Updates
February 2024
Well, long time no see. Let's see if Long Service Leave gives me time to do some updating.
It's all happening on the blog.
July, 2022
Room Tour Pages updated 2021, 2022
Jan, 2021
Room Tour Pages updated 1990s to 2020
May, 2019
Begun the big re-do. Working on 'Classroom Community'
January 31st, 2019
Just a quick photo tour of the beginning of the year.
August 7th, 2018
New page Explore the World
July 16th, 2018
Photos of this term's classroom up
July 5th, 2018
New page added 'Modelling Writing'
August 31st, 2017
I've got a heap in my files to upload but it's hard to find the time to do it. I've stolen a bit of time tonight to update a little bit.
Added sub category page to Operations: Multiplication Tables and transferred stuff over
Added 2 new docs to Multiplication Tables page: Multiplication Grids and Tables Posters
Brag Tags and Brag Tags Checklist added to this page too. I'll get some photos of the brag tags up when I can. (promises, promises!)
Put up our measurement unit on the 'Measurement' page. Great fun unit.
Also put up our time unit on the 'Time' page
New page in the reading section 'Rich Text' with a unit planner featuring 'The Wishing Spell' and some supporting resources.
March 9th, 2017
Long weekend might give me some first-time-in-ages update time - we'll see!
New page 'Place Value' with a unit outline and some learning activities
Altered some of the maths pages, tried to organise them a bit more and added 'Operations' and 'Measurement' page
Renamed Maths Kits to 'Early Number' Renamed More Maths Kits to 'Number and Counting' and added some 'stuff' (technical term!)
Took Spelling out of the Writing section to the main menu. Shifted around some things, renamed Word Patterns to 'Word Types' and added the following new docs to these sections:
Added a new page to Spelling, 'Differentiated Spelling' with a run down of our current 3/4 spelling program and including the documents we use:
Tidied up the ‘Personal Learning’ page and added:
New Writer’s Notebook cover added to ‘More Writer’s Notebook’ page
New page ‘More Writing’ with some of this year’s writing proformas
Added a Step Up Day profile to ‘Events’
Put some planning documents up on the ‘Teacher Planning’ page
2017 Calendar added to 'Room Utilities'
Sample report comments and Benchmark Assessment Summary doc added to ‘Assessment’
New page under Teacher Planning ‘Computers’ with a screenshot.
Added a whole lot of diary resources to the ‘Homework’ page
Prayer added to the ‘Prayers’ page.
Hey, look at what I did!
January 31st, 2017
No time, no time, no time! I did put up some photos of the classroom before the cherubs come in tomorrow, though. On the home page.
October 28th, 2016
Additions made to Reading page, Teacher Planning page, Room Utilities page, Teacher Desk page, Civics page, Personal Philosophy page and Prayer Centres page
April 5th, 2016
New blog post - Teaching Balance
New page 'More Handwriting' and included:
Handwriting Assessment for Gr 3/4
Jokes and rhymes for handwriting practise
New page 'Writer's Notebook 2016' and included
Photos and explanation of the new version
Samples
Writers Notebook 3 n 4 intro pages
Writing Steps 3n4 2016
Writing Drafts 3n4 2016
Editing 3n4 2016
Writing Assessment 3n4 2016
New page 'More Reading and Comprehesion' added and included
Updated comprehension strategies now called 'Reading Strategies'
'Real Reading' poster
Character summary response
Story summary response
Story sequence response
Comprehension prompts - predicting, retelling, connecting and visualizing
Playground issues and When to Tell the Teacher docs added to 'Behaviour' page
Cleaning Fines and Cleaning docs added to 'Room Utilities' page
Look Say Name Cover Write Check poster and Weekly Spelling test 8-grid added to 'LSNCWC' page
Here's the classroom pictures (too many of them!!) for 2016. It's a doozy of a classroom (actually our school library) - hence the too many pictures!
http://margdteachingphotos.weebly.com/2016.html
December 24th, 2015
New page added to the reading section – ‘Read-a-Rama’ with a whole lotta docs and pics.
Created a Money Unit page and included:
Money Unit Planning Gr 2 Term III 2015
Photos from the unit
Money Centre Labels
Money Learning Wall
Make a Toy Activity
Money Vocab Wordfind
Money Quiz powerpoints
Another new page – ‘More Classroom Libraries’ ‘cause one just wasn’t cutting it!
‘Nother new page – ‘More Maths Kits’ ‘cause there were… well, more…
‘Next 4 Numbers’ activity
Some photos of kits easy to make
‘Counting Strips Bundles’, ‘Counting Strips MAB’ and ‘Counting Strips Tallies’ activities
Counting Guides n Task Cards
How Much is 1000?
