tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85217515416055330642024-03-05T18:44:24.541-04:00horizons - imagine, dream, discoverAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517788517530920899noreply@blogger.comBlogger207125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521751541605533064.post-27898730523115478972016-11-27T09:57:00.001-04:002016-11-27T09:57:37.833-04:00A New Start<span style="font-family: inherit;">And once again, it has been a very long time since I posted anything - so I expect this message will be just for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After a long two and a half year battle with leukemia, my husband fell asleep on September 20, 2016 - and will someday wake with God. He's at peace and I have many, many wonderful memories of our life together.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One day he will see that "unlimited horizon" - the one I think of when I recall C.S. Lewis writing in "The Last Battle"...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: blue; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;">“I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now...Come further up, come further in!”</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">...and that will be a glorious day indeed. xx</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">For now, I have a limited earthly horizon but there's still lots to imagine, dream about and discover in this world and I plan to enjoy my life as Norm would want me to.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">I have nothing educational to talk about at the moment - but soon I'll be back into creating.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Looking forward to it</span><br />
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We had an awesome last week of school with fun, fun, fun activities so as soon as I stop procrastinating and get the photos off the camera and onto the computer I will share the excitement.<br />
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Hey, I may even do <i>two</i> blog posts this holiday!! Go me!!<br />
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This was actually a Halloween activity but I was scrolling through all my photos just now and came across the pictures of this writing idea - and remembered how much fun it was.<br />
Since I'm on half term break right now - and therefore in planning mode - I thought I'd plan another one of these fun exercises.<br />
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This year I'm teaching Language to Year 6 - different age group, different concepts but the same drill work it seems. Capitalization, punctuation, vocabulary, connectives, interesting openers...<br />
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Sometimes it's hard to make writing fun when there are so many rules.<br />
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Our Mystery Writing activity made things fun again.<br />
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Students had to work with a partner. Instant smiles - it took the pressure off for those who aren't such strong writers and provided the oral storytellers with a scribe.<br />
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I provided a story starter for each pair of writers - that I had glued onto their page in advance. We'd been working on settings so I made sure to write very descriptive setting openers :)<br />
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Students chose a mystery word and a mystery question out of the hat and glued them onto their sheet. (All words/phrases and questions written by me in advance and totally random. :) )<br />
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Some examples were: "purple, furry spider" and "Who ate the blueberries?"<br />
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Somewhere in the story students had to include the mystery object (in its exact words) and the story had to ANSWER the mystery question. At the end, when they read the story to the class, everyone was supposed to be able to identify the mystery object and guess the mystery question.<br />
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SO MUCH FUN!!<br />
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Instant engagement, hysterical giggles, heads together, frantic writing, more gales of laughter...<br />
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... and at the end of the lesson hands shooting up to be the first to read their stories!<br />
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We all loved it - and there was some fantastic writing!<br />
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I'm definitely going to do this again - or a variation of it. Perhaps partner/group writing of some sort. I've already got some ideas :)<br />
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The Teacher Studio has a Loved that Lesson link-up with lots of great ideas for lessons. Check it out.<br />
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Here's the link for <span style="color: magenta;"> <a href="http://www.theteacherstudio.com/2015/02/loved-that-lesson-february-close-reading.html"><span style="color: magenta;">Loved that Lesson: February :)</span></a></span><br />
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I cannot believe it has been so long since I last posted anything! In my defense there's been a lot going on in my life - and starting the new year group was somewhat challenging.<br />
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But... I love Year 6 (grade 5)!! What a great age! They're able to do so much more, can work independently, are able to have fantastic discussions... Yep, I love it!<br />
