tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26587053880013291722024-02-20T23:07:12.189-05:00Ms. Kerri and her Krazy KindergartenHi I'm Kerri. I am an early elementary educator. I share ideas, resources and lessons for the kindergarten and first grade classroom. I'm also a mom to a toddler, so sometimes I share activities and resources for your toddler. I am passionate about technology and incorporating it into your lessons to further engage learners. I am a book lover and love to share great books for your classroom and your personal reading. Kerri Bucknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15924383425982816680noreply@blogger.comBlogger407125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658705388001329172.post-34550460608496734612016-03-20T20:15:00.001-04:002016-08-01T15:16:40.232-04:00Finding the good in the difficult Blogging has definitely taken a back burner this year. This whole being a working mom is hard and I have not adjusted as well as I would like. Of course, it doesn't help that my child doesn't sleep through the night consistently yet. It seems that I have used blogging this year, to help me process some of my bigger issues. So here I go again. I'm going to be as honest as I can be.<br />
I have one of the best classes I have ever had this year. Sadly all my husband has heard is me complaining out the things that go on outside of my classroom. As teachers we are faced with so many challenges that are beyond our control. I love the school I work at. I think the teachers there are great and work hard. But I see them everyday beaten down by systems that we can't control. More testing. More mandates. More policies that don't seem to have the best interest of our students at heart. I love my students and I love being there for them. But this year I have felt strongly called to be there for my fellow teachers. I have worked at trying to improve morale and be a positive light in the school. I am blessed to be able to maintain the prayer list at our school. Almost my whole school joins together in prayer for each other and shares our prayer concerns over email. It is such a privilege to me that I get to facilitate it and it is totally a God thing. He called me to this role. He calls me to send out encouraging emails to my co-workers.<br />
This past week as a staff we endured some difficult things. We were told some things that weren't true about ourselves. Lots of us felt guilty about things that we should never feel guilty about. I have been processing this all week. I have gone from sad to mad and back again. I know that we can't be the only group of teachers to beaten down in this way. So here are the conclusions I have come to in this difficult time as teachers.<br />
What is clear to me is that God is present in all things. One of his names is El-Roi, the God who sees, and he sees us. He sees you when you give that child a hug that no one else wants to hug. He sees you when you listen to a child tell a story over and over. He sees you when you bring dinner to a co worker who is going through a rough time. He sees you when you are having a rough day in your personal life but you put a smile on your face for your students. He sees you when you sit down to grade papers or plan lessons after providing your family a meal and everyone is in bed. He sees the excitement you have when your student who has been struggling all year finally gets it. He sees that coffee your bring your co worker when they have a hard day. He sees you when you share the treats you bake with your fellow teachers. He sees you fighting everyday for your students. The great thing is God sees us as we really are.<br />
Not only does God see but our co- workers and students see it too. I want to challenge you this week to uplift one of your co workers. Show them you see the little things that they do that are meaningful. Show them you believe they are so much more than how the world sees them.<br />
Some days it feels like our education system is crumbling around us. But we keep on for our students and we need to keep on for each other. We need to encourage each other. We have to lift each other up. We have to stick together. Be a light in your school!<br />
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<img align="left" src="https://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g447/eschaff/Ms%20Kerri%20Klass/sgn1.png" />Kerri Bucknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15924383425982816680noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658705388001329172.post-73409661361536710552016-01-09T08:20:00.001-05:002016-08-01T15:16:08.852-04:00Teaching MattersSince becoming a mom, life has been different. My sweet girl turned 1 on Sunday and it has been an amazing year. I was lucky enough to be able to take time off and be with her. Going back to school in August was challenging in a way that I wasn't prepared for. It is hard being a working mom. (It is hard being a stay at home mom too) Teaching has always been something I've poured myself into. So finding the balance between being a mom, wife, teacher, friend, and blogger has been hard. I've missed blogging. I've missed reflecting on my teaching and my life through this medium. I'm hoping now that I have a semester under my belt, I can do more. It helps that my girl is sleeping a little better finally. Energy was definitely not high on my list this past semester.<br />
This semester was difficult for other reasons too. My husband told me one day that maybe I needed to find another job because I was complaining so much. When I stopped and thought about it, I was sad that they view I was giving my husband was I didn't like my job. Because I truly have a great class. The kids have made huge progress in the time we've been together. But the other stuff of teaching has clouded my view. Things that I have no control over like county and state mandates. Other people's negativity. Public perception of our school. After this conversation with my husband, I tried to refocus on what is important.<br />
But by December my energy was really depleted. Any positive thoughts I had were gone. My sleep was minimal and that makes a huge difference on your outlook. I was feeling very under appreciated and over looked at my school. Basically, I was in desperate need of Christmas break. Over the break, I started to think maybe I wasn't in the right place. Maybe God didn't really want me to be a teacher and to leave my sweet girl everyday. I'm trying to be real and this is what was really going on in my head. I was starting to dread the return to school.<br />
Back in July, I started a new Bible Study app called <a href="http://first5.org/">First 5</a>. It is through Proverbs 31 ministries. The premise is everyday you wake up and give God the first 5 minutes of your day. They started with the book of John and since then we've studied Genesis and Matthew. This past week we started Exodus. While on maternity leave and struggling through being a first time mom, I really came to treasure my bible study time. When school started, I needed this time even more. I need to spend some time with the Lord everyday to get focused for the day. This week, the topics of study were so timely for me. They were about having confidence in who God says he is rather than who we think we are (Exodus 3) and about the doubts we have about the tasks God has given us (Exodus 5).<br />
I felt like God was talking directly to me. I was doubting that I was where I was suppose to be. I was doubting that I was a good teacher or a good mom. But this helped me to realize that God has given me what I need. I only need the confidence that he is who he says he is and he will e<br />
Then yesterday morning God gave me further confirmation that I was where he wanted me to be. My assistant principal told me that one of my students had told him a couple of times that when he came into class after the break that I told him I missed him and hugged him and it meant a lot to him. This student worried me all over the break. I was afraid he wouldn't be back when school started again. He's homeless and his life is so unstable. But it mattered to him that I said I missed him. It mattered to him that I gave him a hug. It mattered to him that his friends all said Good morning to him in morning meeting and were happy to see him. It matters what I do everyday. I need to keep my focus on the kids not the mandates or the testing. But the kids.<br />
Teaching matters. It matters to the kids that they get a smile and hug. It matters that the kids know someone cares about them and misses them when they are gone. As we start a new semester, remember that what you do everyday matters to the kids we serve. When you've had a rough day of dealing with the negative of teaching, remember the kids you serve need you. Other teachers need you.<br />
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1. This week was all about pets. We used Jennifer at <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Directed-Drawings-for-the-Entire-School-Year-A-Growing-Bundle-1808779">First Grade Blue Skies Directed Drawing pack </a>to draw pictures of dogs on Friday. I think they turned out great. This is a great pack if you haven't checked it out. The week before we did dinosaur but I forgot to take any pictures. We have been working on the sight words I, like, and the and writing sentences with spaces. So we wrote a sentence together to put on the picture.</div>
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2. Since we were talking pets and my husband is a veterinarian, he came to talk to the kids. He brought a few animals for them to check out too. It was great. They got to pet a dog, see the cat Martha and the parakeet Beaker. The kids really enjoyed it and bragging on my hubby he does a great job with the kids.<br />
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3. This week the kids got to do a science lesson on germs with our eighth grade students. I teach in a K-8 school. I love the opportunities that can be created for students. The eighth grade science teacher is a former primary teacher and her daughter is in Kindergarten this year. So she asked k-2 teachers if they wanted to participate. It was fun and the 8th graders did a great job. They used glitter and lotion to show the spread of germs. Then they colored their own germ and pledged to wash their hands. I think the plan is to try to do these lessons once a month. </div>
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4. This picture of our door is from a week or two ago. We had our book fair and the theme was monsters. So since my class theme is superheroes I went with The Hulk. Well actually my husband went with the Hulk. He made the door for us. I'm all about kids making stuff like this but I just couldn't handle it at this point in the school year. I had too much going on. I did let them color books.<br />
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5. So I have been on the GoNoodle bandwagon for a while. But I was on maternity leave last year when Pop See Ko was released so this past few weeks have been my first pop see ko experience. The kids love it and I love anything that gets their energy out. We are crazy about GoNoodle!<br />
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I'm going to leave you with an extra picture of my sweet girl. I took a selfie of us yesterday before I went to school and she went to a friend of ours. She stays with some friends on Fridays. She loves it because she gets to hang out with her bestie. My friend has 3 girls and the youngest is 2 months younger than Sus.</div>
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<img align="left" src="http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g447/eschaff/Ms%20Kerri%20Klass/sgn1.png" />Kerri Bucknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15924383425982816680noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658705388001329172.post-87106436216385134902015-07-14T16:27:00.001-04:002016-07-08T14:49:18.427-04:00Non Worksheet Morning WorkHi guys! I am so excited about getting back to blogging. I'm excited to share some good ideas and strategies with you as we near school starting. School starts in one month for me. I'm so not ready to leave my baby but I'm excited about a new start. Speaking of new things to be excited about, have you checked out periscope? It is so much fun chatting with other teachers on this great new platform. I've only gone live once but I'm planning to do another one tomorrow. I just haven't decided on my topic. I'm thinking either something related to books or something related to technology. What would you like to see? You can check me out at Ms. Kerri's Krazy Klass on periscope.<br />
