tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19416370867353752342024-02-06T18:24:11.088-08:00Transitional Kinder with Mrs. OGiving our youngest kinders time to grow!Melissa Ortunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07491266655914811958noreply@blogger.comBlogger86125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1941637086735375234.post-91997369371054666762023-08-12T21:50:00.000-07:002023-08-12T21:50:14.377-07:00Digital Scoreboard<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">UPDATED 2023 SCOREBOARD</div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As Coach explains in the 2nd edition of Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids, the Scoreboard is now Turtle vs Hawk. Here is the update Scorecounter link <a href="https://bit.ly/3quGkup">https://bit.ly/3quGkup</a></div></blockquote><p> </p><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Here are some updated graphics<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGQ8pizmNJIFscr0MXYQPyHGMCgVRhsXQVP5GlFtHI3nNkvo26fvKRxUXchhe_syk6rtXL3k9rC1Ze5_fAwEHqCW-e4GnQ2cmng-Wj6LTEvK28svPeAFjrsOH0--Oex-VUUorD5eh0civQcaNs6z1ithMqqCu_kCp-NGveGBluLABLz4JJgdgOu3P4b0Kl/s449/turtlehappyscoreboard.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="449" data-original-width="439" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGQ8pizmNJIFscr0MXYQPyHGMCgVRhsXQVP5GlFtHI3nNkvo26fvKRxUXchhe_syk6rtXL3k9rC1Ze5_fAwEHqCW-e4GnQ2cmng-Wj6LTEvK28svPeAFjrsOH0--Oex-VUUorD5eh0civQcaNs6z1ithMqqCu_kCp-NGveGBluLABLz4JJgdgOu3P4b0Kl/w313-h320/turtlehappyscoreboard.png" width="313" /></a></div></div></blockquote><p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE0thB285xp1hs2Xd2aZ7R9bwE0L45WlhIcCx4igKi1JPbOzHrmKEEIMK_Dit6_mR_sDFxeUfdO_l4QNNyn_JxX0cOKfND7dupI7jOCaMX7jl6kwEgffkZY-4fqElQpd7Yva55wSCS-OjAMJyCj8uFfjG0SovM5fQYL30kvw4AklQGDX07CHvTniRLzlmP/s439/hawkscoreboard.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="429" data-original-width="439" height="313" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjE0thB285xp1hs2Xd2aZ7R9bwE0L45WlhIcCx4igKi1JPbOzHrmKEEIMK_Dit6_mR_sDFxeUfdO_l4QNNyn_JxX0cOKfND7dupI7jOCaMX7jl6kwEgffkZY-4fqElQpd7Yva55wSCS-OjAMJyCj8uFfjG0SovM5fQYL30kvw4AklQGDX07CHvTniRLzlmP/s320/hawkscoreboard.png" width="320" /></a></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Original post March 2020: <br />As I get ready to start remote learning, I have been looking for tools I can use to continue using Whole Brain Teaching. I am so excited to find a free tool <a href="https://scorecounter.com/">https://scorecounter.com/</a> that allows you to create a digital Scoreboard! This site has a TON of premade scoreboards and allows you to save a custom scoreboard. I was able to load up WBT Avatars, that I use with<a href="https://wholebrainteaching.com/wbtanddojo/" target="_blank"> ClassDojo for SuperImprover</a>, to this blog to customize a WBT Scoreboard. I then saved that scoreboard and created a bitly link that everyone can use. <a href="http://bit.ly/wbtscore">http://bit.ly/wbtscore</a><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGC9K0gW9R9PnejeDpG8gGOaBqtji8E-_LJv_sLs64ndYsaMsmSqcEnNryPF6qviZDLSeDzTP5QEsWTsaurdnglB9KPnvjkTiG9AWH0FhS3zTy0c18zyloZh9I6Ppf7ZVDrMr5yu9viMJF/s1600/IMG_6262.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1429" data-original-width="828" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGC9K0gW9R9PnejeDpG8gGOaBqtji8E-_LJv_sLs64ndYsaMsmSqcEnNryPF6qviZDLSeDzTP5QEsWTsaurdnglB9KPnvjkTiG9AWH0FhS3zTy0c18zyloZh9I6Ppf7ZVDrMr5yu9viMJF/s320/IMG_6262.jpg" width="185" /></a></div>My plan is to have this page on it's own, next to my main lesson page, while I teach. Another awesome tool I have used in the regular classroom that I think will help with remote video lessons is <a href="https://classroomscreen.com/">https://classroomscreen.com/</a><br /><br />I am excited to try this digital scoreboard out and hope it will add class engagement as well as the in class scoreboard. Once we return to school, I plan to keep this page on my phone as a digital traveling Scoreboard. Please let me know if you are able to give it a try and how it works.<br /><br />Visit <a href="https://www.instagram.com/wbtwithmrso/">https://www.instagram.com/wbtwithmrso/</a> for a video and the most current posts about Scoreboard and all things WBTwithMrsO<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWm9nbS6edOJHP7AJxUQ-zSnamfJc6-d0nGkfTRYA4ugRjdWaJMkX_bmh_SK0g6vohg8MX1U8vwtweiEFYugxMCuIAaSi_DWyy0PMtwtnb5RchfBH_0cwE5o-xzb9KqvWQyupA4jxwQpZy/s1600/07Cheetah.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="577" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWm9nbS6edOJHP7AJxUQ-zSnamfJc6-d0nGkfTRYA4ugRjdWaJMkX_bmh_SK0g6vohg8MX1U8vwtweiEFYugxMCuIAaSi_DWyy0PMtwtnb5RchfBH_0cwE5o-xzb9KqvWQyupA4jxwQpZy/s200/07Cheetah.png" width="163" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVhZV17Gg_AR854_XcVJUulaSmSmAxNKka_jsvGfW8Q1EobwXVEixv0FT2EtYcKq7bO3l3MW1PVVEVTZ-Fw68CAvvV1wkGQmJD6NHoKYIZcI1PsteqAcKypISYpSTx2OY3G45WDjLxRsth/s1600/01Turtle.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="743" data-original-width="700" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVhZV17Gg_AR854_XcVJUulaSmSmAxNKka_jsvGfW8Q1EobwXVEixv0FT2EtYcKq7bO3l3MW1PVVEVTZ-Fw68CAvvV1wkGQmJD6NHoKYIZcI1PsteqAcKypISYpSTx2OY3G45WDjLxRsth/s200/01Turtle.png" width="188" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivd1zCdyNuevffhmS-fiUSBkjkKJ46kJU60w5kERcYUarWPUBhH50C57LQl7vIx2d-Vu308Yss2NGQWcyU8DBIE36BxoEXXQ1hKYKF9Wlnpdh3DrOm-JPMU_PhCx67fKk3kPM92ThZeWF7/s1600/05Wolf.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="697" data-original-width="577" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivd1zCdyNuevffhmS-fiUSBkjkKJ46kJU60w5kERcYUarWPUBhH50C57LQl7vIx2d-Vu308Yss2NGQWcyU8DBIE36BxoEXXQ1hKYKF9Wlnpdh3DrOm-JPMU_PhCx67fKk3kPM92ThZeWF7/s200/05Wolf.png" width="163" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Distance Learning Scoreboard</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBHiDTgHlhlPBIodNKuzW5IMBiKoPUfcuDseAg2WDhHMb8Z_iBtWEv3SOq9PXnkYDFPLEdUnldFjYIZUGNRA4QPg7c7IXJ3Z5sRKaOKGMiyXqb2r8-xmneS2P1iT1x1HR2zJIj97DqIgeN/s1600/surfdogsdino.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="960" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBHiDTgHlhlPBIodNKuzW5IMBiKoPUfcuDseAg2WDhHMb8Z_iBtWEv3SOq9PXnkYDFPLEdUnldFjYIZUGNRA4QPg7c7IXJ3Z5sRKaOKGMiyXqb2r8-xmneS2P1iT1x1HR2zJIj97DqIgeN/s320/surfdogsdino.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p> </p>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So we have been watching videos, reading the books, reading Facebook group posts and now it is time to get files downloaded, the printer going and planning book open. Time to get ready for the best school year ever!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So what do we NEED to get started with WBT? Here are my must haves to start the year with WBT</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. Need to have some basic knowledge of Whole Brain Teaching</span></h4>