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At some point I'll gather myself together enough to post about some things we did this term but at the moment I am back in Boston in full care-giver mode - with little virtual forays into my classroom by sending letters to the substitute to post on the whiteboard and checking the class blog every day. I have a couple of students who have started "books" on the blog and it's quite fun reviewing their prologues, advertisements and first chapters.<br />
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This week I am emailing my daughter letters from Saint Nicholas - and instructing her to buy the traditional chocolate santa treats - to take into my classroom sneakily on Thursday evening and put on all the desks.<br />
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What DID we all do before the internet? I love being able to email the substitute teacher, see the videos of the Mars rovers my kiddies made and raced, get photos of the book reports that they're doing so I can check to make sure they're on the right path... The only thing we haven't done yet is arrange a face-to-face call :) Maybe that should be the next project :)<br />
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I find that being away from my home, my class, my family has made me a lot more chatty with emails and blogging - much more stream of consciousness, for which I make no apology. It's cathartic!<br />
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Just so this isn't a "text only" post here are a couple of photos from our home away from home :)<br />
I do love the autumn colors - almost all gone now but I'm glad I managed to see a little bit of the fall display.<br />
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In September I move from Year 4 (grade 3) to Year 6 (grade 5) and will be teaching Project work and Language only. I love the new project work curriculum - the International Primary Curriculum - and have started looking at our first unit.<br />
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It's fabulous - very student driven, lots of research and exploration and open to many different recording and assessment types. And turning my classroom into a Space Academy for a Mission to Mars will be tremendous fun! Making Mars rovers, designing habitats, growing "crops" for Mars - all of these things will be wonderful...<br />
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... but right now, trying to make the time to do the preparation is slightly challenging.<br />
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I did finally put everything on a flash drive and locate a place that could print all the papers - I plan a lot better with paper copies spread around me :) (Having to scroll up and down a pdf is not so good.)<br />
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But I kind of miss my home, my desk, my own surroundings - and I miss being able to pop in and out of school during the summer. And I miss having a dog at my feet.<br />
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But on the other hand the positives are: computers go anywhere and I have the summer to spend with my husband! And I may even find the Lego kits I need over here - more chance of that than at home for sure :) And Boston is a lovely place :)<br />
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Ready for school? Not quite - but that's okay :)<br />
<img src="http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/u378/designbychristi/blogs/lynnsig.png" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517788517530920899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521751541605533064.post-78066756606644743042014-07-20T16:35:00.003-03:002014-07-20T16:35:41.861-03:00For the birds :)I am currently in the middle of a wildlife photographic competition with my sister and aunt - all spawning from my sister's recent trip to Puerto Rico and my current stay in Boston. My aunt in Scotland has joined in :) Have to love the technology that allows this type of fun on face book!!<br />
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It's been a little hard to compete with the tarpons and iguanas of Puerto Rico, not to mention the pretty awesome jelly fish that washed up on the western shore of Scotland so my last entry was literally for the birds :)<br />
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Ducks and starlings - could it get more exotic? :) I need to find more urban wildlife out here!!<br />
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Here are some of our "entries" - just for fun!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love the reflections on this :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nesting swans - sadly infertile so no cygnets :(</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Would love to see one of these one day in the flesh!!</td></tr>
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<img src="http://i1064.photobucket.com/albums/u378/designbychristi/blogs/lynnsig.png" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517788517530920899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521751541605533064.post-85690045870350715942014-07-03T17:32:00.001-03:002014-07-03T17:32:30.208-03:00It's been a long time...... since I've blogged. In fact I'm not sure I even remember how :)<br />
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Life changed quite considerably for our family in May this year when my husband was, out of the blue and with no symptoms other than a few weird bruises, diagnosed with acute lymphoid leukemia. We got air ambulanced to Boston and he became an inmate of Brigham and Women's hospital for three and a half weeks where he lived in a "pod" with a whole crew of amazingly fabulous nurses and doctors looking after him.<br />
He has been considerably blessed in that he has responded well to treatment and does not, at this time, need a stem cell transplant. Instead we have embarked on a 2-year long treatment plan that involves multiple rounds of chemo and some radiation therapy as an outpatient at Dana Farber. He'll be in Boston probably until the end of September before being allowed home for a few weeks and then will return for another 6 weeks of treatment before starting an 18-month long maintenance program.<br />