I have been doing some thinking and reading about early childhood education. I read a post the other day from Pre-K pages about worksheets in the early childhood classroom. I tend to think that the more hands on we can be with kids at this age the better they are. In fact we all probably learn better when we are hands on. I definitely learn more by doing. I've been wanting to read the book Worksheets don't grow dendrites since I saw the book study earlier this year. But I was knee deep in mommy hood and not thinking about school at the time. It is on my wishlist on Amazon (Maybe I'll get a good deal on it on their big sale tomorrow). But until then, I'm examining my own teaching practices. I think there is a time and a place for a worksheet and since TPT I'm finding a lot better resources. But I'm rethinking my approach to morning work.<br />
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My kids can start coming into my room at 7:50 and the bell rings at 8:00. After the bell rings, we have announcements, the pledge and such. It takes me a few minutes after those announcements to get started with my day. I need to take attendance and do the lunch count. So I need something engaging for my students to be doing during this time. On the first day of school, I have always had the kids play with play doh. It is open ended and gives me a chance to talk to parents if needed. But after that, I have had the kids do a coloring sheet. I'll admit that this is what the other teachers do and I didn't really question the practice. Last time I was in Kindergarten I changed this some. I had the kids do a phonics sheet on our letter or words for the week. I feel like this was a better use of our time rather than a coloring sheet. But I've changed my mind. There is nothing engaging about a worksheet period. I want to come up with some better activities for my students. I asked some of my kindergarten teacher friends and they had some good suggestions.<br />
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What I am thinking is that I will have a different activity each day. Like on Mondays we do play doh, Tuesdays will be all about math, Wednesdays will be all about writing, Thursdays could be for name practice, Fridays for puzzles and fine motor. I want it to be pretty easy for me but I know for that to happen I have to do some planning. I think having a theme for the day will help some. I think at first it will be a lot of exploration and then as kids get more experience with school and the activities we do, the work will be a little more challenging. Another thing I'm thinking is to let one group of kids each day use our iPads and iPods. This could be a rotation.<br />
I've started pinning some ideas. You can check out that pinterest board out <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/kheinrich9/table-time-activities/">here.</a><br />
I would love to know what you have your kids do when they come into the classroom. Please leave a comment and let me know. (This reminds me of my great great Aunt Jenny. She would call companies on their 1-800 numbers on the back of their products. She always said, "They love to hear from you.") I would love to hear from you!<br />
<img align="left" src="https://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g447/eschaff/Ms%20Kerri%20Klass/sgn1.png" />Kerri Bucknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15924383425982816680noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658705388001329172.post-62589839012497330772015-07-10T16:46:00.001-04:002015-07-10T16:46:43.521-04:00Five for FridayI can't believe it is already this far into July. School will be starting in a little over a month. I have such mixed feelings about it all. There is a part of me that is excited for a new school year and getting back into working again. But then I know I'm going to miss my sweet girl more than I can imagine. She has been my companion for the past 6 months. I have only left her a few times. (She wouldn't take a bottle so that didn't help out at all) We are trying to figure out childcare and that has been a nightmare. I just have to trust that it will all work out. I'm linking up this week with <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2015/07/five-for-friday-linky-party-july-10th.html">Kacey over at Doodle Bugs Teaching</a> for her weekly party.<br />
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1. I finally made it to Target not just once but twice now. The closest target is about an hour and half away so I alway enjoy when I can get to the dollar spot. I got some pretty good things. Here's my haul:<br />
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The dollar spot is my go to for name tags. I try to stock up on them when they have them. Then I don't have to worry about throughout the school year. I also found some puzzles and board books.<br />
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2. My sweet girl has started sitting up from the floor on her own now. We need to get on the baby proofing soon. She'll be crawling before I know it.<br />
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3. Sunday I posted a linky party all about advice for teacher mamas. It is open until the end of the month I would love for you link up with your advice. I'm so nervous about trying to balance it all. Head over and leave your advice or add your link. </div>
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4. I have been working on a color unit for about 2 weeks now. I'm still not done but I'm so excited about it. I took the things that I do each year with colors and turned into an awesome unit. There are play doh mats, books, and crafts to go with each color. Hopefully I'll get it finished this week. When you are trying to get everything done in a small amount of time (nap time), you do what you can.<br />
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5. I read a couple of middle grade books this past week that I really enjoyed. They were Wonder and Mockingbird. I have seen Wonder on other older grade blogs, but this was the first time I read it. They both were great for giving an insight into how kids are different are treated. The main character in Mockingbird has Asbergers and it offered a unique perspective on how our kids see the world.<br />
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I am brainstorming a new series for my blog called "In my class" where I write about how I teach different concepts in the classroom. Some ideas that I have are phonics, sight words, centers/reading groups, morning meeting/calendar, and behavior management. Anything else you would like to read about? <br />
So that's all for me this week! I'm so excited, my mom, sister, niece, sweet girl, and I are going to the farmer's market in the morning. I can't wait. There is a local dairy that I follow on Instagram that posts all this yummy goodness I can't wait to try.<br />
By the way, do you follow me on instagram. You should. I post more about my personal life, teaching, reading, and such. <a href="https://instagram.com/mskerriskrazyklass/">Check me out here.</a><br />
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I am terrified that I won't be able to be a good teacher and a good mama. But I know there are lots of great teacher Mamas out there who are doing both. I started thinking I probably wasn't the only one who was worried about trying to do it all. So I thought I would start a party to share some tips and advice. I would love for you to link up with your best tips and advice for moms who are also teachers.<br />
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I wish I had some advice but I'm hoping to get some good tips. I know that I will struggle the first 6 weeks of kindergarten trying to manage the difficulties of kindergarten and having a 7 month old. Especially one that isn't sleeping through the night. So here are some of my concerns (Maybe that will give you an idea or two for some advice.):<br />
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<li>How to get it all done without staying really late?</li>
<li>Balancing being a wife, mom, teacher, blogger, and creator</li>
<li>Breastfeeding/pumping tips - I've been breastfeeding from the beginning and I really want to make it a year. But I'm so worried that my supply is going to suffer. My sweet girl refused a bottle so I have a love/hate relationship with the pump. I dumped so much milk it makes me sick. But thankfully she will take a sippy cup now. So any tips for pumping at work?</li>
<li>Creating engaging and meaningful lessons for students without my family time suffering. </li>
<li>Being present as a teacher and being present at family time</li>
<li>Leaving school at school and turning off my worries (this one is probably wishful thinking)</li>
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Those are some of my concerns. I would love for you to link up with your advice and suggestions. If you don't have a blog, you can still participate by leaving comments with your advice. Come join the party. I'm open and ready to hear some great advice. Grab the images, add your advice and link up. Be sure to include a link back to this post so we can read all the advice.<br />
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I think I'm a pretty good reading teacher but I feel like my math instruction can always use some work. I love the workshop format that Deanna Jump and DeeDee Wills have set up in their Guided math units. But I don't always follow that format. One of my goals for this coming up school year is to make my math a little more workshop like. Our math series for the past 4 years or so has been Envisions and it wasn't the greatest. But we're getting a new series this Fall so I'm interested to see what it is like. I've always supplemented my instruction with activities that I've created or found on TPT. One of my favorite things to do is incorporate games into my lesson. The kids have a blast and they don't even realize they are learning. Plus once we play the games a few times in class, I move the games into their math center. I would love to say I use Math Workstations but I have never been able to get that to work for me. So as part of my center time, I have two math centers the kids work on. There are lots of different games that we play but today I'm going to focus on dice games.<br />
I almost always start the year off with a roll and cover game. They are pretty easy for kindergartners to learn how to play and they can be differentiated pretty easily.<br />
The beginnign of kindergarten I like to focus on Pete the Cat and Jennifer Knopf from Herding Kats in Kindergarten has a roll and cover that I use. You can check it out<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Cool-Cat-Themed-Roll-Cover-Addition-Subtraction-Games-252484"> here.</a> I also like roll and color which is the same concept just you color the picture instead of cover it. I have one of these in my newest math pack <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sweet-Treats-Math-204400">Sweet Treats</a>.<br />
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I found a freebie I posted some time a while back of a roll and cover with a pet theme. You can get it <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-3SbUFvn2l2RU93MzBkZDNIdW8/view?usp=sharing">here. </a> It is simple but it gets the job done.<br />
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Another dice game that I love is Bump. The kids love this one too. They can practice their numbers and they have the opportunity to bump their friends off of places. I made a freebie for you that I'll be using the beginning of the year with a blue cat theme. Sophie and I tried it out today and she had a blast playing it.<br />
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I try to include some kind of dice game in any unit I create for math. Another one that has dice games is <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Growing-a-Garden-of-Math-Activities-1196521">Growing A Garden of Math Activities</a>. There is a bump game in this unit for spring or a plant theme. </div>
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Last year in first grade, I bought J<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Just-Add-Dice-Math-Games-BUNDLE-Print-and-Go-1065724">ust Add Dice Math Games Bundle </a>from Jennifer at First Grade Blue Skies. I loved this bundle. I could find a game for any first grade skill I was looking for and there was a theme for anything. This became one of my favorite resources to use through out the year. </div>
