tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57474837590578617172024-03-13T05:59:22.985-05:00A Flip Flop KindergartenAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07657750832706546835noreply@blogger.comBlogger42125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747483759057861717.post-5445863727899589292014-06-25T14:06:00.001-05:002014-06-25T14:06:32.312-05:00I told myself I would do better with this over the summer, well...it is nearly half over and nothing. I have traveled to my brother's house in North Carolina to help. They have four children, 7, 6, 3, and 1. A very busy place. But that is not the end of it. They are due to have twins any day. So my daughter and I hopped in the car and came to help. I hope I am helping, sometimes I just look around and think wow and smile. I really love my nephews and niece. Their energy is amazing.<br />
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Here is my daughter and the three boys.</div>
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Here is my sweet niece.</div>
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And here are the other 3, lol. The golden is my baby and the Great Dane and German Hound are my brother's family pets. Like four kids weren't enough, haha!</div>
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Did I mention, the three older ones were boys and the youngest is a girl. The twins on the way are girls. So three big brothers, and three little sisters. A lot different than my quiet house with a 21 year old and a 15 year old. But I am really loving getting to spend some time with them.</div>
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Well as you can guess with four young-ens running around I haven't had much time to create. I have about 10 ideas written in the idea book and have a couple of them started. One of the things I promised myself I would concentrate on this summer is "I'm finished now what?" So I have tried to do it in pictures. The little fish come to me in the fall lost and have no idea. Half of them are EL learners and that makes it even more difficult. I can play around with Spanish as they giggle at me, but Arabic....totally lost. So...here it is. I created it for my classroom and it might not mean a thing to you but it might give you some ideas of what you could do. </div>
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As you can see some of these ideas are for quiet things to be done around the room and some of them are to be done at their seat. The goal is to keep them quietly engaged in a meaningful activity while I am working one on one with those that need help.</div>
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1. Write the Word Wall-TLW take their journal and go and write the words on the words wall. These will change through out the year so it will be relevant all year long.</div>
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2. Do a puzzle at your seat.-At the beginning of the year the puzzles they choose are board puzzles, but as the year progresses more difficult puzzles are added. I know you are thinking puzzles? Yes, puzzles, they help a young learner with problem solving, such as visualizing and planning.</div>
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3. Read a magazine at your seat. Our school district has purchased National Geographic for Kids for all EL students. I have been teaching several years now and have an abundance of these in different themes. All kids love them. Another way to get print into their hands that is fun.</div>
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4. Flannel board activities-I have alphabet, upper and lower case letters, and numbers and objects. This is a quiet activity that lets them touch and feel the letters and numbers.</div>
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5. Magnet activities-Again I have alphabet, upper and lower case letters, and numbers and objects. Just another way for them to experience and explore what they are learning.</div>
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6. Write in my journal-This is their time to write what ever they want. Of course we will have been doing Deedee Wills/Deanna Jump's Writers Workshop. It is amazing how much they take and run with, even just a few weeks into school.</div>
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7. White board writing-Yes, you guessed it! Another way to explore letters, numbers, and words around them.</div>
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8. Read a book on the carpet-I do limit this to two students during this time to keep it under control. They may choose from any book in the library to cuddle up with a stuffed buddy and read.</div>
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9. Write all the letters and words that you know. TLW do this in their journal. It is fun to see them flip back to other pages they have already done to do this activity!</div>
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10. Early finisher's tub-I have several books and dry erase activities they can grab here to practice writing, reading and math skills. Things I have picked up over the years and just keep adding to it.</div>
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So there you go. Just some ideas of how to keep them engaged for that 5 or 10 minutes needed. These areas will be used mostly in the morning after their morning work is completed. I have students staggering in from breakfast for a half an hour. Those that get there first in the mornings needed some more structure. So we will see. I will let you know how it is playing out. Please if you have ideas that you do, I would love to hear them. </div>
