My Math Vocabulary Posters

Do you use My Math?  How do you like teaching vocabulary?

I have made some vocabulary posters that correlate to the My Math program.

When I teach vocabulary to my students, I always start out with using Mirrors and Words (WBT).  Then we go on and do Teach! Okay!.  I absolutely love this way to teach my kiddos vocabulary.  The students LOVE learning vocabulary this way.  It makes it fun for them!  I plan on using these posters as my Power Pixs for Math.  This way I have all of the vocabulary my students need to learn for the year.

On each poster there is a vocabulary word.  The definition. A visual to help the students learn the vocabulary and the correlating lesson.

I can't wait to print these off and begin using them.  I hope you like them too.  Please click the picture to take you to my store.

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November Fun!! Pilgrims, Wampanoag, and WBT

Last week we learned about the Pilgrims.  I thought I would have my kiddos complete a research project on the Pilgrims to fulfill one of the Common Core Standards.  Throughout the week we worked on the research project together.

I bought

Pilgrim Shared Research for Primary

and it made the process easy peasy and fun for the students!
Here are some pictures of our final project.
 

 My students did an awesome job on the project!  I am so proud of them!

Then, this past week we learned about the Wampanoag tribe!

Who are the Wampanoag? 

Ask my students and they should will know! 

We had so much fun this week learning about the Wampanoag tribe. 

We started our the week talking about where the Wampanoag are from.  The students drew a picture to explain where they were from.

Next, we talked about their houses and how they make their houses.

Next, we talked about the jewelry the Wampanoag people wore and tried to make our own version.

I was so surprised at how well my class did making their necklace. 

Then we make the hair of the Wampanoag tribe.  The girls made braids.

Aren't they adorable with their braids?!

The boys made Mohawks!  Did you hear my boys scream when they found out they were making these?  They were so excited!

Aren't they adorable with their Mohawks?!

Here is a whole class pic with the hair.

My students just loved learning about the Wampanoag tribe!  If you are interested in these projects, I have made a packet of them at TPT.

Do you recognize this man?

 Last Saturday I got to go to a WBT conference.  I was super excited!  I had SO MUCH FUN and I LEARNED so much!!  I had already been implementing WBT but going to the conference motivated me to do it more and I learned more tricks.

 Coach B and me

It was so great to finally get to meet Coach B after seeing him on numerous webniars.

If you don't know about WBT (Whole Brain Teaching) go to the website and check it out.  It will change the way you teach!

Thanks for stopping by!  Have a great Thanksgiving!

Time Flies

I can't believe we are already in the middle of October!  Boy, this year is flying by!  My class has been very busy.  We just started our second nine weeks.  I feel like there is too much to do and not enough time.  What happened to kids being allowed to be kids?

Anyways...

We had a super busy week (like every week).  We learned numbers 0 through 5.  We got out manipulatives to help the students better understand the numbers.  I love seeing the students' faces when I get out manipulatives.  They think they are so cool.

This year I have noticed my students have more trouble than usual with sight words.  I keep coming up with more and more ways to help them learn them.  One of my new things to do is have a code word for my door.  Every time throughout the day we come into class the students give the word a high five and say the word.  (I hope this helps them).

This year in order to be highly effective we have to have our objectives posted.  I have went round and round with how I want to do this.  I have looked and looked at Pinterest but I think I have been doing the easiest way for me to get them posted.  I go over what we are doing every morning with the students.  This is how I decided to post my objectives.  Super easy and quick! 

This week we went over the Noun PowerPix.  It was so cool to see the students understanding what a noun is.  I did this activity over two days with the post it notes.  The students really had a great time using the post it notes and posting them on our poster.  I know we still have some work to do on getting all students to know what a noun is, but lots of students are comprehending it.  I am hoping this will help the students make sentences too.

Another way I am trying to help my students learn their sight words.  We did this activity every day this week.  We read the sight words first.  Then I would have the students get out a certain color and then color the sight word that I told them to color.  On Friday, I gave the students the words again, but this day was the full page.  The students were so excited for this whole page.