Next Four Numbers
Number Cards to 400
Number of the Moment
Number Ts
Write Numbers in Words n Digits Strips
Quick Sums - Addition Facts to 20, Subtraction Facts to 10, Subtraction Facts to 20, Addition Facts to 20 missing addend, Addition Facts 3 addends
Place Value Mat
Measuring Task Cards
‘Parts of a Mathematician’ and math wall photos added to Maths
Aaaannd another new page – ‘Storage’ with photos
“Classroom Quotes’ added to Civics page
Added ‘Alphabet Flowers’ to the Word Walls page.
Some new photos added to Prayer Centre page
2016 calendar added to Room Utilities
2016 conferencing calendar added to Assessment
‘God Word Art’ added to Prayers page
Added ‘Mates’ Traits’ to the Behaviour page
Lots of 2015 photos added over at the other site www.margdteachingphotos.weebly.com
Couple of photos added to the Reading page
‘Watching our Words’ poster added to Civics page
June 26th, 2015
New page added to the Maths section: Shape Unit containing the Shapes and Solids unit we just did with Grade 2.
May 6th, 2015
New blog post on Kym Lardner. Only crazy people do not get this man to their school!!
March 8th, 2015
Added some new behaviour items, and all the stuff for this year turned out to be big enough for its own page here
Some new photos from this year's library on the Reading page
Newest kids' gallery added to Display as well as a couple of other photos
Added a new page in the Classroom Set Up section: 'To Theme or Not to Theme..."
Added a new book response - All about the Character 2 - to the Junior Reading Responses
Made some new additions to the Word Lists page - new poster made for this year
Lots of new pictures of centres added to Gallery: Lit Centres Kits with descriptions
Gallery: Prayers updated
January 14th, 2015
And so to a new year. I'll be mostly in the Grade Two room, supporting the classroom teacher this year. We've planned together a couple of times so far and started to formulate the shape of the classroom this year.
New docs loaded onto the Behaviour page:
Classroom Rights and Responsibilities powerpoint
Our Classroom Rules 2015 version
Whole Class Lesson Rules
Small Group Work Rules
Moving Around the Classroom Rules
Five S Lining Up
Giving Your Teacher a Good Day
Updated the Conferencing Calendar for 2015 on the Assessment page
Added a Year Two Reading Log on the Reading page
Made a new page Reference Placemats and added some examples
November 14th, 2014
New page - 'Family Maths Night' with lots of pics!
Thanks to fellow teacher Tjitske, there's an Explanation genre poster up on the writing genre page.
Li'l maths activity added
New blog post
July 10th, 2014
New page created: Letter Patterns and lots of docs and a couple of powerpoints added to it. New poster added to Oral Language. A couple of things added to Junior Reading Responses. A (very rare!) blog passage added. 2 new poetry books in the Poetry section. Some positive turnaround cards added to Personal Learning. ANZAC day cut and paste put in Events section. A little handwriting thing in Habits of Mind. Some money resources added to Maths. Letter pattern sheets too.
May 4th, 2014
New page created to contain the Smile Breaks contributed by the wonderful Anthony and Marianne!
March 16th, 2014
New pages created: 'Junior Writers' Notebooks', 'Word Walls' and 'Prayer Centres' with samples, photos and docs added.
New docs added: Four Step Learning, Footy Teams word list, Friday Afternoon Electives, Punctuation Discovery, Lots of Label docs.
New photos added in I Have an office!, Display
December 14th, 2013
Special Christmas Smile Break!!! Anthony from Texas sent me a lovely email with a Christmas Smile Break he made and kindly offered to share it on the site. It's on the Smile Break page
December 9th, 2013
New page: CHRISTMAS!!!
http://margdteachingposters.weebly.com/christmas.html
September 6th, 2013
Added: New pages: Important to Know and Parent Info.
Signs for Art n Craft Centre, Construction Centre, i pads, Imaginative Play Centre, Story Corner, and Welcome Sign. New page - Words to Treasure Spring 2013
Word Wall 2013, Sentence Starters for Writing, Reading Strategies, Prep Home Reading Note, Personalized Reading Strategy poster, Comprehension Strategy Checklist
Parent Helper Training Letter, Parent Helper Training Script to go with pp, Parent Helper Training, Parent Info Meeting Handout 21st Century Learning Skills, Parent Info Meeting Invite, Parent Info Meeting Reading, Parent Info Meeting Reflection, Parent Information poster, Parent Information sign, Sight words Sign for Parents
July 7th, 2013
Added some Maths games a while ago and forgot to record.
