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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week I want to share some of the exciting things we have found and developed to increase our students' fluency. Until recent years, fluency has been a major focus in upper grades beginning in Third grade. However, with Common Core and the implementation of the MClass Reading Assessments here in NC....we feel that it is very important for first graders to practice fluency skills daily. No longer is it enough for students just to be able to "read words" but they are pushed to read the words fluently and with appropriate feeling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To work on sight word fluency, our team developed Fry Sight Word Books. Each Fry Word list is divided into groups of 10</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">words per page. Students take the books home and study one page at a time. Once the student knows the entire page and the teacher checks the student's progress, he/she may move on to the next page. The book is easier to keep track of rather than 100 flashcards banded together. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Fry Phrase books work similarly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Our Students LOVE Donna Coleman's One Breath Boxes. The idea is that using one breath, the students try to say each box without running out of air. Although this strategy does not work the expression side of fluency, the students have a great time challenging themselves to move to harder boxes using only one deep breath. Check these out on TPT!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once students have a good grasp on sight word knowledge and are doing well with short phrases, we like to challenge them with poetry. The rhythm and rhyme help develop students' expression and accuracy. Usually we spend about 1 week per poem. We do several repeated reading and encourage the students' to read with expression. Alissa has made several packs for each month and each pack has a wide variety of topics appropriate for that month. We highly suggest using poetry as a means for increasing fluency!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I promised you...we've been working this summer. Some of us (Tammy) have better views than others for our summer break. She has been enjoying the <span style="color: blue;">ocean breeze</span> and working hard to bring you our version of the </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The file includes car riders, bus riders, after school care, daycare, walkers, and tutoring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One things that sets our file apart from others-Tammy has created <span style="color: magenta;">Student Labels</span>!! Print and laminate for students to wear home until they learn his/her bus number!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As an added bonus for checking out our blog, I am including the link for the editable version of the Student Labels. We appreciate everyone visiting our blog! So enjoy this little gift from us!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299589463405748028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985242992755888948.post-5786442528316830992013-07-07T17:45:00.001-07:002013-07-07T17:45:43.168-07:00The Next Chapter<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First and foremost, sorry that we have been so SLACK!! The new Common Core hit the three of us harder than we expected....plus the fact that 2 out of 3 of us were finishing up graduate school. So needless to say, we have all been busy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The theme of this post is CHANGE!! So much has changed for us in such a short period of time. We are no longer fanatical in FIRST....unfortunately sweet Autumn will be teaching SECOND grade next year :(. We have shed A LOT of tears as a team...so many that you would think we wouldn't need to cry for a year!! Hopefully with the new months comes a new attitude. The inside joke is "we can do anything for a year", but who knows how long we will be split. The positive aspect of this switch is we will have more experience in different grade levels and able to offer better quality items on our TpT account.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tammy is currently soaking up the rays at her beach house and working on Back to School type items for TpT. I (Ashley) am working on different fluency activities including Fry phrase books and reading fluency activities. Autumn, well, she is just trying to deal with being in a new grade level. She will be able to provide some higher level things for anyone interested.