I had 6 weeks off school to be with him through all the changes - and the roller coaster ride that is leukemia - and now, am spending the summer holidays in Boston as we enter phase 2. It is such a blessing having school holidays!!<br />
My class were tremendous while I was away and we used our class blog to stay in touch. The girls wrote me the nicest letters (sadly many were totally unpunctuated!) and kept me up to date on all the projects. I also wrote my reports in Boston, surrounded by all their assessment papers, which my sister brought up when she came to visit. Thankfully I had done most of their "big test" review before I left and they all did me proud!! Great exam marks this year, which was a relief :) I love that blog!!! It was such a great way to talk to my kiddies!!<br />
I trotted home for the last week of school when my son arrived to look after his dad - met my new class, said goodbye to the current class and cleaned my classroom from top to bottom for the new teacher who will take over my grade 3 class in September. I'm moving to Grade 5. This seemed like a really good idea in January but... I'm sure it will be fine - I'm going to spend the summer preparing stuff while my hubby naps :)<br />
So... it's a whole new world now. Priorities change when this sort of thing happens - and the old adage "one day at a time" is very, very true!! We've already made it through a massive E. coli infection with the attendant 30 pounds of fluid gain and loss, 20 pounds of muscle loss, hair loss and a truly spectacular allergic reaction to a chemo drug - I'm sure there are many more such adventures coming our way. It won't be an easy ride all the way but we are very secure in our faith, know that God has this - and us - and it will work out according to His will.<br />
We've had tremendous support from family and friends and church and our jobs and we've had a lot of very grateful, tearful moments as a result. I've written a zillion emails - and have discovered that writing is extremely therapeutic :) So this blog may wander off topic sometimes - be warned :)<br />
Actually, I may just use it as a personal journal because I'm not at all sure that many people read what I write :) It's kind of fun to have an empty space in front of me... and kind of nice to be back in the blogosphere :)<br />
I can't seem to find any decent photos of us but here's a quick glimpse of our family - the men are in Boston and the girls are at home :) Gotta love technology - and the silly hats the men are wearing!!!<br />
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I don't know what it is about children and narrative writing! Give my students a descriptive piece and they're awesome; they can compare and contrast quite capably; they're not too bad at persuasive writing - but narrative?<br />
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What's that? None of your business. Yes it is. No it isn't. You're a this, you're a that....<br />
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"Who's speaking?" I wail in despair, as I stare at three pages of endless dialogue with no punctuation. "Where are the setting details? What does this character look like? Who IS this character? Where, oh WHERE, is your punctuation?!!"<br />
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Then there's the student's burning need to fill three lines of the page with... RRRRRIIIIIIIIPPPPPP, or YYYYYAAAAAAAYYYYYYY or something similar.<br />
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They forget to indent paragraphs - heck, they forget to USE paragraphs completely!<br />
Spelling is a foreign concept.<br />
And cursive handwriting goes out the window.<br />
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I believe this is a universal phenomenon! :)<br />
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Recently we spent some time practicing our writing skills and wrote about The Surprise Package that nine-year old Kim received in the post.<br />
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I loved the way this lesson turned out. It took some time - and quite a lot of work on my part - but it was SO beneficial and so informative that it was totally worth it!<br />
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We started by discussing all the writing goals that we were going to do our very BEST to complete. We're focusing on embedding setting and character details into a plot right now so our Creating Text objectives were to develop setting, character and plot. We concentrated on organizing the writing into 4 indented paragraphs and we planned to use adjectives and adverbs to add detail to sentences and connectives to make them more complex.<br />
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We practiced embedding in a short classroom brainstorm session. "Sarah flicked her long, brown hair over her shoulder, smoothed her pink t-shirt over her jeans and sauntered along the long corridor toward the kitchen. The smell of burning toast and the rattle of a frying pan greeted her as she entered the bright, sunlit room..... " etc. etc.<br />
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We briefly reviewed the main idea of the story and discussed how to plan (again, reviewing everything we've been talking about all year) using our plot chart.<br />
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And then we started. The kids had to make notes about setting (using their own houses for details - I'm trying to enforce the idea of "write what you know") and character so that they could then use that information when they began to write. They were only allowed two characters.<br />
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Each paragraph had guiding questions, which, along with their plot chart, would keep them on track.<br />
