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teaching kindergarten 1st grade and sometimes they teach me teaching kindergarten 1st grade and sometimes they teach me menu skip to content home about post navigation older posts i ve migrated to first grade posted on october 13 2013 by teach5 wow i m teaching first grade this year and it is so different and so the same all of the record keeping changed going into first grade i have a smaller class size but a smaller room i have a number of kids who were in my class last year but many who were not my class has 22 kids and they are generally low i have a couple of high ones that is i have a couple who are actually on grade level teaching the common core in first grade is different too one of the main problems is that we have no adopted or purchased programs for language arts reading or math at least none that matches the common core i spend so much time creating curriculum instead of teaching it i have to teach it but i have to create what i teach and that is ridiculous why have every teacher spending countless hours recreating and duplicating effort it s such a colossal waste of teacher time collectively and of course they don t pay us for or even acknowledge all of the extra time we have to put in hours and hours of time retiring is looking more and more attractive if i could ever afford that posted in uncategorized leave a comment long time since my last real post posted on april 8 2013 by teach5 sorry it s been so long along with all of the school issues i ve lost my father and a brother since christmas and it s just been crazy around here i ve got some things to post just need to find the time posted in uncategorized 4 comments yesterday was pretty much a wasted day at school posted on december 1 2012 by teach5 universal breakfast for the first 20 minutes of the instructional day 25 minutes later we had to be in the mp room for an awards assembly by the time it was over it was a half an hour until lunch time forty minutes after lunch we had music and then we rounded out the end of the day by counting and gluing 100 cheerios onto a hundreds chart followed by their class reward ice cream party it s hard for kindergarten kids to sit on the floor for close to an hour while other kids are getting awards and they aren t i probably had 10 kids decide they had to go to the bathroom during the assembly then there s the ones bothering the rest of the kids i had to move three of them to sit next to me one of those thought he was in trouble and had a meltdown loudly two kids had 101 fevers shortly after lunch and went home oh and i re arranged the room and seating assignments thursday night after school so that created a lot of chaos they don t take to change well universal breakfast free breakfast for all children every day we are a title one school and someone thought this would be a good idea usually the breakfast consists of 4 items but they have to take all or nothing last year kindergarten was allowed to eat theirs in the lunch room this year we have to take it to the classroom like everyone else the carpet in my room is ruined there is some kind of spill every day and the breakfasts are boring the same things over and over again nutritious breakfast bars that taste like sawdust raisins canned fruit apples at least they finally started giving them pre cut apple slices cereal with little or no sugar because they are all about healthy cinnamon rolls hummm that about it oh yeah string cheese but i haven t seen any of them for awhile posted in teaching 2 comments testing continued posted on november 27 2012 by teach5 so one of the problems with testing kindergarten kids is that so much of it has to be done one on one which leads to the problem of what to do with the rest of them the admin kind of frowns on a lot of videos so you usually have to come up with some kind work that they can do at their seats by themselves they can rotate through the computers and they can silent read to self but they can t do either for very long and you can t have all of them doing it at once so one of the other teachers had a four page project that looked fun and involved a lot of cutting and gluing that i decided to try it was a giraffe with the head on one page and pieces of the neck on each of the other three pages the alphabet went down one side of the neck in upper case letters and they then cut out spots for the giraffes neck with the corresponding lower case letters on them to glue on really kind of cute oh my heck even after demonstrating and posting examples if they could find a way to mess it up they did it that way each child in a new and original way it should have used 120 pieces of paper i finally cut them off when we got close to a ream of paper i couldn t stand it so naturally i had to supervise which meant that i got no testing done which sort of defeated that idea you d think that i would have learned by now if it looks like a good idea look again and wear your glasses posted in assessment classroom management common core state standards really stupid 3 comments common core trimester exams posted on november 26 2012 by teach5 the testing window opened today for our common core exams the test is much more time consuming this year than last they allocated some money for us to help with the testing we could use it for subs while we test or we could be paid for testing outside of our contracted school day as a grade level we opted for working after school to test so this week we are each staying after school for an hour and a half and testing kids i have 5 kids each night i m testing one on one and the others can play on the computers or the smartboard while i m testing we won t get all of the testing done after school but i think it is really going to cut down on the class time that has to be taken away from instruction time so far i m really impressed with the growth my students have made from just the beginning of the year posted in assessment common core state standards 7 comments new kid posted on november 26 2012 by teach5 i wasn t thrilled to get him i m at 30 kids now and 17 of them are boys boys are just so much more active than the girls this one came from the school down the street and the grade level chair there used to be a kinder teacher at my school so i sent her a text i guess they had a lot of problems with this boy stealing lying hitting he s doing the same in my room the other