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Hi! Iâm Ms. Formel. I teach 2nd grade at a Title 1 school, and I want to take my class to Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden next month. Fairchild is providing a bus, because they are wonderful, but we still need $8 per child. Thatâs going to be difficult for many of my families. If you would like to help, please donate at www.gofundme.com/dehymse4 or repost this. Thanks! PS. There is a cookie incentive. ..
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How My 4th Graders Raised More Than $1,100 For Foster Children
One of my goals this year was to do a service project with my fourth graders. I wanted to guide them to think about helping others and giving back. I decided to do the project around Thanksgiving/Christmas, since itâs a time when kids are normally thinking just about themselves (and when we have a little more free time in our schedule!).
Rather than starting with the details of the fundraiser itself, I wanted my students to understand the purpose behind a fundraiser. I started by asking my students âWhat needs do all people have?â and wrote down their replies.
We then discussed if everyone had all these needs met, and who had unmet needs.
In groups, students then made proposals for who they would want to help and what needs they could help people meet.
In my free time, I work with foster children through the CASA program (Court Appointed Special Advocates). Iâd mentioned that to my students a few times throughout the year but wanted them to think of their own purpose. To my surprise, more than half of the groups proposed we help local foster children. Over the following weeks, I read the students some great books and we had discussions about what it means to be in foster care.
We then turned our focus to the details of the fundraiser. Again, I wanted it to be really student-led, so I put them in charge of planning. They decided to have a store in our classroom. They wrote up a letter to send to all families, made presentations in classes, and spoke over the loudspeaker. They also made posters to put up around the school:
Some with unfortunate spelling mistakes that we corrected:
Admittedly, I wasnât sure what kinds of things the kids would bring in to sell. Most of my students come from lower to lower-middle class families themselves, so I didnât know if they would have much to give. I was overwhelmed by the generosity of my studentsâ families. We ended up with lots of toys, stuffed animals, books, and food. One mom brought a giant pot of homemade Posole on the city bus. On the second day we had nearly sold out of everything and a few families made last-minute trips to the store to restock our food.
Because we were selling mostly to other students who carry around very little money, we priced everything very cheaply. My students were champs at running the store. Moreover, I was a proud teacher as I listened in to them explain to our âcustomersâ about our cause.
I thought we would make maybe $100 and the kids would have a good experience and learn about giving back. Well, I underestimated how quickly $0.50 purchases can add up. When we counted our money the first day (and had a great math lesson in the process!), we had made over $400. After our second and final day of selling, we had made $1,040.20! A few days later, we got an additional $100 donation from a school board member, bringing our grand total to $1,140.20!
After totaling up our money and closing up shop, I put the kids in charge of deciding which organizations to donate to. We did internet research about local organizations who serve foster children, and then had a class discussion about which to give to. I was really surprised by their maturity: I thought they would want to give to organizations that provided things like cakes and toys to foster kids, but they decided that those arenât kidsâ greatest needs, and chose to give to groups that help order foster kids transition into adulthood and provide mental health services to foster kids.
Together, we wrote emails to the organizations and sent in our donations. Weâve already gotten some great responses, which has been fun for the kids to see.
Overall, the fundraiser was an amazing experience for us all. My students were SO proud of themselves and empowered. It was a perfect way to make those few weeks before break really meaningful. I canât wait to do it again next year, and I would totally recommend it to other teachers!
Amazing. :)
You guys, look at that sweet lady in the picture. That is Vicky. Anyone who knows Vicky knows that she has one of the biggest hearts in Topeka. Last night her car was stolen; a car that she uses to conduct home and school visits for her job at Big Brothers Big Sisters as well as help to organize...
Ok my dudes. This is the chance you have been waiting for. You want to get some last minute good karma before the new year? Donate to help @judgernautâs Mom get a car. Some asshole stole it from their yard last night. Yeah it was old but that car did a lot of good stuff. Vicky is basically like a live version of all the things we want to be. She walks around and does it. Just read the link and honestly a dollar is a perfect amount but we will take more.Â
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âI decided to become a teacher because I knew what it was like to grow up poor, and I wanted to help kids in similar circumstances. I didnât expect it to be easy. But I guess I thought thereâd be only one or two kids acting up in class, and everyone else would be paying attention. Instead itâs only one or two kids who actually behave. Iâm drained every day. Iâve been teaching for thirteen years. And if it wasnât for summer break, Iâd have quit already. Forty percent of my job rating is based on standardized testing. Itâs the only job I know where your performance is based on how other people behave. I canât control whatâs going on outside my classroom. I canât control if my kids are from abusive households, or donât eat breakfast, or canât get to school on time. But those things affect my rating when they show up in test scores. I need to find a new career where my performance is based on me.â
Le sigh.
I shared this immediately on Facebook, not giving a single shit that itâs a holiday and most people donât want to think about anything negative.Â
Why weren't we taught to multiply this way? I never knew any of the hand multiplication tricks...I h... -
A group of students presented on the Great Awakening today. After they finished they handed out cookies and icing and told the students to decorate their cookie based on what they said in their presentation. It was adorable.
These are my favorites.
Todayâs Cool Teaching Moment
I teach U.S. history and informed my students theyâre getting a quiz on the location of all 50 states next week. Itâs much easier to talk about U.S. history when students know where states are. One student was unimpressed with the thought until he realized he could fill out many of the states based on his knowledge of rap. For example, he knows 2 Chainz is from Georgia and raps about being from there and the South. Within minutes most of his map is filled as he explains to me where rappers are from. Seriously, it blew my mind! I love that thatâs how he knows U.S. geography.