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When they finished the first paragraph they came to me and we discussed it, checking to see that they had met the writing goals, punctuated properly etc. etc. Then, after making necessary changes, they went off to finish their rough draft.<br />
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Self-editing was next. Each student color coded their writing to check that they had met the writing goals. All references to setting were highlighted in yellow; character references were pink; adjectives and adverbs were blue... This way each student could see where elements were missing and could go back and add details as necessary.<br />
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Next up: self-reflection. Have I met the goals? Most students thought they had. A couple decided they hadn't and went back for more editing. A couple decided they hadn't - and didn't want to! Sigh. Teacher enforcement required!<br />
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With the highlighted, edited drafts in front of them, students wrote their neat copies<br />
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and then, in pairs, assessed a friend's writing. Using the writing goals again they found two things their friend did well and one thing that could be better. We used the Two Stars and a Wish method. :)<br />
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And then it was my turn. I took all the packs home and marked them on our rubric, giving each piece of writing a level (we level our work on a 1 - 5 system using the Ros Wilson rubrics).<br />
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I handed back the marked stories and my students read all the comments - teacher and peer alike - and then reflected on their writing. As part of their reflection they wrote goals for their next piece of writing.<br />
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This whole project took nearly two weeks from start to finish but I think it was VERY worthwhile. Not only did it give me a lot of information (which will help me differentiate my teaching) but it forced my students to take responsibility for their own learning.<br />
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Our next piece of writing will be a guided assessment - with time allowed for making setting and character notes and plot planning with guiding questions. We'll follow that with a completely independent assessment (with a short period of time allowed for planning). This method worked very well with our descriptive writing last term so I'm hopeful that it will be equally successful with narrative.<br />
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So here are some St Paddy day activities a little late.<br />
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We started the day with a grammar hunt - those mischievous leprechauns hid our test AGAIN! (But they also left gold chocolate coins on all our desks so we forgave them :) )<br />
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Beautiful weather - sunshine and cool breezes;<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16517788517530920899noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8521751541605533064.post-1895706415961255442014-04-03T19:46:00.000-03:002014-04-06T11:01:26.702-03:00Easter/Spring ProductivityI LOVE the holidays! I love it when it's sunny but cool with a nice breeze so I can go walking and still feel comfortable; I love it that my mom is visiting for a month and I can spend a lot of quality time with her; I love it that I have been super productive and have made 4 ( I mean, FOUR!!) resources this week.<br />
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These two little packs have 24 themed word problems covering a range of operations (both one and multiple-step) and come in three different formats (color task cards, b & w task cards and printables)</div>
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I am now on holiday for two long blissful weeks and can share some fun projects that we have been doing over the past couple of weeks in school.<br />
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Our topic this term was Rainforests and we had an amazing International Primary Curriculum unit that we used. I absolutely loved it - and am thrilled that we'll be adopting the IPC officially next year. I've already been scoping out all the awesome units that are available and thinking about what to do!!<br />
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One of the fun projects we had to do this term was have the students create their own fruit drink recipe using rainforest products. We tied it into our Math lessons and had them create Fraction Fruit Drinks!!<br />
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mango, pineapple, papaya, bananas, oranges, vanilla yoghurt, pineapple juice, papaya juice, cinnamon and ginger - plus bowls and measuring cups. Oh, and a blender and jugs!<br />
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The kids were given instructions: They had to have 1/2 cup of vanilla yoghurt, 1 cup of liquid and 2 cups of fruit in their recipe. The fruit had to be divided into 1 cup of quarters and 1 cup of thirds.</div>
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When all the recipes were concocted we did a blind taste test of each drink and rated them according to what we thought. The choices were Excellent, Okay and Disgusting. (There were a few Disgustings, I'm sorry to say :) but for the most part the kids liked their concoctions)</div>
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As you can see, Drink B or Gold Swirling Passion was our winner! </div>
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One of my students was absolutely outraged that she had voted her "very own drink" as being Disgusting - which just proves that our blind taste test worked. :)</div>
