Keeping Desks Clean

This has saved me from cleaning up so many messes.

I took a rectangular vinyl table cloth and cut into desk size pieces.

Whenever we are doing projects in class, the kids grab a table cloth before we begin.

Happy Johnny Appleseed Day

A fun basket of apples to draw.

We used pencil to draw first and then traced over it with black crayon.  We then colored our pictures and traced over the pencil with black crayon.  The kids finished up by watercoloring the background.


After reading our Johnny Appleseed book we made Johnny Appleseed.

Leaves

We read "Leaf Man" in class.  Leaf man goes on an adventure being blown all over.  

My class continued the story with their own leaf creations and writings.

Leaf man visited a mouse

and a giraffe.

These pictures were taken after the leaves dried out.

Feast of Arch Angels and Guardian Angels

September 29 is the feast of the Arch Angels and 

October 2 is the feast of Guardian Angels.

The kids traced their foot with white crayon for the gown 

and their hands for the wings.

Happy 10th Day of School

We made trees for the 10th day of school with 10 apples.

The kids drew the picture with crayon and wash over the whole page with blue 

watercolors.  Then dipped our fingers in the paint 10 times for the apples.

Common Core Grade Book

Our district has set strict rules about the way common core should be graded.

There should not be any averaging of grades or putting A,B,C's on papers.   

We are to watch the students and see their growth and understanding of the content to be taught.  

This sounds great, but we still have to use the computer grading program to do our grade cards.  

I just feel the computer version does not meet the needs of the common core grading.

I made this grade book for me to keep track of student progress and scores on assignments so I can look at and interpret the data.

This is my 3 ring binder I carry every where during the day to jot down notes and observations.

I have tabs for individual students and tabs for each common core content area.

I copied the pages of my gradebook on different colored paper to make it easier to identify.  I have even started using different colored pens to match the standard on each paper.

  

This is a sample page from the writing section.  

The students were to write a sentence explaining what pet they liked and why they liked it.   

The standard for this type of assignment is "writing informative text."  

I marked this code as W2 in the grade book.   

I have been writing notes about observations of  each individual student.   

This way I can look at and notice "oh, Johhny has not had a problem with periods in awhile or I keep noticing capital letters are not used over and over.  I better work with him on that more."

Each week I write down the spelling words the student did not pass.  

This way we can restudy and try again next week.

Sight words are the same as spelling.  

This student has now mastered the word tap.  I crossed it out.

 Below are other items I keep in the binder:

 Weekly phonics and reading words chart

Word fluency chart

DIBELS test results

I am still working out the bugs, but I feel I have a better understanding of the common core grading.

To get a free copy of my gradebook go to 

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/1st-Grade-Common-Core-Gradebook

hurry free until 9-17-12

Word Work Ideas

I have been reading the Daily 5 and Cafe books this summer. Here are the ideas I have been collecting for Word Work.

You can go to my Pinterest http://pinterest.com/steph_cook/language-arts/ or see below

http://larremoreteachertips.blogspot.com/2011/11/my-favorite-pins-of-day.html


Light Bright Words
http://fairydustteaching.blogspot.com/2011/09/peek-into-my-classroom.html


http://mrsfrankefirstgrade.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/word-work/


http://www.kidscount1234.com/literacy.html


wiki sticks
http://kathygriffinteach.blogspot.com/2012/02/teachers-often-ask-which-songmultimedia.html


http://www.makeandtakes.com/learning-letters-with-pipe-cleaners


http://mrsbremersk.blogspot.com/2012/04/spin-word-freebie-more-literacy-work.html


Put words here instead.
http://www.pre-kpages.com/spring-race-to-the-top-game/

http://firstgradewow.blogspot.ca/search/label/word%20work

http://3rd-grade-thoughts.blogspot.com/2012/05/word-work-word-worth.html

I made these before with rice and our words for the week.  

The tennis coach saved the tennis ball cans for us to use.

Play dough words

http://moffattgirls.blogspot.com/2011/10/ready2read-level-2-unit-1.html

Use the cups for ABC order.

http://mrstsfirstgradeclass-jill.blogspot.com/2012/03/alphabetical-order-cups.html

http://mrsrojasteaches.blogspot.com/2011/08/boggle-board-w-printable.html

http://wishesdreamslove.blogspot.com/2011/04/word-roll.html

I thought fishing for words would be fun.

http://www.makedoandfriend.com/2012/02/learning-numbers-magnet-fishing.html

magnet letters

http://www.classroomdiy.com/2012/05/diy-literacy-centers.html

http://confessionsofateachingjunkie.blogspot.com/

http://mrsreynoldsfirstgradeadventures.blogspot.com/2012/02/roll-and-spell-rainbow-edition.html

Rotate the cups to make different words

Play dough words with cookie cutters

Play dough words stamped

http://www.theimaginationtree.com/2012/02/play-dough-letter-impressions.html

 

scrabble words

http://3rd-grade-thoughts.blogspot.com/2012/05/word-work-scrabble-tile-spelling.html

I thought you could put words here.  

Maybe stamp the short a words red and the long a words blue, etc

http://tonsoffunpreschoolactivities.blogspot.com/2011/04/tot-school.html

Watercolor the words

Use clear cups with letters.  Can be stacked to make words.

http://thirdgradethinkers8.blogspot.com/

These cards are a freebie on this site

http://mrsmfirstgrade.blogspot.com/2012/07/mega-word-work-freebie.html

I will try to give credit where it is due.  Please let me know if I need to add credit to anyone of these.