Teacher Talk

There is a saying that says "Great Teachers are made by the teacher next door."   So in the spirit of making us all great teachers lets share some of our best practices with one another.  Join me on facebook every Tuesday where I will ask you a teacher related question

Take Home Book Bags

It has been proven that reading to children daily is one of the most effective ways we can help children become successful readers.  What better way to get our families reading to their children daily then by providing them with fun and engaging books.  The take home book bag program does just that for our families.   Some of the families might have limited access to books, so by providing them with this resource it will help them to be involved in their child's education . 

I like to have 15 to 20 book bags available for families weekly.  The book bag resource shelf is hanging right next to where families sign their children in/out daily.  The book bags are rotated with seasonal and theme related books about every two weeks.

Each bag contains book, note book, crayons and storytelling props.  This gives the family a variety of books to choose from.

A check out list sits right next to the book bags.  Parents write down which book bag they have taken and the date.  When they return them they write down the date they returned the bag.  It is an honor system.

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Friendship Week

This week we have been working on how to be a good friend.  We started the unit off with a printable book by Kristen Chapman called Happy Friends are Super Friends. 

Super  Friend Printable Book

The children loved having this book read to them and how we were all Super Friends, so after reading the book we made our own super friends during our workstation time.

We also read this book again to the children throughout the week at our small group time and then they had to draw a picture of being a super friend and what they would do to be one.

I thought I took pictures of the writing project but did not sorry.  Here is a picture and a download of our writing worksheet.

Currently we are also working on shapes so the children also made shape friends at the math workstation. The children had to identify the shapes they used for a check list assessment and portfolio item.  

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Children also went to the creative art center and made their friends and named them. 

Coffee with Friends

We are not just teachers, we are…

       ·         Moms

       ·         Wives

       ·         Daughters

       ·         Sisters

       ·         Friends

       ·         Co-Workers

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