App giveaway!

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Too Cool for School Linky Party

Belinda at I Love 2 Teach is hosting a linky party! Share your cool teaching tips and link up!

Not sure how original my cool tips are but here goes:

1. This is my schools thing, but we send home "Tuesday folders" so I have all weekend to correct papers and Monday night and then Tuesday everything can go home in this folder and then needs to be signed and returned. 

2. I use smelly stamps for a reward which is chapstick. If they are standing in line quietly, I ask them if they are ready and if they are they are to put one hand on their head and I walk down the line and put a little chapstick on their hand for them to smell. They love this!

I'm sure later I will think of better things. haha

100th Day Linky Party

TBA is having a linky party! Click here to check it out!

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The 100th day is so much fun when you teach 1st grade! I wish I was able to get a picture of some of the things we do for the 100th day! I will try and tell you:

1. We have Zero the Hero! (This is what I wish I had a pics of!) I plan on going into the school Tuesday, so as long as they are not waxing the floors in my wing, I might try and get a picture! He is a stuffed bear I got at the dollar store that had a cape with a "z" on it- perfect right? He visits on every 10th day and we celebrate his birthday in the 100th day! The kids love wondering where he is all the other days of the week and where they will find him in the room on the 10th, 20th, etc day. He is always in a random place!

2. We wear 100th day glasses that I get at Really Good Stuff :

3. We practice counting to 100 by 2's, 5's, and 10's with our edible math manipulatives (cereal!).



4. We read 100th day books:

  

Target Gift Card Giveaway!

First Grade O.W.L.S.  is having a giveaway for a Target gift card! Check it out!

The Book Whisperer- Chapter 4

I really liked the ideas that were displayed in his chapter in regards to genre. I liked how she gave them a bucket of books with no label and they had to guess the genre. I definitely want to discuss genre a lot more with my firsties.

One of the questions that was addressed in the book was how you pick out books. I pick mine out a few ways:

1. Friend recommondations

2. Author's I like

3. Books that I see movie trailers for! I always want to read the book and then watch the movie! 

Current books I have read due to movie trailers:

1. Water for Elephants

2. Something Borrowed

3. Hunger Games (reading now...)

I like that Miller talked about what abandoning a book when it is not your type of book! I couldn't agree with this more! There is nothing worse than laboring through a horrible book! I abandoned books before and I am sure I will again!

I couldn't teach without... linky party!

Views from Room 205 is having a linky party! 

Here are the things I cannot teach without:

 

 Dunkin's --- or when I can't get that- any cup of coffee. At Dunkin's I like Cream, Sugar and Coconut! 

 

Promethean Board! We do everything on this!  Beside it I put the ELMO because it is used with the Promethean! When the board doesn't work, I feel lost!!

 

This is not my table.... but I couldn't do without my guided reading table! I hold small groups during the reading blog there. I also like to have the space for when we are doing crafts! 

 

 Love Sharpies! The more colors the better! 

 

Folders! I have all my reading lessons on folders in order, same with math, science and social studies! I love organization!



My Yankees Tervis :)   

Sister Teacher's Giveaway!

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