tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33691503271750607882024-02-20T02:32:16.824-05:00Teaching star studentsSarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890904652815689710noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369150327175060788.post-83693092252765713382014-02-09T19:27:00.000-05:002014-02-09T19:29:45.739-05:00Olympic Resources for 4th and 5th Grade<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Olympics are a great chance to talk to your students about different types of sports and the host countries. I love the Olympics for many different reasons. Countries send their best athletes to compete in many different types of sports. The host country is put in a spotlight and we can learn something new about a place we might not of known abut. There are also amazing stories of people over coming incredible odds. The Olympics is a great event that we can all learn from and enjoy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I put together a list of resources from online that can be used in upper elementary classes when teaching or simply discussing the Olympics. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.timeforkids.com/minisite/2014-sochi-olympics" target="_blank">Time For Kids</a> - This site give you Olympic Coverage, Athlete Features, and other Olympic information.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.olympic.org/" target="_blank">Official Olympic Site</a> - This is your one stop shop for everything in news. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.nbclearn.com/science-and-engineering-of-the-2014-olympic-winter-games" target="_blank">The Science of the Olympics</a> - NBC has put together short videos that explain the science behind different Olympic sports and other elements of the games. The videos include definitions for science words that are used. Gotta love that!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://letsplaymath.net/2008/08/05/the-olympics-math-puzzles/" target="_blank">Olympic Math Puzzles and Games</a> - There are different types of puzzles and games on this site that are Olympic themed. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.theeducatorsspinonit.com/2014/01/winter-olympics-themed-books.html" target="_blank">Book List 1</a> - The Educators' Spin On It has compiled a list of books fiction and non-fiction about the Olympics. This list includes book for students at all levels. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.haverford.k12.pa.us/page/1117" target="_blank">Book List 2</a> - This list focuses on 4th and 5th grade books. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.casdonline.org/education/components/scrapbook/default.php?sectiondetailid=30344&" target="_blank">Olympic Project</a> - Guilford Hills Elementary has resources for students projects that focus on different sports. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://greece.mrdonn.org/lessonplans/olympics.html" target="_blank">Ancient Olympics </a>- Mr Donn has many different resources for the Greek Olympics. This is focused on summer games but does explain how the games started. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Below are a list of sites with facts about Russia that you can use with your students to learn more about the host country. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/kids/places/find/russia/" target="_blank">National Geographic</a> <a href="http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0930073.html" target="_blank">Kids from Russia</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> <a href="http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/countries/russia.html" target="_blank">Fun Russia Facts for Kids</a> <a href="http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0212302/russia.html" target="_blank">A Kids Life in Russia</a> </span><br />
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based on their level. I pulled passages from <i>Willie Wonka
and the Chocolate Factory, Tuck Everlasting, The Phantom Tollbooth, Stewart
Little</i>, and <i>Ella Enchanted</i>. The students read the passage, and
created a graphic organizer of the main idea and supporting details. Using the
graphic organizer they wrote a paragraph including the main idea and supporting
details and drew a picture that showed this. The picture was the hardest part,
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Little</span></i><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> - passage describe what Stewart
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890904652815689710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369150327175060788.post-55287586764635022922013-06-12T13:02:00.001-04:002013-06-12T13:02:15.886-04:00Job Change!<div style="text-align: center;">
I just completed my 7th year as a classroom teacher and have loved every moment. My husband and I have been working for several years towards the goal of me being home with my daughter. This year it is finally happening! I am excited to see how this new job goes and what I can do with my daughter. Not being in the classroom come August will be a BIG adjustment but one I am excited to make. </div>
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Of course I am going to blog, blogging is just too much fun to give up :) </div>
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My new blog is <a href="http://encourageplaylearn.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Encourage. Play. Learn.</a></div>
