tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55000689448548812952024-03-26T00:53:00.931-07:00My 8th Grade WorldSarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-22551551714494635162017-06-23T17:57:00.001-07:002017-06-23T17:57:32.412-07:00It's Summer Already?!I <u>know</u> I say it <b><i>every</i></b> post...and I <u>know</u> I've said "<i>where has the time gone</i>" before...<b><u>But</u></b>, let me tell you...<br />
<b>I had no idea</b> :)<br />
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It kind of <i>bums</i> me out realizing I<u> haven't</u> posted since <b>August</b> and the beginning of school. <b><u>But</u></b>...to follow along with my traditional posts, I'm going to go ahead and say it <i>anyways</i>... "<b>To say I've been busy would be an understatement!</b>"<br />
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Since August...<i>which I didn't post about prior to today</i>...<b>We've expanded our family</b> :)<br />
Little Miss <b>Kaylynn</b> joined the Stadler family in January.<br />
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We are <b><i>absolutely</i></b> in <b>love</b> with our little girl and can not imagine life without her now! <b>She brings smiles to our faces daily</b> :)<br />
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Outside of that <b>exciting</b> news and adventure, this school year has<i> flown by</i>! I <u>can not</u> believe I am saying "see you later" to students who I feel like I just met yesterday. It was a <b>jammed</b> packed year full of <b>ups</b> and <u>downs</u>...<i>as is every year</i>! So for this post I'm just going to picture timeline myself through it and focus on writing more specific blog posts throughout the summer to give you a <i>little</i> more <b>in-depth</b> understanding of some of the <u>fun</u> and <i>exciting</i> things we did throughout the school year!<br />
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<b>August</b>:<br />
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<b>September</b>:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I got to see some of my favorite 8th graders win their Conference Championship!!</td></tr>
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<b>October</b>:</div>
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<b>November</b>:</div>
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<b>December</b>:</div>
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<b>January</b>:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Spirit Week - Teacher & Student Switch was interesting this year!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I finished the basketball season with my Favorite 7th graders as we won the Regular-Season Championship!</td></tr>
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<b>February</b>:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I got to spend the entire month home with our new bundle of joy!</td></tr>
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<b>April</b>:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We spent some time doing our Annual Review Games for the EOY State Tests! </td></tr>
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<b>May</b>:</div>
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<b>June</b>:</div>
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I have to also take a minute to <b>brag</b> on (<i>my</i>) Softball Team and give them a <u>special</u> shout-out. They were <b>Regular-Season Champions</b> and came in <u>2nd Place in the County Championship</u>! <b>So so proud </b>of them and I <i>can not wait</i> to get out there next season! </div>
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<br /><b>Well</b>...<i>there it is</i>...a <u>brief</u> visual explanation of where I've been throughout this school year. It's been a year and it's <i>flown</i> by (<i>you know</i>...my <b>typical</b> closing statements!) :)</div>
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I will be sure to update on some more fun things we did throughout the school year. I'll update this <i>old blog thing</i> throughout the summer with lots of <b>goodies</b>! <i>Of course</i>...this will be following bedtime of my new sidekick :)</div>
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<b>So</b> on that note... I'll leave you with an updated family picture of our little <b>Stadler Family</b> featuring our <i>favorite</i> 5 month old!</div>
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<i>Until next time</i>... :)</div>
Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-40018746562676692492016-08-28T17:59:00.001-07:002016-08-28T17:59:21.725-07:00Let's Get It Going!<b>Welcome Back to School!! </b><br />
As many of my teacher friends are starting their <i>first</i> day with kiddos <u>tomorrow</u>...I'm rolling into <b><u>Week 3</u></b> with mine and I <i>couldn't</i> be more <b>excited</b>!<br />
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I'm excited to <i>also</i> share our new school and my new classroom with you! Throughout the summer there were <b><u>many</u></b> people hard at work getting our new building together and ready for us to roll into three weeks ago. There are still a <i>few</i> kinks to be worked out...<b>but</b> isn't that at <u>every</u> building, <u>every</u> year? We absolutely <b><u>LOVE</u></b> our new building, our new rooms, and the overall school. Teachers <i>love</i> it, students <i>love</i> it, parents <i>love</i> it...<b>It's basically wonderful</b>! Take a look for yourself...<br />
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Along with being <b>super proud </b>of how our school and my classroom has come together for the first week of school...I am <i>really</i> excited for how my students are performing and thinking <u>already</u> this early into the school year!<br />
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We spent <i>several</i> of the first days of the first week of school doing <a href="https://www.youcubed.org/" target="_blank">YouCubed</a> activities that students absolutely <b>loved</b>! <a href="https://twitter.com/YouCubedOrg?lang=en" target="_blank">YouCubed</a> has <u>fabulous</u> activities to get students thinking about Math, working collaboratively, making mistakes, and <i>learning</i> from those mistakes. My kiddos' <b>favorite</b> activity for this year came from Day 2 of <a href="https://www.youcubed.org/week-of-inspirational-math-2/" target="_blank">YouCube's Inspirational Math</a>. Each day there are videos to introduce both the activity idea of the day, but <i>also</i> to give a little background on how the activity relates to mathematical thinking.<br />
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<i>After</i> watching the day's video, students (working in small groups of three to four) were given this picture:<br />
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Students were asked to look at the picture and answer the following questions in their small groups: <b>What do you notice?</b> What do you wonder? <b>What questions do you have? </b>What information does this graph provide? Students were given <i>approximately</i> five to seven minutes to discuss in their groups before we can together as a whole class and discussed their thoughts. Hearing some of the discussions <b>really</b> surprised me! Students were thinking a <u>lot</u> <b>deeper</b> into this graph than I originally thought they would. They <i>immediately</i> noticed that it looked like a coordinate plane and that the emojis were organized based on how much Jo uses them and how cute he think they are. Students <i>also</i> began to wonder why only those emojis were used, how old was Jo, why did Jo pick those categories, among many other questions. It was <b>awesome</b> to hear students thinking <i>so</i> <u>deeply</u> and mathematically about a bunch of emojis but they <b><u>totally</u></b> ate it up and <b>LOVED</b> it!<br />
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<u>Following</u> our discussion (<i>which almost every student wanted to participate in!</i>), students were instructed that they were going to create their own graph similar to Jo's <i>but not</i> with emojis. Students could pick anything they liked, but had to compile a graph similar to Jo's. <b>Check out</b> what a few of the topics they picked and student ratings...<br />
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It was a <b>great</b> activity and <i>definitely</i> one that I will use in future years! <b>Thanks <a href="https://www.youcubed.org/" target="_blank">YouCubed</a> </b>:)<br />
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It's been a <b>wonderful</b> two weeks so far at <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/14" target="_blank">Clover Middle School</a> and I am <b>super</b> pumped to get back in the classroom tomorrow morning with my kiddos and start a <u>wonderful</u> week three. <b>Bring it on!</b><br />
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<i>Until next time</i> ... <b>:)</b>Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-77297355362247689952016-06-29T14:31:00.001-07:002016-06-29T14:31:28.247-07:00Closing Out The Year...STEM Style!It's <b>Summer Time</b> and we've <i>only</i> been out of school for 18 "school" days (week days) and it would be an <u>understatement</u> to say that <b>I'm going a little stir crazy already</b>. My husband (<a href="https://twitter.com/coach_stadler?lang=en" target="_blank">Zack</a>) has been busy with basketball ... he's the JV and one of the Assistant Coaches for<a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/16" target="_blank"> Clover High</a>. They've had practices, little kids camp, scrimmages, and <u>even</u> team camp at <a href="http://www.presby.edu/" target="_blank">Presbyterian College</a> this month. <i>So needless to say</i>...we haven't gotten this vacation train started yet and <b>this girl</b> is about to <u>lose</u> it being home all the time!<br />
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If it were <i>any</i> other school year...I would <b>totally</b> use this free time to get some major things completed in my classroom. I would be <u>all</u> <u>about</u> the re-do class library, bulletin boards, filing, decorating...<b>the whole shebang</b>! <i>However</i>...before "leaving" for the summer, all teachers at <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/14" target="_blank">Clover Middle</a> had to be packed up and ready to move to our <b>fabulous</b> new school which is currently <i>still</i> being built! So this girl is hung-out-to-dry..with <b><u>nothing</u></b> to work on! Moved out of the old room...not quite ready to be moved into the new room. <i>This is torture!</i><br />
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<i>With all of that being said</i>...I figured<b> why not </b>share how my kiddos and I closed out the school year?! Our 8th grade state assessments were the last week of April so we had <i>about</i> a month of school left in PreAlgebra to explore some <i>pretty</i> <b>fun</b> and <b>cool</b> activities! One of the <b>hits of the month</b> was our week of <b>STEM</b> Activities. Students <b>absolutely</b> <u>loved</u> this week! They were excited coming to class everyday, they wanted to be in Math class, and they worked <i>really</i> well together. On Monday students came into class and were given the instructions to sit in groups of three. Students were <b>forewarned</b> that the group they picked would be their group for the week and that the "<i>winning</i>" group at the end of the week would receive a prize (always a good time for ice cream sandwiches!). **Giving students these <b>two</b> pieces of information <i>really</i> helped guide their picks and students made <i>really</i> good choices as to who they wanted to work with for the week! <b>It was great!</b>**<br />
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<b>Monday: Smartie Catapult. </b><br />
This activity came from this <a href="http://thestemlaboratory.com/conversation-heart-catapults/" target="_blank">Pinterest post</a> and I fell in <b>love</b> while reading it! I did <i>slightly</i> change the materials for my students...I don't <i>always</i> trust 8th graders with a hot glue gun <b>:)</b> I kept the same number of Popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and water-bottle lids,<i> but I did</i> switch from a hot glue gun to a roll of Scotch tape and <i>instead</i> of conversation hearts, I gave groups a pack of Smarties.<br />
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The farthest Smartie flew a <i>little less</i> than the entire width of the classroom. It was pretty <b>impressive</b>!<br />
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<b>Tuesday: Pipe Cleaner Towers.</b><br />
As Monday's activity...This one <i>also</i> came from <a href="http://www.vivifystem.com/blog/2014/12/8/pipecleaner-stem-challenge" target="_blank">a Pinterest post</a>. Our class schedules were a <i>little</i> crunched this day because of a school-wide performance in the afternoon, so this STEM activity was <b>great</b> for a quick lesson. Materials only included 15 Pipe Cleaners for each group. Directions told students they could only use the Pipe Cleaners and wanted the tallest<b> free-standing</b> tower given the twenty minute time limit. <i>Again</i>, students were left alone until the timer rang!<br />
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Our tallest tower ended up <b>19.5 inches tall</b>! Students <i>really</i> enjoyed this quick activity!</div>
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<b>Wednesday: Save Freddie!</b><br />
<i>I have to say.</i>..this activity was <b>by-far my favorite</b>! And<i> not just </i>because it involved gummy lifesavers and worms! This activity I feel <i>really</i> got students thinking the most, <b>communicating</b> with each other, and <i>really</i> brainstorming various strategies. You know it...this came from<a href="http://www.k12stemplans.com/engineering.html" target="_blank"> a Pinterest post</a>!<br />
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This activity gave students two paper clips, a plastic cup, one gummy lifesaver, and one gummy worm. Mrs. Blocker (my co-teacher) and I set up the challenge with the lifesaver <b>under</b> the upside-down cup and the worm on top. Directions told students to save gummy worm Freddie by putting his gummy life vest around his middle using only the two paper clips and <b>not</b> allowing Freddie to touch the "water" (desk). <b>Most challenging aspect</b>...Students <b>weren't</b> allowed to use their hands! The only thing they could use to touch the worm, lifesaver, and cup were the two paper clips.<br />
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This activity had a <b>wide range</b> of finishers! <i>Not only</i> were students racing against each other...<b>but</b> they needed to keep Freddie nice and healthy. They couldn't save Freddie <b><i>if </i></b>they were also stabbing him! There was a race for the quickest to save Freddie, along with preserving both Freddie and the lifesaver! Our quickest finishing group was finished within <b>3 minutes</b>! <u>Unbelievable</u>! Most groups took about 12 minutes, with our last group finishing around 18 minutes.<br />
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<b>Thursday: Toilet Paper Math!</b><br />
This activity didn't come from Pinterest (<i>surprise, surprise!</i>) but it did come from <a href="https://www.google.com/" target="_blank">Google</a>. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0K29i61L4cdMEJJUDNaNWNTajA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Check out the instructions, worksheets, score sheet, etc. here!</a> Students were given a roll of toilet paper, a tape measure, and tape. Directions were to make a shape that had the <b>largest</b> perimeter and area within the thirty-minute time limit. Along with the perimeter and area directions, students were told that they had to have the shape closed in, <b>meaning</b> all sides had to be touching another side. There were <b>no</b> gaps to be found in their shapes!<br />
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This was the <b>end</b> of our STEM week challenges since we were out of school on Friday. Students <b>absolutely</b> loved this week and all the daily activities. They even wanted to continue to challenges into the next week! It was a <b>great experience</b> not only for the kiddos..but for me too! This will <i>definitely</i> be in a bag-of-tricks throughout the school years to come!<br />
