Five for Friday...promethean board....books and Mother's Day!

It is time to link up with Doodle Bugs Teaching!

 

 

 

This is a great book.......

 

 

 



 

 

and leads into a great activity and bulletin board/display.

 

 

As I was teaching a lesson last week on the promethean board, I told the kids..."a while ago I was teaching lessons on a chalkboard and now we use this amazing thing!" The kids know about sidewalk chalk, and have seen the little chalkboards,  but they couldn't imagine a large one on the wall. Ha! (after all, we had whiteboards in between) Anyway, I have been putting more effort into learning how to use my promethean board and it can really help in advanced planning! For example, instead of writing every detail in sub plans......

 

 

I add specific teacher instructions for those unexpected sub moments!

These set ups take a little time to create, but are worth it. The sheep sort was made a couple of years ago and luckily I remembered where I saved it!

 

Another advantage to setting up a flipchart for each day of the week...

I don't FORGET skills I want to review!

 

 

I presented it this way for two reasons:

1. They are getting very antsy right now and they don't groan because we are only doing two letters.

2. They know that snack is NEXT, and so are willing to do what I want to get to that very important event!

 

A co-worker has promised to teach me how to attach videos and/or music to a page so we can listen and sing a months of the year  or days of the week song.

I know it is probably EASY...baby steps...baby steps...

 

 

 

This time of year is so stinkin stressful!

So tired of working late, working, working, working!

Along with it other WORRIES...

will my leg heal soon....will I have to go to jury duty....are my lesson plans ready....can I pack for ESY by the deadline....

AHHHHHH!

This little quote and picture is a good reminder....

it's allllll good and will get done when it gets done!

 

 



 

 

Happy Mother's Day Mom! If you have Wi-Fi in Heaven....

I love you and miss you everyday!

 

 

 

That's all I got...

 

 

Later,

 

 

Paula

 

 

Whew!!!! We Made it to Vacation!

I had my doubts...I really did! But the last day of school finally arrived and the kids loved saying "See you next year!" as they boarded the buses, and I loved getting extra hugs. It was a good day.

Here are some things we did the last 2 weeks.

Promethean board high frequency word game. Very motivating! Students take turns choose a word, reading it and moving it to the stocking. Sometimes there is a surprise under the word, like a present or a reindeer. they placed the surprise under the Christmas tree. They loved it!

I found these great Christmas tree Bingo pages in my Christmas box. They are from funfrugalmommy.blogspot.com. I'm pretty sure I got them last year and I haven't been able to locate the blog, it keeps taking me to fun frugal homeschool, perhaps they changed their name? Anyway, I like to give credit where it is due! The circles have a sight word on them. I would say a word, they find it and dot it with the paint. Again, so simple, but fun! We had 3 different pages. 

Here's an old favorite, they line up the strips starting at the bottom, then they glue, glitter and dot! 

I must show off my first BIG FAT CHECK! I finally tried using EBATES while ordering Christmas gifts and got some money back! and there will be more! 

That's it for now, I'll try to check in later this week before Christmas, but just in case...

Merry Christmas

I hope it is relaxing and enjoyable for all of you.

Paula

Five for Friday .....,November 21, 2014

Linking with Doodle Bugs Teaching!

This week I went to a basketball fundraiser disguised as a Luau! It was great fun and I can't resist an auction! So I bought a couple of unnecessary things and also this beautiful drawing by Ross Coleman. His lovely wife works at our school.

A student with limited mobility enjoys Christmas lights. This was set up and attached to a switch, it has a timer so the lights will stay on for whatever time is set.

It is very motivating for him.

I am playing more with the promethean board, it is becoming a bit of an obsession! It began with the Connecting Math Concepts lessons and is growing steadily! The lessons seem to flow better with the basics already on a flipchart and of course...the student interest has increased!

My latest creation is a sight word game, students choose a word to read, move it to the bottle on the side , I placed a bottle there because the shape fit in the available space.sometimes there is a surprise behind the card, in this case a turkey! We played this game on the pocket chart with hidden monsters and they loved it!!the idea comes from conversations in literacy's blog!

ABOVE AND BEYOND!

I attended a training today for this program, it is a math program for learners with intellectual delays. It comes with ten frames and tiles plus some other neat stuff. It emphasizes understanding of number concepts, place value and has a whole unit on money. I loved parts of it, annnnnd didn't understand some of it! Especially their version of solving subtraction problems. It has lots of great components such as objectives listed, assessment forms, suggested accomadations. I'm planning on using it to help my students understand number concepts...1 to 1 correspondence and numeral recognition.

I am so frustrated trying to do this with iPhone and kindle fire! Ahhh! I am tech challenged already!Missing my laptop! Ok....ok....think positive....Thank goodness I HAVE an iPhone and tablet. Thank you power of the universe.

Ok, I'm done. Enjoy your short school week,

Paula