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Morning routines

1/31/2019

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First day of school today! Back into the swing of things with my brand new 23 Year 3 students. Such a great feeling meeting those new people who will soon spend all day in my classroom.

Beginning of the year is always vital for building routines and getting those set in place for your class. This builds a strong foundation for all that you do in class, with one of mine being our morning routines! I have always used this template as a morning routine greeting to get students excited and up to date with coming to school on that day. 
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I use a Google slide deck to share the above information with my students everyday!
Each day has a slide with:
-a fun GIF
-date
-message
-bitmoji sticker for fun
-other short notes with information that could relate to students or their parents that come in

I find that my students rely on this to be shown in the morning and love coming in to view the GIF or the Bitmoji sticker! A great way to build routines and share notes for everyone coming in in the morning. They then go off and find an activity or something set up that I might have for the morning. 
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To make yourself a copy of this template to use in your classroom click here. Simply update your own items to the template and you're away!
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Be internet awesome

1/29/2019

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Google is amazing! They have so many apps that are perfect for use within education that really enhance learning opportunities within the classroom. Google apps for education can transform learning activities and help students create, collaborate and extend the walls within. 

Alongside this Google has a great 'Be Internet Awesome' programme to help students gain the skills to be safe when using the Internet. ​Be Internet Awesome teaches kids the fundamentals of digital citizenship and safety so they can explore the online world with confidence. 
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Be Internet Awesome is broken down into five sections:
1. Be Internet Smart - share with care
2. Be Internet Alert - don't fall for fake
3. Be Internet Strong - secure your secrets
4. Be Internet Kind - its cool to be kind
5. Be Internet Brave - when in doubt, talk it out

These five sections make up the programme to teach students about internet safety. The programme takes you on a tour through each of the different sections where you complete activities and games to learn the skills. Its named Interland.

At the end students can even get a certificate for completing their journey or digital badges! Teachers, there is a curriculum to guide you and your students along the journey with a pledge that can be sent home to continue the conversations at home too. 
Check out all the information about it here on Google. 
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My classroom 2019

1/23/2019

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With school heading back next week I know a lot of teachers have been heading back into school to set up their classrooms. And I have been storing a lot of ideas up to use this year! There are so many ideas from Instagram and pinterest that I want to use but have settled on the below details. 
Check out my pictures below for a snippet into my classroom and links to where things are from!
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Reading Corner
This area consists of lots of things (some added in since this photo).
Books to read
Read to someone book buddies
Poems
QR Stories to listen to for listen to reading
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Favourite books section on the Kmart hanging rack
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Hung up with coat hangers
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Front board
This is my main teaching board at the front of the room.
It consists of:
Large Googley eyes from Spotlight
Te Reo classroom labels
Large magnetic writing board
'Yipee! We're in Year 3' sign
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WOW work wall
My WOW work wall is for displaying WOW work, publishing and any other work they are proud of!
This was made using a title off the internet
Coloured A4 paper stapled landscape together
Pegs hot glue gunned on
​Amazing wow work sign - VIP access section of my website
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Thought of the week section
This will have different prompting questions or thoughts to probe the students each week. 
Large post it notes from Stationery Warehouse
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Focus Wall area
This area is for to be used when teaching my guided groups. I call it a focus area as it will have some of our main learning intentions written for display. 
It consists of:
Large writing paper
Laminating wipe sheets
Focus wall sign
​Kindness posters from teachers pay teachers
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Teaching station
This smaller teaching station is for working with my students on the mat. This consists of:
Kmart chair
small stands to display work purchased from $2 shop
Letterbox from Bunnings for students to write letters, cards or other things to the teacher
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Mini table charts
These charts are for their tables with different mini anchor charts on them. 
Picture frames purchased online from Urban Sales
Mini anchor charts 
Rings from the $2 shop ​
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Jobs
This section is to display the jobs that we have in class. Students will be given a job for the week from the choices. 
Purchased from Teachers Pay Teachers
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My teaching belongings
This is my personal space where my belongings, teacher items and things go. It consists of:
Side table from Kmart
Trolley cabinet from Kmart
Teacher toolbox from Bunnings
Toolbox labels from Teachers Pay Teachers
Picture frame from Urban Sales
Bitmoji sign from my Google Drive shared resource library
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Groups
This shows my groups for reading, writing and maths. These will have the children's names on so we both can see who is in what group. 
These were created by me, and can share the link to this soon!
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Daily 5 in the classroom

