tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-67555296332361406862024-03-14T05:44:54.718-04:00Kroger's KindergartenKrogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-19218434615511862832016-01-22T17:38:00.000-05:002016-01-22T17:38:57.737-05:00Sparkling Sentences<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We are enjoying a rare (half) snowday in the south. My kids were very
hyped up this morning knowing that we were getting out at noon in order
to get home before the weather moved in. I decided to pull out some
winter activities I had been trying to get to all week to keep them
occupied.<br />
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We have been talking a lot about using
adjectives in our writing to describe things. Today I told them they
would be writing sentences that sparkled! They were instantly intrigued
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On an anchor chart (which I of course didn't
take any pictures of) I wrote some "boring" sentences about winter. "I
like snow. Look at the snowman. I see a penguin. It is winter" ect.<br />
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I showed them how I could add some "sparkle" to my sentences and
brought in some adjectives. "Snow is cold and it is crunchy under my
feet" I wrote the adjectives in blue marker so they really stood out.<br />
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I told them they were going to write me some sentences about winter and
add adjectives to really make their sentences sparkle.<br />
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had them write their adjectives in blue crayon, and then we painted
over them with white glue and added some clear glitter and *gasp*
sparkling sentences!<br />
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It's kind of hard to see the sparkle in the picture, but it's there :) <br />
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This was so simple, but they kids absolutely loved it. And now I can tell them for the rest of the year that I want to see some "sparkly sentences" :)<br />
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If you want to grab the writing paper you can click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B81lWh5DUH8ANHY3ajFDOU1vVlU/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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At the very end of the day we also had a snowball fight. This was so.much.fun.<br />
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I got the original idea from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Snow-Much-Fun-Mutli-Digit-Addition-2279388" target="_blank">this</a> freebie pack from <a href="http://www.teachersclubhouse.com/" target="_blank">The Teacher's Clubhouse</a><br />
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I modified the activity slightly to use with my kiddos because they weren't ready for 3 digit numbers, and I made up my own pages. We went over some ground rules, and then set off throwing snowballs and then running back to the white boards to decompose some 2 digit numbers.<br />
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After a few rounds of this, I had them use this same expanded form notation to match up with a partner and start adding their 2 numbers together. (This is an old pic - not from today, but it shows the method we use for beginning 2 digit addition)<br />
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<br />The kids blew me away with their math talk and cooperative learning, and it was a really fun way to channel their snow excitement!!<br />
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I hope all my northern friends stay safe and warm in this weather!! Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-89301254006972330152015-11-11T21:24:00.001-05:002015-11-11T21:29:26.528-05:00Turkey Tens Game (FREEBIE)Happy Wednesday friends!! I just wanted to stop by real quick to share this fun game we played in my room today.<br />
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Turkey Tens!<br />
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All you need is the turkey board, some counters, and some dice. On their
turn, a student rolls 4 dice (using FOUR dice was super exciting) and tries to put any combination of dice
together to make 10. If they can make 10, they put their counter on a
turkey feather. If they can't make ten, their turn is over and the next
player rolls the 4 dice. (If they could make 10 twice in one roll - like they roll
5, 5, 6, 4 I let them put 2 counters on!)<br />
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When they fill the turkey, the person who has the most turkey feathers covered wins!<br />
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<br />Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-26078893647410420342015-09-14T21:45:00.000-04:002015-09-14T21:45:29.309-04:00Number bondsWe have been rockin and rollin in first grade math so far this year. One of the first things I do when we hit our addition chapter in our math book is pull out the number bonds. This is such a great way to see who has an understanding of part-part-whole from Kindergarten and also a great way to teach it if that foundation isn't already there. We've been using the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Guiding-Firsties-Math-Workshop-BUNDLE-1283532" target="_blank">Guiding Firsties Math Units by Deanna Jump and Deedee Wills</a> (which I absolutely LOVE) and they come along with some great math mats including these number bonds and related facts. <br />
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Please excuse the glare on these pictures, I was using my phone :)<br />
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The first thing I had them do was to give everyone a whole and have them show me different ways to break that whole into parts. We used 2 color counters to show different parts. (Somehow I didn't manage to get a picture of this step)<br />
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After they were comfortable with that, I gave everyone dice and we started rolling to make parts and wholes. First I had them roll 2 dice to be the parts, and add them together to get their whole. Then they wrote a corresponding number sentence on the number bond.<br />
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Next I had them pick a whole, roll 1 dice to make 1 part, and use counters or count on to find the other part. This was a little more tricky, but these guys had such a great sense of numbers and comfort using number bonds from their Kindergarten classes that they breezed right through!<br />
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After a day of playing with our number bonds and exploring part part whole from a variety of different angles, we started talking about "related facts" and we moved onto this mat:<br />
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We are getting ready to start adding 3 numbers later this week and I'm going to pull out these mats. (You can read about how we used them last year in <a href="http://krogerskindergarten.blogspot.com/2014/09/3-digit-addition.html" target="_blank">this post</a>)</div>
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<br />Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-4700832989344084762015-07-20T12:37:00.002-04:002015-07-20T12:37:20.396-04:00Classroom Must Haves<img alt="Screen Shot 2015 07 20 at 12 12 50 PM" border="0" height="270" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-rTjJMncvCnc/Va0eGcq2XuI/AAAAAAAADBU/QVvZneAhZBs/Screen%252520Shot%2525202015-07-20%252520at%25252012.12.50%252520PM.png?imgmax=800" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Screen Shot 2015-07-20 at 12.12.50 PM.png" width="364" /><br /> <br /> <span style="font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me';">I have finally stopped fighting my "back to school brain" from kicking into gear. I haven’t actually set foot in my classroom yet, but my brain is buzzing with that familiar hum of ideas and inspiration and motivation and excitement that usually starts coming around for me in the last part of July. Today I'm</span><span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me';"> linking up with <a href="http://freebie-licious.blogspot.com/">Freebielicous</a> to talk about some of my "MUST HAVES" in the classroom. There are, of course, many more than this, but here’s a few of my favorites that truly make my life easier every day. </span></span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me'; font-size: 24px;"> I absolutely LOVED having these table drawers last year!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me'; font-size: 24px;">They were kind of a last minute, right before school, crazy thought that I had and I am SO glad I implemented them. My day was so much more efficient. The storage situation in my room is less than ideal, and I spent WAY less time handing out and putting away materials.</span></div>