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As another end-of-the-year <b>fun</b> activity, our 8th graders got to participate in their first <b>Field Day</b>! <i>Normally</i> our kiddos have had a cookout towards the last week of school, but this year our Exploratory teachers (P.E., Art, Dance, Band, etc.) had the <b>great</b> idea to incorporate the cookout to a Field Day! <b>It was awesome</b>! There were <u>athletic</u> events like sprints, relays, and tug-of-war, but there were also <u><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?rs=ac&len=2&q=minute%20to%20win%20it%20games&etslf=2883&eq=minute%20to%20w&0=minute%7Cautocomplete%7C&1=to%7Cautocomplete%7C&2=win%7Cautocomplete%7C&3=it%7Cautocomplete%7C&4=games%7Cautocomplete%7C" target="_blank">Minute-To-Win-It</a></u> events for students to participate in. The three 8th grade teams competed against each other earning various points for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place in each of the many events. <i>Needless to say</i>.....<br />
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This has been a <b>fabulous</b> year and I <i>can not wait</i> to get back in the swing of things and back at it in August. We do have some <i>little</i> vacations planned in July (visiting the in-laws in <a href="http://www.charlestoncvb.com/" target="_blank">Charleston</a>, the parents in <a href="https://washington.org/" target="_blank">D.C.,</a> and an anniversary trip to<a href="http://www.gatlinburg.com/" target="_blank"> Gatlinburg, TN</a>) that we are looking forward to! <i>So</i> we will get a <i>little</i> rest and relaxation before our <b>awesome</b> jobs get started back up. I'll be <b>sure</b> to share some other fun things we did as the school year closed throughout the summer. <i>You know</i> I <b>can't</b> share it all in one post<b> ;)</b><br />
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<i>Until next time</i> ... <b>:)</b>Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-68971664229567499282016-05-12T15:20:00.003-07:002016-05-12T15:21:16.295-07:00My 1st DonorsChoose! <div style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #424242; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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I'm working on getting a set of<a href="http://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/products/scholastic-math" target="_blank"> Scholastic Math Magazines</a> for my students and <b>all</b> Math students in the 8th grade. It is also <b>awesome</b> because we can <i>share</i> these Math Magazines with 6th and 7th graders because the magazines (and online resources) come with <i>several</i> math concepts and topics covered through each edition! It is a <b>wonderful</b> way for middle school students to see how current math lessons relate to their interests and future dreams!</div>
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<b>Everything</b> is a <i>little</i> more fun with <u>games</u> and <u>competition</u> right? I have 4 classes (2 Pre-Algebra and 2 Algebra). <i>Since</i> all students in the 8th grade have to take the SCReady, I decided that all students needed to compete against each other with review games. Therefore, I created a ScoreBoard for all of my classes to see how they were competing and comparing to groups in other classes. I allowed my Algebra students to pick their groups, but we (my co-teacher and I) decided to assign groups in our PreAlgebra classes. Once students picked their groups on Day 1<u> they had to stay with that group</u> throughout all the review games.<br />
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On the first day of competition review students created their own group name that they would be known by throughout the review games and on the ScoreBoard. <i>Also</i> on Day 1, I explained to students that <i>if they came in 1st place for the day</i> (in their class) they would earn 5 points, 4 points for 2nd, 3 for 3rd, 2 for 4th, and 1 for 5th place.<b> To make the overall excitement go even higher</b>...I told students that <u>at the end of the review games</u> the 1st place team in each class would earn 10points added to <b><i>any</i></b> assignment of their choice during the 4th 9 weeks!! 2nd place would earn 8 points, etc. <i>Needless to say,</i> students got <b>super</b> <b>excited</b> over that one!<br />
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Our <i>first</i> game of the week was <a href="https://getkahoot.com/" target="_blank">Kahoot</a>! To see how Kahoot works..Check out my previous blog <a href="http://sstadler.blogspot.com/2015/01/its-kahoot.html" target="_blank">"It's a Kahoot!"</a> that explains it! Kahoot <b>is always a hit </b>with my students, not to mention there is a great new addition of Team Mode! The <u>trick</u> I have found when using Kahoot is to give students the worksheet, review page, practice test, etc. that we are working on for the day <b>first</b>. I give students the assignment and twenty minutes to get a "head start" on answering the questions. <i>After</i> twenty minutes we begin our Kahoot game since most students/groups have answered a majority of the questions.<br />
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Our <i>second</i> game of review was Survivor. I first heard of <a href="http://toengagethemall.blogspot.com/2013/02/grudgeball-review-game-where-kids-attack.html" target="_blank">Survivor from this Pinterest post</a> a couple years ago. I changed the title of the game to "Survivor"...<i>not exactly sure why I did though?</i>! <u>Again</u>, I give students a "head start" on working on the review before starting the game. In order to remove X's from another group, <b>a group must first get the review question correct</b> as we work through the material. The kids <i>really like </i>this game too because several groups tend to <u>target</u> one group to take out first. It's funny to see students not really interested in winning...but more interested in keeping another group from winning.<br />
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<i>After</i> Survivor, the next day we played <b>ZAP</b>! ZAP is a fun game that <a href="http://5thgraderocks5thgraderules.blogspot.com/2012/02/zap.html" target="_blank">I also got from Pinterest</a>! I created a small board of only 12 cards (<i>but if we ever run out</i>...we just refill the cards and keep going!). Students <b>liked</b> this game for the <i>most</i> part...<u>except</u> for when they pulled a ZAP! card and lost all of their points! Like Survivor...students do not get to pull a card until their group correctly answers a review problem we were focusing on for the day. The picture on the <u>left</u> (below) is what students see as they play the game. The picture on the <u>right</u> is what the cards say as they pull them out!<br />
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The Unfair game...you can guess it...<a href="https://martinabex.com/2015/10/27/the-unfair-game/" target="_blank">came from Pinterest</a>!!! I have to say...the kids "<i>said</i>" they didn't like this game...but I think they didn't like what happened to their group in this game! It was funny because there was <b>absolutely</b> <u>no</u> skill involved in this game (outside of getting the review question correct). Once students got the question correct, they had to pick (<i>before drawing a card</i>) wether they wanted to take the card for their group, or give it to another group. Students had<b> no idea</b> what they would end up picking because cards ranged from -2 points, switch scores with another team, +2 points, and return to zero among several others! </div>
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To give students a <b>break</b> the day of our SCReady Math test, we played <i>one last</i> Kahoot game...but it was surrounding Popular Culture! I figured my students <i>didn't need</i> more review after taking a 72 question test! <b>Yes</b>!! <b>72 questions...50 something with a calculator and almost 20 without a calculator</b>. I hate to say it...but I think this was the <u>highlight</u> of the week for most of my students! It is <u>surprising</u> how many questions my students got correct about pop culture! They <b>literally</b> know <i>everything</i>! There were <u>loving</u> this game!! Questions included everything from singers, types of dances, actors, and movies. I think this game was a good relaxing day for students...They weren't to <i>thrilled</i> coming into class realizing they were playing <u>another</u> game, but after they logged into Kahoot and saw the questions...they didn't want to stop playing!!</div>
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<b>After 7 games,</b> I think my kiddos were <u>review-gamed out</u>. They <b>enjoyed</b> playing the games, but I think it was the amount of math questions I was able to <i>squeeze</i> out of them in a six day period! I don't know if my kids would admit it...but <b>they completed 87 questions during that six day period </b>of review games! <i>And</i>, I didn't really have to "fight" them to complete them. Students were so <b>motivated</b> at beating each other..<i>.maybe even more</i> than earning the extra points...that the games kind of ran themselves! Check out our ScoreBoard at the end. <b>Congratulations</b> is due to: Panda (<i>the overall team leader who also won ice cream on top of their 10 extra points</i>), :) :), Fineapples, and Trump Nation #2!</div>
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<i>As much as I hate to admit it</i>....I know there will be questions about the blanks (---) on a couple rows. These blanks represent classes who <b>couldn't</b> <i>quite</i> get it together during that 20 minute "working" period. <i>Needless to say</i>..they lost their privilege to play the game for the day and took the review work as a classwork grade because they couldn't use their time wisely and get their work done as expected. As much as it <b>stung</b> to make them not play the game...I think <i>overall</i> (from a teaching standpoint) those two days also served as <u>reminders</u> for the other days (and classes) that these games were "<b>rewards</b>" and supposed to be "<i>fun breaks</i>" in the review that we would be doing <u>regardless</u>. I would say for a six day period...with four classes each day...only have 2 class periods that missed a game was a <b>win</b> for this teacher! </div>
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With the <i>end of the school year </i>coming and end-of-the year testing, it <u>also</u> means our <b>softball season has come to an end</b>. We finished <b>strong</b> this season with an 8-3 record. I'm looking <i>forward</i> to next year since we will be <b><u>bringing back 11 of our 14 girls</u></b>!! We will <i>miss</i> our three 8th graders...<u>but</u> I know my <b>eleven</b> 7th graders will be<b> ready to bring home a championship</b>! </div>
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Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-85508113880523006352016-02-28T13:34:00.001-08:002016-02-28T13:34:39.492-08:00It's a Job Shadowing Kinda Day!Friday was an <b>exciting</b> day in the 8th grade world... It was <b>Job Shadowing Day</b>! Students get to take the day and job shadow an adult of their choice. Students bring in signed paperwork and contact information for an adult and place of business and then they are good to go for the day. Students pick all sorts of awesome careers to job shadow. I know there were students on our team who shadowed <b>Pre-K teachers,</b> <i>personal trainers</i>, <u>arborists</u>, <b>waitresses</b>, <i>accountants</i>, and <u>more</u>! Sounds like an awesome day to me! After students job shadow for the day, they return this next week with a packet of information they gathered as they job shadowed.<br />
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With lots of our students gone for the day, we spend the<b> entire day</b> back at school focused on career choices of those who stay with us. We <u>begin</u> the day by having students complete a couple questionnaires about what they are interested in, what they want when they get older, what they want different from their parents' lives, etc. <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0K29i61L4cdUk4telQ3c2NrZzQ/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Check out the questionnaire here!</a><br />
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<i>As students get finished</i> with their questionnaire, they are thinking about their future and their career decisions. At this point we have students complete the <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0K29i61L4cddUJsQ29Bc3hlSmM/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Career Webquest</a> where they can find out, <i>based on their interests,</i> what careers most closely match up to their personality. Many students are <b>surprised</b> to see what careers are suggested for them.<br />
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Through this webquest, students are also able to research a <i>little</i> more into their choice of careers and find out important information like education and experience requirements, starting salary, and job duties. Students <b><i>really</i></b> start to enjoy this when they are researching their own career choice and are interested in what they are finding because it directly relates to them and their future.<br />
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<b>Finally</b>, once students completed the questionnaire and the webquest it was time for students to make a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0K29i61L4cdZE1sSDRvQ1JpaFE/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Wanted Poster </a>for their career choice. Students picked an APP on their iPads to create a 1-Slide/Page wanted poster for their career that included job duties, selling points for their job, starting salary, and more! Students <b><i>really</i></b> got into this one and here are some of their fabulous creations!<br />
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<b>Overall</b> I think students <i>really</i> <i>enjoyed</i> the day both outside and inside the classroom. I think students were able to <u>really</u> think about their career choice, what they want in the future, and how they can go about reaching that goal. <b>It was a great learning day for everyone!</b><br />
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<i>My last note</i> for this post is a <u>little</u> insight into my life outside of school! This weekend my parents were in town visiting from <a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=stafford%2C%20va" target="_blank">Stafford, VA</a> and I couldn't have been <b>happier</b>! My sister, my mom, and I tried out <a href="http://www.paintingwithatwist.com/charlotte/" target="_blank">Painting With a Twist </a>and our talents in the painting world. <i>Needless to say,</i> it was a <b>blast</b>! We had a great time, enjoyed the 2 hour class, and would totally go back!<br />
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Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-9756265395197104222016-02-21T13:48:00.000-08:002016-02-21T13:48:30.860-08:00It's Been Awhile...<b>Where do I begin</b>...It's been a <i>little</i> while since I've posted. <u>Don't judge</u>, but it's been a <i>little</i> crazy. Basketball seasons started in November for both myself and my <a href="https://www.instagram.com/coach_stadler/" target="_blank">husband</a> (<b><u>yes</u></b>, he started his first year at the Varsity level and loved it!).<i> So with that</i>...any given week Monday through Friday...we <b><i>may</i></b> have both been home before 9pm once a week! It was a <u>little</u> intense. My little seventh grade team finished 2nd in our conference with only 2 losses! <b>They were fabulous</b>!!<br />
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In the classroom we've <b>definitely</b> been <u>busy</u> too! I'll stick with my Algebra I kiddos for this post. Some of the cool things they've been working on include a Car Interest Project (<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0K29i61L4cdU25CMjl1U2xDTWc/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">**Click here for the PDF instructions!!**</a>) surrounding our study of Simple & Compound Interest (correlating with exponential vs. linear functions). For this assignment/project students were given various jobs that they may hold as a teenager when looking to purchase their first car. On their job card (<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0K29i61L4cddFhOY2E1Uk9GTE0/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">**Click here for the Job Sheets!**)</a>, students were also given their pay per hour and their interest options whether simple interest from their parents or compound interest from the bank.<br />
