tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70233663763407623972024-03-13T13:11:15.191+10:00Classroom Chit ChatA creative teaching blog that shares fun ideas and printables to use in any K-3 classroom.Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05213776524776601602noreply@blogger.comBlogger48125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023366376340762397.post-28807072288579435102020-11-27T15:56:00.001+10:002020-11-27T16:19:16.643+10:00The importance of washing our hands<center>At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, before we went into lockdown, we decided to try to explain to the children how easily germs can spread. Just because you can't see them, doesn't mean they aren't there.</center><center><br /></center><center>To show the importance of thorough hand washing, we did a little experiment.</center><center><br /></center><center>Here's what you need:</center><center style="text-align: left;"><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>bread</li><li>hand sanitiser</li><li>handwashing liquid</li><li>water</li><li>various communal classroom items (e.g. ipad, pencils, etc)</li><li>gloves</li><li>sealing sandwich bags</li></ul></center><center><span style="text-align: left;">Here's what we did:</span></center><center><ol><li style="text-align: left;">Teachers handed the bread with gloves.</li><li style="text-align: left;">One student washed their hands well for 20 seconds, following the display posters. They then wiped their hands on a piece of bread and it was placed in a labelled sandwich bag.</li><li style="text-align: left;">One student used hand sanitiser and then wiped their hands on a piece of bread.</li><li style="text-align: left;">One student did not wash their hands at all and wiped their hands on a piece of bread.</li><li style="text-align: left;">Then we wiped a piece of bread on an iPad and whiteboard pens.</li><li style="text-align: left;">We left the sandwich bags for two weeks and then looked at the results.</li></ol><div style="text-align: center;">I only got a picture of the pieces of bread that grew nasties but it proved our point and was certainly a conversation starter!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifDP6HV1CY6cFIUlbOUCg7zHyKmM_MUb594ZktAFCKNsZGI5GCEORRfRvvuPxaZBuMy0OuO3NRY-RkzEejVehZVkosEQF8e5a56TNFUFtuNln_M4VjR1Bh6-dCS7F4E0bTtLV0RU249W6A/s1125/Picture3.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1125" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifDP6HV1CY6cFIUlbOUCg7zHyKmM_MUb594ZktAFCKNsZGI5GCEORRfRvvuPxaZBuMy0OuO3NRY-RkzEejVehZVkosEQF8e5a56TNFUFtuNln_M4VjR1Bh6-dCS7F4E0bTtLV0RU249W6A/w640-h640/Picture3.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Have you conducted any experiments to show the importance of hand washing?</div></center><center><br /></center><center><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2IDvd1bSTEN_NuuOXGmWK2qGiOAgYpAwCFU_5dWnDO3mJX4nO4dNH58f03JfcFLyOgGaZGZlbnw0EcjaEhwLCWrnYT0tn7Z60gF75pJMVMCWHypS3Mf4EEXFD26YZ3lnvtegWFP7G5Ms/s1600/signature.png" width="80" /></center>
<div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.bloglovin.com/blog/20752129/?claim=h6j855my8zd">Follow my blog with Bloglovin</a></div>Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05213776524776601602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023366376340762397.post-50510963257514854572020-11-17T09:00:00.001+10:002020-11-17T09:00:04.744+10:00Arctic Adventures<center>When Winter hit, it was only appropriate to start a chilly theme like Arctic Adventures.</center><center><br /></center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-0w_yf2OPEUoNwJwt0J-47SxP_I35i2RElwnEcyIhi8laKj5h9m0bdoKuvDx6LIOcYtIBgsvSLMRN2et19Zx5tTFjh3N5tMMbwMT-hEk78ddaeuHR65ahCSWs2IpmJArufFuDOqmIhBsl/s1125/Picture2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1125" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-0w_yf2OPEUoNwJwt0J-47SxP_I35i2RElwnEcyIhi8laKj5h9m0bdoKuvDx6LIOcYtIBgsvSLMRN2et19Zx5tTFjh3N5tMMbwMT-hEk78ddaeuHR65ahCSWs2IpmJArufFuDOqmIhBsl/w640-h640/Picture2.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><center><span style="text-align: left;">I enjoyed the classroom decorations for this theme. I even bought a sneaky pair of cute classroom slippers to wear, when appropriate of course.</span></center><center><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></center><center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuul_GX0oJMzopgawXrvin9e4B7gkiAAF8LKxILv8kDMlvLnnhgONMBG52BgFzK_ipn30NC9oQzlVY183lfZqBurPUwLoX_ztnL7SQdNCI3m8gSPi6TQH2VVMtrfQ8-CQkrpHGO49Y4CVE/s1302/Arctic1.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1302" height="345" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuul_GX0oJMzopgawXrvin9e4B7gkiAAF8LKxILv8kDMlvLnnhgONMBG52BgFzK_ipn30NC9oQzlVY183lfZqBurPUwLoX_ztnL7SQdNCI3m8gSPi6TQH2VVMtrfQ8-CQkrpHGO49Y4CVE/w400-h345/Arctic1.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTnFpdyWTfk6J2LMir_w-_Eyjwd8o9IxepmgKh4MM9ScUp15iYgU5xv5NJNIE3eCeqEiUeh4RVK_iB8xS8FVcChJ5sStCkRLzrjalHhpiaXigkvqq3WOavSQ-Ayx7WtINdodg07MUXukbX/s1125/Arctic2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1101" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTnFpdyWTfk6J2LMir_w-_Eyjwd8o9IxepmgKh4MM9ScUp15iYgU5xv5NJNIE3eCeqEiUeh4RVK_iB8xS8FVcChJ5sStCkRLzrjalHhpiaXigkvqq3WOavSQ-Ayx7WtINdodg07MUXukbX/w391-h400/Arctic2.png" width="391" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2px-Q2eZmKSLmJuXKuqxCeBQqVRQPpnvekL-ZSlCaQwp9ExyB6vf3-sLKOGsW0JXj6ZyS4Y0Xnq-2tfihUFlZqPsfW1I1OC4NUWGuXqoQ40WWIqxfibrtDacPSoURfkPK2sD4V2kFutN9/s1125/Arctic3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="665" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2px-Q2eZmKSLmJuXKuqxCeBQqVRQPpnvekL-ZSlCaQwp9ExyB6vf3-sLKOGsW0JXj6ZyS4Y0Xnq-2tfihUFlZqPsfW1I1OC4NUWGuXqoQ40WWIqxfibrtDacPSoURfkPK2sD4V2kFutN9/w378-h640/Arctic3.png" width="378" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFbqELzPHqaHMM3LmIrKRbYwxjCMZBicqZIIM5M459p3YXFEZiSlMR2DIBTBfF0Nc1yKexvcZxlbtfzuRz5rD04dpKey2jCipPgou17aMDUGNH721jimVMSA7zXvBilWnTuE02iwJFqEJe/s1125/Arctic4.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="993" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFbqELzPHqaHMM3LmIrKRbYwxjCMZBicqZIIM5M459p3YXFEZiSlMR2DIBTBfF0Nc1yKexvcZxlbtfzuRz5rD04dpKey2jCipPgou17aMDUGNH721jimVMSA7zXvBilWnTuE02iwJFqEJe/w353-h400/Arctic4.png" width="353" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDd0iVl1pIdBPRRIbaTn4kaR1izJt21cJfWU75HK8z6bFruaBBTvMfZlQMRqiNO-mqbBIzaAPYScphpg4O_8pAq695RTqM5KVvEJe7fkdq3vlp8L3tcO9iUYjUzj2eyzj7OaRwYZ1Pu2K/s1500/Arctic5.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="884" data-original-width="1500" height="378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPDd0iVl1pIdBPRRIbaTn4kaR1izJt21cJfWU75HK8z6bFruaBBTvMfZlQMRqiNO-mqbBIzaAPYScphpg4O_8pAq695RTqM5KVvEJe7fkdq3vlp8L3tcO9iUYjUzj2eyzj7OaRwYZ1Pu2K/w640-h378/Arctic5.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /></center><center><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2IDvd1bSTEN_NuuOXGmWK2qGiOAgYpAwCFU_5dWnDO3mJX4nO4dNH58f03JfcFLyOgGaZGZlbnw0EcjaEhwLCWrnYT0tn7Z60gF75pJMVMCWHypS3Mf4EEXFD26YZ3lnvtegWFP7G5Ms/s1600/signature.png" width="80" /></center>Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05213776524776601602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023366376340762397.post-15868153385179099882020-11-16T09:00:00.002+10:002020-11-16T09:00:03.344+10:00Castles and Crowns<center>We moved from Africa onto Castles and Crowns in our second term together. I didn't get many photos of the setup but I did manage to find a photo of the role play area with a little banquet table and dress ups.