A little bit of maintenance to some pages
April 3, 2013
Added: New page – ‘Events’ in Civics section; Advent Heading; Anzac Day powerpoint; Book Fair Heading; Book Week Heading; Christmas Headings; Family BBQ Celebration Heading; Farewell Grade 6 Heading; Geelong Show Heading; Graduation Heading; Holidays Heading; Melbourne Cup Heading; Orientation Day Heading; Remembrance Day Heading; Priceless Gifts at Christmas; Priceless powerpoint; Summer Heading; Voting for New School Leaders Heading; World Teachers Day Heading; Staff Meetings; Professional Learning Team; New page – ‘Word Lists’ under Spelling section; Bodyparts Vocab; Clothes Vocab; Colour Vocab; Days Vocab; Family Vocab; Months Vocab; Number Vocab 1to10; Number Vocab 11to20; Position Vocab; Transport Vocab; Weather Vocab; New page – ‘Maths Kits’ in Maths section; Climb the Mountain; Cover It; Flashies Numbers 0 to 10; Flashies Numbers 11 to 20; Make Your Own Game; Who's in the House?; Tens Grid; Early Counting Analysis; Flip book endings ed; Flip book endings er 1; Flip book endings er 2; Flip book endings ing; Handwriting Four Line Poetry; Handwriting Riddles; Certificate of Handwriting; Big Book Display Poster; Book Display Poster P 1 2; Information Books Poster; Novels Display Poster; Picture Books Poster; Read To Book Display Poster; New page – ‘Sequencing’in Maths section; 24Sequencing pictures; New page – ‘Instant Books in Writing Skills section; 15 Instant books; Writers Notebook Gathering Seeds; Writers Notebook Planting Seeds; Writers Notebook Sprouting Seeds; Writers Notebook Next Step; Writers Notebook Feedback; Writing Pathway; Junior Writing Contract; Writing Analysis Prep; Grammar Assess; Class Collections of; Sight Word Hunt; Make a Story Blue Red Green Purple; Photos in Teacher Planning and Supplies
April 2, 2013
Added: Adding Suffixes; Past Tense; Word Discovery; Spelling Goals; Spelling Investigations Poster; Spelling Investigations Poster Assessment; Letter Name Investigation; Spelling Pathways; Mnemonics; Prefixes n Suffixes; Spelling Patterns; Splitting Syllables; Talk to Yourself Spelling; Spelling Assessment with Sentences 1 to 200; Word Family Sample lists; Word Mountain; Synonyms; Opposites; Word Wall Heading; Word Building With Cards; Opposites; Our Class; Permission Notes; Planning Cover; Reading Recovery
April 1, 2013
Added: Reading Recovery Box Labels; RR FnP Equivalents; Take Home Book Box Labels; Comprehension Strategy Connecting; Comprehension Strategy Inner Conversation; Comprehension Strategy Predicting; Concepts About Print Analysis; Learning the Alphabet; Learning Numbers; Classroom Teaching Cover;
January 23, 2013
Okay, I swore I'd never do a blog and I haven't (!) - I've just put a blog section up to make random comments and address feedback questions and comments.
January 11, 2013
Added some more words to treasure and some common word flashcards.
November 16, 2012
Added some new writing assessments and updated the old ones. Added some letter flashcards.
October 21, 2012
Added Words to Treasure pages. Added Writers' Notebook scans
July 22, 2012
Just having a little bit of a reorganize. Reloading some docs and making previews bigger if I can. I'm home sick and bored out of my brain so I've resorted to playing with the website and moving things around.
June 30, 2012
Fixed some broken links in Literacy centres. If anyone finds more, please let me know by email [email protected] or by feedback form on the home page. Ta.
Added:
New pages: A Little about Me and Smile Breaks. Added new powerpoints to Smile Break and moved the other ones over
June 3, 2012
Added:
New page - Co-operative groups, lots of new pics and docs all over the place, and it's too late at night to write them in now!
April 14, 2012
Added:
An assessment activity for Fit for Life, material for our next unit, 'Disaster!', a couple of things on the general Inquiry page, some new classroom library box labels, some Habits of Mind photos, a photo under writing, some teacher organizational, room, ICT, storage and clipboard stuff
New page under Handwriting - 'Calligraphy' with lots of samples
April 2, 2012
Added a 'Teacher Inspiration' page with some quote pics.
March 9, 2012
Just a quick update. Added 'Sight Words' page with 4 docs
March 3, 2012
Added:
Brain Strain Time to Eat, Brain Strain Useful Things, Curriculum Newsletter 5n6 I 2012, Graphic Organizer Labels, Learning Choices Poster, On Task Workers Poster, Oral Language Activity Out of Place, RED revised Rules 2012, Spelling Activities, Spelling Strategies Poster, Story of Our Writing The, True and Tall Tales, What’s Important to Us?, Writing Assessment 2012 Narrative, Writing Assessment 2012 Persuasive, Writing Assessment 2012 Procedure, Writing Assessment 2012 Recount, Writing Assessment Me Editor Teacher
Changed a few of the pages around. Added ‘Communication’ page
February 18, 2012
Thanks to Rachel from Texas, I've found out the galleries section isn't working quite as I want it to, so I've added some links to make it easier for documents to be downloaded
February 13, 2012
Added:
New photos in 2012 set up, new page 'Buddies' under Civics, Good Buddies posters, Homework Expectations 2012, Homework 2012 I 02, new page 'Room' under 2012 Set Up and a couple of photos of odds and ends like the stamps, pre-cut lettering and maths strategy wall.
