRUCTIVE PROCESSES: Landform Unit



Exit Slip: Landforms Unit



Vocabulary Station IMAGINE IT Unit 1 Lesson 3



Comprehension Station IMAGINE IT Unit 1 Lesson 3



Edgar Allen Poe: The Raven Fluency Station:: Reading with Intonation

Anchor Charts

US Reconstruction Foldable Activity

6th grade Social Studies ROOM SET UP

My husband has moved to a new school this year and I was asked to help design his room.
WHOO-hoo! My favorite thing to do...Here are some pics we took today. We did this in 2 days!

 VIEW FROM HALLWAY

 AS YOU WALK IN

 FRONT BOARD

FOCUS BULLETIN BOARD

Teacher Business Card with QR code

Thanks to Mimi over at 5thGradeRocks5thGradeRules , I recreated my business cards on Publisher. I put my QR Code on them instead of clip art. I changed the color to go with our school colors and I love it!!!

Beginning of School

I created these labels for my classroom library.

I used this form a few years ago for classroom management.

This schedule is a rough schedule of what students will be learning the first month of school.

Liebster Blog Award

Thanks to Ericka at Embracingmyinnernerd.blogspot.com for awarding me with the Liebster Blog Award! Thanks so much!!

First Day of School presentation

In all my years of being in the classroom, the one thing that is a MUST is setting up classroom procedures. Without them...all the pretty posters, name tags, decorations...mean nothing! Children want to have fun, but truly need guidance and an understanding of their parameters.

A colleague of mine created a powerpoint about Chaos vs. Order ..that I of course spruced up for my classroom. It has been a lifesaver for years.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/101336656

CLASSROOM SET-UP 2012-2013 School Year

Interactive SOCIAL STUDIES notebook decoration

Each year, my students get an afternoon to set up and design their Interactive Social Studies notebooks.These notebooks will store EVERYTHING from vocabulary, to notes, to foldables, etc. from Reconstruction to the present day. This is mine for the 2012-2013 school year.

I printed a bunch of themed based pictures, then cut them out to fit, and created my collage. It's fun!

Personalizing YOUR OWN Reading Notebook

MY READING NOTEBOOK

Each year, I let my students take the first day of school to decorate their Reading notebooks. It gives them a chance to chit-chat with fellow students, express themselves creatively (which sometimes is stunted in a rigorous curriculum), and take pride and ownership of their work.

I have done this for 10 years and it works! Hope this helps!?

I got an AWARD?!?!? WOW!!!

Thanks so much to Mrs. Henderson in the Teacher’s Workroom for acknowledging my little blog! I am super excited to receive this award!

http://theteachersworkroom.blogspot.com

7 random facts about myself.

·         I am the third out of four daughters (yes, middle child all the way!)

·         I have recently started the Insanity workout challenge—WOW! Crazy-ness!

·         My husband and I just celebrated 11 years of marriage on July 8^th

·         My son, Noah Blue, will turn three on July 28^th

·         My husband proposed to me on the Eiffel Tower when we were studying abroad (he’s the romantic, not me)

·         I could drink Chic-Fil-A’s sweet tea all day long

·         I have worked with children since I was 13 years old---22 years of experience isn’t bad J

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