Tuesday, May 29, 2012

I Have a Confession

I'm joining the linky party at Living a Wonderful Life and posting about my obsessions.

 Even though I have many many obsession, I am only going to post a few.

1. Iced Green Tea Lemonade from Starbucks I drink at least one venti a day.  I have a routine and every day on the way to work, I will stop by starbucks and grab myself one.  In order to be a happy teacher, I must get my green tea. 

2. TOMS Every girl must own a pair of TOMS! I can die in them.  I have 4 pairs already and can't wait to continue my collection.  One of my little sweetie pie got TOMS because she wanted to be like her teacher :)

3. Hello Kitty Anything hello kitty, I LOVE! Too bad my boys won't go with a hello kitty themed classroom :)

4. Flair Pens Omg, I can't get enough of these and have purchase tons of flair pens.  I am addicted! Today I was going crazy looking for black flair pens and it makes me sad how some of my fellow teachers do not know or have heard of flair pens.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

Week 1 and 2 Curriculum Map for Kindergarten

In order to have alignment, our school is requiring teachers to team up by grade level and curriculum map.  I am so glad because everyone has been doing their own thing for so long.  I am sharing with you our curriculum map for the first full week of school for kindergarten.  We start instruction the first full week of school, which gives us 3 days to learn rules and procedures.  Our district uses the balanced literacy approach which consists of interactive read aloud, guided reading, reader's workshop mini-lesson, word work and shared reading.  As you can see, we won't be doing guided reading groups until later on (after we get to know the kiddos a bit more).  There are no word work because we are currently waiting for a phonics program.  I am crossing my fingers that we will adopt Fountas and Pinnell Phonics Program!  Comments and feedback are appreciated :)


Curriculum Map Kindergarten Week 1




 Week 2 Curriculum Map

 A resource that we used to determine the teaching points for interactive read aloud was Interactive Read Aloud by Linda Hoyt.  It is a great resource and worth the money! All K-1 teachers should own a copy!

I do not work or am any way affiliated with them.  I thought I just share with my fellow bloggers an awesome resource.  Here's a link to learn more about about their resource http://www.interactivereadalouds.com/