February 7, 2012
Added:
New page in Inquiry - Fit for Life
January 27, 2012
Added:
Computer tips, Keyboard shortcuts, Home keys posters
January, 2012
Added new pages: 2012 Set Up and sub pages. Added new pages 'Galleries' with lots of pics from powerpoints
December 10, 2011
Added :
Disaster Investigation Rubric, Disaster Learning Opportunities, Disaster Facts, Human Response to Natural Disasters, Inquiry Pathways for Disaster, Topic Glossary for Natural Disasters, New Inquiry Page - Personal Passion Projects, Personal Passion Project Tuning In, Personal Passion Project Inquiry Path, Personal Passion Project Rubric
October 19, 2011
Added:
Comprehension Strategies posters, Values We Value mini posters.
A new section and more photos added to www.margdteachingphotos.weebly.com - October 2011
September 15, 2011
Survey added to satisfy my curiosity! Hope people will use it.
August 20, 2011
I'm setting up another site of classroom photos. This will slowly grow in size as I found I've got heaps of photos from over the years and I want to spend a bit of time talking about what's happening in the rooms. The site is:
www.margdteachingphotos.weebly.com
July 24, 2011
We’re back into the swing of Term III. The kids have been so enthused about starting our ‘Windows on Australia’ inquiry, they’re jumping the gun and handing us ‘Fat Question’ sheets in the first week!! We’ve been conferencing with each individual to set Term III goals and we’ve rearranged the whole space again.
Added:
Spelling Words in Patterns for LSNCWC Goals, Forty Space Spelling Test Grid, Diagnostic Test for Spelling, Photos in Reading, Five Star Listeners, Getting Ready for this Year, Photos in Graphic Organizers, Habits of Mind and More Reflection Tools, Junior Word Book, Types of Thinking (parts 1 & 2), Windows on Australia Inquiry Process, History Quotes for Windows, History Topics for Choosing, Photo in Windows on Australia, Resource pictures for Windows on Australia
Created a separate Look Say Name Cover Write Check page within Spelling
July 1, 2011
Added:
My Classroom Goals cards, Antonym Pairs, Silent Letters Investigation, Plurals Investigation, SLLURP Your Spelling Words, Sort Your Spelling Words, Spelling Personalised, Spelling Reflection, Spelling Task Cards, Conferencing folder cover, Blank Timetable, Blank Work Program, Reading Conferences recording sheet, Writing Conferences recording sheet, Text Level Progress Graph, Rhyme Book Cover for Preps, Inquiry Project Contract, I Wonder Book Response, Snippets Book Response, Open Minded Portraits Book Response, Making Connections poster, Book Response Cues, Bookshelf Labels, Questions for Reading Responses Fiction, Counting Certificates, Questions for Reading Responses Non Fiction, Sentence Starters for Reading Responses, Gathering Procedures, Genre Posters, Handwriting Gallery, Junior Assessment folder cover, Said Alternatives poster, Sentence Types posters
Subdivided the spelling section
June 28, 2011
Added:
Inquiry Process, Fat Question for Inquiry, Peer Assessments for Inquiry (2), Self Assessment for Inquiry, Sustaining Our Seas Inquiry Process, Penguin Protection Sample Inquiry, Sustaining Our Seas Inquiry Process, Tuning into Windows on Australia, Inquiry Ideas Windows on Australia, Tuning in to Disasters, Group Role Labels, Bookwork Standards
Nearly 1000 hits on the site yesterday – this is getting scary!
June 26, 2011
Added:
Personal Philosophy, Multiple Intelligences activity, Tables Personalised, Times Table Footprints, What Makes a Successful Life?, 50 Tables, 1 to 144 Chart for Tables Practise, 1 to 150 Chart for Tables Practise, Behaviour Plan Grade 1, Counting Trios, Weekly Look Say Name Cover Write Check Recording Sheet.
Included an inquiry section
June 21, 2011
Added:
The Bridge (reflection tool), Adding Suffixes, Circle Time Sentence Starters, Group Roles, Learning Journal Topics, One Minute Talks, Parent Meetings – Junior, Parent Meetings – Senior, Personal Goals, Portmanteau Words, Reflection Cards, Reflection Tool Labels, Speaking Poster, Subject Labels, This is the Classroom for Me, Three Stars and a Wish, Time Connectives, Values Traffic Lights, Maths Dictionary link, Inyahead link
Bit of a re-arrange of pages. Thanks to those who've made such positive comments - they've really helped!
Well, long time no see. Let's see if Long Service Leave gives me time to do some updating.
It's all happening on the blog.