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<br /> <br /><span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me'; font-size: 24px;"> The top drawer was filled with various math manipulatives that we used on a regular basis. The middle drawer housed our clip boards and folders for reading centers and the bottom drawer held our reading series readers and workbooks. </span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me'; font-size: 24px;"> Even though I didn't use a drawer to hold these supply caddies I thought it was good to know that they fit inside perfectly.</span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me'; font-size: 24px;"> I had colored dots on the desks at each table which made it easy for me to just call out "Red dots take out the dice." "Blue dots put the counters away." ect. The kids really took ownership of those little mini jobs and for the most part transitions and material distribution worked like a dream in my room. </span><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me'; font-size: 24px;"> Along with the table drawers another must have for efficiency during the day is my colored table baskets.</span><br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: 24px;"> <span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me';">We use these baskets for so many things....for turning papers in, for papers or materials I want to distribute but I don't want actually in the students hands just yet, for math maniputlatives during centers or games, and for holding craft pieces.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me'; font-size: 24px;">The baskets work perfectly with the table drawers in the middle of my tables because the materials can be very easily accessible to the students without taking up valuable desk space from anyone. I found a set of 6 colors in the Target dollar spot a few years ago and they have held up great!</span><br />
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<p><span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me'; font-size: 24px;">I wanted to share a favorite math warmup activity in my room! My first graders love these "number mysteries". They can't get enough of them. The concept is simple. I give the students "clues" about the math mystery and they need to fill in the grid to "solve the mystery". </span><br /><br /></p>
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<p><br /><span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me'; font-size: 24px;">The numbers in each row/column need to add up to the clues on the notebooks at the end of that row/column. Generally I only give them the clues on the outside of the grid, but occasionally I give them a few numbers on the inside as well (as either an added challenge, or as an extra support - it could go either way). After a student has solved a number mystery, they partner up with a friend to check each other. Obviously there was a little bit of fact checking to be done on this one :)</span><br /><br /><br /></p>
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<p><br /><span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me'; font-size: 24px;">After a while of doing these, the students always want to make up their own mysteries to give to their friends. I teach them to fill in the grid first, add up the rows and columns to get the clues on the outside of the grid, and then erase the numbers inside the grid and have a friend solve. They get such a kick out of making the mysteries themselves!!</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me'; font-size: 24px;">In the number mysteries pack I have given you 3 levels of mats student and teacher mats, and for each level I started you off with 18 sample mysteries (but you can easily make your own up-- just be sure not to make an addition error and accidentally give your entire class an unsolvable mystery!! Been there, done that!)</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me'; font-size: 24px;">You can grab this pack in my store by clicking on the picture below.</span><br /><br /></p>
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<p><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me'; font-size: 24px;"> This product is so simple to use, just print the pages you want and send your kiddos off with some dice. You can also slide the pages into a sheet protector and use expo markers (I'm ALL about saving some copy "clicks"). Here are a few examples of the pages in this pack:</span><br /> <br /> </p>
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<p><span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me'; font-size: 24px;">I'm going to put this product on sale this week to celebrate the "new look". Click on the picture below to go find it in my TPT store.</span><br /> </p>
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<p><br /> <br /><span style="font-family: 'KG Part of Me'; font-size: 24px;"> Go check out <a href="http://sparklinginsecondgrade.blogspot.com/2015/06/tpt-seller-challenge-week-1-makeover.html" target="_blank">Sparkling in Second's post</a> to see lots of other bloggers who are participating in this week's challenge and find some other products getting a face lift this week :)</span><br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> </p>Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-9644009514249188572015-03-02T20:51:00.001-05:002016-06-01T14:15:06.821-04:00Worksheets Don't Grow Dendrites: brainstorming, discussion, and art!**Note: Please excuse the look of my blog at the moment...I'm trying to figure out where my design went!!** <br />
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I'm so so so excited to be diving into this book and go through this book study with so many amazing bloggers! Making learning more engaging and meaningful for my kids is such a huge passion for me. I was really struck by the first strategy "Brainstorm and Discussion". The poem at the very start of the chapter was so true and so telling. "They can't talk in class, they can't talk in the hall, they can't talk in the cafeteria, they can't talk at all!" Yet, as the book says, teachers and talking at every chance they get. But we often have a habit of shushing rather than encouraging discussions between our students. As I was reading this chapter I was simultaneously thinking of all the ways I already utilize discussion and all and the same time all the opportunities I am missing to bring even more discussion and collaboration into our everyday routine.<br />
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As many others have noted, my kids LOVE to talk. They are so so chatty, and of course many times I find myself trying to stifle the "mindless chatter". I think that my biggest takeaway from the whole chapter is to make it a point to find ways to channel their natural inclination to communicate with each other and turn that into better learning opportunities.<br />
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While I know I can improve in this area, we do utilize discussion and collaboration at various times in our day. Anyone who follows me on <a href="https://instagram.com/krogerskindergarten/" target="_blank">Instagram</a> knows that I am obsessed with Number Talks in my classroom. Every day we gather together to discuss ways to solve various problems. We talk about different strategies to solve a single problem and as they are talking I am writing down their explanations. We end up with a white board that looks like this.<br />
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After we have shared a few strategies with the whole group, I have them turn to an elbow partner (or 2) and discuss how they solved the problem. They get just as excited about finding someone who solved it a different way as they get finding someone who solved it the same way as them.<br />
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Number talk time is easily one of my kids' favorite times of day. Many of them
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Another favorite in my room is our I Spy games. I have some of these games for all the phonics patterns that we go through over the course of the year. I give an I Spy Board to teams of 2 students. To start the game, I give them a "clue" as to what word I am looking for. So I will say "This is something you can eat.." or "This might be in your house.." or "This is a verb.." and the partners discuss the clue, and read together to find the words that might fit the riddle.<br />
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After a few rounds, I have the teams work together to come up with a list of "clues". After everyone has their clues they hook up with another team to share clues and solve each others riddles. I love this game because not only is everyone engaged in reading words using the phonics pattern of the week, there is a lot of collaboration and critical thinking involved in coming up with the clues. <br />
