Around the Room

Ideas for my blog strike me daily. I compose in the car on my way home from work, while I'm teaching, when I wake up at 6am... but in all of these times I don't get the opportunity to actually blog, I just have great ideas. I started keeping an "Idea" notebook in my purse, but I rarely write in it because my ideas come while I'm visiting with parents, in the middle of a conversation with a new acquaintance, or even in the middle of worship at church. Those are not the most opportune times to pull an "Idea" notebook out of my purse and jot down an idea before it jets out of my brain. So this is what you get. The moments when I finally break out of my schedule and to-do list and take a moment to blog about the latest developments in my classroom.

Development #1- We Read to 100!

I found this idea in an old file, and I decided to bring it back to life by creating a bulletin board for my students to keep track of the books they were reading during center-time. I challenged them to fill the boxes in with their initials to show that they could read 100 books in a week. WE DID IT! I was so proud of them. Last Thursday when we accomplished our goal, a countless number of my students made their way to my desk to announce that we had read 100 books. They were so proud!

This is the chart with all of their initials. This was a great
opportunity for me to teach them their initials.

They also took the final five minutes of center-time and made a cover from one of the books that they read. Compare them to the real cover and see how you think my little illustrators did.

The Hungry Little Duck

 



Mr. Lincoln's Whiskers







Baby Wild Animals



I have some fabulous Readers and Illustrators!

Development #2- My students are quite proud of their mice that they colored and assembled after reading:
 If you Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Numeroff.

Once again... I want to share so many more things, but time does not permit today. Enjoy the work that I have posted!