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| Green team hard at work! We pick up about 4 bags of paper each Friday to be recycled. |
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| Hannah is reading to the class. She did a great job! |
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| Pow Wow! |
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| Jacob is helping us find the plural nouns in our recipe for Magic Reindeer Dust. |
Monday, November 30, 2015
Fall Fun
Fall Festival
Each year the Greenbrier PTO, schools, and the community organize a fall festival. Candidates from each class are chosen, candy bars are sold, and many more fundraisers take place to raise money for our schools. This fundraising leads up to a day of fun and games,
as well as a coronation ceremony to crown the fall festival queen and king. Check out our class's king and queen candidates. Adisyn and Owen did a fabulous job representing Mrs. Darling's first grade class.
Zoo Field Trip
What a fun day we had at the Little Rock Zoo! Check out the pictures below to see a few snapshots of our trip.
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
It’s FEATURED TEACHER TUESDAY!
Heidi Martin is a 1st Grade Teacher & Whole Brain Teaching Staff Member! She is also a mother of a 13 year old daughter (lord help her), a newlywed, and expecting a baby boy in January!
Heidi has been a teacher for 4 years at a priority school in Racine, WI. You can read all about her teaching journey HERE! She was voted 2nd best teacher in her county last year & recently won 3rd Runner up in the Thred-Up – Raise a Hand for Teachers Campaign! Heidi has a passion for helping under-privileged students & loves to watch her First Graders grow into leaders. Through Whole Brain Teaching, Heidi teaches her students to become teachers & run a self-managing classroom. Whole Brain Teachers like to call it “teacher heaven”! You can read all about Heidi’s WBT Journey here!
If you want to learn more about Whole Brain Teaching, join Heidi for WBT Wednesdays on her blog and Blab.IM show! Just search WBT on Blab to find upcoming & past shows!
Besides running her blog, Heidi is also a TpT Author! You can find her store at Droppin’ Knowledge with Heidi Martin. Some of her newest products include…
These packs are perfect for working on sentence structure while team-building at the same time!
To see how she uses these in her classroom (and see other versions available), CLICK HERE!
This comes in a PowerPoint format so all you have to do is add your own text!
Now, how about some FREEBIES?
For 2 days only (November 17th & 18th), you can get a copy of Heidi’s Add the Room activity ~ November Edition! & the Add the Room DECEMBER edition for FREE!
Get more Freebies HERE!
Thank you for checking out this week’s Featured Teacher! Have a Happy Thanksgiving and we will see you back on Tuesday, December 1st to meet Elisabeth from Literacy and Lattes!
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Our next Featured Teacher is Carol Polston over at The Chocolate Teacher
Carol is in her 23rd year of teaching. She has taught mostly first grade with a few years of second and kindergarten sprinkled in here and there. Her love is definitely first grade. Her favorite part of teaching first grade is seeing the growth in her students from the beginning to the end of the year. This growth never ceases to amaze her. She feels blessed to be able to be a part of her students’ growth!
Carol has been married for 38 years. She and her husband have three grown children and two adorable grandchildren. An unusual fact about Carol is that she had the privilege to teach all three of children in first grade. Her older two children she taught as a homeschool teacher and her youngest child was in her 1st grade classroom in public school. She feels happy that she got to teach all three of them how to read! Her youngest daughter is now also a teacher (teaching P.E.- a love she did not get from her mom).
Carol loves teaching just about every subject (ok, maybe not P.E.). She especially loves to teach phonics and reading! Grammar is also a subject she enjoys teaching. Carol started creating phonics and language units to sell on TpT a little over a year ago. She enjoys creating units to use in her own classroom and to share with others. The first grade classrooms in her district use her phonics and language units. You can click the links below to see a few of these.
She also enjoys providing activities to get her students up and moving as they learn. To encourage this, she has created Write the Room activities. These activities are a bunch of fun. Students move around the room looking at cards that are pinned to the wall and they record their answers on an answer sheet. These are a highly anticipated activity in her class. She has created quite a few to go along with her weekly phonics skills. You can check out her short vowel word family bundle here:
Carol also just completed a beginning mapping unit. She used it in her classroom and the kids loved it. The culminating activity in this unit is a map skill lap book. You can see it here:
Carol has quite a few free products in her store. Here are two that you can try that will introduce you to her phonics units and Write the Rooms:
Are you wondering why she named her store with the unusual name- The Chocolate Teacher? You can read all about why she did that here:
You can follow Carol at these sites:
Thanks so much for taking the time to read about Carol.
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