children are constantly complaining about him hitting touching messing with them today i moved him to a desk by himself he chopped his phonics paper into confetti ate his glue stick and drew a picture of sponge bob on the wall in the boy s bathroom mom says he never had any problems at his other school why do they do that i know he had problems there i talked to his former teacher posted in classroom management teaching 4 comments once upon a time posted on september 27 2012 by teach5 i enjoyed my job i wrote this blog because i liked telling about my job once upon a time i m not alone i follow 33 teacher blogs many of them kindergarten 15 of them show no activity in the last 6 months 7 had 2 or less entries posted in uncategorized 7 comments 29 kids and the common core posted on september 27 2012 by teach5 at least a third of them are behavior problems some of that is acerbated by there being 29 children and one adult in the room with a smaller class size some of them might behave better due to receiving more individual attention and help i have two kids from special ed pre k who are still special ed in that they can not seem to get anything done without lots of individual attention i have two that get pulled for speech i have one who i think is undiagnosed but could be in the autism spectrum and another who started 4 weeks late has a late august birthday and knows nothing he s ruined two glue sticks in two days by twisting the glue all the way out and then mashing it probably 60 of my class is considered as non english speaking or very limited they have revamped the common core assessments that we do again and they are much more difficult to administer they have changed our electronic grade book again for the third year in a row we had a meeting on tuesday and grade levels were discussing some of the assessments we were supposed to be doing new ones with no training we used to have a 50 minute intervention time in the morning when we did tier 2 interventions for those children who needed extra help to make progress this year they changed the intervention time to whole group focus skill time alternating weeks between language arts and math we are supposed to use the gradual release model of teaching i do we do you do together and you do by yourself then on friday we are supposed to administer a 5 item quiz on the focus skill on the following tuesday we turn in our compiled results it s just truly amazing on tuesday we were trying to figure out just what that would look like in kindergarten and were a little frustrated near the end our instructional leader mentioned to the whole staff that we kindergarten without actually naming us were complaining too much and weren t being productive and it s clear that they have no concept of what the issues that we are facing really are here s a sample of what the common core math exam has on it for kindergarten items changed slightly make a group of ten ones students do this on their own now using that set of 10 compose a group of ten ones and some more to make 16 draw a picture or write an equation to match your work using a set of 10 you cannot make 16 yet that s the way i read it second example make a set of 14 now decompose that group of 14 by making a group of 10 ones and some more draw a picture or write an equation to match your work i know they use the words compose and decompose in the ccss common core state standards but they are stupid terms they aren t in any of our math materials i m sure they will be in the new math materials that reflect the cc but they are dumb terms i could just see going into the grocery store and asking a checker or even a bank teller to decompose a 20 bill into smaller bills i m calling it zombie math one of my friends over at kindergaten today wrote a nice post today posted in assessment beginning of year classroom management common core state standards really stupid teaching 2 comments well it s official we lose a kindergarten teacher and each gain 7 8 kids posted on september 13 2012 by teach5 the district had count day last friday and our principal received the adjusted school staffing numbers based on actual enrollment instead of the previous projected enrollment and we lost two teachers at our school this caused a variety of adjustments throughout the school and ultimately resulted in them cutting one kindergarten class and adding one first grade so we met as a grade level and divided the one teacher s class up into the other three remaining classes and starting next wednesday i will have 28 students in my class instead of the current 21 i knew it was too good to last at least i ll have a few days to get the room and class ready for them the kindergarten teacher who lost her class will be moving up to first which she has taught before funny one the other day i was testing the kids on what letters they knew and i asked one kid what the letter was he said b i asked and what sounds do b s make he said buzzzzzzzzz gotta love them posted in beginning of year 2 comments the new year posted on september 10 2012 by teach5 well we are entering our third week and we each only have 21 students normally we have around 30 of course that was too good to be true so the principal informed the kinder teachers today that she needed to move one of us to second and split those kids up between the other three teachers i guess wednesday when we have a common preparation time she wants to meet and discuss it oh joy nobody wants to move we have each spent literally hundreds of dollars of our own money on our classes this year and now she wants one of us to basically throw all of that away and start over on a different grade level in a different smaller room with more kids like i said oh joy posted in uncategorized 3 comments post navigation older posts blogroll creating life long learners dbrennersmith writing and reading lessons dibels i teach kingergarten kindergarten tales kindergarten today mclass dibels mclass math mr kindergarten reading teachers rock the cornerstone blog writing every day works stat counter create a free website or blog at wordpress com teaching kindergarten 1st grade blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed teaching kindergarten 1st grade sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy teaching kindergarten 1st grade subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website design a site like this with wordpress com get started