tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88329373437289400462024-03-13T06:39:23.803-05:00Learning Adventuresin second gradeKaydi Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591636773254312333noreply@blogger.comBlogger340125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832937343728940046.post-77608206702908070352016-09-13T17:16:00.000-05:002016-09-13T17:16:43.655-05:00Blog Hoppin Teacher Week 2016 Last week was Blog Hoppin's teacher week. I look forward to this every year because I love learning about and getting new ideas from other teachers.<br />
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My relationship with Jesus is the most important thing to me. I am in awe when I think about how He has changed my life. I still have so far to go to be like Him but praise God He's not finished with me yet! </div>
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My husband and I have known each other thirteen years and been married for ten. We met at the church we attended for the last thirteen years. We switched churches a couple of months ago, and it was just what our family needed for all of us to grow in our relationships with Christ. We have two sons together who are 7 and 10. Our older son is the people pleaser and our younger son is the unpredictable one. They are both sweet boys with big hearts who love to have fun. My step son is 15. He is learning to drive and is in band at the high school he attends. He has an excellent work ethic, and I'm so very proud of him. </div>
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I teach two classes of 2nd grade ELA and social studies. I usually have 35-38 students total between the two classes. </div>
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I am a huge Alabama Crimson Tide fan. We got rid of cable and the dvr a couple of years ago, so Saturday's activities revolve around the Tide's game schedule. My dad and his family are from Alabama, so I was raised a Bama fan. Of course I'm raising my boys to be fans too! </div>
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I love reading, white chocolate mochas, and Sonci Vanilla Cokes when I haven't given up sodas. Ha, ha!</div>
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One of my very favorite lessons is to introduce adjectives using skittles. Skittles give the students so many different descriptive words to use. And of course we eat our skittles because it helps us think of more adjectives. </div>
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This is my cozy lil classroom. I teach at a local charter school that use to be a church. Our classrooms are tiny. But we make it work. We learn about cooperation and self control because we are all literally on top of each other all the time. I have become even more organized and very creative with how I use my space. </div>
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I wear lots of cotton dresses with blingy flip flops when it's warm and tall boots when it's cold. I like to wear a lot of black and bright colors. These days I'm buying all my clothes from The Zig Zag Stripe. It's a local boutique, and she has a website. She is my size. It's nice to have cute, comfortable clothes that do not accentuate my problem areas. And to be able to tell how something will likely fit me once it has arrived on my doorstep is a huge bonus!</div>
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I am blessed to have had many teacher friends I have loved working with over the past 12 years. These are two of my recent favorites. We are all at different schools this year, and I miss them so much. I'm so glad we can make time to see each other still. </div>
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My room is tiny, and we are packed in tight. It does help me stay organized because there is absolutely no room for piles or messes. </div>
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I keep my decorations to minimum, and only keep up current anchor charts. This helps students focus in on what is important and current. </div>
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The bulletin boards are new this year. They also hung a bulletin board for each teacher out in the hallway this summer. It has been five years since I had a bulletin board or a guided reading table. I was so happy to walk in my room on the first day back and see these things.<br />
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<u>Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse</u> by Kevin Henkes is one of my favorite back to school read alouds. Before we read, I told the students I wanted them to pay attention to how Lilly feels as different events happen in the story. As we read, I stopped at a couple of places to have them predict how Lilly was feeling after different events. Then we brainstormed Lilly's different feelings and added them to our chart. </div>
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We also started our self portraits. I love to do self portraits at the beginning and end of the year to see how much their abilities grow. The students were pretty impressed with their drawing skills. On Thursday and Friday, we finished our portraits, created our all about me flap books, and then mounted our finished products on construction paper to display in the hallway. Both activities are from Amy and Hope's Back 2 School Engagement unit. I'm so proud of how they turned out. </div>
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We also read <u>Edward the Emu</u> and used the predictions activities from Amy Lemons and Katie King's <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Rooted-in-Reading-August-August-Read-Aloud-Lessons-and-Activities-2530579">Rooted in Reading August</a> unit. The students were excited to set up and begin using their reading notebooks. I can already tell I have a deep thinkers like this sweetie.</div>
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My own boys started 1st and 5th grade this week. My step-son starts his sophomore year on Monday. Time seems to be moving so very quickly. </div>
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<br />Kaydi Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591636773254312333noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832937343728940046.post-4503171432779227802015-10-31T22:03:00.001-05:002015-10-31T22:03:51.506-05:00November Literacy Stations & Self-Control I finished my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/November-Literacy-Stations-2180048">November Literacy Stations</a> earlier today. There are five activities and are TEKS aligned. The activities include:<br />
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*Thankful Synonyms-match synonym pairs<br />
*Gobble Gobble Verbs-sort verbs as strong or weak<br />
*Thanksgiving Common & Proper Nouns-sort nouns as common or proper<br />
*Turkey Trot Spelling-spin a spelling pattern and record words<br />
*Terrific Thanksgiving Sentences-locate hidden words in a picture and create terrific sentences<br />