<span style="font-size: large;">Now more than likely you already have this but just in case you are totally new to Whole Brain Teaching I want to be clear that if you haven't visited WholeBrainTeaching.com and learned the <a href="https://wholebrainteaching.com/wbt-basics-2/" target="_blank">WBT Basics </a>, you should do that FIRST. You don't need to read EVERY ebook and watch every video to get started but the tools like our Attention Getter <a href="https://wholebrainteaching.com/attention-getter/">Class/Yes</a> will only work if you know the basics of how to use them. I also highly recommend grabbing Chris Biffle's books, especially the newest book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C6P2S843?fbclid=IwAR172OcmraFybi9NGbWymlyiI4dmsYH9GmWF2WueS4bidJvjdBF1qSxHf4Q">Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids-2nd Edition</a>. You don't have to have the books to get started but t</span><span style="font-size: large;">hey are all easy reads and great to have on hand during the school year.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">2. Pick Rule Posters to download and print</span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Whole-Brain-Teaching-Rules-with-UPDATED-RULE-5-3512533">official WBT rules</a> and the new early ed version! </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0gq9HtLiKo88n5MbSfglwpKbWnqxnxG2X_RtFeYmnvz64qXwwumU0ObBWTjlY87WdQXsg62yyQfvUwflmKF4yty72-vtF3nSKxYiiIWp8357Qc20w2gwhyphenhypheno33MbeXr86njMS-Xgjm0SLb/s1600/wbtdiamondrule.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><span style="font-size: large;">You can get posters for all the official versions of the rules on TPT <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/WBT-Model-Classroom-Posters-2023-July-UPDATE-7139034">here</a>. I originally shared more about the 5 rules and the posters I made <a href="http://transitionalkinder.blogspot.com/2014/07/wbt-wednesday-where-to-start.html" target="_blank">here</a></span><span style="font-size: large;">. There are a ton of versions on Teachers Pay Teachers but be sure they are free and that they have the 2020 Rule 5 like the official ones or the </span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/EDITABLE-Bitmoji-Whole-Brain-Teaching-Classroom-Rules-5671726">Bitmoji version</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. Pick a place for the Scoreboard and make traveling Scoreboard</span></h4>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The scoreboard can be just a sad face and a happy face made with marker and the travel scoreboard just a 3 x 5 card. I'm excited to use the latest upgrade of the Scoreboard that is <a href="https://wholebrainteaching.com/motivation/scoreboard/" target="_blank"> shared here</a> that is Turtle vs Hawk. The latest version features the sad Emo Turtle but you can also use Surfboard Emo. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">During distance learning and on my phone for a traveling scoreboard I used a <a href="http://transitionalkinder.blogspot.com/2020/03/advance-scoreboard.html">digital scoreboard</a> and I updated it to be Turtle vs Hawk</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You can also make a simple traveling scoreboard to have on your lanyard </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">You want to make your Games List near your Scoreboard. You can just write it on your white board, use sentence strips with a pocket chart or use Google Slides and project it on to the main board.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Click on the Whiteboard set up picture below for the <a href="http://bit.ly/WBTday1cue">WBT First Days Cue Cards</a> I am updating. You can print them on blank 4 x 6 cards or just project from Google Docs</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">The Games List is basically your schedule with what you are focusing on. Learn more at <a href="https://wholebrainteaching.com/day-one/">https://wholebrainteaching.com/day-one/</a> and by watching <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLu1S9zQbfskHXDQuQGJesW6w5GSsu6_bv">Andrea Schindler's Getting Started Periscopes</a> from 2018 & 2019. The Periscopes are listed with some screenshots on the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tSEv8u0mvUemX-7kFV7YTy0oLcA_AWbA/view?usp=sharing">WBTKinderGettingStarted doc</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Visit <a href="http://transitionalkinder.blogspot.com/2014/07/throwback-thursday-common-core-powerpix.html" target="_blank">this post</a> and <a href="https://wholebrainteaching.com/power-pix/">this page</a> to see why you need PowerPix in your life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As long as you have 1-4 you will be in great shape to start the year using Whole Brain Teaching but I hope you will find 5 and 6 as helpful as I do. I am updating a few more files that I will include here so check soon for updates</span><br />
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Melissa Ortunohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07491266655914811958noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1941637086735375234.post-71496977871725920242020-05-05T18:52:00.000-07:002020-06-19T12:47:29.013-07:00Teacher Tech- Student Resource page<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">One of my EdTech Mentor projects is updating the <a href="https://www.pittsburg.k12.ca.us/Page/7094" target="_blank">Technology Resources</a> section of my school website.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;"> These are some of our K-5th grade resources. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; text-align: left;">I also made a <a href="https://www.pittsburg.k12.ca.us/Page/7098">TK Tech page</a> and a <a href="https://www.pittsburg.k12.ca.us/Page/9655">Teacher Tech Tips page</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What do you think? </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Have you tried out these sites before?</span></h4>
