tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32800411875349113772024-03-19T08:02:12.506-05:00Sprinkles to Kindergarten!Sprinkle some fun into teachingEricahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505247673414981429noreply@blogger.comBlogger271125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3280041187534911377.post-65629030301459061102020-07-10T00:30:00.000-05:002020-07-10T09:29:12.037-05:00Writing Week 2020 - Ideas for Writing in Centers and Daily Five<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Welcome to Day 5! I hope this week has helped you feel more prepared to teach your young authors!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Today is all about writing choices while you instruct small groups. THIS IS NOT WRITER'S WORKSHOP TIME.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I use Daily Five as my model for "what the other students are doing" but I have also had schoolyschool when I used a centers or stations approach to independent writing. Regardless of which you prefer, these ideas will help your authors practice writing independently during your small group literacy instruction time.</span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A lot of these ideas are self explanatory, but I did want to show you some of my littles' creations from kindergarten. If Kinder kids can do these, then first and second graders definitely can!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">SIDE NOTE: Since kindergarteners are still learning how to print letters, it's OKAY to have letter printing activities in your Working on Writing choices. This is a scaffolded skill. The joy in independent writing time is that there are many choices, so your higher learners can have writing choices while your emergent writers can work on letter printing. YOU KNOW YOUR KIDS BEST!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;">Now this cutie</span></span>' didn't just know how to make a pop up book. I added pop up paper to our choices in the second semester after we had created a few pop up books as a class during the first semester. Any new idea needs really good teaching before it can become and independent choice.</span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another simple and preferred writing choice is writing about exciting news. We all know young children can talk for HOURS about themselves and grandma visiting and their dog digging a hole and what they had for dinner... You get the point! I often stop the stories by saying "That sounds really fun! Can you tell me all about it by writing to me?" So, I created this little gem for sharing news! Click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2slsyEm9LjNUUdhcklELU1DbVk/view?usp=sharing">HERE</a> to get it for FREE!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That reminds me, if a atudent wrote a letter for me, I have them place it in my mailbox. Do you see it on the shelf to the left? I would encourage you to get a mailbox to collect ALL of the treasures your kiddos write you!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another writing choice my kiddos love is creating 3D stories. Here are two examples.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">1. Remember it is a choice so it's alright if a student chooses the same writing choice each day at check-in. After all, it will take a child days to create a pop-up book, so she may choose to work on it each when he/she picks a writing choice. Just celebrate writing anything independently!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="outline: none;"><span style="outline: none;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">2. Make sure you have a system for supplies. Where are your students' pencils, crayons, etc. that are needed for writing choices? Do they each have a supply box you want them to use? Are there shared supplies stored in the writing area?</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Grading all the awesome writing your students complete can be SO overwhelming! I hope today's writing topic can help you feel a little better about grading personal narratives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Grading for me has always been most beneficial when students are a part of the process. I use data charts with my students so they can track their own knowledge on all kinds of subjects of learning in our classroom. It helps them set their own goals as learners and to see what they need to improve upon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are many different ways to have students assess themselves as writers and rubrics are one of the easiest ways for them to self assess their writing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This self-reflection also helps students know what goals they can set to help them grow in their writing. There are a lot of ways to set up a goals chart for writing. If you do a search online you'll find so many different kinds that can meet your needs. I personally love using post it notes for students to add their names to and move as needed. Just remember that your goals for writing will change throughout the school year. At the beginning of K you may want "Spaces Between Words" as a goal, but by the end of the year that might not be goal that you need to keep as an option for your students.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another great tip for grading writing is to have other important people in your students' lives grade for you. I have had it timed out that parent conferences have occurred around the time I plan to grade writing. It is really helpful for parents to sit with you and get their feedback about the writing growth and the writing needs of their child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can also have a buddy class help grade and talk through the rubric with the student from your class the buddy student is assigned to. Older elementary students LOVE to help the younger ones and this is a perfect activity to complete together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Also, having students read their own writing out loud to their writing partner is an excellent method of self-assessment. I often say, "You're the author of your own story. If you can't read it, then other people can't read it." This is important for students to make sure their writing is neat, but also that words aren't left out or that invented spelling is readable to the author. I often have students start the Writing and Conferences portion of Writer's Workshop by reading their story first to their writing partner(s). I even model, model, model why this is important during mini lessons.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Welcome to day 3 of Writing Week 2020! I hope you're enjoying a peek into how I teach writing in the primary grades. Today is all about strategies for improving writing with emergent writers. One of the amazing parts of writer's workshop is that it's naturally differentiated, but that's also one of the scariest parts of writers workshop. Having an equipped and full toolbelt of strategies for helping your young authors is necessary for their individual needs. I wear my toolbelt during writer's workshop Writing and Conferences time as I travel around the classroom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Play-Doh is a perfect tool to use when introducing how to start a new story. Have students open their Play-Doh and observe what they see. You will get answers describing one color, a "blob shape", or my favorite - "It looks like Play-Doh." Then show a blank piece of paper and tell students that writing a story is just like playing with Play-Doh. It starts out as just a white, rectangular shaped piece of paper, but when we add our thinking and creativity to it we can turn it into something. Then allow students to turn their Play-Doh into something. I like to have my students use Seesaw to take a photo of their Play-Doh creation and record what they made as a reference later in writers workshop for each student to reflect and remember authors start with nothing and turn it into something, just like we did with the Play-Doh. This is a great tool to use to help timid writers just start writing. Always remember that in kindergarten and first grade, writing can start with pictures. If you have an apprehensive writer in the beginning, let them start with pictures, then move into labeling, then words. (Click the photo to grab my 3 Ways to Write FREEBIE.