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We graphed our results and the winning drink was served to the parents at our Rainforest Cafe at the end of term. </div>
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Of course the parents had to do a little work too - they had to guess the ingredients and the proportions of the mystery drink. Sadly, no-one got it all right but my generous kiddies awarded their parents with housemarks anyway. :)</div>
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This was such a fun project and I think it helped my class see a practical application to Math.<br />
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With displays of spices - allspice, cinnamon, cardamom, ginger and nutmeg - food stuffs like chocolate and minty gum, tangerine slices, pau d'arco tea and ginger tea as well as banana plants and allspice branches, my room smelled divine all day! Add a few coffee beans and it was the place to be in the afternoon. I'm seriously considering hanging some cinnamon sticks around the room permanently!<br />
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The kids touched and smelled and tasted - and wrote notes and drew pictures. Some of them drank four cups of ginger tea but no-one wanted seconds of the pau d'arco. (Can't blame them - it's pretty disgusting! I only had it because my husband, for some weird reason, really likes it!)<br />
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The gold and diamond display was quite popular - I retrieved my diamond ring twice from a little girl's finger - and all of us loved the orchids that another teacher leant us for the morning.<br />
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A most successful morning - we're looking forward to our Cafe for the parents. :)<br />
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This week the first student in my class read her 25th book, achieved a full rainbow of ribbons on her bookmark and card and we celebrated in style!<br />
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We gathered on the carpet and had a formal presentation of her 25-book ribbon, Rainbow present (notepad, pencils and colorful "love to read" bracelets) and a fancy certificate to take home to mom and dad.<br />
Then I showed the class her NEW bookmark and card - with the special Bookshelf of Fame award book printed on it - (they all oohed and aahed with excitement :) ) and we all marched to the bulletin board to watch the official signing of the Bookshelf!<br />
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And THEN, just to make it more fun, the student got to hand out little cups of rainbow skittles so that the whole class could celebrate with her. :) That was definitely a hit.<br />
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And what happened next? There was a FLURRY of reading activity - and excited chatting about how close the next person was, discussion about what books everyone was reading, counting of AR quizzes and books in reading logs... it was awesome.<br />
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I can't wait for the next ceremony!!<br />
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There are a LOT of fantastic resources and they're all organized neatly into categories.<br />
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If you're looking for some fun Spring-themed resources head over and <a href="http://flapjackeducationalresources.blogspot.com/2014/03/10000-pinterest-peeps-spring-giveaway.html"><span style="color: magenta;">ENTER HERE</span></a>!!<br />
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Welcome to the Bright Ideas Blog Hop - a great place to find a TON of fabulous ideas for the classroom!<br />
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Starting in September, with the very first piece of descriptive writing that my new little 3rd-graders complete, I save up to 5 pieces of writing a term and store them safely in a tray behind my desk. I don't tell my students I am doing this.<br />
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I try to vary the pieces - we always have a descriptive piece, a letter or diary entry, a narrative, one or two poems, a compare and contrast, an opinion, maybe a report of some kind - the possibilities are endless. Just save whatever you want to during the year. Last year I let everyone choose their favorite blog post and we printed a copy of that in color for the Writing Book - they loved that!<br />
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At the end of the year I make a whole pile of stapled construction paper booklets, use a computer class to get the kids to design a cover for My Writing Book and then pass out all their samples to glue in - in order.<br />
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They LOVE it! By now they've completely forgotten what they wrote about back in September and they love comparing their first piece of writing with the last piece. Their comments (usually rather scathing) are very funny!<br />
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Once everyone has glued their book together we spend a whole morning passing the Writing Books around and reading everyone's work. It's a great end-of-year activity.<br />
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I always get feedback from parents about the Writing Book - it's a great Grade 3 keepsake. :)<br />
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Now, make sure you visit Sara at The Colorful Apple to find another Bright Idea - this one is about Anecdotal Notes for Reader's Workshop!!<br />
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Alternatively, check out all the links below for more fabulous ideas for your classroom. They're divided into lower grades and upper grades for your convenience (but I always like to visit both sections since some ideas can always be adjusted :)<br />