1/22/2019

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I have had lots of interest in my Daily 5 products over the last few days so thought I would give a quick blog post on my experience with Daily 5. 
It has been a huge part of my literacy programme for the last two years. This year will be my third year using it, this time with Year 3's. Previously I have done in with Year 1s and then Year 1/2 composite. I first came across Daily 5 online and purchased this book 'The Daily 5'. It unpacks it very clearly and highlights how you should implement it in your classroom. If you're looking to get it going in your classroom then start with this. 
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I have used Daily 5 in a very unique way, a way that builds student agency and choice in class. For the first term I always use Daily 5 as part of a normal rotation where I tell the students where they are going and what activity to do. This is while they are learning the Daily 5 fundamentals and we are unpacking it together. 

I first break down what each Daily 5 part will look like for both the student and the teacher. This makes it clear to everyone who is doing what, and my expectations throughout literacy time. 

After one-two terms I then move onto a more fluid way of using Daily 5. I developed a checklist for each student to use that they cross off while they go during the week. This is for both of us to keep track of their choices and to make sure they aren't just doing the 'fun' activities all the time. This checklist was the best thing I have ever implemented in my class and once my students were trained the programme ran itself. 

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My Daily 5 Resources I have created:

Daily 5 Pack: This comes with everything you need to set up Daily 5 in your classroom.
-bunting for each section
-daily 5 sign for each section
-self assessment checklists for each section (filled in one with ideas and empty for your own ideas)
-work on writing templates and examples to be used in work on writing section
-work on writing mini signs (that go with each template and example)

Daily 5 Anchor Charts: These anchor charts are to be used with the Daily 5 programme. Perfect for outlining what the teacher and students need to be doing when using Daily 5 for each section.

Daily 5 Checklist: 
This checklist is perfect for using in your Daily 5 programme! I use this in my teaching programme and my students love having student agency over their choices! Each student gets their own checklist with the blank square for a picture of them so they know which one belongs to them. Each day in reading they can cross of their choices so you can monitor reading choices.

Daily 5 Checklist (make your own): This checklist is a 'make your own' version of my other Daily 5 Checklist. Here you are able to create your own Daily 5 checklist with your own choice of Daily 5 element icons already made on the template. Not all classes teach the same thing, so you can drag into the checklist what aspects of Daily 5 you will use.

Daily 5 Bundle: This is a combination of all of these resources above but at a cheaper price!!!!



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Along with all of that, there are also some Daily 5 slides that I made for a PLD session I ran with some teachers at my school. This summarised everything that I learnt and how others could learn from something I was using in my class. You can find the links to the slide presentation here. 

If you have any questions please email me info@mrspriestleyict.com! If you use any of my resources please tag me in your posts or share your feedback with me! 
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Using QR codes in the classroom

1/14/2019

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So I shared a picture of my QR code wall on my Facebook page and teachers just went nuts! So many emails and messages asking where can they get them from, how do they download them, where can they make their own?

QR codes are amazing little things that take students to a specific web page, URL or place on the internet that you want them to view, listen to or watch. In this specific example, I use it for Listen to reading in my literacy programe. I created 10 books that my students LOVED into QR codes and downloaded the Dr Seuss ones from an educator off Twitter, Sara Malchow. 

Since creating these at the beginning of the year, students are so independent finding and listening to the books they love. And when they have been around for awhile, I can quickly create some more with new books!
Here is a very short and simple video that I created showing you how easy it is to create your own QR codes and cute little background pictures. These could be done for anything really in your class - books, videos, information videos for writing, topic studies! It really isn't limited!
Don't want to make your own? Check out the PDFs below of some that I have made that you can use in your classroom!
top_10_books_room_11_loves__1_.pdf
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maori_qr_stories.pdf
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Sunday Spotlight

1/14/2019

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Little bit late but here is this weeks Sunday Spotlight! Ice-cream addition and subtraction to 20 using Google Slides and a number line! Perfect for those students using devices and wanting some reinforcement with adding or subtracting. 
Students simply move the little ice-cream icon to the first number and either add or takeaway using jumps on the number line. They can then write the answer in the white answer box. 
This resource is available for download from my Teachers Pay Teachers Store or website! 
Check out the quick snippet video below with how it works!
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How can you use Bitmoji in your classroom?