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Kiddle is a visual <em>search engine</em> for kids powered by Google, offering safe kids web, image, and video search. Results are vetted by editors<br />
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Your child can access most sites with their perminate ID #, their lunch number. If you need this number, the office or teacher can get it for you.</div>
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This website will give you access to what your child is learning in class:</div>
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<span class="header1" style="color: #566b77; font-family: "copse" , serif; font-size: 30px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: 1; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Go Math website</span><br />
Go Math is your child's math curriculum. From this website you will find assignments for your child and access activities your child can do to practice their math skills </div>
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Imagine Learning is a tool for learning how to read and increase comprehension. In this program your child will have a variety of options, from learning to identify the ABC's, phonics , and comprehension lessons, please take the time to explore.<br />
To Log in :<a data-mce-href="https://client.imaginelearning.com/?studentlogin&sitecode=630600" href="https://client.imaginelearning.com/?studentlogin&sitecode=630600" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://client.imaginelearning.com/?studentlogin&sitecode=630600</a><br />
Username: Student Lunch Number<br />
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*The password is case sensitive and may have been changed by the teacher.<br />
Or download the<a data-mce-href="https://support.imaginelearning.com/imagine-language-literacy/download-apps" href="https://support.imaginelearning.com/imagine-language-literacy/download-apps" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> Imagine Language & Literacy app for iOS or Android or Kindle</a><br />
Stoneman's school code is 630600<br />
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This is an engaging game base program that assesses and teaches addition, subtraction, multiplication and division math facts<br />
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Stoneman's school code is 630600</div>
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Raz Kids website will allow you access to many different leveled books as well as other activities for your child. This is a great opportunity for your child to be read to and read daily. Your child can access ABC books, leveled books, decodable books and complete assignments assigned for them while they earn stars. Please take advantage of this valuable resource by logging on daily for 10 to 20 minutes.</div>
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Kids can play their way to being Internet Awesome with Interland, an online adventure that puts the key lessons of digital safety into hands-on practice with four challenging games.</div>
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Whether you are new to Whole Brain Teaching or have used WBT for years there is soooo much that is new each year it is easy to feel overwhelmed. I have been using WBT since it was Power Teaching and there is always something new to add to the WBT tool belt. There are just soooo many wonderful ebooks, videos and ideas! Where do you start? When do you start what? What if it is not the beginning of the school year? Can you still start WBT? So many questions but no worries, we can do this!<br />
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With Chris Biffle's newest book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Whole-Brain-Teaching-Challenging-Kids/dp/1721725865" target="_blank">Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids: Fast Track: Seven Steps to Teaching Heaven</a>, all the amazing Whole Brain Teaching tools have been organized into seven steps. If you are brand new to Whole Brain Teaching, you may only use the first 2 steps or even only Step 1 and I promise you it will be life changing! I of course recommend grabbing all 3 of Coach B's books and using all the tools WBT offers but you can get started right now for FREE, even if the school year has already started, even if you are on break or not in the classroom :)<br />
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Step 1 is Super Improver and all you really need is some index cards and a pen. All the info you need to get started is at <a href="https://wholebrainteaching.com/intermediate/super-improvers-team/">https://wholebrainteaching.com/intermediate/super-improvers-team/</a><br />
If Super Improver in the classroom is not exciting enough, there is also Super Improver Family edition! Find out more on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pg/Whole-Brain-Teaching-111745338861758/videos/">official FaceBook page videos page</a> under the Super Improver playlist and the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/superimprover/">Super Improver Facebook group</a><br />
I will share more soon about how I use Super Improver in my classroom and at home.<br />
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Step 2 is Character Education and is my favorite part of WBT. Again you can get started for free on the <a href="https://wholebrainteaching.com/character-education/">official WBT page</a> and be sure to grab the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Whole-Brain-Teaching-Character-Education-Course-2689547">Character Ed ebook at TpT</a> :) SEL, Social Emotional Learning, is so very important and I believe vital to every classroom, and in PreK and TK it is a part of our Learning Foundations. Whole Brain Teaching makes character education so easy to implement and a part of every school day.<br />
Start your WBT journey with these two steps. Once you are ready to dive deeper, move on to Steps 3, 4 and 5. Ready to dive really deep? Add Step 6 and 7.<br />