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Yesterday half of our year group was at a PE event and we were left with just 24 students overall. Obviously we couldn't get a lot of work done so we took advantage of our small numbers and went to visit the island-wide Primary Art Show.</div>
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It was a beautiful day so we walked through town, stopped to play in a park for ten minutes or so and then continued on to the gallery.<br />
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I have to say I was very impressed with all the art samples! And I took photos of quite a few projects that I thought we might be able to adapt at some point in the year. :)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These were made by Grade 1 students - kind of pretty!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I liked these cardboard fish and owls - it would make<br />some fun polygon practice.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">3-D art was very popular. Both the fish<br />and the rocks pop out in this piece.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Handprint Sunflowers! So pretty!!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And this was one of our favorite pieces! My<br />co-teacher and I immediately thought of<br />a way to adapt this art for our rainforest<br />unit!!</td></tr>
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<br />And finally, here's some art from my own kiddies - they finished their papier mache snakes this week and put the googly eyes on them. I walked in yesterday to find a "snake party" going on in the classroom!! Most of the girls went for pastel colored snakes this year. :)<div>
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<br />It was a nice, quiet day and much enjoyed by all. Back to normal today - the lull before the Sports Day storm of excitement tomorrow!! :)<br />
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Earlier in the year I blogged about a new reading incentive scheme I was trying out in the classroom and I thought I'd revisit it since it has been successful beyond what I expected!<br />
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one student is within 2 books of being the first person to get on the Bookshelf of Fame (can't wait for the award ceremony!! I think I'll make a real production out of it and get some enthusiasm going!!); the bulletin board cards look prettier by the day as they collect more and more colors; </div>
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My kiddies are READING!! And no-one (and I mean NO-ONE has lost a bookmark!!)</div>
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So... since this has been so awesome - and since someone recently asked me if I had made it available for purchase - I packaged it all together as a product. Just a note that it is not editable - but student names can easily be filled in by hand in a pretty marker and it will look just as nice. :)</div>
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My procrastination today has been to think about reports and all the discussions that result at this time of the year in the staff room. :)<br />
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It fascinates me that everyone has their own way of writing the things:<br />
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Some people write by comment: all the social comments get done first, then all the topic comments, then all the language, then all the Maths...;<br />
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Some of us write each report in its entirety before moving on to the next child;<br />
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Some teachers start with the "easiest" reports and save the challenging ones for last; others do the opposite :)<br />
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Some of us edit furiously, determined to have perfect writing for the head to peruse; others figure they'll get corrections no matter what so why bother proof-reading.<br />
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Some teachers leave reports to the last minute and then work to a deadline staying up until 3 in the morning to finish; some discipline themselves to do a couple every day and finish 2 days before the deadline so they can proof-read carefully.<br />
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The only thing we ALL seem to do, no matter what year group we teach, is complain about having to do them! :)<br />
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Some pictures of our visit to Queens University to see our daughter :)<br />
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As we've studied we've built the rainforest in our rooms. We've done collages of the layers, mind-<br />
mapped a forest, painted parrots, researched animals, compared and contrasted the lives of people in the rain forests around the world with our life here - and now we're moving on to looking at the threats that face the rain forests.<br />
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The IPC asks us to "destroy" parts of our display and label it so that the kids have a dramatic visual to spark off our discussion.<br />
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So just before half term, after everyone had left school, we started to slash and burn,<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #202020; font-family: inherit; line-height: 16px;">"Exit and entrance slips are designed to help you "take the temperature" of your class in terms of student learning and attitudes to help you as you plan your instruction. It does no one any good to find out at the end of a unit that your students haven't learned all the material. That's why I started using quick learning checks such as these--I wanted to see where my class stood at each point along their learning journey!</span></div>
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