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I've been really loving using STEM challenges this year in my room also. (There are some great resources out on TPT!) One of my favorites all year was at Thanksgiving when they had to Mayflowers that would float and not let the Pilgrims (marshmallows) drown. I sat at my table with the "ocean" and when teams thought they were ready we tried to float across the ocean. I just loved hearing their discussions and problem solving as their boats sprung leaks, toppled over, or sunk straight to the bottom. </div>
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(Find this pack on TPT <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanksgiving-Science-A-Feast-of-Five-Fun-Investigations-K-3-1538831" target="_blank">here</a>)<br />
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I'm really inspired to bring collaboration and discussion into more areas of learning.<br />
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I really loved strategy 2: Drawing and Artwork. I saw a facebook post today from someone venting her frustration about times when people generalize any crafts in the classroom as "fluff". I wanted to stand up and cheer. There is SO much value in artistic expression for all people especially for little people! One of my favorite things to do in my classroom is to just hand my students construction paper and say "make a pumpkin" or "make a penguin" or "make a Christmas tree". I love to see their brains working as they figure out how to take a sheet of paper and cut it down to make whatever they are making. The first few times I do it they always look at me like "uh, where's my tracer? What the heck am I supposed to do??" but with a little prompting they just start exploring and trying and in the end come up with awesome crafts. Here's a pic of some penguins I had my kids made this way a few years back. No tracers or patterns or examples, just paper and their own imaginations (...and some die cut eyes haha). I just love how they each end up with their own personalities :) <br />
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I recently had a classroom experience that related perfectly to this chapter. I will admit that when making a craft with a writing project, while I to like to give them freedom, I almost always have them write first and then do the art part. I'm just gonna be real with yall this is part habit and part manipulation to get my reluctant writers to do some work so they can do the craft when they are done. However, purely by accident, I had an epiphany.<br />
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In January we were doing a writing response to the book "Snowmen at Night". My plan was to have them write about what their snowman did at night and how it messed up his/her clothes and pieces, and then make a snowman that showed a hat askew or an arm out of place. (I'm pretty sure I got this idea from the fabulous <a href="http://plantspress.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Vickie Plant</a> last year). Well, this was one of those Monday mornings where I was printing the paper (yes I have a classroom printer - such a gift!) while I was reading the story. Well, that gift of a printer decided to jam itself up so well that I needed outside assistance, so I decided to let them make the snowmen first and then do the writing after. Yall, I was AMAZED at how much their creativity came out through doing the artwork BEFORE the writing. The stories of their snowmen that they created were so detailed and intricate because they were focused on MAKING the snowmen with the materials rather than having to get through writing the story. When it came time to write, they had some AMAZING stories that they were SO excited to write. I mean some of my most reluctant writers wrote the most amazing things!!<br />
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It was in that moment that I realized how much tapping into their artistic side brought out their creativity in a new way. Not only did they come up with more interesting stories, they were REALLY excited to get their stories written down. I really got a new understanding of the importance of artistic expression. When I read the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0325028559/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0325028559&linkCode=as2&tag=krogeskinde-20&linkId=HQFPUIK4K5SL757Q">In Pictures and In Words</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com/e/ir?t=krogeskinde-20&l=as2&o=1&a=0325028559" height="1" style="border: currentColor; margin: 0px;" width="1" />
a few years ago and it changed my writing workshop world, I really came to understand how allowing students the freedom to get their thoughts out in words can really tap into their creativity and create better writers. But somehow that knowledge never fully transferred over in my head to actual cut and glue crafting. Nothing about that craft was "fluff" and that writing lesson would have been nowhere near as meaningful for many of my kids if we had just done a written response to the book without the art component. It really changed a lot about they way I approach using art in my room.<br />
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really owned them as their own and because of that they were awesome to
me. (BTW: Don't get me wrong, I love cute crafts just as much as the next teacher!! I'm totally not hating on cute crafts at all!)<br />
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This snowman went dancing and her hat slid off...<br />
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The last thing that really struck me from this project was how much the students loved sharing their snowmen with their friends. I made a note to try to remember to give them more opportunities to share their artwork one on one with their peers. This will let them not only share their point of view but also see how their friends completed the same projects - more collaboration and discussion!!</div>
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Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-11173566372016036352015-02-19T22:01:00.001-05:002015-02-21T08:18:24.969-05:00"What do teachers learn at teacher school?"Last week I was out of the room for 2 days to see the fabulous<a href="http://kindergals.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"> Kim Adsit</a> present!! If you ever get a chance to take a workshop with her go do it!! I'm still reading through all my notes and riding on the inspiration I got from 2 days with her :)<br />
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I generally tell the kids when I know I will be out of the room, and once a year I like to keep my whereabouts a secret and have the kids guess where they think I am as a writing prompt.<br />
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This time I decided to tell them I went to "teacher school" and the sub had them write about what they thought I was learning. Their responses and pictures were HILARIOUS. I was cracking up when I got back to school.<br />
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"She needs to learn how to draw" (True story)<br />
"She needs to learn not to forget to print things" HA!!<br />
"She should learn Social Studies so she can teach it" (My partner teacher teaches SS)<br />
LOTS of them said I was learning about Number Talks.<br />
"She's learning to count to a million"<br />
"She should give us less sugar"(What?? When do I ever give them sugar??)<br />
"I hope she is learning more math games"<br />
"She needs to learn to give harder spelling tests"<br />
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The pictures were so funny!!<br />
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My partner teacher at I at our desks :)<br />
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Me trying to do math and apparently getting pretty stressed about it!<br />
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I just really loved getting to see their thoughts and perspective on what they think teachers learn/should learn at school. If you want to grab some writing paper to use the next time you go to "teacher school" you can download it <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B81lWh5DUH8Aamk5aFY0aDFuUzg/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<br />Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-84674328264305536952015-01-30T22:38:00.001-05:002015-02-25T12:51:32.698-05:00Snowman StoreHi friends! I wanted to stop in and share this great activity we did this week in math. We had so much fun with this and there were SO MANY great math skills being practiced all at once. <br />
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Last week I saw this post on Instagram and immediately my head started buzzing with ideas. A snowman store where the kids buy all the pieces that they need to build a snowman?? LOVE.IT. We have been working with money the last few weeks and I decided that