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Just keep swimming out there!</div>
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Oh well, I have decided to blog in spite of the blog look. It is a lot better...banner is centered even though the logo is not. Ya'll just pretend will ya. I am breathing and not letting my ODD get the best of me. Just a few more fixes and I think I have this. Take it from me, pay someone to do your blog, it is so worth it! I have spent hours and am still crooked. On another note...<br />
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I had a wonderful time at the meet up here in Music City! It was so much fun getting to know some other bloggers and stalkers. Thank you Greg from <a href="http://www.thekindergartensmorgasboard.com/" target="_blank">Smedley's Smorgasboard</a> and Elizabeth from <a href="http://kickinitinkindergarten.com/" target="_blank">Kickin' It In Kindergarten</a> for putting this together. I never ate so much in my life and I even miss breakfast the next day. </div>
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That's me way in the back beside Elizabeth and behind Holly and Greg!</div>
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I think all that food inspired a new facebook group #teacherfit. So nice to have an accountability group to share a journey of improvement with. I know I need it. I even ordered a cute T-Shirt to spur me on at the gym. </div>
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It seems like forever since I have been to work. I am missing my little fish. I spend most of the day working on report cards. Our school district was nice enough to give us a cold day today. So I spent the day huddled up in front of the fire plugging away on the computer until I finished them. The high today was 9...in Music City, what is that? I tell you the truth, no flip flops today, hehe!</div>
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I did take a brake and went shopping with the gift card I won at the Blog Meet Up! I won $25 from Oriental Trading. And you know, without a doubt, I spent more than just that $25 (only about $15 more, after some purging of the cart). I will make sure I share when it comes in. That is the hard part, the wait....they take so long....... Again, thank you Elizabeth and Greg for all the prizes :)</div>
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Here I am with some dear new friends!</div>
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I spent a week of my break in Kentucky which is the land of no internet. Whew, that was a long week. We did venture into McDonald's a couple of days to get connected. My plan was to create some new products while I was there...but alas I spent time with family and friends :) I did however whip up a couple of things. I am finalizing a few loose ends, but wanted to leave you with a freebie. Click on the picture to get it! Please enjoy!</div>
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Well as you can see, I am under construction. I am trying my best to do this blog thing myself. It has not been a fun weekend. But I am making enough mistakes that when I figure this out I will be able to help anyone else, hehe. Oh well. This is the idea of the new look, minus the cute boarder. Keep watching to see the changes. I just had to stop writing and try a different download a friend helped me with on the background. I was having trouble with the boarders. And he did it!!!! Thank you Jeff!</div>
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Ok, now to school stuff. Where was Sam on Friday? He got busy and made some marshmallow snowmen to share with the class. They were so excited! I know C asked me 4 times if he could take one home at the end of the day, hehe.</div>
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We have been working so hard in our math journals. I want to thank Deedee Wills for her wonderful product. If you haven't found them please have a look. Here is her December one.</div>
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Can you believe it, I remembered to snap a couple of pictures. Here are some of the little fish working hard.</div>
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Here are 3 examples. I am pretty sure the lollipop one was from her October or November Journal. Yes, I know, the Christmas tree is sideways, but I changed it twice and if it wasn't sideways the other way. Just tilt your head and pretend this crazy blogger knows what she is doing, hehe. Anyway, I thing you can tell how well they are doing. Thank you Deedee Wills for your awe inspiration!</div>
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Off to finish printing gingerbread centers and then chase after a kid to volleyball. Y'all keep swimming out there!</div>
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Welcoming Sam!</h2>
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He is here. Oh, the little fish are so excited!!! Our elf came straight from the North Pole on Monday. Our sweet librarian brought him. </div>
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The box was so cold! You wouldn't believe their faces :)</div>
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Look we have our own elf!!!</div>
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Yesterday when Sam came back from the North Pole he thought his name needed to be on the word wall. There he sits all proud with Santa right under it.</div>