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Step 3 is <a href="https://wholebrainteaching.com/wbt-basics-2/">Master WBT Basics</a>. This is the How to Teach part of WBT and the part that takes the most time to implement. I can't imagine teaching without the WBT Basics and each year feel a tiny bit closer to mastering these always improving tools.<br />
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I first started working on switching the official WBT PowerPix with CA state standards to Common Core standards in 2011. I want to be clear NONE of these PowerPix were created by me, they are all a part of the grade level PowerPix that are on the WBT ebook area. The original PowerPix reference the California State Standards and all of California and many other states are now following the Common Core standards. I used a digital scrapbooking program, My Memories Suite, to modify the PowerPix to reference the Common Core Standards. The originals had the PowerPix and teacher notes in one file. In the files I made there is one file of the Pix for ELA and one for Math for each grade level to be printed in color and/or shown on your LCD projector. There is a separate file of teacher notes, one ELA and one Math for each grade level, that can be printed in black and white. I have my PowerPix in sheet protectors with the matching teacher notes slid in the same sheet protector so that I can hold the PowerPix up and read the teacher notes :)<br />
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Below are links to the Common Core PowerPix I currently have finished. If you are at a school that does not use Common Core or teach upper grades that I have not finished PowerPix for be sure to check out <a href="http://transitionalkinder.blogspot.com/2013/08/wbt-powerpix-without-common-core.html" target="_blank">this post</a> for the JPEGs of the PowerPix. PowerPix are one of my favorite WBT tools and I hope that these updated PowerPix and Teacher notes are useful.<br />
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This all still applies but there is a 2020 Rule 5 update! Rule 5 is now "Make our dear team stronger!" See all the gestures, including for the newest Rule 5 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/111745338861758/videos/1840175739452807/">HERE</a></h3>
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The classroom rules are the first cornerstone to me of Whole Brain Teaching and Step 5 of WBT FastTrack. Classroom rules are usually one of the first things you teach your class on the first day so they are one thing that is not easily changed after the beginning of the school year. That said if you are looking at this information and it is not the beginning of the year changes are your classroom rules are not working so don't be afraid to switch to these rules. </div>
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The best way to master WBT Basics is to teach the Five Classroom Rules. I LOVE the Five Rules because they cover every possible issue that may come up in class with Rule 4 and Rule 5. </div>
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Here is a great set of Rule posters from the official WBT TpT store with the Diamond Rule and updated Rule 5</div>
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Before the Rule 5 update, I used the posters shown in Chris Biffle AKA Coach B's first book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Whole-Brain-Teaching-Challenging-Kids/dp/0984816712" target="_blank">Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kid</a>s.<br />
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The Amazing Andrea Schindler who is on the WBT executive board and runs the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/wbtkinder/" target="_blank">Kindergarten Facebook group</a> showed me one rule I do add, The Big Rule: ALWAYS Listen to your Teacher when they are Talking! This rule is key for our younger ones because they can't follow directions they didn't listen to. Here is a PDF for you to use for The Big Rule, just click <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B--i-JeVFp-9TzFHdHY1YWxMbU0/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">HERE</a> to download.<br />
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Now I am NOT a Twitter expert, far from it but there are a ton of great educational chats on Twitter so I had to join and start learning and it is not too hard at all. No really!</div>
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I find using the computer easiest with Twitter so go to <a href="https://twitter.com/">https://twitter.com/</a> and you will see something like this on the left and click the sign up button or go straight to <a href="https://twitter.com/signup">https://twitter.com/signup</a><br />
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Both #wbtchat and #TeacherFriends use to have chats on Tuesdays at 6 PM Pacific/9 PM Eastern and while the chats are no longer every Tuesday these are still active hashtags.<br />
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Now if possible it is fun to follow Twitter chats live. You CAN follow a chat from the main Twitter page but I find it hard to do. It is just not user friendly to me on the main Twitter page so I like to use <a href="https://tweetdeck.twitter.com/">TweetDeck</a> on my laptop.<br />
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I have been loving the wonderful posts for the book study on <a href="http://corneroncharacter.blogspot.com/p/my-book.html" target="_blank">What's Under Your Cape? SUPERHEROES of the Character Kind</a> by Barbara Gruener. We are up to Chapter 7 and there are so many wonderful ideas. Be sure to check them all out and grab this great read!<br />
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As summer comes to a close it is time to get serious with planning. Our district ELA pacing guides have all been updated for Common Core and the TK team decided to add Lifeskills into our pacing guides. We are basically keeping the math pacing guide with the Kindergarten Common Core standards that we put together last year and our Report of Progress that we use during our parent teacher conferences in the late fall and spring is also staying the same. The team of TK teachers and admin at Pittsburg Unified are AMAZING! I am truly blessed to work with these ladies and gents in creating a Transitional Kindergarten program for the students in Pittsburg, CA and happy to share the hard work with you. </div>
