tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11922265275773955372024-03-13T14:35:44.109-07:00The Groovy TeacherLeslie - The Groovy Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767466030351708373noreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192226527577395537.post-50622109489293634262017-03-15T15:56:00.002-07:002017-03-15T15:56:33.324-07:00St. Paddy's Day and a Wee FreebieHappy St. Paddy's Day! Well almost. I just checked the date of my last blog post. Twas a while ago. Please forgive me, I know not what I do. I love St. Patrick's Day! I spend the whole day saying - Top of the Morning to ya, I wear green, I think about Ireland, and most importantly, I trick my kids. A few years back, another teacher and I made leprechaun footprint cut-outs and we spent countless hours after school, patiently painting these green prints all over the classroom. The first day that I did it, I came in the next morning only to discover that the janitor had mopped everything up. Bless his heart, that's how good he is. Well, as Mrs Tweezers tells Owen's mother - I filled him in. After that, the leprechaun kept showing up time and time again.<br />
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Thats the great thing about the younger grades, it brings out the kid in all of us. People often ask me - wouldn't you like to teach a higher level? While every level has its benefits, I just love the enthusiasm of first grade plus they are super gullible. Clearly.<br />
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Happy Summer, hope you are enjoying your time away from teaching. And if you have started back to school at this point, I wish you a smooth start and the best year ever with your new troop of kids.<br />
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Speaking of best years ever, TPT will be having their site wide Back to School Sale tomorrow and Tuesday, August 1st and 2nd. If you're anything like me, you love a good deal. So, if you've been adding to your TPT cart all summer long, it is finally time to checkout and save. PLUS, some other fantastic blogger friends and I are giving you a chance to win a $40 gift card from TPT to spend at the sale.<br />
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It's a Pug in an UGG on a rug. I'm totally going to use it to reinforce the short U sound. So cute.</div>
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On to other things I love. This is a great story and I always read it this time of year and introduce my kids to the wonderful world of chicks, well actually they're goslings.</div>
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Kids love this story and they especially love the baby geese. Each time I turned the page to reveal a new baby in action pic, the AWWWW's ensued. It is honestly a page turner from beginning to end. And as always Mo Willems does it up right with the illustrations. It's adorably funny, unpredictable and totally entertaining from beginning to end. </div>
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This ended up being a story, that even my littles who struggle so much, were able to sequence and fairly easily recall the events correctly. Chalk that all up to its overall appeal. </div>
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I managed to put together a book companion to go with it and it's on sale for the first day of Spring. You can check it out <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/That-Is-NOT-a-Good-Idea-Literacy-Math-Art-Activities-1742071">here</a>.</div>
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It's on sale right now. You can check out the entire product<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/St-Patricks-Day-Interactive-Power-Point-The-Leprechauns-Gold-2404929"> here.</a></div>
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I am linking up this week with Teaching Blog Addict for their Freebie Friday.<br />
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Since it's getting closer to Thanksgiving, I thought I'd share and re-share (if you already have it) a Math and Literacy freebie with a Turkey theme.<br />
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It's a great skills review and so fun to do. Just click on the pic above to download.</div>
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Still on a Thanksgiving theme, I created this Interactive PowerPoint to liven up my class a bit. It's fun, it's a mystery and it requires your kids to pay attention to clues and try to find which character is helping the Turkey escape. You can click below to play a sample. Remember you need to download it completely first, then play it as a slideshow for it to work.</div>
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You can check out the entire product <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanksgiving-Interactive-Power-Point-Turkey-on-the-Run-2206607">here</a>.</div>
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Anyway, I am always on a quest to make Halloween fun and a little spooky at the same time. So, I made this interactive Haunted House.</div>
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Here's how it works. There are 12 rooms in the haunted house, and for each room there are 2 identical slides that you open in powerpoint. In the first slide, your kids read the riddle that is there (or you read it to them) and then they try to figure out, from the clues in the riddle, what character is in that room. They record their answer on the sheet provided, then you go to the next slide where the character is revealed. You can have kids come up to click the answers in every room. Check out how the slides work by clicking the sample below. Remember to download, don't just open in preview, then play it as a slideshow. It's a fun activity you can do with your class this time of year. Plus the spooky sounds that play when the mystery is solved make it even scarier.</div>