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My friend Kristen and Kristen's Kindergarten had a post all about dice games as well. <a href="https://kpoindexter.wordpress.com/2012/10/03/number-dice-toss/">So be sure to check her post out. </a></div>
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Hopefully I'll be back again next Monday to talk about some more Math games that I use. But meanwhile check out the party at Kinder Kraziness and see what others are doing in math. </div>
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<img align="left" src="https://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g447/eschaff/Ms%20Kerri%20Klass/sgn1.png" />Kerri Bucknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15924383425982816680noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658705388001329172.post-15109310893763616842015-06-27T10:52:00.002-04:002015-06-27T14:03:10.225-04:00My Teacher Story And the lessons learnedThis year I start my 12th year teaching and have felt like maybe I was at a crossroads with teaching. I have been on maternity leave since Christmas break. I love being home with my daughter and thought maybe it was time to say goodbye to teaching. But after a lot of praying and studying, I am returning the classroom. It isn't possible financially for me to stay at home but more than that I still have work to do as a teacher. A few months ago, I was participating in a Bible study on the book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_2_8?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=what+happens+when+women+walk+in+faith&sprefix=what+app%2Caps%2C146">What Happens When Women Walk</a> in Faith by Lysa TerKeurst. Through this study I knew that God was still calling me to be a teacher. I feel pretty strongly that teaching is a calling from God. Part of why I was thinking of leaving teaching was because of all the difficulties we are facing in the classroom these days. My class size and responsibilities are growing. My freedom to really teach is slowly being taken away. I left in December feeling pretty beaten down. Of course the pregnancy hormones probably played a big role in that. I am participating in another Bible study from Proverbs 31 ministries and this morning my reading got me thinking about my journey as a teacher. The things I have been through that have led me to where I am now. I thought I would share and maybe it would encourage a new teacher or remind a veteran teacher of what it was like to be a new teacher. So here is my teaching story. It is a long story so grab a coffee and settle in.<br />
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I went to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The teaching program at UT is a five year program. You major in something else besides teaching and then complete an extra year getting your masters and doing your student teaching. I student taught in first grade and learned a lot. I learned a lot about school culture because we started on the first inservice day and ended on the last inservice day. I learned about needing a best teaching partner and about not eating in the teachers' lounge. I learned about trying to do what was best for our students and what was required of us. But it still didn't prepare me for my own classroom.<br />
I decided that I was moving to Nashville after I finished my masters classes. Several of my friends lived there and my extended family was there. I got an early contract saying that I would have a job come August. I remember my first interview just like it was yesterday. My mom and I got up early and drove to Nashville so I could interview at this middle school for a job that I knew I didn't want. But I was too scared to say no to an interview. I was offered the job but declined it because I knew middle school teacher wasn't for me. Eventually I returned to Nashville over the fourth of July and interviewed at a couple of other schools. By this time I had a lease on an apartment and was excited to interview at a fairly new school not too far from my house. I was interviewing for a first grade position which seemed perfect since I had done my student teaching in first grade. I returned home without knowing whether I had gotten this job or not. A few days later the principal called me and said she was in Knoxville, could I meet her to discuss a different position. We met at Macalisters on the strip and she offered me a third grade ELL position. I had no idea what she was talking about but I liked the idea of being at a fairly new school near my house. So I accepted the position. The first time I went to see my classroom I was so disappointed. Here I was in this school that was only a few years old and I was in a portable. And it was a disgusting portable. And it was no where near any of the other third grade teachers. They were all inside on the second floor. I was smack in the middle of fourth grade. But I made that room as homey as I could. This was before Teachers Pay Teachers and creating my own classroom materials. I quickly found the closest teacher supply store and found things to make the room better. This first year was definitely a learning experience. Being an ELL teacher, I had a self contained classroom of third graders who English was not their first language. I was suppose to have a small class. But instead I had 21 students. 3 spoke no English at all. 19 of them were boys. I was in way over my head.<br />
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This is me on the first parent night ever. I was so nervous and really had no idea what I was doing. While I thought this was the hardest thing I would ever have to do at the time, looking back on it I have such fond memories of this first class. My grandmother would come in once or twice a week and work with my kids that didn't know much English. I made great teacher friends who I could cry with and grade papers with and plan with. My best teaching memory from this year was a student who came in not knowing any English and being terrified. He would meltdown and refuse to move like a preschooler regularly. But I learned that he had just come into the country to live with his mom who was living with an abusive boyfriend. We worked through all that and at the end of the year he stood up and read a three paragraph paper about his favorite things in third grade. That is one of those moments I hang on to when teaching gets hard and I feel discouraged. Here's another picture of me that first year and my lovely room. </div>
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The next year I was moved into the school building with the other third grade teachers. My best teaching friend and I planned together a lot. I had so much freedom with what I was teaching and I loved it. If there had been teacher blogs and TPT then, I would have been all over them. I was open to anything new. This picture is of the girls in my class and me dressed as Junie B. Jones. </div>
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A new school was built down the road that was opening the next year and some of the students from our school were being moved to this new school. That meant some of the teachers would have to leave too. My principal that I worked for was not always on the up and up with us. In fact, we were a pretty tight staff because we had to stick together. She wouldn't tell me if I was the last one hired or not. So when the principal at the new school contacted me to interview for the third grade ELL position, I jumped on it. She was your dream principal and I ended up taking the job at this brand new school. The school wasn't finished until the week of inservice. The school wasn't even approved for kids until 7 am the first day of school. It was such a cool experience getting to start a new school. I loved it. I loved my principal and assistant principal and I loved my teammates. But I started to miss my home in East Tennessee. So at the end of this school year, I packed my stuff up and headed home. In case you are counting, this would be the fourth time I packed up my classroom and moved to a new one. Thanks to my aunt and uncle and then my dad. </div>
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Now when I moved back home I had no job just some connections. I also had no apartment. I was moving back in with my parents who didn't really have room for me anymore. My sister had just graduated college and was living back at home too until she got married in May. But I felt like this was where I was suppose to be. I went to a job fair for the county and was basically told they couldn't hire anyone anytime soon. I left and cried. I had left a job I loved and tenure to come home to hear there are no jobs. I was told not to worry about it that there were jobs and come July they would be hiring. And that was right. In July I got a couple of calls for interviews. I ended up interviewing at my old elementary school that was down the street from my parents for a kindergarten/first grade looping job. I really didn't know anything about kindergarten but accepted the job when it was offered. I spent the remainder of the summer reading about kindergarten. I was so excited to start my new job but terrified. My sister helped me get my room ready and I met a new teaching friend who was also new to teaching and new to kindergarten. I love my school that I teach at now. I've been there for going on 9 years now. But that first year was hard. There hadn't been very many new young teachers in a while and there was a lot we had to figure out on our own. We did a lot of things wrong because we were told wrong or because we weren't told the right thing to do. </div>
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My first day of school as a kindergarten teacher was a blur. The only thing I can distinctly remember is the student who was crying and singing "If you're happy and you know it." </div>
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Remember how I said my first year teaching was the hardest thing I ever thought I would have to do. I was so wrong. My first 6 weeks in kindergarten was the hardest thing I ever had to do. Part of it is just how kindergarten is. The first six weeks is the hardest but a lot of what made my experience so hard could have been prevented. </div>
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I truly had no idea what to do with kindergartners. I had zero experience as a kindergarten teacher and how much they didn't know. I'm also not the smiley, warm and fuzzy type. I love my kids but it takes a lot of effort on my part to be smiley and upbeat. I live in a small community and it didn't take long before some parents were complaining about me. (In fact, I had a parent call and complain on the first day of school because I wouldn't let her son play with the counting bears. Of course the fact that he was throwing them at other students wasn't mentioned at all) I was struggling and I was mad at myself for struggling so much. I am an overachiever and I'm use to succeeding and I was drowning. In the middle of the day, I got called to the principal's office for a meeting with my principal, assistant principal and the teacher next door (Who I had known since I was in 7th grade). This caught me off guard as they told me that parents were concerned that I wasn't warm and fuzzy enough for kindergarten. Of course I cried and really didn't know what to do. I was prepared to fix my teaching but how do you fix your personality. Luckily, it wasn't just a meeting to tell me what I was doing wrong, they had some ideas to help me connect with the parents better . I was crushed though. I went home and cried to my dad and really didn't know what to do. I'm so thankful that I have parents who believe in me and a dad that knew that I just needed to cry. (As I write this, I still cry a little over it.) </div>
