Apps for BYOD

Check out this infographic with some great ideas for using devices to accomplish your learning objectives.


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Learning with Pumpkins, Spiders, and Ghosts

Check out all of the awesome ways our students are learning! With pumpkins, spiders, and ghosts, our students have been busy working on grade level skills.

Conferences in Action-Welcoming Displays

Blogger of the Week

Check out this kindergarten blog by Crissy Mertzlufft.  Even with twice the number of students, twice the number of parent teacher conferences, twice the number of everything....she still manages to share lots of great information with her families.

A Doc McStuffins Mini-Lesson from Mrs. Green's Class

After a very successful mini-lesson in writing, Mrs. Green posted this great post on her blog.
From: Mrs. Green's Blog

So, my daughter Hadley, loves to watch Disney's Doc McStuffins.  For those of you who don't know, she's a little girl who diagnoses problems with toys and then fixes them.  She gives diagnosis a name like 'NoBatteryitis' or 'NeedsOilitis'.   It's super clever. 

Well, In writing yesterday, I was teaching how to revise our narrative pieces to make sure our writing sounded good.  Basically, do we repeat words (and, then, I, etc.)? OR do we leave out punctuation creating a whole page that is one sentence?  I had a sample of my writing that I had purposely made into a run on joined by a bunch of ands.  I was trying to get the students to revise my writing but they just couldn't see it.  FINALLY, after a ton of guesses someone said "you have too many ands Mrs. Green!"  It finally came to me!! I had 'anditis'!  So, I asked them if they had ever watched Doc and most of them had.  I told them that a lot of them needed to have a diagnosis.  Immediately they came up with a few 'syndromes' that they knew they needed to 'heal'.  I sent them off to write and within about 5 minutes we had a full list of them...it was a perfect way to get them to revise their own work! Look for our list to grow in our upcoming lessons!

Check Out These Math Visuals

Math Centers in Action

Fact Fluency Practice

Real World Problem Solving with Halloween Candy

Graphing Practice with Skittles

Making arrays

Small Group Lesson with Teacher

Center Organization

Student Friendly Objectives

Amazing Kindergarden Writing

Check out this mini-lesson on labeling their writing.  These students are so smart.  They were working on sound spelling and even knew to add an -s to a plural word.

Labeling in action. Way to go!

Writer's Workshop in Action

Teacher conferring with student about small moment 

Students composing on their blog 

Students choosing what to write about

Students Keeping Track of Their Reading

Parent/Teacher Conference Ideas

Here are a few resources for you as you prepare for Parent/Teacher conferences.  As always, we want to take the time to praise parents for the great job their child is doing and provide them with some areas to work on for the next quarter.  

A free download from TPT.  Just some guidelines for talking about strengths and areas of development.

Check out some great ideas for using a student self-reflection sheet.

Have students create their own report card.  They can assess what they have been doing well and what areas they need to work at.

Here is a list of pins on Pinterest with various conference ideas.