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Students then researched various cars they could <b>afford</b> with their salary while taking into account their simple/compound interest payments. Once students figured out their simple and compound interest payments, they then had to decide which option they were going to chose to finance their car choice and create a presentation that would defend their choice by showing their findings.<br />
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Students <i>really</i> seemed to enjoy this project. It was <u>funny</u> to hear them talk about the cars they wanted <b>before</b> getting their jobs. Many students were wanting the <i>most</i> expensive cars they could think of...then when they realized their yearly salary still wouldn't be able to afford their dream, it was interesting to see where they went next! It was also fun to hear students talk about which was a better option...getting their payments over with in a shorter amount of time <i>even</i> though they would pay more monthly, or if they wanted to take a "cheaper" route and pay for their car longer with lower monthly payments. <b>Overall</b> I think students <u>really</u> liked this project, and it provided a great excuse for students to use simple and compound interest through real-world experiences! </div>
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Once students were given their problem, they were instructed to solve the problem in any way they chose, explain their variables, and defend the method of solving the problem they picked. They completed this project through the <a href="http://explaineverything.com/" target="_blank">Explain Everything APP</a>. They seemed to do <b>very</b> well and <b>enjoy</b> this project as well! </div>
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Outside of the <b><u>awesome</u></b> projects that my students have been working on, there are <i>other</i> great things going on in my classes. We recently had our <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/site/default.aspx?PageID=1" target="_blank">Clover School District</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23csdtechfest2016&src=typd&lang=en" target="_blank">TechFest</a> and my co-teacher and Science team teacher attended a session about stations in the high school classroom. <i>Needless to say</i>...we got <b>inspired</b>. For the last three days I (along with my co-teacher in my PreAlgebra classes) have been trying stations. Here's a <i>rough</i> outline of my Algebra classes:</div>
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<b>Station 1:</b> With me for 20 minutes - Students in small groups (roughly 8-10 students...about half of the class) are centered around the board as we cover new material and concepts through our textbook. </div>
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<b>Station 3: </b>Students work in small groups of three or four (two groups of 3 or 4 are doing this station at a time) to complete an <a href="https://twitter.com/EDpuzzle?lang=en" target="_blank">EdPuzzle</a> specifically assigned to them. I pick and chose the EdPuzzles as well as the questions that are asked throughout them for students to complete. Concepts either cover <i>previously</i> covered material as a review, or <u>new</u> concepts as a pre-lesson for what I will teach either that day or the next. After 10 minutes in this station, students head to Station 2 before heading to my station for the last 20 minutes of class. </div>
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I asked student in our <a href="https://twitter.com/CanvasLMS?lang=en" target="_blank">Canvas</a> classroom site to discuss how they felt about these stations as we tried them for the first couple days...</div>
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<b>I think this station thing has something special going on!</b> The kids have spoken...and it looks like I'll be sticking to this for a while! I'll be sure to update how this turns out when it comes to test scores! </div>
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<i>And one last little note</i> before leaving this post...I have a little <b>bragging</b> to do. My 7th grade team from last year (currently the 8th grade) basketball team won their <b>Conference Championship</b> <i>again</i> this year! <b>That's 2 years as Conference Champions.</b> In two year this team has only lost 2 games (11-0 as 7th graders, 13-2 as 8th graders!). I would say that's pretty <b>impressive</b>. I can't wait to see what they do as high schoolers!</div>
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And <i>finally</i>...with basketball season being officially over...<b>It's softball season</b>. Here's the wonderful group of girls I get to work with this year. I'm expecting some pretty <i>wonderful</i> things from them...</div>
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<b>I've got lots to update and post about in the coming weeks</b>..<i>.Until next time</i>... <b>;) </b></div>
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With conferences on Friday that means students get a <b>freebie</b> day at the end of the quarter and enjoy themselves a <i>nice three day weekend</i>. We had a PreAlgebra test on Wednesday, <i>so</i> <b>basically</b>, according to our pacing guide, we were "<i>supposed</i>" to start the next chapter on Thursday before a three day weekend. <i>Needless to say</i>, Mrs. Blocker (my co-teacher) and I didn't start the chapter with our kiddos. Our next chapter might be the <b>most important</b> chapter of the year, so after some discussion, we decided to leave the first part of the chapter for Monday. We figured covering the overall basics, definition, and importance on Monday would be better than a Thursday before a long weekend.<br />
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Our next chapter introduces slope and rate of change to students. We do <b>lots</b> of vocabulary the first day then work on finding slopes/rates of change using graphs, tables, word problems, etc. <i>Basically</i>...as said above...probably <b>the most important </b>chapter of the year! To make sure it wasn't a "wasted" day, Mrs. Blocker had a great idea to show <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avS6C6_kvXM" target="_blank">Slope Dude</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCFaSvbwKe0" target="_blank">Algebra Man's</a> videos on slope as an introduction. If you're not familiar with these videos, let me share this <b>awesome-ness</b> ;)<br />
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<i>After</i> showing students these videos, we discussed how these videos set a foundation for what we are covering in the upcoming weeks and how the overall idea and understanding of these videos will help students later in the coming weeks. <i>Then</i> we told students that they would be using the app <a href="http://explaineverything.com/" target="_blank">Explain Everything </a>on our iPads to create their own Slope Dude Video. Students were given the following directions, along with the restriction of <b>no skiing Slope Dude</b> since that was the example, and left to create their own:</div>
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Students thought the idea was a little <b>silly</b> and <i>lame</i> at first, but once they started making their videos on Explain Everything...<b>they ran away with it</b>! We had some <u>great</u> videos turned in and students <i>really</i> got creative with it! Check out some of them: </div>
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The videos turned out <b>great</b> and students <i>really enjoyed</i> making them! <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/explain-everything-interactive/id431493086?mt=8" target="_blank">Explain Everything</a> was <b>great</b> to use and <b>super</b> user friendly since it was most kid's first time using the app. Students were able to use the app with no problems and easily save the video to their camera roll and upload it to <a href="http://www.canvaslms.com/" target="_blank">Canvas</a>. </div>
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There are two videos that I <i>just</i> <u>have</u> to share in order to show their creativity and how students really used the video to display their personalities. <i>However</i>, one had a <u>slight</u> mistake in identifying "undefined" slope, and the other video has a brain-slip in the same part, but came around by the end of the video to correctly label all the parts! <b>But</b> I <i>really</i> like these videos for how creative both students were! </div>
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I <b>loved</b> this idea that Mrs. Blocker and I came up with for our introduction to slope and <i>will definitely </i>be using this in the upcoming years. It was a <b>great</b> way to end the week and prepare students for ideas that we would be covering after their long weekend! </div>
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<i>Before</i> closing out this post, I have to share updates on my <b>fabulous</b> team this year. We have matching Team 8-1 Monogrammed shirts that we rocked for Parent-Teacher conferences. Made by our <u>wonderful</u> Mrs. Blocker!</div>
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My science teammie and I <b>rocked</b> out some war-paint for our big rival football game. Both our 7th and 8th grade football teams took down our in-district rival<a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/15" target="_blank"> Oakridge Middle</a>! </div>
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<b>And</b> <i>finally</i> my co-teacher, Mrs. Blocker, and I participated in a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CCSOGlowRun?fref=ts" target="_blank">Glow Race</a> this weekend with the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1612245849031407/" target="_blank">Sheriff Office in Shelby, NC </a>to benefit the Special Olympics. We rocked out with our tutus and custom made "Let it Glow" shirts made by my <b>fabulous</b> co-teacher. (<i>Seriously</i>...she's <u>awesome</u>! Check out her <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/InfiniteSparkle?ref=unav_listing-r" target="_blank">Etsy shop here</a>!)</div>
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It's been a <b>great</b> first nine-week period and I <i>can't wait </i>to see what comes up next! We have basketball season (<i>my favorite of the year)</i> in two weeks and I'm <u>pumped</u>! Updates on our start to the second nine-weeks and basketball season coming soon. <i>Until next time</i>... <b>:) </b></div>
Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-83718054224286590622015-09-20T11:22:00.000-07:002015-09-20T11:22:50.028-07:00Interim Check-InInterims went home Friday. <b>Let that sink in</b>...It's <i>halfway</i> through the 1st 9 weeks already!<u> I feel like school just started. </u>We are <i>halfway</i> through September! Within our first 4.5 weeks of school Algebra has had two tests, PreAlgebra one test, and we are just <b>moving</b> through this curriculum like it's our job!<br />
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As we've been working it on a daily basis, one thing we needed to cover in Algebra I <i>before</i> getting into our Algebra I curriculum is the 8th grade standard of surface area of cylinders and volume of cylinders, cones, and spheres. <b>We aren't given much time </b>(<i>like any teacher</i>) to get through our curriculum in the first place, <i>but</i> in Algebra I we <i>also</i> have to hit the 8th grade standards that they may not have gotten in 7th grade. <u>So needless to say</u>, we introduced, covered all these topics, and tested this unit in a <b>week</b>!<br />
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We began the week with introducing surface area of cylinders. This is the first year that we've had to do surface area; therefore, I was on a <b>mission</b> to find a <u>new</u> <i>creative</i> way to introduce it to my kiddos. I searched and searched and found a simple <u>little</u> fun activity that allowed students to grab the concept of surface area, and understand where the formula came from. Students were broken into groups of three to four and given one cylinder shaped object (<i>anything from pencil cans, cookie containers, breadcrumb containers, etc.</i>). Students were also given <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0K29i61L4cdcXBoak0tVi1RRG8/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">this worksheet page</a> to work through as they looked into finding the surface area of their cylinder. Through this worksheet page students cut out pieces of paper to cover their cylinder (including the top and bottom). This page also allowed students to make the <b>connection</b> that the length of their rectangle was equal to the circumference of their circles for the top and bottom of their cylinders. We then reviewed the area formula for circles and rectangles before making the <b>connection</b> that we could replace the length portion of the formula for our rectangle with the formula for the circumference of the circle to simply use pi, radius, and height within our surface area formula.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Students <b>really</b> enjoyed this activity and <b>really</b> understood where the surface area formula came from by completing this activity. I <u>enjoyed</u> seeing the little <b>lightbulbs</b> going off in students' faces as they made the connections. I will <i><b>definitely</b></i> be using this activity for when my PreAlgebra kiddos get to this concept later in the year! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Curr</span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ently this year students are </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">excited</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> for a new reading challenge we've gotten into. Our librarian has told us about a "Read Your Way to the Big Game" challenge for students. </span><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">("The Big Game" </span>referring<span style="font-family: inherit;"> to South Carolina Gamecocks vs. Clemson Tigers of course!)</span></i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><a href="https://www.smore.com/mf4xu-read-your-way-to-the-big-game?ref=email" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">Check out the details here! </a><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 23.25px;">Students are challenged to read </span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 700; line-height: 23.25px;">six (6) reading-level appropriate books</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 23.25px;"> to qualify for the grand prize--Palmetto Bowl tickets (one winner for each team)! Each prize includes four tickets, sideline passes, and pre-game activities. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 23.25px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To help get students <b>motivated</b> about the competition my team and I created a fun interactive bulletin board for our hallway. Students were to pick one helmet (<i>either for the South Carolina Gamecocks or the Clemson Tigers</i>) and decorate it with color and their name. Once students have <b>successfully</b> read one book they get their helmet placed on the 50-yard line. As students work towards their six books they move their helmets towards a <u>touchdown</u>! Once students are in the end-zone for a touchdown, <b>they can enter to win the grand prize!</b> We are <u>excited</u> to get all of our students entered into the contest and hope one of our <b>lucky</b> kiddos wins the whole competition! </span></span></span><br />
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<b>Finally</b> it's been a very <i>social</i> start to the school year! I have gotten the chance to see<b> some pretty awesome </b>old<b> </b>students of mine at Friday night football games and we <i>even</i> had our first 8th grade teacher social this weekend. It was nice to hang out with my <u>awesome</u> teammates and fellow 8th grade teachers outside of school and just enjoy each other's company. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 23.25px;"><i>I have to say</i> this has been a <b>fabulous</b> start to the year and <i>I can't wait</i> to see what the rest of the year has in store. It's going to be a <b>fantastic</b> year with some <u>wonderful</u> teammates and kiddos. </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="line-height: 23.25px;"><i>Until next time </i>....<b> :)</b></span></span></span>Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-26776210466620488732015-08-23T14:45:00.001-07:002015-08-23T14:45:35.812-07:005 Down... 175 To Go!We are <i><b>officially</b></i> one week into the 2015-2016 school year and it has been a <b>jam-packed</b> week of fun! We have done <i>several</i> Get-To-Know-You activities and filled our time with <a href="https://www.youcubed.org/week-of-inspirational-math/" target="_blank">A Week of Inspirational Math</a> from <a href="http://youcubed.com/">youcubed.com</a> and <a href="https://www.stanford.edu/" target="_blank">Stanford University</a>. <i>Oh trust me</i>... <b>I'm sharing it all</b> :)<br />