July, 2022
Room Tour Pages updated 2021, 2022
Jan, 2021
Room Tour Pages updated 1990s to 2020
May, 2019
Begun the big re-do. Working on 'Classroom Community'
January 31st, 2019
Just a quick photo tour of the beginning of the year.
August 7th, 2018
New page Explore the World
July 16th, 2018
Photos of this term's classroom up
July 5th, 2018
New page added 'Modelling Writing'
August 31st, 2017
I've got a heap in my files to upload but it's hard to find the time to do it. I've stolen a bit of time tonight to update a little bit.
Added sub category page to Operations: Multiplication Tables and transferred stuff over
Added 2 new docs to Multiplication Tables page: Multiplication Grids and Tables Posters
Brag Tags and Brag Tags Checklist added to this page too. I'll get some photos of the brag tags up when I can. (promises, promises!)
Put up our measurement unit on the 'Measurement' page. Great fun unit.
Also put up our time unit on the 'Time' page
New page in the reading section 'Rich Text' with a unit planner featuring 'The Wishing Spell' and some supporting resources.
March 9th, 2017
Long weekend might give me some first-time-in-ages update time - we'll see!
New page 'Place Value' with a unit outline and some learning activities
Altered some of the maths pages, tried to organise them a bit more and added 'Operations' and 'Measurement' page
Renamed Maths Kits to 'Early Number' Renamed More Maths Kits to 'Number and Counting' and added some 'stuff' (technical term!)
Took Spelling out of the Writing section to the main menu. Shifted around some things, renamed Word Patterns to 'Word Types' and added the following new docs to these sections:
- No Excuses Word Book 2017
- Spelling Goals 2017
Added a new page to Spelling, 'Differentiated Spelling' with a run down of our current 3/4 spelling program and including the documents we use:
- Differentiated Spelling 2017
- Spelling assessment to begin differentiated weekly spelling 2017
- Spelling Test book A5
- Spelling Test Cover 2017
- Word Work Choices 2017
Tidied up the ‘Personal Learning’ page and added:
- Thinking About My Learning Cover
- Weekly Goal Setting
New Writer’s Notebook cover added to ‘More Writer’s Notebook’ page
New page ‘More Writing’ with some of this year’s writing proformas
Added a Step Up Day profile to ‘Events’
Put some planning documents up on the ‘Teacher Planning’ page
2017 Calendar added to 'Room Utilities'
Sample report comments and Benchmark Assessment Summary doc added to ‘Assessment’
New page under Teacher Planning ‘Computers’ with a screenshot.
Added a whole lot of diary resources to the ‘Homework’ page
Prayer added to the ‘Prayers’ page.
Hey, look at what I did!
January 31st, 2017
No time, no time, no time! I did put up some photos of the classroom before the cherubs come in tomorrow, though. On the home page.
October 28th, 2016
Additions made to Reading page, Teacher Planning page, Room Utilities page, Teacher Desk page, Civics page, Personal Philosophy page and Prayer Centres page
April 5th, 2016
New blog post - Teaching Balance
New page 'More Handwriting' and included:
Handwriting Assessment for Gr 3/4
Jokes and rhymes for handwriting practise
New page 'Writer's Notebook 2016' and included
Photos and explanation of the new version
Samples
Writers Notebook 3 n 4 intro pages
Writing Steps 3n4 2016
Writing Drafts 3n4 2016
Editing 3n4 2016
Writing Assessment 3n4 2016
New page 'More Reading and Comprehesion' added and included
Updated comprehension strategies now called 'Reading Strategies'
'Real Reading' poster
Character summary response
Story summary response
Story sequence response
Comprehension prompts - predicting, retelling, connecting and visualizing
Playground issues and When to Tell the Teacher docs added to 'Behaviour' page
Cleaning Fines and Cleaning docs added to 'Room Utilities' page
Look Say Name Cover Write Check poster and Weekly Spelling test 8-grid added to 'LSNCWC' page
Here's the classroom pictures (too many of them!!) for 2016. It's a doozy of a classroom (actually our school library) - hence the too many pictures!
http://margdteachingphotos.weebly.com/2016.html
December 24th, 2015
New page added to the reading section – ‘Read-a-Rama’ with a whole lotta docs and pics.
Created a Money Unit page and included:
Money Unit Planning Gr 2 Term III 2015
Photos from the unit
Money Centre Labels
Money Learning Wall
Make a Toy Activity
Money Vocab Wordfind
Money Quiz powerpoints
Another new page – ‘More Classroom Libraries’ ‘cause one just wasn’t cutting it!
‘Nother new page – ‘More Maths Kits’ ‘cause there were… well, more…
‘Next 4 Numbers’ activity
Some photos of kits easy to make
‘Counting Strips Bundles’, ‘Counting Strips MAB’ and ‘Counting Strips Tallies’ activities
Counting Guides n Task Cards
How Much is 1000?