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<br />Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890904652815689710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369150327175060788.post-45417671202506109722013-06-11T21:02:00.004-04:002013-11-25T22:33:35.048-05:00Civil War Activites and Resources<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At the end of the school year we completed my favorite unit of the year, the Civil War. I wanted to post each activity we did but decided to create one big post with everything in it. So, here it is everything we did as we learned about the Civil War. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><u><b>Underground Railroad and Secret Quilt Messages</b></u></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In a previous post I shared the book we read and the site we used </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">to discuss how quilts were used in the Underground Railroad.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://teachingstarstudents.blogspot.com/2013/04/underground-railroad-quilts.html" target="_blank">Underground Railroad Quilts</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.civilwarsoldier.com/cws_confederate_soldiers.htm" target="_blank">Original Idea</a></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.civilwar.org/education/contests-quizzes/crossword-puzzles/" target="_blank">Civil War Crossword Puzzle</a> </span></div>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890904652815689710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369150327175060788.post-72103587203064322742013-06-11T20:41:00.003-04:002013-11-24T18:36:27.128-05:00Key West Labor Day Hurricane <br />
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This year my students read the book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1416907823/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1416907823&linkCode=as2&tag=encoplaylear-20" target="_blank"><i>Blown Away</i> by Joan Hiatt Harlow</a><a href="http://./">.</a> This is a wonderful book that tells the story of the 1935 hurricane that hit on Labor Day 1935. The students and myself enjoyed this book, it is a page turner. <br />
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After reading the book my students were given two articles about the hurricane. One article was eye witness accounts of the hurricane and the other was factual information about the hurricane. The students used this information to completed a literature writing assignment which included several questions and the front page from a newspaper published the week after the hurricane hit. <br />
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890904652815689710noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369150327175060788.post-78324229984324638012013-04-25T20:30:00.001-04:002013-11-24T20:43:15.108-05:00Underground Railroad Quilts<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We are in the middle of our Civil War unit, my FAVORITE unit! I love teaching history and this is my favorite part of the year. Today, we read and talked about the Underground Railroad. My students were very interested and asking lots of great questions. We read the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679874720/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679874720&linkCode=as2&tag=encoplaylear-20" target="_blank"><i>Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt</i> by Deborah Hopkinson</a><i><a href="http://./">.</a> </i>This is a great story about Clara creating a quilt/map that leads to the Underground Railroad. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After reading we discussed how quilts were used along the Underground Railroad as secret codes for the escaped slaves. My students then created their own secret code quilts using the site <a href="http://pathways.thinkport.org/secrets/" target="_blank">Pathways to Freedom</a>. The site shows you examples of patterns that were used and then lets you create and explain your own quilt. This was a quick and easy activity that went great with the book. </span>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890904652815689710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369150327175060788.post-21572115524346219882013-04-12T20:43:00.000-04:002013-11-24T20:43:04.833-05:00Queen of the Falls plus so much more!<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you have never read the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0074A6HXS/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0074A6HXS&linkCode=as2&tag=encoplaylear-20" target="_blank"><i>Queen of the Falls</i> by Chris Van Allsburg</a> you should! It is a great story about </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Anna Taylor,</span> the first person to ever go over Niagara Falls. I have a lot of boys in my 5th grade class and it is hard to keep them interested sometimes. This book and project kept them interested. Below is a basic daily layout of how I used this book in my classroom.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="color: purple;">Day 1</span></b> - We started by reading about<a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B54DfyLEGphIOUJEMC1LU0doZnM/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=3369150327175060788" target="_blank">Niagara Falls</a> and looking at pictures of the falls. When I first asked what they knew, the students could only tell me that it was a waterfall and that a man tight rope walked across it, <span class="st">Nik Wallenda in 2012. This actually took longer than I thought it would, the kids were really interested. Living in Florida we do not see waterfalls unless we are watching TV or traveling, so we had a great discussion about the falls. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After all of this discussion, I read aloud <i>Queen of the Falls</i>. I read until the barrel went over the falls and then stopped. :) All my students asked, "Did she live??" or "What happened?" I asked a few basic questions such as: do you think she lives?, if so will she be hurt? Then I finished the story. The kids were amazed that a 63 year old woman survived the 165 ft fall. It still amazes me every time I think about it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I asked the students how the information we read about Niagara Falls helped the students understand the story. This was a great opportunity for the kids to relate the story to the non-fiction text we read about Niagara Falls. