Sunday, January 6, 2013

New Way to Spin

I have avoided using things in lessons before simply because of its need for a spinner.  The paper clip flying off all the time drove me crazy! But, I found a better way!! I used a safety pin. It worked wonderfully well.

Pull out groups

I am absolutely in LOVE with the way we collect data at our school in Kindergarten. We use ESGI.  It is sooooo worth the money.  If I had not talked my county into getting it for all the k teachers in our district, I would have paid the money for it myself.  (shhhh, don't tell them that. ;)  So, I assessed all my kinder kiddos before Christmas break and worked on grade cards over the break.  I made a spread sheet of which kids needed to be pulled out and for what. It was super easy to make because ESGI breaks down all of the data so easily.  My Super Hero Para-Pro has a schedule of when to pull out kids and what to work on with them.

I have created a few freebies that I will be using with my pull out groups.
Syllable Practice

CVC Spelling/ word family sort

ABC mat/ letter or sound recognition


Hope these are successful for you!