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The assistant principal set up a visit at another school for me so I could get some help. It helped a lot to visit this other classroom and in another school where my troubles weren't so widely known. I also held an open house and took the opportunity to interact with the parents in my class in a less stressful environment. But the damage had been done. I really doubted myself and probably still do doubt myself as a kindergarten teacher because of this. I was also told by someone from central office that I didn't have the personality of a kindergarten teacher when he came to observe me. He had nothing negative to say about my lesson. But thought I wasn't warm and fuzzy enough with the kids by not letting them talk to me during the lesson about whatever they wanted. My opinion then and now is that during teaching time is not a time to share and let students hang all over me. If you wanted to see how I interact with the kids like that, come during recess or free center time. Those are the times when the kids come and talk to me and tell me what is going on with them. </div>
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This class was the most difficult class I have ever had. They continue to be a difficult class and teachers in other grades can't believe the mix of kids I had for two years because I looped with them. But I learned a lot those two years and am a much better teacher because of it. But I believe some of this could have been prevented. Here's what I hope you take from my story:</div>
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- Reach out to new teachers in your grade and in your building. I have made an effort to do this since I had this experience. If someone had reached out to me, I think I could have had a better year. There were so many things that I didn't know about the school culture and no one told me. In fact, one of my co-workers was doing everything she could to prevent me from having a good year. </div>
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- If a teacher is struggling, don't talk about it with the parents in your community. Talk to the teacher, see if you can help or stay out of it. </div>
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- If you are starting your first year, it will be hard but you can get through it. Find a teacher to be friends with. </div>
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I'm starting my 9th year at this school and in kindergarten and first grade this fall. I still am not a smiley person but I have learned how to put on a smile for my kids. I know the first 6 weeks is going to be hard and I can get through it. I know that if I spend more time enjoying my kids and less time worrying about other teachers, things will be good. I have also learned to ask for help and to offer help. </div>
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I love this clipart from Creative Clips. I plan on overhauling a lot of my activities with new clipart, fonts and activities. But first I need to organize my clipart. Currently is by artist but I have a hard time knowing what I have so I need to work on a different way.<br />
I'm linking up again with <a href="http://www.readingtowardthestars.com/">Reading Toward the Stars</a> for her weekly Book talk party.<br />
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Last week I wrote about what I've been reading. I've finished a book or two since then but I wanted to blog about alphabet books. I try to read a book or two to Sweet girl everyday and every night her daddy reads to us before bedtime. We've been reading The Chronicles of Narnia during this time and are on the 5th one I think. I know it's advanced for a 5 month old but I love this time as a family and we've enjoyed it. </div>
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I had a Hawaiian themed baby shower at my school because that was the theme we were going with Sweet girl's nursery so she got several Hawaiian themed gifts. One was an awesome alphabet book. </div>
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I love this book because it is like the traditional alphabet book that has a letter and then something that starts with a letter but it also has the sound as part of the song and letters kids can trace with lines for how you would write the letter. Obviously my 5 month old is not doing that but we are talking about the letters and their sounds in a fun way.<br />
We also got the Dr. Seuss ABC book.<br />
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It is another fun read with alliteration and silly animals. This one is just a fun one to read and gives another opportunity to talk about letters.<br />
The last one I discovered accidentally. It wasn't a gift at a shower but a book I already had and hadn't read. I love Sandra Boyton's books. They are perfect for little ones. Her A to Z book is no different.<br />
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This book has an animal that starts with the letter and then an action word. The animal is doing the action. I could see a lot of potential for this book in the classroom. There is another book that is similar that is animals and adjectives.<br />
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What I love about these alphabet books is that it gives us the opportunity to talk about letters in a fun way. A friend of mine is working on her phd in reading and she read that reading alphabet books at home is one of the best ways for kids to learn letters. Because at home they have the opportunity to talk about and interact with the letters. So that is now her go to gift for new babies and kids.<br />
I have a freebie to share with you that is a couple of activities to do after reading some alphabet books. They aren't earth shattering but they could make a neat class book. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-3SbUFvn2l2UXpGemh4M040NFU/view?usp=sharing">Click here to get the file.</a><br />
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What are your favorite alphabet books and what do you do with them? If you download this file, I would love to hear about it.<br />
<img align="left" src="https://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g447/eschaff/Ms%20Kerri%20Klass/sgn1.png" />Kerri Bucknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15924383425982816680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658705388001329172.post-62465886479179834692015-06-11T15:18:00.001-04:002015-06-11T15:18:17.784-04:00Book Talk ThursdayIf you know anything about me, it is that I'm a reader. Reading is about like breathing to me. If I'm not reading at least one book, I feel a little lost. One of my coworkers told me that would change once I had a baby. But that's not the case with me. Since being at home in January, I have read about 30 books. What has changed is how I read books. At first, I couldn't read books that required two hands. My phone, kindle, and iPad have been my best friend. It was nice to have my books on my iPhone while I was in the hospital having Sus. She was in the NICU so our stay was a little different than I was expecting. I was glad to have something to attempt to distract me from wanting to have my baby with me and be at home. I get a lot of my books from my local library through Ereads and the app Overdrive. If you like to read ebooks you need to see if your library is a part of this. I have to wait some for more popular books but it has saved me so much money. There are a lot of audiobooks as well (or as I call them. Books on Tape). I just started listing to the audiobooks. It isn't my favorite way to read, but I listen to them while Sus and I take our walks. It takes me a lot longer to listen than it does to read them. I've been trying to come up with things to blog about and books I'm reading is always a good topic. So I was excited to see this linky party from <a href="http://www.readingtowardthestars.com/2015/06/book-talk-thursday-switched.html">Reading towards the Stars.</a><br />
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First up is this series by Jacqueline Winspear, <u>Maisie Dobbs.</u> </div>
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This book is set after World War I in England. The main character is a psychologist/investigator. I'm on book 6 of the series and am loving it. I'm all about England during this time period right now and there are historical elements along with a mystery. Maisie Dobbs is a very intriguing and lovable character. </div>
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I read this book Family Pictures by Jane Green recently as well. It was a good read about family dynamics. Nothing earth shattering but an easy read. Same with All Fall Down. It is the story of a mom who has a drug problem. </div>
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I've been reading Elizabeth Peters's Amelia Peabody series. They are set in late 1800s England/Egypt about an archeologist and her family's adventures. I love mysteries and these are a mystery without a lot of gore. </div>
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Still Live with Bread Crumbs is the story of a photographer who moves from New York City to the mountains and the changes she goes through. </div>
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The last one Mr. Churchill's Secretary is the first in the Maggie Hope series. This series is set in England during World War II. Maggie Hope is the main character and she starts as Winston's Churchill's secretary but by the end of the book she is spy. </div>
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But now that summer is here, I am coming to terms with having to go back to school in August. Not that I have a child care situation yet or is Sweet girl taking a bottle yet. But it will be here before I know it.<br />
I will back in kindergarten with a new set of kids and I really enjoyed reading the blog posts from Mary at Sharing Kindergarten's Linky party and thought I would join in.<br />
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My husband is dreading my return to kindergarten until October because it is so hard and I'm so stressed. But I have learned that if I take my time and focus on procedures and management pieces then the teaching of the academics will come much easier. I always want to jump into the reading and writing and math but I try to focus on the making a line, sitting on the carpet, behavior during lunch, not getting up and wandering around the room first.<br />
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When I first started teaching kindergarten, I'm not sure that I really understood five and six year olds. But after 8 years in kindergarten and first grade, and 3 nieces later, I have a better understanding of the kids. I was criticized my first year teaching for not being touchy feely enough and I still think that there is a time and a place. During the middle of the lesson is not necessarily the place for stories and hugs. But I always try to listen to them during recess, lunch and other down times. I always start the day by greeting them at the door with a good morning and a smile and we always end the day with the kids choosing to give a hug, high five or handshake. I'm not a hugger by nature with adults and try to respect kids that might not be huggers either.<br />
So those are my tips! I'm not looking forward to leaving my sweet girl in August. I have enjoyed my time at home with her more than I ever imagined. But I'm hoping to get back into reading blogs, writing blogs, and creating new activities this summer. So check back again! Meanwhile, check out the other great Kindergarten posts <a href="http://www.sharingkindergarten.com/2015/06/are-you-teaching-kindergarten-next-year.html">here. </a><br />
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<img align="left" src="http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g447/eschaff/Ms%20Kerri%20Klass/sgn1.png" />Kerri Bucknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15924383425982816680noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658705388001329172.post-45070299440487365982014-09-21T14:07:00.000-04:002014-09-21T21:26:01.057-04:00What's happening in my classroomIt has been forever since I've blogged. I have had a hard time this year getting into a groove and remembering to take some pictures so I have something to blog about. I keep meaning to link up with Five for Friday but by the end of the week I only have a couple of pictures. So I'm going to share all the pictures I've taken and give you a little update about my class. I have 22 first graders which is more than I've ever had in first grade. There were rumors that we might get a co-teacher in first grade but our numbers didn't quite grow enough for that. So one day I got 3 new students. It was challenging to have that many new students at one time. I think we're finally getting into a groove. Of course last time I thought that, then we added our formal RTI and things had to start over again. We've had a hard time getting into an independent routine. I know that is normal for the beginning of the year but I loop with kids so 16 of my students were with me last year. But I think we're getting there.<br>