</center><center><br /></center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqGeE1J6-_Gv3T7pu2jamGjKwOG0vqnrg2GlPVrJRrEoN9TMzbepXTe4dMZKC8IR8CANhOp9hbjmq0cdt0Zzfhw1WYIvSo3uspNMkfkQVQ4UkUtUfVBY0AZclrkgOskaNVKTDcNPPMdpmi/s1523/Castle+classroom.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1523" height="472" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqGeE1J6-_Gv3T7pu2jamGjKwOG0vqnrg2GlPVrJRrEoN9TMzbepXTe4dMZKC8IR8CANhOp9hbjmq0cdt0Zzfhw1WYIvSo3uspNMkfkQVQ4UkUtUfVBY0AZclrkgOskaNVKTDcNPPMdpmi/w640-h472/Castle+classroom.png" width="640" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">My favourite part of this unit was most definitely our school trip to Windsor Castle. My teaching partner and I put together a letter from 'Windsor Castle' inviting the children to enter a competition to 'win a trip' to the castle. Now, we knew we would going on the trip regardless but they didn't and you should have heard the screams of joy when we 'received' the letter below telling us we had 'won'.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRaKxc6gKTLvVjrDiLjsrfOaP7ApWpaed3gt-Azv8bwvFGnRVRPoTTD-tv_Ecc1DH-vLmBREpqDyp6LdG1hd0EF5bM6Ca6nK7Aq3WrY44aHIY6zp4MzRm0SmqZtReE1US_BGH0i-fdqkFA/s1125/Picture9.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="844" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRaKxc6gKTLvVjrDiLjsrfOaP7ApWpaed3gt-Azv8bwvFGnRVRPoTTD-tv_Ecc1DH-vLmBREpqDyp6LdG1hd0EF5bM6Ca6nK7Aq3WrY44aHIY6zp4MzRm0SmqZtReE1US_BGH0i-fdqkFA/w480-h640/Picture9.png" width="480" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">It was such a beautiful place to visit. We got to walk through the state apartments and see the grand rooms all set up. The children were in awe and it is by far one of the coolest trips I have been on with a class.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBc8tFTkMFP9sRc2sz7KQWGgCOoqOfy18zhf_wHBy2D4sdbD6G5vmAgvyBit8Tq_K9MDvOTyW4g4vXX4LyEgNLNVWCBXyncpS4DjbdfShrjyH0tQMkA-K1V_M7ri6ZlIBIRSkUJb6-KZop/s1125/Picture19.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="938" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBc8tFTkMFP9sRc2sz7KQWGgCOoqOfy18zhf_wHBy2D4sdbD6G5vmAgvyBit8Tq_K9MDvOTyW4g4vXX4LyEgNLNVWCBXyncpS4DjbdfShrjyH0tQMkA-K1V_M7ri6ZlIBIRSkUJb6-KZop/w534-h640/Picture19.png" width="534" /></a></div><br /><center><br /></center><center><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2IDvd1bSTEN_NuuOXGmWK2qGiOAgYpAwCFU_5dWnDO3mJX4nO4dNH58f03JfcFLyOgGaZGZlbnw0EcjaEhwLCWrnYT0tn7Z60gF75pJMVMCWHypS3Mf4EEXFD26YZ3lnvtegWFP7G5Ms/s1600/signature.png" width="80" /></center>Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05213776524776601602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023366376340762397.post-29380092330088107962020-11-15T09:00:00.003+10:002020-11-15T10:06:06.871+10:00A trip to the zoo<center>With our term theme being 'Africa' we organised a trip to London Zoo to see what other animals might live in Africa. There was a section called 'Into Africa' which was perfect for our learning!</center><center><br /></center><center>Here are some of the snaps I took on the day:</center><center><br /></center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6wycQ90dhFhMJl7Rp56NATIFVvaf1dBTpmjFJYPtbHVohnnzFptI6P7ppDd97ys1Yu1sojuc9E4nlqW2KK2UYY4RrbCrWSixM8RJqz_H3itpYYEMmV5gFSkLpSXqKN_Gvd0_0QiA1eZvq/s1125/Picture20.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1123" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6wycQ90dhFhMJl7Rp56NATIFVvaf1dBTpmjFJYPtbHVohnnzFptI6P7ppDd97ys1Yu1sojuc9E4nlqW2KK2UYY4RrbCrWSixM8RJqz_H3itpYYEMmV5gFSkLpSXqKN_Gvd0_0QiA1eZvq/w638-h640/Picture20.png" width="638" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJKirrkBGRsL34dEYvL9iNlF2kK8Mk2NSzBXpAPNkryRmf8aOJ75pG7y0Ao5qDq3sn_HqzbLtpi6Pzj-XjYfqb6pvyvi0lWUPJHtK2J_y5tvlorKgrJYfd3aKYMEwhkmKWug5ZTZzh3EDB/s1500/Picture21.png" style="margin-left: 1em; 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My amazing teaching partner thought of a fun activity where the children would have to investigate different animals 'poos' to determine which type of animal they were. They then had to record what they found and why they predicted that animal may have been a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore. 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All you need is:</span></div><center>flour</center><center>oil</center><center>salt</center><center>cocoa powder</center><center>cream of tartar</center><center>hot water</center><center>small plastic bugs/insects</center><center>leaves</center><center>raisins</center><center><br /></center><center style="text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="text-align: left;">You simply combine all the ingredients like you would for playdough and then roll pieces in to 'poos'. After, add the different items that hint the animal may have been a carnivore, herbivore or omnivore. Of course, this isn't actually what their poos would look like but it served the purpose of teaching the children about the different animal types and was a great discussion starter.</span></center><center style="text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="text-align: left;"><br /></span></center><center style="text-align: -webkit-center;"><span style="text-align: left;">Let me know if you try this investigation in your classroom.</span></center><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2IDvd1bSTEN_NuuOXGmWK2qGiOAgYpAwCFU_5dWnDO3mJX4nO4dNH58f03JfcFLyOgGaZGZlbnw0EcjaEhwLCWrnYT0tn7Z60gF75pJMVMCWHypS3Mf4EEXFD26YZ3lnvtegWFP7G5Ms/s1600/signature.png" width="80" /></center>Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05213776524776601602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023366376340762397.post-26759547997715170192020-11-13T09:39:00.005+10:002020-11-13T09:57:19.901+10:00Teaching in the UK<center>Well it has been a minute, hasn't it? Almost 3 years actually. I took a leap back in 2018 and moved my life over to the UK to teach for 2 years. It was an amazing adventure and one I will never forget.</center><center><br /></center><center>I had the privilege of working at two primary schools in England - one in London and one about 2 hours north of London. I had two very different experiences but learnt a lot from both. I'm going to make a few posts here about some things I did in the classroom.</center><center><br /></center><center>In the UK their school year begins in September and goes through to July and they have 3 school terms throughout the year. My favourite part was the half term break. Every 6ish weeks everyone would get a 1 week break. Then at full terms we would get 2 weeks off. It broke the terms up and everyone appreciated it! I'm not sure how I'll go getting used to 9-13 weeks straight now that I'm back in Australia.</center><center><br /></center><center>My first full term we had an African theme and all our learning was centred around this. We created our learning space to reflect the theme and to engage the children from the first day they stepped into the classroom.</center><center><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh5kERw83oIddJcmCDXDubugdb9RLLtHNlT99bXfemmsbu4zroigVLD8NCQLtZy3tDq5ugWAxmR3sV4M_xDAXfz0HhJvJ0adg9KiyLL2AnkSvENnTIPR-mNYzordQZIyShnWPZo5_vAqDP/s1132/Picture17.