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Isn't it awesome that writing is naturally differentiated?!?!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also love these two books for mentor texts with helping apprehensive writers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">A Ball for Daisy is a wordless book, yet it tells a story about Daisy and her ball. It shows young writers that our pictures hold meaning, so starting with pictures is okay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One tool that I use as a visual model for my authors is this stacking toy. It helps writers see that they need to make sure their story is told in the correct order to help it make sense. I know that seems so simple for us, but for emergent writers they really do need to understand beginning, middle, and end. This is a skill we are working on during reading ALL THE TIME, but making it translate into writing can be hard at times. Using this visual helps tremendously. For writers who are already skilled at making their story flow, this tool can be used during revising in the writing process. Sometimes we need to rearrange parts of our stories to help them make more sense to our readers. During revising you can see my class literally cutting their stories apart and rearranging them to make them clearer, just like with this toy, we can rearrange it to make it "right".</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mr. Potato Head is a wonderful visual for showing why details are important in writing. Start with the body of Mr. Potato Head and ask students what it is. They will probably know it's a Mr. Potato Head. Ask students to describe Mr. Potato Head and they won't have much to say apart from brown and oval shaped. Start adding pieces one by one, having students describe what they see. As you add each part, Mr. Potato Head becomes more interesting. These pieces are like the details we add in our writing. Details help make stories more interesting and fun to read. Here's an anchor chart I made to help my students remember all the details writers can add to make their stories better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let's Go Fishing is a fun toy to use to help students understand adding hooks into their writing. Hooks are great details that engage a reader immediately. I have enough sets of these for students to play in groups of 4. After playing for about ten minutes, we regroup for writers workshop and I ask students how they caught the fish. They know they used a fishing pole. Then we talk about how fishing poles have a hook to catch a fish. You can't catch a fish without one. I then explain that authors use hooks, too, to catch their reader's attention. Some hooks we can use in writing are asking questions or starting with an exclamation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Legos or Unifix cubes can be used to help writers visually see the we need a beginning (green), a long, detailed middle (several yellow blocks depending on the level of your writer), and an ending (red). Helping young authors see that most of the story is included in the middle is important for remembering to add details and stretch it out. We call this elaborating. I also use this song to the tune of "Tell Me More" from Grease:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To set up, I taped up a Dollar Tree red carpet banner, rolled out red butcher paper, and placed my gold spray painted plungers on the butcher paper. I added our <a href="https://classystages.com/">Classy Stages</a> stage to the end, but it's not necessary. I didn't have it last year. (It was funded over the summer with a Donors Choose project.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After everyone got a turn, I used <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Adjective-Fashion-Show-Response-2461327">Yeehaw, Teaching in Texas's FREEBIE</a> for students to illustrate their costume and write the adjectives that describe their costume. <a href="https://app.seesaw.me/#/item/item.de960c3b-64eb-4692-b14f-53ced81988a7/duplicate/class/class.ed14955d-03de-481f-ac67-3c5efec7348d/user/person.af71ceb7-34b1-4c3f-a584-f92608a0769a">Then we uploaded a picture of our costume onto Seesaw, wrote text with our adjectives, and recorded our adjectives. </a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Breakout boxes are one of my favorite activities to incorporate review of learned skills. The campus I taught at last year had a few boxes and I used it twice during the year, but I wanted to use it monthly, so I purchased my own over the summer. I prefer having my own box so that I always have it whenever I would like and so I know what each lock's code was set to from it's previous usage. You can get a box with all of the locks on the <a href="https://store.breakoutedu.com/">Breakout EDU site</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">When we first started our Breakout Box in September, I would scaffold how to solve puzzles and we would solve puzzle number 1 at the same time, still in teams, and once a team solved it and opened the lock, we would learn about puzzle number 2, etc. I started helping less each month and even allowed my students to take their team's puzzles to their work area and solve them in any order they would like.</span><br />
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Seesaw is a digital journal for students to share their work with only their families and their teacher. i started using is 2 years ago in my Kindergarten classroom and I have embraced it more each year. There is SOOOOO much it can do so I wanted to share some ideas of how I have utilized this amazing tool with apps and with general student sharing. I have found that parents LOVE it because they can see all the creative work we do in class, since most of this creative work will never go home. It also allows us to use apps to show what we know and share those tech tools for learning with our families, since we can't take our iPads home.</div>
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In Writer's Workshop, our most recent unit of study is procedural text, how-to stories, so we learned about the app Popplet.</div>
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This app is awesome for creating thinking maps. We used the app to create a flow map of how to build a leprechaun trap.</div>
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Once students created a flow map, they saved it to their iPad, then uploaded it to Seesaw using the ADD FILE feature.</div>
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After the image from Popplet was uploaded, then students could explain their work so parents could see the flow map and hear their child explaining it. Click <a href="https://app.seesaw.me/pages/shared_item?item_id=item.e9fe86cb-78f1-4f3e-b4bb-41ddd1056966&share_token=I5ckwj37QSa2f6kpkNz0yQ&mode=share">here</a> to view the above Popplet on Seesaw.</div>
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After we wrote how to build leprechaun traps, then we built them!</div>
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After building them, we uploaded a video explaining our work. Click the image below to see the video explaining one of our traps.</div>
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(Here's my FREE <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Catch-that-Leprechaun-219783">leprechaun trap kit</a> on TPT.)</div>