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<b>First</b> we did some <i>great</i> Get-To-Know-You activities with students. <b>Of course</b> my <i>personal</i> favorite activity that helped me get to know my students involved Math! There's two <i>slightly</i> different versions of this activity. The first one was for my Algebra I students, while the second was used within my Pre-Algebra class. Students were given one half-sheet of paper that contained the instructions for how to complete their circle (divided into sections) using their favorite interests, hobbies, and memories.<br />
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For Algebra I students the instructions were given in terms of problems using fractions. Students needed to <b>first</b> solve the problem, <i>before</i> then converting the fraction they found as the answer into a fraction with a denominator of 24. They needed the final fraction to be into 24th's because their circle was divided into 24 pieces.</div>
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Pre-Algebra students were given various fractions and a circle that was divided into 8 pieces; <i>therefore</i>, in order to determine how much of their circle was for which interest, hobby, etc. students needed to make <b>sure</b> they had equal fractions of 8th's.<br />
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Here are some of the <b>wonderful</b>, <i>colorful</i>, and <u>super</u> informative completed circles done by my new kiddos! It's <i>awesome</i> to see the amount of time, effort, and creativity students put into these circles and how much we can learn about each other just by looking at them.<br />
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<b>Aren't they awesome?! </b>I will get these laminated in the upcoming week and then students will put these on the outside of their lockers! It's a great way to get to know students, their interests, and add a <i>little</i> color to our hallways<b> :)</b><br />
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Throughout the week we also set the stage for important Math practices we want to incorporate throughout the year. Our <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/site/default.aspx?PageID=1" target="_blank">district's</a> <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Page/4577" target="_blank">Curriculum Instructor </a>showed us this <b>fabulous</b> website over the summer during our development days that we used within this first week of school to get students thinking about Math, <i>but also </i>to get them thinking about <i>why</i> and <i>how</i> we think about Math. Our activities came from <a href="http://youcubed.com/">youcubed.com</a> and Stanford University. We used their <b>Week of Inspirational Math</b> to get students comfortable within our Math classes.<br />
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The <i>first</i> activity we did is called Four 4's. We quickly watched a "Mindset" video before beginning the activity in order to get students ready for Math concepts and thinking. Students then worked together in groups to reach numbers 1 through 20 using only 4 4's and mathematical operations. <b>For example:</b> 4 + 4 + 4 + 4 would be 16. There are four 4's used within the problem. Another <b>example</b> would be 4 - 4 + 4 / 4 would be 1. As students worked together to reach numbers one through twenty it was <i>interesting</i> to see how they used their four 4's to reach the numbers. Students even got <b>creative</b> and used parenthesis to group operations together, use the square root of 4, numbers like 44, and more!<br />
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<b>It was a great activity! </b>Throughout the week we continued to work our way through the Week of Inspirational Math and their activities. Along with Four 4's, I think student's had a <b>great</b> time with Day 3's activity called Paper Folding. In this activity students started with a square piece of paper and had to then, using this square, fold the paper into various squares and triangles that had 1/2 or 1/4 of the area of the original square. Students did a <b><u>great</u></b> job with this activity and really enjoyed proving that the area was the 1/2 or 1/4 of the original. </div>
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Along with <b>awesome</b> activities that students really enjoyed, there were <u>fabulous</u> videos (short! only about 2-5 minutes each) that really hit home some <i>awesome</i> ideas for the Math classroom. Videos included discussions about speed and mistakes in Math classes. Messages encouraged students that it's not about speed in Math class, it's okay to make mistakes, our brain grows when we make those mistakes, and many more <b>wonderful</b> messages. Students really liked the videos and the activities, they really got the students thinking, and overall it was a <b>great</b> way to start the year in Math!</div>
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I'm <b>excited</b> for week 2 as we begin to <i>dive</i> into our curriculum, concepts, and actual Math work! Here's to a great school year and <b>lots</b> of updates on the blog! <i>Until next time</i>...<b> :)</b><br />
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Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-20902840392783930922015-08-15T16:34:00.000-07:002015-08-15T16:34:09.736-07:00Let's Get This Year Rolling<b>Well</b>, it's <i>official</i>...<u>school starts Monday</u>! Not the "<b>teacher-workday</b>" school, but the <i>official</i> "<b>OMG Kids are coming back"</b> school. To say my husband and I had a <b>fabulous</b> summer would be a<i> large understatement.</i> We did <u>anything</u> and <u>everything</u> we could have in the two months we had away from the classroom. Just a <i>quick</i> recap of our summer...We ventured to D.C., Berlin, Ohio, back to D.C., to Salvo, NC at the Outer Banks, to Charleston, SC, to D.C., to New York City, to D.C., and back to Charleston, SC. Within the two months we were away from the classroom, my husband and I calculated we were <i>probably</i> home only two weeks total!<b> It was a blast :)</b><br />
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Now that the summer has <i>officially</i> ended, we are back into reality and our teacher life. This past week we started our teacher workdays in preparation for our students returning this upcoming Monday. Outside of the many meetings (<i>all which were very beneficial and full of wonderful information!</i>) I did get the chance to get my room "<b>mostly</b>" ready for my new group. I got to move classrooms this summer and gain a new team. I am <b>very</b> excited about this upcoming year and my new teammies! I think we are going to have a <i><b>fabulous</b></i> year and make some <b>wonderful</b> memories with some <u>pretty</u> awesome kids! I, <i>of course</i>, will miss my old teammies, but it's just a small walk down the hall to visit them.<b> ;)</b></div>
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<i>Needless to say</i>...because I'm in a new room...I <i><b>have</b></i> to share my new room decoration<b> ;)</b><br />
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Here is <b><u>my</u></b> little corner. I give students <b>90% (</b><i>yes, 90%</i><b>)</b> of my room on a daily basis. Therefore, this is <b><u>my</u></b> little personal space.<i> Ignore the little two-toned bulletin boarder on my desk.</i> I ran out of the super-cute red and white checkered border and had to improvise with the glittery border.<b> But of course, </b>you can't hate on anything glitter right?<b> ;)</b> I am <b>super</b> excited about this little corner because in my previous classroom I didn't really have a corner that allowed for any "personalization." In this room I have the space to hang up team pictures, add a little color with flowers, and even prop up a few pictures of the hubs and me. <b>Not to mention, </b>I have two bookcases in my little corner full of my resources, books, materials, binders, etc.<u> I love this space! </u><br />
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This is actually the space <b>directly</b> beside my little corner. In the first picture of my corner you can see the computer to the left of my corner...these computers are four computers within my room for students to use throughout the year with our <a href="https://www.carnegielearning.com/learning-solutions/software/mathia/" target="_blank">Mathia</a> program. <i>Now for this space</i>...I can't take all of the credit. This <b>super cute </b>bulletin board was done by the <u>fabulous</u> teacher in the room before me. She made the move the<a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/16" target="_blank"> high school </a>and left her <b>adorably</b> decorated boards for me! I added the calendar to make sure everyone knows the correct date and where events fall. I also found a great picture on <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/sstadler20/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> of an "<b>Information Station</b>." I <i>loved</i> the idea and created my own. <i>Now, I'm regretting the brown polka-dot letters on the burlap</i> (it's <i>pretty</i> difficult to see Information Station out of it), <b>but</b> I love the idea of the school-colored sections. I have spaces for school news, sports schedules, club events, and other things that come up throughout the school year. My plan is to simply pin any handouts, schedules, announcements, etc. to these sections as they come out for students. This is an area that students can go to if they ever have any questions as to what's happening in school<i>. Not to mention,</i> this space is the <b>start</b> of my classroom library! It's a collection of books from my days as a Language Arts teacher, $250 classroom library fund from our school two years ago, retiring teachers leaving books behind, and students donating books they no longer wanted. It's definitely becoming a nice collection!<br />
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This <i>little</i> area is right inside the door as it opens and serves as the rest of my classroom library collection. <b>I think it's safe to say students have plenty of options to find a book, or several, that they are interested in! </b><i>Also</i> in this picture is the <u>brilliant</u> idea one of my former colleagues had back at <a href="http://www.gaston.k12.nc.us/cramertonmiddle" target="_blank">Cramerton Middle</a>. The "pot-of-flowers" are actually correcting pens for students! Red pens with simple green floral tape and a flower attached to the top! Students use them to grade their own and their peers papers throughout the year. It's <b>great</b> because it's a wonderful decoration when not being used and easy to spot if left behind or taken out of the room. <b>;)</b><br />
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This is the <b>very back </b>of my room, beside the <i>little</i> piece of my classroom library. <b><i>Again</i></b>..total props to the teacher before me for the <b>super-cute</b> burlap decorated bulletin board.<i> How can you take that down</i>?<b> You can't!</b> I just added my own little ideas over it! On the left side of the board is something I started last year with my students. Those charts are where I calculate the class/period average on each test and record it for the team to see. Each chart is grouped by the two periods of that course (For example: the top chart includes 3rd and 6th period, or my Algebra classes). Each period gets their own color and we keep track of the two classes averages on every test. We discuss <b>how</b> we did as a whole class, <b>how</b> we did as a whole team, and <b>analyze</b> the test and it's content. Students <u>really</u> like to see the data of how they did in comparison to the class, the other period, and the entire team! On the right side of the board is an idea I'm stealing this year from <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/128985976804838999/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a>. For every major test we take, as students earn an 80% or higher, they will get a sticky note. On the sticky note they will put: their name, the test, and their average. They will then add it to our "<b>Wall of Champions</b>." I'm anxious to see how this goes, but <i>I'm hoping it fills up pretty quickly</i><b> ;) </b><br />
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This space is a <i>little</i> of a <b>hot-mess</b> right now. It's definitely a "<u>work-in-progress.</u>" The box under all the tables include textbooks that will be passed out the first week of school, and Math materials that we will use throughout the school year. It's <b>pretty</b> easy storage for the moment! The crates to the left are labeled by period (3rd, 4th, 6th, and 7th). In these bins are where student folders are held. Each student will get a folder in the first week of school. These folders will go home once a week or bi-weekly depending on the class. I use these folders to send home any paper assignments, quizzes, tests, announcements, etc. that students turn in. When folders go home they are loaded with papers, grades, and information. Students take the folders home, have parents date and initial the inside pocket saying they've seen the papers and grades, and students then bring the empty folder back to me. I keep them in the bin until the next time they are ready to go home. I got this idea from another fellow colleague back at <b>Cramerton Middle.</b> It's a <i>great</i> idea and organized manner of sending papers home and getting folders back! There's just a <u>long</u> list of dates and signatures at the end of the year on the inside of the folders, <b>but it works</b>! The cabinet contains our classroom calculators. <i>My plans </i>for this space include a "No-Name" poster with clothes pins above the bins for work that doesn't have a name on it. I also am <i>planning</i> on creating a space near the calculators for students to grab their <a href="http://sstadler.blogspot.com/2015/02/plickerswhat.html" target="_blank">Plickers</a> as they grab their calculator for the day. I'll be <i>sure</i> to post those updates as they come!<br />
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After strolling by the windows and our <i>lovely</i> view, you come to Mrs. Blocker's desk, our "While You Were Out" area, and homework space. Mrs. Blocker is my co-teacher and I am <b>super</b> jealous of how her desk turned out! A lot <b>cuter</b> than my mix-and-match red glitter boarder! I'm excited to work with Mrs. Blocker! She has been <u>wonderful</u> to us teachers this first week of workdays, I can only imagine how <i>awesome</i> she'll be with kids! The "While You Were Out" space is where I write down what was covered each day in each class. <i>Nothing crazy,</i> just a little blurb like: Chapter 5 Section 1 and 2. That way students who are absent can quickly see what was covered and ask a friend for the notes. They can also tell me, when they return, what assignments they may have missed without having to go back in my plans. This directly relates to the "Were You Absent" binder on the board. This is broken up by class period as well, and if we happened to do a worksheet, quiz, test, or any kind of handout that day, I <i>simply</i> add an extra copy in there with the student's name on it. It is then up to them to check this binder and complete anything with their name on it.<br />
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I am <b>excited</b> for this upcoming year, <i>my new room</i>, <u>my new teammates</u>, <b>my new co-teacher</b>, and <b><u>my new group of students</u></b>. I already plan to share the "work-in-progress" areas and <i>of course</i> any and everything we do this year... <i>Just wait</i><b> ;)</b><div>
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<i><b>Until next time.</b></i>.. <b>:)</b></div>
Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-66818465673103882322015-06-09T16:20:00.001-07:002015-06-09T16:20:48.953-07:00Angry Birds Close The Year!<b>I guess the 2014-2015 school year is over :(</b><br />
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I can't <b>believe</b> how <i>fast</i> this year went. <u>Maybe</u> it was feeling more comfortable with my grade level and content area, <u>maybe</u> it was coaching both 7th grade basketball and the softball teams, <u>maybe</u> it was the 13 tests my students needed to prepare for... <b>I'm not sure</b>... <u>Maybe</u> it was a combination of all these factors, but I'm super <b>bummed</b> it's already over!<br />
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Wrapping up the school year I didn't get the opportunity to share the <i>awesome</i> <a href="https://www.angrybirds.com/" target="_blank">Angry Bird</a> inspired project that my Algebra kids got the opportunity to do. Students were grouped into small groups of four members and given a <b>specific</b> "version" of the Angry Birds project (<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0K29i61L4cdaFROdnRkSVFSejA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Locate it here!</a>)...Check out the <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/pin/128985976802782320/" target="_blank">original post</a> where I found the project here! Once students had their groups, they could chose how they approached the project. Each group was given four of the Angry Birds (<span style="color: red;">red</span>, <span style="color: yellow;">yellow</span>, <span style="color: blue;">blue</span>, and black) and specific characteristics of their travel. This included <i>anything</i> from distance and vertex of the flight, to table of values describing the flight, to the actual equation. Students then had to determine the height of the bird's flight (maximum), the distance of the flight, and the axis of symmetry of the flight. Each bird was different and unique. <b>Finally</b>, before creating their poster, students were given two pigs (<span style="color: #38761d;">King Pig and Mustache Pig</span>) at certain coordinates that they used to determine which bird hit which pig.<br />
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Students <b>really</b> took this project and ran with it! They actually completed it within <u>three</u> days! Last year...<i>granted we stalled a little</i>....but we took a <b>week</b> to complete! I don't want to say it <i>too much</i>...But I am <u><b>really going to miss</b></u> our groups from this year. Both Algebra and PreAlgebra! We had some pretty <b>awesome</b>, <i>fabulous</i>, <u>terrific</u> kids if I say so myself <b>:)</b><br />
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<b>Before</b> signing off for the school year... (<i>Of course you know</i> I'll post throughout the summer...We have <b>major</b> vaca's planned for me and the hubs! Washington D.C. to see the parents, Ohio to see the in-laws, Outer Banks with the family, and a New York anniversary trip! I also have <i>several</i> Professional Development sessions planned and <b>have</b> to share once those are attended!) I wanted to give one last <b>shout-out</b> to my <u>fabulous</u> teammates, students, and <i>overall</i> school year of 2014-2015. <b>Here's to the class of 2019! </b>Have a <i><u>wonderful</u></i> summer... <i>Until next time</i>....<b> :) </b><br />
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<br />Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-84599635016034440872015-05-31T14:55:00.002-07:002015-05-31T14:55:58.480-07:00Swimming Into the EndWe are now 1 full day and 3 half-days away from the end of the year school. <b>Seriously</b>, <i>it's flying!</i><br />
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Before I get into all the fun projects students have been working on...I need to take a minute a brag on a specific group of mine. I have two Algebra I classes (8th graders taking the 9th grade course) and a total 36 students between the two. We recently had our End Of Course (EOC) test that counts as <b>20%</b> of student's <u>final average for the year.</u> Students need an <b>85%</b> average for the year in order to receive the high school credit and continue advance Math courses in high school. <b>So</b>, <i>to say this test is a big deal would be an understatement.</i> Well...onto bragging: out of my 36 students (<b>drum roll please</b>) there was a <b>100% passing rate!</b> All 36 students passed the test. We had 1 D (with a 76%...1 little point from a C), and<u> 22 A's..</u>.<b>12 of which were 100%</b>!!! I am <i>beyond</i> proud of these kids. They worked their little booty's off and put in some <i>serious</i> time and work this year. I am speechless with how wonderful they did on this test..<b>.it's unbelievable</b>! I of course had to spread the word on Social Media<b> ;)</b><br />
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While my Algebra kiddos were in <b>straight beast-mode</b> for the EOC, my Pre-Algebra buddies were working<i> super hard</i> on reviewing linear equations. They were given 12 little problems using either two coordinates or a coordinate and a slope. Students were to write the linear equation representing the line in slope-intercept form. Once students had their 12 equations (<i>and were correctly checked by me)</i>, students were given 12 coordinates and a piece of large graph paper. Students then plotted the coordinates in order, connected the dots, and matched up their equations to which line it represented.<br />
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<i>Once all those steps were complete</i>, students then decorated their picture. We even had our own little <b>"Fishy Fashion Show</b>" and the entire team <i>including our four teachers</i>, got to vote on their favorite. Here are some of the <b><u>fabulous</u></b> participants in our show:<br />
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After a vote by our entire team (<i>69 students and 4 teachers; and we even had an assistant principal vote!</i>) we had a winner! <u>With 34% of the votes</u>...<b>Our winner</b>.....<br />
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Students <i>really</i> seemed to enjoy this little project. It would be <b>great</b> to do before End of Year testing to review writing linear equations and matching equations to specific lines. <b>If only it didn't take about a week </b>(<i>a very, very relaxed week</i>) to complete <b>;)</b></div>
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<b>After</b> their review of linear equations, PreAlgebra kiddos got to review angles created with parallel lines and transversals. Students were given a blank piece of white paper with a <i>few</i> guidelines. Students were to create a neighborhood/town scene by drawing two parallel line streets with transversal streets. With the angles that were created, students were then to <u>strategically</u> place various components of a neighborhood/town. <b>For example: </b>students were to place houses on alternate interior angles, a school and a building on corresponding angles, etc. </div>
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There were several students, <i>my non-color fans</i>, who did the simple assignment exactly as decorated, nothing flashy...<b>but still perfect</b>! Then there were <i>of course </i>my <b>artsy</b> kiddos who really got into the assignment and drew everything from parks, parking lots, trees, and even lakes/ponds. Students did a <b>great</b> job on this review assignment as well! </div>
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So between my Algebra kids working on their EOC review and test, and my Pre-Algebra buddies reviewing various concepts, these past two weeks have been <b>very productive</b>! We are into our final week of school beginning tomorrow (<i>can you believe it?</i>)! My Algebra kids are wrapping up a quick quadratic review project involving Angry Birds so I'll be sure to share their final products, as well as, our Moving-On Ceremony this time next week! <i>Until next time.</i>.. <b>:)</b></div>
Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-10670439312980301542015-05-19T10:19:00.003-07:002015-05-19T10:19:28.360-07:00The Beginning of a Wrap-Up<b>It's testing season. </b>When I say "testing season..." <i>I mean 3 English/Reading/Writing ACTs, Math ACT, Science ACT, Science PASS, Social Studies PASS, English I EOC, Algebra I EOC, and all 4 content area SLOs. </i><b>Yep</b>...some of my poor little 8th graders will take <b><u>13 tests</u></b> all within the month of May. Not to mention...those students who elected to take Spanish or French I during their Academy time, will have their end of course test during this month as well; <u>up to 14 tests!!</u><br />
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Around testing, it gets <b>very</b> <b>challenging</b> to see some of my classes, get review material in, and keep students interested in doing Math following a few hours of testing. <i>So needless to say,</i> I need to create a way for students to review Math materials...<b>given the idea that I may not see them but for twenty to thirty minutes some days</b> (<i>if I get to see them at all</i>), and given that I need to make sure they are <i>at least </i>a little interested in what I'm having them do.<br />
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<b>My idea...Let's use the iPads!</b> <i>Kids love those things right?</i> <b>:)</b><br />
I went through our curriculum, textbooks, and lessons and came across 12 chapters for each Algebra and PreAlgebra class that we've covered throughout the year. Within my 2 Algebra and 2 PreAlgebra classes I divided kids into groups of two or three in order to cover all 12 chapters of material. Groups then drew chapter numbers out of a hat to determine the chapter their group was responsible for. For example my large Algebra I class of 26 students had 9 groups: 8 groups of 3 and 1 group of 2. My smaller Algebra class (of only 10 students) had 3 groups: 2 groups of 3 and 1 group of 4. Within both classes, there were 12 groups that would cover the 12 chapters of material.<br />
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Once students had their groups and their chapters they were ready to get started. Students had a <b>3-piece checklist.</b> Students were to create their own review station for their chapter. Within their station they would create a <u>Vocabulary Page</u>, a <b>Note Page,</b> and a <i>5-to-10 question quiz</i>. Students were to use their iPads and any APP of their choice to create the three components. <b>It was awesome</b> to see student's creativity and personality come through in the various ways they chose to represent their chapter. <i>Check out some of the submissions:</i><br />
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<b>Click here --></b> <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0K29i61L4cdZTE2MmMzUkRuak0/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">Chapter 5 Entire Station</a><br />
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I even had a group great their own <b>website</b> holding all their information --> <a href="http://chapter7.simdif.com/index.html" target="_blank">Click Here for Chapter 7</a><br />
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<i>After</i> students created their "Review Stations" (I gave them three class periods), they then spent the last two days of the week using their iPads to <b><i>virtually</i></b> visit all the stations. Students took the notes, memorized and reviewed the vocabulary and then completed the station's quizzes. Students completed the quizzes using online quiz websites, <a href="https://getkahoot.com/" target="_blank">Kahoot</a>!, <a href="http://www.gingerlabs.com/" target="_blank">Notability</a>, and <a href="https://www.apple.com/mac/pages/" target="_blank">Pages</a> apps. Students then took screenshots of all quizzes and uploaded into the corresponding Station Quiz under Schoolwork in our <a href="http://www.mybigcampus.com/activity" target="_blank">My Big Campus</a> groups. </div>
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<b>Students really seemed to enjoy</b> this way of reviewing rather then <i>simply</i> getting packet after packet and going through what feels like a <u>billion</u> multiple choice questions! Within the next weeks Algebra students will be reviewing those mounds of packets using their Algebra standards as we move towards their EOC (End-Of-Course test). We will play review games each day with a different standard. My plans are <b>Kahoot!</b>, <i>Survivor</i>, <u>Jeopardy</u>, and <b>ZAP</b>! Pre-Algebra students will begin a project reviewing finding slopes of lines through two points, and writing the equation in slope-intercept form.<i> I'll be sure to post their projects and progress! </i>I can't wait to see their <b>artsy</b>-<i>crafty</i> side. <b>:)</b></div>
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As we are reviewing...we are also getting <b>prepared</b> for our annual <b><u>8th grade Charleston Field Trip.</u></b> My Social Studies teammate is busy preparing her room for those students staying at school and participating in Virtual Charleston. Her room is the <a href="http://scaquarium.org/" target="_blank">South Carolina Aquarium</a> where students will learn about South Carolina Pirates and <a href="http://www.hunley.org/" target="_blank">The Hunley</a> throughout their Virtual Charleston experience. <b>Just check out how crafty and fabulous this underwater-classroom looks</b>!</div>
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<i>So basically</i> my Social Studies teammate is <b>awesome</b>! <u>Super creative</u>, <i>super imaginative</i>, just overall <b>fabulous</b>! She did all of this with things laying around her room or from the dollar store! Super thrifty!! <i>Well</i>, now it's time to start decorating my room... <u>Barn Quilts here we come</u> <b>;)</b></div>
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Before I leave for the post...It's time to <b>brag</b> on my little softball team from this year. We had an <b>amazing</b> season, finishing 2nd in the County Championship to York Middle School. This year's girls are a <i>beyond</i> talented group of girls that I have had the pleasure of working with for the last 2 years. I'm not sure how we are going to manage next year without our <b>11</b> 8th graders...but we are <i>excited</i> to see them succeed and do well at the high school level. I will miss these girls, but look forward to next season as my <b>2</b> 7th graders become <b>positive team leaders</b>. </div>
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<i>Something to look forward to in the next post</i>...My Pre-Algebra kids create a linear fish scene, my Algebra students get introduced to the game <b>ZAP</b>!, and we virtually visit Charleston for the end of the week. <u>Loads of fun coming up</u>... <i>Until next time</i>.... <b>:)</b></div>
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Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-52343990286081260312015-04-19T11:54:00.001-07:002015-04-19T11:54:21.284-07:00CountDown is On!<i>So</i> apparently this year just wants to fly by. <b>It's already mid-April</b>! My little softball season is down to 4 total games left, my little 8th graders are <u>1 week away</u> from their ACT End-of-Year test, and we are roughly 6 weeks away from the last day of school. <i>I'm getting a little emotional</i><b> :(</b><br />
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Our <a href="http://sstadler.blogspot.com/2015/03/march-is-pretty-awesome.html" target="_blank">March Madness Book Battle</a> competition through <a href="http://www.mybigcampus.com/activity" target="_blank">My Big Campus</a> has even come to close. Our Championship round involved a <b>head-to-head </b>match-up of <a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=the%20hunger%20games" target="_blank">The Hunger Games</a> and <a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=divergent" target="_blank">Divergent</a>. <u>The Hunger Games</u> was the reining champion, but with <b>58% of the over 300 total votes</b> by students and teachers, <u>Divergent</u> pulled off the upset for this year's Champion. <b>Congrats <u>Divergent</u></b> (<i>even though my personal vote went towards</i> <u>The Hunger Games</u> <b>;)</b> )<br />