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1132" height="636" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjh5kERw83oIddJcmCDXDubugdb9RLLtHNlT99bXfemmsbu4zroigVLD8NCQLtZy3tDq5ugWAxmR3sV4M_xDAXfz0HhJvJ0adg9KiyLL2AnkSvENnTIPR-mNYzordQZIyShnWPZo5_vAqDP/w640-h636/Picture17.png" width="640" /></a></div></center><center><br /></center><center>As our 'stunning start' the children walked into the classroom to discover a cheeky monkey had broken in and would not climb down from the hanging wires.</center><center><br /></center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The children had to find a way to convince the monkey to come down so that we could learn more about him and where he came from.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkmPlJ7ZgU4Tw4m-RxNbhDv37ACjvYbr4IGNd_fVartWwj97K1XJOVd837K_c6y8eXjY5b5_fWlKNLrLUtUKjyIBcc0VQ_jKQiWAZXiJFED7cYMAlej_pEjNijFvfAFRQdnnFaIFmI8YYS/s1146/Picture15.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1146" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkmPlJ7ZgU4Tw4m-RxNbhDv37ACjvYbr4IGNd_fVartWwj97K1XJOVd837K_c6y8eXjY5b5_fWlKNLrLUtUKjyIBcc0VQ_jKQiWAZXiJFED7cYMAlej_pEjNijFvfAFRQdnnFaIFmI8YYS/w400-h393/Picture15.png" width="400" /></a></div></div><br /><center><center><span style="text-align: left;">Some tried to coax him down with bananas and others thought he may be stuck so attempted to build ladders to help him down.</span></center></center><center><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPMRBQrTJKzMhkJv1lPmaPULcxy4pFft40V7mDziRdxS_wYOnS8Xi0IG4HE8n-1qOKGpH__OQV2lDVPadJtOrj5-HjYrQca1_khO6nUO_Bqulun5C1Q1iryzfy97BRUuJX0IRAYY36ES9H/s1134/Picture16.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="1134" height="396" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPMRBQrTJKzMhkJv1lPmaPULcxy4pFft40V7mDziRdxS_wYOnS8Xi0IG4HE8n-1qOKGpH__OQV2lDVPadJtOrj5-HjYrQca1_khO6nUO_Bqulun5C1Q1iryzfy97BRUuJX0IRAYY36ES9H/w400-h396/Picture16.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">'Please monkey come down or I'll give you 1 banana.'</span></td></tr></tbody></table></center><center><br /></center><center>Eventually he climbed down and told us he was from Africa, lost and missed his family very much. We had to investigate monkeys and apes to find out what he was and help him get home.</center><center><br /></center><center><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2IDvd1bSTEN_NuuOXGmWK2qGiOAgYpAwCFU_5dWnDO3mJX4nO4dNH58f03JfcFLyOgGaZGZlbnw0EcjaEhwLCWrnYT0tn7Z60gF75pJMVMCWHypS3Mf4EEXFD26YZ3lnvtegWFP7G5Ms/s1600/signature.png" width="80" /></center>Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05213776524776601602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023366376340762397.post-83780933001395559222018-01-14T10:39:00.001+10:002018-01-14T10:39:47.253+10:00Graduate Teacher Tips Series: 3. Classroom Setup<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I feel the need to put a disclaimer about these posts: there is no one right way of doing things. I am in no way suggesting that this is what every teacher should do in their classrooms. This is for multiple reasons! Every school is different. Every teacher is different. Every classroom is different. Every student is different. All of these will influence how you need to set up your classroom.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">(In the early years of schooling, this is very important for developing left-to-right direction for handwriting and letter formation)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">All you need to do is Google 'Classroom setup ideas' and thousands of photos of classrooms all around the world pop up. Below are some links to some possible desk arrangements:</span></div>
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For the older classrooms, '<a href="http://teacherteacherideclare.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/seating-chart-possibilities.html?m=1" target="_blank">Teacher, Teacher, I declare!</a>' uses the following system with sticky notes:</center>
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Some classrooms will be a part of a large building and may not have many windows to consider. Others may feel like fish bowls, for every passing person to gaze in.</center>
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Different schools may have certain expectations or rules around windows. For example, some schools allow teachers to paint their windows to stop little ones being distracted from outside factors. On the other hand, there are schools that do not allow anything to be covering windows at all. Make sure you seek advice from your school administration before deciding what you're going to do.</center>
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Something I've learnt over my teaching career so far is that a lot of the time 'less is more'.</div>
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Yes, it is exciting to find beautiful posters that fit exactly with what you are teaching. However, they do not need to all be on display at once from the very beginning of the year.</div>
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My displays are now these (keep in mind I am in an early years classroom):</div>
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Yep. That's it. That is all that goes up on my classroom walls from Day 1 and stays the entire year. Almost everything else only goes up when I teach it. This makes the posters or charts more meaningful to the children. When I teach letters and sounds, we create the posters together and then hang them for future reference. When I teach reading strategies, we introduce a strategy at a time and then hang that poster up - one at a time. Otherwise it is information overload for the little ones and has little meaning to some.</div>
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Here are my go-to student labels for an early-years classroom:</div>
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Name tags</div>
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Some teachers like to prep name labels for classroom jobs or behaviour charts, too. Again, not every teacher will want or need these.</div>
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Last, but most definitely not least, please, please, please <u><b>prioritise</b></u> your 'to-do' lists!</div>
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If you're anything like me, you think of things you want done for your classroom, write them down on your lists and then have this overwhelming urge to get absolutely everything on that list done immediately.</div>
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Real talk: you don't <b>need</b> to and you will end up draining yourself of energy!</div>
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Don't worry about what you see others doing for their classrooms on social media. Prepare what you need to get done first and then work on that 'to-do' list.</div>
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For example, those awesome addition games can wait to be made/purchased. They don't need to be done for Day 1.</div>
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Your Week 1 plan? YES! Do that! That is a high priority!</div>
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Something I learnt from my wonderful father is to write my list of everything I want to get done and then number them in priority of what needs to be done first. This keeps me on track and stops me from doing things that I <b><u>want</u></b> to do before things I <b><u>need</u></b> to do.</div>