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I am also working on getting myself organized with blogging and TpT. I grabbed one of Farrah Shipley's TpT planners. If you are planning on getting serious with TpT be sure to grab one of these planners. She explains all about them in <a href="http://mrsshipleywholebrainteaching.blogspot.com/2014/07/tuned-in-tuesday.html" target="_blank">this post</a>. Here is one of her pics.<br />
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If you follow me on Facebook or Twitter I already announced this but realized I didn't announce it here. I am soooooooo excited that I am now a part of the Whole Brain Teaching staff! Coach B made me the WBT Social Media Coordinator! I have been helping with loading the weekly webcasts to youtube at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/WBTWebcast">https://www.youtube.com/user/WBTWebcast</a> and organizing pins at <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/wbteachers/" target="_blank">http://www.pinterest.com/wbteachers/ </a> I also get to check out WBT bloggers and add them to the growing list<a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Au-i-JeVFp-9dGJZbUp6SjJWcnp6aE03SUhqakF4WUE&usp=sharing#gid=0" target="_blank"> here</a>. Coolest thing is I get to help with linking the various online resources to new WBT documents like this one </div>
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<br /><span style="font-family: Paytone One; font-size: large;">Today I am linking up with The Teacher's Desk 6 for Throwback Thursday. I am loving the badge, so purr-fect! This is a post from my WBT blog with my response to the WBT Book Club prompt for Chapters 1 & 2. Remember you can join in at the book club any time at <a href="http://wbtbookclub.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">http://wbtbookclub.blogspot.com/</a> :)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Paytone One; font-size: large;">Have you grabbed your copy of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Brain-Teaching-Challenging-Kids/dp/0984816712/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364845820&sr=1-4&keywords=whole+brain+teaching+for">Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids</a> yet? I have had the free ebook for years now so I have to admit that I wasn't in a hurry to grab the new Amazon book by WBT co-founder Chris Biffle( Sorry Coach). I figured I should know all of the stuff that would be in it right? I watched all the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/WBTWebcast/">webcasts</a>, read all the <a href="http://www.wholebrainteaching.com/index.php?option=com_docman&Itemid=223">ebooks</a>, have gone to a training so I should know this all. Well when they decided to have a <a href="http://wbtbookclub.blogspot.com/">book club</a> for the book I knew I had to grab it and see what was new. Well it is a must have friends! Even if you can just grab the Kindle version you will not be disappointed. </span><span style="font-family: 'Paytone One'; font-size: large;">This book really does give you</span><span style="font-family: 'Paytone One'; font-size: large;"> the whole picture of what Whole Brain Teaching is today. There have been so many additions over the years that it can be overwhelming to start using Whole Brain Teaching and this book shows you where to start and how to successfully become a Whole Brain Teacher or WBT'er. </span><br />
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Welcome everyone! Today I want to start
our year together with a 45 minute lecture and discussion on
classroom management systems. I need you all to turn your cell phones
into the basket in the middle of the table and give me your full
attention. If you can not follow along and fully participate in our
discussion you will need to write a one page essay on listening
skills during lunch. OK are we ready to begin? Why don't you look
excited? Doesn't a 45 minute lecture sound exciting? Don't you
respond well to the threat of punishment? No? But we will have
discussion time! Well you can relax because really today we are going
to talk about classroom management but in a fun and much more
engagement friendly way because I am going to be using Whole Brain
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The First Great Law of Whole Brain
Teaching is: The longer we talk, the more students we lose. This
applies not just to students kindergarten thru college age, but even
adults in a staff meeting. I can give you a great lecture on the
history of classroom management systems I have tried, complete with a
50 page Power Point but as soon as I have talked more than 15 minutes
none of you will be hearing anything but “WahWahWahWah” like in
Charlie Brown. Even if I add discussion time few of you will be
talking about what I want you to be discussing. When I gave my first
technology training to teachers I thought it would be great because I
had so much built in discussion time but really I only had the
attention of 10% of the teachers and the others were talking about
everything but what I was teaching. We are going to make sure we
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Now I could have called out those
teachers that were not on task during that technology training and I
could make you write that one page essay at lunch but punishing
adults is just as ineffective as punishing students. When we are
bored we all act out or tune out, no matter the age. So what can we
do if punishment doesn't work? Here is the secret I learned from
Whole Brain Teaching Challenging Students written by WBT co-founder
Chris Biffle, if a student’s whole brain is involved in learning,
there isn’t any mental area left over for challenging behavior. For
our classroom management to work we need to work on engagement of the
whole brain. I want you all engaged at staff meetings this year as
much as I want our students engaged in every lesson this year so this
is as much talking at one time as I will be doing all year.</div>
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So we have the First Great Law and the
secret of Whole Brain Teaching but why are we talking about using it?
What makes it work better than traditional classroom management
systems? Orderly Fun! The main thing that makes Whole Brain Teaching
work is because it produces classrooms that are full of orderly fun.