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Today Sam put snow, all the way from the North Pole, on the window and gave us a greeting. They loved that Sam used his magic! (thank you Dollar Tree for the snow!)</div>
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Ok now for some school related stuff, hehe. Just look at this! J is an EL learner in the beginning stage. Pink is what he knew at the beginning of the year, red is at the end of the first nine weeks, and green was today. I am so proud of him. He was swimming today when he saw!</div>
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Ok, this is my first adventure to a Linky Party! I know, I know, all you veteran bloggers do it all the time. Still this is my first. So here it goes. I get to show you all I bought at the TPT sale. What fun!</div>
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Well I didn't spend as much as I would have liked to, I tried to keep a handle on it. Here is my first product.</div>
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I put a link in each of the picture back to their TPT store pages. I can't wait to dig into all of these. Thanks for all your creative minds. I can't wait to see what everyone else got!!!!!</div>
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I really can't believe that November has flown by so fast! It seems like we just had Halloween. Oh well...I had a wonderful visit with family. We spent a couple of days with my husband's mother. She has been suffering from cancer for awhile now so we ate out for Thanksgiving diner. Never have done that before, but it was nice to not have to do all that cooking and cleaning up. We all came back and sat around, dozed and watched football. Yep you heard me right. I do love some football. In fact I am watching the Titans and the Colts right now.</div>
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We spent Friday with my family here in Music City for family picture day. All 18 of us! It was quite a sight. My brother has four kids, with the oldest being in the first grade (and the news of the day...they are going to have their fifth!). My sister has four kids. And me with two. This wasn't part of the professional pictures but my husband snapped this under the tree in the lobby. </div>
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The following week I will start my Gingerbread Unit. We will be talking a lot about characters, settings, comparisons, beginning, middle, and end, and also retelling. I made huge gingerbread characters last year. I dug them out last Tuesday before I left for the holidays. So they are all ready to go! I can't wait! Again I will work on the pictures..UGH! I have to get better at this. It is just posted everywhere, hehe.</div>
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Yep there it is. I calmly sent him to refocus and walked away. I am sure there was steam coming out of my ears. Why or why? The joys of Kindergarten, but I promise I wouldn't want to do anything else. </div>
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Well a couple of days ago I posted Pirate Pals. I gave you a sneak peak last week. The little fish loved it! I heard one fish humming our pirate chant as they were working today. I couldn't help but smile. Here are a few pictures. I am the worse at taking pictures. This is all I could find. I always get wrapped up in what they are doing and forget to snap away.</div>
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We had read several pirate books. Their favorite being "How I Became A Pirate" by Melinda Long. We also read some non-fiction books about pirates, being very careful of what was read aloud ;)</div>
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We used our circle map to create this tree map. I use a colored coded method. We write three things under each verb: can, have, are. We then circle can with red and choose one of the three things that pirates can do. Have in yellow, and are in blue in the same fashion. They then make sentences on lined paper and think they have written the best story EVER! I have them hanging in the hall with their pirate pictures. But guess what? NO PICTURE on the camera! Ugh! This is our forth writing like this in three weeks. They are doing so much better. We are working on spacing, starting a sentence with capital letters, and adding punctuation. I throw these in between Writers Workshop that I model after Deanna Jump. </div>
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Thanks guys for all the greatness you shared today! I was blessed to be there. And guess what? I won something from Deanna! My name was actually pulled out the bag. So I get to go shopping and see what I want from her store. How great is that? Hmm, now what do I pick off my llllooonnnggg TPT wish list?</div>
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I took my camera out today and took some snap shots. I didn't get to my scarecrows last week so I finished up today. My kids loved the book "The Little Scarecrow Boy" by Margret Wise Brown. I made a giant scarecrow with 6 crows (which I didn't get a picture of) and we found all the ways to make 6. They really had to think, but loved counting the crows on each arm. We made addition equations with how many crows were on each of his arms. It was inspired by Scarecrow Unit: TONS of Math, Literacy, & Writing Activities! by A Spoonful of Learning. Link below.</div>