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When I entered the classroom for the first time as a graduate teacher, I had no idea what necessities I should have in my room. Today social media has made it so much easier to know what others have in their rooms to guide graduates. BUT it can also be a lot of pressure to see established teachers with all of their years of resources piled high and ready to go.</center>
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Don't forget, every school has some resources (books, games, etc). Yes, some more than others. You don't need to have every...single...thing printed, laminated and ready to go for Day 1 (this is something I still have to keep reminding myself).</center>
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SO if you are heading into your very own classroom for the first time, some of my teacher friends and I have put together a list of some things that every classroom should have and we can't teach without.</center>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Whether you are heading in for those first few days to start setting up your room at the start of the year or you pick up a contract after school has started, the following are absolute MUSTS. Believe me, you will need them and if you're in the primary years then you will need them daily! Make sure you set aside a designated area for the following, out of reach of little hands.</span></center>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Liquid or foam pump soap (this is for you AND the students!)</span></center>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Chux, sponges or microfibre cloths</span></center>
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<span style="font-size: large;"> Old sheets/towels for messy projects</span></center>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Spare plastic bags</span></center>
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<span style="font-size: small;">These are essentials for general classroom organisation for primary: </span></center>
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<span style="font-size: small;">The last list is all about you! Those first few years of teaching are pretty full on - stressful but so exciting! It is important to remember to look after yourself, too. Preparing these few things will help you when you're too busy to remember!</span></center>
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I'm about to go into my ninth year of teaching. It's safe to say that I have gathered my fair share of resources over those years. I started getting frustrated with being able to locate and find resources that I knew I had but could not for the life of me find.</center>
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I already had a bunch of file folders that I had just thrown some resources into but there was zero method to my madness.</center>
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So, I put some method into it and came up with this:</center>
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I sorted all of my smaller laminated and printed resources (games, posters, etc) into their own file folder and attached some labels that I made. I put one large one on the front and then two small ones at either end on the top of the folders so they are easily visible. I have so many Literacy and general classroom resources that I already have to folders for both of them.</center>
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I'm super happy with my new system. Everything is so much easier to find. No more second guessing myself about a game or set of display posters that I thought I'd printed but could not find.</center>
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We have made these simple alphabet headers for display in the classroom.</center>
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Alphabet word wall headers</center>
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This can be a very anxious time for graduate teachers. Some have been given permanent positions, some have been given contracts and some have not been offered anything at all. This was me when I graduated. I was heartbroken. However, I had my cry and then got straight into getting my name out there! Within a year I had gone from having no work to having done relief work, short contracts, long contracts with my own class and then was lucky enough to be offered a permanent position.</center>
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Do up a clear, professional CV that has been proofed by as many eyes as you can get. Poor grammar and spelling does not make for a great first impression. Include some of your hobbies or interests, as they may be a part of the school community that you aren't aware of.</center>
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Call schools before students go back. Staff will be there the week before students return. Make some phone calls to local schools and ask to speak to whoever is in charge of employment. Don't forget to mention your name! After you've made some calls, dress professionally and physically go to your local schools and hand in a hard copy of your CV. Mention your name again (hopefully they remember from your phone call). It's scary and will push you out of your comfort zone but it shows initiative and puts a face and name out there.</center>
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Now that you've put your name and CV out there, it's time to get back in contact with some of those people you connected with over your practical experiences. Email and/or call them! I was offered by a school to return to do some training on PM benchmarks, as I hadn't had any experience at that stage. I decided to do just that and while I was there the principal put my name down for relief straight away.</center>
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Make sure your name is down with a relief pool or company. Don't assume you won't get work during the first week of school. I got plenty of single days that turned into short contracts.</center>
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I need to share something with all of you that I feel as fellow teacher-friends you will all appreciate and love as much as I do.</center>
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I am a part of an amazing collaborative group for Queensland Prep teachers on Facebook and one of my wonderful friends posted a picture of a stamp that she was getting made up through a company called <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FamilyTreefinecrafts/" target="_blank">Family Tree Fine Crafts</a>.</center>
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Crazy good ideas like this pop up in this group all the time but this one I NEEDED to have. Take a look and I feel you will see why...</center>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">(No, this is not a paid post. I actually love this stamp!)</span></center>
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I use this stamp two ways:</center>
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1. For my own reference. I tick what the students have used and I like to asterisk the things they need to work on. It is quick and easy for me to look at, when I flick through their books.</center>