1/11/2019

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Bitmojis the latest faze to sweep the internet and of course classrooms! What is Bitmoji you ask? Bitmoji is this cute little avatar that you make of yourself and generates hundreds of pictures with sayings, actions and quotes that you can use! Ideally you make the Bitmoji character look like yourself. But you can customize it in any way with hair, makeup, skin, clothes and even body shape!

I've done a post before on some of the ways I use Bitmoji in the classroom but really wanted to focus on how others use it in this post! If you're interested in reading it find the link here. It shares some of my own Bitmoji resources that I have made and how I use it in the classroom.

So here we go.....How others from across the world use Bitmoji in their classrooms! Thanks to the educators for their ideas!

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The kids make their own Bitmoji and we hang it in the hall for the year and their articles they write or draw or anything I’d their we display goes under their picture. We graph their point in AR (accelerated reader) and there person is their marker.

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​I made some “Caught being good” tickets before Christmas. The kids loved them!

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I print them onto stickers to use as feedback etc - have previously only done it for writing but branching out this year.


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I use them in my Google slides that I use for Morning Meeting. I also use the “Nailed it!” one above my posted objectives.

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I’m planning on using them in my self assessment rubrics this semester! 

Bitmoji flexible seating expectations
Bitmoji display on listening
Bitmoji class jobs
Bitmoji introduction sign
Bitmoji when to interrupt group time display

Thanks Mr J's learning space for the ideas and picture examples. 

There are so many ideas out there that you can use, download and purchase that can fit into the look or activity you are trying to complete. Bitmoji is so easy to use but if you're stuck, keep an eye out on my youtube channel for a Bitmoji video coming soon!
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Check out some of the Bitmoji resources I have in the VIP access area also! 
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5 must haves in your classroom according to 7 year olds

1/8/2019

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Many of us are heading back to school soon with New Zealand and Australia starting the new school year! This is very exciting - new students, new classrooms, maybe even a new school! In my classroom last year, I made a big effort to include student voice in with the things we had in the classroom, where items went and learning activities.

The best thing I ever did was ask my students to name the 5 most important things in the classroom to help us learn, that we use everyday and that make our classroom special or unique! The most important things to have in this room if we had to empty everything out. 
So here we have it....The 5 must haves in your classroom according to my 7 year olds.
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1. A fun, exciting classroom with cool places to sit
I always mix my room up every term just to keep things different, add work, send work home and try new things! The first day after the holidays is always the most exciting as they work out where things are, which placement I went with and if their ideas had been used. Not everyone gets what they want, but there is usually something exciting that will get them amped to be back! 

What 7 year olds say:
"I like it when our room has different places to sit. Like when we're being good and we can sit on the bench".
"The bench is nice. I like to lie down when Mrs Priestley isn't watching".
"I like the sharing chair. This is a cool chair. It's only for sharing time but still cool".
"I like my class to have work hanging up and have it all around the room".
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2. Calendar Maths
I was really surprised they voted this the second most important thing in the classroom! I triple checked they didn't want to vote anything else but no, it was Calendar Maths. It will probably be explained more in their comments....

What 7 year olds say:
"Calendar maths is really important. We do it everyday. So if you don't practice it then you won't get brainy. Or learn the calendar".
"Mrs Priestley said Calendar maths is important so you need to do it".
"If you don't practice Calendar maths then you won't know about the calendar and that wouldn't be good when you are an adult".
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3. A fun and kind teacher
I definitely think I should be number one on this list (hahahaha). No need to pass comment here...look at what they say!

What 7 year olds say:
"Teachers need to be fun and silly. Like make funny faces and not be grumpy all the time".
"I like it when Mrs Priestley dresses up, she always has fun with us".
"I like it when my teacher is kind and helps me. This makes me try harder in my learning"
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4. Seesaw
I think this one might be partly my doing with how much I push this and use this within my classroom! My students can see how important it is - part of the classroom and everything we do. This Seesaw wall was up as part of our classroom set up the whole year, with parts added to it once discussed or introduced. 

