School started for me August 7th and I have been super busy and way to tired to blog. My kiddos this year are much different than my students last year. Last year my students entered third grade with the responsibility, street smarts. and book smarts of fifth graders. I seriously could be absent for a whole day and my kids could run the classroom just as smooth (if not smoother) than if I was there. They truly spoiled me.
This year, on the other hand, is another story. My kiddos this year are pure second graders who entered third grade like a deer in headlights. I, also, have about 7 special needs students this year: 2 severe ADD, 2 ESL students who primarily speak Korean and Spanish (Google Translate is my favorite app this year), 2 autistic children, and 1 partially blind child. I love each and everyone of them, but it really is tiring and stressful making sure each of them gets their needs met, as well as the other children without special needs. I was supposed to begin my Specialist Degree last week, but with this school year and class, I decided that I need to devote all of my time making sure these kids and I
Now on to my bookmarks:
I was inspired by a Pinterest pin that I cannot find for the life of me now! It was a bookmark that a teacher made for her students that had their names on it with cute ribbon. (if anyone may know what I am talking about, please help me out haha). Anyways, I decided to make cute bookmarks for my kiddos. First, I got these colorful laminated index cards that I had last year for behavior management. I decided to use these cards as their book marks. Then, I hole punched one hole into the side of the card and tied five different color ribbons to the hole. I printed each of my students names on labels and stuck them on to the card. Lastly, I made another label for my student's AR information. I hate having to constantly tell my students what their AR goals are so I decided that the back of the bookmark would be a great place to put this information. (I was going to link this to Monday Made It, but the weekly series stopped as had gone to a monthly linky party, so I just decided to blog about my bookmarks anyway). Here is the finished product:
I, as well as my students, love them!
Freebie Alert!!!
We have been studying map skills this week, including continents and oceans. I checked out several atlases and books on continents from our school library. With these, I plan to group my students into 6 groups, and have each group research information about a specific continent (excluding Antarctica). They will then present their findings to the rest of the class. Below you will find the worksheets that I made for my kiddos to complete on each continent.
Talk to you soon!