We finally have read to self up and going. It took a while to figure out a good schedule. But we read at the end of the day and it is my favorite part of the day. I love seeing the kids engaged in reading.<div><img id="id_12bb_2729_152a_b18e" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ1ThLZnzv4SFVlCyZ_No8LuLkTiBUhk8BLBiIVrqClZv2yjUyTz2f4aVhNBg0R2klVQLMcK1CIaP9FMccyLU9zi7X6J_9PeC3XvbEdSNsnVwS9C3eRDYOVu7uMSbuJeMiDV5shuXlUNs/" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 614px; height: 822px;"></div><div><br></div><div>I love all the great cute things I find on Tpt but sometimes simple things are the best. A few weeks ago we were working on nouns. I gave each kid a half a sheet of white paper cut longwise. I had them fold it twice so they had 4 sections in their paper. They had to draw and label a person, place, thing, and animal. </div><div><img id="id_a9b7_cca4_fc07_914" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-CFsBEzCOyHU/VB95D51BMTI/AAAAAAAAE0M/fcsM9X_qKo4/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 725px; height: 542px;"></div><div><img id="id_c71_9d57_721d_7e4c" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-JecmroXVVRI/VB95E6owTFI/AAAAAAAAE0Q/wBdQNvhG1EI/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 725px; height: 542px;"></div><div>This week I did the same thing but they had to pick four spelling words, write them and illustrate them.</div><div><img id="id_ebfb_592_f841_11d2" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF1PUA6Oe4aPINcGgplA0hk8C3cNvpQ4Qm_ch2SuZxyP6U28lWpdMey-zZlU13g8a7PtmApo3NUFDtYT2l7xQ6vUm68fH71IBPGjJKWtVhux9jqsdLwjki2qarspDpyeQUPsr6g44GOW8/" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 614px; height: 822px;"></div><div>There are so many ways you can use this simple idea. They could write first, next, then, and last for stories and books. You could gave them write four facts on the paper about a topic on science or social studies. The ideas are endless. </div><div>Another simple idea but not cute we did this week was in math. We have been working on decomposing numbers and getting ready for addition. I used KinderKraze's decomposing pack the week before and it was great but I didn't have time this week to get it ready. So I took large copy paper and wrote blank addition sentences for the number 9. The kids worked with a partner and used two sided counters to come up with all the ways to make 9. I was proud of how well they worked together. </div><div><img id="id_314c_1e9c_5e09_b983" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ0FlTzaU9e9xzbV_GXtI7-KMT_iYDg1-LpLPirhLT7tKe-uwog5o2aX2i_iz3GbBpLHQ7SxR-NSOr2_tGGwyqnx5dpD67BXBZ8jSQXqk_7pCGGq5tAKYwfp_rCHjd2KM69sqbuDDdnoI/" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 614px; height: 822px;"><br></div><div>Our unit in a Reading this past week was all about neighborhoods which tied in pretty well with our upcoming field trip to Cade's Cove to talk about communities in the past. The kids came up with a list of places in our community and then picked one to draw. I gave them a piece of white paper they had to fill up and use labels. Some of the kids worked on their own and some worked as partners. Two boys wanted to makes the streets. So they cut up white paper and glued it down on butcher paper. Overall they did a great job even though it wasn't to scale of our town. I meant to take a picture but forgot. Maybe I'll add a picture tomorrow. </div><div>So that is a little peek into what we've been doing. Centers are finally starting to run fairly smoothly. I have to work with a group for RTI during this time and haven't been able to take pictures. Maybe this week I'll have a little time. I'm headed into week 26 of my pregnancy and things are going well. My legs and feet have been swelling and I'm exhausted. Here's my week 24 bump picture.</div><div><img id="id_ccd_b923_8061_9856" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-K17Xqio5Trg/VB95MIsmw7I/AAAAAAAAE0s/LXnfW-aN5w0/%25255BUNSET%25255D.png" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 614px; height: 822px;"><br></div><div>Today we bought this cute dress for my little one. She's not suppose to be here until after Christmas but you just never know. I found this perfect dress at Osh Kosh so of she comes early it is a little Christmassy but not too much.</div><div><img id="id_5f40_dfe4_f1f_e686" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizj541vrQxM_ufyWlXzSWUF7rJoT-I7En7h-k29JnpiVmjmPuH61ED0bf7ibiLpus_9Nz8LtG1Q58GcBfxVb5iSlxum63XV7IbTw7xCObJ4gcACuy6k5qwmyxHKCr71GjDZA74rQqC_Bk/" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 614px; height: 822px;"><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have posted a couple of things to my tpt store recently you might want to check out. One is Math task cards for comparing numbers with everyone's favorite groovey cat. Check it out here! </div><div></div><div>
<img align="left" src="http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g447/eschaff/Ms%20Kerri%20Klass/sgn1.png" id="id_ff23_7636_2a09_83ce" style="width: 210px; height: 93px;"></div><div><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Cool-Cat-Math-Scoot-1445136" id="id_cfdf_9b25_21ce_bfc">Check it out here! </a></div><div>The next is reading fluency homework for first grade that correlates with Journeys reading series. It practices spelling words, high frequency words, and fluency. It works on the first 15 lessons.Check it out here!</div><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Cool-Cat-Math-Scoot-1445136" id="id_cfdf_9b25_21ce_bfc"><div></div></a><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weekly-Reading-Homework-for-First-Grade-based-on-Journeys-Reading-Series-1445479" id="id_c427_a8bf_f4cc_838a"> Check it out here!</a><div>It is what I use for homework and I think it helps a ton with their fluency. </div><div>Until next time, whenever that might be! </div>Kerri Bucknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15924383425982816680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658705388001329172.post-82977135544166194232014-08-12T08:47:00.001-04:002014-08-12T08:47:10.888-04:00Meet the Teacher LinkyI am joining the party over at Falling into First for a little Meet the teacher. Today is my last day before school officially starts and I'm waiting on the Air conditioner people to come fix our AC so I thought why not get a few things done on the computer.<br />
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I know I shared this picture on Friday, but it's my current favorite picture of me and my hubby.<br />
I'm Kerri and I'm 33. I've been married for 2 years to Chris and we're expecting our first child in December. A little girl. I've entering my 11th year teaching, which I just can't believe. I taught 3 years as a 3rd grade self contained ELL teacher and loved every minute of it. But I missed my family and moved back to the mountains of East Tennessee. I've been at the same school I went to 7th and 8th grade for the past 7 years looping with kindergarten and first. I love my school I teach at. It is unique in so many ways. We're right downtown in a tourist town and we have a wide variety of students. My class the past few years has been over 1/3 ELL students and we have a variety of socioeconomic status. We also have a unique relationship with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and my kids get to go on a park field trip 3 times a year.<br />
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A few of my favorite things . . .<br />
God, church, family especially my nieces, friends, reading, books, my local library, coffee, teaching, walking in the woods, the beach<br />
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Droid Sans;"><span style="line-height: 24px;">You think I would have this figured out. My hubby is a Geek and we have lots of superhero discussions. I sometimes feel like Penny, from Big Bang Theory. In fact, I found myself explaining something about Marvel, X-men, and Spiderman and their movies to these college kids in front of us in the movie theater. It was definitely a moment. I think I would like to be able to transport myself other places. I'm kind of borrowing from Harry Potter here. I have always wished I could apparate.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Droid Sans;">I have no idea what to share here. I think a lot about starting my own school or mother's day out program. It is a thought I have that I continue to do what I love and have flexibility to be with my kiddo. I love teaching but it isn't something that lends itself that well to part time. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Droid Sans;">So that's all about me. Be sure to head over to Falling into First and check the party out.</span></div>
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I can always count on the Five for Friday linky party at Doodle Bugs Teaching to get a blog post in.<br />
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So here's what I've been up to this week.<br />
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1. My sister has been working part time since she had my youngest niece, so this summer I've been taking advantage of that and spending Tuesday with my sis and my girls. These two are a mess. Soph is pretty interested in my belly and what is growing in it. She is convinced it is a girl and wants to name her Flower or Rose. Ck has been growing so much this summer. She's five months old and is trying so hard to crawl but instead looks like she's swimming.<br />
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2. Vacation Bible School starts on Sunday at my church. We don't do things like other churches and buy a kit for VBS. My pastor and hubby work together to come up with a theme and then Chris writes skits for each night. This year it is all about Sci-Fi with a Doctor Who flair. Monday and Tuesday we worked on decorating our Sunday School room to do some taping for the skits. This is my handiwork, covering the robot in aluminum foil. Chris is trying the costume on. VBS should be a lot of fun. I'm working with crafts so I've been busy with the other group members to get all our crafts together. All I can say is thank goodness for Pinterest. </div>
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3. Our reading outreach program with our public library is going really well this summer. We started with 10 kids the first week and this past week which was our fourth week, we had 20 kids. It has been amazing. I'm am so proud that our local library lets us take books out in the community and allows kids to check them out. I'm also so proud of how the teachers I work with are willing to give up time in their summer to read with the kids. This little girl is 3 or 4 years old and she has been so interesting to watch. </div>
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4. I finally finished a Teachers Pay Teacher project for the summer. If you've been following my blog for a while, you know that I loop. Last year I was in kindergarten and we adopted the Journeys reading series. I created materials to use with it for homework and word work. So this summer the plan was to create what I needed for First grade. So far, I've been slow going. But I did get this big project done. It has activities for each lesson and every sight word in the series. <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Wild-about-Words-Word-work-activities-for-Journeys-First-Grade-Series-1324420">You can check it out on TPT here. </a><br />
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5. I finally finished a project I brought home over Thanksgiving break. Organizing my Kindergarten Journeys materials and my letter work into notebooks. But it didn't happen. I just kept adding to the crate until it was a crazy mess. I finally started the project this past week. I organized all the papers and then this week I put all my Journeys Kindergarten stuff in a notebook. It is organized by lessons with homework and sight word work. I don't have a cute cover for it or anything but I need to!<br />
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So that's what I've been up to this week. I've got to get my rear in gear and get some things done today. Like starting on my homework pack for next year and finishing up the bookshelves I was organizing in the soon to be nursery. Be sure to head over to Doodle Bugs Teaching and check out the rest of the party.
