Work on Writing/Word Work

I have had several emails requesting that I post my I-charts for Work on Writing, Word Work, and Listening to Reading.

I have Work on Writing/Word Work complete and hope to have the Listen to reading finished soon. 

Coming Soon

Parent Teacher Conference Information

Walk and Talk

This past week I introduced "Walk N Talk" as part of my Read to Someone Activities. I got this idea from a workshop I attended last year.  I adapted the idea to make it my own.   Once a pair of students is finished reading they can pick an activity to dicuss what they have just read.  This helps students be more accountable when listening to each other read.

For this activity I have the students lay the cards on the floor. (I have them numbered on the back so they are in correct retelling order.)  Each student reads the prompt on the card (question) and answers the question.  There is a sentence starter to help students answer the question in a complete sentence.

(Hmm, I thought I had the picture going up and down.  Oh, well.)

I have created these for both fiction and non-fiction.  So far my students have enjoyed this activity.  It gets them up and moving.  A break form reading but they are still on task discussing their book.  I just love it when they have a good book discussion.

 These are available for purchase at The Teaching Oasis- click on the picture of above. (It's under reading strategies.)  I was also thinking of creating these in a bookmark style as well.  If that is something you would be interested in please leave a comment below.

Giveaway Winners

I decided to giveaway the freebies to all the posters that left a comment prior to this post. (See it pays to leave comments.)
  So the following posters can email me at sandra@teachingoasis.com
and I will send you the files.

Congratulations to Shelia, Erika, Ms. Lies

Mary and Kelly you already left your email so I will go ahead and email after I post this.

Number Bonds

So my giveaway (the post below this one) is asking for teachers to comment about math ideas that work for their classroom.  I thought I would add an idea that I learned about this summer.

Number Bonds:  Our district does not use Singapore Math, but the concept of Number Bonds does address the new common core for math.

Each student has a set of these (numbers 3-10 each number ring is a different color).  Students use these to show all the different ways they can make 6.  (0 +6=6: 1 +5= 6 etc.)  I love how this is hands on and it is great for the visual learner.  I also like how you can flip the ring over and you can see the turn around fact.  This has been a great resource so far for my 2nd graders.

2 + 4= 6

4 + 2= 6

Don't forget to post your math ideas on the post below for the chance to win some math activities from the Teaching Oasis.  Details below.

Freebie and Giveaway Time

Well I tried uploading this document with Google Docs, and for some reason it won't let me upload this document.  So I'm going to try and upload this with Scrib.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/64625717/Fiorini-rollingfornumbers


Giveaway Time:
This week with my students I am starting math centers so I thought for my 200th follower Giveaway I would make it about Math.

What you have to do is leave a comment below (or give us a link to your blog) on something new or something you have taught for math that is successful.  I will pick 3 names through a random number drawing.

The winners will recieve:

Subtraction Bump
Place Value Hop
Digit Cards/Pocket Holder with both 2 and 3 digit Guess My Number Clues.

Contest ends Thursday night.  Good luck! :)

200 Followers!

Yeah! I have 200 followers.  So this weekend I will be back with a freebie and a giveaway.  So check back this weekend for more information. 

Proud Americans

Every year our school celebrates Patriot Day by reciting the Pledge of Allegience outside, and wearing red, white, and blue.

This ends up being a perfect time to incorporate our symbols unit in Social Studies. Here are a few activities I do during the week leading up to Patriot Day.
 

I pledge Allegiance By Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson, Candlewick Press 2002

This is an excellent trade book that explains the pledge to the flag in simple terms.  There is a brief discussion about the words we recite every day at school.  Your students will think differently about the Pledge of Allegiance after reading this book.

I pledge Allegiance By Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson, Candlewick Press 2002

This is an excellent trade book that explains the pledge to the flag in simple terms.  There is a brief discussion about the words we recite every day at school.  Your students will think differently about the Pledge of Allegiance after reading this book.

The Flag We Love By Pam Munoz Ryan, Charlesbridge Publishing, 1996

This is a perfect book for primary students.  The illustrations alone are inspiring.  The book gives factual information below a poetic text.

Later in the week I tie in writing, art, and social studies together for a student independent activity.  Students write about what they learned about the American Flag and its symbolism- what it represents and why.  Once the writing is completed, the students glue their writing on a piece of blue construction paper.  They attach 12 inch streamers to this that will be red and white to represent the red and white stripes on our flag.  Last they take a white crayon or colored pencil and draw fifty stars.  I hang these from our classroom ceiling to display our patriotism that we are Proud Americans.

 Here is writing paper to download.

Later in the week I will upload pics of our flags once my students create them.

Have a great 4 day week! :)

Daily 5

Just finished our 2nd week of school.  On the first day of school we started building our stamina for Read to Self.  This past week we started Read to Someone.  Both are going well.  With limited wall space in my classroom.  It's hard to find places for all of the anchor charts we create.  I first write student responses for the anchor charts on chart paper.  Then I type them up into a smaller poster and/or we add them to our reading workshop folders for reference.

Here are the anchor charts for Read to Self and Read to Someone.

 and EEKK

Well I see that I'm close to another giveaway time (200 followers).  So I will be working on that this week.  Stayed tuned for more freebies and giveaway time.