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The haunted House is on sale in my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Halloween-Interactive-PowerPoint-Haunted-House-2158936">TPT store</a>, but if you'd like to win a copy, leave me your e-mail and tell me what scares you. For me, it's snakes!! I wish they didn't but they do.</div>
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This weekend, I am joining some amazing bloggers to give you tricks and tips to help Halloween run smoothly in your classroom. Let's face it, it can be a day like no other...<br />
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There is so much going on in my school on that day. I teach in a school that has all levels, Kindergarten right through to Senior High School, so the big kids plan lots of stuff for my little ones. In the afternoon, my kids visit the "haunted house" and they always, always come back from that visit totally pumped!! And wired! So, I have an activity ready to go when they return. You can click on it below to download. </div>
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Have your kids color the patterns. It helps to bring them back down from whatever candy induced haze they might be in. </div>
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Pete the Cat has saved the day for me soooooo many times. But, I think what is truly great about him, especially for younger kids, is that they make an instant connection with him and in turn with you, their teacher. I love him and the love, I'm sure, shines through as I am reading his stories and this just spills over onto the kids. Then, the fact that they can sing and dance to each of his stories…well, that's the cherry on top, it really is. </div>
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So, to start your school year off right, I am giving away the first 3 Pete the Cat books and CD's. If you've never had the chance to read these stories to your kids, enter my giveaway for a chance to win your very own copies of the books. Or if you already love him, then these are great to add to your collection. </div>
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I have a stash of books that I use for the first week of school. I love them cause they are fail safe and of all the times in the year, this is the week I need things to go super smoothly. One of my absolute faves is this one.</div>
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I love it for so many reasons - it's cute, kids love Pete the Cat and we can sing it after. But, it became part of my B2S book collection a few years ago when I had a little boy in my class who just wasn't adjusting well. He missed home all the time. Usually all I wanted to do was grab him, hug him and tell him I kinda missed home too, but I digress… I needed him to feel good about school, about the routines and the new surroundings and so I picked up this book and started reading, hoping the whole time that he'd connect with it. As always, Pete saved the day and this kid was hooked. Hooked on Pete, hooked on the music, the rhythm, the story, all of it. As far as school was concerned, he was good to go and I had Pete to thank for it. The story just gave this kid the little bit of reassurance he needed and a great character to fall in love with.</div>
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Later that same school year, I was looking through my library for my Pete the Cat books and the basket was completely empty. After some searching, I found every single title in this little boy's read to self folder. Pete - the Cat that lasts and lasts.</div>
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I have to admit that when I first starting teaching, I knew of a few children's authors and some great books, but I had barely scratched the surface. Now, after so many years of reading story after story, I feel like I've gotten a handle on what books really work for me. And what I've discovered is that the books that really work for me fall into their own special category. I call them Mesmerizing Reads. For me, these books are the absolute best because as I read and watch my kids' faces, I can't help but notice how truly captured they are by the story. No one is looking out the window or playing with a dangling bracelet or elbowing their neighbour, they are engrossed in the book. And that is a magical moment for a teacher.<br />
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I think part of the reason a mesmerizing read works so well has a lot to do with how invested kids are in the story. They truly want to know what happens. And my role at that point? I READ on…<br />
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A story that mesmerizes my kids year after year is this one.<br />
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This is the story of a sweet little badger named Hazel. She heads out one morning, along with her doll Eleanor and Eleanor's beautiful carriage, on her own little adventure. After some shopping and candy tasting, Hazel ends up in a park across town, having taken a few wrong turns.</div>
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After Hazel's mother has rescued Hazel and Eleanor, Hazel's asks her - "Mother, how did you do it?" <br />
to which, Hazel's mother responds "It must have been the power of love." As I read this page to my kids, one of my little sweethearts said "AWWWW." She just GOT it. I reminded myself in that moment to never underestimate the understanding of a 1st grader. They will amaze and surprise you.<br />
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Hazel's Amazing Mother is part of my Picture Perfect Books series. It's the first in a long line of mesmerizing reads that I want to share with you.<br />
