To all of our teachers, please continue to share and send me things that are working for you!
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Thank you to one of our new teachers, Bernadette, for sharing the following two documents with us that she is finding success with! One is her SLANT poster with an excellent acronym reminding students how to show that they are actively listening. The other is her system of students showing different numbers of fingers for different requests. To all of our teachers, please continue to share and send me things that are working for you!
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Happy 2015! As you begin the new year with your students, take time to celebrate all of your experiences in 2014 and how much you've grown because of them.
Here's wishing you and your students a 2015 full of moments that will lift and inspire you. PS- Don't you love this door that one of our first year, fifth grade teachers created with her students? These weeks before winter break are always busy, busy, busy for teachers and students. I know that many of you are trying to complete end-of-the-quarter assessments and projects while also preparing for holiday programs and family nights. Not to mention that students are bouncing off the walls a little...(that sugar high from Halloween never ended, right?)!
The best way to focus our students is with engaging, hands-on collaborative activities! Check out these science circuit stations, math investigations, and the self-assessment chart! These classrooms are filled with the spirit of learning! Lots of hands on learning and critical thinking going on in your classrooms!
We love what we see happening in your classrooms! It has been an honor working with you during these first exciting, overwhelming, beautiful months of your teaching career. I learn more about teaching and learning each time I visit with you and your students, and am inspired by all that I see. Thank you to those of you who sent me things to share! Things that are WORKING for YOU! * I collect data on the students on a name chart that I have on a clipboard. I try to only use initials. This helps me to remember or note any problems or good things I saw the students doing. If I need to I use a mini post it to add more to a person's square. I take a whole week's note on it, so I often notate the day of the week it happened when writing down. * Our school has classroom websites that are password protected (http://manoaschool2-27.weebly.com/) and I also send emails to my parents informing them of what is happening, * In our student planner, we have a weekly goal/reflection section. Students set their own goals on Monday's, and on Friday's they reflect if they met their goal. We just started filling this section out on our chart. * This past week we focused on our writing and my students wrote letters and drew pictures to their parents/guardians about what they have learned so far in second grade. I was proud of the letters they wrote, and how excited they are about writing letters. I look forward to giving the letters to their parents at PTC. :) These are my students' progressfolios. Each progressfolio has all of their tests and quizzes in them. * My students are writers!
Loving the positive classroom environments and celebrating colleges for our college bound students!
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