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My teaching assistant donated a TON of real coins to the classroom a few years ago so the kids get to learn with real money which they absolutely love!<br />
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To prep the stores I just cut up some carrot noses, hats, earmuffs, scarves, sticks and a bunch of buttons and coal. I also used die-cut circles for the snowballs. <br />
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Over the last few years I have been acquiring these circle punches in various sizes. They work perfectly for eyes, and various other craft pieces. These were perfect for the coal, buttons and earmuffs.<br />
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There are a ton of different ways you can set this up but this is what worked for my class:<br />
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I projected the price list up on the starboard. <br />
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I split my class into 2 groups - buyers and sellers. We have 6 tables in our room so I had 3 tables of buyers and 3 tables of sellers. I had each buyer table go to a specific seller table so everyone always had a task. </div>
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The buyers had to buy 1 piece at a time for their snowman. They chose the piece to buy, checked the board to see how much that piece cost, and gathered the correct amount of money. </div>
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I wanted the sellers to get some practice with making change so I made the rule that the buyers could NOT use pennies to buy. This rule also made the buyers had to really think about coin values so for example if they wanted to buy a scarf for 7 cents they had to pay with 10 cents and the seller had to give them 3 cents back. </div>
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Each time the buyers bought a piece, they took it back to their desk and recorded how much that item cost them. This was opportunity for some more great math skills as many of the times were bought in multiples so for example, they had to figure out how much 4 buttons cost at 2 cents per button. <br />
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I just loved hearing all of the math talk going on while they were buying and making change for each other. When 1 group had finished buying all the pieces for their snowmen I had all the buyers put their pieces into a plastic bag to store while we switched up. Then all the buyers became sellers and the sellers became buyers. When we finished the second round everyone got to glue their snowmen together.</div>
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The next day, we went back and counted up how much money they spent in all. I gave everyone back their snowman, a recording sheet, and a coin mat. (Please excuse the terrible lighting on this phone pic!)</div>
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First they put the correct amount of money in the box for each item bought Then it was time to count. My kids are doing really great at this point at counting up large numbers of mixed coins so I decided to add a bit more of a challenge. We watched the Brainpop Jr lesson on equivalent coins and I told them I wanted them to get their money down to the smallest number of coins that they could before counting up their spending total. After they had filled their mat with the cost of each item, they started trading in coins for larger coins. When they couldn't trade in anymore, they counted up their spending total and recorded it.</div>
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Finally I had them compare spending totals with a friend and discuss why their totals were different. Again, there was some really great math talk going on as they discussed why their totals were different and compared what they spent their money on. </div>
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I absolutely loved this activity. I'll admit, it was loud and a seemingly chaotic but everyone was really engaged and practicing a ton of math skills in the process. </div>
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He said "We can all pick a number and write all the different combinations on the points of the snowflakes! And then we can hang them up around the room!!" I thought it was a great idea and we made them that afternoon! <br />
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When you are making snowflakes and you fold the paper enough to make it look like a pizza pie it's not hard to know where to hold and where to cut, but I wanted these ones to have a specific shape and number of points so I had them fold the paper into quarters. I gave everyone a sticker on one corner of their folded paper and put a sticker on the same corner of the tracer. This way everyone knew exactly where to place the tracer on the paper so we all got actual snowflakes and not random cut apart pieces of paper. <br />
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After everyone cut out their snowflakes I had them pick a teen number to use. We are getting really good with our facts to 10 and are working on facts to 20. Some students needed some extra support with the use of some counters and a number bond in order to make the 4 different combinations.<br />
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When they had come up with their 4 combinations on a white board I let them place them on their snowflakes. They matched the marker colors and placed the numbers for each combination on opposite points of the snowflakes.<br />
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By some horrible mistake I found myself VERY low on white construction paper (in the middle of January!) so we had a lot of blue snowflakes ha! After they had written all of their number combinations, we folded the snowflakes back up (with the number side out) and cut holes in the middle to add some more interest.<br />
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This was such a fun and easy way to practice some math facts and I just loved the fact that it was a student's idea!!<br />
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We are diving head first into some penguin research this week. I hope yall have a great week!!Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-16799777953472703812015-01-18T17:58:00.004-05:002015-02-21T08:22:17.202-05:00Hot Chocolate Math Freebie!Happy Sunday friends!!<br />
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I just wanted to share a game we played in math centers this week that was a huge hit. We are still working on becoming fluent with those math facts so I made this quick little game for them. This was a good mix of skills because it encouraged quick recall of facts, decomposing and some missing addend practice all in one game.<br />
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This can be played in pairs or groups of 3 (I have an odd number of students this year). Each student gets a board, a spinner, and a set of hot chocolate cards.<br />
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This is one of my favorite tricks from my early years of teaching. I've been fairly limited on copy counts and laminating in the last few years so I really try to limit the copies that I use for centers. I generally have a lot of games and recording sheets in sheet protectors. A few years ago someone dumped a BUNCH of old binders in the teachers lounge and we hit the jackpot. Unfortunately the actual binder rings were busted but somehow we got the idea to cut off the covers and turn them into dry erase boards.<br />
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While I use a lot of sheet protectors as well, these binder covers are great because they are sturdy and keep the paper that you slide into them nice and neat (so many times when I pull papers or even card stock out of sheet protectors in a center they are all wrinkly from the wear and tear of little hands). <br />
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Papers slide easily in and out of these covers. I've added some washi tape to some of mine to add a little bit of pizazz.<br />
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Easy peasy right?? They work great for playdoh mats, spinners, game boards, dry erase boards, or recording sheets for centers.<br />
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We have been working for a few weeks on 2 digit numbers. Last week we played a lot with adding and taking away tens and ones. We used these turkey mats to practice adding tens to a number. Some students used the base ten blocks and others skipped right past that step and just added the tens right on the feathers. It was a great way for me to see different students' levels of comfort with this concept.<br />
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After some practice using the math mats I let them pick a number and make their own turkey. These guys were a big hit :) <br />
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You can grab the mats and turkey craft in my Turkey Tens pack.<br />
