I found this link today and was VERY excited. I had to share my wonderful find with all of you!!! It is a website called File Folder Fun. It has FREE file folder games for grades K-5 and for various subjects!! This really helps me out because we do not have individual science text books in 2nd grade. The file folder games are a great resource to help reinforce my lesson!! Hope you guys find this as useful as I do!!!
Free for All Friday
I am a little late due to a busy weekend, but I am here still linking up with Blog Hoppin'!! Here is the Freebie for the week.
A parent got me a class set of Reading Log Charts. I LOVE them and want every child to have one at school and at home. So I recreated it. I hope to have a better copy to put on here later on, but here is what I have for now. All you have to do is print and laminate and they are ready to be written on!!
Reading Goal Chart
A parent got me a class set of Reading Log Charts. I LOVE them and want every child to have one at school and at home. So I recreated it. I hope to have a better copy to put on here later on, but here is what I have for now. All you have to do is print and laminate and they are ready to be written on!!
Reading Goal Chart
Three for Thursday
Today I am linking up with Blog Hoppin to tell you about my three favs!!! I will have to say that this is going to be very hard because I cannot just pic one for each category!!
Favorite Font
I like to use different fonts, but there is one font that I use the most. It is Cutie Pop. I found it by simply typing "free cute font" into google. I get most of my fonts from fontspace.com.
Favorite Blog
This one is impossible for me to choose. I have so many different blogs that are my favorite. One blog that I go to the most though is What The Teacher Wants. I have gotten a lot of great ideas from this blog!
Favorite Online Resource
My favorite online resource at the moment is Pinterest.com. A friend told me about this sight since I am currently planning a wedding. She told me it would give me a lot of great ideas. I get great ideas for home and for the classroom here!! LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!!
Where It All Goes Down Wednesday
I am linking up with Blog Hoppin' to show you my WONDERFUL WORLD!!
My area
Clips I painted to hang student work
Where students turn in their Monkey Binders each day
This is where students put their homework. It is a quick and easy transition to the next activity. It is quicker then putting work in binders during the school day.
LOVE that my classroom has a sink!!
Their cubbies are used to hold books, reading phones, Wilson boards, AR folders, and their math kits.
Bulletin Boards
Computer area. I also display previous class pictures. The kids always enjoy looking at these.
My AR board. This is used so I don't hear "Can I take a Test?" a thousand times a day!
A few of my books
My reading area and Tattling Toby. I also have other chairs, bean bags, and carpet squares for children to use around the room to read.
Game shelf and some of my small group activities
Promethean Board!!! Can't live without it!!!
Books for the kids
Work station
Resource posters I made for the kids to reference to
That is a sneak peek of my classroom. Hope you guys enjoyed!
Teacher Talk Tuesday
Linking up again with
Today is all about giving advice to new teachers. I will do my best seeing as how I still feel like I need advice and am constantly learning and growing.
1. DOCUMENT DOCUMENT DOCUMENT!! This is the most important thing that you should do. I learned this the hard way my 2nd year teaching. If a child goes to the nurse, document the trip even if your nurse documents this also. It never hurts to have multiple documentations. If a child has a constant behavior, you should document this as well. It is always important to be able to give specifics. This includes dates, behaviors, times, etc.
2. CHANGE - Change is a very scary thing for many people. In the teaching world, things change from day to day and year to year. It is important to be able to learn how to completely stop what you are use to doing and do whatever new is thrown your way. It definitely makes your life easier and less stressful if you can easily jump on the Change Train.
3. SHARE - Always be willing to share with your coworkers. It makes your job harder when people are unwilling to share ideas. This is especially true when you have a child with any special needs. You should share with their next teacher things you tried so that the teacher does not waste their time trying things that do not work.
4. DISCIPLINE - This does not mean you have to be Viola Swamp! It just means that you should have some discipline in your classroom. My dad always said "You can always lighten up but you can never get harder." If you do not start out disciplined in your classroom, the children will never let you establish it. So start from day 1.
5. STRUCTURE - With discipline comes structure. Your classroom needs to be structured and have a routine. There are too many kids with special needs coming through the school system that need and thrive on structure. There are also many kids that do not get it at home and desperately seek it at school.
6. LOVE - Love your children as if they are your own. You don't always know what a child is going home to. So, it is important to make them feel safe and loved with they are with you. If you have never read the book A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer, you really should. It really makes you think about each and every child and what they could possibly go through when they are not with you.
7. FUN - Finally have fun!! The job can be overwhelming, but do not take it out on the kids. Be sure to have fun with them and make learning fun. The learn the best is when they do not even realize they are learning.
Fact Families
I am not a huge fan of our new math series. My students are having such a hard time understanding it. So, I am supplementing A LOT! I created a math lesson to help them better understand fact families. I associated the numbers with people and talked to them about how your family stays the same. This really helped the students get the concept. It is actually the first math lesson this year that every student in the classroom understood completely!! If you would like a copy of the packet, you can get it HERE. In the packet, there are a few pages to help introduce the lesson, flash cards, worksheets, and a file folder game. I also made the file folder game a separate file just in case you need the reinforcement or just need a few more centers for your classroom. You can get it HERE.
Meet The Teacher Monday
Hey guys! I am linking up with
About Me
My name is Julia and I am 27 years old. I am engaged to Jack Casteel. We are getting married this school year!! We have 2 dogs named Romeo and Rocky.
At our engagement party
Experience
This is my 6th year teaching 2nd grade. I always wanted either 2nd or 3rd grade. I graduated from Tennessee Tech University and started my job hunt. I got hired the day after school started. It was a created position because there were too many kids in 2nd grade that year. I really lucked out!! My classroom was actually in a workroom also because there was limited space in the school. I did not have a computer or a white board for quite some time. I have come a long way since then!!
You Might Not Know......
I have always wanted to be a teacher. I was born into a family of teachers. I also have 5 brothers and sisters. So I spent most of my childhood playing school and teaching my younger siblings with old teacher manuals. You could ask me at 3 years old what I wanted to be when I grew up and I would always say "I want to be a teacher." I am also marrying a teacher!
This year
This year I am looking forward to a lot of things. In my personal life, I am really looking forward to the wedding. In my professional life, I am really looking forward to my new set of students. We have been in school for 3 weeks now, and I really have a sweet bunch that is really eager to learn. They also work work really well in groups. I am really looking forward to this because that isn't the case every year. It is great having a group of students that can work together and that can handle things out of the ordinary.
What I need to improve......
If you are a teacher, you know that there are ALWAYS things that you need to improve on. That is the case with me. There are many things I want to improve on. One thing is that I want to be able to come up with more learning focused centers. This is something that our school is really trying to push and that I haven't fully accomplished yet. So, I plan on working really hard this year towards that goal.
I also want to start the Daily 5 and Reading Cafe. I bought a subscription to the site but feel completely lost and overwhelmed since I have not read the book yet. So, that is another goal that I want to accomplish in order to improve reading and writing in my classroom.
Teaching Supplies I cannot live without....
One thing I cannot live without is my scented markers!!! The kids absolutely LOVE them. Since we do a lot of work together, I usually have another child go around and check papers. They love using the scented markers and being surprised from day to day as to what scent we will use.
I also could not live without my Promethean Board. It makes my life sooooooo much easier! The kids love being able to come to the board, do interactive games, and watch clips on the big screen!!
Another thing I can't live without is.......JUNIE B. JONES!! I LOVE Junie B. The kids love to listen to me read the books to them and I love reading her books. She cracks me up. It is a nice stress relief for me and the kiddos.
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