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Chatterpix is amazing! It allows students to snap a picture, then animate the picture by drawing a mouth and recording words. Here are some fun examples of Chatterpix in our classroom. Click each picture below to see the video on Seesaw.</div>
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Each student was given a shape and created that shape as a shape penguin and explained the attributes of that shape.</div>
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(You can grab my FREE <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Turkey-Dressing-Turkey-in-Disguise-Writing-Craftivity-Freebie-411211">Turkey Dressing</a> unit on TPT.)</div>
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The next app that we use often is called Adobe Spark. We use this app for so much, that I think it deserves it's own post soon....</div>
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Its a great app for students to snap a picture, then record an explanation. It creates a trail of images with explanations. Here is an example that was uploaded to Seesaw. Students were placed in groups and given a prefix, then created an Adobe Spark video describing the words they decided upon that had that prefix. Click the image below to take a look at one prefix video example.</div>
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DoInk is a green screen app that we use as well, then we add our saved green screens to Seesaw so families can view them.</div>
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Here is my kindergarten class from last year creating their own version of Gingerbread Man to tell with Green Screen, then upload to Seesaw so families can see their awesome work.</div>
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Here is my current class of second graders building pieces to retell Stellaluna in groups of 3-4 students.</div>
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Once they finished, they uploaded to Seesaw so their families could see and I could assess their retell components. Click below to see one groups' work.</div>
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Apart from using apps, Seesaw is just great for sharing what we know in creative ways and for families to see our work.</div>
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We can share our writing. Click each Seesaw image to view it.</div>
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Here is one of our bat pop up books.</div>
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Here is one of our pumpkin monsters after reading I Need My Monster. This one is just an photo, not a video.</div>
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Here is a published penguin book from our research project.</div>
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We used Shelia Rae, the Brave to learn about adjectives that describe character traits by making a mask in which our faces went in the middle and we wrote words to describe Shelia Rae. Then we read these on Seesaw.</div>
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We built gingerbread houses with place value blocks, then added up the value of our house based on the blocks used.</div>
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Who am I? So many different words describe me, but anyone who meets me quickly learns of my genuine passion for teaching, educating, and children.</div>
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Teaching and educating are two different things in my opinion. I believe teaching includes academics and social skills, while educating includes helping anyone - young or old - to learn how to contribute to our world and make the world a better place. Maybe this is teaching children how to think for themselves and solve problems. Maybe this includes teaching fellow teachers effective methods so they can help their students. Educating is a deeper level of teaching - but that's just my opinion.</div>
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I mention both of these because teaching and educating is a big, HUGE, part of me. I never imagined when I was a baby teacher, right out of college, that 15 years later I would truly be an educator. I educate children with passion and excitement through technology integration, hands on games, classroom transformations, and so many other innovative practices. Take a look at a few examples of my passion...</div>
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Dinosaur day classroom transformation to review rocks, shapes, measurement, sight words, and so much more! I even hand painted each child a shirt.</div>
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Student built space station during STEM time to practice and review objects in the night sky</div>
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Here is our 100th day of school spy lab to review number and counting concepts and rescue our kidnapped Zero the Hero!</div>
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The wedding of Q and U - never write a Q without a U!</div>
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Green Screen is used to create so many story retells! <a href="https://twitter.com/MrsERoe/status/1051897334357843968">Check out</a> our Stellaluna retell in October!</div>
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Chatterpix is our all time favorite! You can turn anything into a speaking object. We love this for sharing facts about our learning. <a href="https://twitter.com/MrsERoe/status/911352374308016133"> Check out</a> our shape hunt in which we used Chatterpix to tell the attributes of the shapes we found.</div>
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For example our knowledge of <a href="https://twitter.com/MrsERoe/status/1093671042894024704">prefixes</a>, <a href="https://spark.adobe.com/video/HJxhcj1Rb">pumpkin life cycles</a>, and <a href="https://spark.adobe.com/video/cf9773da-8796-4160-b2ae-0c9ce5e8c3e7">how to care for the Earth</a>.</div>
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We share alllll of these awesome learning adventures in our digital portfolios that go straight to our parents in Seesaw!</div>
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And the robots..... we use them for <a href="https://twitter.com/MrsERoe/status/956930954232324096">sight words</a>, numbers, <a href="https://twitter.com/MrsERoe/status/926572251465568257">map learning</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/MrsERoe/status/1068381395381145600">contractions</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/MrsERoe/status/1092248684325040128">counting money</a> - so much!</div>
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Educating educators is another HUGE passion of mine and a big part of who I am. I have presented for Abilene Christian University for the Alumni in Action conference. I have worked with three school districts in Texas to help with Daily Five and Writer's Workshop learning. I have mentored 8 new to the profession teachers and I present for Staff Development for Educators.</div>
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My passion for education has allowed me to be named the district teach of the year in Pflugerville ISD</div>
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I am thankful for these honors, but they're only achievable when I place my students first in all I do to prepare for each school day.</div>
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But my number 1 passion is simply children. I CANNOT believe that each day my JOB is to be with children! I have always been passionate about children and have tried to find ways to make the world a better place for children.</div>