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First up is the book The Life List. This book starts with the main character's mother passing away. Brett goes to the reading of her mother's will thinking she's going to be taking over the family business only to find out that she has to complete a life list she created in middle school. I got it as a deal of the day on one of the kindle emails I get and it sounded a little cheesy but an easy read. But I was surprised to find that it was a heart warming story and I was very invested in the main character, Brett.<br />
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Next up is another Agatha Christie. I've talked before about how much I love mysteries. Agatha Christie's are by far the best. No gore but a good puzzle. I am trying to clean my bookshelf off and read books that I have on it. So I picked up the Body in the Library. It is a Miss Marple mystery. Her friend has a body found in the library and they don't know who the pretty girl is. So Miss Marple makes it her mission to solve the mystery. </div>
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In an effort to clean off my shelf, I found the book The Last Original Wife by Dorthea Benton Frank. I love her books. They are all set in the Lowcountry of South Carolina. The main character, Leslie, is the last of her group of friends who is still married to her husband. This is the story of the end of the marriage really. It is told by both her perspective and her husband's perspective. I liked that. It made for a little different story. </div>
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My current read is Voyager by Diana Gabaldon. It is the third book in the Outlander series. It continues the story of Jamie and Claire across different times. Claire and her daughter are trying to find out what happened to Jamie after the bloody battle of the Jacobite uprising. This is another story told by different perspectives. So far, I'm loving it. But I'm hooked on Claire and Jamie's love story.<br />
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So that's what I've been reading and am reading. What are you reading right now? I would love to hear about it and get some new books for my ongoing list. <a href="http://mrsjumpsclass.blogspot.com/2014/07/book-talk-tuesday-linky.html">Be sure to check out the linky party for some good children's books. </a></div>
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So I really didn't get all the things I wanted to get done this past week done at all. I haven't even started on the nursery yet. But I did have a good week with my family and friends. So this week it is on. I have to get busy on the guest room or I won't get it done before school starts. And we all know once school starts it is going to be hard to do the clean out I want to do. My sister in law was talking about having a yard sale next weekend so I'm hoping that's the motivation I need. This is what I'm working with:</div>
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I need all this stuff cleaned out and whatever can go somewhere else or I can get rid of I need to do it. (I kind of can't believe I'm sharing this on my blog. So embarrassing how bad it is) Be sure to ask me how it is going. Maybe that will keep me motivated and accountable.</div>
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I did finally sit down and work on a couple of things for school. Nothing earth shattering but what I needed to get done before I could move on to my homework. I took all the teacher's editions of the first grade Journeys series and put together an outline for me and my team to help us with planning. I don't have that to share because there are similar things my blogging friends have come up with to sell. But I do have the sight word list for you. Last summer I made some sight word sheets for Journeys Kindergarten to help you with planning and assessment. I finished the one for first grade. I put this sheet in my students' notebooks at the beginning of the year and then parents had the sight words for the whole year. For kindergarten, I was able to fit all the words on one sheet. First grade, it takes two. These sight word list are for the Common Core aligned version of Journeys that was adopted in our county last school year. I think it is the 2014 version. So that is why it might seem like there are a lot more words in kindergarten. I promise I didn't add any words to the list!</div>
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It isn't much accomplished on my to do list but it's a start and it makes me feel better. This week I've got to tackle the homework pack. I want to have that ready before school starts too. Last summer, I did the first half of the year in the summer and the the second half when I needed it. This summer I really need to get them both done. Since I'll be on maternity leave the spring semester. So I might just have to hole myself up with the computer rather than having so much fun everyday. </div>
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There is one thing I have to make time for and that's the reading program I'm part of with our local public library. We have partnered up with a local church and we bring the books to the church and the church runs a van to pick up kids. The kids are part of our ELL population in the county. We had 14 kids this past week and 6 volunteers. The volunteers read with the kids or listen to the kids read. Then those kids who have brought back the form, can check out books. We haven't had a ton of success with getting the forms back but we do have 3 kids checking out books. It is pretty exciting stuff. My partner in crime, Cassie and I are on the local library board so we're really representing the library but using our connections as teachers to make the program happen. All of our volunteers were either teachers or parents we know through our school. Our librarian suggested this week we submit this to a conference in the Fall which is kind of exciting. Here are the kids listening to a read aloud. We were trying to engage all the kids in it. </div>
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So that's my randomness for the week! I have plans to be back tomorrow with a Monday Made it! I would love to hear about how your summer projects are going! I hope they are going better than mine! </div>
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Someone happened to mention yesterday how many weeks were left of summer. I won't speak of it here because it was unwelcome conversation. I still have a lot I want to accomplish. Mainly I need to get everything out of our guest room so we can turn it into a nursery. It is no small job. But I want at least that much done before school starts because once school starts it is going to be hard to do it.<br />
So my brain hasn't really been on school this summer but I got this amazing package from <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/">Creative Teaching Products </a>on Tuesday. (It was my birthday and that was a great surprise.)<br />
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Here is a snapshot of what I was sent. It has got me thinking about what I want to do with it all.<br />
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I am pretty excited bout these library pockets in chevron. There are <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/products/chevron-solids-jumbo-library-pockets">large</a> and<a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/products/chevron-solids-library-pockets"> small ones</a>. I am not sure what I'm going to do with the large ones. They are 6" by 9". But the small ones, I think I'm going to use them for the kids to pick their daily 5/literacy centers for the day. What I'm envision is putting the choices on the pocket and then they can use popsicle sticks to make their choice. I haven't quite figured out what choices I want the kids to have yet. I loop with my kids and last year we did literacy centers but usually in first grade, I do a little more Daily 5. I do know I want to give the kids some choice.<br />
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I'm also loving these <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/products/chevron-welcome-post-cards">welcome postcards</a>. I plan on writing notes to my students and either mailing them or leaving them on their desks when we have registration day. The <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/products/chevron-name-plates">nameplates</a> are pretty self explanatory. We can't get in our classrooms until the first Monday in August and school starts on the 15th so I'm a little nervous about that. This is the first year I won't be able to start working in my room in July. So I'm glad to have this great <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/products/chevron-computer-paper">chevron computer paper</a> to work on welcome letters and other aspects of our notebooks so I can get some things done at home.<br />
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These<a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/products/chevron-solids-uppercase-2-letter-stickers"> 2 inch</a> and <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/products/chevron-solids-uppercase-1-letter-stickers">1 inch</a> chevron stickers are amazing. I will definitely do some crafting with these this summer. I can combine these with the cool chevron posters they sent me. So be looking for a Monday Made it using all these materials. Another task I can do at home while watching Netflix or whatever Chris has picked, is to get all these letters punched out. I'm so excited. They sent my 4 packs of these chevron letters so I can redo all my headers for bulletin boards and update them with chevron. (<a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/products/chevron-solids-4-designer-letters">Four Inch Chevron Letters</a>)<br />
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This is the item I think I'm the most excited about. <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/products/book-buddy-bags-10-x-12">Book Buddy Bags</a>. I am so excited to try these out with my kids. They seem to be made of really heavy plastic and I think they'll be perfect for the kids to keep their Read to Self books in. I think I'll probably make a label with the kids' names on them so I can use them for kids as they come and go. (As we know they will)<br />
They sent me some other great stuff that I'll be using the decoration of my room.<br />
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I'm really excited to update my birthday board. I've had the same one up for the past 3 years and it's fine but not as cute as I would like. Updating the borders on my bulletin boards will be fun too. I love all the bright colors.<br />
I might be a little biased because I've really enjoyed being an exclusive blogger for Creative Teaching Press and they are great to work with. But check out their stuff for back to school! I would love to hear what you would do with some of the products that I received. Like the letter stickers, large library pockets and borders. I'm starting to think a little bit about school. Although, I don't know what I'm going to do with all this stuff until I can bring it to school. My usual dumping ground is the guest room I need to clean out. I better get off this computer and get my bike ride in. Today my friend Cassie and I start our library/reading program. I'm so excited about it. What do you love most about summer?<br />
<img align="left" src="http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g447/eschaff/Ms%20Kerri%20Klass/sgn1.png" />Kerri Bucknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15924383425982816680noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658705388001329172.post-79983711710683399062014-06-23T21:38:00.001-04:002014-06-23T21:38:45.295-04:00Monday Made it - Sunday School StyleI said last week that my blog might take a turn towards the more personal and not as much school related material since it was summer and my brain was elsewhere. During the summer, I also find myself more involved with church and the activities we have going on there. My husband and I are very involved at our church. It was definitely one of the things that drew us to each other when we first started dating. I was involved with the youth and had a girls ministry at the church I attended and he was involved in the youth and so much more at his church. God really works in amazing ways. When I met Chris, I was in need of a change and started going to his church. I loved the youth that I worked with at my church but they were graduating when I made the change. I feel so honored to get to see the things that God can do in the lives of the youth at both churches. I have been lucky enough to work with some fantastic kids and God continually challenges me to do more. One of the areas that he has been challenging me in is writing my own curriculum for our children's church. I have been helping once every other month with children's church. Our Children's church is during the regular service and for grades K-2. The curriculum we use is not bad but the teacher in me sees where it could be improved. I would love for our kids to get a firm foundation in the stories of the Bible and then move on to some of the deeper things. I'm not sure that what we use now builds on each week. Well, I was presented with the opportunity to create some activities to go with the lessons. So I thought I might share them once a week on my blog. I created another blog last summer to write about my faith but it just too hard to keep up with it. I am sure that I'm not the only teacher out there who finds themselves teaching in their church as well. So hopefully, you will find these posts helpful. I feel like it is something I'm being nudged to do.<br />
