Writing Conferences

Two weeks ago, I went to a week long writing conference. It was a Lucy Calkin's conference and I learned so much. One of the main things that I realized, was that when I have to confer with my students, I do not have a starting point. Now... I DO!!! I really wanted to be able to document what my students have done for every conference and I focused on the 4 subjects that our school focuses on. Focus, Organization, Support, and Convention.

This can be used for many other grades but it is geared for 4th grade. You can get this document for $1.00 at my {TeachersNotebook} store. If you need me to change anything (the grade) or anything else, or even add to one of the boxes, then please email me and I can have it to you with your changed documents.

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Stars

I am already one week into the summer, and I am eager to get back into my classroom! Today, I created a document that has the different types of evaluative questions. I took a quick picture {see below} of the stars printed on card stock paper.

I then laminated them and put them on a popsicle stick. The popsicle stick has glitter on it. I will post a picture of the final outcome very soon. If you would like to have this document {free} then click on the free button and take your creativity to another level. 

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I decided to come {back} to this post and put the finished project up. They came out so great! I am so proud of them. I ended up doing them color sorted from lower level questioning to higher order questioning. I followed the "ROY G BIV" order. I just did not use the I. I will add a picture of one star from each color. If you want the document then choose the {free} button above to get the document. 

School is out!!

Where has the time gone? I cannot believe it has been so long since I have been here. I am excited because this summer has many things in store for me! I got a puppy last night. She has been keeping me on my toes for the last 24 hours.

Since it is summer, I am so excited to put activities and things together FINALLY for next year. I will be teaching 4th grade again and I cannot wait. Today is all about word work activities. I created an amazing template that has great pages for Word Work. Below is an image of what the Word Work template looks like. There is 42 different activities and about 8 pages of blank documents for you to create your own word work activities. If you would like to purchase this, you can go to my TeachersNotebook store or click on the Link for my teachers notebook. Happy shopping and happy pinning.

Color Change

I am so excited because it's SPRING BREAK!!! So I am finally able to post everything I have done over the last two weeks in my new room!! This is my color change and my students change their colors if they are good or if they are bad. I decided to spice it up a little bit though! After every day that the students are at Super Student they will get a star on their clothespin. After 5 stars, they will get a green glitter clothes pin. After 5 perfect days with the green glitter clothespin, they move up to a blue glitter clothespin. The ultimate goal is to have the AWESOME red glitter clothespin. They truly love working for these glitter clothespin!






My next concoction was the noise level chart. At the beginning of every lesson, I would raise or lower the noise level allowed. I have one student who sits close to the the chart so I let them change the noise level when I can't get to it. The students really follow this because they don't want to get in trouble and go down to no voice!

Math Words

So after working with my fabulous fourth graders for a week...I realized they have no idea what key words they need to identify in the word problems. I created several games using flash cards to strengthen their word knowledge. Then I created some magnificent posters and went to office depot and had them blown up to fit on my cabinets. These little things have worked miracles with my students! I hope you can find use out of them. If you would like a copy of these, than you can go to ***My Teachers Notebook ***( select Teachers Notebook) and buy it here for only $1.00! Happy shopping and happy pinning!

Addition words to help students
recognize words in word problems.