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All of my passion for teaching, educating, and children has made me realize more and more each day how much more I want to learn to become a better educator for children and adults. I love attending professional development conferences and classes. Here are some fun snapshopts of past trainings, including I Teach K and Get Your Teach On.</div>
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I just always want to remember this motto as I teach, educate, and fulfill my passion. It comes from Get Your Teach On.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I am still planning on posting TONS of kinder ideas and I will even be presenting in Virginia, Alabama, and Texas this school year to spread my love of all things kinder!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One goal I have for my blog is to post topics that apply to all levels of early childhood - PreK to 2nd grade - as well as super fun second grade activities!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Flexible seating is one of those mulit-level trends that are research based to help students engage in their learning better. I could yap and yap about it, but let's see what the experts say:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">...and you know I love that brain research! Stretch those brains everyday!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In my classroom I choose to call flexible seating "Smart Spots" and found this AmAzInG <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Flexible-Seating-Smart-Spots-3369951">resource</a> on TPT from Polka Dots Please. It includes a book to introduce Smart Spots that helps young students learn the rules of caring for Smart Spots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After reading the book, I gave my kiddos a scavenger hunt to find some of our Smart Spots. I kept our square pillows hidden so they never actually finished, but kept looking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also created this Adobe Spark video to showcase our Smart Spots.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Along with learning about our Smart Spots during the first week of school, I also let my busy bees decorate a personal clipboard to keep forever so they always have a hard surface to complete work. Take a look at this kiddo working against her chair with a square pillow cushion while using her clipboard.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is a flipped class? Well, apparently I've been doing it for years and wasn't aware that is was an innovation in learning. ALL kindergarten classrooms are being flipped constantly because our kiddos NEED engagement. Flipped classrooms are when you transform your room to add engagement and excitement into lessons. Here are some of my flipped classrooms and lessons over the last 5 years!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I found these awesome <a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/passport-stampers-a2-13764064.fltr?keyword=passport+stamp">passport stamps to use from Oriental Trading</a>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is just a small list of the flips I have done the past few years, but there are so many more! How can you flip your room?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have been a busy bee the last month preparing for the Texas Kindergarten Conference. It was oodles of fun and I LOVED all of the awesome, dedicated kindergarten teachers I met. I presented about guided reading, writers workshop, STEAM, and morning meetings. I thought I would share some of my morning meeting freebies and information with you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I begin each day by wearing my greetings apron at the door. I simply attach three different greetings to it and the kiddos choose how they want to say hello to me upon entering the classroom. The cards are from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Morning-Greeting-Apron-Images-2039379">Resendez Rocks</a>' TPT shop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I even wore this apron in Ukraine to teach English last summer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once the bell rings for the announcements to begin, my cuties join me at the carpet and we listen to announcements, then begin our morning meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">We start by choosing a cool cat helper. I simply flip a paw to the next student.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">That student helps with everything for the day. Their first task is to flick the greetings spinner. This was a make and take item during my presentation. The spinner tells us how we will greet each other. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bixcz-iTAZQ12peum4NcfuG09xWe1rTc/view?usp=sharing">Here is the link</a> to grab the greetings so you can make your own spinner!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some of the ways we greet each other include a Hollywood hello, in which we use a karaoke microphone to say hello.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">...then we welcome back anyone who was absent the previous school day with our mascot - Coder Cat. (Our school name is Coder and our school colors are orange and black, so I found this cutie kitten to be our mascot.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once we complete our message, then we stand on our Sit Spot paws and "close our eyes and visualize a _______" in which I state something they can be that relates to our learning. This tells my cuties how to transition to our Promethean board to wiggle with Go Noodle so we can have a brain break before beginning Daily Five.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I use my Rocky the Raccoon puppet to help my littles remember to close their eyes and visualize since this is one of our comprehension strategies from my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Strategies-with-Beanie-Babies-1316481">Beanie Baby Strategies product</a>. Once we are at the Promethean, I use my magic wand to everyone back into children so we can dance. They love it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy 201</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">8! I hope your year has kicked off to a great start! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">My little cuties and I have already celebrated 2 fun-filled days of learning in 2018 with a New Year's theme.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">With only 2 days of school this week (Thursday and Friday) I didn't introduce any new content. We just reviewed skills and concepts from our first semester.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">In math our review skill was counting backwards from 20. We read The Night Before New Year's.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">This book talks about staying up late and celebrating the New Year. Then we watched the You Tube clip of the ball drop in New York City. This showed my cuties that people countdown to celebrate.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">I was surprised at how intrigued they were with this small clip! This showed my cuties the ball drop and allowed me to show them how to make their own ball drop craft to practice counting down from 20. Here is a clip of one of my little's ball drop.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">These were so simple to make. I gave each kiddo a small paper plate, sparkly stickers, and a bingo dauber to create the ball. The countdown strip is just a strip of squares. Easy peasy!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">We also reviewed our sight words from the first semester. One game we played was Sight Word Jenga. I found tiny Jenga games at Dollar tree. I divided each tiny set into 3 games, with 15 blocks each. I did this with 3 of the tiny sets, giving me 9 Jenga games for my 18 kids to lay in pairs. Each set of 15 blocks had words written on the side. I showed my kiddos how to build their Jenga tower and play. The only difference from the regular version is that the student had to read the word before pulling the block.