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>Day 2</b> </span>- </span>I posted several different questions about the book. We discussed the student's answers. We then read a poem titled, <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B54DfyLEGphIR2k1TmxzRHdlV00/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Queen of the Mist</a>, which tells about Ms. Taylor going over the falls. (We became very familiar with Ms. Taylor and referred to her as someone we all </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">knew </span>personally). As a class we talked about the poem and then students discussed with a partner how the poem was similar and different from the book. I try to compare different types of text as often as possible. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: purple;"><b>Day 3</b></span> - Throughout our discussions of Ms. Taylor and reading about her, my students ask, "Did anyone else go over the falls?" On day three we learned about the other 13 people who intentionally went over the falls. I listed only the names of each person on the board and let the students pick who they wanted to write their report on. <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B54DfyLEGphITHBWWmtmdktCRTQ/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Niagara Falls Daredevils</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To keep the kids in suspense, I did not let the kids look at their paper or the picture of their person until everyone had pick a daredevil. When I said, "Ok, you can read your paper." They were silent followed by comments such as; "Oh my gosh!" "This guy is crazy!"I love this part of teaching, watching the students get so excited about a topic. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After reading through their report, they completed the venn diagram on the <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B54DfyLEGphIRkN1UlV5ekpVclE/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Daredevil Report</a>. Students compared Ms. Taylor to their person. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We also read Native American legend <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B54DfyLEGphIbTluTVBVUmY1bXc/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Lady of the Mist</a>. Legends and folk tales are always fun to discuss. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am a little behind on posting this project, blame it on my pre-Spring Break vacation. :) The project was turned in a month ago but I was busy then forgot, so here is it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My 5th graders each completed a <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B54DfyLEGphIZ3Y0ektpeWhkMUk/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank"><span style="color: purple;">13 Colony Project</span></a>, personally I would rather be given a fun project than a test. So, I tend to assign projects over test for social studies. For this assignment I picked 4 different projects that I thought the students would enjoy making and required the students to learn about different aspects of the Revolutionary War. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This project is a switch up from the <span style="color: lime;"><a href="http://teachingstarstudents.blogspot.com/2012/06/13-colonies-project.html" target="_blank">13 <span style="color: lime;">Colonies</span> Project</a></span> that my 5th graders did last year which was a power point. This year I decided to go with a more hands-on project. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. <b>Hands-On Map</b>: the map showed the 13 colonies and included 6 major events that were hidden by a flap, sliding window or other moving part. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. <b>Newspaper</b>: the paper was written as if the the Revolutionary War has just ended and includes editorials, news stories, political cartoons and other columns commonly found in a paper. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> This week my Five for Friday is all about the family cruise we took this past week. </span><a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2013/03/five-for-friday-linky-party-march-1.html" target="_blank">Doodle Bug Teaching, Five for Friday. </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">4. No clocks or windows in our room. Waking up with no windows or clock was the best part of my morning. What time is it?? I have no idea or reason to find out. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">5. Family. This was a family cruise with all of my husband's family. We were able to celebrate my sister-in-law's birthday and spend the week together experiencing something new. Priceless.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am linking up with <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2013/03/five-for-friday-linky-party-march-1.html" target="_blank">Doodle Bug Teaching for another Five for Friday. </a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. FCAT Writes is over! YAY! Now on to Student Treasure Books and Reading FCAT. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. I found the bottom of my teacher bag! It does exist! Grades for report cards were due today, which forced me to clean out my bag. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4 & 5. The <a href="http://teachingstarstudents.blogspot.com/2013/03/mud-walk.html" target="_blank">Mud Walk field trip</a> was so much fun it counts for two numbers on my list :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students searched through the organic matter (mud) for animals. They were standoffish at first then they really got into it. They found tiny worms, dragonfly larva, a small fish, snails, beetles and other things we had never seen. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Next up was the mud walk! The parents were "trees" for the kids to hold onto. We started on a normal trail then it became a mud festival. Some of it was wet and DEEP and other parts were STICKY. If we had not Duck Taped our shoes we would of all come out barefoot. It was so much fun!! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890904652815689710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369150327175060788.post-911178772150858122013-02-26T21:09:00.001-05:002013-11-24T22:58:44.641-05:00Good-Bye FCAT Writes!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am so glad that FCAT Writes is over. </span></div>