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2. It's fabulous feedback for students. I have Prep (Kindergarten) students and, yes, it absolutely works a treat for even the young ones. The visuals match perfectly as a reference for them. I have even blown up a big version of the stamp on my whiteboard for whole class modelling. I usually go through the check list with them during conferencing.</center>
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Now, it hasn't been the cheapest teaching resource investment that I've made but golly gosh it's one that I use daily and will continue to be able to use for the remainder of my teaching career. It has hands down been one of the best things I've ever bought for teaching and worth every cent.</center>
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They have created a range of stamps that target different age groups, too. Check out their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FamilyTreefinecrafts/" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> to see more.</center>
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Oh, AND they don't just do teacher stamps. They also do other incredibly beautiful hand-crafted wooden creations, too.</center>
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The lovely company <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FamilyTreefinecrafts/" target="_blank">Family Tree Fine Crafts</a> are 100% Australian owned and operated (which I love). I spoke to them before I wrote this post and they have been generous enough to offer a deal for Classroom Chit Chat followers.</center>
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<span style="background-color: yellow;">If you mention 'Classroom Chit Chat' when you make an order of $100 or more, they will throw in a free ink pad. Early Christmas presents, perhaps..?</span></center>
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At the very least, make sure you go and visit their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FamilyTreefinecrafts/" target="_blank">Facebook page</a> to see what I'm talking about.</center>
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Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05213776524776601602noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023366376340762397.post-26001218547616985072016-09-19T16:08:00.001+10:002016-09-19T16:08:44.348+10:00Some new looks!<center>
I thought it was about time some of my products had some touching up. After all, it has been about 4 years since I've created some of my resources.</center>
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Click on any image to visit them in my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Classroom-Chit-Chat" target="_blank">TPT store</a>!</center>
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First up is my very popular Super Summer writing craftivity. Use this any time of year, if you have a super hero theme :) </center>
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I also jazzed up my title pages. There are a selection of simple and cute title pages for a range of subject areas. If you need something different, just email me!<br />
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Lastly, I touched up my George's Marvellous Medicine novel study. It was a little out-dated so I spruced it up with some new borders and a revised craft.<br />
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My little Preppies have gotten pretty good at their fine motor skills but this Fine Motor Skills book has a STACK of so many fun ideas - many I'd never even thought of! Activities range from shoulder, wrist, hand and finger strength building games to scissor, drawing and writing skills.</center>
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There are 233 pages of wonderful printables and ideas. There are mazes, dot-to-dots and even recipes for paints and play doughs! Yes, you can see my sticky notes that I've placed on pages that I want to try. One of which my Preps did - the scissor skills monster.</center>
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I modified this activity a little to include not just the suggested scissor skill work but also pattens. I modelled how to do different patterns in each section of the puzzle and then the kids had a turn on their own. We glued them onto the fabulous paper I bought from Kmart at the beginning of the year and put them on display. Super cute, in my opinion :)</center>
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Another one of my favourites was the Awesome Art and Craft book. What I love about this book is the range of arts and crafts. There aren't just simple printable crafts (don't worry, there are still some of these with templates included). They have included crafts that require all sorts of materials. Here are a list of a few of my favourites:</center>
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Adorably decorated 'cakes' using kitchen sponges. Can you imagine the little kids' excitement?</center>
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These are for individual student use and would be great for parents or even for teachers with just those few in their class that still struggle with some of those basic foundation skills. Some of my kids tried the rhyming and dot-to-dot number recognition pages.</div>
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This is my first year teaching Prep (K or Foundation)! 5 weeks in and my head is still above water - hooray !!!</center>
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I know I'm completely late to the party but I still wanted to share with you some back to school purchases that I made because.....well, let's be honest, I just wanted to! I spent WAY too much but it made me happy.</center>
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I don't do a theme every year but this year I went with bees! Our class are the Prep B Brave Bees! </center>
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Some hands-on accessories for the new classroom: Foam blocks, plastic connecting blocks, wooden blocks and a plastic food playset - all courtesy of Kmart :)</div>
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I've seen many teachers that have headbands or hats as a visual to show students they are not to be interrupted (for example, during reading groups). I chose this cute bow headband from the cheap shop.</div>
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Some prize box additions! </div>
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When your local Riot Art craft shop has a 50% off sale, you stock up! </div>
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Thanks to Aldi, my stamp supply shall never diminish! The poster I am going to cut up and laminate.</div>
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These books were crazy cheap at Aldi! A nice Australian twist on some classics. </div>
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Is anyone else out there a massive Daiso fan?! You just find things there that you can't // don't find anywhere else! Like these amazing magnetic pen holders! </div>
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My lovely teaching partner found these at Daiso. They are actually just super cute microfibre cleaning mittens but she has used them for her sensory students. Well, I just needed (yes NEEDED) to have one of each colour :)</div>
