Mrs.Wyatt's Teaching Tales: Calendar Craziness!

Thursday, August 1, 2013

Calendar Craziness!

So, since I am at a new grade, I have re-done my Clalendar/Morning Meeting stuff.....Again! I feel like that is the one thing that changes every year (for the better)

I think this is a temporary set up....If you notice the PomPom magnets holding up some of it. I have 2" numbers that will go on the pink poster (Who's not here?) and when the students come in they will move their number to the Daily Graph (lunch count). I will use VisAVis Markers to write next to the orange tray and blue tray what we are having for lunch choices. (We offer two choices, obviously.) I did this last year and it worked great for me to see who was not in yet/absent or who hadn't made their lunch choice. And it was a quick, easy way to count up the choices. I will probaby allow my student helper to change the rings on the black poster. And I plan on having them make the date with tally marks and money then the class will check it.

I will include some more pictures soon!!!

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This is my wordwall.....My first attempt almost made me cry! I wandered around San Angelo looking for that perfect letter to go on my black circles and one day accedentally found these awesomely cute die-cuts at Wal-Mart! Last colored pack at the store. So I spend a while aranging just the right colors and gluing in the propper place, then the laminator really jacked them up!!! I was too impatient and didn't let the laminator warm up long enough (even though the ready light was on! TEMPTRESS) So I tried ironing them to get it to seal, then I ran it through the laminator again.....Needless to say, I threw the first set out! This is my second attempt....and if you look close a few of the letters didn't seal very good again....I think our school lamiator just doesn't want to work over the summer!!! Now, my FAVORITE thing about a word wall is making it interactive and personal!!! After we put a word up (I use Ticky-Tac), the students can go up to the wall and take the word off and go sit down with it! They love being able to take the words on and off!!!! I feel like they use the word wall more because they feel like it belongs to them!