Guided Reading Copy Solution!

As you know in Guided Reading groups we need a book/booklet per child. Now as a kinda new teacher, I am a little low on copies of leveled readers for my students so I make copies from Reading A-Z and http://www.hubbardscupboard.org. which is fine except my school is having a copy shortage. Now I also like to have the students write on the books. For example counting the words in the sentence, circle the punctuation, or underline a sight word so can you see my predicament? So after a workshop yesterday, my friend/team member/partner in crime/..Oh you get the idea, and I were trying to come up with a solution to this problem without spending our whole salary on coping all these booklets! How can I reuse these booklets and still have the children write on them? And I think I have solved the problem with a teachers best friend...PAGE PROTECTORS TA-DA!!! It is cheap, convenient, easy, and best of all it works!

For books from Reading A-Z single sided books: First slide each page of the booklet into the protector, fold and staple. For Hubbards Cupboard books: slide each [page in and then cut apart booklets before stapling (I tried it the other way and had a slip-sliding, uneven MESS).

Now the students can use a Vis-a-vis to write on each and every page as directed--

and then erased and reused by another group of students!!

So instead of making 20+ copies of each booklet I make 6 and I can use them year after year!! Oh yes I Am doing a happy dance while shaking my own hand!!

Summer Time and the Living is Easy!

Well the school year has ended for the students but not really for the teachers. We still go to workshops, read and research, as well as make activities and plan for the upcoming year! For those who think we only work 10 months a year.....Raspberries to you!!!! All the returning teachers at my school took home professional development books to study and share with their team!! But oh the research is so much fun! And I can do most of my work and research in my PJ's, no makeup, and  shhhh no bra!

 Pinterest is now a great resource for us teachers. But I warn you it is addictive.. Very Very ADDICTIVE!! But wow at the ideas I have for my classroom and my students!! This will be my first full year as a kindergarten teacher as I came in half way through the year. So after thoroughly emptying out every cabinet, closet, and cubby, I have rearranged the "stuff" to fit MY needs and wishes. I have wonderful ideas as to how to arrange my classroom furniture and centers to better fit the needs of my students! We will have a new literacy curriculum next year focusing more on Work Work/Four Blocks than the old scripted Imagine It we once used. And I cannot wait! Well check on soon as I will be adding projects that I am working on as well as how they worked out and changes to be made!!