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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="text-align: start;"> If you're a teacher you, of course, own oodles of bags and they all have it's own purpose. This bag I found is perfect for picking up my reserved books from the library and carrying home my binders, notebooks, and papers for grading over the weekend. It's very durable, spacious and high quality. There is a nice little zipper pocket on the inside too which I can store pens and pencils. </span></span></div>
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Mrs. Durning-Leanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03260132284250409474noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152657704475233849.post-15517373819098282932013-09-02T11:17:00.000-04:002013-09-02T11:17:18.506-04:00Classroom Pictures! <div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Summer, where did you go?! I can't believe I'm heading into my 5th year of teaching this September. This is the first year I'm not moving rooms which is exciting, but still needed to paint and give it a makeover!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Here is my calendar area. The bags contain all the things for the month (holiday cards, birthdays,</span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Pattern-Calendar-Pieces-for-the-Entire-Year-106825"> <span style="color: red;">thematic date numbers</span></a><span style="color: blue;">, etc.). You can read a little more about it </span><a href="http://loveforearlylearners.blogspot.com/2012/10/morning-meeting.html?m=1"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> on my best friend and colleague's</span></span><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> blog!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is a previous post about my</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"> <a href="http://msdurning.blogspot.com/2010/12/welcome.html#comment-form"><span style="color: red;">magnetic pig</span></a></span><span style="color: blue;">! Scroll to the bottom of this entry.</span></span></div>
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Mrs. Durning-Leanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03260132284250409474noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152657704475233849.post-23770259868661493492013-08-04T14:24:00.002-04:002013-08-04T14:24:49.489-04:00Word Work in K-1<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">I use Daily 5 and love the program. One of my most popular blogging segments was how I use Daily 5 in my classroom (click Daily 5 on the right hand side under topics to view all of them). When I moved to kindergarten I had to change up </span><a href="http://msdurning.blogspot.com/2011/05/daily-5-part-6-word-work.html"><span style="color: red;">word work</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> a little bit to make it more appropriate and meaningful for the little guys. This year I'm teaching a K-1 classroom so I will have a mix of kindergarten students and first graders. Luckily I only have 15 students so this is certainly manageable :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">I specifically made this </span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Recognition-Say-Color-Find-and-Trace-405593"><span style="color: red;">product</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> for my incoming K's last year who were not able to recognize or write all of the letters in the alphabet. I actually laminated them to not waste as much paper and added it as a word work choice. I also occasionally sent them home as homework to the kiddos who were still struggling with certain letters. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">The kiddos are going to love this choice because they get to manipulate with letters and use a dry erase marker. Anything that requires a dry erase marker is a win for these little guys! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Then I'll still have my usual choices in </span><a href="http://msdurning.blogspot.com/2011/05/daily-5-part-6-word-work.html"><span style="color: red;">word work</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> (click to see pictures) bins that they either practice with spelling words (if applicable) or word wall words: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">And by golly it did exactly what it advertised! It sharpened these suckers with no hassle and boy are those tips pointy. I cannot wait to bring it into the classroom in September and see if withstands to 15 K-1's! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Congrats Karen from </span><a href="http://flamingofabulous.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">Flamingo Fabulous in Second Grade</span></a><span style="color: blue;">!! You won the $50.00</span><a href="http://www.mpmschoolsupplies.com/"> <span style="color: red;">MPM School Supply</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> gift card! You should be receiving your code from MPM within the next day or two :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">Here is a cute spring craft I did with my kinders. You can download it for free </span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Spring-has-Sprung-Craft"><span style="color: blue;">here</span></a><span style="color: red;">. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Now that February is over, I'm getting all my </span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/St-Patricks-Day-Math-and-Literacy-Games-and-Activities"><span style="color: red;">St. Patrick's Day</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> and </span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Easter-Math-Center-Games-and-Activities"><span style="color: red;">Easter centers</span> </a><span style="color: blue;">out! If you haven't checked them out, they are on sale this month :)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">It's been an exhilarating and crazy couple of months at </span><a href="http://www.thesaramarieschool.org/"><span style="color: red;">The Sara Marie School</span></a><span style="color: blue;">. We had our first Emerald Ball which was a great success. Here is a picture of me and another one of the co-founders Joanna from </span><a href="http://loveforearlylearners.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">Love for Early Learners</span></a><a href="http://loveforearlylearners.blogspot.com/" style="color: blue;">.</a><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="color: blue;">On day 2, after we have practiced sight words and reread our story, we work on phonics or whatever it is I think they need practice with. Richardson gives a lot of ideas for this part but I also have a huge binder that I put together in college for no reason other than to use up my print quota before I graduated, but boy have I put it to use. Most of the collection is from </span><a href="https://pals.virginia.edu/tools-activities.html"><span style="color: red;">PALS</span></a><span style="color: blue;">. I have a section for beginning sounds, blending, rhymes, sound-to-letter segmentation, alphabet recognition, comprehension, concept of word, letter sounds, print knowledge, vocabulary, word recognition, writing, spelling, and fluency. This truly is an AMAZING resource AND it's free (with the exception of all the printing you will do!). </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Over the past couple of months my class has experimented with crafting with lollipops thanks to</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #38761d;"> <a href="http://www.spanglercandy.com/candy-store/?gclid=COO8mN6rlbQCFcyf4AodUw0AaA"><span style="color: #38761d;">Spangler</span></a></span><span style="color: red;">. Here are some of the things we tried out!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">I have a very unique group of kinders this year. A few are still struggling with alphabet recognition so I created this </span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Recognition-Say-Color-Find-and-Trace"><span style="color: red;">file</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> to reinforce the letters. I'll use this file as a mix of homework and word work activities. What have you found that works for alphabet recognition? We sing songs, do movements to go with the letters, and practice every chance we get.. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">If you would like this file, you can download it </span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Alphabet-Recognition-Say-Color-Find-and-Trace"><span style="color: red;">here</span></a><span style="color: blue;">!</span></span></div>