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<br />Kaydi Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591636773254312333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832937343728940046.post-34283582568782200852015-10-18T18:20:00.002-05:002015-10-18T18:20:52.495-05:00Spiders-Peek at my Week We will be using <u>Spiders</u> by Gail Gibbons and lessons from Amy and Katie's Rooted in Reading October unit. My students were so excited about Stellaluna last week, and I have a feeling they are going to love learning about spiders this week!<br />
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After reading <u>Enemy Pie</u>, we discuss examples of kindness and unkindness in the story. Then students wrote about the ways the boys showed kindness to each other in the story. We also did a directed-art drawing of the main character. We glued our writing and our illustrations to a sheet of construction before hanging them in the hallway. The students did such a great job-I'm so proud of how they turned out!<br />
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This activity is from my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Character-Traits-Kindness-2041138">Character Traits: Kindness</a> unit.Kaydi Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591636773254312333noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832937343728940046.post-43379690300838055202015-10-12T17:57:00.000-05:002015-10-12T17:57:56.764-05:00Peek at my Week 10-13-15This week I'm excited to use the <u>Stellaluna</u> lessons from Amy and Katie's Rooted in Reading October unit! We also have midterms on Tuesday and Thursday.<br />
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I just added October Literacy Stations to my store. There are five activities that cover different skills. I will use these activities as part of a mini lesson this week in whole group before adding them to literacy stations. The activities include:<br />
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Pumpkin Sentences-types of sentences (statements, questions, commands, exclamations)<br />
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Halloween Photo Subjects & Predicates-match sentences with pictures, circle the subject and underline the predicate<br />
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Monster Sentence Mash Up-combining subjects and predicates<br />
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Apple Singular and Plural Nouns-sort nouns as singular or plural<br />
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Monster Nouns-sort nouns as people, places, or things<br />
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Kaydi Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591636773254312333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832937343728940046.post-345602073797771382015-09-06T21:46:00.000-05:002015-09-20T17:25:00.406-05:00Peek at My Week 9-8-15 This week we will work on identifying the main idea and important details when we read. Then we will use that information to write a summary. We will also work on fiction vs. nonfiction and sort characteristics of the two genres.<br />
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In writing, we are still working on procedures for our mini lessons. This week, students will write about an activity they like to do with their family or something they did with their family this weekend.<br />
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We will learn about and identify the subject of sentences during our grammar mini lessons this week. We are still introducing and using activities from my School is Cool! Literacy Stations resources.<br />
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This month's character focus is courage. We will work on defining it this week and discussing our courage quote for the week. This resource was just added to my store. The link is included below.<br />
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1. My faith and my family are the most important things to me. We have busy soaking up all the time we can with my Grandpa and brother while they are in town.<br />
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2. This is my eleventh year teaching. I'm not sure how that can be since it feels like I graduated with my certification yesterday, but teaching is my passion and I love it more and more each year.<br />
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3. I love to read! My friend and co-worker, Krissi Dallas, is writing this amazing series of book called The Phantom Island series. They are young adult fiction, and a good, clean, fun read. I just love them.! She currently has four published, and is writing the fifth one now. They are great if you're looking for fun, easy read. You can purchase them on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Windchaser-Phantom-Island-Book-1/dp/1613464517/ref=pd_sim_14_3?ie=UTF8&refRID=0XSWV6XFW69MMNR1AKN6&dpSrc=sims&dpST=_AC_UL320_SR212%2C320_">Amazon</a>.<br />
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4. My life verse is I Thessalonians 5:16-18.</div>
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"Rejoice always;</div>
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5. I love Alabama Crimson Tide football! I'm so glad football season starts this weekend! Roll Tide!</div>
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On Friday we had a fill in the blank quiz about our rules. Then we finished up rules book. </div>
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On the first day, we read the story and focused on the Pirates' character traits. I modeled identifying the traits and using evidence from the text to confirm the character traits. Then we charted their character traits and the students had to support their answers with evidence from the text. I teach two classes, so I recorded one set of answers on one color sticky notes and the other classes' answers on different color sticky notes.<br />
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On Thursday, we read <u>Pirates Go To School</u> again. This time we focused on the characters and setting. As we read, we identified the characters and the setting. Then we created an anchor chart and sorted pictures as an example of characters or setting.</div>
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We also worked on writing stories about what would happen if pirates were in our class. On Friday, we made pirates to go with our writing. The pirate patterns are from Rachel Lamb. You can get them <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pirate-FREEBIES-Would-you-rather-whats-your-pirate-name-craftivity-1455167">here</a>. </div>
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It's such a blessing to have had both of these classes last year. We did a quick review of procedures, and things are running smoothly.<br />
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<br />Kaydi Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591636773254312333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832937343728940046.post-46016935239824611172015-08-20T17:46:00.001-05:002015-08-20T17:46:16.240-05:00First Day of School Yesterday was mine and Logan's first day of school! I can't believe my baby is in 4th grade! This sweet boy told me yesterday that he wants to be a preacher when he grows up. Bless his heart!<br />