WBT is more like a large, lively game than a traditional elementary
school classroom management system. Just as in all games, there are
penalties as well as rewards… but like “going to jail” in
Monopoly ®, even the penalties are entertaining. We learn better
when we are having fun so we are going to have fun in our classrooms
and our staff meetings. Who's ready to really get started with our
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So we got the <a href="http://transitionalkinder.blogspot.com/2014/07/wbt-wednesday-where-to-start.html" target="_blank">Classroom Rules</a>, we are ready to use the<a href="http://transitionalkinder.blogspot.com/2014/07/wbt-wednesday-where-to-start-core-4.html" target="_blank"> Core 4</a>, and last Wednesday we covered the basics needed for <a href="http://transitionalkinder.blogspot.com/2014/07/wbt-wednesday-getting-ready-first-days.html" target="_blank">the first days</a>. The 5 Rules, Scoreboard, Class/Yes, Mirror and Teach/OK make the foundation of the WBT classroom and really will change the way you teach forever. For me I can't teach without these WBT tools and the more I use them, the more I love them, the better my class is. If I have a hard day or a lesson does not go well then I can usually find that some thing with the Core Four was off. I didn't use the Scoreboard as much as I should have or I forgot to have the students Mirror or we didn't do enough Teach/OK. If you are new to WBT, new to teaching or new to a grade level just start with these and you will have such a strong foundation to build your classroom learning on. You will be blown away by how awesome your class becomes just with the Core Four and the Five Rules but just like a house is not only the foundation, WBT is so much more than the Core Four.<br />
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Once you are ready with your WBT foundation, you are ready to build up the walls. These are the advanced WBT must haves that you will want to add to your classroom ASAP. Now ASAP will be different for everyone so don't rush, you may not use these your first months or even your first year. That said the great thing about these advanced WBT tools is they are all like brick walls, you can add a few bricks at a time, building on your foundation bit by bit. Today let's take a look at 2 Advance WBT Must Haves, the Super Improvers Team and PowerPix.<br />
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The Super Improvers Team is all about rewarding student improvement. This is Level 2 of the Scoreboard and replaces the card system or behavior clip chart. Instead of catching students doing wrong, you are focusing on catching them doing right, making improvements. This was truly a life altering idea for me and a huge blessing to my classroom. The year starts with the Scoreboard and the Scoreboard keeps going all year but Super Improver Team is added into the WBT classroom and students are rewarded for individual and class wide improvement. Instead of racing other students, students race themselves, working to improve on their own personal best. The beauty is that each student can be racing toward their own goal and students can be working on an academic goal or a behavior goal. Students also work together as a team to improve on class goals, which also can be academic or behavior. WBT founder Chris Biffle explains the Super Improvers Team in Chapter 15 of the book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Brain-Teaching-Challenging-Kids/dp/0984816712/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364845820&sr=1-4&keywords=whole+brain+teaching+for" target="_blank">Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids</a> and the<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5dN3m7q7iQ" target="_blank"> Program 563 Master Class: Super Improver</a> webcast. The delightful Deanna Schuler did a great video as this tool was developed in 2012 that explains how to set up your wall and award stars.<br />
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If possible you will want to plan out your Super Improvers Team now, as you are setting up your room, even though you will not introduce it the first days of school. You will need a spot for your wall and you might want your levels to match your classroom theme. Last year I used photos of sea stars to go with my tropical theme but I am switching themes and haven't decided yet how I will set up my wall. There are MANY themes shared on blogs and on TeachersPayTeachers which should all be free. I try to pin them all on the Super Improvers pinterest board so check it out and hopefully it will help you find the perfect Super Improvers printable for your classroom.<br />
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The second Advance WBT Must Have for me are the PowerPix. I LOVE the PowerPix and usually start introducing them the first week of school because they are a super way to introduce core content to students and are SOOOOOO easy to use. Really they are ready made lessons. The original PowerPix can be found in the ebooks section of <a href="http://wholebrainteaching.com/">http://wholebrainteaching.com/</a>. To access the free ebooks you will need to<a href="http://wholebrainteaching.com/registers.html"> register here</a>, which is free :) The PowerPix ebooks have the California State Standards and are avalible for K-3rd grade, though many can be used for upper grades. Currently the PowerPix are on page 2 and 3 of the ebooks section.<br />
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Over the last few years I have been working on PowerPix with the Common Core standards and have a template for making Electronic PowerPix. You can find the most up to date Common Core PowerPix in <a href="http://transitionalkinder.blogspot.com/2014/07/throwback-thursday-common-core-powerpix.html" target="_blank">this post here</a>. I tried to make them printer friendly with one file of the pix to print in color and a separate file of the teacher notes to print in black. If you need/want to create your own PowerPix you can download my Electronic PowerPix Templates for PowerPoint for free <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Electronic-PowerPix-Templates">HERE</a>.<br />
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So we have been watching the webcasts, reading the book, reading blog posts and now it is time to get files downloaded, the printer going and planning book open. Time to get ready for the best school year ever!<br />
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So what do we NEED to get started with WBT? Here are my must haves to start the year with WBT<br />
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Now more than likely you already have this but just in case you are totally new to Whole Brain Teaching I want to be clear that if you haven't visited WholeBrainTeaching.com and downloaded the <a href="http://www.wholebrainteaching.com/index.php?option=com_docman&Itemid=223" target="_blank">Ebooks</a> like WBT Quickstart Guide or read the book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Brain-Teaching-Challenging-Kids/dp/0984816712/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364845820&sr=1-4&keywords=whole+brain+teaching+for" target="_blank">Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids</a> you need to do that FIRST. You don't need to read EVERY ebook or the WHOLE book to get started but the tools like the Scoreboard will only work if you know the basics of how to use them.<br />
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I shared about the 5 rules and the posters I use <a href="http://transitionalkinder.blogspot.com/2014/07/wbt-wednesday-where-to-start.html" target="_blank">here</a> . You can find posters to match many themes on TeachersPayTeachers and if they are the WBT rules they should be free. Many of these posters and posters from blogs are pinned in the WBT Basics Pinterest board.<br />
