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Well,  I'm in the classroom and slowly setting up.  I'm taking the time to go through everything in the classroom and see what I really need and what can go.  I've gotten a few new things for the classroom that I am excited about.  I found this at Michael's Craft store this summer for 50% off!!!   I'm putting my art supplies that I tend to use more often in the drawers and I can use the 2 shelves for various bins.  Here is a toy storage I bought this summer at Canadian Tire. So my students keep their books in their desks in a ziplock bag but I found many of the kids would make holes in the bags and I would have to keep replacing them.  So this year I saw these magazine holders at the dollar store (2 for $1.00) and I'm going to have the students keep their books in them.  I have set them up on the shelf and tomorrow I'm going to hot glue gun clear name tag holders on the front so the kids can decorate name tags and place them in the ...

Here are the calendars that go along with my Read At Home.  These go in the students B.E.E. binders in a clear plastic sleeve.  I have the parents fill in the month and then hand the calendar in to my at the end of the month.  I keep all the calendars and calculate all the minutes together to show the children how much they are reading.  The students get really excited.  We try to beat the minutes from the month before.   Calendar Minutes Enjoy! Kemble :-)

Just starting to think about my to do list before school starts for me (September 5).  Just thought I would share the Read At Home letter I place in my student's B.E.E. binder.  I photocopy one for each student and place it in a clear plastic sleeve that is kept in the B.E.E. binder all year.  It is a word document so you can edit if if you like. Read At Home letter Enjoy! Kemble :-) P.S. - You may have to change the margins or the spaces in between the paragraphs.  

When a student has a birthday, I give them a ribbon that I got at the Dollar Store and a certificate.  This coming year I am also going to give them a sticker/label for them to wear for the day so other people can see it's their birthday and wish them a happy birthday.  I have made 2 different ones both in colour and black and white. I use Avery 8923 labels and I do have a colour printer.  Here are the links to the files: Happy Birthday (card & balloon colour) Happy Birthday (card & balloon black and white) Happy Birthday (cupcake & balloon colour) Happy Birthday (cupcake & balloon black and whtie) Enjoy! Kemble :-)

I introduce 4 sight words every week.  For the past 3 years I have been doing different word chants with each of the sight words and my students really enjoy the movement as they learn new sight words.  For next year, I wanted to add to this routine so I have come up with these worksheets and activities within this package.  I have gone through the Dolch words and tried to put them together in a way that would make sense to the kids and helpful at the same time with their reading and writing.  The Pre-primer and Primer list divided evenly into 4 words per week.  The Grade One list I had to make 8 lists with 4 words and 3 lists with 3 words.  The Grade Two list I had to make 10 lists with 4 words and 2 lists with 3 words. I have made posters with the words I will be introducing that I will put up for the week so the kids remember what words we are working on that week.  My sight word routine will be the following: Monday – Find, Colour! Workshe...

Hello,  I cannot believe I uploaded my plant journal in 2012!!!  I have been using this plant journal with my students for 12 years!!! My students still get excited when they get their journal and investigate their plant growth.   For the past two years I have started the Bean Greenhouses where my students put a few beans in wet cotton balls, place them in a ziploc and we put them on the window and watch them grow.  This year I have created a quick journal for my students to observe their observations.  I always give 3 beans to each student because the ziploc is rather small for any more.  This year my students will be able to get their Bean Greenhouse journal, put down what day it is of growing and then colour in what stage they see their beans. They can also colour in the weather - sunny, partly sunny or cloudy.     Every year I do a living things unit and plant a radish seed with my students.   However, I have never felt t...

I find I skim over Earth day and this past year I finally got frustrated with myself and sat down and designed a few games for the kids so that by playing all the games, my students would really learn about reduce, reuse, and recycle.  At our school we have different bins for recycling but the kids seem to have some confusion what goes where.  I found after my students played these games for about 2 weeks, they really knew what things were recyclable and what items they could reuse again.  And I found the kids asking each other instead of me and that was just awesome to see!!!  I did save the games for Earth Day but I think this year I will get the kids to play it at the beginning of the year(because shouldn't every day be Earth Day?) so it will help them learn about recycling and in turn help recycle properly at our school.   So this package includes 4 different Earth Day games the students can play during centre time or just on their own after ...