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We've also been building and manipulating 2 digit numbers with our number cards. I have a big blog post in the works about all the ways we use these cards so stay tuned for that ;) <br />
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Today we finished our "How To Cook a Turkey" writing and made these cute turkeys. I always love doing this writing every year the steps to cook a turkey are always hilarious. My favorite one of all time was last year "First, get in the car and go to Grandma's. Second, eat Turkey". <br />
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And now it's another early bedtime Monday for me!! Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-7434257923764727492014-10-27T22:00:00.002-04:002015-02-21T08:23:34.868-05:00Making ten with pumpkin seedsLook at me blogging twice in one week! AND it's a Monday. I deserve some sort of prize haha. We have been up to our ears in pumpkins in my room since last week. My students are always more engaged in learning when I have a specific theme for the week (or in this case weeks) but this year's class REALLY gets into our themes. It's so fun :)<br />
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I just wanted to share this cute little game we made to practice our making 10 facts. My kids are getting really good at this skill but we definitely still need practice so we assembled this game at school and then they will take it home to play with their families. I made an <a href="http://krogerskindergarten.blogspot.com/2013/09/jumping-into-fall-with-some-freebies.html" target="_blank">apple version</a> of this game last year and it was a huge hit!<br />
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First we sponge painted some small paper plates and let them dry. I gave them each a full plate and a plate cut in half. It works much better if you can find the plates that have the raised rim.<br />
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(Quick side note: why is it so hard to find small paper plates these days?? Has anyone noticed that? The ONLY reason I had these was because a mom just HAPPENED to bring them in for me one morning after pulling "paper plates" off of our wishlist tree. I have been to Publix, Target, and Walmart and it always ends with me stomping out of the isle grumbling about how you can't buy a simple plate anymore and people staring at the strange lady having conversation with herself next to the cutlery. But seriously, what's with the lack of small, white, paper plates in stores? There are plenty of ones with the weird designs all over them but I can't paint on those! Am I the only one having this issue??)<br />
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Ok rant over. To make the pumpkins we painted the front of the full plate and the back of the half plate. That way when you staple them together it makes a nice little pocket for the seeds.<br />
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So after the plates were dry and stapled together, I gave the kids a sheet of seeds with numbers 0-10. They cut them out and glued the matches to 10 back to back.<br />
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To play the game, all the seeds go in the pocket and 1 player pulls out a seed. They look at the number and say the number that goes with that number to make 10. Then they check their answer on the back. If they were right, they can keep the seed. If they were wrong, they put the seed back in the pumpkin and the next player goes. Play continues until all the seeds are out. Easy peasy. <br />
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<br />Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-56383855188318499292014-10-24T22:58:00.002-04:002016-06-01T14:16:53.460-04:00Bats, Pumpkins, some freebies, and 1 tired teacher. Why is it that short weeks sometimes feel way longer than regular weeks? I just finished a marathon day of parent teacher conferences (15 min conferences from 8am to 8pm with a few meal breaks in between). By about 6:30 I had parents walking in saying "wow you look tired"--always a great thing to hear ha! <br />
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This week was kind of a mish mash as we were finishing our bat unit and staring to learn about pumpkins -- two of my favorite units to teach. The kids just soak it all up and I love it. <br />
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Our ceiling is currently filled with our fact and opinion bats.<br />
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My kids did great with this. We used a sorting activity from this awesome <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/A-week-of-Bats-Word-Work-Vocabulary-Math-Bins-Lesson-Plans-and-more-354825" target="_blank">bat unit</a> by Kristen Smith at <a href="http://www.adayinfirstgrade.com/" target="_blank">A Day in First Grade</a>. <br />
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Then they wrote their own facts and opinions and glued them to the bats. (I don't have the patterns for the bat bodies because of course I left my jump drive at school, but you can get the fact & opinion page <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B81lWh5DUH8AOGx6Tm9HQ2w2YkE/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>)<br />
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We also started working with base ten this week. I made<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B81lWh5DUH8AZlJ6OEZHZjZvaEE/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank"> these mats</a> with the numbers last year. This year I decided to add the grid for adding and subtracting 10 and 1. This is always such a hard concept so I wanted to make it very hands on this time around.<br />
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First we just played with building the number with the tens on one wing and the ones on the other. <br />
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After everyone was solid with building the numbers we moved on to using the whole mat. I had them pull a card and put it in the middle (funny fact: I made the cards last year, and without even thinking about measuring, I made the grid this year and it just so happened that the red cards fit PERFECTLY inside the grids haha. I love when things just work).<br />
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Anyway, I had them pull a red card and put it in the middle of the grid and then use the base ten blocks to model each step. So for adding one, they put another one on and wrote the number, then I kept telling them to always go back to the "red number" with their blocks before doing the next step.<br />
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This really helped them see the difference between adding and taking away 1 as compared to adding or subtracting 10. You can download the mats with the grids <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B81lWh5DUH8ASE1lWVlOLUpRVWM/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a> and the number cards are in the original bat mat file <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B81lWh5DUH8AZlJ6OEZHZjZvaEE/view" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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We finally started to talk about pumpkins yesterday. We've been working a lot on writing questions and statements so we made these little pumpkin patches to practice writing some questions AND activate our prior knowledge about pumpkins. <br />
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I'm such a sucker for these little "patches". I wrote a blog post on how to made the little pocket gardens <a href="http://krogerskindergarten.blogspot.com/2014/04/whats-growing-in-your-garden.html" target="_blank">here</a>. They just loved getting to move the pumpkins in and out of the patch when they were sharing their questions and pumpkin facts with each other. You can grab the page for the pumpkins and labels <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B81lWh5DUH8AYjc2TGFLY3NYY3M/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Finally we read Spookley The Square Pumpkin. Man I love this sweet little story. I had them write the problem, the solution, and then think of what their own solution to the problem would have been if they were Spookley. Then they made a SUPER simple Spookley (literally no cutting or tracing involved, I just cut up a bunch of squares, stems and some eyes haha). It's not the most creative craft in the world but I just adore some of the details in their drawings. <br />
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Her solution would have been to call for help--love the "illustration" hahaha. <br />
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And with that this tired teacher is ready to DROP. Time for some PJ's, my sofa and my trust Netflix account (Gilmore Girls here I come!!). Have a great weekend friends!!<br />
