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Student Resources

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These are fun and helpful websites for you and your student to practice reading, math, science, and social studies!

Supply List

Items to Label with your name:

  • Zipper Pencil Pouch OR Box and items to put in it:

  • Colored Pencils (pack of 12)

  • Hand-held pencil sharpener with lid (optional)

  • Markers, thin (pack of 8)

  • Scissors

  • 2 yellow highlighters

  • Reliable Headphones- Suggested Headphones, best option: Egghead Stereo School Headphone w/ Ear Cushion, (EGG-IAG-1008-SO on Amazon)

  • 3 composition notebooks (100 pg. count or more)- and 1, 3-subject Spiral Notebook (Writer’s and Reader’s Notebook, also used for Word Work and Grammar)

  • Plastic Pocket folders with prongs: 1 yellow, 1 red, 1 blue, and 2 green (5 total)

  • $20 for supplemental resources (science experiments, room transformations, etc.) ((Make checks out to Harvey El.))

Items to bring unlabeled:

  • 1 pencil pouch with three holes to attach in binders. (This will hold paper study cards and Word Work cards)

  • 8 jumbo glue sticks (we use these A LOT for our Notebooks!)

  • 1 pack of wide-ruled notebook paper

  • 3 packs of White Copy Paper

  • Kleenex Boxes (1)

  • 2 white binders (1-inch with pockets and clear outside sleeve- Take Home Binder & Data Binder)

  • Post-It notes (2 packs of 3-inch notes-lined if possible)

  • 1 packs of pencil top erasers

  • 1 container of Clorox Wipes

  • 1 large bottle of hand sanitizer & Band aides (GIRLS)

  • Pack of Expo Markers & 1 clean sock (to use as a dry erase marker eraser) or any eraser

  • Ziplock Bags- 1 box of large and 1 box of small sandwich bags (BOYS)

  • 1 dozen pre-sharpened pencils

  • 1 pack of binder dividers (only need 4 for our Data Binders to collect graded work and reflect)

  • ***Classroom Wish List: sharpies (black and colored), healthy snacks and mini water bottles, paint & paint brushes, individually wrapped candy, and gently used books are always welcomed 😊 Here is the QR Code to scan and take you to our Amazon Class Wish List!

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Reading Workshop in Our Classroom

Reading Workshop is one of my favorite times of the day! For an hour and a half, we get to explore different genres of text and learn how to be successful readers. I believe whole-heartedly that this is a great way to teach reading. The workshop model always starts with a team activating strategy to get student minds going. This is followed by me modeling a reading strategy. During this time, students observe me as I think aloud, and then get to turn and talk to each other about their observations and thinking. Students are then invited to continue their learning by practicing with me and the rest of the class. Then, students practice the skill or strategy independently or sometimes with a reading partner on their own personal reading level. Finally, it ends with a fun activity where students get to share their thinking/new learning with others in the class.

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Cooperative Learning in Our Classroom
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Cooperative learning is a HUGE part of our learning in this classroom. We use Kagan strategies everyday in every subject. This is a great way for students to have fun learning together. It not only teaches students how to work with others, but it gives them the opportunity to learn from each other and see another point of view.

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Math Workshop in Our Classroom
 

Our math workshop is modeled the same as our reading workshop. The lesson begins with a Problem of the Day that activates student prior knowledge to help them persevere in solving it (this is done independently). Students then discuss their thinking in their cooperative groups, agreeing and disagreeing with each other's process. After this problem is broken down whole group, we begin our lesson for the day, referring to the lesson essential question to guide our practice. I model strategies, then students practice in their books with me, and finally they practice independently. During this time, I observe student progress and bring it back to whole group or small groups as needed.

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Interactive Science Notebooks in our Classroom
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Having students create year-long interactive science notebooks is essential to their learning science. It is a fun and creative way to involve students in their own learning of the world around them. The notebook is organized into Left Side and Right Side thinking, just like our brain! On the Left Side, the teacher gives notes, handouts or cloze sentence notes, teaching the new material (my students call this side the "boring side"). On the Right Side, the students get to be creative to show me what they have learned in the day's lesson. They can do this in ANY way (drawings/cartoons, poems, songs, cut-outs, comic strips..etc). Clearly they call this side the "fun side". Our Science days are filled with interactive labs and activities and it truly becomes their favorite day each week. Students create a notebook full of their year-long science inquiry that is personalized to them and they LOVE it!

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