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They are trying so hard. This is our third attempt. I am pleased with their progress. WELLLLLL.....the crazy flip flop teacher decided that she should use Greg's (<a href="http://www.thekindergartensmorgasboard.com/" target="_blank">Smedley's Smorgasbord</a>) scarecrow from his glyph. I am not sure what I was thinking after a weekend of Halloween candy and them being exhausted at the end of the day with the time change...but we did it. Take a look!</div>
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Yep that is 20 of them. All 20 little fish were there today and that was 80 arms and legs to fold. Whew yet again. But they worked so hard. We had a brain break after this. Shh don't tell, I think it was more for me than them, hehe. But most of all, we had fun and they were learning. </div>
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So this week I am going to show you what I taught my little fish about Pirates. It is P week after all. Pigs and Pirates, lol! I have made myself promise that I will carry my camera in my pocket all day so I won't miss anything. My little fish are always doing such amazing things and I never have my camera, or I am caught up in their excitement. I have go to do better. Who likes a blog with out pictures. And speaking of pictures...here are a few teasers of what to look for.</div>
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OK, down to business. I woke up early, like a teacher ever can sleep in, and I started working on a fun new product. It's punch cards. I am sure most of you know what they are. I haven't introduced them to my little fish yet, but I hope they will like them. I have beginning sounds and numbers. I also am going to include empty ten frames to add play-dough balls to. They love anything to do with play-dough. Well here is a sneak peak. Let me know what you think or what else you would like to see included.</div>
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Ok, can I just say that Greg Smedley is my hero. I don't know how he can blog every single day, but he does and with such wit. He is definitely the rock star of Kindergarten blogging. He threw out a wave in my direction the other day on his blog picks. I thought I better get my b... in gear and write something. So here is to Greg! Love you guy!!!</div>
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It is a beautiful day here in Music City after a calm rainy night. I know, I know, I haven't been here forever, and here is why...<br />
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So if any of you are a band mom or a mother of an athlete, just imagine doing all this at the same time with honors and AP classes. We are barely alive. But it seems today I have a couple of hours so I am blogging, yep you heard me right.</div>
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So here is what has been going on in A Flip Flop Kindergarten! I have a fantastic group of 19 kids. Smarting than the average fish. We have been busy learning how to navigate centers which have included Literacy Centers Station, Reading Station, Writing Station, Listening Station, Computer Station, Pocket Chart Station, Magnet Station, and Working With Words Station. We have been working up to 20 minutes of whispering and staying in our area. So far so good. Next week they will experience the queen fish wearing her crown, hehe! That is when I wear my crown at the guided reading table and no can bother me unless there is BLOOD OR FIRE! And YES it works. Wish me luck :)</div>
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Well my evaluation for this semester is Monday. It seems like the year just started. I can't believe I am already having to think about this, but oh well. It will be done and over with. I created a lesson on Fall Positioning Words. So you know I had to create something to go with it. I made the cutest book and power point with graphics from <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Melonheadz">Melonheadz</a>. I really like what she does. Check it out. Click on the picture below for a link to my TPT store.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07657750832706546835noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747483759057861717.post-64772020798228059292013-08-09T20:26:00.000-05:002013-08-09T20:49:53.496-05:00Hey y'all!<br />
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Wow what a week! The first week of school always exhausts me. I know I have fallen asleep in my chair every night this week around 6pm. Only to get up and chase after a high school-er that is in band and volleyball. I thought, once I got back into school, I would have so much to blog about, and I do but I was too beat to even open my blog page. But it is Friday...and that some how gives a teacher more energy. <br />
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I have a great group of little fish this year. I love teaching in a diverse area. I have students that are Asian, Kurdish, Latino, Arabic, African-American, and Caucasian. Only one that is silent out of 19. That won't last long :)<br />
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This week we worked on procedures. Nothing sets the tone for the year as this first week does. I spent a lot of time on simple things. Some of them were how to: sit on the carpet, push in a chair, go to the bathroom, walk down the hall, eat in the cafeteria, hold a pencil, use glue and scissors, and some whole brain teaching concepts too. It is always eye opening at the beginning of each year, just how far they go by the end of Kindergarten. So many of them rely on their parents to do everything for them. I work hard to make them independent. Some of them just look at me with wide eyes and I can hear them thinking...she wants me to do that all by myself. LOL! And guess what? They are amazed they can do it and grin from ear to ear. <br />
