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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Data, AYP & Intervention Lesson Plans

So my school didn't do so well the past couple years. To be fair our campus has been in flux for about 4-5 years now & things have caught up to us.

What this means for every teacher is that we have to document, document, document & document that we're documenting what we're documenting.

A few weeks ago we began doing our usual round of yearly benchmark beginning of the year (BOY) testing. So now we're in the throes of getting small groups put together for interventions & such.

I already use the conferring forms from The Daily Cafe, the Daily 5 website by The 2 Sisters. I got the idea for my data binder, which is called a pensieve, yes like in Harry Potter, from here. Great idea, total common sense, but it made sense finally here & since then I've seen incarnations all over the web.

Whilst poking around pinterest, I made time tonight, I found this link to The Curriculum Corner that had some great forms for tracking data & record keeping for reading interventions & small group info.

So I'm off to grade papers & complete my plans for this coming week. Can't believe it's October already, before you know it Halloween, my favorite holiday, will be here!!

I'll be back soon :)

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Some Beginning of the Year Freebies :)

Some of my Beginning of the Year (BOY) letters & forms I used this year!

**Please download then edit, so that others can see & manipulate the originals as needed. Thanks!!!


Meet The Teacher Letter

HERO Folder Labels
Writer's Workshop Labels

Behavior Note to Send Home


Monday, September 3, 2012

Into The Great Wide Open Spaces

Whew, What a week!

First week obligations to getting our babies back into the routines of school: eating lunch with them every day to ensure proper lunchroom behavior, no recess due to high TX temperatures, procedure repetition (over and over and over and over again) until they get it.

Yeah, that last one I had to keep reminding myself about, lol. I was so used to my kiddos last year having just known by the end of the year what to expect & what was expected of them that I forgot I needed to get a new crew used to not only mine, but their new classmates' eccentricities. Made for a fun 1st day, hehe.

As the week went on I got to know my kiddos a little bit better. It's going to be a great year I can tell, I'm looking forward to all the new things I'm gonna learn from this group ;)

True there's a lot more things that will need to be done this year, but I think in all honesty it'll make me a better teacher & even more responsible & accountable than I have been, and that's ok, I can accept that.

Here's to 12-13 School Year!