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plant not pour leelou blogs click here for free blogger templates link buttons and more skip to main skip to sidebar plant not pour it is not so much what is poured into the student but what is planted that really counts tuesday november 1 2011 untitled so i was not sure what to call this post so i will make like a musician when they can t name their songs and call it untitled i have not been checking in much lately for a numebr of reasons but for one big one which i mentioned during the last post they haven t even hired for a sub position in this town for this school year that s how far and few between the teaching jobs are here i am trying to focus on the positive like all the extra time i have on my hands although when you have an 18 month old i am not sure you could call it extra and all the time i now have to spend with my daughters also it has allowed me to spend some time crafting and decorating my new house which i love sorry make that loooooovvvveeeeee i have been hanging out at my other blog a lot more frequently and i would love it if you could join me there too it s called becoming martha and it s all about the domestic life and please don t leave me here i will be back as soon as i get back into the teaching world which believe me i will i would just love a way to still stay in contact with the fabulous bloggers i have met through the world of teacher blogs o but beware the world of crafting blogs is just as dangerously addictive and we do not have a support group for that yet thank you all for your support see ya soon o p s i am a total pinterest addict now too follow me there by clicking here posted by unknown at 6 07 pm 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday september 27 2011 words to live by hello again hi all sorry my absence has been so extended but this summer was an intense one even now we are still getting settled into our new home and doing lots of reno s we love our new home and our quaint little town that we now live in but things are very different for us here we haven t met any friends yet which makes me the social butterfly a little lonely and to make it worse they weren t even hiring for subbing positions here they have more teachers than they know what to do with sigh so please keep me sending good thoughts out there for me okay hopefully something comes up soon because it is so hard being away from something that you love so much in other news i just finally got with the times and got a pinterest account i gotta say all the raving was justified this site rocks i have so many pin boards and my bookmarks and saved pictures are now neatly organized on the web and not cluttering up my desktop love it while scouring around pinterest i came upon this quote and it really spoke to me and my belief about education and the entire teaching world i really felt to share it with you can you imagine what our education system would look like if everyone truly believed in this i know there are excellent teachers out there now who do but i also know there are many who don t i think this is the reason so many of our students are falling through the cracks or failing or growing up with low self esteem because they are too stupid to do well in school we need to show students that everyone is smart and everyone has their own intelligences and it s okay you re a genius at poetry you re a genius on the basketball court you re a genius with a saw in woodworking class you re a genius so many times the words smart and genius and intelligent become associated only with math science and other academic subjects but students need to know that being a whiz at playing the trombone is just as special as being able to whiz through an algebra equation in 3 2 seconds flat don t you agree posted by unknown at 7 01 am 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday june 28 2011 see you soon not goodbye so i have felt really bad lately because i haven t been blogging to be honest i haven t even been checking my blogroll i have probably missed so many great giveaways and ideas and i missed the math stations workshop but i just can t keep up we all know how busy the end of the year can be and this is my first end of year ever there is sooo much to do also i am not returning to my classroom so it all had to be sorted and packed in one week we will be moving to ontario which is half way across the country we have been so busy this past month in the past four weeks we have flown there bought a house went through that whole process and now are starting the process of moving our family and house school ends on june 30 we have to be out of our current house july 7 needless to say i am drained and blogging as important as it is has fallen to the wayside for the time being don t worry i am not gone for good i have no idea what is in store for me in ontario cuts aren t as bad as alberta but i don t think it looks good but i will definately still be blogging so thanks for sticking with me and not deleting me from your blogroll i will hopefully be back soon posted by unknown at 9 57 pm 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday may 30 2011 a great giveaway check out the circus pack that musings of me is giving away to one lucky follower posted by unknown at 5 38 am 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday may 24 2011 check out this giveaway check out this great new blog from the lesson diva follow her blog and blog about her giveaway for today only and you will receive a great package from her tpt store how awesome and i love the blog name o posted by unknown at 7 33 pm 0 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday may 15 2011 spring addition well life around here has been life as usual insane and chaotic you gotta love being a new teacher and having two little kids of your own and a husband in the military who is always deployed or away training school is busy too may means its time to start preparing for final report cards and making sure that we get everything done that needs to be done by the end of the year and you all know how it is on other notes my husband has been transferred and as of july we will be moving to ontario i love kindergarten and would love to get a job there teaching k but any job would be nice moving is so nerve wracking but i hope it all goes okay anyway in class we have started adding i have a few kids who are really struggling with the concept still but most picked it up super fast here are two activities that we did to practice our adding the first was inspired by the wonderful fran over at kindergarten crayons we drew flowers in the flower pots and added them together this was an easy way to differentiate because i simply told them to impress me with their best some kids did huge two digit numbers while others did 2 2 and i thought it was super for them the ladybug sheet also allowed them to use different strategies depending on where they were at some had to count each spot individually still some used counting on and some used their subitizing skills and mental math i am impressed at how great they are getting grab the sheets here if you want and let me know if you grab a copy for your class o posted by unknown at 8 43 pm 1 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 27 2011 behaviour management chart when i started teaching k i felt like i was in a completely different world when it came to time and behaviour management i came from grade 6 after all that practically is a continuum away i tried several systems before i found one that really works for us i read somewhere that you should have an individual goal and a group goal so that s what i tried we have a behaviour management system called jumping for good behaviour i think i got the idea somewhere online and then adapted it and twisted it to fit me and my class we have a part of a bulletin board with three lines green yellow and red everyone has a frog with their name on it and it starts on green everyday regardless of what happened the previous day i think its important for kids to know everyday is a fresh start whenever someone breaks one of our rules the basic respect each other be nice keep your hands to yourself etc they get a warning first then if they continue to break rules their frog moves down a line yellow is 5 minutes missed of centre playtime and if you break a rule again and land on red its 10 minutes if it happens again you get to have a visit with our principal i have only had a couple of students ever get to yellow and no one has ever got to red and to move them around i enlisted the help of my very best friend mr velcro as an extra incentive this chart is on the board next to my desk each student has an index card with their name on it and for everyday that they stay on green they get a sticker once they reach 30 stickers on their index card they get to pick a treat from the treasure box which is filled with stuff like colored pens bubbles or little sticker books they are so excited once they get near 30 i make rows of 10 as well and they gain a number sense since they know three full rows make 30 our group goal is a daily process each day we pick one goal not to break if everyone works together as a team everyone gets a small prize a sticker or a candy from the candy jar this one is actually much harder to reach than the individual goal because it usually involves everyone working together but we are getting there our class goal is written on a piece of froggy paper that i laminated so i could use white erase markers on it you will see it in the corner of the picture with our frogs anyway thats how my kinders and i work our classroom management and it seems to be working great i m sure that every year it will be adjusted to fit the new group of kiddos that i have but i m glad i found something that works this year posted by unknown at 8 32 pm 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest older posts home subscribe to posts atom ms desjardins i am a kindergarten teacher in alberta canada this is my first year teaching kinders and i love it last year i taught 5 6 which was also great but definately not as much fun as spending all day with five and six year olds i am a new teacher and know there is still a lot to learn but i try to get better every single day grab a button i am a blog archive 2011 16 november 1 untitled september 1 june 1 may 3 april 10 followers powered by blogger free blogger templates by leelou blogs design elements by just so scrappy dedicated servers and colocation sponsored by colocation america