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See what I mean??? I've never seen cute memo sticky notes like these before! I love them!</div>
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I follow an amazing teacher on Instagram (@smartieeepants) and she made these adorable marble monsters to build strength in her students' fingers and hands. I made some of my own and am in love with them!</div>
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I did some handy work (and got VERY sunburnt doing it) and spray painted these perfectly-sized tins for my group tables. I also decided it would be a great idea to spray paint the blue trolley yellow (to fit with my bee theme).</div>
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It took forever and was soooo expensive. Not one of my best ideas but at least it looked good.</div>
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I unashamedly went to extreme lengths to acquire one of these Lorna Jane lunch bags. My heart was set on it and I just couldn't let it go. So happy I persevered in finding one!</div>
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It's been a while since I've shared anything so I thought I would kick 2016 off with a few resources that I found useful in 2015, while teaching first grade.</center>
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Although teaching shouldn't be centred around nor relied upon textbooks and blackline masters, I feel they still have their place as a useful tool.</center>
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I received some wonderful books from <a href="http://www.ricgroup.com.au/" target="_blank">RIC Publications</a> last year and thought some other teachers might find them useful, too.</center>
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Being in Australia, it can sometimes be difficult finding resources that are linked to and relevant to our curriculum. What I love about these books is that they are all Australian Curriculum linked. At the beginning of the books (and for some, on the side of the pages), it shows curriculum links. </div>
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Don't be deterred by the amount of text for the little ones. I projected
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I'll be back soon to share with you some of my back to school adventures!</div>
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Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05213776524776601602noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7023366376340762397.post-49178462138659271852015-10-11T08:12:00.001+10:002015-10-11T08:12:46.673+10:00End of Year Teacher Tips<center>
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in Australia, we have just started our final term of school for the
year. This means that we have about 10 weeks until our summer break
commences. It is a fun term for us, filled with lots of exciting
activities for our students to conclude their year of learning. </span><br data-reactid=".2k.1:5.0.1:$comment702310616569774_703606839773485/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end/=1$text5/=010" /><br data-reactid=".2k.1:5.0.1:$comment702310616569774_703606839773485/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end/=1$text7/=010" /><span data-reactid=".2k.1:5.0.1:$comment702310616569774_703606839773485/=10.0.$right.0.$left.0.0.1.$comment-body.0.3.0.$end/=1$text8/=010">It
is, however, often a term that can be stressful and busy. I have teamed
up with some online Australian blogging friends to bring you some tried
and tested teacher tips that you can implement now (or begin to plan for)
to make this term easier to manage.</span></span></span></span></span></span></center>
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simple and practical is one effective strategy for easing classroom
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It has been a very busy three weeks. Let me show you why!</center>
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In Science, we have been looking at habitats and minibeasts. I bought the class these hermit crabs to look after. You can imagine the squeals when I put these little guys on the ground and they started to crawl towards the kids! They still aren't named - any suggestions?</center>
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A tropical cyclone recently went through North Queensland, here in Australia. It had downgraded by the time it got to our area but there was still huge amounts of heavy rain so many kids were kept at home. We decided to make the best of the rainy situation and made some butterfly blob prints. They are SO bright and colourful!</center>
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We have introduced the idea of MABs to the kids so I made these cute place value pals from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Playing-Around-With-Place-Value-1422242" target="_blank">Amy Lemons</a> to put on the wall for display.</center>
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We also have been revising 2D shapes. We made these super cute shape monsters using parts of Kindergarten Smorgasboard's <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Shape-Monsters-343166" target="_blank">free shape monster pack</a>.</center>
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Last but not least, we need to practise sight words! In my first year I had a wonderful teacher aide that made me a bunch of reading rocket folders. I needed more so I created a few extras this week. I'm so happy with how they turned out. They will be put to use next week!</center>
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It was pretty busy in our classroom this week!</center>
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I thought I would join up with Doodle Bugs Teaching for this week's post.</center>
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It was Valentine's week and we decided to make cards. We started off by painting some hearts pretty pinks and adding some glitter and stars.</center>
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We coloured in some cute love bugs to paste on the inside of the cards. Click on the picture to find the download.</center>
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The cards we were making were inspired by Art with Jenny K's craft below.</center>
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Finally, we wrote 'Happy Valentine's Day' on the inside and pasted this super cute poem on the back.</center>
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I found the original poem over at <a href="http://mrsalbanesesclass.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/love-bug.html" target="_blank">Mrs Albanese's blog</a>. I just typed up my own version.</center>
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My teaching buddy made these super cute tags for some Love Day gifts for the students. We just bought some Tiny Teddy packets and stapled these to the top. They were very cute!</center>
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I hope you all have a great Valentine's Day - whether you celebrate it or not! My husband is not a huge fan of the day but has sent flowers to school for me every year that we've been together, anyway. Since it is on a Saturday this year, this was what he did instead.</center>
