A Week in Pics...

We honored those lost in the 9/11 attacks with these little firemen.  You can see the template {HERE}.  My second grade friends wrote thank you letters to firemen.  We watched a really good video, too, on Learn360.  It was a Reading Rainbow video, and it did a really great job of talking about the terrible tragedy in a kid-friendly way.

I have the Lesson Plan SOS guided reading guru packet and love it!  I got this idea from these sweet girls!   Thanks for reminding me ladies!  I use those practically everyday and went completely blank!  I just tweaked it and created my own to suit my needs.  I feel like I finally have my small guided reading groups up and going smoothly now.  Thank goodness!  I love having the students' names on post-it notes to allow for more flexible grouping.  (I should have used some cuter ones now that I'm looking at it!)  This is right behind my teacher table.

I loved The First Grade Parade's Wall of Fame idea.  I HAD to incorporate it this year.  The kiddos love it!  They love sharing all about themselves! 

 We take our weekly comprehension test and spelling test on Friday.  I use these "houses" from Oriental Traiding.  I don't think they will make it another year.  I would L.O.V.E. to get some from Lakeshore.   These are really great for keeping down the distractions.  {Not sure what that weird glow is up in the corner?!}

My good friend Emily did this really great writer's workshop lesson for us on Friday.  She is one of our Title I, school-wide teachers at our school, and she comes in my room everyday to provide reading intervention.  This lesson was all about how to form a sentence.  She talked about how all sentences need a naming part (noun) and a telling part (verb).  They got so into it!  They got to form their own sentences at the end on sentence strips (with markers...their absolute faves!!!)!  Thanks Mrs. Emily!

This is a really great app; I recommend it if you have an iPad.  It is called Teacher's Assistant.  You can enter your students' names and document anything!  I use it for behavior.  You can even e-mail your notes to their parents.  This is a great resource to pull out at parent teacher conferences!

I hope you all have a fabulous week!  Happy Teaching from Tiffany at The Lemonade Stand!!!