first day school / ideas

School Ideas to do List 

-Make bulletin boards
-Powerpoint about me, trips
-Pinterest and go to Zurchers
-Read a book, Lilly's purple plastic purse book
-A doll, reward
-Reward system (clips, dojo, or bucks)
-Label drawers

First Week
-Get to know you packet
-Math assessment quiz
-Write about their summer, give examples of what to write
-Reading, assess reading
-Packets first day of school *video Jamie sent me

Places to Shop
-Target
-Utah Idaho Supply
-Dollar Store
-Pinterest

Word Problems 2nd grade

A site the second grade team showed me to help 2nd graders with word problems.  Especially 2 set problems that will you work and things to put up on your board.

http://www.wherethemagichappensteaching.com/2016/10/word-problems-its-all-about.html

Tina and Mrs. Scott teachers Tips

Tina teachers Tips

• Bulletin boards: cute butcher paper, it looks simple
• print off dibels (intervention) sheets online very useful at parent teacher conference
• --Tina's emailed this to me
• Birthdays: each student writes about that person for their bday
• Find black outline, write spelling words over
• Math Challenge 2: blue and green for fast finishers
• Order: white notebooks from district
• Handwriting for wonders; "Be fun/goofy and positive praise a lot"
• Unit/Week into file folders; for wonders
• Dr. Suess book cut out from target to get word wall
• BEHAVIOR: for class use DOJO app, each kids a monster, tables pts am and pm groups, get a prize make coupons, 3 kids w/ the highest score, parents have access to it.
• DOLL on desk, for am/pm students that are doing best
• Focus on INTRINSIC/EXTRINSIC motivation; countdown then give warning for DOJO points 
• use GOMATH; use the interventions
• WONDERS: graphic organizers put in clear folder so you can REUSE them! 

Mrs. Scott Tips

• Do day by day planning (this will SAVE you lots of time) 
• Collen has keys (get books, say books 1a/2b) cardboard
• set reading levels; DRA meetings;

TO BUY:

• Speakers (bluetooth),  see if another teacher has one 
• Have a microphone,  see if another teacher has one 
• Home depo aprons; 47cents on side of desk to put tools in 
• Target: check front desk, pocket chart organizers 
• Get a school calendar
• Recording App (free) for EDTPA, Janna can help, get done over xmas break 
• Sub for graduation by March, go through the district 
• Correction Tape (3 rolls)
• Order 100 sheet protectors to give to Lora 

Teacher Resources!

Teacher Resources

• Postermywall- organizer for making templates or posters
• Canva- Images that you put the text over it 
• Adobe Spark- Make graphic organizers/posters 
• Powerpoint- make posters 

Good books Technology! Use the 6 C's of motivation always!

Motivation for readers:
1. Choice
2. Collaboration
3. Accountability
4. Authenticity
5. Challenge
6. Technology
7. Proximity reward setting

EPIC books

www.getepic.com/app/

Superteacherstools.net

https://www.superteachertools.us/

Google Readability
(just google this)

Reward: Book it, Pizza Hut
*connect the reward that points back to reading!

Tool make POSTERS

postermywall website

Strengths and weaknesses as teacher

Strengths:

-Don't be afraid to be silly but always go positive
-point out what is important, say things are cool that you're learning about and they will think its COOl too.
-It's ok to admit the teacher messes up to!
-make a BIG DEAL of good behavior

Weakness:
-Be FIRM
-Talk more dramatically and at their age level
-Right off the bat, don't take his crap and move it down two clips
-Take away 5 minutes of recess

First Grade Fast Finishers: (FF last a couple weeks)
"What's in the bag" how many cubes left in the bag if 4 is written on the brown bag and you pull out 3 cubes? Ex: change up the numbers.

Establish Noise levels:
Silent-no talking
Quiet-whisper

2 VITAL RULES
Always make sure students know what you expect and tell them what to do when they finish.