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My first post with my new 'look'. What do you think? I'm in love with it! Gabby over at <a href="http://www.gabbysclassrooms.com/p/blog-design.html" target="_blank">Gabby's Classroom</a> did an AMAZING job at redecorating my blog. She was so quick, helpful and reasonably priced, too! Be sure to check out her work, if you're considering a blog makeover!</center>
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I can't believe 2 weeks are down already! Only 8 weeks and we are on Easter break. Crazy!</center>
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This week was another busy one, with lots of writing and number work.</center>
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I forget how wonderfully innocent and young first graders are. It melts my heart to see the kids giggle at the tiniest things that we say or do. Makes my job that much more rewarding!</center>
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We revised short vowels in CVC words and made silly vowel posters to help us remember them all. This idea came from my amazing teaching buddy :)</center>
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We started talking more about partitioning and how numbers can be made up of many combinations. We looked at rainbow facts again, made a class poster and used blocks to represent the different rainbow facts.</center>
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This week we also read 'Oh, the places you'll go' by Dr Seuss and did a little balloon collage to go with it. The craft idea was from @smartieeepants on Instagram. One of my very favourite Insta accounts to follow. I just found the ballon and basket templates online, cut up little square pieces of coloured paper, took pictures of the students and printed them teeny weeny.</center>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We met our Year 1 students this week and they are seriously beautiful! I couldn't be happier or have had a more positive start to the year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The children are so keen to learn and SO sweet. I wore a dress on Thursday and had not one but TWO students stop me and tell me how pretty my dress, shoes and earrings were :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have taught First Grade before but it was in my first two years of being a teacher AND we have now had the Australian Curriculum implemented, which has changed what we teach a bit too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For the past 3 years I have taught Second Grade and it has made me forget how little they are coming from Prep (or Kinder) to Year 1. Needless to say, I have had to adjust my brain this week and get into Year 1 mode again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> This idea is all over Pinterest. Name rockets! You wouldn't believe how excited the kids were to make these. They wanted to take them home straight away! The children had to count how many letters were in their first name and then get the correct number of coloured cards. They wrote a letter on each card and then glued a triangle topper and a 'Blast off' sign, where they wrote how many letters were in their name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> We cut up a squillion little squares to use for collage!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The first activity was a name collage which turned out MUCH cuter than we expected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> We were going to let them use paint dabbers and the paper squares but the squares just looked so good that we didn't bother with the dabbers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We are also going to use the paper squares to collage a craft to go with 'Oh, the places you'll go!' next week, so stay tuned!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I hope your first week back (Aussie friends) is/was as fabulous as mine!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've been meaning to share with you the Christmas and end-of-year activities that I did with my Year 2s at the end of last year. My end of year was so crazy that it completely slipped my mind and before I knew it, it was time to go back to school again!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">However, I believe it is NEVER too late for Christmas ideas (I am constantly taking screenshots and pinning ideas throughout the year in preparation). FYI that is where I get nearly all of my ideas - from everyone else! I am so grateful that there are other creative people out there willing to share their amazing ideas because I don't know what I would be doing without them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So, yes it is February but here are some of the things that we did:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> Our class made these 'stained-glass windows'. They turned out AMAZING and looked so good on the windows. We had lots of compliments. The idea is from <a href="http://kindercraze.com/2013/01/festive-winter-window-decor-and-freebie/" target="_blank">Kinder Craze</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My lovely teaching partner at the time had made the most adorable terrariums with the kids as parent gifts. I loved the idea so much that I made them with our class, too. They weren't as good as hers but were still very cute! I think I'll do them again this year :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I saw this idea on Pinterest and knew I wanted to use it as an end-of-year gift for the kids. The original idea is from <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/182114378657701723/" target="_blank">here</a>. I just recreated my own labels, bought large, medium and small marshmallows, pretzel sticks (that I snapped in half) and choc nibs then put them in a small plastic bag. I couldn't find anything for the nose, sadly, but the kids loved them all the same!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We made reindeer cookies that turned about pretty adorable...and delicious! I just used milk arrowroot cookies, choc tiny teddies, silver sugar balls, icing and choc-organge balls (jaffas).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It was a great end to the school year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It is here and I am pretty darn excited for this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I decided to beat the crowds and begin my new year's resolutions after Christmas, instead of January 1st. It worked out great and I feel more motivated than ever. I get to work with my TBFF (Teaching Bestie Friend Forever) this year, I am back on 1st grade, in a new classroom and on track to becoming a fitter, healthier and better me. Watch out 2015!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Now onto the classroom chit chat:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Back. To. School.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Three words some teachers dread but, to be honest, I always look forward to heading back to school after our Summer break.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I feel refreshed, inspired and have a bunch of energy that I just want to sprinkle like glitter all over my classroom.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">So I do. And I have.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Although completely unnecessary and NOT a teaching requirement, I LOVE to make new purchases and do up little bits and pieces for the new school year (I'm sure many of you are with me on this).