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One thing I forgot to do this week...I forgot to tell them I would be back to pick them up from the cafeteria after they ate. I had three crying when I came back the first day. I felt so bad. I never dreamed they thought I wasn't coming back for them. One of the little fish said, "Mrs. Tomes...I thought you weren't going to come back and get us and it was crazy in there." I couldn't help but give her a hug and tell her I would be back each day to get her from each place we went outside of the room. Kindergarten is like no other teaching job and I love it so much. <br />
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I took a couple of snap shots of what has been going on in my classroom this week. Besides procedures, I introduced A-E and the numbers 0-2. It was just a quick intro, more in depth is coming later, but it gave me a quick assessment of where my fish are. We also read lots of books about the first of Kindergarten, including Pete the Cat: Rocking in my School Shoes. Oh my, did they love this book! I am not sure how many time I read it this week. We did a tour of the school with a Groovy School Tour from <a href="http://mrsliretteslearningdetectives.com/">http://mrsliretteslearningdetectives.com</a> The fish loved it!<br />
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Today we did self portraits from Character Clips by Krista Walden. They turned out adorable. Take a look!</div>
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We also worked on our names this week. One of the things we did was glue beans on our name. It was a great way to practice gluing techniques as well as learning what our name looks like. They turned out really cute. Here they are drying on the table.</div>
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I got my new stamps from Oriental Trading this week! It was like Christmas. They are really big however. I am wondering how to store them. If any one has any ideas, please let me know!</div>
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Gosh this school year is coming upon me too fast!!! I had to have my room ready by Tuesday for Kindergarten Orientation. I thought it was Monday, See what the summer can do to you? Makes you forget all about a calendar. Oh well, at least I wasn't thinking a day late.<br />
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I do the parent part of orientation. I get to reassure them that we are going to love their babies and take care of them. And boy do they have tons of questions, haha! But I expect that. It is fun to get to know the parents. The other K teachers are in another room testing the future kinders. We then spend a couple of hours afterwards splitting our classes. Yep we get to do it ourselves. The principal looks it all over and makes a few changes from her insight but it is mainly up to us. Isn't that great!<br />
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Ok, the last blog I wrote I had done the writing wall, well it was missing something. So I added boarders and flowers. Check it out! It turned out great!<br />
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I finally finished my calendar support packet. It feels like I was working on it forever. But the wonderful part about it is it matches the I can statements, the Blue-Green Labels, and the new Blue-Green Word Wall I finished today. I am so excited about the cool Blue-Green colors! See what you think?</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07657750832706546835noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747483759057861717.post-55225093234110511192013-07-17T21:00:00.000-05:002013-07-17T21:00:13.970-05:00Hey Y'all!<br />
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It has been a week since I have been here. I took some time off and enjoyed the boat before I had to come back to reality. Band camp started for my daughter this week so I am back in Music City. I have been to my room everyday this week so far and am planning on being there the rest of the week. Kindergarten Orientation is Monday and I am doing the parent part IN MY ROOM. So I hope to have it up and ready by then. Well mostly, I hope...(I am really dreaming aren't I?) <br />
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I have so enjoyed not having to move rooms this year. I moved 5 years in a row before this, all in the same school, but still...I feel so much more organized and I can find things. I also had a wonderful student teacher last year and I got to organize some stuff while she was there. It so makes a difference!</div>
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I put together my writing center this week. Here is a preview. All that is left is the paper and writing instruments. Can't wait to see what the little fish can create!</div>
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I started putting up my calendar support today. Pictures to come tomorrow. I have to do some more cutting out of the laminating. Now that is never ending. </div>
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I thought I would tell you today about Time to Teach, my classroom discipline system. I know most of you use clips or cards and send home daily reports. This is something totally different and I love it. This will be the third year to use Time to Teach. </div>
