tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28984990477303224352024-03-19T03:22:53.461-07:00Hoot and HollerAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05269109537060781288noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2898499047730322435.post-20820383742277314272017-01-19T11:01:00.000-08:002017-01-19T11:01:19.016-08:00Say What? Comprehension!<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="line-height: 119%;">It is amazing to me how much my kindergarten students a</span><span style="line-height: 22.2133px;">re capable of learning. Every time I did a color level check, it seemed they were able to decode more and more words. But do they really understand what they are reading at such a young level. I had six students that moved into 1 Red and 2 Red. Utterly amazing, hard working students! They are fluent readers and are becomin</span><span style="line-height: 22.2133px;">g </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">more expressive as they read! However, I was unsure if they really understood all the new vocabulary words and could retell what they were reading. I wanted them to work on the comprehension standard for the color level they were in. So I felt for my 1R and 2R readers I had to focus on 2nd Grade standards. That’s a lot of researching for a kindergarten teacher. So that is why I collaborated with some teachers and came up with these comprehension packet. I have to admit, they are pretty helpful and I have been loving them during Daily 5!</span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 119%;">Once I was confident that they each had a great understanding of major events in a story, we did a literacy circle using the chapter book <b><span style="color: red;">Tornado</span></b>. Since I'm working with kindergarten students, we talked through the question and answer page rather than write it out. We had some great discussions!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "kg miss kindergarten"; font-size: 20.0pt; line-height: 119%;">For the past 4 years we have come to love Action 100! Using focused power goals that work on specific skills needed in each color level has been successful in our classrooms as well as at home. We have seen the benefits of having the same power goal page practiced at home and school. By doing this we have felt that our students have truly mastered the foundational skills in each color level. However, we noticed that the skills they were practicing weren't always applied within their reading since they practice their skills in isolation. This is why we set a professional goal this past summer to write original passages that contained the specific skill that were working on. Since we started using these passage in addition to the words list, we have seen phenomenal growth and confidence in all of our students. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "kg miss kindergarten"; font-size: 22.0pt; line-height: 119%;">We truly want to share our successful formal with you. First, focus on master of all power words. You will see many of the power words throughout the passages so these are a must. </span><span style="font-family: 'kg miss kindergarten'; font-size: 22pt; line-height: 119%;">We then created passages for each foundational skill to correlate with their power goal word list. In our classroom we copy the word list on the front and the phonics passages on the back. This back to back page is what they read daily with us, independently, at home or with volunteers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Once we finished learning as a whole group we did a word sort activity. We focused on highlighting the vowel patterns. We discussed why the oi was used in the middle of the word and why oy may be used at the end of a word. The students went right to work. They cut and pasted and worked on reading words with oi/oy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, check out our White Bundle, focused for readers at the 3rd Grade reading level. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: RowdyWriting; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Ahoy fellow followers!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Arrrrr you ready to work on “Bossy R”
words?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a 1B (Action 100) foundational
skill we focused on last week to help our students become more familiar with
r-controlled words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Included in the pack
you will find 10 word cards for ar, or, er, ir, and ur.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: RowdyWriting; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><o:p>We had a fun week learning about bossy r words! We wish you Godspeed (Good Luck)! </o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: CK Plain Jane;">While reading with him, I found there were still just a few phonic areas that needed to be reviewed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pulled out the practice page and game in the 2R bundle for his specific skill and was able to show him exactly the piece he needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> H</span>e had a blast playing the new game and even asked to stay in from recess with a friend to play.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Yes, we are in Minnesota so students do ask to stay in on cold, cold days.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I sent the word list and game home with him to practice at home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When learning is fun, it doesn’t feel like work.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "CK Primary"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "CK Primary"; mso-default-font-family: "CK Primary"; mso-latin-font-family: "CK Primary"; mso-ligatures: none;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mark your calendars, President’s Day is just around the corner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We just finished taking our NWEA test and I saw some of the questions that were being asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My brain started ticking and Walla, here is what I’ve come up with! First, our<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>class will read biographies about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln around Presidents' Day. We will take time to dive deeper into the information. I have created a file to explain what a biography is and to look at the details of their lives - in timelines, looking at their character traits (both inside and outside), as well as comparing and contrasting the Presidents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like that the students can be involved in their learning with this interactive lesson!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">During our Daily 5 and Guided Math lesson, I</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">plan to incorporate stations that align with the standards our students will be assessed on.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">We have been working on number patterns and finding the</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">rule.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">We also are working on long vowel patterns and r-controlled words.</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-size: large;">I plan to use the activities found in our Presidential Pack to help my students learn in an engaging manner.</span></div>