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Syllables were another review skill this week. We used party blowers to blow out the number of syllables in words.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">All of these skills and goodies were used in our New Year's Dance Party!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">In writing, we read Squirrel's New Year's Resolutions and created a bubble map of resolutions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then we created party people with their new year's resolutions.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">"I can be nice to everybody."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">This is one of my ESL students!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">"I can be nice to my mom and Mrs. (misis) Roe."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">As you can see, we have done a whole lot of celebrating and now it's your turn! Here is my updated January QR stories for FREE forever!! Snag it today or tomorrow or next year as my gift to you!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: large;">Have an amazing year!!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Welcome to my Pete </span><span style="font-size: large;">the Cat Classroom! I have had a bee classroom for almost ten years and was thinking about changing when Oriental Trading contacted me about writing a back to school post! I chose many Pete the cat themed materials and can't wait to showcase them for you!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This precious Pete is from <a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/pete-the-cat-100th-day-of-school-bulletin-board-set-a2-13749154.fltr?keyword=pete+the+cat">Oriental Trading</a>! My awesome mother in law made me the little pillows beneath Pete. She's the best!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I organize my library by topic. Each group of books has a coordinating label on the front of the tub that matches the back of each book in that tub. These labels are from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/220-Classroom-Library-Book-Bin-Basket-Labels-Primary-Paw-Prints-1325169?aref=ubf4djuc">Krazee for Kindergarten</a>'s TPT shop. These books are perfect for "read the pictures" in Daily Five.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The back of my library leads to my whole group area. I attached felt to the back of my library shelves for story retelling with felt pieces.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The back of my whole group area easel hold this pocket chart. These are our MEOW pockets. Meow stands for My Extraordinary Organized Work. This is our unfinished work. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Some of our cozy spots stay behind the whole group easel. These are our scoop rockers and laundry basket seats.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This shelf holds many of my reading group manipulatives, my assessments tubs and my sub tub, as well as our PAWS folders - Positive and Wonderful Students! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I found this cutie cart at Lowe's years ago. It holds all of my teaching materials for each day of the week. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This little blue cart from Mardel's hold my reading groups emergent readers' as well as my math groups' materials. On top is my teacher toolbox.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">These little stools are form IKEA. They hold transition games for my littles to play while they wait for me to join them for their small group. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We love our Promethean Board and iPad cart! We are blessed to have ten iPads in this awesome charging cart. Under the Promethean Board are two bean bag chairs for cozy spots. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our art station is right past the Promethean. The top of the station holds our Listening to Reading Leap Frog Pads. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here are our Creative Activities Tubs (CAT) that hold differentiated games for kiddos to play when they finish their work as a transition activity. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here are my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Strategies-with-Beanie-Babies-1316481?aref=i9ynv50j">Beanie Baby Reading Strategies</a> posters. In the frames are the 8 <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Strategies-with-Beanie-Babies-1316481?aref=i9ynv50j">thinking maps</a>. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Last week was AMAZING! I was blessed to teach K-2 teachers in my district about <a href="http://sprinklestokindergarten.blogspot.com/2017/06/becoming-daily-five-diva.html">Daily 5</a> on Tuesday. I made a huge mess in my bedroom while I was preparing my lesson. Yikes!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have gently inspired my students to solve the problem of arctic animals losing their homes after we complete Deanna Jump's <a href="https://www.heidisongs.com/collections/primary-plays">Arctic Animals</a> unit. We perform a lot in our learning, so my kiddos have voted to perform plays to raise change for the polar bears so we can "Make a Change for Polar Bears". We used <a href="https://www.heidisongs.com/collections/primary-plays">Heidi Songs Primary Plays</a>. They're the best! Click <a href="https://twitter.com/MrsJHoover/status/865349849222348803">HERE</a> to see a snippet of our show!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My littles love to use Adobe Spark to show what they know. This app is so simple to use and they use it 100% independently! WOW! We had 5 groups create videos. Each group had an Adobe Spark expert on their team so their teams could be independent in their creations. Click the picture below to see one of the informational videos we made.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Happy Monday! I'm getting ready to present tomorrow about Daily Five to some sweet people in my district. I wrote <a href="http://sprinklestokindergarten.blogspot.com/2017/06/becoming-daily-five-diva.html">THIS POST</a> last week about it and wanted to give you some ideas about Working on Writing. This is the daily that makes most people cringe!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This was another year and I snapped this pic about six weeks into school. You can see the tubs are in place and filled with materials. This is also from a year I taught pre-k, so the materials are a little different for work on writing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I do want to preface that this is the only one of the dailies in which I have my students turn in a physical "something". The other four dailies are more kinesthethic, but writing needs to be about writing. Your littles will only get better at writing if they're writing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Okay, so here is a little chart I made with some writing ideas. Remember the goal of Daily Five is INDEPENDENCE! Whatever you add to your Work on Writing choices should be an independent activity for children.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">A lot of these are pretty self explanatory, but I did want to show you some of my littles' creations in Work on Writing this year! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">SIDE NOTE: Since kindergarteners are still learning how to print letters, it's OKAY to have letter printing activities in your Working on Writing choices. This is a scaffolded skill. The joy in Daily Five is that there are many choices, so your higher learners can have writing choices while your emergent writers can work on letter printing. YOU KNOW YOUR KIDS BEST!