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You can buy a cleaner that is made specifically for white boards, but it's usually really expensive and I go through it so quickly that I end up needing a new bottle often. So after a bit of trial and error, I discovered that a little rubbing alcohol cleans them up perfectly. The higher the percentage the better, I used 90% and my white boards look brand new. Plus rubbing alcohol is way cheaper than the products made just for white boards. Give it a try, it works wonders, even on tired, old, whiteboards.</div>
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We've been learning about measurement in my class. It's probably one of my favourite Math units. It's so fun! Once we made the switch from non standard to standard units and my kids all knew what a centimetre was, we were measuring everything we could get our hands on. It makes it so much easier when first graders have a reference point and you tell them how long an Ananconda is (very popular snake in my class at the moment) and they can totally relate. So, to finish off the unit, we decided to measure a Kindergartener. Just for fun.<br />
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We had a blast! And Kindergarten kids can be very cooperative when they're being measured. It was great hands on learning for my kids. Afterward, we took all of our data and arranged the Kinders in order of height from shortest to tallest.</div>
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Enter - The Grade 6 Chicks. We visited them. As in, we went down the hall to the grade 6 class and visited their chicks. And the fun began…<br />
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And once the fun was done, well we wrote about it and it made for some truly genuine writing, the kind of writing you don't always get from a random prompt. </div>
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Since that chick day, I have been working harder on letting my kids write about what matters to them. It's not always easy because it means I need to let go of the reins a bit. Plus, I tend to fret over the kids who are less motivated. I had one little guy come to me in the middle of our Penguin unit this year and tell me - "I'm not really that interested in penguins." While I appreciated his honesty, turns out since then he has repeated that same sentiment about polar bears, sharks, dogs, pretty much anything. So, giving a kid like that freedom to write worries me a little because I fear not much will interest him. Aside from him though, the rest of my kids like having the freedom to write about whatever sparks their interest. So much so, that the prompt is now an option each morning. I let my kids choose the journal prompt or write about whatever they want and I love it this way. The other day, I read journals all about the world of Pokemon and the one thing I noticed that morning was those little Pokemon writers were not at a loss to write. They had lots to say. So, onward and upward from here. My kids are free to write, I have to take a step back and just let them be. I know they will impress me.</div>
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<img align="center" src="http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g447/eschaff/Groovy%20Teacher/sgn7.png" />Leslie - The Groovy Teacherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07767466030351708373noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1192226527577395537.post-67032654411960065742015-02-07T10:12:00.001-08:002015-02-07T10:17:25.163-08:00Polar Bear Writing and a Shapes FreebieJust before I give you an update on what's being going on in my classroom, I just want to tell you how cold it has been here. It is sooooo cold that even my little fur ball of a dog will only stand on the deck for a few seconds before begging to come in. And she loves to be outside, so that's saying something.<br />
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Since it is so cold, we've been learning about an amazing animal that just happens to love that kind of weather - the Polar Bear. You gotta love them. While I was researching the Polar Bear, I came across this movie and ended up watching it. It's fantastic and the scenery is beautiful.<br />
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My kids are little so I only showed them parts of it, the Polar Bear parts of course. We did lots of great activities during this unit, but my favorite was this writing.</div>
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My kids wrote about The Life of a Polar Bear Cub. To get them pumped for their writing, I started with this great story.</div>
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It's basically a day in the life of a Wombat. Really cute read and it helped my kids to imagine that they were polar bear cubs when they were writing. </div>
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Now we are onto Penguins and Shapes cause I am hoping to make these two things come together at some point. Click on any of the pics to download.</div>
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After all my kids are finished and I display the snowmen or "snowmans" if you're a first grader on my bulletin board, it looks lovely. It's so easy to do! Here are my kids in action.</div>
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All you need is background paper (I used blue), snowman pattern, click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwOIXuHJZFHHdzNWekZkcVNmSFk/view?usp=sharing">here</a>, some glitter glue or just plain glitter and pieces of felt. Follow the pattern, the scarf goes around the snowman's neck in 2 strips. I get my kids to create a pattern with the felt pieces. We use the glitter glue to make fun snowflakes, but there are many other things you could use for the snow. One year, I just had my kids draw snowflakes with white wax crayons.</div>
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I'm linking up this week with my friend Erin at <a href="http://mrsebeattie.blogspot.ca/2014/11/a-year-of-awesome-with-not-so-awesome.html">Mrs. Beattie's Classroom</a> for<br />
