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kite day

by sally

Mar 24, 2009

Does anyone have a kite day at your school? Do you have any ideas you would share? Thank you very much!!!

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24 first graders?

by teach76

Mar 24, 2009

I just found out last week that I'm getting a new first grader. He will start next week. There are four first grades. Two of us have 23 students, and two have 22. They try to keep it to 23. I have no TAs in the room at any point during the day. When I heard that I was moving up to 24, I got a bit frustrated. I asked two of the other teachers if I s...See More

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TeachinNC Which is great considering I have two ADHD boys in there that need medicine all day and are still disruptive at times. (One is bipolar and has ODD too). I also have one undiagnosed ADD boy that is surly/can't focus and acts up too. I also have a girl with temper issues who in first grade displays inappropriate romantic behaviors in the classroom in...See More

Mar 28, 2009

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Ann/2/CA That's what we're looking at for next year...:-(

Mar 28, 2009

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Raising reading levels....what do you do?

by TeachinNC

Mar 24, 2009

This is what I am doing. Any other ideas, things you do?

1. 1/2 of classroom homogeneous groups a day.

2. About 15 minutes of AR reading (at least) in class each day. A.R. test taking also. Most students read and take a test on 1-2 books a day.

3. Read alouds nearly every day.

4. At home reading as much as I can...See More

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Yellow Rose Requiring all first graders to be on DRA 20 by the end of the year is not realistic. It surely would be NICE if they'd all be there. But it would be NICE for me if they came to me reading a little bit higher too. (or at least knowing all their sounds and letters)

Mar 29, 2009

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Grace/IL This thread wandered from "How do we raise reading levels?" to a discussion of the stages of reading expected of first graders so I'll go back to the beginning.

Only one person mentioned spelling lists as a way of increasing reading levels. Yet, teaching systematic sequential spelling can do wonders to raise reading levels because:
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Mar 29, 2009

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dyslexia-need help please

by rw

Mar 24, 2009

Need some help-ok-having a brain freeze-having a student who has Dyslexia "sound out" a word is one of worst things- right? or not right? I am confused-this weekend had a first level class on Susan Barton training and we learned about phonemes and breaking words into sounds-so I am really confused-then why did we spend all day doing that? HELP

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Jody It's extremely important that a child with dyslexia is given explicit instruction on how to sound out a word. All children should be taught to break words into individual graphemes. But, you need to make sure those graphemes are explicitly taught so that when they are sounding out the word, they are not guessing. Unfortunately, a lot of "sounding o...See More

Mar 24, 2009

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Math games

by Tanya/pa

Mar 24, 2009

I'm looking for some easy math games to reinforce addition and subtraction facts, especially games that can be done in partners or small groups. I teach first grade. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

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Lisa One of the games our math program uses is called High Roller. The kids partner up and all they need is 2 dice. First child rolls both dice. The child then has to figure what the higher number is- they "keep" that die and re-roll the other die. Then the 2 numbers are added together. Then the partner does the same thing. Whoever was the "High Roller"...See More

Mar 24, 2009

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diana I have polyhedral dice with numerals on them. The students are in groups of about four. One person rolls the dice and the others have to try to add the two numbers as quickly as they can. The person who rolled is not allowed to answer but must decide who answered correctly first. That person rolls next. I like this game because I have one group tha...See More

Mar 25, 2009

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New Math Adoption: Saxon or Foresman?

by Kate

Mar 24, 2009

lease let me know what you like or don't like. Thanks in advance.

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To Get it Right Get it right, You are wrong. School systems ADOPT books all the time.

On 3/27/09, Get a life! wrote: > On 3/27/09, Get it right! wrote: >> On 3/24/09, Kate wrote: >>> Please let me know what you like or don't like. Thanks in >>> advance.

Mar 27, 2009

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our school adopted math this year according to principal On 3/27/09, To Get it Right wrote: > Get it right, You are wrong. School systems ADOPT books all the > time. > > On 3/27/09, Get a life! wrote: >> On 3/27/09, Get it right! wrote: >>> On 3/24/09, Kate wrote: >>>> Please let me know what you like or don't like. Thanks in >>>> advance.

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Wondering about first grade

by Kindergarten Teacher

Mar 24, 2009

Every year at this time I get so excited about the progress my students have made. I love where they are now. It always makes me think I would like to start off the year teaching what my students are now doing.

I have been coming to this board to get a "feel" for first grade. Has anyone taught kinder before switching to first grade? If so...See More

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Former Kinder Teacher I taught Kinder for 10 yrs as well as 5 years in both 1st and 2nd Grade. I went back to K last year and I enjoyed it completely. This school year I'm back in 1st Grade and I would prefer to remain in this grade. More is expected from 1st graders and can be awfully tiring, but for me it's very rewarding. Kinder is fun and teaching themes is great, b...See More

Mar 25, 2009

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stay in K I wish I could get a position in K. First is rough. They expect the kids to do things that are not developmentally appropriate. (Testing, working without manipulatives, much more standards based, no teacher's assistant, larger class size.) Don't get me wrong I love the kids and a lot of what we do, but I miss the curriculum we had ten years ago whi...See More

Mar 28, 2009

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Listening Center Activities Needed

by Meg

Mar 24, 2009

Hi. I teach 2nd grade. I need some activities for the listening center during center time.

What do you all use? Meg

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Testing encouragement ideas

by rhonda

Mar 24, 2009

Our primary classes each have adopted a class who will begin SATs next week. Each day we do something as encouragement for our adopted class: catchy sayings with a treat, posters, etc. Anyone have good ideas? Thanks!

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Flat Stanley Projects Your ideas and Help

by New to this

Mar 24, 2009

I'd love to do the Flat Stanley project with my class but being that this is my first year in second grade I don't know where to start. Except to first read the book :). Does anyone have websites you can point me to? Could you tell me what you do for the project? I remember when my daughters did it, they sent Stanley to a relative. I don't remember...See More

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Marilyn B. I have instructions for the project at my site, The Imagination Factory. In addition to the basic directions for creating Stanley, there are other activities, including one for a Flat Stanley Travel Capsule. With Earth Day coming up, this is a natural tie in to teach students about saving the environment. Kids love doing this project. Have fun

Mar 25, 2009

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