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The scoreboard can be just a sad face and a happy face made with marker and the travel scoreboard just a 3 x 5 card.<br />
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If you want to get fancier there are scoreboards with borders and different icons for Teacher vs Students, Boys vs Girls and such. You can even make a digital scoreboard that you can open on your phone! <br />
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The <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Whole-Brain-Teaching-Introduction-Lessons-Early-Education-Edition-724716">Early Education Edition</a> is a zipped file with PowerPoint and PDF versions of an 84 page presentation based on work from WholeBrainTeaching.com. The presentation will introduce your students to the Five classroom rules and five of Whole Brain Teaching's basic learning techniques:<br />
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As long as you have 1-3 you will be in great shape to start the year using Whole Brain Teaching but I hope you will find 4 and 5 as helpful as I do. Coach B will be starting up the webcasts soon and will be talking about starting the first day with WBT but until then you can checkout the WBT First Steps playlist on the webcast youtube channel for past webcasts.<br />
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Next time will be all about prepping the classroom for what I am calling advance WBT must haves. I do not introduce them the first day but they become the foundation of most lessons and my student discipline so I like to plan where they will be. What are these jewels of Whole Brain Teaching? Make your guess in the comments and check back soon to see :)<br />
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Before we dive into Chapter 1 of our book study I have to share this SUPER awesome cape that was shared on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WhatsUnderYourCape">What's Under Your Cape? Facebook page</a>. Every superhero needs a cape and I have sooooo many ideas brewing about how to tie in this theme of superheroes into my classroom this year! You can PM Barbara on the Facebook page for information about grabbing one of these hand sewn capes. We are going to have so much fun sharing about Barbara's book, <a href="http://corneroncharacter.blogspot.com/p/my-book.html">What's Under Your Cape? SUPERHEROES of the Character Kind!</a> Let's get started!<br />
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Our first character cape is Service. I am beyond excited to be co-hosting Chapter 1 of our book study with Lynda of <a href="http://curlsandasmile.blogspot.com/">Curls and a Smile</a> !<br />
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As Barbara says in the first line of Chapter 1, superheroes are all about service. They are here to save the day, to defeat the villain, to serve. Children have no problem understanding the job of a superhero and it is such a smart way to introduce the concept of service to our students, even our youngest ones. But how can they serve? Well I love how Barbara shows that it can be as simple as serving as line leader or as complex as running your own service learning project.<br />
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We can start our superheroes with serving by having them do classroom jobs. I love the way Mrs. Lirette of <a href="http://www.mrsliretteslearningdetectives.com/">Mrs. Lirette's Learning Detectives</a> has set up classroom jobs and she has a freebie to make it so easy to set up serving in the classroom :)<br />
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Students can also serve in a bigger capacity doing something that helps not just the class but the school. At my current school we have a few older students that help with traffic before school, students that help serve breakfast and a 3rd grade class that is the Green Team and collects paper to recycle from the classes each week.When I was the technology specialist I had a team of 4th and 5th graders that were the Tech Squad and helped install programs and updates on the classroom computers. I love Barbara's ideas of a Bathroom Brigade to check bathroom cleanliness and report problems and Paparazzi in charge of student cameras to take pictures for the website and yearbook.<br />
I'm thinking we could make badges for these special jobs at school, maybe using editable labels like the free ones I have on my Facebook page <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TransitionalKinder/app_208195102528120">here</a>.<br />
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Serve in the community</h4>
I was an active 4-H'er from the age of 8 through high school and even in college and my mother has continued to be active in 4-H still to this day. Though we did have rabbits a few years, as a city girl I mainly was involved in clothing, computers, leadership and citizenship. My favorite memories of 4-H are around the service learning projects we did. New to service learning? Barbara points us this this wonderful resource, the National Service Learning Clearinghouse. Check them out <a href="http://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/teaching-through-community-engagement/">here</a>. The second half of the 4-H pledge defines to me the goal of service learning, "My Hands to larger service and my Health to better living for my club, my community and my world." At our core I firmly believe we as humans were made to serve, we all want to make things better, to help one another. When we serve another we often get more than we give and it is truly a win win. Beyond the personal, which is the biggest win, service learning projects are an awesome way to get a truck load of learning into the minds of our students. A can food drive can have literary connections to books like Eric Carle's <u>The Very Hungry Caterpillar</u>, math connections to counting and measurements, science connections to plant life cycles and chemistry, and social studies connections about hunger in America and world wide. Every service learning idea has countless possible connections to grade level standards and students become deeply engaged in this learning, another win-win :) Barbara shares many successful service learning projects in the book and Lynda has great ideas and links in her post on <a href="http://curlsandasmile.blogspot.com/2014/07/whats-under-your-cape-book-study.html">Chapter 1</a>.<br />
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This year I plan to use plarn to weave service learning into my classroom and hopefully school and beyond. I want to keep things open ended and student guided but can see place mates, coasters or even rugs for retirement homes or hospital patients, lunch bags for students in need, mats for animal shelters, maybe even flip flops for those in need of shoes.<br />
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I think the video below is a great starting place and I am trying this out with my own kids, my daughter who is 10 and my twin boys that just turned 6.<br />
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I can see so many connections to math and thinking that making plarn might even be cool family homework project. Here is my favorite video so far on how to make plarn.<br />
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Barbara explains that the Head is where character development starts, the cognitive domain. The Heart leads to the affective domain, more than knowing but embracing and loving a virtue. Once we have the head and the heart we need to use our Hands, it's time for action. Finally we move to the ethical domain with Health and put it all together to make daily choices that make things better, not just for ourselves but others too. It is a HUGE task to build character but the awesome thing is that Barbara shows it is also very easy to infuse character development into your classroom daily! </div>
