Just tweet it.....

Today I created a a twitter wall for my students. I made it will reusable sentence strips. It will be a form of an exit ticket. They will go and tweet something they have learned today. How fun!!!!

My Little Artist

So my Burmese student, John(his American name)  is going to be an artist.  I don't know how many of you have read Officer Buckle and Gloria but this is a dead ringer for him and the dog......

Love it!

August

We have been in school for 3 weeks now.  Wow!  Time flies....I guess.  This is my first year having a complete EL reading class.  It is so different and it's a new challenge, but I love it and those kids!  
I have been staying at school until 5 or 6 every night.  I have class tomorrow night so I am trying to get things done now.  

Today, we worked on the word schema.  I really want my kids to know that vocabulary word and use it correctly so this is what I did.  They had fun and when I asked them at the end of the day what we call all of the information in our heads....they said schema!!!!!

Also, my precious little John, who will be an artist drew this illustration for his writing.  I love it because it shows his culture!

That's all for now!  

Beginning of the year

I am absolutely worn out. Whew! This is the 3rd day of school and I always forget how rough it is. I made myself go home at 5 tonight even though there are mounds of things to do. I did manage to get some teaching in today, so that's a plus. Lol

The first picture is my bulletin board. I love it because my school is so diverse. I read The Sneetches and then we talked about how we are all different. Then we made the fish.

The others are about inferring. We used the book The Kissing Hand.