It's going to be a long 13 years for this little nigga.
look at his lil feet lol
Haha!!!!
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For all you teachers who are starting back to various schools around the country. Hang in there! There is at least one person here who appreciates everything each one of you does!
Ditto!
This is SO helpful!!! Thank you! Could you say a little more about the MLA magazine exercise?
I created a worksheet that follows the MLA works cited format. The student would use the magazine to identify author, title of article, magazine title, publication year, pages read, and its medium: print. After that I provided a prompt that they would respond to in regards to their selected read. This time the prompt asked for the main idea and two supporting ideas. As a result I discovered my students will need to be taught MLA formatting and how to incorporate details into their writing. Today, I will discover what they know with books.
Great exercise
My students need a carpet to give them a place to sit, create community, and learn. I am looking forward to welcoming 23 new K-4 students into my classroom this year. My goal is to create an environment that is welcoming and promotes community. Our students all live in poverty...
ONLY $82 left to complete my Donorâs Choose project to get a carpet for my classroom! Â If you can pledge a few dollars towards this I would really appreciate it!, hoping to get this project completed in the next few days so I could have this carpet when my kindergarteners start! Â Â
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Here's my prayer for college students this year...
I pray that the freshman donât lose sight of why they came to college in the first place & start to gain insight on what they want to do.
I pray that the sophomores understand that itâs okay to not know what they want to do exactly as long as they are making efforts to find out.
I pray that the juniors have clarity of what they want to pursue and do not get discouraged by the challenges that come with that clarity.
And I pray that the seniors stay focused, encouraged, and end up with careers after graduation that align with their passion and pursuits.
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Teachers love post-it notes and fun colored pens. We can always be counted on to have the latest and greatest of school supplies. But, what else does a teacher need at their desk?
There are many reasons to have a Pinterest account, and the above link is one of them. This is the best list I have seen so far, definitely 8 great essentials!
Close Reading and Cornell Note Annotation Guides:
Below are two guides that I created for my biology classes.
Close Reading
With the introduction of common core and the Next Generation Science standards, an emphasis has been placed on reading text and supporting answers with evidence. Many of my students are low readers to begin with, so Iâve created this guide (that theyâve taped into their science notebook) to help them read and make sense of the articles that we read in class.
While admin wants us to read an article a week, I manage an article about every other week. Reading an article usually takes about two days and I have them finish answering questions for homework (and then I check for during notebook checks). What I like about the close reading method is that it guides students to interact with the text and read it multiple times.
Many of my articles are taken from news sources such as national geographic, npr, and also newsela. I highly recomend the last one as it has a vast variety of articles in many different reading levels.
Cornell Notes
Cornell notes are a standard for all our classes and while students understand the general format of cornell notes. However, one thing that Iâve noticed with my freshman (and some of my upperclassman) is that they donât know how to interact with their notes once theyâve taken them. So to help them out, I created a guide for them to use everytime we take notes in class.
Iâve made it a class norm that everytime we do cornell notes in class, for homework students must use this guide to annotate their notes. While its a struggle for some students, others have mastered it pretty well. Below is an example of a student who uses the guide in multiple classes:
In two links below are the pdfs of my guides. Feel free to modify however you like. Iâve made mine from bits and pieces of other teacherâs guides and resources.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask! And of course, I would love to know how other people tackle these two things!
For Close Reading Guide:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz7f2NcGZt0vVktVX0ZfeVU3S1U/view?usp=sharing
For the Cornell Annotation Guide:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz7f2NcGZt0vRVByYVFqTXZhX1E/view?usp=sharing
Today I needed something to get the kids excited, so my class bear disappeared again. He does this now and then and usually leaves a letter with hints as to his whereabouts, but this time I tried something a bit different. I came up with a sentence that had exactly 26 characters, then wrote out the sentence letter by letter on colorful cards. On the back of each card I wrote a name and a math problem to solve, tailored to that specific childâs ability level, with the answers in order from 1 to 26. Then I put the cards in a little clear box and set the box on the bearâs desk, with a âDo not open until after lunchâ note.
The kids were WILD to open that box! Once I did, I was just terribly confused about the cards insideâŚwhat could they mean? Well, they had names on themâŚ.the kids couldnât wait to get their own card. Then we brainstormed. The first idea was that the cards were the alphabet and should go in order. So we tried this but almost immediately everyone realized that we were missing some letters and had doubles of others. That wasnât it!
Next, the students decided that the letters must make words, so we spent a few minutes trying to rearrange our letters. Some groups came up with several words but nothing that told us where the bear went. Hmmm.
Just when I was about to hint that hey, there are MATH problems on the cards, maybe that had something to do with it, one student suddenly shrieked out that HIS math problemâs answer was 12, his friendâs was 13, and another friendâs was 14⌠quick everyone, solve your math problem!
They were thrilled, just thrilled, when we got the letters in order by number and it made a sentence! Leo the bear was in the office! We marched down there and the kind secretaries returned him (apparently he had been most helpful all morning).
Once we returned to the room, the students spent the rest of math time creating their own codes, and boy did some of them come up with some pretty complicated equations. This was so much fun, and just what I needed todayâŚI was so pleased with their problem-solving, and I canât wait to do it again with a different code!
THIS IS GENUIS
I want to do something like this with my kingdom groups.
ThisâŚis effing adorable.
And so damn cool.
I am a Mental Health Case Worker providing life skills support to women who are struggling with functioning appropriately within their communities. Often times these anti-social behaviors keep my clients from reaching their goals. I would like to provide additional support through educational maâŚ
Thank you for any help you can offer.
