It's been a busy day! I went into school today to help unpack all the new literacy curriculum our district purchased for the upcoming school year. It's all Common Core aligned and for our school, not too different. My curriculum advisor described it best when she said, "It's not really the what that changed but the how." That means a lot of the books are the same but how we teach it is going to be different. I'm super excited about that! I love supplementing my lessons with other stuff but it can be exhausting. I'm hoping this curriculum will be more interesting for the kiddos (and me!)
We're almost three weeks away from starting school back up and I'm so stoked! I love meeting my new kiddos! I've been working on some fun stuff for the classroom and thought I'd share!
I just finished my literacy rotations chart and it is. So. Flippin'. Cute!
I have time for four rotations a day in my class so I can't call it a true Daily Five. I use some of the methods from Daily Five but switch it up to work for my kiddos and myself. It's super easy to know where kids should be because I just follow a stair step method. In the picture I put "Read with Teacher" in the first row, first slot and then in the second row, second slot, and so on. When you get to the end, you start it in the first slot on the next row down. Does that make sense? If I confused you, you can always just copy the picture...that would have been the smart thing to say off the bat. The nice thing to is if you don't want to move all the cards, just move the groups. :)
In this next picture you see that I have "Listen to Reading" behind the "Word Work" card. I can't fit both in everyday so I alternate these two.
I've made this available to you all FOR FREE! Yipee! It may not stay free though so grab it while you can! I made some adjustments as well. I know a lot of you probably do a true daily five or have larger classes so I added another rotation card and two other color groups. I hope this helps! Because this is free I do ask that you rate it on Teachers Pay Teachers. I love to fix up my products, make better things, and also selfishly accept your praises. ;)
Click HERE to download it!
Well that's it for today! It's way too late here so I'm off to bed. Hope you all enjoy the rest of your week!
Teaching Kati lesson: Don't volunteer to move boxes and then lift weights at the gym the night before. Ouch!
Kati
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