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The Street Beneath my Feet
Pass the Energy Please
Mary Anning and the Sea Dragon
You Wouldn’t Want to Live without Electricity
I am super excited to attend GSTA again this year!! I cannot wait to learn from people and share my ideas with people.Thursday I plan on learning about some reading and vocabulary strategies and science workshop type ideas.
This year is the first year where I have had everything laid out way ahead of time. I went into my first semester knowing exactly what would happen each week. And I am happy to say that it all worked out- even if we had a little tweaking here and there.
Top Five Things that Worked:
Two Things that Didn’t Work:
Grading papers is probably one of my most dreaded tasks. Don’t get me wrong I love to see how my students are doing – it just takes a large chunk of time. Over the years I have found a few ways to make grading a little more fun –
Resources you might like:
Over the years I have done many things in the realm of teacher planners. When I was in China and Mississippi, I primarily planned online and via Microsoft Word (in both places I had to submit plans via email). Back home in Georgia, my school does not require us to turn in lesson plans. Thus, I started using paper planners.
First, I made my own using a downloadable from Tpt. Then, I fell in love with Erin Condren and saved up to purchase my own. Last year, I used the happy planner. Which brings us to this year – I am using the recollections teacher planner.
Up until this point each one has not worked out. The one I made took too much time to create each year. Erin Condren was a bit too expensive for me. The rings on my happy planner kept breaking. However, I think I finally found one that will work.
This a day-in-the-life video about our two unit writing days over the summer. 🙂
In the past I ran around to all the teacher appreciation events gathering all the supplies that I could.
Check out this video from a year or so ago:
This year, however, I have refrained from doing so. I realized that I did get a lot of supplies for cheap – but I really spent a lot of time doing this when I could be focused on other stuff. It was difficult and yet freeing to not look through all the back to school ads.
I really thought about what I needed for class. Glue is ALWAYS a struggle for me. I use interactive notebooks and that uses lots of glue. And it is something that I am okay dealing with because students actually keep up with their notes when they glue them into a notebook. That being said I wanted to think of an alternative to glue sticks, liquid glue, glue sponges and so forth. So here is my solution:
I am putting glue into these bottles and it is like the best of both worlds. I can have the cheapness and refill-ability of liquid glue with the ease and cleanliness of gluesticks. I actually tested them during Vacation Bible School and they worked great. I am hoping I have finally found the real solution to my glue struggle (I have thought this in the past, but this time I am more hopefull).
I also took advantage of the target teacher discount and purchased the following:
As you can see I am in love with sloths and llamas. And I cannot say enough about pastel highlighters. What have you purchased?