This week I changed up my Scoreboard.  It seemed like the students were getting a little bored with it so I decided to add the Turtles to it.  I know my son likes the Turtles so I figured my class would too.  I also added the level so it would seem more like a game.  Also, I decided to count the tallies each day instead of using it the whole week.  I think for my kinders the whole week was too long for them to really get excited about.  I told them that if the turtles won we would take time to dance in the afternoon.  Although Shredder kept winning this week, I hope they earn their dance party next week. (hopefully they will since the full moon will be over).

This week my kiddos were very talkative.  To help with them talking so much we had to go over the classroom rules.  Everyday we practiced them.

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Teach, Okay!!

Today I decided to try to take a quick video of some of the different teaching tools of WBT.  My students saw that I was holding my phone, but I don't know if they realized I was video taping them.  Please excuse the shaky quick clips that I have taken.  I just thought it would be great to have you get a glimpse of my classroom and see how the students are learning. :)

The first video you can see is of the rules.  Since day one of school this year my class has practiced these rules.  We have discussed what they are and how to follow them.  

The second video for you is the video of my students practicing the PowerPix from WBT.  I absolutely love the Powerpix and the Teach, Okay method!  My students are understanding the concepts and I couldn't ask for anything more. It is really cool to watch them answer the questions and really know what they are talking about.  The greatest thing about Teach, Okay is that I get to watch and see who is understanding and who isn't.  I can then pull them aside if they are not understanding and help them understand the concept.  I am very proud of my class and the progress they have made so far.  We recently just added the switch part so some students are still catching on to that but I see them trying and really "getting" the concepts. 

How is your school year going so far?  Are you using any part of WBT in your classroom?

 

SIW Update

This year I am trying out the Super Improvers Wall from Whole Brain Teaching.  

At the beginning of the year I had the white stars placed throughout the whole board.  I soon realized that yes, it looked good, but the students were not able to reach their stars.  If the students couldn't reach their stars to place their stickers on then I didn't think it would motivate the students as well.  I ended up moving all the stars lower so the students would be able to put their own star on.

Last week was my first week implementing this wall into my classroom.  I had to test the students on their alphabet knowledge again for mid-terms.  If they improved from the beginning of the year, I gave them a star.   It was so cool to see how excited the students were to add a star to their star.  I can't wait to have them add more.  I do think this is going to be a great motivator.  

Have you started using your SIW?  How is it going?

 

Day 9 of 2012, WBT

Today was my 9th day of school.  Rules and procedures have been in place and practiced.  I believe that the students should be able to follow and understand the rules and procedures now.  We started Daily 5 on the second day of school.  I always think it is so overwhelming to get my kinders into the Daily 5, however this year my students are doing AWESOME!!!  Take a look for yourself!

We have been building our stamina for Read to Self and Work on Writing.  We are around 7/8 minutes for each.  The students get so excited when they beat the time from the previous day.  I always go back and forth on if I want to do Daily 5 or if I want to do my regular centers.  This year is difficult because Daily 5 takes time and dedication to teach the students.  I have to be ready by the first of September for guided reading groups!  I love Daily 5 but it has really stressed me about not being ready.  After thinking and thinking about it, I decided to continue with Daily 5.  Daily 5 is great and makes the students LOVE reading and writing.  Although I think my other centers do it, there is just something about Daily 5 that keeps bringing me back to do it with my class.  My fingers are crossed that my class will be ready by September for small groups, but if they are not, then I will deal with it then.  

At my school we have certain worksheets we have to complete during center time.  It is a part of our reading curriculum.  I love that Daily 5 doesn't have any worksheets with it.  It is all hands-on and that is the way I love to teach.  What I have worked out in the past is that the students have to complete their worksheet first, then they go to their first choice of Daily 5.  

Well, I have taken the leap!  The leap to WBT!!  So far I have taught my kids Class! Yes! and the rules.  Today I started Teach!  Ok!.  I am loving all it!

I didn't think I really liked the 3 peats!  I thought it made the students look like robots.  Well, let me just tell you.  They are AWESOME!!  The 3 peats help the students remember/know what to do.  It helps them learn to do things quickly!  It gives them motivation to follow the direction quickly!  Oh my!! I just can't believe how much I love them!!  They are my new favorite thing.  Today I also started some of the Power Pix.  I look forward to using them more and more and Teach! Ok!  I can't wait to see the difference this makes in my class this year.

Well, I am off to redesign my lesson plan!  Also look for a new 5 Senses integrated unit on TPT (another one of my favorite things).