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are some of my 2015 representatives:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">My TBFF made an amazing word wall with space to add new words so that was a must have display.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The only alphabet charts that were available at my school were full page size and my tiny room didn't have space to display them properly. I decided to create some of my own which I am in LOVE with! They match the word wall perfectly!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I searched high and low for <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Number-Posters-QLD-Beginner-Font-1663606" target="_blank">number posters</a> that I was happy with and Alison over at <a href="http://mathswithmeaning.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Teaching Maths with Meaning</a> had the only ones that I was happy with. If you follow me on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Classroom-Chit-Chat/674690945949717" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, you'll know how excited I was about these.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I kept my daily time schedule from last year, too, because 1) I love the bright colours and 2) I can refer to it when children ask me what time lunch/home time is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I used these adorable <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Happy-Birthday-Crazy-Straws-810563" target="_blank">labels</a> from <a href="http://asunnydayinfirstgrade.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">A Sunny Day in First Grade</a> last year for birthday crazy straws and they were a hit so I've used them again this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">The TBFF and I wanted to have a gift for the kids that was something do with 'sparkling' in Year 1 (what we call First Grade here in Australia). We bought packs of glitter HB pencils from Kmart (a pack of 8 for $2) and I created these cute little labels to stick on them. I wish I could share them with you but I've used clip art that is only for personal use, sorry! They were VERY easy to put together though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">I scored this Snakes and Ladders bargain mat for only $10 at Super Amart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, I don't know if anyone has tried to find bingo dabbers in Australia before but it is VERY hard to find cheap and colourful ones. These are the best we could find and luckily they were MUCH cheaper than the ones at the craft shops and MUCH more fun, too! I got a pack of 5 on special for $7 (I think) at Target. These were extra colours I found at OfficeWorks for $2 each. Can't wait to put them to use!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span> <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now, these were some more completely <strike>unnecessary</strike> ESSENTIAL new school year purchases for me :) The drink bottle (that has a fruit infuser!!!) was from Sports Girl and the phone cover was from Forever New.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of my goals for 2015 is to make more informative blog posts. I don't know about you but I'm getting a little tired of so many TPT product posts (<span style="font-size: x-small;">that I am also guilty of!</span>) so I am going to try to take it back to the good ol' days of quality and informative posts. I am an extremely visual person so be prepared for many pictures, too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've created a purely teaching and classroom related Instagram (no products, unless it's something I've used and loved in the classroom) so please follow me so I can follow you back:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am SOOO excited for the new school year!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Me and some blogging friends have joined up with Laura over at <a href="http://wherethemagichappensdaily.blogspot.com.au/" target="_blank">Where the Magic Happens</a> to share with you all some of our favorite things, this holiday season!</span></div>
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<u><span style="font-family: inherit;">My Festive Fave</span></u></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">One of my absolute favorite things to do during the holiday season is predictable but a must - DECORATING!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> I am so very jealous of my Northern hemisphere friends, who get to enjoy a cold (and sometimes white) Christmas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Here in Australia it is hot hot HOT during Christmas so we often have the air conditioning cranked right up, if we aren't already in the pool.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">However, I still enjoy my decorations. These photos are from last year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Yes, I am one of <i>those</i> people. My dogs were only in the outfits for about 5 minutes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Can I also say that in Australia, we don't really do the 'fresh' tree thing. It's all plastic and fake here. I know it's not the same but, to be honest, I'm not too sure how my allergies would cope with the 'real deal' anway!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">OK, my second favorite thing that I want to share is not exactly holiday season related but I still NEED it in my life!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So, I just brush a little of this baby on and it makes me feel a LOT better :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">During the hot festive season here, it's easy to look drained. This gives me a touch of color, when I need it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">If you haven't heard of the <a href="http://www.bookdepository.com/" target="_blank">Book Depository</a> or <a href="http://www.fishpond.com.au/" target="_blank">Fishpond</a> (for my Aussie friends) then you must have been living under a rock!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">These have to be two of my all time favorite sites. Not just because I'm a teacher, either! These sites ship free of charge and can be quite competitive with their prices. I have bought so many items from these sites - not just books!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Sadly, Book Depository do not do gift certificates but Apple do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">So in the spirit of the festive holiday season, I'm donating a $30 Apple iTunes gift card to the give away for this blog hop!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">There are HEAPS of donations to be won so make sure you enter via the Rafflecopter below!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Please make sure you hop on through and see some other bloggers' favorite things, too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana,sans-serif;">Because we value our followers and wanted to treat you to our favorite things <i><b>Oprah style</b></i>, we have put together the best giveaway of the season! My bloggy friends and I welcome you to the best, biggest, most cheerful event of the season:</span></div>
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