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We spent a lot of time on Monday making our poppies for Remembrance Day. This takes a little bit of red tissue paper, a little bit of green tissue paper, some liquid glue, a popsicle stick, concentration and perseverance. My kids did a beautiful job.</div>
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Then, in keeping with the poppy theme, we had our Remembrance Day ceremony on Tuesday. We had talked at length about the Veterans in the weeks leading up to this, and my kids were so happy to see "real" Veterans. </div>
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It has started to get colder out and that of course makes me think about Winter, which makes me think about hibernation, not for the animals exactly, but more for myself. Hibernation = Winter Survival. Anyway, all this leads me to think about this sweet story, which we started to work on.</div>
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I Love this story so much. The characters are the sweetest ever and year after year, kids respond so well to it. We started by voting for our favourite character and then drawing it.</div>
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May I just say that by Thursday, I needed a nap. I fell asleep on the couch after school for like 2 hours. Talk to me Teddy. As always, I had my faithful nap buddy by my side.</div>
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We ended our week with an amazing, awesome Read to Self. It was the first time this year that my kids were totally on task and everyone stayed in their reading bubble for a whooping 15 minutes!!! I am so happy about this. We have worked so hard to get to get to this point and it was a great feeling to see it work so well today.</div>
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That's it for my week of awesome! If you like those Read to Self posters, just click on them for the free download. Hope you link up with Mrs.Beattie's class so I can read all about your awesome week.</div>
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So, one thing that was just not working in my class was the line up. I don't mean the line-up to go to recess or lunch, I mean the LINE UP, the one kids make when they have <strike>rushed through</strike> finished their work and just can't wait to show you. For me, this line up is my enemy. It starts out straight, then it takes a right curve, then a left, then the talking starts, there's touching, some poking, it's anarchy. And as this line begins to snake across my room, it blocks my sight lines and what was, 2 minutes before, a very quiet class working diligently has now turned into Happy Hour at The Keg.<br />
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I needed to fix this once and for all. So I put it on my list, gave it some thought and came up with this.<br />
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I know, I'm really fortunate I can write right on the floor with a Sharpie! Now the LINE UP has some order (no pun intended). You stand on a face and wait your turn. Rules - only 4 kids at any given time. No touching - how could you anyway the reach is too far now. Wait quietly so that the person who is with the teacher can concentrate. And I am happy to say it works like a charm. </div>
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Just wanted to end by saying Happy Halloween. My kids took this sweet little book home for homework today.</div>
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October is a great month for picture books and there are so many good ones. Here are just a few of my favourites.<br />
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<span style="text-align: left;">Even though October is half over, I still want to share my Smart Board Math Problems. We do one of these problems every day to get Math class started, then we work on another problem from my 200 set in our binders. My kids love using the Board to interact and solve each one. Here are just a few.</span></div>
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You can have a better look at the preview <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/October-Math-Word-Problems-for-the-SMART-Board-1478038">here</a>. If you'd like to win a copy, leave me a comment and I'll choose a winner tomorrow.</div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">This month has been so busy that when it was time for my daughter's 21st birthday and I was shopping for candles for her cake, they were all out of 2's and 1's, so instead of going somewhere else to find them, I bought three 7's instead. Teach much!? Aren't we always thinking of numbers differently?</span></div>
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But, she loved it just the same. This cake is awesome BTW, for the recipe click <a href="http://www.tastebook.com/recipes/1049279-Oh-My-Chocolate-Layer-Cake">here</a>.</div>
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Anyway I needed to be rescued. And there was seriously only one thing that could save me. Meow.<br />
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He saves me every year. I haven't met a kid yet who doesn't love Pete the Cat. They are just mesmerized listening to the story and even more so when I play the song. I LOVE him. So I've been riding this Pete the Cat wave all week. They are hooked. Just click on any of the pics to download this Pete related stuff.</div>
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Despite my 1st grade haze, I have managed to update my Rules. They are a little bit Whole Brain Teaching, but not quite cause I haven't fully taken the plunge. But, if you think you can use them just click, there are 5 in total.</div>