Next Four Numbers
Number Cards to 400
Number of the Moment
Number Ts
Write Numbers in Words n Digits Strips
Quick Sums - Addition Facts to 20, Subtraction Facts to 10, Subtraction Facts to 20, Addition Facts to 20 missing addend, Addition Facts 3 addends
Place Value Mat
Measuring Task Cards
‘Parts of a Mathematician’ and math wall photos added to Maths
Aaaannd another new page – ‘Storage’ with photos
“Classroom Quotes’ added to Civics page
Added ‘Alphabet Flowers’ to the Word Walls page.
Some new photos added to Prayer Centre page
2016 calendar added to Room Utilities
2016 conferencing calendar added to Assessment
‘God Word Art’ added to Prayers page
Added ‘Mates’ Traits’ to the Behaviour page
Lots of 2015 photos added over at the other site www.margdteachingphotos.weebly.com
Couple of photos added to the Reading page
‘Watching our Words’ poster added to Civics page
June 26th, 2015
New page added to the Maths section: Shape Unit containing the Shapes and Solids unit we just did with Grade 2.
May 6th, 2015
New blog post on Kym Lardner. Only crazy people do not get this man to their school!!
March 8th, 2015
Added some new behaviour items, and all the stuff for this year turned out to be big enough for its own page here
Some new photos from this year's library on the Reading page
Newest kids' gallery added to Display as well as a couple of other photos
Added a new page in the Classroom Set Up section: 'To Theme or Not to Theme..."
Added a new book response - All about the Character 2 - to the Junior Reading Responses
Made some new additions to the Word Lists page - new poster made for this year
Lots of new pictures of centres added to Gallery: Lit Centres Kits with descriptions
Gallery: Prayers updated
January 14th, 2015
And so to a new year. I'll be mostly in the Grade Two room, supporting the classroom teacher this year. We've planned together a couple of times so far and started to formulate the shape of the classroom this year.
New docs loaded onto the Behaviour page:
Classroom Rights and Responsibilities powerpoint
Our Classroom Rules 2015 version
Whole Class Lesson Rules
Small Group Work Rules
Moving Around the Classroom Rules
Five S Lining Up
Giving Your Teacher a Good Day
Updated the Conferencing Calendar for 2015 on the Assessment page
Added a Year Two Reading Log on the Reading page
Made a new page Reference Placemats and added some examples
November 14th, 2014
New page - 'Family Maths Night' with lots of pics!
Thanks to fellow teacher Tjitske, there's an Explanation genre poster up on the writing genre page.
Li'l maths activity added
New blog post
July 10th, 2014
New page created: Letter Patterns and lots of docs and a couple of powerpoints added to it. New poster added to Oral Language. A couple of things added to Junior Reading Responses. A (very rare!) blog passage added. 2 new poetry books in the Poetry section. Some positive turnaround cards added to Personal Learning. ANZAC day cut and paste put in Events section. A little handwriting thing in Habits of Mind. Some money resources added to Maths. Letter pattern sheets too.
May 4th, 2014
New page created to contain the Smile Breaks contributed by the wonderful Anthony and Marianne!
March 16th, 2014
New pages created: 'Junior Writers' Notebooks', 'Word Walls' and 'Prayer Centres' with samples, photos and docs added.
New docs added: Four Step Learning, Footy Teams word list, Friday Afternoon Electives, Punctuation Discovery, Lots of Label docs.
New photos added in I Have an office!, Display
December 14th, 2013
Special Christmas Smile Break!!! Anthony from Texas sent me a lovely email with a Christmas Smile Break he made and kindly offered to share it on the site. It's on the Smile Break page
December 9th, 2013
New page: CHRISTMAS!!!
http://margdteachingposters.weebly.com/christmas.html
September 6th, 2013
Added: New pages: Important to Know and Parent Info.
Signs for Art n Craft Centre, Construction Centre, i pads, Imaginative Play Centre, Story Corner, and Welcome Sign. New page - Words to Treasure Spring 2013
Word Wall 2013, Sentence Starters for Writing, Reading Strategies, Prep Home Reading Note, Personalized Reading Strategy poster, Comprehension Strategy Checklist
Parent Helper Training Letter, Parent Helper Training Script to go with pp, Parent Helper Training, Parent Info Meeting Handout 21st Century Learning Skills, Parent Info Meeting Invite, Parent Info Meeting Reading, Parent Info Meeting Reflection, Parent Information poster, Parent Information sign, Sight words Sign for Parents
July 7th, 2013
Added some Maths games a while ago and forgot to record.