What 7 year olds say:
"We use Seesaw everyday."
"I like using Seesaw to show my mum and dad what I do at school."
"I like Room 11 because we use Seesaw a lot but last year I didn't. I want to use it all the time"
5. Book boats and QR codes for listen to reading
This one was a tie and no matter what I said the students just wouldn't choose one! They thought they were both equally important to our classroom and things we must have in class! So here we are - book boats (to read and complete work in) and QR codes for listen to reading (part of Daily 5 in reading). 

What 7 year olds say:
"Book boats are the coolest thing!"
"I like the book boat because I can sit it in and people can't distract me because i'm inside it."
"You need the QR codes for listen to reading. How do you listen if you don't have anything to listen to?"
"I like the QR codes because they are our favourite books".
And there you have it! 5 must haves in the classroom according to my 7 year olds from 2018! Quotes taken from my students and there was no bribery when talking about me (hahaha). 
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sunday spotlight

1/5/2019

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Sunday Spotlight is back! 🙌❗️
With so many new resources made this last week you really need to head over to the VIP area of my website for more than just one.

But today's one was made specifically for a customer - a make your own version of my Daily 5 Checklist. Instead of a pre-made one, you can use the icons to make your own one! Specific to your class and your students! This is great if you only want specific students to be doing particular Daily 5 items, or maybe practice an item more than the others giving more opportunities to practice it on their checklist. 

It really is simple to use! Just copy and paste the icon and drag it to where you want it on the checklist. The black square on the left is for their name or a picture of their face. I always use pictures so they know whose is whose, especially for those students that struggle with names. 

Check out this quick video below on how it works and use the code 'daily5' on my website to get 50% off this resource and my Daily 5 pack!  ​
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Setting up Seesaw in your school

1/5/2019

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I've come across lots of teachers asking how to get Seesaw started or set up in your school. Obviously every school is different and will look different to each teacher. But it is always important to have consistent expectations that teachers know, understand and agree to to ensure consistency across the school.

At my school, we first rolled it out across a few classrooms to test it out, gain feedback and see how students experienced it within their learning. Then we rolled it out school wide. But we needed to get some expectations to ensure teachers knew what was expected of them with this new technology being introduced. So we gathered as a staff meeting and really unpacked what it will look like, what was reasonable to begin with for teachers and students, and what the learning being shared would look like.

Our expectations were written into an online policy guidelines so that teachers were clear about what was happening. Our expectations for 2018:
To have two posts minimum a term
Can be in any curriculum area
Can be individual or group based post
It must have a WALHT or SC. This will help parents understand what the post is about and what learning was happening.
There was also guidelines about what happens if students were to post inappropriate things, places for questions and also conferences.

​This really helped me (ICT Lead Teacher) and other teachers be clear about what was happening when using Seesaw.


If you would like to view this document as a Google doc please view it here. Please see my other Seesaw blog posts for other areas of implementation that can help you get Seesaw started in your school!
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sunday spotlight

1/5/2019

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This weeks Sunday Spotlight is sharing a fun new resource to help with your noise control in class - noise level bitmoji posters!

These posters are great for a visual display that students can see while working. Teachers could use a special peg or arrow to have the noise level poster at a particular level while working. In my class, I have a noise level monitor and that person is the one that gets to physically move the arrow the noise level expected. Such a fun and engaging way to get students more aware of the noise they are creating and also expectations. And this resource includes Bitmojis which are awesome!

So simple! Download the resource and it will prompt you to a link in a Google Drive folder with the templates. Make a copy of each one and change the bitmoji pictures to be ones of your own! Voila, you are done! Find the link to the resource by subscribing to mrspriestleyict.com. It is in the VIP access area. 
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teaching with money

1/5/2019

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Money can be really hard to teach! The concept of adding with coins and notes can be quite tricky for students, especially those younger ones that are only just starting to work with money. We were fortunate enough to have ASB bank come in and do their Get Wise programme at our school this term, helping make teaching money fun, exciting and easy! From that, I worked on some fun activities to help teach concepts of money to my students and also to get them engaged and wanting to learn.

