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Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00613719976895925140noreply@blogger.com24tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372186276398269682.post-53386864665500067962012-09-16T07:41:00.000-04:002012-09-16T07:41:10.399-04:00Kindergarten Common Core<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Feel free to use it if you can! Clip art is from <a href="http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/sitemap/math.php" target="_blank">Clipart ETC</a>, a Florida based site offering free math clipart for teachers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Have you heard of Pinerly? A Pinterest friendly dashboard made by Pinterest fans. It's a new way to organize your pins and see your stats (kind of like blogger) and helps you to find pinners with your same interest, but they only let you try it out if you get people to sign up! Would you help me out?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A very big THANK YOU to Erin over at <a href="http://creatinganddesigning.blogspot.com/">Creating and Designing</a> for my new blog design! She even helped me with my new title! I haven't really posted since moving to 2nd grade, but now with my new design and title I am all set!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Erin is fabulous to work with and I think my blog speaks for itself! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you are in need of a blog makeover, be sure to hop over and check out her portfolio!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While blog stalking tonight, I read Cecilia's post at <span style="color: #222222;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="http://ilove1stgrade.blogspot.com/2012/01/work-on-writing-labels-sticker-stories.html">I Love 1st Grade</a> for her new <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Work-on-Writing-Labels-Sticker-Stories-2">Work on Writing Labels-Sticker Stories</a>. She was kind enough to let me try it out with my students! I am excited to offer this new choice to my 2nd graders! I'm sure they will love it!</span></span></span><br />
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I won Julie's giveaway a few weeks ago and my things from Karen arrived today!!! </div>
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I was very excited!! Here they are!</div>
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I got the fabric organizer</div>
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Are you a member of Pinterest? If you are, then you already know how awesome it is because it helps you organize all those wonderful ideas and inspirations that you find around the internet. If not, then you MUST check it out! You will not be disappointed!</div>
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Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00613719976895925140noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372186276398269682.post-72029689738558212322011-06-23T06:15:00.000-04:002011-06-23T06:15:54.431-04:00Kindergarten Graduation<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here is the Kindergarten Graduation video slideshow I created using animoto.com. This is my second year doing a video slideshow for graduation. I really like how it turned out this year! I added video clips of the students saying what they liked about kindergarten. Their voices are a little quiet on some, so I added text before each clip so everyone will know what they are saying. It was a hit at graduation on Tuesday! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Flag Day is June 14th. To get ready to celebrate we begin by creating our own flags! This is a one of my favorite projects we do each year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I give each student a piece of red, white or blue paper to start. I then have squares, strips of paper and stars (small, medium, and large) at each table in red, white, and blue for them to create a flag! Here are a few photos of the students creating the flags. </span></div>
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We give you back your child, the same child you confidently entrusted to our care last fall. We give him back pounds heavier, inches taller, months wiser, more responsible, and more mature then he was then.<br />
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Although he would hav<span class="text_exposed_show">e attained his growth in spite of us, it has been my pleasure and privilege to watch his personality unfold day by day and marvel at this splendid miracle of development.<br />
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I give him back reluctantly, for having spent ten months together in the narrow confines of a crowded classroom, we have grown close, have become a part of each other, and we shall always retain a little of each other.<br />
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We have lived, loved, laughed, played, studied, learned, and enriched our lives together this year. We wish it could go on indefinitely, but give him back we must. Take care of him, for he is precious.<br />
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Remember that we shall always be interested in your child and his destiny, wherever he goes, whatever he does, whoever he becomes. His joys and sorrows we will always be happy to share. We shall always be his friend.</span></span></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Every year for Mother's Day it has been our tradition to make a silhouette of each student to give to his/her mother. A couple of years ago, a teacher on my team came up with an easy way to do them! No more using the projector and having the student sit still while you trace around his/her head! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Now all we do, is have the student stand in front of a wall/easel/Promethean board, and quickly snap his/her profile with a digital camera! Check it to make sure it looks good, then print it, cut it on black paper and mount on a white piece of paper! So simple!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We also have the students make something to go along with the silhouette since it is mostly teacher created. The moms LOVE them! I can't imagine not doing them! I'm not from the area that I teach in, but my mom still has my Kindergarten silhouette! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have you checked out Andrea's post at </span><a href="http://steppingintofirstgrade.blogspot.com/2011/04/mothers-day.html" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stepping Into First Grade</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">? She has a really cute flower craft to make for mom!</span></span>Alihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00613719976895925140noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3372186276398269682.post-75805791917160976622011-04-19T16:33:00.000-04:002011-04-20T00:10:21.037-04:00Weekly Newsletter<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ms. S from <a href="http://brandnewpencil.blogspot.com/">The Brand New Pencil</a> is hosting a newsletter linky party so I thought I would join too! </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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