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Here is an example of one my cutie's pop up book that she created independently during Daily Five when we were learning about zoo and African animals.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now this cuties didn't just know how to make a pop up book. I added pop up paper to our choices in the second semester after we had created a few pop up books as a class during the first semester. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another simple and preferred writing choice is writing about exciting news. We all kinders can talk for HOURS about themselves and gradma visiting and their dog digging a hole and what they had for dinner... You get the point! I often stop the stories by saying "That sounds really fun! Can you tell me all about it by writing to me?" So, I created this little gem for sharing news! Click on it to get it for FREE!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of our most favorite writing choices are our shard journals. I don't have a picture of them from my classroom, but I bought them from my friend Lori. They're just journals in which you add a topic label to the front like "My Teacher" or "Pets" and anyone from the classroom can write in the journal about that topic. Here they are from Lori!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1. Remember it is a choice so it's alright if a student chooses the same Work on Writing choice each day at check-in. After all, it will take a child days to create a pop-up book, so she may choose to work on it each when he/she picks Work on Writing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">4. What if a child isn't finished? Since this is the only one of the dailies that I have students complete since all of the other dailies are open ended, I have mine place unfinished Work on Writing stories in their blue pocket on the back of my easel. Each kiddo has one for unfinished stories to store for the next day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Happy Summer! I cannot belie</span><span style="font-size: large;">ve my time with these cuties is over! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I even had these kiddos make me a special skirt to wear for graduation. I LOVE IT! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Since I started summer break, I have been a busy bee preparing presentations for school districts and for I Teach K next month! One of my presentations in about Daily Five, so I thought I would type up a <i>not-so-little</i> post about my methods for implementing it into my classroom. Before I begin, I do want to comfort you in my knowledge from my Daily Five learning. I attended a Daily Five session with THE SISTERS in 2010 when I taught second grade and again last summer (June 2016) as a kindergarten teacher.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I wanted you to know this so you know many of my suggestions and ideas stem from the authors and other pioneers of Daily Five.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">SO.... grab your favorite drink and a cozy spot, because this is A LOT of information!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just in case you have never heard of Daily Five, it is what the other students are doing while you instruct your guided reading groups. The five "dailies" are Read to Self, Work on Words, Listening to Reading, Read with a Friend, and Work on Writing. Daily Five has a strong emphasis on student choice and independence for students.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Daily Five begins with understanding the Three Ways to Read - Read the Pictures, Read the Words, Retell the Story. These three ways to read will transition children into the first daily - Read to Self. Here is a little breakdown and some ides for each of the three ways.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The very first thing students need to know to begin Daily Five is Read the Pictures. I introduce this on the second day of school, yep, even with kindergarten kids. I LOVE using this wordless book, <u>A Ball for Daisy</u></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This book is awesome because the students read it to me based on the pictures. It also helps my emergent readers to see that books can be read, even without words. After we read this book together, I provide each student with this <a href="https://www.readinga-z.com/">Reading A to Z</a> wordless book. It is very similar to <u>A Ball for Daisy</u>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My littles immediately feel confident in their ability to "read"! I send these emergent readers home with this note explaining to families what Read the Pictures means.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eagle Eye is one of our strategies from my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Strategies-with-Beanie-Babies-1316481">Beanie Baby Reading Strategies</a>. He reminds us to use our eagle eye for pictures clues. I also send home a note for families to understand Eagle Eye when their child learns this strategy in his/her reading group.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I differentiate each group's strategies with these mats. The strategy cards are attached with velcro.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I also teach Read the Pictures with our Eagle Eye with these directionality cards from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/11-TrackingCorrespondence-in-Reading-411676">Tara West's pack</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Just a little note, though, I do not begin reading groups until the third week of school, I was just adding extra tidbits for you. 💟</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the third day of school I introduce Read the Words using this emergent reader I created with the sight word "a". It is nothing fancy, but personal for my cuties since it ends with a picture of me.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This also introduces us to our word wall. We add the word "a" to it to begin understanding how helpful our word wall is for our learning.</span></span></div>
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we used these buckets to walk through and kinesthetically retell the
story. Students walked in a circle and stepped in each bucket then out
of the bucket and onto the colored shoe. Before students completed this
activity I acted it out and changed my shoes with each bucket. </span></span></div>
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my littles understood retelling the story, they worked as a table to
make a poster of each of the items Pete stepped in. I love seeing my
