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Dianna Radcliff

Teaching Upper Elementary & more

Five for Friday: Weekly Linky 6/6/14

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Teaming Up With EDUCENTS:
2 DAYS LEFT!!! HURRY!!!

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My End of the Year Pictures & Packets:
Here’s what my kids are leaving with today from me!
Pictures & a packet of summer work!
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My set up!

Doing a little editing by myself! Sent them to Walgreen’s & picked them up!

Summer Reading Packet!

A note from me to parents, parent handouts & information, summer reading & writing ideas & 5 reading comprehension passages with written comprehension practice from Read Works. Everything I put in this pack was FREE from other fabulous teachers! (The kids have a 5 week break, teachers have 4 weeks for our year around summer intersession. Not me! I’m working!)

Assembling time! Their folder of work & summer packets go into a zip-lock bag.

I made these cute bookmarks for my students to use when reading this summer. Great questions & prompts. My students have extra paper in the prongs of their folders they are taking home so they can use it as their summer reading journal.

Again, I just made a simple packet of FREE resources. If I was still a HR Teacher, I would of used some of the AWESOME resources on TpT for my students entering 3rd Grade.

Cleaning:

I always have my last small group of the day wipe out the head phones & I spray them with lysol. But, each 9 weeks I wash them in the dish-washer. I am a believe in whisper phones because kids gain so many benefits by hearing themselves read. We use them daily!

End of the Year Gathering:
Yes I am a part time Literacy Coach, but I’m also a part time Title I 2nd Grade Teacher. It’s honestly the best part of my school day! So we must celebrate & go out in style! We have 1 more week of school left, but with all the testing & my Literacy Coach job I won’t see my babies for small groups next week. So we are saying good-bye today!
Don’t judge my room! I’m in an old portable, I only have 1/2 the space b/c it’s divided. UNCW uses it to teach the reading recovery classes for the county. Plus, I’m in the middle of packing up, taking things down & throwing stuff out. It’s ugly in here!!!
The set up!
Red Carpet & Summer Awards!
(I was too lazy busy to cut the stars out!)

(Sorry in advance for horrible iphone pics!)

The Awards Ceremony!

Memory Book & Autographs!

My Countdown:
After the make up snow days & working summer school for 3rd Grade, I have 17 working days left!
YAY!
Friday June 13th Students Last Day!
I more week with them & EOY Testing in 3rd-5th! Fingers Crossed!
Then it’s off to work post-planning & 10 days of summer school.

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    1. Amna says

      Loads of fun Dianna! I am probably going to do red carpet style awards too. We still have three more weeks of school. I basically have to do everything you showed in this post – wash classroom items, make summer packets, do awards, memory books, etc.

    2. Tiffany LoConte says

      Thanks so much for your share! I LOVE ReadWorks and use it religiously! When I first discovered it, I drafted a letter to parents with questioning ideas and recommendations for how to close read the passages with their students and I have received some incredible feedback. This is such an invaluable resource and I am so glad that so many others utilize it!

      I am gearing up for our Kindergarten Graduation next week and love the Red Carpet idea! Your celebration looks like a lot of fun and I think I might just have to steal it 🙂

      Enjoy the last few days of school!

      All my best,

      Tiffany
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