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One of the best parts of summer vacation for me is the time I have to read books that help me be a better teacher. Even better is if there is a summer book study on a great teacher book so I can see how others are using the ideas from the book. My blogging friends always know the must reads and I get so energized each summer. If I missed a book study I still love to read all the posts then of course pin and print all the goodies, but I do feel bummed that I missed the chance to participate. I am so excited that my <b>must have</b> professional book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Brain-Teaching-Challenging-Kids/dp/0984816712/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364845820&sr=1-4&keywords=whole+brain+teaching+for">Whole Brain teaching for Challenging Kids</a>, has not just a book study but an ongoing book club. Everyone can not only read all the posts but participate no matter what month it is! Everyone can join the book club and respond to the questions and prompts at their own pace, at any time of year. When you participate you have the opportunity to earn certification points toward becoming a certified WBT educator! You of course do not have to type up your responses to enjoy the book club though. Just reflecting on the prompts and reading through the replies of others will help in so many ways! </div>
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So where do we start? Order your paper copy of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Brain-Teaching-Challenging-Kids/dp/0984816712/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1364845820&sr=1-4&keywords=whole+brain+teaching+for">the book</a> or borrow the <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Whole-Brain-Teaching-Challenging-class-ebook/dp/B00CRR64TU/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=1-4&qid=1364845820">Kindle version</a> for free with Prime membership. The main page for the book club is http://wbtbookclub.blogspot.com/ and you will find prompts for the entire book. Below you will find the prompts for the beginning chapters and the chapters on the Rules and the Core 4. DO NOT try to read everything at once, no matter how tempting! I am just grouping the chapters for easier bookmarking and pinning :) In the coming weeks I will group and post the prompts for the rest of the book :) Are you going to participate in the book club? I know love to know who is going to give it a try :) Happy reading!</div>
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So let's talk classroom themes. Do you have a theme in your classroom? Is it an all out theme or more of a color scheme? I am more of a color scheme person but have had an ocean/tropical vibe to my TK room in the past. This year I am going to explore many themes that go with "Grow" because transitional kindergarten is all about giving young 5 year olds time to grow and be ready for the rigor of regular kindergarten. I found the PERFECT base theme for my room with this theme.<br />
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Now many of you probably have the first edition of this book but I also have teachers in my school and district that have never heard of The Daily 5 or The 2 Sisters so maybe this is a new one to you. New or old favorite the second edition is a must read as is the blog book study. Click on the links below for the main linky for each chapter and then get ready to be blown away with freebies and wonderful insight. They are currently on Chapter 7 but I will edit to add Chapter 8 and 9 :)</div>
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So I haven't had this blog long but realized I have been blogging since 2006, 8 years! Thing is I have never been good about staying with blogging throughout the year. School starts up and blogging is always one of the first things to come off my plate. This year I hope to be MUCH better about blogging consistently and today's post is the beginning of that :) What better way to begin than with introductions? Here is a little about me </div>
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I am so excited to be able to give you all a special treat after being away from blogging for so long.This school year has been going well but I have had zero extra time. I am hoping to get things lined up and blog more soon but I have an awesome goodie for you all this weekend! Everyone can use the special code below for a FREE copy of My Memories Suite today until October 20th! You can download this amazing digital scrapbook program totally free or get a CD copy for the cost of shipping. </div>
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You will need to take a minute to create an account with My Memories Suite and them you will be able to checkout and click Access My Downloads to download and install My Memories Suite for FREE, saving $40 :) If you haven't heard about My Memories Suite take a minute to view the videos below. It is ny favorite software not only for personal scrapbooking but for creating fun classroom projects and design elements too. Please let me know what you think and leave a comment if you would like more freebies like this. Have a great weekend!<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1941637086735375234.post-80856889454667595952013-08-03T16:49:00.000-07:002020-06-17T15:17:05.753-07:00WBT PowerPix without Common Core<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Maybe your state or school is not using the Common Core Standards or maybe you want to use a pix from another grade level or maybe you want to create a new document like an PowerPoint to introduce a PowerPix. These are just a few reasons you may want these ELA and Math Power Pix without the grade levels or standards.<br />
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For ELA we have a folder with JPEG files of all 106 ELA PowerPix, a blank ELA PowerPix and a sheet of the yellow sunburst labels. The PowerPix are basically in ABC order with the PowerPix for the 5 parts of a letter and 8 colors at the front.<br />
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For Math we have a folder with JPEG files of all 124 Math PowerPix, a blank Math PowerPix and a sheet of the yellow sunburst labels. The PowerPix are basically in ABC order but grouped by Math substrand. </div>
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View and download individual Math PowerPix JPEGs by clicking <a href="https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B--i-JeVFp-9OVV5WGV3LVJ5blk&usp=sharing" target="_blank">HERE</a>.</div>
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Remember you can grab the Common Core PowerPix for Kindergarten ELA and Math, First Grade ELA and Math, 2nd Grade ELA, 3rd Grade ELA and a beginning of 4th/5th Grade ELA from my WBT blog.<br />
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I have been able to finish the ELA PowerPix for Kindergarten - Fifth Grade and Math for Kindergarten and First Grade and wanted one post to hold them all. This post will hold pins to all the PowerPix posts. As I finish the Math PowerPix with Common Core I will add the links here.<br />
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Hop over to my WBT blog for Kindergarten and First Grade ELA PowerPix that are matches up to the Common Core Standards. These have really been my main WBT project over the last 2 yrs and I am so excited to have these ready to share with Teacher Notes based on the original PowerPix from wholebrainteaching.com.<br />
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I am so excited that just over 50 people have entered this week's giveaway! That means 20 winners of the Tropical Dot Editable labels to go with the winner of the copy of My Memories Suites. The winner of My Memories Suites is...... Rachel Evans Evers! Listed below Rachel's name are the winners of the Tropical Dots Editable labels. Winners look for emails today with download instructions :)<br />
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