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Mrs. Durning-Leanderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03260132284250409474noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5152657704475233849.post-32925947623840145722012-10-22T19:58:00.000-04:002012-10-22T19:58:18.373-04:00Check out this great blog!<div style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">One of my best friends and fellow co-founder of </span><a href="http://www.thesaramarieschool.org/"><span style="color: blue;">The Sara Marie School</span></a><span style="color: red;"> has started the magical adventure of blogging. I've been telling her for a couple of years that she really needs to get on TpT and share her creativity. </span><a href="http://loveforearlylearners.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: blue;">Joanna</span></a><span style="color: red;"> is incredibly inspiring and talented. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;">One of my favorite homework ideas that Joanna uses is called the "Homework Caterpillar." To download her file and read more about it, go to her blog "</span><a href="http://loveforearlylearners.blogspot.com/2012/10/homework-in-pre-k.html"><span style="color: blue;">Love for Early Learners</span></a><span style="color: red;">." </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">I just received an order from </span><a href="http://www.mpmschoolsupplies.com/"><span style="color: red;">MPM School supplies</span></a><span style="color: blue;">. Have you heard of them? They sell just about everything you can think of from rugs to glue at a competitive price. Considering I've spent thousands of dollars out of my own pocket over the course of my teaching career, I'm always looking for great bargains (and I know EVERY teacher can relate to that!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well the inevitable happened... first cold of the school year.. lasted almost a week. You know how it goes though, better for a week, then sick for a week, then better, then sick until June ;) My overused phrase of the week has been "hands and fingers away from your nose and mouth." </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I finally took some pictures as I've started to settle into my new classroom. I also found out this week that I have another new girl starting November 1. So happy to see the school and my classroom growing so quickly!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope you enjoyed the sneak peek into my classroom. Stay tuned for a post on literacy. A few of my pumpkins with little alphabet recognition in September began reading level A's this week. LOVVVE the glow on the face when I praise them for being READERS. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Don't forget to follow me on </span><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Creative-Teaching"><span style="color: magenta;">Teachers Pay Teachers</span></a><span style="color: blue;">, </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Second-Grade-is-Splendid/214522251895160"><span style="color: magenta;">Facebook</span></a><span style="color: blue;">, and </span><a href="http://pinterest.com/tmleander/"><span style="color: magenta;">Pinterest</span></a><span style="color: blue;">! </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This has been the busiest summer ever. My classroom is painted, decor is put up, and just finishing up the minor details. I start school this Wednesday and guess what? I'm now teaching a K-2 so I get the best of both worlds. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Homework passes.. in the past I've given them away for test grades 85+ and put them in the prize bin. I don't like how close "student's name" is to the top but I fill that part in anyways, so I can deal with it. I left white space on the bottom so I can write why they earned it so mom and dad can see. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I got 4 days to start lesson planning and figuring out next week. I hope you all had a wonderful start to your school year. I'd love to hear about it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">It's been an overly busy summer! Yesterday I worked 15 hours at </span><span style="color: #20124d;"><a href="http://www.thesaramarieschool.org/">The Sara Marie School</a> </span><span style="color: blue;">getting ready for our open house today. It's a very exciting adventure and I can't wait to share photos.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">I recently announced that I will be teaching kindergarten, well, good news, I will be teaching a 1/2 combo now! So those of you that were *</span><a href="http://msdurning.blogspot.com/2012/07/new-look-new-adventure-and-common-core.html"><span style="color: purple;">devastated</span></a><span style="color: blue;">* that I wouldn't be teaching second grade anymore... you're in luck ;) Have any of you taught in a multigrade classroom? I would LOVE advice? </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many of you are back in school and I wish you a great school year. I start on September 11, so I will slowly be sharing photos and files while getting back into the groove!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">Well, I survived! The school year is officially over and as most of you know I resigned from the school I worked at the past 3 years. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I'm excited to begin a new journey, but my small apartment...not so much! Empty classroom = crowded -already too small- apartment!</span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">I'm sure everyone has heard about </span><a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/loveforkarenhklein?c=home"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Karen</span></a><span style="color: blue;">, the bus aide by now, right? I can't believe how cruel kids can be. It's almost like they take pleasure in watching other people suffer. With all of the media coverage and threats they are receiving, I still don't feel one ounce of sympathy for those rotten children. </span></div>
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<span style="color: blue;">What does your school do to prevent bullying? I'd love to hear what resources and programs you use. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: blue;">Capital Region bloggers, don't forget this Saturday is our get together. </span><a href="http://littleliteracylearners.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: red;">We've</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> decided on </span><a href="http://www.wolfs111.com/index-111wolf_road.html"><span style="color: red;">Wolf's 1-11</span></a><span style="color: blue;"> in Colonie at noon. See you there! :) </span></span></div>
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