Picking back up- Growth mindset coding

Well safe to say it has been a while. Shortly after I started this blog, I found out I was expecting my 2nd child. Life quickly became too crazy to try and blog as well. Now, my kids are older and I have a new job teaching technology. So since life isn't as crazy I thought I would try to start up again. At the beginning of last school year, I created some growth mindset coding images. I have shared them on facebook and twitter but I thought they could reach more people this way.  So without further ado here they are.

As always, feel free to use and share.  Link to google folder

Owl Job Cards

So I have moved schools this year. I will be teaching 5th grade at a public school so this will be quite a change for me. I am continuing my owl theme. This year for my jobs I have decided to have 1 job for every student and the jobs will change every 9 weeks. No more weekly rotation. Each child will apply for the job they want and they will specialize in that 1 job for the WHOLE 9 weeks. I am going to glue the cards on library pockets. There are some jobs that require more than one person. I haven't decided if I will have a separate pocket or just put more than 1 student stick in the 1 pocket. But here they are for your enjoyment. It is 12 pages for some reason but only the first 4 are the actual jobs. When you print just print pages 1-4. There are 24 cards in 4 colors with some doubles. Each card has the job title and the description of each job. I think the 9 week system will work well. The kids can become really good at the one job and they will be less likely to forget to do it. Then when the new 9 weeks comes they will be responsible for training their replacement. It was an idea I got from pinterest of course. So here are the credits.....I am not sure where the border came from, it was a file on my computer....the owls are JW illustrations and the font is lettering delights and Kevin and Amanda. Hope you enjoy.

Reading comprehension question sticks.

So I officially start back work tomorrow although it seems like I have been working all summer making things for my classroom. Here are two of the latest things I have made. 1. Days of the week labels for my magazine boxes that match my room. And 2. These comprehension questions. I am going to cut them out and glue them onto popsicle sticks for my guided reading table. I am so thrilled with how they came out. Best part about them is that you get them for free!! Yay for back to school!. I am working on trying to figure out how to post pictures of my awesome classroom but I am having trouble making it look nice....still new to this blogging thing! Hope you enjoy the freebie, let me know if you use them!

where am I labels

Gosh, I find that I am not good at this blogging thing. Instead of once a week, I changed my goal to twice a month. If I am this bad in the summer I will be terrible come real work time. So here are some where am I labels that I plan to use on the side of my file cabinet with magnets for the kids. I got the idea from pinterest. Mrs. Gueho and abilities are our intervention people but so others could use it I made an intervention label as well.

Common Core posters

Wow...so I started out my summer thinking I could blog twice a week but that was before I was introduced to A Song of Ice and Fire series. I have spent all my free time reading. I finished the 3rd book today and instead of starting on the 4th I figured I would get some work done. So here are my 3rd grade common core, owl theme, posters. I plan on doing some for 1st and 2nd as well and I will post them as soon as I make them. I hope you enjoy them.Graphics by Jw illustrations

Requested rule

As requested here is a rule # 6 to go with my 5 other rules...hope you like it.  Still working on getting my common core posters complete...there are so many standards...is any one else totally overwhelmed? Also working on my classroom. I am doing blue, green, polka dots, and owls. I will be posting before and after pics when it is done.

Student retell rope

I have already been very busy this summer. It seems like the summer is almost gone:( I am getting over my summer cold...seems like it always happens to teachers....when you have a break...you will get sick.  It seems like I haven't really gotten to rest. Here is the latest thing I have created. I was inspired by pinterest..of course. It is a kid size retell rope for them to make and color. I have flipped the images so it can be two sided and easier to assemble. For younger kids it might be easier to draw a square around the "characters" to make them easier to cut.  Then you glue them together with a piece of ribbon or yarn in the middle. I think by letting kids build the rope themselves it will be more likely to "stick" in their heads. I did not include the words beginning, middle, and end for the back pieces but they are colored the same color. Once it is finished children can hang in on their desk or take it with them as they are reading to each other. Hope you enjoy.

my example one