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is creating an environment that fosters learning. We have dreams of decorating
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gun. We're known around our school by the Fire Marshall. But, each year we beg
to allow this. It is so welcoming and the kids love being associated with whatever theme we choose. This year we are the </span><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">“</span></span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "⋎ntury Gothic"";">Owl Room!</span><span style="font-size: 16pt; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">”</span></span><span style="font-family: "Century Gothic","sans-serif"; font-size: 16pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: "⋎ntury Gothic"";"> If we could be hired out to decorate doors, we would be in
7th HEAVEN! </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; font-size: 16pt; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-default-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-greek-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-latin-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-ligatures: none;">Providing students with many books at their individual reading level is a very high priority in our room. We bought this great shelving system at IKEA! We love having white in our room. It makes everything so much brighter! The owls are pretty cute too!</span><br />
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<span lang="en-US" style="color: purple; font-family: "Century Gothic"; language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-default-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-greek-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-latin-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-ligatures: none;">My cousin, Turina Zimmer, is an elementary principal in Colorado. Unfortunately, her school experienced a horrible tragedy this year with the kidnapping of Jessica Ridgeway. This was her Facebook post this morning. I thought it was beautifully written. I am heading out to perform my deliberate act of kindness right now. Will you join me? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Century Gothic;"><span style="color: purple;">"I continue to be silent this morning regarding yesterday's horrific act against children and the school staff that loved them. There are no words, only emotions. So, I make my plea that I've made in the past when my school and my state experienced other tradegies...Please consider performing a deliberate act of kindeness this weekend. It does'nt erase what's happened, but it helps. It fills your heart, it restores others' faith, and it aids in healing. Kindness and subsequent gratitude have real power."</span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Century Gothic;">After reading this post, I knew I needed to do something to help restore my faith and show some gratitude for our profession.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Century Gothic;">A group of moms from the town I live in decided to take our children around to bring back the tradition of Christmas caroling. We loaded up 9 vehicles with children of all ages. We first went to a home of a young lady who recently was in a very horrific car accident. Our children stood outside her bedroom and sang Christmas songs to her through her window. </span></div>
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<span lang="en-US" style="font-family: "Century Gothic"; language: en-US; line-height: 119%; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-ascii-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-cyrillic-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-default-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-greek-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-latin-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-latinext-font-family: "Century Gothic"; mso-ligatures: none;">After visiting a home from Christmas future, we began visiting homes of Christmas Past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our former teachers, the ones that taught us the importance of being great role models to our children.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The ones that taught us that you need to work hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Before our children began singing to these amazing teachers, each retired teacher was given a card that said:</span></div>
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We are three teachers from Minnesota that love to teach, gab, and learn together. We have been collaborating together for 6 years and decided to start a blog since we believe in working smarter not harder. We truly are examples of our motto: "Teamwork: Simply stated: it is less me and more we." (Author unknown)<br />
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We teach 1st and 2nd grade in different buildings in different towns. Our friendship began via email. (See...I told you we were good at gabbing.) Once we started sharing our educational materials together, we also started sharing many late nights with Diet Coke - often just over email. This has continued to grow throughout the years. This year, we really needed each other as we implemented Action 100 in our classrooms. (Thank goodness for good friends, collaboration, and Diet Coke.)<br />
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Currently, Kate and Jolene are "livin' the life" of part-time teachers. They job-share at the first grade level and enjoy the opportunity to volunteer in their children's classrooms on their days off. <br />
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Kik is a 2nd grade teacher who doesn't like to talk about herself so this is the only personal info you will get about her on this blog. :)<br />
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Check back often. We have a lot to talk about and inspirational ideas to share.<br />
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