As already mentioned, I use the number system as well. I never write students names on anything until I see the "whites of their eyes" at our...
I don't have any photos in my room, either. Although there is a photo of my dog, Simba, up on top of my cubbies with gifts that I've received...
You'll find that everything just seems to fall into place when you have your own classroom. Just remember that your first year is a learning...
One thing I do to boost reading fluency/expression/rate is to assign sections of the story to each student on Monday and then I give them about 10...
Today is my last day of freedom, too! I have training tomorrow morning and then I'll head up to school to start working on lesson plans. The...
I'll sit at the horseshoe table to grade papers or work. I do have a small desk that my classroom computer sits on so I can also grade papers at...
Like many others, I got rid of my desk, too. I like the idea of putting your horseshoe table next to your teacher desk so that you are sort of...
Maybe 15-20 minutes to allow the entire class (32 students) to go through the library. They would normally do it during SSR so it wasn't too big...
Our school has ELL students. There aren't many but I know that we have them. There is a teacher in each grade level that is assigned to have them.
I'm not sure how this is working at my school. There was supposed to be three SEI teachers ... 1-3, 4-6, K 7-8 (why the 7/8 teacher would be...
Here's mine: http://www.bubbleshare.com/album/431399/overview#15030367 I'm just glad that I'm finally done!
I'm using it solely as something for my students to do outside of the school day. Some of them might spend more time rushing through their work...
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This would be my suggestion for a free website. I found it to be very user friendly and easy to navigate through.
This is exactly what I do and have been doing for the past two years. It's the only way I can find to not spend my weekends working. I have also...
We posted class lists today, which is two weeks from the first day of school.
I have a word wall and a place to display their work up on my walls. I don't do a calendar wall because I feel like that's for the primary...
I usually play instrumental soundtracks from various movies. My favorites are Braveheart, Lord of the Rings, The Patriot, and Pearl Harbor. I...
With a wiki, I would imagine you would have to link all your pages to the main "home page" which is the page you linked on the first page of this...
So it's going to be like a classroom website with some pages to collaborate on? I guess you should start with deciding what pages you want to...