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Here's a few up close shots.<br />
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I love the little birdie :)<br />
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Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-67142714749984927812014-09-12T22:20:00.001-04:002015-02-21T08:26:54.568-05:00Adding 3 NumbersGosh I love math. I loved learning it in school and I LOVE teaching it!! Especially when lessons just work. This week we tackled 3 digit addition which is always a tough concept. When we came to this lesson I had flashbacks to beating my head against the wall last year trying to get my kids to understand so I decided to go hands on and made these math mats. <br />
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I had them use 3 different colors to represent each part. It really helped them understand that they were combining 2 parts and then adding the third one. (They also really loved sorting all their cubes into colors at their tables. One of my little boys just burst out "Oh I just LOVE sorting!!" haha). So first I gave them a problem and they set up their mat.<br />
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Next they chose 2 parts to combine, and wrote the number sentence on the bottom to represent the 2 parts they were adding next.<br />
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We did a few problems together and then I let them break out the dice. They rolled 3 dice, set up the problem and then went from there. The rolling of the dice instantly made it feel like a game and they were happily practicing for a good long time. <br />
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By the time we moved on to paper and pencil practice there were no tears (from me OR them), I didn't have 26 hands shooting up in the air, and pretty much everyone knocked it out in no time. Like I said I love math :)<br />
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You can download the mat <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B81lWh5DUH8AeU9Ia2NzUURNUFk/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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HAPPY FRIDAY FRIENDS!! :) I hope yall have a great weekend!!Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-79641526810487502742014-08-20T17:45:00.000-04:002015-02-21T08:27:50.599-05:00Getting organized!! <br />
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Happy Wednesday friends!! I'm linking up with the <a href="http://imbloghoppin.blogspot.com/2014/08/teacher-week-why-organization-free-item.html" target="_blank">Blog Hoppin</a>' peeps to share about organization! If you knew me (or saw my bedroom floor right now) you would laugh hysterically at that first sentence. But I have to say that in this, my 5th year of teaching, I am feeling the most organized and put together of any year yet! A huge part of that has to do with my absolute favorite addition to my classroom this year: Table Drawers!!<br />
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It all started late this summer when I saw this post from Katie King <a href="http://queenofthefirstgradejungle.blogspot.com/2014/07/back-to-school-pics-and-last-of.html" target="_blank">The Queen of First Grade Jungle</a>.<br />
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When I saw this picture I immediately thought it would be a great way to organize and manage some of my materials. Last year when I moved I went from a class of 18 with lots and lots of storage to 29 with a comparatively tiny amount of storage. I felt like I was constantly passing out and re-shelving materials (and I use the term "re-shelf" VERY loosely...it was mostly just me throwing baskets of counters and cubes on top of each other all over the place and then wandering around the next day trying to pass them back out to tables). These table drawers have been a perfect solution. Praise the LORD for my momma (and her crossover) coming to help me set up my classroom because 6 of these puppies were never ever ever going to fit in my teeny Honda on one (or even 2) trips from the store.<br />
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In the top drawer I have some math manipulatives that we use almost daily. There are counters, ten frames, linking cubes, base ten blocks and dice. (You'll notice 2 things: 1- I have a slight obsession with dollar store containers, and 2- all the dollar store bins fit PERFECTLY together in the drawer!)<br />
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We use a lot of these during whole group practice work but also during math centers. This week I realized that when I have kids at a center at our near a table, they can just go grab whatever counters or dice or materials they need from their drawer and then bring it back when they are done. That is cutting down BIG time on center prep for me<br />
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The bottom drawer holds some of our student readers for our reading series. Those things took up a huge amount of shelf space and again, a lot of "come get your books, now come put your books away" time. The middle drawer is sort of a "catch-all" right now. I'm waiting to see as the year goes on what I will want/need to keep in there. It will soon hold some of our journals (reading, math, poetry) and our math warmup cards (more on these soon!) I also discovered yesterday that it will hold one of these supply caddies if you need it to.<br />
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I opted to use the space for other things and keep the marker/glue caddies on another shelf, but it's good to know that they fit in there :)<br />
So if I'm not passing out 6 baskets of counters and cubes and dice all the time how are they getting out of the drawers? Enter the colored dots!<br />
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On each table, I gave each student a different colored dot. When I need them to get something out I just say "yellow dots get your dice" and they walk around and get the dice out for everyone. (A tip for those of you who don't have the same number of kids at a table - I have 3 tables of 4 and 3 tables of 5. The 5th color on those 3 tables is orange. When I ask Orange to do a job, they are taking care of their table and another assigned table. So far it's working great.) I just randomly call out colors throughout the day.<br />
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Update: Just today the kids started dictating colors to me "You called red twice today" "you haven't called yellow at ALL" so I made some sticks with colors on them and I randomly pull a stick. Arguements ceased.<br />
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I also really love these baskets on top of each drawer stack. I use them in a lot of different ways. Every morning they have their morning work sitting in there so it doesn't get lost in the shuffle of backpacks and homework and daily folders. Sometimes I pass out papers by throwing them in the basket. When we are done with work to be graded, I have them turn in the quizzes or tests into the baskets in number order, and then a colored dot brings the baskets to my table. I can also throw tracers and construction paper in there for crafts.<br />
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The best part about the baskets is they also seem to serve as some sort of invisible force field for my kids. When something is in the basket, it's out of sight out of mind. I can have them pull dice and counters out and put them in the basket, then explain the game and no one is messing with dice or playing with counters until I say "go". When they are done their whisper phones, but I haven't collected them back yet, if they are in the basket, nobody touches them. It's like they don't exist anymore. Then it's "green dots bring your whisper phones back to my basket on my table", the phones get put away and I'm halfway into the next activity. Sometimes I'm not ready to collect a certain item from the tables, and I can just leave them in the baskets without them getting in the way of kids desk space. <br />
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My other favorite organization tip from this year is what I call my "uh-oh" shelf (clearly it needs a better name!)<br />
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I didn't have a dedicated space for any of this stuff last year and it drove me nuts. Now when the kids have some sort of issue, almost everything can be solved here. I have wipes, plastic bags (we have a lot of make & take/cut out cards with our reading series), "hanitizer", bandaids, tissues and a "lost and found" for center pieces or other various found items. It's a one stop shop.<br />
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Hop back over to <a href="http://imbloghoppin.blogspot.com/2014/08/teacher-week-why-organization-free-item.html" target="_blank">Blog Hoppin</a> to see lots of other great organization tips and have a great rest of the week :)<br />