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In my last post, all about March's good points, I <i>totally forgot </i>to mention that <b>this</b> March held the <b>Ultimate Pi Day</b>! <i>Of course,</i> as a Math teacher, I had to do something to celebrate this occasion with my students. Since the date actually fell over a weekend, I wanted to make sure students gave the the the attention it deserved <b>;) </b>Therefore, my Math teammies and I came up with a Ultimate Pi Day Collage project for students to complete over the weekend. With our 1:to:1 iPad plan for students in our district, students were instructed to take pictures of Math in real-world examples they saw throughout the weekend. The specific pictures they had to find were given as the following:<br />
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<b>1</b> - Selfie (so we could identify who made the collage)<br />
<b>4</b> - Non-Linear Functions<br />
<b>1</b> - Set of Parallel Lines<br />
<b>5</b> - Linear Functions.<br />
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Students took their pictures over the weekend and then had class time Monday to use an Photo app of their choice to put the pictures into a collage. Students also had a give a <i>brief</i> description as to why the pictures they picked represented the given concept. <b>Not to mention</b>, every collage they put inside of the final collage earned them an extra point! The students really enjoyed this activity and putting their own personal spins and touches on it. <i>We got some really awesome collages to show off</i>!<br />
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Along with Pi Day Collages, students got to use their iPads this week as we were beginning to wrap-up new material. <i>Again</i>..<b>we only have 1 week until our END OF YEAR TEST!</b> Can you believe it? It's just <u>ridiculous</u>.<br />
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Back to reality...In our Algebra class we were "re-hitting" the Real Number System and it's Properties. We covered this material at the beginning of the year. <i>Now when I say beginning of the year</i>...I mean like way September time, so <b>wwaayyy</b> beginning of the year. Instead of taking two days to review old-school note style something that these kiddos have already studied (not just this year, but even in 7th grade!), I decided to give them a little bit of <b>ownership</b> in their notes. Students were given the types of numbers (Whole, Natural, Real, Irrational, Rational, and Integers) as well as the properties (Commutative, Associative, Distributive, Inverse, and Identity). Students were to use any iPad app of their choice (many picked Notability, Keynote, or Pages) and define the type of number or property and give an example.<br />
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There were <b>several</b> differences in student turned in material, not only in apps, but in colors, pictures, details, etc. It was interesting to see the wide range of note-taking I received. Everything from black and white note pages, to full-out close to 30 page slide shows. I am still <i>fascinated</i> with the amount of time and effort students put into creating things on their iPads. I <b>love</b> to see the amount of quality and skills they have when they are given the chance to create something on their own with little instructions and guidelines.<br />
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<i>After</i> creating their notes, students used what they created to complete a homework assignment that had two parts: 1) students were given an example and had to identify what property is was displaying. 2) students were given a completely solved equation, step-by-step, and students had to label each step and what property was used to solve the step. I <i><b>even</b></i> got the comment the next day "<i>My notes really helped me do my homework.</i>" (Although this is what I go for <b>everyday</b>! Haha)<br />
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I am amazed at how students are using their iPads and how creative they can be. I am <i>eager</i> to see the quality of projects and work that I will receive following our<b> END OF YEAR</b> tests (<i>have I mentioned that it is in 2 weeks?)</i>. I am looking forward to seeing how creative students can be when not limited to textbook learning. I've got some pretty exciting things planned and I'll be sure to share!<br />
<i>Until next time</i>... <b>:)</b>Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-58322796305286635442015-03-25T12:46:00.002-07:002015-03-25T12:46:27.306-07:00March is Pretty Awesome! <b>It's that time of the year again! </b>March is one of my <i>favorite</i> months for a couple reasons. Of course the first one..<i>totally sappy</i>...but it's my hubby's birthday. Not to mention it's his <b><u>30th</u></b> this year! Whoop Whoop!<br />
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March is also one of my favorite months because of <b>March Madness.</b> I <i>love</i> basketball and I absolutely <i>love</i> the competition and excitement of March Madness. It is always <b>super</b> exciting and <b>super</b> interesting to see who makes it through the rounds, where the upsets come from, and the level of determination among the players, coaches, and schools participating. It's always fun to make brackets, see who wins, and have <b><i>friendly</i></b> wagers on the tournament. Currently for this year, this girl is winning our<a href="http://games.espn.go.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2015/en/" target="_blank"> ESPN Tournament Challenge </a>with <b>440 points</b>, while my hubby only has 390! I don't want to speak too soon, but this girl may be winning a home-cooked three course dinner!<br />
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<i>But anyways</i>...to <b>totally</b> relate this back to school, I had to bring the competition in some way to <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/14" target="_blank">Clover Middle</a>! Last year I had an idea...totally stolen from <a href="https://www.pinterest.com/sstadler20/" target="_blank">Pinterest.</a>..to make a School Battle of the Book Competition. Last year we used the old fashion bulletin board to create a March Madness bracket between the top 16 books checked out of our library. <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/1717" target="_blank">Mrs. Boheler</a>, our media specialist, pulled the list of the top books, and we created a head-to-head battle for the books to compete against each other. Check it out: *Shout out to <a href="http://timehop.com/" target="_blank">TimeHop</a> for the photo!*<br />
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To get students to vote, we placed QR codes throughout the school and emailed out URL links that allowed students to complete a Google Form and submit. Each week students voted for their favorite books out of the list until books were narrowed down to two and competed head-to-head. Our Book Champion last year was <b><u>The Hunger Games</u></b>, <i>my personal favorite</i>. <b>:)</b><br />
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This year we are 1-to-1 with students all having their own iPad. Mrs. Boheler, Mrs. Lefler (our technology guru), and I wanted a way for students to use their iPads and a program that they were move familiar with rather than Google Forms. Mrs. Lefler had the idea of students using <a href="http://mybigcampus.com/" target="_blank">My Big Campus</a> to complete surveys. My Big Campus is the program that all teachers use throughout the district and students are comfortable with posting to discussion boards, submitting school work, etc. Mrs. Boheler took care of putting all grade level students into their own group through the media center. Her groups were based on their graduating year (ex: Class of 2019, Class of 2020, and Class of 2021). Mrs. Boheler also added me as an administrator to the groups so that we could assign the March Madness Book Battle through schoolwork to all students.<br />
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<span class="s1">After the groups were created, I made a "Simple Assignment" survey and listed the top 16 books for this year's checkout rotation. There were <i>many</i> books that were repeated in the top 16 from last year. It's interesting to see how popular some books are year after year. The first survey asked students to vote for their top 8 books out of the list to move on in the competition. Students had from Monday to Sunday to complete the survey. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">As an administrator, Mrs. Boheler and I could log in at any time to see the Live Report under options for the school work. When we would look at the Live Report we could see how many students have completed the survey, how many students were left to vote, and the current vote percentage for each book by grade level. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">On Monday morning the votes were tallied among grade levels and the top 8 voted for books were moved onto a new survey. The new survey was sent out this Monday and students again have until Sunday to complete their votes. </span></div>
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<span class="s1">Students are <b>really</b> enjoying the voting process and by doing the survey through My Big Campus, I feel as though <i>more</i> students are participating! We </span><span class="s2">definitely</span><span class="s1"> have had more participants each of our two weeks this year compared to last year. I </span><span class="s2">definitely</span><span class="s1"> think it helps that students are also competing for an <b>extra</b> 10 minutes of recess if they are the grade level with the most participation. <b>Hey</b>...<i>a little reward never hurt anyone right?</i></span></div>
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For our first completed week of the March Madness Book Battle we had approximately <b>half</b> the students in the school complete the survey and vote for their books! With only two and half days into this voting week, we have <b>already had over 162 students vote</b>! Looks like March Madness is as much of a hit with the kiddos as it is with me <b>;)</b><br />
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<span class="s1"><i>Along</i> with the hubby's birthday and March Madness, March is <b>pretty awesome </b>because it's finally time for our Softball season to kick it into gear! I have a <i>fabulous</i> group of 14 girls this year. Last year, with 9 7th graders who all returned this year as 8th graders, we made it to the <a href="http://www.fortmillathletics.com/page/show/643113-york-co-middle-school-athletic-conference"><span class="s2">York County Championship</span></a> and lost a tough one to York Middle School. We are <b>hoping</b> and <i>planning</i> to make it back to the championship and have a different outcome this year! </span></div>
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<span class="s1"><b>I will be sure</b> to update on the March Madness Book Battle, the Championship book, and our softball season (currently starting out 3-0!), so keep looking! <i>Until next time</i>... <b>:)</b></span></div>
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Well, this is a <b>great</b> story about learning something new. My husband and I were at dinner with some friends from our old school <a href="http://gaston.k12.nc.us/cramertonmiddle" target="_blank">Cramerton Middle</a> the other week and we were,<i> of course</i>, talking about school things. One of my best friends, Candace was telling me about a technology based professional development they had on something called <b>Plickers</b>. Since I had never heard of this before, <i>of course </i>I had to ask her for some more details.<br />
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Candace told me that <b>Plickers</b> is a web-based program that teachers can use as quizzes, exit tickets, etc. She told me that students are assigned "cards" to use in answering multiple choice or true/false questions. Once students have their "cards," a teacher-created question is shown on the front board, through the website, and students hold up their card with their answer choice pointing up. Then teachers, after downloading the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/plickers/id701184049?mt=8" target="_blank">Plickers App </a>(Hint: only on iPhones or Andriods...not on iPads yet) can scan the class and the cards will register each students' answer choice.<br />
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I thought this was something <b>super</b> interesting and <i>of course</i> had to do a little research before using in my classroom. I did some hunting and online searching and ...<br />
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<b><i>First</i></b>, Teachers create their class (or classes) on <a href="http://plickers.com/">Plickers.com</a><br />
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I created my classes by my class periods. Therefore, I have 4 total classes and assigned students their unique card simply by alphabetical order. </div>
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<i><b>Second</b></i>, Teachers create a quiz, exit ticket, or question that they want students to answer. Questions can either be multiple choice or true/false.</div>
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<b><i>After</i></b> your quiz is created, you choose which class to assign the question to. Once it is displayed on the board (through the website), there are several screen variations you can show. You can have just the question and answer choices or you can have a list of student names visible along with the question. </div>
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When you are ready for your students to answer and the question is on the board, simply open the Plickers App on your phone (again only iPhone or Android...bummer iPad peeps). </div>
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<b><i>Once</i></b> the app is open on your phone, click on the class answering the question at the time, open the intended question also on your phone, and you'll be ready to collect responses! </div>
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<b><i>Now</i></b> is the time for students to hold up their unique card with their answer choice on the top. For example if they want to answer A, students will hold their card up so that the A side of the card is on the top. </div>
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<b><i>Once</i></b> students have their cards up and ready to be scanned, use your open Plickers App on your phone to slowly scroll around the room. The app will record each students' response by recognizing their unique card and answer choice. The app them compiles the results for you! </div>
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<b>It's awesome, brilliant, super easy, super tech-friendly, everything</b>! I <i>could not</i> believe how easy it all was once I got signed into the website. Having never used Plickers before, I was pleasantly pleased with how <b>easy</b> it was to figure out on the website, get the questions entered, and get the program working in my class. </div>
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Once I decided to jump all in with Plickers I <i>had</i> to make a central location where students could get their unique Plicker cards on a daily basis. <b>Another</b> great thing about Plickers is that one card, for example card 1, can be assigned to one student per class. Therefore, every student at the top of the alphabetical list per period, can share a card. <b>No 4 copies of cards to keep up with!! Whoop Whoop!</b></div>
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I created a little homemade board area and placed it near our calculators that are already numbered for students to use daily, and simply Velcro-ed the cards to the board. This way students can easily take their card when they grab their calculator, whether we are using it throughout the class period or not, keep it at their desk, and return to the board when returning their same numbered calculator. </div>
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I <b>can not wait </b>to actually use the Plickers in my room this upcoming week. My <i>intentions</i> were to use them last week, <b>but</b> with the ice we had and the week of 2-Hour delays, our schedules were a <i>little crammed</i> to say the least. I am <b>super</b> looking forward to a full-normal week (<i>as normal as 8th grade can be :) )</i> of school, classes, lessons, and using Plickers! I'll be sure to update with how it works (although I'm sure it will be a hit!) and my students' thoughts and feelings about the new exciting and interactive way of doing exit tickets. </div>