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Time to teach is concept that is meant to save time lost due to discipline issues in your class. This is the very short version of how it works. Of course you have set up your procedures and model how you want them to behave. But the meat of time to teach is this. When a child misbehaves, and you know they will, you stop and look at them in the eye and say "We need for you to stop talking out." or whatever they are doing. They you go about teaching and don't draw attention to it. If the child continues to misbehave you say, "Johnny, I need you to go to refocus." And again go on teaching. The child will leave the group and go to a time out area. Yes there are steps for the child who will not go, but I swear to you 95% of the time they get up and march straight to the chair and don't say a word. I know right, it is a miracle. When I am finished teaching and have time to deal with the child, usually within a couple of minutes. I talk to the child about what they did wrong and have them tell me what they could do differently. I also make sure the child knows I care for them and want them to do well. </div>
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I do send a note home if a child has repeated times in refocus, but these are few and far between. It really is a wonderful system. It also lets the child know they do not have several chances to not behave. With the clip system there is usually a warning and then a clip is moved the second time. This can happen several times a day as the child makes there way down the chart. With refocus they have the warning and that is it. Usually the warning is all that is needed. </div>
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Yep we can still be happy it is Monday because tomorrow is another day of Summer Vacation Day :) Although I did have to spend this morning in a textbook workshop. Wow, it was only three hours but it felt like all day. Glad that is over with. I got to swim through it with Greg from <a href="http://www.thekindergartensmorgasboard.com/">http://www.thekindergartensmorgasboard.com/</a> We survived, I think, hehe!<br />
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For some reason I have been thinking about Flip Flop Cookies! What is up with that. My daughter helped me make some yesterday for the in-laws that came to visit us on the boat. They turned out so cute.<br />
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It has been a rainy day again here in Middle Tennessee. I have been sitting here on Old Hickory Lake watching the water rise and wondering how the ducks and geese survive this. They are out there swimming and quacking like they love it. Oh to be a duck, hehe!<br />
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Well as I sat watching the rain fall on the water, I was looking at my to do list and one of things not completed, out of many, was to make new I can statements for my literacy stations. So I sat down and whipped this up this morning and am offering it as a freebie on TPT so come and get it <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/I-Can-Literacy-Station-Statements-758437" target="_blank">here</a>!</div>
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Here is the hubs on the mando and a couple of our friends. What fun!</div>
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I spend the morning with another dear friend. We were celebrating our birthdays. Mine is the first and hers is the eighth. We had a great breakfast at Crackle Barrel and then went shopping at Target and Big Lots. Look at my finds!</div>
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I love the big tote. Just the right size for my clipboards. And the rolling cart, $28 at Big Lots, what a deal. I picked up 3M hooks for $2.80 for 2 of them, for my headphones. Batteries for my teach timer for $2.00, WOW. Look at that green duck tape for my line! And some colored masking tape. I know I really didn't need that, but it was so darn cute. And that pencil pouch to show the little fish and parents the kind I want them to get for notes and money. All that at Big Lots. What a find! </div>
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I created a new book about Maddie night before last. I have had a lot of good responses about it. This one features the next two sight words in the Journey reading series, the & and. I was talking about it to my friend over breakfast and someone was listening and wouldn't stop talking about it. Hehe, she was older and went on and on about her dogs and thought I had the cutest idea. She was so sweet. That is what the South is all about. Conversations with strangers that make you smile.</div>
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1. I went to Oakland City University, the Mighty Oaks. I majored in Elementary Education and Vocal Music. The college was about 12 miles from where I grew up. I really ventured out didn't I. My best friend from high school went with me. The school was known for educating teachers and preachers. So guess what? Half way through my freshman year I met this guy, yep you guessed it...he was a preacher. We hit it off and a year and a half later we were married. Want to know the scary part? I was 19! My grandma almost couldn't handle her baby getting married, but it must have worked out ok because we have been married for 27 years. Here is another little tidbit, he is a teacher now too, and we work at the same school. How crazy is that!<br />