cuties work hard together, especially on the third day of school!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This map is used by me preparing 4 index cards that have the characters, setting, plot, and title to the story we will be reading that day. I clip them to the back of the book so they're ready when we finish reading.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I also found this AMAZING walking story map from my friend at Fairy Dust Teaching.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then my littles created their own wiener wolves of the beginning, middle, and end.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You can see that we begin STAMINA and BOOK BOXES on the third day of school! We haven't fully learned all three ways to read at this point, but they have learned two ways, so we get started!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The sisters love using this book to teach stamina and so do I. I have an affinity for all things dachshund!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I then give them clues about the friend. After many guesses I show them the puppet inside and the puppet talks about the book how he works hard everyday to make his muscles stronger. He also introduces the word "stamina"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Once your class is gathered back on the carpet, you will begin your mini-lesson. Once your mini-lesson is complete, then you check in again and your kiddos will choose a daily they haven't done already. In the first couple of week we don't have our routine established, but once we have routine, this is when I teach my phonics lesson for the day. This should be a short lesson, about twenty minutes. Here are <a href="http://sprinklestokindergarten.blogspot.com/search/label/Alphabet">previous post</a>s about my letter activities from my store that I use. Click Letter Pp to get it for free!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: green;"><span style="color: #3399ff;"><b>10:25 - Daily Five<br />10:45 - 11:15 - <a href="http://sprinklestokindergarten.blogspot.com/search/label/Writer%27s%20Workshop">Writer's Workshop</a><br />11:15 - 11:30 - Story Time/<a href="http://sprinklestokindergarten.blogspot.com/2016/06/figure-19-lets-figure-it-out.html">Figure 19 Strategies</a><br />11:30 - 12:00 - Lunch<br />12:10 - 12:25 - Recess<br />12:25 - 1:35 - Calendar Math/Whole Group Math<br />1:35 - 1:50 - Recess<br />1:50 - 2:05 - Math Stations<br />2:05 - 2:35 - Science<br />2:35 - 2:55 Social Studies/Snack Time<br />3:00 - Dismissal</b></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">We had a wonderful week celebrating the Earth! We kicked off the week learning about the 3 R's - Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle - with Brainpop Jr's clip:</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">To understand the 3 R's we spent a day on each one. To learn about REDUCE we discussed all of the ways we already reduce the energy and water we use. My cuties loved knowing they already knew ways they could help our Earth!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Before we read it I asked my little what it means to "be green". There answers were hilarious! If you want a good laugh just ask your little this!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This book really makes littles aware of how the Earth is suffering and what we can do everyday to help the Earth. There is even information about the Arctic melting, which affects the polar bears. My class is so upset about it that we decided we would do a play as a fundraiser for Polar Bears International. We chose <a href="https://www.heidisongs.com/collections/primary-plays/products/the-story-of-the-wide-mouthed-frog">Wide Mouth Frog</a> from HeidiSongs because it's about animals.</span></span></span></div>
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<br />Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505247673414981429noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3280041187534911377.post-54323464833966637712017-03-03T16:44:00.001-06:002017-03-03T17:17:51.117-06:00The Wedding of Q and U!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">To kick off the week we read <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Wedding-of-Q-and-U-128393">Growing Kinders</a> book about Alphabetland and Q and U, then sorted pictures that do and don't begin with the chunk qu.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Later in the week we created a wedding gift for Q and U - a quilt filled with things that begin with the chunk qu.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This year I have started using Adobe Spark to create a way for families to learn about the different parts of our day. The first one I made was about our<a href="https://spark.adobe.com/video/SJqv7lri"> Morning Message</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Today's video for my families was about <a href="https://spark.adobe.com/video/rJE8LfDs">Daily Five</a>.</span></span></div>
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<br />Ericahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07505247673414981429noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3280041187534911377.post-84517692329901347592016-07-31T16:19:00.001-05:002016-07-31T16:19:28.697-05:00STEM Our Learning of FablesBefore my littles left for summer break, we spent a month on fables, with a focus on one each week. Now since this unit coincided with the last month of school, I didn't snap as many pics as I would have hoped. These little units made for some fun enrichment, cooperative learning and a break from our normal routine, which allowed me to also finish up end of the year assessments. <br />
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Our first fable was The Three Little Pigs. There is so much you can do with this fable and my littles never wanted the fun to end. Let me start by saying one thing I loved about this unit was the many different versions of each book. This makes for such fun retelling! To work on retelling, we built the setting of The Three Little Pigs.</div>
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The sets were used to retell the story. We used masks that I made from poster board and some masks from Lakeshore that I received through Donors Choose.<br />
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The Big Bad Wolf had a day of fun with us as well. We huffed and puffed life the Big Bad Wolf with some wolf straws. My cuties drew a house on paper and then attached a straw to a wolf face and blew water droplets on the house.</div>
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For a fun STEM challenge, we built houses to protect our pigs. We even wore construction hats!<br />
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Our pigs were from this pack of counters from Lakeshore.<br />
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Then the Big Bad Wolf (my blow dryer) came to try and blow down the houses. I asked the littles to test their houses before the Big Bad Wolf came, so they all blew on them and fixed things as needed. When the Wolf showed up, all of the houses stood! My littles learned it's important to test and rethink our work sometimes to make it better. <br />
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Another social learning activity we did was inspired by <a href="http://sprinklestokindergarten.blogspot.com/2016/06/student-created-graphs.html">this</a> math lesson about surveys and graphs and this book:<br />
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My littles loved to survey their friends around the room about who's story they believed - the wolf or the pigs. This video is pretty cute of their surveys!<br />
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Another fable we studied was The Three Billy Goats Gruff.<br />
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We also created bridges for the goats to cross over the river in partner groups for a little STEM project. We used the goats from the same pack of farm animal counters from Lakeshore.<br />
