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My first purchasable item on Teachers Pay Teachers!!! Guys, I'm so excited! I hope you are too!</div>
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One of my favorite things to teach is writing. I have created a set of anchor charts for each part of The Writing Process {Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing, Proofreading, and Publishing}. These cuties would look spectacular on your Writing Wall </div>
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I have my students track where they are in the writing process as they are writing. The different headers of the process are taped to my cabinet and each student has a clothes pin with their number on it. As they go throughout the process they move their clip. This lets me know exactly where each student is and who I need to conference with. I really love it and so do the kids. It keeps accountability on my end and theirs! </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em>Happy {almost} Hump Day!</em></strong></span></div>Claire @ Completely Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15063574622198931345noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803601962661349307.post-7040820464765251222012-01-14T15:24:00.000-08:002012-01-14T15:24:22.835-08:00A Day in My ShoesHere is the run down on a {typical} day in my 3rd grade classroom. Brace yourself.<br />
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7:40 Pick up the kids from the gym<br />
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7:40--7:50 Unpack & turn in guided reading homework/put reading log on desk (Also during this time my student of the day goes around and highlights each child's reading log. If they didn't read their name goes on the board for study hall during recess)<br />
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7:50-8:20 Morning Edge - this is a time that my highs leave the room for enrichment, my lows are at my teacher table doing interventions, whether it be guided reading, first steps (have you heard of it??) or math small group. My on level students are doing either group or independent work around the room, whether it be tubs, nonfiction reading, technology, etc...<br />
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8:20-8:30 Problem of the Day- kids solve it independently and then we go over it has a class. Students bring their notebooks to the doc cam to show different strategies<br />
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8:30-8:35 Math Facts - students participate in times multiplication tests. It is very self paced and I do not make a big deal on what number they are on, nor do I display it around the room.<br />
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8:50-9:45 Math Workstations begin - Students have 4 rotations 1. Teacher Table 2. Tub Work 3. STAAR Wars 4. Evalutation {I meet with three math groups, instead of my high kids going to teacher table they go to the computers and ipads} P.S.S - my math groups change weekly based on my Friday Quick Check<br />
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9:50 C.A.M.P {Computers, Art, Music, PE}<br />
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10:50-11:40 Writer's Workshop - I do a 10 to 15 minute mini lesson and the remainder of the time is independent writing *my fav time of the day* I conference with students during this time and we have 4 author's that share at the end<br />
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11:40-11:55 Word Work/Handwriting {cursive}<br />
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1:00-1:45 Science *yippee*<br />
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1:45-2:40 Reader's Workshop - this consists of a mini lesson and then SSR {sustained silent reading} During this time I am pulling guided reading groups. There is a 10 minute journaling time at the end of reader's workshop for the kids to connect the mini lesson to what they read {if they weren't doing it while reading}<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><strong><em>Happy Hump Day! </em></strong></span></div>Claire @ Completely Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15063574622198931345noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803601962661349307.post-64183501580344056792012-01-09T10:26:00.000-08:002012-01-09T10:26:47.225-08:00Currently...<div align="center">
Link up with <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/">Farley</a> to enlighten everyone on your blog roll!</div>
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I'm sippin on some chick-fil-a sweet tea while my darlings are at lunch! </div>
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I started the day by giving my students a pencil with this <a href="http://pinterest.com/pin/35465915785264834/">darling label</a> via Pinterest! Oh what I did before Pinterest???</div>
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First we did this great writing activity from Ladybug Teacher Files {via Pinterest} as a prewriting activity for our awesome little flip books! The kids had a great time writing down their goals and sharing with their classmates. I even heard "accountability talk" going on today which was awesome!</div>
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After the kids brainstormed their personal goals for 2012 in their Quick Write journal they picked their 4 favorite or 4 most important to actually record in their 2012 book. </div>
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Fold the construction paper in half hot dog style. Then cut four equal slits through the top sheet. Leave the background sheet whole. Paste each number in the designated square. Flip up and record goal and what to do in order to achieve that goal!</div>