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I also went to Trevecca Nazarene University. I received my masters in English Language Learners. Yes there is a need for that in Music City, USA. Who would have thought. I love, love, love it! It is a far stretch from where I grew up in southern Indiana. There is nothing more rewarding than a child coming to you in kindergarten not being able to speak English and leaving reading. I love my job!<br />
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2.My favorite subject to teach is reading. I love being able to tie in several standards at once and have them get it. Kindergarteners are like sponges. I have taught up to 5th grade and each one has its fun aspects, but I love the little ones. I love being able to make a lesson seem like they are going on an adventure. They dive right in and follow with eyes wide open. They love the songs we sing to learn the sounds and sight words. The games we play, that never seem like they are learning. And the joy on their faces when they read you a book. Nothing like it!<br />
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3. My dream vacation would be anywhere on the beach. There is nothing more beautiful and relaxing to me. Early morning walks, hot days wading in the water, sunsets on the water, sand between my toes...I could go on and on! My classroom has the beach theme, I bet you could almost guess that from the name of the blog, hehe. I have threatened to but a tub of sand under my desk to sink my toes into, but haven't been brave enough to do it yet. My co-workers think I am crazy, for sure. Oh well! But I love looking around my room when it is 20 degrees outside and dreaming. <br />
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My last trip to the beach was during spring break and the high was in the 50's, but I bundled up in my sweat shirt and hit the beach each morning. My family thought I was crazy. Hey, I wasn't about to waste that view for anything.<br />
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Well there is a little about who I am. I hope that helps you to get know this new blogger some.</div>
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She found the watering cans at the Dollar Tree! I can't wait to make these up for the little fish. We go back on August 1st so it will still be summer...I am thinking...I can still use these for the first month. Too Cute! Go check them out.</div>
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I had fun posting today, and I am amazed out how fast this blog and all things tied to it are growing. Keep swimming out there!</div>
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I woke up early and fixed breakfast! Those of you who know me, know this is not normal. I really don't like to cook, but the cool morning made me want eggs and fried bologna.<br />
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This is the life. I love my little fish, but it will be so hard to leave the boat and go back to reality. Some things I wish I could bottle up and take back to them to experience. Just look at these goslings. How excited the kinders would be to see this?</div>
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Maddie, our golden, has made her first debut as a star. She is featured in the emergent readers I am creating to go along with the Journey reading series. Check her out, she thinks she is all that!!!</div>
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Here is a free emergent reader that introduces Maddie and one you can purchase with the first two sight words. Click <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Maddie-Emergent-Reader-747213" target="_blank">here</a> to find them on my TPT store!</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07657750832706546835noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5747483759057861717.post-51285153703411246512013-07-01T17:47:00.000-05:002013-07-01T17:50:27.604-05:00Here we go!Well here it goes...Welcome to A Flip Flop Kindergarten!!! I am excited and a bit scared to start this adventure. I love the idea of sharing ideas with other bloggers and blog stalkers ;) I have been one of those blog stalkers for some time now.<br />
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I want to thank Greg at <a href="http://www.thekindergartensmorgasboard.com/">http://www.thekindergartensmorgasboard.com/</a> He met with me about a week ago and help ease me into this. It was so nice to get to meet a fellow educator I have been stalking. Greg, could you see me shaking? I was a bit nervous. Silly I know but I couldn't help it. And I loved that he wore his pink mustache shirt! Yea!!! But he had some great advice and again I thank him so much.<br />
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Well I decided to do this last winter and told myself that after I worked out all the kinks I would launch on July 1st. This way I would have half the summer to make sure, and boy did I need it. And...today is my birthday, not that I want to celebrate any more of them, but I thought it was appropriate. <br />
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I created a birthday board for my classroom and thought I would share it with y'all as a freebie. I didn't like my birthday wall so I changed it to this. I hope you like it. Just click <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Birthday-Cones-751855">here</a> to link to my TPT store. ENJOY!<br />
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Thank you Dr. Jean for the link :)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07657750832706546835noreply@blogger.com0