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I'm blessed this year to have two of the classes I taught last year. There is only one new scholar in each class. They were reminding each other of our procedures, so I didn't have to do very much with procedures at all.<br />
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In English, we read <u>Pirates Go To School</u> by Corinne Demas. We focused on identifying character traits of the pirates. I modeled this for them as we read. Then afterward, they brainstormed character traits of the pirates and defended their answers with evidence from the story. We sorted some pirate and school words by the number of syllables. Then we brainstormed ideas for what if pirates were in our class. These activities can be found in my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pirates-Go-To-School-Literacy-Unit-1886562">Pirates Go To School</a> unit.<br />
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In Social Studies, we focused on our class rules. We reviewed each rule and discussed a couple of examples of each. Then I had situation cards that we sorted as the students were following the rules or they weren't following the rules. Finally, they began working on their classroom rules book where they filled in the missing word for each rule, illustrated an example of the rule, and wrote a sentence about their example. These activities are from my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Classroom-Rules-Pack-1906299">Classroom Rules Pack</a>.<br />
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Today was my baby's first day of kindergarten! I'm not sure how we got to this point with this guy either. He's the last one I'll send to kindergarten. It was a hard day for this momma, but an awesome day (his words) for him! Of course, this crazy boy wants to be Batman when he grows up! </div>
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Kaydi Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591636773254312333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832937343728940046.post-62906582381105751262015-08-16T22:13:00.002-05:002015-08-17T07:02:40.059-05:00Peek at my Week-Back to School The first week of school has finally arrived! We have teacher inservice and meet the teacher on Monday. Then on Tuesday we have the day to use at our discretion. We can stay home or come in and work. Finally on Wednesday, the little darlings arrive! I am super excited because I will have two of my classes from last year.<br />
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I teacher second grade English Language Arts and Social Studies in a university model of education school. We are a K-11th grade school this year. Next year, we will add 12th. We have two classes in each grade level. This year first though fourth grades will have all four core classes each day, so I'm going back to teaching five days a week after three years of teaching a Tuesday/Thursday only schedule. It's going to be an adjustment for our family, but I am so excited! I will teach 2nd grade ELA and SS in the morning to the B class, and then repeat the lessons in the afternoon for the A class. When the other class is not with me, they are with the math/science teacher. Our elementary students have PE two days a week, music two days a week, and art one day a week. We have a shorter school day; our students have classes from 8:30am until 1:50pm. Once I get my schedule worked out in practice and not just theory, I'll share that with you too.<br />
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On to my plans. You can download the PDF <a href="http://bit.ly/1fjz3CV">here</a>.<br />
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Head over to <a href="http://www.mrswillskindergarten.com/2015/08/peek-at-my-weekclassroom-tour.html">DeeDee's</a> to check out more lesson plans!<br />
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My classroom rules pack has rules posters in two sizes. It also have a couple of sorts to help your students understand what following these rules practically looks like. There is a rules contract to be taken home and signed by the teacher, student, and parent. There are also two versions (younger and older) of the Classroom Rules book for students to complete.<br />
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My Pirates Go To School unit has reading, writing, and word work activities that are perfect for the first few days of school. The reading activities focus character traits, setting, and feelings. The word work activities include abc order and syllables. The word work activities are perfect to move into a literacy station. The writing is If pirates were in my class. These activities go with the book <u>Pirates Go To School</u> by Corinne Demas.<br />
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Finally my School is Cool! literacy stations is filled with activities perfect for the beginning of the year and are a review of skills from first grade, but also address second grade TEKS. These stations come in a full color, partial color, and black and white version.<br />
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<br />Kaydi Shawhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09591636773254312333noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8832937343728940046.post-89992179128269879122015-08-01T23:47:00.003-05:002015-08-01T23:49:17.752-05:00Currently AugustI'm linking up with Farley for <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/2015/08/currently-august-2015.html">Currently August.</a><br />
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I'm watching Grown Ups 2 with my hubby. These movies always make me laugh.<br />
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Today was my older son, Logan's 9th birthday. We played and swam. We had our special birthday breakfast and chocolate chip cookie cupcakes. He declared it a great day!<br />
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I'm thinking about things back to school all the time. I mean all the time. Like sit up in the middle of night because I randomly thought of something school related all the time.<br />
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I have ten glorious days of summer vacation left, and I'm going to enjoy each and every one of them.<br />
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I need to get my classroom set up. It's the first time in three years I will have a classroom to myself. I can't decided if I'll try to set up my room early or not.<br />
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I'm planning on handing out some random treats to some of my favorite teacher peeps the first week of school. I'm thinking notes, cute supplies, homemade treats, etc.<br />
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Thank you to Amy at <a href="http://www.teachsparklesmile.com/2015/07/i-love-b2s-and-good-sale.html">Teach! Sparkle! Smile!</a> for the cute graphic!<br />
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My entire store will be on sale.<br />
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Happy shopping!</div>
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