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<br />Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-47032754981480487082015-02-08T14:54:00.004-08:002015-02-08T14:54:35.870-08:00A Little Friday and Saturday Fun!Friday at school was a day that 8th grade students got the opportunity to <b>Job Shadow</b> an adult of their choice. Students were given a "Job Shadowing Packet" where they could choose an adult of who they wanted to job shadow and get the day as an <i>excused absence,</i> <b>granted</b> they complete a little packet on what they learned during the day, what they experienced, and how they could use it in their future. <i>So needless to say</i>...our Team 8<span style="color: red;"><3</span> was a little <u>small</u> on Friday. My classes which originally have between 13 and 25 students, were down to roughly 7 and 8 students.<br />
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<b>Instead</b> of having all our "Job Shadowing" students miss new core subject material, we decided that our <i>non</i>-Job Shadow students needed a little career experience of their own! One of my lovely teammates, <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/835" target="_blank">Katie Hagy</a>, scheduled <b>two</b> wonderful guest speakers for us to begin the day. A mom of one of our students, <a href="http://www.cloversc.org/pview.aspx?id=13102&catid=292" target="_blank">Allison Harvey</a>, and a local Park Ranger. Allison Harvey is the Town Administrator of Clover. She gave a <i>wonderful</i> presentation and the students were <b>super</b> excited to hear about how the town is run. Our Park Ranger also did a <u>fantastic</u> job of informing the students of all the pieces of his job that most of them don't realize! The kids were surprised to know that there are times that Park Rangers actually set fires instead of putting them out!<br />
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<b>Later</b> in the day I partnered with my Language Arts teammate, <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/2250" target="_blank">Susan Hopper,</a> for a joint-career project for the students. Students used the <a href="https://sccis.intocareers.org/materials/portal/home.html" target="_blank">SCOIS</a> website to research their dream job getting all the information including salary, skill levels, education needed, job duties and more before creating a Wanted Poster through an app of their choice on their iPads containing all their research. The students put together some really neat posters! <b>Check them out:</b>...<i>Plus</i> check out where I got the idea <b><a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=career%20wanted%20poster" target="_blank">here</a>!</b><br />
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<b>Saturday's</b> are <i>typically</i> time to relax, spend some time with my hubby and our dog Brutus, get a little shopping in, and just enjoy a little time off from the school world. This Saturday; <i>however</i>, I got the chance to spend the day with some<b> pretty awesome </b>kids. This is my first year working with our <a href="http://www.mathcounts.org/" target="_blank">MathCounts</a> team at <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/cms" target="_blank">Clover Middle. </a>We have three coaches: Ms. Ammons, Mrs. Fayssoux, and myself. We have practices Tuesday and Thursday mornings before school from 7:40-8:15am, and after school on Mondays and Thursdays from 3:30-4:30pm. On Saturday we attended the <a href="http://classes.midlandstech.edu/jenkinsr/mmmweb/MMMHOME.html" target="_blank">Midland Math Meet</a> at <a href="http://www.midlandstech.edu/" target="_blank">Midlands Technical College</a>. This was Clover's second appearance at the meet, but my first. This was <i>basically</i>...<b>an awesome experience! </b><br />
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<b>Here's the way it works:</b> When you arrive you register for the meet. Students get a colored name tag containing one shape (there are 5 colors: red, blue, orange, purple, and yellow. there are 8 shapes: triangles, squares, rhombus, parallelogram, right triangle, pentagon, hexagon, and circle). Our 12 students were separated throughout the 40 teams that were within the competition. Teachers checked in at a separate table and are assigned a similar card. Teachers or volunteers are then "Team Leader" of that group. I was given the <span style="color: red;">Red Triangles</span>; <b>"Best Team Ever." </b>I had one 6th grade student from our school, one 6th grade student from Crossroad Middle, one 5th grader from Carolina School of Inquiry, and one 7th grader. <b>It was an awesome team!</b><br />
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Once students/teachers/volunteers got their assignment, we entered the auditorium and sat by groups. There were five warm-up questions displayed on a giant screen for students to work on while other registered and got checked in. <i>After</i> the introduction we were given a schedule of five events for the day. We started at Math Jeopardy. This is pretty self-explanatory, but it was a <b>fun</b> game!<br />
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<i>Next</i> we moved to the Individual Effort competition. Here students had nine questions that they worked on individually. Our score was compiled by the number of questions we got correct as a team. There were a total of nine questions, and we had four team members. Students enjoyed this game because of the clickers used to enter their answers.<br />
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After Individual Effort we moved to TeamWork. At this station groups worked together to solve three missions. Students were presented with each mission individually and then given eight minutes to solve it. Students enjoyed this activity but found it the most challenging since they had to submit one answer as a group.<br />
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We got a little refreshment break after the first three activities before moving Spin to Win. This game was based on Wheel of Fortune. Again, this game and activity was pretty self explanatory. We actually came in <b>first place </b>out of the groups we competed with in this activity and my <span style="color: red;">Red Triangles </span>could not have been more excited!<br />
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Our last activity was Hands On. This was pretty <i>awesome</i>. Students worked together with manipulative to solve four to five little puzzles. There was a students from Midlands Tech College at each station who helped talk with students and encouraged them to remember to work together!<br />
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After all five activities, we ate lunch, and then went back to the auditorium by group for the awards ceremony. No <span style="color: red;">Red Triangles </span>won anything...<b>booooo</b>...but two students from Clover did! One student was a part of the team who scored the highest in <b>Spin to Win,</b> one student was a member of a team who scored the highest in <b>TeamWork</b>, and actually...Ms. Ammons', our head coach, team won the award for the highest scoring in <b>Hands On</b>! <i>Overall</i> it was a <u>great</u> day and we really enjoyed it <b>:)</b><br />
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It was <b>by far </b>one of the <i>best</i> experiences I've had as a teacher. It was awesome to see so many students, from so many schools and grade levels work together and have a great time working with Math. <b>I will definitely be helping with Math Counts next year!</b><br />
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Well it's Sunday and it's time for this teacher to get a little rest and catch the Grammy's...<br />
<i>Until next time<b> </b></i><b>:)</b>Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-43837440918322356732015-02-04T17:03:00.001-08:002015-02-04T17:14:47.706-08:00Bragging CornerNot to toot our own horn....<b>but</b> I need a little space to <i>toot our own horn</i> <b>;)</b><br />
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This was my 2nd year coaching the 7th grade girls at <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/14" target="_blank">Clover Middle School </a>and the first year my <b>fabulous</b> husband got to assist! With working at <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/crowderscreek" target="_blank">Crowder's Creek Elementary</a>, and not having a boys team of his own, Zack joined the girl's side this year and got his first year in coaching girls! He is the first to tell you...<i>it was a culture shock. </i><br />
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<b>But</b> onto the bragging....Our little team went <b>11-0</b>. <i>Yes</i>, you read that right...<b><span style="font-size: large;">11-0!</span></b> Those 11 wins include a <b><span style="font-size: large;">York County Championship! </span></b><br />
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We had an <b>amazing</b> season and Zack and I could not be more proud of the dedication, effort, and work our girls put into our season. They worked harder than any team I've season and took pride in getting better each day. <i>I can not say enough about how happy we were with their performances. </i>Zack even got a <b>free</b> shave out of the season. He told the girls at the very beginning (<i>who originally wanted to shave our eyebrows</i>) that if they went undefeated to win the Championship, he would let them shave his head. <b>Well, it came true! </b>After averaging 34 points a game, and averaging a 17 point per game victory, the girls earned a good shave of Mr. Coach Stadler's head.<br />
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Along with this little bragging corner, we are getting recognized at the <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/16" target="_blank">Clover High School </a>varsity games this Friday night during Senior night. <i>Look for us showing off</i> <b>;)</b><br />
<a href="http://www.fortmillathletics.com/page/show/691594-7th-grade-girls-basketball" target="_blank">Check out our little recap of a season here!</a><br />
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Well, from the <b><span style="font-size: large;">11-0 7th Grade Champions</span></b>, <i>until next time.</i>.. <b>:)</b><br />
<br />Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-23504255660557145412015-01-17T12:24:00.003-08:002015-01-17T12:24:53.693-08:00It's a Kahoot!It's half way through the school year and I haven't written a post since October. (<i>Boooo</i> me!)<br />
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It would be an <u>understatement</u> to say that my PreAlgebra and Algebra classes are going through the curriculum. Without exaggerating, my classes are <b><i>flying</i></b>! They are doing a fabulous job and I could not be happier with their performance in class. They are truly a <b>wonderful group </b>of students that I enjoy teaching everyday! I have ever mentioned I have the best job ever? <b>;)</b><br />
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A couple weeks ago was a big week for both classes. They both had a chapter test on the same day. <i>So needless to say,</i> we had some <b>hard-core</b> review days for a couple of days before hand. After completing the "<i>official</i>" study guides one day, I decided to let the classes get a little fun in while reviewing. Algebra played our Survivor game that I altered from <a href="http://toengagethemall.blogspot.com/2013/02/grudgeball-review-game-where-kids-attack.html" target="_blank">this Pinterest post</a>. The kids absolutely <b>love</b> it and totally get it into it. It's actually interesting to see which "group" the kids tend to gang-up on the quickest. They realize quickly they want to take out the "group with the smart kids in it." That's their explanation of why they kick out a group super fast...if they only knew that they are <b><i>all</i></b> smart and know the material<b> :)</b><br />
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Pre-Algebra played a new game called <a href="https://getkahoot.com/" target="_blank">Kahoot</a>. It has been wonderful having the students in the 1:to:1 initiative through <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/site/default.aspx?PageID=1" target="_blank">Clover Middle School.</a> Every student through 8th grade has a personal iPad. If they have paid the insurance fee and signed the waiver, they can even take the iPads home everyday. It's been <b>wonderful</b>! Students in my classes are completing <a href="http://www.mathplayground.com/thinkingblocks.html" target="_blank">Thinking Blocks</a> warm-ups everyday following the <a href="http://www.singaporemath.com/" target="_blank">Singapore Math</a> idea. They are taking their <a href="https://www.carnegielearning.com/" target="_blank">Carnegie Learning </a>notes through <a href="http://www.gingerlabs.com/" target="_blank">Notability</a>. We are uploading homework completed through Notability into our <a href="http://www.mybigcampus.com/" target="_blank">My Big Campus </a>group, and then we got to experience Kahoot!<br />
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<b>Kahoot! </b>is a "game-based student response system." My colleague created a review game through Kahoot, based on the study guide we completed the day before, and we got the opportunity to play it in class! We used it as an <i>individual</i> player game, but it could definitely be used as groups and team play. The kids really <b>loved</b> it! I had two different classes play it and it got <u>interesting</u> in the different ways it worked out in class. In my 4th period, since Kahoot shows a leader-board after every question, got <b><i>super</i></b> competitive and really wanted to be <i>secretive</i> about their answers in hopes of overcoming the leader and winning. My 6th period figured out that the <i>quicker</i> you answer, <b><u>correctly</u></b>, the more points you receive. <i>Bet you can guess where this is going.</i>..This class got into the idea of "Let's just pick an answer quickly and hope it is right so we can get the most points." <b>Well</b>, this didn't last long when I told them they would have to justify their answers in order to get the points. <i>Smart</i> thinking by the kiddos...but not the reason behind us playing. Be careful with that!<br />
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Since Christmas/Winter break has come and gone, I figured I would share my <b>present</b> that I gave to all our students right before they left for break. Each present was <b>individually</b> wrapped for all 74 students on our team by <i>your's truly</i> and delivered the Thursday before break.<br />
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Yes, <i>Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays</i> to my lovely little kiddos. Your present from Mrs. Stadler...<b>Your new Volume 2 Textbooks ;)</b><br />
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<b>My New Year's Resolution:</b> To blog more and share the fabulous things going on in my classroom, at Clover Middle, and within the Clover School District. <b>Here's to 2015!</b><br />
<i>Until next time.</i>.. <b>;)</b>Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-33568119577702791152014-10-25T14:12:00.002-07:002014-10-25T14:12:25.135-07:00We've Got Spirit, Yes We Do!This week was<b> Spirit Week </b>at <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/14" target="_blank">Clover Middle</a>! To say the least...<b>Team 8<3 was on it</b>!<div>
I sent a reminder to my kiddos throughout the weekend to remind them of the upcoming Spirit Days and encouraged them all to participate. <i>Needless to say</i>...<b>we did</b> :) Here's a little recap of our week:</div>
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<b>Monday was Camo Day</b>. This day correlated with doing "acts of kindness" secretively. It was great for this city girl. Yes, I had to borrow a camo shirt from my sister-in-law; this girl owns no camo. It was great seeing all my kiddos dressed in disguise! </div>
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<b>Tuesday was Tie-Day Day</b>. This day correlated to spreading Peace throughout the school. It's been awhile since I've worn Tie-Day, so yes, I ended up purchasing a special shirt for the day! Team 8<3 was definitely colorful for the day! </div>
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<b>Wednesday was Unity Day</b> where all students wore blue. This was important because blue represented standing up and against bullying in school. Therefore, we were all united together against bullying.</div>