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What did you do to ring in the new year with your kiddos!?</div>Claire @ Completely Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15063574622198931345noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803601962661349307.post-7972203318668843092011-12-22T07:15:00.000-08:002011-12-22T07:15:16.628-08:00Merry Christmas all around<div style="text-align: center;">
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<br /></div>Claire @ Completely Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15063574622198931345noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803601962661349307.post-51501504567188357622011-12-01T13:29:00.000-08:002011-12-01T13:38:07.363-08:00Christmas Freebies & Math Freebie<div align="center">
Enjoy two Christmas Freebies! One is designed for a writing activity after reading the Christmas book </div>
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<em>The Year Without a Santa Claus.</em></div>
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This year I plan to turn their pictures black and white and they can add antlers and a red, glittery nose to their picture. I created this application to go along with the craftivity.</div>
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I plan to do this cute snowman craftivity at some point in the next two weeks. Thanks Pinterest! :0)</div>
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Greater than or less than? You could use any sort of money card (pictures or number value).<br />
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The kids start off by brainstorming. They draw their monster and label the features of the monster. Make sure to have them be specific. Then the kids make a final draft of their monster coloring in the lines and adding finishing touches. <br />
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Then fill out an ice cream cone graphic organizer stopping to think about the topic and four main details. <br />
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Introduce what a topic sentence is and how to write a topic sentence. Begin drafting the descriptive paragraph by including a topic sentence, details and a concluding sentence. (I ran out of room on my chart paper so started to write on board-no pic) <br />
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I used this activity to walk my kids through a writing check-list. We went through the writing process. <br />
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At the end of this lovely project, we will switch descriptive paragraphs with the other class and the kids will draw a monster based on the descriptions. We will then skype and compare the drawings and see how close the drawings are. Fun, huh?!:0)<br />
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My name is Claire Knight and I am a 3rd grade teacher in Texas. This is my first year to teach and I am beyond excited! I graduated from Oklahoma State University in May with a degree in Elementary Ed. I student taught in 1st grade. I am excited about the journey of being a 3rd grade teacher!<br />
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Need a place for your students to put their work when you are ready to move on but they are not quite finished? A teacher friend gave me this idea and I absolutely LOVE it! I thought I would share! <br />
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I am so sorry for not emailing these out to those who have asked. I figured this would be the easiest way to get them out to you since I have missed so many of you over the past few months! I hope you enjoy them in your classroom, like my kids did! Since I will be teaching 3rd grade this year I am going to come up with some harder comprehension questions. I will share when I get them made. </div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">This last week I introduced homophones! So much fun!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I get so excited when I can read the book<i> Dear Deer</i>. The kids loved it! While reading the book we created a circle map of all of the homophones we heard in the story! [No picture, sorry!]</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After the story, we talked more about what a homophone is and reviewed our circle map! I then passed out a sentence strip to each student with the homophone written on it. The kids were to spread out throughout the room and find their match. After everyone found their match, each one told which word they had and the definition!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We then played this really fun game! I taped a different sentence strip to their back! The kids had to find their match based on the clues their friends would give them. The clues had to be adjectives </span>[<i>Commotion in the Ocean</i> is a great book to read on adjectives, FYI!!]<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> or motions only!! The kids had a ball!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Aunt Ant ;0)</span></div>Claire @ Completely Clairehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15063574622198931345noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8803601962661349307.post-58110550555859915932011-03-28T16:34:00.000-07:002011-03-28T16:34:43.040-07:00I Can Be Anything<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I'm so proud of the kids and their wonderful work! They were only allowed to use construction paper! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The kids LOVED this activity! I painted their hands orange and their wrist green - I had them use markers to fill in the background! I thought they turned out precious! </span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We had a friendly visitor come to the classroom while the kids were in specials! He read the letters they wrote to him and left some sprinkle dust as a thank you! :0)</span></div>
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