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please continue to keep us in your prayers as we begin this new school year. Change is never easy, but we will persevere! </span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299589463405748028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985242992755888948.post-41474102776827822152012-12-29T09:02:00.002-08:002012-12-29T18:59:05.880-08:00Christmas Break!Hope that everyone is enjoying their time off as much as we are!! We love spending time with our families and being able to rest up from school. One of the things that we wanted to share that we enjoyed and thought was cute was an idea that one of our 2nd grade teachers got our school started on. She started it back in October and it's where classes can "Boo" each other. Around Halloween we would "Boo" other classrooms by leaving a bag of candy at their classroom door. Once your classroom has been picked, you put up your "We have been Booed!" sign. So we did this again around Christmas and this time we "Elfed" each other. The students loved picking which classroom they wanted to send candy to and "prank." We have included pictures to help explain this whole idea better. Thanks to our 2nd grade teacher, Mrs. Cole for this cute and fun idea to do around the holidays. She sent out an email to all staff to explain how this worked and it was a lot of fun to include the students and have them play amongst each other. Our students enjoyed getting the older students on the other hallway. You can change this up and maybe use it for Valentines, any holiday, or really any excuse to prank other classrooms. Hope that everyone enjoys their break!<br />
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Here are our pictures from Grinch Day! We had so much fun! It's an exhausting, but fun day for the staff and students! On Grinch Day, our Ms. Jones dresses up as the Grinch. She will then come around in the afternoon and visit each class and give a special treat to the students. It usually is green candy canes. Students and staff wear green all day on Grinch Day. All of our activities that day are Grinch related. We are so grateful that our school allows us to do these fun, silly days for the students. The students really look forward, and REALLY enjoy meeting the Grinch! I was unable to take a picture of the Grinch that day, but look under Meet Ms. Jones and you will see our famous Grinch!Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299589463405748028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985242992755888948.post-8204027672090801002012-12-11T16:17:00.000-08:002012-12-11T16:59:35.111-08:00Getting Ready for Grinch Day!<style type="text/css">
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We are looking forward to celebrating
Grinch Day this Friday! Our very own Ms. Jones is our Grinch,
and the students and staff love for the Grinch to come and visit the
classrooms! Ms. Jones does a fantastic job with dressing up and
playing along for the whole day. Each teachers buys something
for their classroom, and the Grinch delivers the items to the
students. Most teachers buy green candy canes and it ends up
being such a fun day. We are so thankful to be able to work at
a school that allows us to have all of these fun days especially
around Christmas. We just finished celebrating Polar Express
Day last Friday, so it's busy, busy, busy here at the schoolhouse. Make sure to check back with us for updated Grinch pictures.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299589463405748028noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985242992755888948.post-57627799532782949512012-10-28T14:46:00.004-07:002012-10-28T14:46:55.637-07:00 This blogging stuff has definitely been harder than we expected. It has been super hard trying to find time to work on things for our TPT account and blog, plus do the normal ins and outs of first grade. BUT despite all the adversity, we finally made our first sale in Teachers Pay Teachers. Autumn created a Halloween inspired flipchart to go with Fact and Opinions. It looks fantastic. Go to our store and check out our first item and give us some feedback!<br />
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Oh, all of you professional bloggers out there....does anyone know how I can make a preview for our flipcharts??? It kept coming up that the file was too big and I could not figure it out. Please leave a comment if you have any suggestions! We appreciate all of your help and support. Hopefully we will more things up soon. We are working on an awesome Thanksgiving unit!<br />
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(Here is a preview of a 16 slide flipchart about Fact and Opinion)</div>
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yes...I am a “Ms.”. I've never been married and I do not have
any kids. It's just me, myself, and I currently. The whole idea of
not being married is hard for my little first graders to digest
because “I'm OLD!” lol</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If I had to pick a new career
tomorrow, I would choose to be a turf manager at a golf course by
day and a hardcore crafter at night.</span></div>
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home away from home!!</span></div>
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reason to dress as a character! I have a homemade Grinch outfit that
I wear every Christmas to school! The kids loveeee it!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Obviously since I love costumes my
favorite holiday is HALLOWEEN. If there were such a place as
Halloweentown I would move there!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My assistant talked me into
getting a kitten as a step towards responsibility and commitment.
Let's just say we are both still getting adjusted to one another.
PS...his name is Charles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I enjoy all things competitive!