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<br />Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-35877757460191859222014-08-16T10:00:00.000-04:002015-02-21T08:28:38.775-05:00Ceiling RIbbons! (all grades).I'm really excited to share with you one of my favorite parts of my room....my ceiling ribbons.<br />
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I got this idea from my teammate and I absolutely love it! Above each of my tables I have 2-3 ribbons (depending on the size of the table) hanging down to display student work. The ribbon colors correspond to each table color and there are just enough that I can hang 2 kids' work from each ribbon.<br />
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I just love how it fills up the space in our room with student work, and the kids really love to be able to easily find their own completed project and also their friends'. It's also really great for parents to find of their child's work as soon as they walk in the room - sometimes that's even a good starting point for conference topics ;)<br />
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These are really easy to make. Each section of ribbon is 3 feet (most of the ribbon I have found comes in 3 or 4 yards so you can get 3 or 4 strips from each color - depending on what you need for each table). Roll about half an inch down on both sides and secure with hot glue. On
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On our ceilings, we have these rubber strips between our foam tiles. I just slide the paperclip in rubber strip and it stays great.<br />
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There you have it, a really easy, colorful way to liven up your classroom and display student work.<br />
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Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-15829877172392637852014-08-13T19:18:00.000-04:002015-02-21T08:29:04.994-05:00beat the teacher!Hey friends!! I am halfway through my first full week with my kiddos and I am TIIIIIRED but wow, I really love this year's bunch! I am so proud of how well they are doing already. We are going to have a great year!<br />
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I wanted to share with you one of my favorite games to play with my firsties. Before I started teaching 1st grade I had never done weekly spelling tests. At the start of last year was looking for a fun way to practice the words every week and I came across the idea for this game. I honestly have no memory of who told me about it or if it was even called "Beat The Teacher". Y'all, my kids were OBSESSED with this game. They begged to play it every morning (and it showed up on more than 1 list of favorite memories in our memory books at the end of the year). It has already become a class favorite this year as well. <br />
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The game is really simple. I give them a word and they write it in the middle of their white board. "Ready, set, go" and we all race to write the word in all 4 corners of the board. When you are finished you tap the end of your marker on your white board. If I win, I get the point. If a student wins, the class gets the point. So simple and so much fun! And let me tell you, I don't just LET them win. I am usually racing right along with them (the longer the word the harder the race for some reason)!<br />
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We would always play to 10 (we took it to 20 later in the year) and I kept a tally in the corner of our board to see where we were. This year I am using ten frames to track our progress (I'm all about sneak attack subitizing practice haha). The scoreboard actually was a great opportunity for some real world math talk. They were always discussing how far ahead the leader was, or how many more we each needed to get 10 or 20.<br />
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You can grab the scoreboard labels <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B81lWh5DUH8AbWgtNkNybGpNdHM/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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You could make the prize anything you want, but I always did stickers. For each game last year, I had a container filled with 28 stickers (one for every student). If they won, they each got a sticker, if I won I got all 28 stickers and wore them around all day. They thought that was pretty hilarious. On the match point I'd always say "This is for allllllll the stickers" and you could hear a pin drop in the room. The stakes were HIGH!<br />
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There are just 2 rules: You can't start early and your words have to be written neatly enough to be read. The starting early issue gets stopped pretty early because if you get caught cheating, I automatically got the point for the round. The rest of the class does NOT like that! Instant self policing!! It also didn't count if you wrote so fast that you can't read the words. (We usually do these on whiteboards with handwriting lines so that generally helps the neatness factor). <br />
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We play on our whiteboards but you could do this on a piece of paper and just write the word 4 times in a row. Recently I've been thinking up ways to use this to practice math facts...more on that in another post. <br />
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I'd love to hear how this goes with your class if you decide to try it! :) <br />
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<br />Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com56tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-12904877971503110982014-07-02T18:21:00.000-04:002014-07-02T18:21:06.647-04:00New look, a sale, and a freebie :)Y'all I cannot tell you how much I miss blogging. Between moving states, switching grade levels and about 100 other things going on in the last year this poor little blog has been so sadly neglected but I truly miss sharing and creating and collaborating with all of you! While I still miss Kindergarten with all my heart, my current "first grade adventure" will be continuing for at least 1 more year and I already have 1000 ideas rolling around in my head!! <br />
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First up was a brand new blog design! I have been wanting to do this for a very long time and after lots of comparing and shopping around I found the FABULOUS <a href="http://templatesbytenille.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Tenille</a>. I cannot say enough about how wonderful she was to work with. She managed to take my sporadic design and color ideas and create exactly what I wanted. The first day it was installed I kept logging on just to look at it!<br />
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I've been knocking off a ton of things on my To-Do List and slowly updating ooollldddd products so to celebrate my return to blogging, I'm throwing a sale in my store today and tomorrow. Click on the picture to find some of my most recent products :)<br />
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Lastly, I wanted to share this quick freebie with you. I'm excited to be really digging into better math instruction this year (much more on that to come as the school year goes on). My math brain has been buzzing all summer. This is one of my favorite games to get kids talking about making different combinations of numbers. I hope you can use it in your room!!<br />
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Have a GREAT holiday weekend :)<br />
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Hi friends!! I feel for most of you Spring Break has already come and gone but I am right in the middle of enjoying mine. I've found a great balance of productivity Super Woman and total couch potato Netflix addict haha. I swear you can do both!! One of my productive streaks has been getting this little blog back in order. I have lots of fun things to share with you in the next few weeks.</div>
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Last week before going on break we read a lot about plants and gardens. I absolutely love making these gardens with my kids when we are learning about plants and farms. </div>
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The first thing you need to do is prep the gardens. Start with a 9x12 piece of brown paper. Fold the bottom up leaving about 2 inches on the top.<br />
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Again, fold the bottom part up leaving another 2 inches. This makes 2 pockets. <br />
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When we made these last week, for the sake of time, we just stapled the sides, but you can just as easily use a glue stick to secure the sides. I HIGHLY reccommnend prepping the actual gardens ahead of time. The kids will have enough fun making all the veggies ;)<br />
