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First Week Back!

August 11, 2012 by Mary Amoson 13 Comments

First Week Back

 Don’t you LOVE it when you do back to school, thinking…
“Man, I am going to be SO ready since I worked all summer to make my classroom better than ever!”
THEN you discover that you are in WAY over your head!


Here are some of the improvements to my room…
specifically for Daily 5 with freebies along the way.
Here is my Daily 5 choice board.

Daily 5 Choice Board

{The pack you can buy also included check off sheets and so much more.
It is a HUGE time saver!!!}
Here is the board in action.

choice board

 And here is an up close version.

up close picture of the choice board

Here is my classroom library.

I do not give my kids the FULL selection of books,
but I give them access to the books I have already introduced.

Classroom library

After reading each book, I show my students how to sort the books into the labels bins.
After a few week, I will put a selection of books away and
intro another selection based off what we will be learning about.

a growing classroom library

 I love these labels because they are exactly what kinders need to “read” and sort books.

https://sharingkindergarten.com/product/starting-literacy-work-stations-set/

There are a TON of labels to chose from!

https://sharingkindergarten.com/product/starting-literacy-work-stations-set/https://sharingkindergarten.com/product/starting-literacy-work-stations-set/

We also started the Daily 5 this week.
We are NOT teaching students to select their own books just yet.
We are teaching them the 3 ways to read a book and
using the reading strategies to check for understanding and using the pictures.

Brown Bear Reader

We used the book Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What You do See?

BUT the great thing about reading strategies is that
we used them for ALL our read alouds this week.  
I created little readers for my class to color and
read during their Read to Self time while they practice using
 “Use the Pictures” strategies for Brown Bear.
Here is my CAFE signs so far… {grab them here for free}
{Here} are my reading strategy cards I created.

I have a HUGE pack of strategy cards {here.}
I have K common core cards {here.}
I have first grade common core cards {here.}

You can check some of them out below. 

reading strategy cards

AND… I made a HUGE discovery.
I needed a to post a schedule in my classroom for IEP accommodation. 
(Hmm…
prob should have done this a LONG time ago
regardless.)

BUT I found this one from Cara Carroll for FREE!!!

This set is HUGE and had so many parts. 
It made putting together my schedule so easy.
I plan to add a cute border and
eventually change my clocks to color code hour and minute hands.

You can grab them {here} for free!

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Filed Under: Back to School, Daily 5, Uncategorized

Comments

  1. charlie85748 says

    August 11, 2012 at 4:53 pm

    Thank you for the freebies. Your room looks great!

    Reply
    • Sarah Nelson says

      August 21, 2017 at 1:37 pm

      Thank u for the freebie. Love it!!!

      Reply
  2. Sharon Dudley says

    August 11, 2012 at 5:14 pm

    Great ideas!

    Sharon Dudley, NBCT
    http://teachingwithsight.blogspot.com

    Reply
  3. Cathy says

    August 11, 2012 at 8:38 pm

    Thanks for the update. We are also starting Daily 5 in kindergarten, but we are only half-day. We don't start school until Sept. 4…so keep the beginning of school year updates! You ROCK!

    Reply
  4. Bilingual Scrapbook says

    August 11, 2012 at 11:32 pm

    Thank you for the freebies! I love the CAFE signs, super cute ๐Ÿ˜€
    I am your newest follower ๐Ÿ™‚
    Alexa
    http://bilingualscrapbook.blogspot.com/

    Reply
  5. Mrs. S says

    August 12, 2012 at 4:49 am

    Thanks for sharing those cute freebies. Where did you get your plastic book boxes?

    Reply
  6. Kinderaffe says

    August 12, 2012 at 6:14 pm

    Love that you do not put all of your books out for your class. So many seem to be doing that. I will do what you do! Great bins! Where did you find them?

    Sara

    Reply
    • Mary Amoson says

      August 12, 2012 at 6:24 pm

      Those bins are from Really Good Stuff. I LOVE not putting out all my books. I think it is just too much for 5 year olds. This teaches them where to put things, plus it allows me to file MY books back in my units easily.

      Reply
  7. TeacherGal says

    August 20, 2013 at 4:19 pm

    I love your schedule cards! Already have mine laminate and ready to use! I do have a question, though. Is there any way to get an editable version of one of the cards. We have leap to read at our school and I would love to have one that says that. Thanks for any help!

    Reply
  8. Chanel | Ms. Brown's Brainiacs says

    January 27, 2016 at 7:30 pm

    Thank you so much for this free schedule! Need a new one for my classroom ๐Ÿ˜€

    Reply
  9. Annette says

    March 28, 2016 at 11:50 pm

    Thank you so very much! Such a gift for our son which is Down syndrome! : )

    Reply
  10. Jillian Brown says

    July 10, 2017 at 12:15 am

    I would love those schedule cards for my classroom. You have some great ideas.

    Reply
  11. Lana says

    August 22, 2017 at 12:17 am

    Thank you very much for sharing your fun ideas!

    Reply

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