Awesome Giveaway!

You must head over to What the Teacher Wants! for a chance to win a $100.00 gift certificate to the Container Store. What teacher wouldn't love that! Now go!

100+ Followers!

Woo hoo! I didn't even notice when I hit 100 followers. It was sometime today. I could have sworn I was at 93 this morning. Anyway, I am SUPER excited. Thank you all! I am absolutely OBSESSED with all of you blogs. It is so much fun to see the great things WE are all doing. Everyday I find something new I want to try.

Mrs. Ibarra

Always First Grade

Classroom Photos Linky Party

Hey All,

I thought it would be fun to share our classroom photos.  To join this Linky Party, just post a pic or more of your classroom and tell about them. I work at a charter school that is currently year round. We have a modified concept 6 calendar which means I am on 2 months and off 1. Every time I go "off-track" I have to clean up my room so that the teacher coming in can set it the way she wants to. This mean that my room hardly ever looks the SAME. Here are a few pictures what my rooms have looked like....

 

This was my door on the first day of school. Every time I go back "on track" I make a new door display. 

 

This is our meeting/calendar area. I use Saxon math. 

On the bottom left side you can see a blue basket. The basket is full of puppets and stuffed animals. The kids use them as reading buddies. 

The long blue chart you see on the board is where I keep table points. The little red thing underneath holds the circle did-cuts. I got it at the Dollar Tree. I love it because it is magnetic. They had two different sizes. I use them for lots of stuff.  

 

These are SOME of my personal books I use as our classroom library. If you notice, there is a green bucket on the shelf. I incorporate "Have You Filled a Bucket Today" as part of my management in addition to the clip chart you see on the right. The kids get a fuzzy when every one is on green at the end of the day. When the bucket is full they will get the surprise inside the bag.

 

I use my closet doors as our word wall. We only put up MacMillan Treasure's high frequency words. Each unit is a different color.
 

 

I try to do a read aloud everyday. Then the following day the students vote whether or not they would recommend it to a friend.

 

 

Here is a picture of my teacher station. It has a document camera that projects to a BIG screen. I also have a laser printer, DVD player, VHS player, and my laptop also projects to the screen. I just love it!

 

Here are 3 of the 7 iMacs we have in our classroom. The kids use them daily for iStation (RTI program), starfall, and other programs. 

Please share pictures of your wonderful classrooms. Can't wait to see them!

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Giveaway!

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You must head over to the teacher wife. Not only does she have an AWESOME blog, she is also having a Barnes and Nobles give away. What are you still doing here....GO!

Sites to Share

Here are some sites that I've come across or that others have shared with me that I thought were great and worthy of sharing with my cyber friends.

Color Mountain
(Free printout of great coloring pages and activity sheets.)

Mrs. Shehan's Family Projects

Weekly Reader Interactive Stories
(Interactive Biographies)

Fables from Aesop
(See animated fables)

Storyline Online
(An online streaming video program featuring SAG members reading children's books aloud)

Tumblebooks.com
(Talking picture books.)

All Kids Network 
(Kids Crafts, Kids Activities, Worksheets and More!)

Children's Books Forever
(Free Downloads of children's books.) 

Data Binders

There are many of you blogging friends who have shared your data binders. To tell you the truth I have been doing them as well, but didn't really have a "name" for it. I have 1 BIG binder with 20 tabs. So here is what you'll find in my "data binder."

1. Sight Word List Click here to download

2. Sight Word Test Click here to download 

3. MacMillan Treasure fluency assessments (sorry can't share as I did not create)

4. Saxon Math Recording Sheet (sorry can't share as I did not create)



This is what I've been keeping in my binder for the past 5-6 years or longer. I am hoping you can share what you put in yours. Looking for new ideas for next year!

My Family

Saw this on Journals From the Jungles and thought it was adorable.


My Stick Family from WiddlyTinks.com