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First we read "Growing a Vegetable Garden" and we looked up pictures of real vegetables online. One of my sweeties was insistent that I look up parsnips...I honestly couldn't have told you what one looked like before we looked it up!<br />
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Then I gave the kids construction paper and let them have at it. Some of my favorite crafts come when I don't have patterns or tracers and I just let the kids make something out of nothing.<br />
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This one made me so happy. The day before in small groups we had read a story about how strawberries grow. After he made his garden, one of my struggling readers ran over to show me how he had made a runner for his strawberries to grow on just like he read in the book. Melt my teacher heart. </div>
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Last year when I did these I made a little book for my Kinders to go along with making our gardens. This year I had some writing paper for the kids to write all about the vegetables in their gardens. You can grab both the writing paper and the book (along with a little labeling/reading activity) by clicking the picture below.<br />
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Have a Happy Thursday!! Both my TV and my clip art folder are calling my name :)<br />
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<br />Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-23596241911168624232014-01-09T23:55:00.002-05:002015-02-21T08:32:07.661-05:00Wintery fun and lots of freebies :)We had a "Cold Day" Monday and a teacher workday Tuesday so my days are all messed up in my head...I can't believe it's already Friday tomorrow! <br />
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I can't tell you how excited I am to actually live in seasons now! I saw snow outside my window on Monday! It lasted about 10 min and didn't collect on the ground at all but yall I am a Florida girl and I saw SNOW and it was a little bit magical :) We been having fun with some winter activities this week.<br />
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On the first day back from break I always love to do "learning resolutions" with my kids. We talk about the things they want to learn in the new year. The answers are always hilarious. Here are a few of my favorites:<br />
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"I want to learn to make cheese dip" <br />
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One of my favorite January activities :) You can grab the page <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B81lWh5DUH8AUnlFeTZlOHAtLTQ/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>. I made a 2015 version in case you want to file it away for next year. <br />
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We are working on long vowels with silent e and vowel teams right now in reading. Today while I was pulling some reading groups they made these flap books. I had them highlight the vowel team or silent e pattern and then sort them out. It made for great fluency practice and helped me see who was still struggling with those tricky vowels!<br />
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You can grab the pages for this<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B81lWh5DUH8ASEdxblU0NHRvTzQ/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"> here</a> and <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B81lWh5DUH8ATHFET2kyRUk1bWc/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
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I have always made these cute name snowmen and I love them!<br />
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Since I'm in 1st this year I decided to amp it up a little with this activity. I found this idea on Pinterest the other day (originally from <a href="http://kinderdi.blogspot.com/2012/02/more-or-fewer-snowman-project.html" target="_blank">Kinderdi</a>) , and adapted the response page for my class.<br />
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You can also grab one of my favorite snowmen math freebies by clicking the picture below ;)<br />
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<br />Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-75453083561170505952014-01-08T20:45:00.002-05:002015-02-21T08:32:39.952-05:00"What is hiding?"Holy first day back batman. We had quite a busy day. I'm so excited about some wintery fun things we are going to be doing in the next few weeks. Pictures to come soon. For now I want to share some more math fun :) <br />
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I got this idea from a math workshop a few years ago and it has become a favorite game in my room over the last few years. My partner teacher and I ran home from the workshop, cut out a bunch of L shapes from construction paper and collected all the colored dot stickers we could find in our drawers and made ourselves a full set for numbers 4-10.<br />
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It's basically the same as the "how many are hiding" game that we usually play with playdoh balls and a bowl but this time it's all on the card. They can see the "whole" number and one part and they have to figure out what part is missing. We talk about what they think is missing and why. It's super simple and yet my kids LOVE to play this game and get so excited when I lift the flap to reveal their guesses. I keep some sets in my teacher cart to pull out as a math warm up and I also threw some in my early finisher tubs because the kids have a blast quizzing each other. <br />
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They are really easy to make yourself with some paper and colored dots but I put a set of gumball themed ones for numbers 4-10 in my store if you'd rather just print and cut.<br />
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There's also a set for making 10 in my Penguin Math Unit.<br />
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<br />Krogers Kindergartenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13773288527496608750noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6755529633236140686.post-69845509250828654662013-12-30T12:08:00.001-05:002015-02-21T08:33:57.382-05:00Hi...remember me??*opens door...fumbles around for the light...brushes off dust*<br />
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Hi friends! It's been a LONG time! I always make promises to be a better blogger but I am really motivated this time. I have had a splendid Christmas break (and it's not done yet!) Seriously how great are the vacation perks of being a teacher?? Granted we need them desperately to keep from going out of our minds, but isn't it a great feeling to see people going back to work and knowing you have another week or so of freedom? <br />
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Anyway to help me get my own blogging butt into gear I decided to start focusing on some favorite math activities that I use in the classroom. Math was my favorite subject when I was in school and it is still my favorite to teach.<br />
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First up: number bonds. I really love using number bonds in the classroom. When I first started teaching it took a little practice for me to figure out how to introduce well and use them with my kids but they have proven to be a great tool to introduce and reinforce some key math concepts. My last school was a thinking map school and number bonds fit in perfectly alongside our work with brace maps and their "whole" and "part" concepts.<br />
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I start by giving them the manipulatives for their mats (in this case goldfish) and we tell number stories and move the fish around the mat to show how the 5 (or at this point in the year 10) can be broken down and then put back together. We have lots and lots of talking and moving (and occasionally some sneaky manipulative eating here or there haha). It's really a great visual for composing and decomposing and can be extended easily to addition and subtraction concepts.<br />
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After the kids have gotten comfortable with the parts and the whole I start moving them into more "missing part" activities. For instance "if there is a 5 on the penguin belly, and we put 3 fish in the top box, how many need to go in the bottom box to get 5 all together?" We use number bonds all year in different ways as the skills get harder and the numbers get bigger.<br />
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You can find the penguin number bond mats and some practice sheets in my new little penguin mini math unit.<br />
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I'm off to the NC mountains to go skiing for the first time ever...say a prayer that I come back on 2 legs!!<br />
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