Playing cards, watching football, playing board games, but baseball
is my all time favorite. I am the assistant coach for a high school
softball team. I've been coaching for about 5 years.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I really like to read when I have
time! However, I only like to read NYTimes Best Sellers. Sometimes I
spend more time researching books than actually reading them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thankfully I will graduate in May
with my Masters in Elementary Education.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This begins my 7<sup>th</sup> year
teaching. I've taught a K/1st combination, First Grade for 4 years
and 3<sup>rd</sup> Grade for 2 years. Hopefully I will spend the
rest of my days in First grade. It is by far the best grade in the
world to teach!</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: red;">My brother-Josh, me, sister-Amber and<br />brother-in-law-Mark</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. I’m starting my 23rd year of teaching. How can that be since I’m only 29?! I started my teaching career as a Title I reading teacher, then moved to preschool as the Education Coordinator, and now I teach first grade. I have taught first grade for 8 years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. My husband is a 5th grade teacher and can you believe this…we teach at the same school! Yes this definitely makes for some very interesting days!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. We have two daughters –Kayla and Holly! Both should graduate this year from college –YAH! I’m</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">also “Granny”to one very sweet, spoiled Maltese named Roxie Rae Marie!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. I have a not so secret obsession with a mouse –that would be Mickey Mouse! My favorite vacation spot is Walt Disney World and I’m already counting the days till our next visit. 87 days and counting!!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. I’m just a teeny, tiny bit obsessive compulsive. Okay, maybe I’m a lot obsessive compulsive!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. A few of my favorite things…Diet Dr. Pepper, NASCAR, Clemson Tigers, Ben & Jerry’s Cherry Garcia ice cream, and the color green!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">7. I’m an only child –enough said!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">8. Something interesting about my childhood –My dad was a funeral director so sometimes I got to ride to school in a hearse and all the other kids thought it was cool. Me –not so much!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">9. I am absolutely TERRIFIED of snakes! I won’t even look at cartoon snakes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10. I’m absolutely hooked on reality shows! Especially Big Brother and The Amazing Race! Wish I had what it takes to do the Amazing Race but I’m way too much of a diva!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">1. I have been married to my sweet husband Justin for 8 years and we have no children. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">3. I will graduate in May with my Masters in Elementary Education.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #222222;">4. I love being adventurous and daring. I have been skydiving, parasailing, rode in a hot air balloon, and my next adventure that I would love to do is zip-lining.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">5. Eating sweets and junk food is an absolute weakness of mine. Chocolate and caramel are my best friends......p.s. I am a Type 1 Diabetic. Always having to check my sugar. ; )</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">6. I love to travel! My husband took me to California on our 1 year anniversary and we went to the Price is Right, and I got called and went all the way to the showcase. This was when Bob Barker was still doing the show, what great memories! I would love to visit Hawaii one day.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">7. Shopping is my guilty pleasure!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">8. I have the best family ever, I have 2 SETS of twin sisters, and a brother, which makes 6 children in all.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br style="background-color: white; color: #222222;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">9. I enjoy reading especially when I am not having to read grad school books.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">10. Hanging out with my friends/girlfriends is one of my most favorite things to do! Playing ping pong and board games is so much fun on the weekends with my husband and friends!</span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299589463405748028noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985242992755888948.post-51366250130481811582012-09-16T13:45:00.003-07:002012-09-16T17:15:00.423-07:00Carolina Girls Blogger Meet-up!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We attended our very first Blogger meet-up yesterday! What a great experience!! Needless to say, we were definitely the "newbie" bloggers but it was nice to hear everyone's advice and experiences. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the girls from the Blogger meet up in Columbia, SC on 9/15/12.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. Teachers can talk to ANYONE: it is amazing how you can drive 2 hours to a restaurant to meet people you have never met and feel completely comfortable for the next 2 1/2 hours discussing teaching, blogging, pinterest, family and life in general.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. Apparently there are lows and highs when blogging. Well considering our blog has started off on the "low" end, hopefully we will be on the upswing very soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. We need to blog at least once a week and no more than once a day. Thank you to Heather and Juli from Simple in Second for teaching us these blogging etiquette rules!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fanatical In First Grade at our first Blogger event</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A big thank you to all the girls for making us feel welcome and for being our first followers!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299589463405748028noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2985242992755888948.post-60404869265427834992012-08-04T06:46:00.000-07:002012-08-05T19:11:37.470-07:00Meet the Team!<h2 style="color: black; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are very excited to partake in one of our long-time goals...to start a blog! We hope that you will find our blog useful and entertaining. Look for us SOON on TeachersPayTeachers! We will be posting some things we have created for free!</span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14299589463405748028noreply@blogger.com8