A little bit of maintenance to some pages
April 3, 2013
Added: New page – ‘Events’ in Civics section; Advent Heading; Anzac Day powerpoint; Book Fair Heading; Book Week Heading; Christmas Headings; Family BBQ Celebration Heading; Farewell Grade 6 Heading; Geelong Show Heading; Graduation Heading; Holidays Heading; Melbourne Cup Heading; Orientation Day Heading; Remembrance Day Heading; Priceless Gifts at Christmas; Priceless powerpoint; Summer Heading; Voting for New School Leaders Heading; World Teachers Day Heading; Staff Meetings; Professional Learning Team; New page – ‘Word Lists’ under Spelling section; Bodyparts Vocab; Clothes Vocab; Colour Vocab; Days Vocab; Family Vocab; Months Vocab; Number Vocab 1to10; Number Vocab 11to20; Position Vocab; Transport Vocab; Weather Vocab; New page – ‘Maths Kits’ in Maths section; Climb the Mountain; Cover It; Flashies Numbers 0 to 10; Flashies Numbers 11 to 20; Make Your Own Game; Who's in the House?; Tens Grid; Early Counting Analysis; Flip book endings ed; Flip book endings er 1; Flip book endings er 2; Flip book endings ing; Handwriting Four Line Poetry; Handwriting Riddles; Certificate of Handwriting; Big Book Display Poster; Book Display Poster P 1 2; Information Books Poster; Novels Display Poster; Picture Books Poster; Read To Book Display Poster; New page – ‘Sequencing’in Maths section; 24Sequencing pictures; New page – ‘Instant Books in Writing Skills section; 15 Instant books; Writers Notebook Gathering Seeds; Writers Notebook Planting Seeds; Writers Notebook Sprouting Seeds; Writers Notebook Next Step; Writers Notebook Feedback; Writing Pathway; Junior Writing Contract; Writing Analysis Prep; Grammar Assess; Class Collections of; Sight Word Hunt; Make a Story Blue Red Green Purple; Photos in Teacher Planning and Supplies
April 2, 2013
Added: Adding Suffixes; Past Tense; Word Discovery; Spelling Goals; Spelling Investigations Poster; Spelling Investigations Poster Assessment; Letter Name Investigation; Spelling Pathways; Mnemonics; Prefixes n Suffixes; Spelling Patterns; Splitting Syllables; Talk to Yourself Spelling; Spelling Assessment with Sentences 1 to 200; Word Family Sample lists; Word Mountain; Synonyms; Opposites; Word Wall Heading; Word Building With Cards; Opposites; Our Class; Permission Notes; Planning Cover; Reading Recovery
April 1, 2013
Added: Reading Recovery Box Labels; RR FnP Equivalents; Take Home Book Box Labels; Comprehension Strategy Connecting; Comprehension Strategy Inner Conversation; Comprehension Strategy Predicting; Concepts About Print Analysis; Learning the Alphabet; Learning Numbers; Classroom Teaching Cover;
January 23, 2013
Okay, I swore I'd never do a blog and I haven't (!) - I've just put a blog section up to make random comments and address feedback questions and comments.
January 11, 2013
Added some more words to treasure and some common word flashcards.
November 16, 2012
Added some new writing assessments and updated the old ones. Added some letter flashcards.
October 21, 2012
Added Words to Treasure pages. Added Writers' Notebook scans
July 22, 2012
Just having a little bit of a reorganize. Reloading some docs and making previews bigger if I can. I'm home sick and bored out of my brain so I've resorted to playing with the website and moving things around.
June 30, 2012
Fixed some broken links in Literacy centres. If anyone finds more, please let me know by email [email protected] or by feedback form on the home page. Ta.
Added:
New pages: A Little about Me and Smile Breaks. Added new powerpoints to Smile Break and moved the other ones over
June 3, 2012
Added:
New page - Co-operative groups, lots of new pics and docs all over the place, and it's too late at night to write them in now!
April 14, 2012
Added:
An assessment activity for Fit for Life, material for our next unit, 'Disaster!', a couple of things on the general Inquiry page, some new classroom library box labels, some Habits of Mind photos, a photo under writing, some teacher organizational, room, ICT, storage and clipboard stuff
New page under Handwriting - 'Calligraphy' with lots of samples
April 2, 2012
Added a 'Teacher Inspiration' page with some quote pics.
March 9, 2012
Just a quick update. Added 'Sight Words' page with 4 docs
March 3, 2012
Added:
Brain Strain Time to Eat, Brain Strain Useful Things, Curriculum Newsletter 5n6 I 2012, Graphic Organizer Labels, Learning Choices Poster, On Task Workers Poster, Oral Language Activity Out of Place, RED revised Rules 2012, Spelling Activities, Spelling Strategies Poster, Story of Our Writing The, True and Tall Tales, What’s Important to Us?, Writing Assessment 2012 Narrative, Writing Assessment 2012 Persuasive, Writing Assessment 2012 Procedure, Writing Assessment 2012 Recount, Writing Assessment Me Editor Teacher
Changed a few of the pages around. Added ‘Communication’ page
February 18, 2012
Thanks to Rachel from Texas, I've found out the galleries section isn't working quite as I want it to, so I've added some links to make it easier for documents to be downloaded
February 13, 2012
Added:
New photos in 2012 set up, new page 'Buddies' under Civics, Good Buddies posters, Homework Expectations 2012, Homework 2012 I 02, new page 'Room' under 2012 Set Up and a couple of photos of odds and ends like the stamps, pre-cut lettering and maths strategy wall.