So a couple of weeks ago, the focus of the lesson was about the Holy Spirit. The passage to focus on was from John chapter 14. In this passage, Jesus talks with the disciples about how he is leaving but the Father is sending a gift. The gift is the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is there to guide us and to teach us. In this passage, Jesus also talks about how he lives in the Father and the Father lives in him. This passage helps give us the Holy Trinity. So I created a craft to go with the idea of the Trinity.<br />
There are three hearts and each heart represents a different part of the Trinity. Have the students write or draw a picture of each part. Then they cut out the hearts and put them together to make a clover. There are direction included in the file. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-3SbUFvn2l2eVgwN3JsY09VaVU/edit?usp=sharing">Check it out here. </a> Here's a screenshot of the file.<br />
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So I'm linking up with Tara at Fourth Grade Frolics for Monday Made it. Hopefully I'll be back next Monday with a craft I've completed. Since I've only been home for about 2 days, I haven't gotten any crafts completed yet. Be sure to head over to Tara's blog and check out the other what everyone else has going on this Monday.<br />
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I would love to hear if this kind of post is something you might be interested in and if you use it. I guess if you aren't interested, you could leave a comment but I'm pregnant and it doesn't take much to make me start crying.<br />
<img align="left" src="http://i1102.photobucket.com/albums/g447/eschaff/Ms%20Kerri%20Klass/sgn1.png" />Kerri Bucknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15924383425982816680noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658705388001329172.post-29153956581117655412014-06-20T08:45:00.001-04:002014-06-20T12:48:26.788-04:00Five for Friday: Beach Addition<div style="text-align: center;">I hadn't planned on linking up this week since I'm on vacation. But I'm awake and Chris is not so here I am. <img id="id_e1e8_ff67_94ee_6f21" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-0B83UepXI28/U6Qs5EzKrmI/AAAAAAAAEj0/YjlpE72V3Ks/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 640px; height: 456px;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">If I am being real honest, this summer you will probably see more personal stuff than teachery stuff. At least for a little bit, this is just where I'm at. This week marks my twelfth week of pregnancy and the end of my first trimester. So my brain is really on home mode and baby mode and just relaxing. Hopefully that will be ok with you guys! If not, well don't read. Anyway, so here are some pictures from the week.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">1. This has been my view all week. I am not sleeping great so usually I get up and sit on the porch for a little bit and check things out on the iPad before Chris gets up. Today is our last day.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><img id="id_112d_730e_bf0c_ef16" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-4i3sufHSzyQ/U6Qs6FQpM8I/AAAAAAAAEj8/FosvDE4jrVc/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 640px; height: 640px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">2. We celebrated our 2 year anniversary. There is this restaurant we like here called The Bistro. They have great food, great drinks(not for me). And delicious dessert. But they were closed Monday so we went Tuesday! Here is my present from Chris. I have been wanting a bracelet like this for a while but he did a great job picking out the beads. The pearly one is for my birthstone and the turquoise one is for the baby's and his. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><img id="id_1621_4558_582d_1c6c" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-67bU-PRAQjU/U6Qs7yn9QGI/AAAAAAAAEkE/VsoB69INms0/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 725px; height: 970px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">3. I posted Tuesday about the books I had read so far. I think my total for this trip is 8 books and I'm working on the 9th. Here are a couple more I read and enjoyed. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><img id="id_31_14ee_4560_e72" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-W9Gymq-NFew/U6QxdAslUAI/AAAAAAAAEkQ/akkyiQzq0VU/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 300px; height: 300px;">This is part of the Stephanie Plum series. I love this series. Stephanie Plum is a bounty hunter who has 2 love interest who are equally appealing, a side kick who used to be a prostitute, and a hilarious grandmother. She lives in New Jersey and has a knack for getting in trouble. Love these. I read this one in a morning. <br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><img id="id_7cb4_83de_3ac2_a1ff" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbSU_1Qr_e3PKN1LRn9nZ1HoYe4-lJuoeU5PiPp26SS54iAwyFXzIVVA3tfFwsZaxBdsdkV39EjLIpwshE5vlk6TR4RjR-j6gXbWrKKNMr92xOIAP2rvILWOrOSPY6TLlj8LPrM6Fk3pA/" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 300px; height: 300px;">This one is a young adult book I read about on someone's blog. I enjoyed it greatly. The main character Georges is easy to love as he navigates some big changes to his life. <br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><img id="id_b911_be15_2577_3d6" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-C8AXDw1dy8Y/U6QxfMBbYKI/AAAAAAAAEkg/ysjceujbpJo/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 300px; height: 300px;">I have been wanting to read this one for a while but didn't really want to buy it. No idea why not, but Chris finished his books he brought and we had to take a trip to Barnes and Noble to get him something else to read. So I picked it up and started it last night. So far I'm intrigued.<br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">4. While we've been on vacation we've been discussing the nursery and what to do with all our stuff. Here are a couple of things I pinned for some inspiration.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><img id="id_c0dc_a836_3b63_fd83" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI3uYor8Pwa3npFgsGKcCc6CLvy7OZszcHGE0nVr3mY4SSCrOLd_xMpX6jVy_1UUk8MVTX3ll3UfBSjX0-pyFbIAjGtOSb6cEazp7M4ESOC1wTL4vVdEweIHLHAKKLPrFvahGOMFUhEKM/" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 600px; height: 1001px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><img id="id_deaa_5e22_4bb9_171f" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-e8eKJgM8Zt4/U6Qxp87HU-I/AAAAAAAAEkw/Z6EinUpUDpY/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 491px; height: 363px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">We're going with a Hawaiian Beach theme. I'm in love with this mobile and hopefully will be able to recreate it.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">5. This picture is technically from last week of my baby bump. I think it has gotten bigger this week. So weird how it pops out. I haven't taken a new picture yet.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><img id="id_cbd4_fa9d_8dd5_a3fe" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/--0kG4sbReb8/U6QxrkIrjiI/AAAAAAAAEk4/knX_koIYxd8/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 725px; height: 970px;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">So that's my Five For Friday. Be sure to head over to Doodle Bugs Teaching and check the party out! </div>Kerri Bucknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15924383425982816680noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658705388001329172.post-56889898559246598302014-06-17T09:33:00.001-04:002014-06-17T09:33:29.939-04:00What I have been reading (Books for fun!)I have been on summer break for almost 2 weeks now and I think I've only spent 3 nights at home. I'm currently not home but at the beach. So this post is going to be kind of quick. I have been reading a ton in the past 2 weeks and I thought I'd share what I've been reading. I'm linking up with Deanna Jump's linky. <div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div style="text-align: center;"><img id="id_6543_2c14_29da_b73a" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-SNWPoxDvLi8/U6BDnvSjCrI/AAAAAAAAEi8/7IhC0ksyrjw/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 571px; height: 589px;"></div><div style="text-align: left;">We left for the beach a little early and got to spend some time with Chris's sister and niece. It was a nice treat. So I got an extra day of reading in. So far, I've read 3 books and I'm working on my fourth. </div><div style="text-align: left;">First up is The Husband's Secret.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><img id="id_d45c_5c12_c63a_66de" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCkanIw0P4C-Lvm9zL8uhnTiKUeH9M9GG-TxcM_FNCnXy8acXwY54Zxwsq0jKvlS4l6-194wOUs3ELVvtMHQSrWVv_wegP8bTzPTX-BDUW43HyTp5asfpP5Ja8E4wdRoTty-o7eATEzRg/" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 300px; height: 300px;">It was pretty good and an easy read. It is about several women in Australia and how their stories intertwine. One of the women's husband writes her a letter and in it is a big secret. When I told Chris the title he thought it sounded kind of sketchy but it is a good read. It was a best selling book this year which is how I stumbled on it. <br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">The second book is Death in the clouds by Agatha Christie.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><img id="id_408e_c596_33d4_fb4e" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6RiBfnHiT5_EqCwEqUoBF6gNNhwsjzNMfKhL9_SB6DBi_0M5iLJhI27KNNsBMR1873bVSe7EJj0nSWwwMVroFUYGuRg-CeqxXPesSpz5YKd9gJeD6Z56g4nmQbEAAINmcJRuQPoPZiTI/" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 300px; height: 300px;">I love mysteries and there are no better mysteries than Agatha Christies. Seriously if you like a good mystery get one of her books. They are good stories with intrigue, love, and very little gore. I love her detectives and this one stars Hercule Poriot. I have read a lot of her books but I was inspired to get this one because of an episode of Doctor Who. Her first book was The Mysterios Affair at Styles. If you're looking for one to start with, I'd start there. <br></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">The book I just finished up is Dragonfly in Amber. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><img id="id_c9af_209f_fc41_8000" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-Mi9KqMnLhFU/U6BDpXy6phI/AAAAAAAAEjU/h3M2JAq41Dc/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 300px; height: 300px;">This is the second in the Outlander Series. I had read probably 4 or 5 of this series a while ago but I read so much I really don't remember what I read. (Good thing in real life you don't take a comprehension quiz)so 2 years ago on my honeymoon. I retread the first one. It is a story set in Scotland right after WWII. The main character, Claire, goes back in time to the 1700s and meets a group of highlander men. Including Jamie Fraser who she falls in love with. Apparently Starz is making a tv show out of the series so I've been seeing it everywhere. I decided to work on rereading the series, and got the second one for my kindle. It continues the story of Claire and Jamie. I would tell more but I don't want to ruin the first one. It is a long book but a pretty fast read. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div><div style="text-align: left;">Today the new Stephanie Plum came out, Top Secret Twenty One so that's the book of the day! </div><div style="text-align: left;">Be sure to head over to <a href="http://mrsjumpsclass.blogspot.com/2014/06/thanks-to-everyone-who-linked-up.html" id="id_716e_a3d0_82f0_e952">Deanna Jump's blog and check out the party</a>. I think I'm the oddball not posting about children's book. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br></div>Kerri Bucknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15924383425982816680noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658705388001329172.post-21545931594230703552014-06-07T08:14:00.001-04:002014-06-07T08:14:26.311-04:00Five for Friday It is my first Friday of the summer and there is no better way to celebrate than linking up with Kacey at Doodle Bugs Teaching for Five for Friday. It has been a while since I linked up. End of school and first trimester exhaustion has just been too much. <div><div style="text-align: center;"><br></div><div><img id="id_8a3d_7218_fddc_41ea" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-Et9eIN8GhOE/U5MB8MH9_rI/AAAAAAAAEew/hgeZOFYTxA4/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 640px; height: 456px;"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div>1. I tried out Jamberry nails for the first time this week and loved them. I just bought one set to see if I liked them. But I didn't really want my toes and my nails to match. I definitely need some practice with application.</div><img id="id_e329_b379_8058_494f" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5PFSZE8vRTFZLoyyhV0fQVOdFaskdUwa7AhkFCbvsSOxMiN6TnVh1HjAnU_suifeTj941kk_XxVcQjKfto1YzHUvNQsQTWVX54Z1gfnbSMsyzmgwUY6IX_VItsKyE1_AeGWj_fEMBraE/" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 725px; height: 725px;"><div><br></div><div>2. Technically I have only been on summer break two days but the last day with kids was a week ago. My favorite thing to do in the summer is read. I've read these three books in the past week and a half. Loved them all. I'm working my way through the In Death Series by JD Robb. 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She is one funny, smart, sweet girl!