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Even with my haze and general numbness all over, I love my Firsties. I put a smelly sticker on their Math work the other day and a little cutie said to me "I can't stop smelling my sticker Miss, I just can't control myself." Love that and totally get it!</div>
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In the meantime, I have actually been working a bit. I re-vamped my Daily 5 posters to include an EEKK and I Pick poster.<br />
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I started making these sight words during the school year and never finished, so my word wall ended up being about half full. Bad I know. Anyway, I finally finished the first 100!</div>
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Last but not least, I always start my year off with Pete the Cat. We read all his books, talk about how cute he is and do fun Pete stuff. This year, we're going to Write the Room - Pete style.</div>
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Hello friends! Are you ready for a HUGE giveaway? I have gathered together with some AMAZING teacher bloggers and we have put together a fantastic set of prizes for you. We have 42 bloggers participating, so we are giving away a prize pack of 14 products each to 3 winners! :) You can enter on the<a href="https://www.facebook.com/1stGradeFriends" target="_blank"> Firstie Friends Facebook Page</a>, and you can earn a LOT of entries. Go to the tabs under the header picture and click the tab that says "Giveaway". The giveaway will end on Monday, August 4th at 8pm CST. At the bottom of this post you will also find links to ALL of my Firstie Friends' stores! :)</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I haven't had the chance yet to classroom test it, but I did the next best thing - I just </span>pretended<span style="font-family: inherit;"> to be a kid and explored. It is extremely easy to use and as a Teacher, I love that all their book choices are levelled from P, which is easiest, to level 4, most difficult and challenging. The level is displayed on the front of every book cover. Farfaria has over 600 </span>titles<span style="font-family: inherit;"> and 5 new titles added weekly. Lots of variety is also a big plus for me cause I like to be able to give my </span>kids as many book choices as possible<span style="font-family: inherit;">. Each book has a Read to Me or Read Myself feature.</span></div>
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The app is geared for 2 to 9 year olds and there are literally all kinds of books to read, fiction, non-fiction, sing song books, fairytales and more. Your kids can explore the magical Farfaria lands like Fantasy Falls, Adventure Island and my personal favourite Mt. Make Believe. With the iPad, kids can choose their own genre of discovery and the library is always Open. </div>
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One of the things I like best about the app is that it highlights and tracks each word as the child reads. This is a must have for my first graders. I am going Back to School with Farfaria. If you would like to give it a try, you can download the app for free <a href="https://www.farfaria.com/">here</a>, but it only allows you to read one story. If you'd like a chance to win a 3 month subscription to Farfaria, enter the Rafflecopter below for your chance to win.</div>
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My 1st Star Idea involves school supplies. Every year on the first day of school, my kids arrive with all their stuff. Piles and piles of it, it's overwhelming to say the least. I find it very difficult to sort through all that and still be dealing effectively with my new batch of kids and all that goes along with that. Here is a look at just a fraction of my supplies on the 1st day last year. </div>
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I had so many other things to deal with that morning that I just left everything in a pile at the front of my room and ended up sorting it at the end of the day. Took me a long time. So…. never going to do that again. My Star Idea - This year, I asked my parents to make a quick trip to school in the days before classes begin, so that they can drop off supplies and give me any other information that they need to. So much easier and neither of us will feel rushed. It also gives me a chance to check and make sure that each child has what they need and nothing has been forgotten from the list. </div>
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I try to be as organized as I possibly can on that 1st day. But, there is always so much to do. When I take a look at my classroom on those first few days back before the kids come, I start making list after list of things I want to get done. The list ends up being so long that I never get through it all. My 2nd Star Idea - this year I decided, before I left in June, that I would get cracking on my list right away. So this summer, I have taken a bit of time to organize my classroom from home and I know that this will save me time in the long run. Here is a bit of what I've done.</div>
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Getting my book baskets ready. I have some now, but they really needed a facelift.</div>
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Getting my reading folders and notebooks ready, labels and all.</div>
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And finally, getting my Teacher planner ready!</div>
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My wish - to improve my ability to assess my kids quickly. I've noticed that it takes a while to really size each child in my class up, so that I know what kind of learner or reader or thinker or little person I have in my possession for that year. This school year, I hope to get on that more quickly right from the first day of school. I use this Pack to help me find out what interests my kids and it gives me an idea of how they think/work right from the get go. </div>
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