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Finally, <b>Thursday</b> (our last day of the week) <b>was College Day</b>. This day correlated with students setting goals for themselves, and encouraging each other to reach those goals. </div>
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<b>Overall </b>it was a week filled with Spirit! <b>Team 8<3</b> showed a great representation overall and really participated! We could not have been more proud of our little team<b> :)</b></div>
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<i>As far as Math goes</i>, we did a lot of review in preparation for our two tests on Thursday (10.23). <b>Both </b>Pre-Algebra and Algebra had tests on patterns and sequences, and lines of best fit respectively. <b><i>So</i></b>, I'm excited to share what we have coming up in the next few weeks as we begin our new chapters. </div>
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<i>Until next time.</i>..<b> :)</b></div>
Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-6232388991488845022014-10-04T11:20:00.001-07:002014-10-04T11:20:32.914-07:00End of Quarter Check In<b>Can you believe it's already close to the end of the 1st nine weeks? </b>I mean seriously?! We have been in school for <i>almost </i>a full quarter already! My kiddos got their interim report about two weeks ago now, and my grades are due for report cards in only about two weeks! <b>This is absolutely crazy!</b><br />
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So, <i>needless to say</i>, I thought it was about time for a <u>check-in</u> on what we've been up to. This is my first year teaching only one subject, and I have to say, it's <b><i>fabulous</i></b>! My schedule begins with planning until about ten in the morning. Then I have an Algebra and PreAlgebra class for an hour each, before lunch, followed by my Academy class, and ending the day with another PreAlgebra and Algebra class again for an hour a piece. My days <i>fly </i>by! I mean it's <b>October </b>for goodness sake!<br />
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<u>Currently </u>in Algebra we have moved into our actual Algebra curriculum. No more review for these kiddos! We have done the overview of function families; everything from linear, quadratic, exponential, and absolute value functions, and are now moving into really analyzing and understanding linear functions. To begin the overall unit, we started our lessons by reviewing scatter plots and what it takes to make a scatter plot. One of my colleagues, <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/2268" target="_blank">Allison Stanford</a>, who recently moved back to the Clover area from a brief year in Mississippi, shared her idea for reviewing scatterplots. Students each get a shoe to color and decorate as their representation on a classroom graph. I gave students their shoe template on a Friday after they finished their last review test. Over the weekend students were to color and decorate their shoe, find out their shoe size, and their height. All students were told to measure their shoe size in men's sizes, and get their heights in inches.<br />
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On Monday students came in, and in their groups, created a quick sketch of a scatterplot to represent their small group of three or four. Students had to decide the independent and dependent variable, their quantities, and then plot themselves, as dots, on their sketch. After all groups had sketched their group graph, we began plotting the points on a larger classroom graph that I had created on the wall before beginning class.<br />
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After the graph was complete, and all students had plotted their shoes, we analyzed the graph in terms of it's characteristics. We reviewed the terms surrounding graphs such as independent and dependent variables (and why they were those quantities), outliers, increasing or decreasing trends, and associations. This lesson then lead into the discussion of lines of best fit to represent the data. This was a great lesson to use to get students thinking about, if we were to draw a line through the shoe plots, how would we represent all the data that was presented. Students really understood how to analyze lines of best fit as we began writing the equations for the lines later in the week!<br />
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<br />For my PreAlgebra crew we are beginning our lessons into functions as well. However, instead of beginning with scatterplots and lines of best fit, we begin our overall unit with sequences and patterns. The idea is to relate functions as ongoing patterns and that sequences will fit into the equations that we can write for linear functions. Students were also seated in groups to begin, and were given two sequences from our <a href="http://www.carnegielearning.com/" target="_blank">Carnegie text. </a>Students were given manipulatives that they could work with to demonstrate and continue the given sequence. Sequences ranged from building toothpick houses, to building block stairs, beaded necklaces, and penny pyramids. After students created their sequence using their manipulatives, they could then answer the questions in their text about the term numbers, patterns, and overlying question.<br />
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After students finished their sequences, they took pictures and uploaded their patterns to our <a href="http://www.mybigcampus.com/" target="_blank">My Big Campus</a> group in order to present their findings to their classmates. Students really enjoyed being able to work with their hands, create their sequences using manipulatives, and then present their unique versions of sequences to their peers.<br />
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We have had a <i>great</i>, <b>wonderful</b>, <u>fantastic</u>, <i>amazing </i>start to the year and I could not be more impressed with how hard my students are working. They are doing a <b>great </b>job! They come into class everyday ready to learn, enjoy math, and learn new skills. We are off to a <u>great </u>start and I can't wait to see, <i>and share</i>, what our year has in store! <i>Until next time</i>... <b>:)</b>Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com76tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-78835963841298100022014-08-22T18:21:00.003-07:002014-08-22T18:21:50.154-07:00Three Day Wrap UpThe first three days of school are over...and they were <b>FANTASTIC</b>. I want to take a quick moment (<i>yes</i>, and a quick blog) to <u>brag </u>about my <b>wonderful </b>kiddos for a minute. I can honestly say that <b>Team 8<3</b> has the <i>absolute</i>, <b>most sweetest</b> kids. I haven't heard so many "yes ma'am," "no, ma'am," "please and thank yous" in a really long time. I have many helpers within every class. I think I've had a total of two-to-three students ask if they can help me with <i>anything </i>within every class. I am so <b>impressed </b>with their polite-ness and well-mannered behavior. I am looking forward to a <b>great </b>year with the <i>amazing </i>students.<br />
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With the first three days down, I am <i>recharging </i>my batteries this weekend and getting to spend some time with my parents (who are in town from Stafford, VA). We have a <a href="http://www.milb.com/index.jsp?sid=t494" target="_blank">Charlotte Knights </a>game planned and it should be a <b>great </b>time. But I can <i>honestly </i>say that I am <u>super </u>excited about getting back to my kiddos on Monday and getting this year rolling. <i>Until next time</i>... <b>:)</b>Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5500068944854881295.post-32335820741559343462014-08-20T17:16:00.003-07:002014-08-20T17:16:59.566-07:00End of Summer...Beginning of Greatness!<b>It's that time of the year again.</b> It's time to get back into the <i>swing </i>of things in terms of the school year. My school year got back into the swing this past Wednesday; a week ago. We've been back at it...<b>formally</b>...at<a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/14" target="_blank"> Clover Middle </a>for a whole week now! We got a start with some "<b>pump-up</b>" meetings to get teachers <u>excited </u>to be back in school with the students <i>we love</i>. I walked into the building <b>super </b>excited about being back at the job that I <i><u>absolutely </u></i>love and enjoy going to everyday, and the videos helped all the teachers get on that same level<b> :)</b><br />
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We were able to introduce and recognize our 20...<b>yes,</b> <i>that's right</i>...20 newbies within the school. We have new teachers everywhere! Every position from sixth grade to eighth, special education to athletic director, cafeteria manager to technology assistant! We spent the beginning of our meetings welcoming our newbies and giving them goody bags of Clover <b>awesomeness</b>. I am excited to get to know everyone and learn their <i>fabulous </i>skills and talents. I know they all will have so much to offer our staff, and<b> most importantly</b>, students.<br />
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After meeting our <b>newbies</b>, we headed over as a school to our district convocation. This was a <i>fabulous</i> performance! Convocation began by giving teachers, as they entered, a program and a three-in-one tool. This was a glow-stick/flashlight/pen. In a teacher mind...<b>can you say fabulous</b>? Everyone <i>loved </i>it! As teachers got settled into their seats for the convocation, the <a href="http://www.clover.k12.sc.us/Domain/1769" target="_blank">Clover High School Band </a>and dance team did an amazing performance. They sounded <b>great</b>! They played about four songs, one of which was of course the Clover High School fight song. It was a <u>wonderful </u>experience to get up as a district and sing along. <b> </b></div>
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Following the band and dance performance, the Clover School District Teacher of the Year was recognized. It was <b>wonderful </b>to recognize a <i>fabulous </i>teacher within the district and award her talents. After hearing all the wonderful things that were accomplished as a district during the 2013-2014 school year, we were reintroduced to two Clover School District alumni who came to join us as we start our year. We met <a href="https://twitter.com/ashelizbridges" target="_blank">Ashley Bridges</a>, who is doing <i>wonderful </i>work and making the district proud through her career at ABC. Her speech was wonderful and really hit home with a lot of the staff members I work with who also grew up through the district. She <i><b>really </b></i>seemed to relate with many of my colleagues. It was definitely a nice family atmosphere that was created.</div>
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After an Italian lunch provided by the district, we ended our first workday (<b>already a week ago</b>!) with a faculty meeting to make sure everyone was on the same page beginning our school year. Our next two workdays (last Thursday and Friday) were covered in meetings revolving TEAM procedures, Math curriculum, team planning, and technology implementation. These workdays <i>flew </i>by to say the least! </div>
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Monday and Tuesday, of this week, were both regular workdays that teachers were able to work in their classroom and prepare for the kiddos that arrived today (<b>Wednesday</b>). Monday night we had our open house and got to welcome students, and parents, into our rooms for the <u>first time</u>. I made some <i>small</i> changes to my room this year in preparation for only teaching one subject (Math: Pre-Algebra and Algebra). I began by <b>enhancing </b>my reading corner. <i>Needless to say</i>....all I'm missing is the sand for my beach space <b>;)</b> My newly updated bulletin board will continue to look at data of test scores as we make our way throughout the school year. I plan on graphing class averages as we take tests in hopes of understanding how classes are doing, not only in the material, but also against other classes in hopes that they are all reaching the same level. </div>
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Open house and the workdays were <b>great</b>. However, I was <i>super </i>excited when I actually got to see my kiddos today! Our first day of school...today...was <b>FABULOUS</b>! I could not be more excited about the wonderful group of students we have on <b>Team 8<3</b> this year. We are definitely a team with heart! Our kids were super sweet today, very helpful, eager to learn, and looking forward to a great year. Of course today was simply "Hi, my name is..." and "This year we will..." But it was a great one! We even got a little <a href="http://www.target.com/s/jenga?ref=tgt_adv_XS000000&AFID=google&CPNG=toys_board+games+cards&adgroup=jenga_hasbro+jenga_exact&LNM=Jenga&MT=exact&LID=34p9989883&KID=57068c61-fc5d-ee89-2b8a-00003176de8a&gclid=CIb4gZGJo8ACFbTm7AodHhwAAQ" target="_blank">Jenga</a> action in today during Academy class. We used<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/FREE-Get-to-Know-You-Jenga--140975" target="_blank"> this PDF</a> as a way to get to know each other and play a fun relaxing game. It was the <b>tallest </b>tower I've seen in awhile. It was<b><i> 27 </i></b>levels high! The kids did awesome with it and really enjoyed it. It was a great day (<i>have I said this enough</i>?) and I can not wait to see what these <b>wonderful </b>kiddos are capable of this year. <i>Until next time</i>.... <b>:)</b></div>
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We started the week thinking about what our students did <b>wonderfully-awesome</b> on this school year, what we felt we, <i>as teachers</i>, had to revisit multiple times throughout the year, or even what the students would need revisited in their next course, and <b>finally </b>what was in our text that we did not cover...or new pieces of our curriculum that we have to implement this upcoming year. This sparked <u>great </u>conversation between the grade levels. We saw multiple ideas and topics that were needing to be "revisited" across the board. We also discovered that what students may not have understood or struggled with in sixth grade...the students eventually got it by the end of eighth grade. That was <b>super exciting</b> for all grade levels<b> :)</b><br />
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To end day one, we got some time to think about our own curriculum and pacing in each grade level. As an eighth grade team we focused on Algebra first. We actually got to use the time and tackle our <i><b>entire </b></i>pacing guide for the 2014-2015 school year. <i>We basically <u>rocked </u>it!</i> Not to mention we were able to work through the curriculum faster this upcoming year then we did this previous year. <b>Yay </b>for being able to review more at the end of the year before those <i>dreaded </i>state tests. <b>;)</b><br />
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To finish our fourth day at our Math planning we were able to focus on our Pre-Algebra pacing guide, using our <a href="http://www.carnegielearning.com/" target="_blank">Carnegie textbooks</a>, and looking into where our <a href="http://www.carnegielearning.com/learning-solutions/software/mathia/" target="_blank">Mathia </a>personalized curriculum and method would fit in. It was <b>fabulous </b>to get the opportunity to work for four straight days of total "<i>math-driven</i>" discussions! I <i>loved </i>it to say the least <b>:)</b> I am so looking forward to using the information, pacing, and<i> unique-ness </i>that we discovered and talked about within the upcoming school year. It's early August and I have to say I am <b>looking forward </b>to this school year. Zack, my hubby, and I are off to Washington, D.C. to visit my parents this week. <b>Then it's back to school for this girl! </b>It has been a <b>great </b>summer just enjoying our time together and not having <i>anything </i>to worry about. I have to say that I am <u><b>excited </b></u>to see my parents this week, <i>but </i>I am also excited to see my kiddos for the next school year.We are going to go enjoy our last week of summer vacation and then it's time to <b>beast </b>this upcoming school year! <i>Let's do this</i> 2014-2015 <b>:)</b><br />
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<i>Until next time</i>.... <b>:)</b>Sarah Stadlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07920241794631313914noreply@blogger.com1