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Our last fable was Goldilocks and the Three Bears. I did not get pics at all because this was the next to the last week and we had so many things to finish up and graduation to prepare for, so, alas, this is my only pic of a project we did for beginning, middle, and end. They turned out pretty cute and my littles loved making their own Goldilocks and 3 Bears however they wanted to for this project.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hiya peeps! I hope summertime has been treating you well! I have been trying to get all of my ducks in a row for the new school year while also enjoying the sun and the pool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's about to get busy, though! My sweet sister-in-law, Dayna, is about to get married on July 10! It's going to be a busy time for our family, but filled with HUGE blessings as our family grows. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you're a Texas teacher, I'm sure you've heard about Figure 19 in our state standards. If you aren't from Texas - Figure 19 is our metacognitive reading skills in both assigned and independent reading to understand an author’s message. It's like an amendment to our Language Arts standards (TEKS) to help students read more complex texts as they become self-directed, critical readers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This can seem intimidating in our kinder land of fun. Sometimes reading these standards can make my skin prickle like a hedgehog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But I have also seen my littles accomplish these standards with some different strategies I introduced to them. THEY CAN DO ANYTHING! I truly believe this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I wanted to break down each standard and show some strategies and share some freebies to make these standards teachable in (hopefully) engaging ways for your littles. One element of learning that helped us was my four comprehension Beanie Babies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These 4 babies really helped my babies. I even have puppets of them for our whole group area to help with their different areas of comprehension. (Rocky the Raccoon was absent the day I took this pic.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These puppets stay at my easel all day, but my littles always have permission to play with them in the puppet stand at the end of the day for social learning. They take such great care of them and even use them to ask each comprehension questions. Who says play isn't learning?!?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also have them located at my guided reading table. They're attached with velcro so I can change the board for each groups' needs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can get this set for $3 in <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Strategies-with-Beanie-Babies-1316481">my shop</a>. Now onto breaking down each standard...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is also a great time to introduce the vocabulary word 'inference' to young learners. I love when my littles start saying "I infer the book will be about ____ because the cover shows _____" or "I infer the book will be about ____ because I saw ____ in my book walk". Be still my heart! They really do this stuff!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One way I introduce inferring to my young learners is with this anchor chart:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love to remake this anchor chart using pictures of my kiddos as a detective and reading a book during Read to Self. Just a little tip...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On a side note about inferring - it's used all day! I use my mystery box in science all the time to introduce new topics of learning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I found this method made my kinder cuties feel so successful in retelling any fiction story. After I modeled it for about a week, I let my kiddos make their own retell ribbon. Grab it <a href="http://teacherweb.com/TX/Copperfield/MrsCrowder/Retell-Ribbon.pdf">here</a> from my website! Students just cut the pictures and glued them in order on a strip of construction paper. We keep these in our book boxes all year to retell during Read to Self. We also pull them out frequently after a read aloud to retell the story with our floor friends.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We also use Jabber the Reteller to retell stories. He flies out after a story in a very parrot-like voice and says "Time to retell, time to retell". Puppets make 5 year olds so happy! My littles also make a Jabber to take home for retelling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Spinner told us we made a web by connecting the yarn. We then learned that we can make connections in reading. Introducing Text to Self is the EASIEST because children LOVE to talk about themselves. I just made sure as they made connections they would state "I have a text to self connection. This story reminds me of ___". They really do this! It's 100% adorable and so stinkin' smart! Then we introduce Text to Text by comparing two stories we are familiar with like Pete stories or folk tales. My cuties love to see Spinner the Spider emerge to ask them to make connections.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was contacted by Nina at Inspired to Educate to share their website on my little blog. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"> Inspired to Educate is </span><span style="background-color: white;">a program designed to recognize and praise educators and the people who inspired them. Each month they will award $2,000 to someone who shares their story -- $1,000 to the person for their professional development and $1,000 for their educational institution.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have two teachers that inspired me from high school. The first one was my AP Chemistry teacher, Marsha Johnson. She made chemistry so fun that I majored in it in college for my first semester. (I bet you can guess what I changed it to after chemistry.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now let me tell you, this class was HARD! She had a way of teaching that made it fun and truly come alive. She also built strong relationships with all of her students. We all felt safe to try in our experiments and make mistakes. After all...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mrs. Johnson also provided us with amazing opportunities. Our AP Chemistry class was accepted to work at NASA thanks to her application to help us get there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have many, many fond memories of Marsha Johnson because she did WHATEVER it took to help us learn and provided us with amazing opportunities to learn. She inspires me to do these things in my kindergarten classroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thank you Marsha Johnson!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">My other inspiration was my French teacher, Isabelle Canard. Mrs. Canard is the reason I love to travel and have done many international mission trips to serve others in need. I always wanted to learn French and was so excited to be in Mrs. Canard's French class for three years. She made learning French a wonderful experience. Looking back, I can see her commitment to teaching and to the students in her classroom. Because of her commitment, I was inspired by her to not only learn French, but to also see there is more to the world than Texas. I loved to hear her stories of going to France and living there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mrs. Canard's excellent instruction to teach me French gave me confidence to go to France in 2003 on a mission trip to work in Marseilles remodeling a youth center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">The French I learned form Mrs. Canard helped me so much to communicate with locals in Marseilles. I was also blessed to go to Paris and see the Eiffel Tower. I had dreamed of doing this for years. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">This started a strong desire to see the world and serve others. I worked at an orphanage in Peru in 2014.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">I also went on a Medical Mission to Zambia in 2015. I worked in children's ministry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thank you Isabelle Canard!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">One more thing about Mrs. Canard is that her daughter, Gabby, student taught under me last year in kindergarten! It was so awesome to teach Mrs. Canard's daughter. She did an incredible job!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">(Mrs. Canard and her daughter, Gabby)</span></div>
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