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890904652815689710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369150327175060788.post-13695509756242897502013-02-22T20:02:00.001-05:002013-11-25T20:22:36.465-05:00Knots on a Counting Rope<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I found an amazing story called <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0805054790/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0805054790&linkCode=as2&tag=encoplaylear-20" target="_blank"><i>Knots on a Counting Rope</i> by Bill Martin Jr</a>. If you
have never read this book it is wonderful story about a Native American
boy who ask his grandfather to tell the story of when he was born. There
is symbolism and theme all throughout. I love the story and wish I had
found it years ago. It is a 5th grade Common Core book. </span><br />
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<span style="color: orange;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I did so many things with this book! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First I read the book aloud but did not show the pictures. Then I gave copies the story text only, no pictures, to the students. They created list of character traits for the grandfather and Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses. The students used their story text to find proof from the story to support each character trait. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On day two the we discussed the mood of the story when the boy was born and when the boy raced for the first time. Again students used the story text to find proof for the mood of the story. This was a great conversation! On day three we discussed the theme of the story. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;"><i>Day four was the best day!</i></span> The students had not seen the pictures from the story at this point. The students had discussed the book so much they were very excited to see the pictures and story. We watched a read aloud on YouTube, <a href="http://www.schooltube.com/video/eeb607ab847fee91b426/Knots-on-a-Counting-Rope" target="_blank">Knots on a Counting Rope</a>. After watching the read aloud the students realized that Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses is blind. A few of my students had caught on to this earlier in the week but we did not discuss it until now. The students looked for clues in the text that showed that he was blind. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our week was cut short because of county testing or we would of spent another day on this. :( </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This has been my FAVORITE lesson with 5th grade this year! It was so much fun to read this book and spend so much time digging deep into a book. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of my favorite book reports my students complete is the cereal box book report. This report allows the students to be creative with their report. The directions are of the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SYsS5I3odVMxEYRSifOYVxbzkY05F6VZXDjAkYvl0e8/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Cereal Box Book Report</a> are on my Google drive. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is my first <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2013/02/five-for-friday-linky-partyfebruary-15th.html" target="_blank">Five for Friday with Doodle Bugs Teaching</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">1. After several busy weeks and not being able to post on my blog I have been able to post 4, YES 4 new post! </span></span><br />
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890904652815689710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369150327175060788.post-84194926991170224752013-02-15T19:06:00.002-05:002013-11-25T20:26:01.564-05:00Cause and Effect with A Bad Case of Stripes<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We have been talking about the causes of the American Revolution for the last few weeks. This unit is stretching out longer than I planned. The kids love it and we are having fun learning about the American Revolution so it is ok if we take a few extra weeks. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The only requirements that I gave the students were they they could not draw a picture of what actually happen at the Boston Tea Party. I must say that they fought me on this, it took A LOT of encouraging and A LOT of re-dos. They did not think they were creative enough and that it was to abstract. Let me just say that I have some VERY creative kids that can DEFINITELY think outside the box. I love those moments when you push the kids and they are able to be really creative. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890904652815689710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369150327175060788.post-40493828513952623072013-02-08T19:07:00.001-05:002013-02-08T19:07:51.955-05:00Field Trip Day!Today we went to the Student Museum. I love this trip. The museum is actually in the school that was built in 1902 in our town. The students were able to learn the history of the building, schools in our town plus visit the rooms. Each room has a grad student from UCF dress in time period costumes as a tour guide. <br />
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There is a Native American village in one room. The room has huts, a cannon and lots of hands on artifacts. <br />
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The second room was the pioneer room. There is a real log cabin with all the things found in and around a cabin. <br />
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The last room is the classroom from 1902. The students are expected to follow strict rules and get a change to see what class was like. <br />
