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.

TIPS for procedures/first week of school

First Day in Mrs. Cunico’s Class: 3/21/17

Tips: First Week of School (Procedures)

• Make sure you spend the first week setting in procedures
• Don’t introduce the clips until the end of the first week or beginning of the second week (Make sure you motivate other students to follow along by having others see the clips moving up and down)
• Five Star: sitting criss cross apple sauces, eyes on the teacher. Star listeners.
• Before going to centers tell the students, “1. Sit criss cross applesauce, quiety close your eyes. 2. Visualize what you will look like at your center, work quietly. 3. Teacher says, “Ready read....” The students say back, “With Expression.” This is as the students go off the centers to read.
• Jobs for the day: each day some students have a job assigned with a clip (job written on the clip and it’s by their name) jobs include, erasing the board, turning on/off lights, luch tub w/ buddy, line leader, helpers carry bin, cleaner pick up trash off the floor, student leads in calendar, clips, and take out the balls for recess.
• Class Points and Table points. A star next to a tally mark means that table has won twice in a row so they can’t win again.

Classroom Decor:

• Call the cops! Good writers edit for...capitalization, organization, punctuation, spelling.
• FACE: Fluency, Accuracy, Comprehension, Excellent vocab.

Tips:

• Brain Boosters at the rug if class is fidgety: Train, rock paper scissors to see who leads and then they connect and make one big train around the room.
• Spotlight: each week a student is spotlighted with a poster made her’s was called “Cowpoke of the week” (My idea is Hawaiian student of the week)
• Students can earn gumballs if their clip is at the top each day. Every student gets a fresh start each day.
• READING: when reading in small groups at the back table make sure the students know this is a time to WORK. That way they will be more manageable while you’re listening to them read.

Garden Books

• Learn Grow eat and Go
• The ugly vegetable
• A place to grow
• *I will never not ever eat a tomato
• The ugly vegetables
• We old Potatoes
• Tops and Bottoms

thanksgiving point educational camp counselor (guest speaker visits)

Junior Master Gardeners (JMG)
Resource: "got dirt" is meant for preschool of how to plan a school garden
Radishes: are the easiest to grow

Engenering
Pbskids.org/designsquad
"Stuff spinner"

Thanksgiving point:
Utah4h.org
-Utah 4 h kids for check out

lowstoolboxforeducation
-the grant is what you google and it will come up
-a grant to do a classroom garden

16 carrots:
-fold one paper towel into 16 sections
-1 carrot seed per square section
-place paper towel in soil

Resources:
PBS.org
Daniel the Tiger
Red Ute, Wisconsin fast plants for SECOND grade (Shows the seed cycle within 50 days)
Learn Grow
Kidsgardening.org, get a grant

Go!
Be active by playing a game where they review 10 vocab words, they run to get the words

Maker Movement!
-sound sand which

EDTPA references

Website to use to help with APA:

refme.com

or

http://www.citethisforme.com/

Graphic organizer for informational text

file:///Users/mindywong/Downloads/CCSSGraphicOrganizersReadingInformational2ndand3rdgrade.pdf

This is a lot of graphic organizers for informational text for 2nd or 3rd graders.

Addition and Subtraction games with Math

The sum what dice game...

http://nimblenumbersjr.weebly.com/uploads/1/2/4/7/12477995/somewhatdicegame.pdf

Close to twenty game...

http://mathjourneys.com/documents/Close_to_20.pdf

EDTPA how to make a rubric

Download presentation of rubrics in science methods class.

Great site for rubics: rubistar.4teachers.org/
Common mistakes:
-Monitoring criteria that represents significant aspects of the learning you want to measure.

Here is presentation about Rubrics and what to do:
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18UnFNmNK38bDq_Sxe6HzHAMzcjfzCfH630cNJXDgz-U/edit#slide=id.p

Math Books!

Math books suggested by Elaine Taft

• Amanda Bean's amazing dream
• Grapes of math
• Hershey's kisses multiplication/division by Jerry Pallotta
• Anno's mysterious multiplying jars
• Too may kangaroos things to do
• 100 hungry aunts
• A remainder of one by Elinor J Pinczers
• Divide and Ride by Stuard (divide and round up)
• Each orange had 8 slices by Paul 
• What comes in 2's, 3's, 4's? 
• The doorbell rang by Paul Hutchings 
• The best of times 

Counting and Cardinality Books 

• Pizza counting by Christina Dboson
• 12 ways to get to 11
• 100 days of school 
• 10 little fish 
• 20 hungry piggies
• Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3
• Splitting the herd by Judy harris
• How much is a million? (Great book for large numbers)

EDTPA ESL (videoing)

Grabbing clips:

software: imovie, movie maker
-The file must be: flv, asf, qt, mov, mpg, mpeg, avim wmv, mp4 or m4v.
-must submit 20 minute clips

ESL resources

colorincolorado.org

This is a true authentic assessments and resources for ESL students. According to my professor Mio Kang.

Free foldable for science

Go to this PDF file.

file:///Users/mindywong/Downloads/InteractiveNotebookFlapsandFoldsforThinking.pdf

Word Knowledge and Vocabulary for free

fcrr.org

Go to this website:
-click resources
-click activities
-select the grade level you want
-select a category eg. word knowledge
-then print what you need

Science Lessons

Science lessons from these websites:

• AIMS (website have free lessons/samples)
• Download all the free lessons on a thumb drive 
• Steve Spangler
• NSTA 
• Lynda's Williams blog (our science teacher) 
• water.ca.gov water materials, fill out form if you having physical materials sent to you 
• They have two AIM's books, (All about water, Water precious water) 
• Utah Geological survey:
• Have kits you can use you just need to return them after two weeks you get refunded 

Create QR codes

(QR code generator pro)- I learned this in my science class.
-You can create QR codes for free just copy and paste the website.
-Then download the image as a JPG.
-You can print your QR code off and then use your free app on your phone to read the QR.

Popplet (concept map) of why science is important.

http://popplet.com/app/#/3751733

This was a fun assignment about why people should go out in nature more!

Science Notebook

https://magic.piktochart.com/output/19408930-science-notebooks-1https://magic.piktochart.com/output/19408930-science-notebooks-1