This money pack I designed was to incorporate different ways of practicing money related activities like counting, sorting, using it in games and being more interactive.
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I have trialled all the activities in my class with my Year 1/2's, and they love all of them.
Lets show you the activities within the pack! You can check it out on my Teachers Pay Teachers Store here.
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​My Piggy Bank
This game incorporates collecting money, adding money and then counting the total in the piggy bank at the end of the game. There are times to double your money, times to get another turn, times to return all your money to the bank and miss a turn. This game is fun and easy to follow with students using the visual representations of money as the cue.
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Match the money together
This worksheet puts into practice matching physical amounts and written amounts together. Students work out how much is pictured, cut it out and glue it under the right amount. Worksheets for this come in mixed coin, silver and bronze coin, or gold coins. This is to help target which area of money you may be looking at. ​
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My piggy bank bingo
This activity is like usual bingo but with piggy banks! Students get a playing board and put the money note cards in a pile. This game can be played whole class, groups or with buddies. Students can take turns pulling a note money and seeing whether they have that on their piggy bank in front of them. The winner is the person with all their piggy banks covered! ​

Match the piggy banks to the amount
This activity is for students to practice matching a written amount to a visual amount of money. Students place the cards on their working space, work out the visual amounts of money and find the corresponding money note card. ​
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​Can you sort the coins?
This activity is a great introduction to working with coins. Print these coin boards out and give students a bunch of coins. Students just sort the coins into the right piggy bank! Super fun especially when is it made into a race!

Alongside these resources, there are some others that I have created that interweave amongst it.
This resource is awesome for having students explore using money and purchasing food. This good work into a shop unit that you might have in class, or just to make some real life connections between money and items.
There are three ways to use this resource:
1. use money to create an item of food
2. use money to add 3 items of food together and write the total at the end
3. use money to add the total of the items on the shopping list.
This resource is available on my Teachers Pay Teachers page, check it out here.

Show me the money! A new resource added to my Teachers Pay Teachers store today! This one involves QR codes, getting the students engaged with digital technology also.
Print off the recording sheet and QR codes. Place the QR codes anywhere in the room and have students scan them. Once scanned, students figure out the amount of money on the piggy bank and write it on the recording sheet! So fun and easy to use!
This resource is available on my Teachers Pay Teachers page, check it out here!
Love to hear your feedback! If you have any ideas to be added to the pack too then also let me know! Email me info@mrspriestleyict.com
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sunday spotlight

1/5/2019

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This week's Sunday spotlight is these new maths thinking boards! A great way for students to share their learning in different ways, when solving problems. Perfect for students to love figuring out problems or other ways to explain their thinking.

These thinking boards come for addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems; catering for all levels or areas of learning. Each thinking board has a space for the equation in the middle and a space for students to write the answer.
These are also available in digital form to download and make copies of. The link to the digital versions are in the maths thinking board pack!
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To download this Sunday Spotlight, visit my Teachers Pay Teachers Store or click on the link here >> Maths Thinking Boards. This is another free resource to add to your classroom practice!
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ice cream shop - using money

1/5/2019

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Today we opened Room 11's Ice-cream shop (pretend of course)! This is to tie into our classroom learning about ice-creams and money. My students really wanted some way of making a shop, so I did a little bit of research on Pinterest and came across a great resource which has helped make this possible!
I created an area for students to view the menu and price list, a place for ordering and a place for making the ice-creams.

Students could choose a different role:

-the customer: ordering the ice-cream and paying the money

-the shop keeper: taking the order and giving change if needed

-the makers: looking at the orders and making the ice-creams

Students had some fake money that they needed to use to figure out their order and pay the shop keeper. The price list was on our ice-cream shop wall and they had to think about what money they might need to make it. Some students needed to work together with another to figure it out, but many were successful in adding amounts together.

Students then got their order and could pretend to eat it like you would a ice-cream and return it once finished. Students could also give complaints if something in their order wasn't there. It was also a great way of practicing some oral language: using manners, ordering, giving a complaint positively. It was so much fun and my class have asked if we can keep it out everyday to play with.
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Check out here for the link to the resource I used, it is from Teachers Pay Teachers and not one that I own sorry! Thanks ABC Nook for the resource!
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sunday spotlight

1/5/2019

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This week I am sharing my newly created 'My Piggy Bank' game! This game is perfect for those students learning about money, creating sets with money and adding together! We have been focusing on money recently in class so this will be a great addition to our tumbles!
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re are 3 to choose from), get a piggy bank and dice. Roll a number and move that many spaces on the game board, gathering the right amount of money for their piggy bank depending on what they land on. The winner is the person with the most money at the end!
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**This activity is only in New Zealand dollars so apologies for those from overseas!
Download this resource from my Teachers Pay Teachers store here >> My Piggy Bank.
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