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This trip is so much fun and the students learned so much about Florida history. Warning lots of pictures below ;)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This year we tried a new project for the American Revolution, trading cards. That is right, just like baseball cards but each card is focused on one topic from the American Revolution. Each student was given 6 cards and a few directions to go with the cards. The parent letter, directions and template is below. After the cards were turned they were laminated and graded. I think they turned out great! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We will have trading card day next week. <a href="http://teachingstarstudents.blogspot.com/2013/02/american-revolution-trading-card-day.html" target="_blank">The fifth graders will meet in the library and the students will be able to trade cards</a>. I am looking froward to that but couldn't wait to post. Once we our trading day I will post pictures. </span><br />
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890904652815689710noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369150327175060788.post-65809269549452071402013-01-28T08:42:00.001-05:002013-11-25T20:27:16.900-05:00Sunshine State Reader Board<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I shared a picture of my Sunshine State Reader board at the beginning of the year in my <a href="http://teachingstarstudents.blogspot.com/2012/08/back-to-school.html" target="_blank">Back to School</a> post. Below is an undated picture. I love how the board turned out. It is right next to my door so the students see it when we line up to leave and as they come in. We have actually stretchered the graph our several times and had to add kids outside the graph line. :) The visual graph has really helped them see how they and other students are doing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890904652815689710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369150327175060788.post-77511671539224468502013-01-15T20:05:00.001-05:002013-11-24T17:50:48.010-05:00January 14thMy wonderful husband sat with me for 2 hours tonight and helped me catch up on grading. Love is grading papers for your wife. <br />
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890904652815689710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369150327175060788.post-42638182449814983942013-01-01T22:27:00.003-05:002013-11-25T20:15:11.349-05:00New Year's Resolution Linky Party<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am linking up with Jen at <a href="http://theteacherscauldron.blogspot.com/2012/12/new-years-linky.html" target="_blank">The Teachers' Cauldron</a> for her New Year's Resolution party. Check out all the resolutions that everyone is posting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: cyan;">My personal resolution is to eat healthier.</span> My husband and I have been watching documentaries about whole food eating. We have tried in the fall, as school as starting, to fully commit. I bet you can guess how that went. This year I want to begin taking small steps towards whole food eating. </span><br />
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Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890904652815689710noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369150327175060788.post-76655776899533098102012-12-20T18:44:00.001-05:002013-11-25T15:55:19.044-05:00Buddy Day/Gingerbread Man Hunt<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today we had the best day with our buddies!! It was a half day and 5th grade stayed with me all do so we were able to spend the whole day with our little friends. We started the morning writing about how we would make the Grinch grin. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We then watched the Dr Seuss's The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">After our Grinch activity we ate lunch outside with our buddies. My students love to eat outside and their buddies were SO excited to sit with the big kids at lunch. It was a great day to be out, the wonderful thing about Florida is that the week before Christmas the temperature is in the 80's. :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The real fun started after lunch. Our buddies had special cookies to share with us but the gingerbread man stole them while they were at specials. When my 5th graders showed up the kindergartners were so upset. They made lost posters to hang up in the room in hopes that the gingerbread man would return the cookies. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We then followed the clues to find the cookies and gingerbread man. The kindergartners were so excited and my 5th graders were great sports. I could tell that they loved it but still wanted to be cool. Several of my students remembered the same hunt when they were in kindergarten and afterwards were telling me how it was different/wrong. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am happy to report that while we were out searching for the gingerbread man he returned all the cookies. Our principal and vice-principal caught him and made him give the cookies back. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Today was a fun day and nice break from the everyday lessons and schedule. I think that my kids enjoyed playing like a kindergartner for the day. :)</span>Sarahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03890904652815689710noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3369150327175060788.post-61697715432673238232012-12-19T20:56:00.003-05:002013-11-25T15:56:45.124-05:00My Gift For....<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I found the cutest idea on on Pinterest, no surprise there. :) Check out <a href="http://www.uniqueteachingresources.com/Winter-English-Teaching-Resources.html" target="_blank">Unique Teaching Resources</a> for lots of other cute ideas. The original idea that I found was a gift box where students give a gift (actions only) for their family, school, town and world. I created my own box pattern and had the students give a gift (action) to one person in their family. I love how this turned out and it was a simple gift to make and their parents will love it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The students explained their gift on one side of the box and decorated the other. They were very creative with their gifts and how they decorated. It still amazes me how excited 4th graders get over stickers :)</span><br />
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