February 7, 2012
Added:
New page in Inquiry - Fit for Life
January 27, 2012
Added:
Computer tips, Keyboard shortcuts, Home keys posters
January, 2012
Added new pages: 2012 Set Up and sub pages. Added new pages 'Galleries' with lots of pics from powerpoints
December 10, 2011
Added :
Disaster Investigation Rubric, Disaster Learning Opportunities, Disaster Facts, Human Response to Natural Disasters, Inquiry Pathways for Disaster, Topic Glossary for Natural Disasters, New Inquiry Page - Personal Passion Projects, Personal Passion Project Tuning In, Personal Passion Project Inquiry Path, Personal Passion Project Rubric
October 19, 2011
Added:
Comprehension Strategies posters, Values We Value mini posters.
A new section and more photos added to www.margdteachingphotos.weebly.com - October 2011
September 15, 2011
Survey added to satisfy my curiosity! Hope people will use it.
August 20, 2011
I'm setting up another site of classroom photos. This will slowly grow in size as I found I've got heaps of photos from over the years and I want to spend a bit of time talking about what's happening in the rooms. The site is:
www.margdteachingphotos.weebly.com
July 24, 2011
We’re back into the swing of Term III. The kids have been so enthused about starting our ‘Windows on Australia’ inquiry, they’re jumping the gun and handing us ‘Fat Question’ sheets in the first week!! We’ve been conferencing with each individual to set Term III goals and we’ve rearranged the whole space again.
Added:
Spelling Words in Patterns for LSNCWC Goals, Forty Space Spelling Test Grid, Diagnostic Test for Spelling, Photos in Reading, Five Star Listeners, Getting Ready for this Year, Photos in Graphic Organizers, Habits of Mind and More Reflection Tools, Junior Word Book, Types of Thinking (parts 1 & 2), Windows on Australia Inquiry Process, History Quotes for Windows, History Topics for Choosing, Photo in Windows on Australia, Resource pictures for Windows on Australia
Created a separate Look Say Name Cover Write Check page within Spelling
July 1, 2011
Added:
My Classroom Goals cards, Antonym Pairs, Silent Letters Investigation, Plurals Investigation, SLLURP Your Spelling Words, Sort Your Spelling Words, Spelling Personalised, Spelling Reflection, Spelling Task Cards, Conferencing folder cover, Blank Timetable, Blank Work Program, Reading Conferences recording sheet, Writing Conferences recording sheet, Text Level Progress Graph, Rhyme Book Cover for Preps, Inquiry Project Contract, I Wonder Book Response, Snippets Book Response, Open Minded Portraits Book Response, Making Connections poster, Book Response Cues, Bookshelf Labels, Questions for Reading Responses Fiction, Counting Certificates, Questions for Reading Responses Non Fiction, Sentence Starters for Reading Responses, Gathering Procedures, Genre Posters, Handwriting Gallery, Junior Assessment folder cover, Said Alternatives poster, Sentence Types posters
Subdivided the spelling section
June 28, 2011
Added:
Inquiry Process, Fat Question for Inquiry, Peer Assessments for Inquiry (2), Self Assessment for Inquiry, Sustaining Our Seas Inquiry Process, Penguin Protection Sample Inquiry, Sustaining Our Seas Inquiry Process, Tuning into Windows on Australia, Inquiry Ideas Windows on Australia, Tuning in to Disasters, Group Role Labels, Bookwork Standards
Nearly 1000 hits on the site yesterday – this is getting scary!
June 26, 2011
Added:
Personal Philosophy, Multiple Intelligences activity, Tables Personalised, Times Table Footprints, What Makes a Successful Life?, 50 Tables, 1 to 144 Chart for Tables Practise, 1 to 150 Chart for Tables Practise, Behaviour Plan Grade 1, Counting Trios, Weekly Look Say Name Cover Write Check Recording Sheet.
Included an inquiry section
June 21, 2011
Added:
The Bridge (reflection tool), Adding Suffixes, Circle Time Sentence Starters, Group Roles, Learning Journal Topics, One Minute Talks, Parent Meetings – Junior, Parent Meetings – Senior, Personal Goals, Portmanteau Words, Reflection Cards, Reflection Tool Labels, Speaking Poster, Subject Labels, This is the Classroom for Me, Three Stars and a Wish, Time Connectives, Values Traffic Lights, Maths Dictionary link, Inyahead link
Bit of a re-arrange of pages. Thanks to those who've made such positive comments - they've really helped!