</div><img id="id_f07e_2eba_c2b6_7416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSXQc349dZcMN9tKkxdxQhhvpfVuYVXijJmSJ87e629Yf1ouQWLDGz3oZHyx-hiSMuhXH3y68hz5P6Q25u85hOz_Rn4h0x3-Yaul6__VAMB11nrJPLC4XlG2HqqbhmDZZkaNRyJekupkE/" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 725px; height: 970px;"><div><br></div><div>4. I posted this picture on Instagram this week. One of my teaching friends gave us our first baby present and then we bought the rocking chair at a fundraiser.</div><img id="id_b7c4_8b60_95c5_3bf4" src="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-4l-Lj7-Bj7g/U5MCE2hGEjI/AAAAAAAAEfg/hkVKzAto0I0/%25255BUNSET%25255D.jpg" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 725px; height: 725px;"><div><br></div><div>5. I don't have a fifth picture from this week, so I looked back through some pictures and found this. Soph drew it a while back and it was the first time I had seen her draw something more than scribbles. When she drew it she said it was Chris but then when she saw it again it was her mom. I'm do amazed all the time with her development and how much she has learned. </div><img id="id_1944_888b_b42a_a619" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-hGsQP-P0U7PVKjdZfyhmswCG4uiygnpU4jsfyL_G98tSesrmOOQFhVhUH7Dia2lDj3Wfsx60O5mCWIADl7EEpbZQ0qyL2rDoST32FvuEDcdpSOx6aT5PIeKwhaublDY75m7de5VOQwc/" alt="" title="" style="margin: 4px; width: 725px; height: 970px;"><div><br></div><div>So that's my five for Friday! Be sure to head over to <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com" id="id_d74a_7ce5_d601_6b7b">Doodle Bugs Teaching</a> and check out everyone else's. </div>Kerri Bucknerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15924383425982816680noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2658705388001329172.post-29155816055203258912014-05-31T10:25:00.001-04:002014-05-31T10:25:22.904-04:00Summertime! So it has been forever since I've really blogged. This end of the year stuff was killing me. Yesterday was our last day with kids. Monday is a work day but I'm trading it out with a day I worked back in the summer, Tuesday is a half day where kids can pick up report cards, then Wednesday is an inservice day. I'm not excited about the day weds. The county tacked on an extra day for us teachers and I'm none too happy about it. We used all our snow days and then they took away a couple of vacation days and I still think we had a day left. But oh well. What can I do. I think the worst part is they are making us all meet for a training and the training is soooo far from my house. So summer is pretty much here. I've been wanting to link up with Mrs. Jump's Class for her linky party. I'm only a week late to the party.<br />
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1. First up is doing some shopping for my classroom from <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/">Creative Teaching Press.</a> I was lucky enough to be part of a group of exclusive bloggers to check out their new back to school stuff. Well all that stuff went live a week or so ago. I am late to that party too. These past few weeks have been crazy and I'll explain a little more about it later in this post. But I'm planning on updating somethings using their chevron line.<br />
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I love these stickers and I think they'll be perfect for some back to school creating. Be sure to head over to <a href="http://www.creativeteaching.com/">CTP</a> and find some great new things for your classroom.<br />
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2. Read! Read! Read! I've been stocking my kindle and my kindle wish list with new books this week in anticipation of the summer. Summer reading is one of my favorite things to do.<br />
I recently purchased these books.<br />
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And pre-ordered these two.<br />
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The newest Stephanie Plum will be here just in time for my beach trip.<br />
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3. Enjoy some quality time with Chris at the beach. Last year we went to North Topsail Island in North Carolina and we are headed back again this year. We plan our vacation around our anniversary. So we'll be spending our 2nd anniversary at the beach again.<br />
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4. Spending time with nieces. For the past 2 summers I've kept my niece Sophie one day a week but now that my sister is working part time, I won't be keeping her officially. But I still plan to hang out as much as I can with my girls.<br />
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5. Finish catching up on Downton Abbey. I think I'm on Season 3. I want to have it all watched so I'll be ready for the new season when it comes out.<br />
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6. Reading Outreach with our public library. Last summer my BFF Cassie and I started a reading program with our library that brought books out into our community. We plan on continuing that fun this summer and hopefully adding the component of checking books out. Bookmobile here we come!<br />
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7. Getting materials ready for a new year. I haven't created anything new for TPT in quite a while. I have some projects I've started on but I haven't finished. Then because I loop, I'll be moving up to First grade. So I'll need to get on making some materials to go with our Journeys series in first grade. My fluency homework for kindergarten has been my best seller. I hope to do something similar for First grade. You can check out my kindergarten one<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fluency-and-Phonics-Weekly-Homework-757324"> here. </a><br />
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8. Just relaxing and doing not much of anything. I live in the most beautiful place so I plan to take walks and bike rides around my house.<br />
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9. Get my craft on. I have pinned all kinds of crafty things and I can't remember the last time I did a craft project. I have been working on a blanket for a while and I'd like to get it finished. I'd also like to get to my sewing machine back out.<br />
You can check out my craft board <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/kheinrich9/craft-projects/">here</a> and my sewing board <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/kheinrich9/putting-my-sewing-machine-in-use-again/">here</a>.<br />
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10. Lastly and definitely not least, my biggest project this summer is going to be take our guest room and get it ready to be turned into a nursery! Chris and I are expecting our first baby in December. Currently our guest room is full of all kinds of stuff. I had to clean it way out when Chris and I got married and it's time to clean it out even more. I don't know what I'm going to do with all my books. We are thinking of a Hawaiian theme for the nursery. It would work for both a girl or a boy. We have some pictures and a Hawaiian quilt we can hang in there from our Honeymoon. We couldn't be more excited about our news. I have felt pretty yucky the past few weeks and so exhausted which is why I haven't been blogging and have been late to all the parties.<br />
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So that's my plan for the summer. We'll see how it goes. I loved my class this year and I'll have them again next year but I'm so ready for this break!<br />
Be sure to head over to Deanna's blog and check out what everyone else is up to.<br />
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1. This week was all about the letter u. Which means it was all about underwear. This is our circle map we write every week about our letter. We also read several books about underpants. Like Pirates Like Underpants and Aliens in Underpants.<br />
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2. We started our state testing this week. I made treats for the first two days. If you check back later today, I should have a freebie linked up with all the testing treat cards. I've been making them as I go but I hope to finish up the last two this evening. I know there are lots of these as freebies on TPT, but I wanted to be able to fit 6 on the page and to be kind of simple. Plus I have some food allergies so my treats were a little different. I used smarties, starburst, fruit roll ups, and blow pops. <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Just-Add-Candy-Testing-Treats-1232645">Here's a link to the freebie on my TPT Store. </a><br />
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3. Because it is state testing, we have to cover everything. It is so depressing when everything is covered. Last year, the only available paper was black. This year it is purple. Here's our word wall covered. I keep looking at it to try to remember if a word kids are spelling on their papers is a word wall word, so I can imagine my kids are having trouble. </div>
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4. We have started a 20 days of school countdown. I love all the abc countdowns but with the way our spring break fell we didn't have enough days when we got back. So starting May 1 along with our testing window, we started the countdown. Thursday was bubble day and Friday was game day. We had a blast playing board games. I think it is really important for kids to play games with each other where they have to interact, so I don't let them bring electronic games or get out my iPad and iPods. They had a blast. I helped put a 100 piece puzzle together, played don't break the ice, uno, jenga, candy land, chutes and ladders and more. </div>
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If you would like to see what our countdown looks like, you can <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-3SbUFvn2l2VFhDUGM5N2lIRWM/edit?usp=sharing">click here to see the pdf. </a> Monday is going to be ice cream day. </div>
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5. I don't have a last picture. I realized this as I'm finishing the post. I'm a little annoyed with my computer right now because I was trying to edit a screenshot and it never would cooperate. So I'm doing a little shameless self promoting which I usually don't do. I have a giveaway going on right now for Sharing Kindergarten's Math Computer sheets. <a href="http://mskerriandherkrazykindergarten.blogspot.com/2014/05/computer-center-fun-and-giveaway.html">Be sure to head to this post and enter.</a> They are awesome!</div>
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So that's my five for Friday this week. Due to testing, I really didn't do much this week worth documenting. We have testing Monday and Wednesday and then an inservice day Tuesday. So maybe I'll have more to share next week. At least of our fun countdown days. Be sure to head over to Doodle Bugs Teaching and check out the party. </div>
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The kids also use iPods and play the Teach Me Kindergarten App.<br />
One more center is <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Sight-Words-100-Pinning-Pages-A-Fine-Motor-Resource-1044570">pokey pinning with sight words. </a>This is from From the Pond with 100 pinning pages. My kids love it and it is good fine motor practice.<br />
So that's what we've been working on. We start testing when we get back from Spring break so it might be a little while before we have centers again.<br />
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1. This was dinner Tuesday night. It was the only night I ate dinner all week. I started some new medicine and it was making me not feel so hot at night. But this was a delish dinner. Greek Pizza. (Here's the link to the recipe. http://www.pepperlynn.com/2012/01/fresh-greek-pizza-with-homemade-tzatziki/) I found the recipe on pinterest. If you don't follow me on pinterest, you should. I think I'm an excellent pinned. (http://www.pinterest.com/kheinrich9/)<br />
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2. Wednesday my class was videotaped for this local channel. All the schools in my county have videos made about them and then they are played on the local channel. My class was videod using our promethean board and iPad and iPods. I was not excited about it. I get so nervous in front of adults. It just isn't my thing. Mostly I was freaking out about what to wear. I tried on about four outfits for Chris. This was what I decided on, but I texted it to my bestie first.</div>
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3. By the time Thursday rolled around, my kids were crazy! We were having the spring fling in the afternoon and that is all they wanted to talk about. It was nuts. (Spring fling is a like a carnival put on by the 7th and 8th graders at our school as a fundraiser for their graduation at the end of the year) It is fun watching the kids have a blast but the before and after is hard. So we read the Pete the Cat Easter book and then did a directed draw of a bunny. This was the only picture I took. I had seen several things like this on pinterest but mostly I just made it up. We used pencils and drew the outline of the bunny. Then they used black marker to go over the outline. They colored the bunny with crayons and then did a background with markers. They turned out cute. </div>
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4. Friday was a half day and we had an Easter egg hunt for the whole kindergarten. My class brought in 255 eggs. The egg hunt was done in record time. But the kids had a blast and that's all that matters. </div>
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5. Today my nieces were staying with my parents so Chris and I headed over there to take the oldest to an egg hunt. Here they are. It was not as nice of a day as I had thought it might be. Here's hoping tomorrow is nicer. </div>
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