I am crossing my fingers to win this great giveaway from What the Teacher Wants! Click on the School Box picture to go check it out!

Back to School

Tomorrow is my first day back to school!  I can't wait to take pictures of all the things that I have been working on at school the past few weeks and post them on my blog.  I have my colored lily pad behavior system up and ready to hop.  I have all my math materials labeled and in tubs.  I have my workstation signs made and ready to be posted for Math and Literacy Workstations.  I have all the items in my supply closet in shoe boxes and labeled!! Tomorrow's project will be organizing my story books into baskets and labeling them by themes using the labels from Little Warrior's blogspot. I am also going to be posting her frog themed noise level chart up in my room! Thank you Katie for sharing! :-)

                                  Time to get this party started! :-)      

Hop to the Top Behavior Plan

I am excited to be starting a new behavior system in my classroom.  I am starting my tenth year teaching and ready for some fresher ideas.  The past 8 years I have used a frog behavior system, but I am switiching it up a bit copying the clipchart behavior plan. There will be 8 different colored magnetic lily pads on my dry erase board. All the frogs will start out on the green lily pad (ready to learn).  I think positive behavior should be recognized just as much if not more than negative behavior.  So, students will have the chance to hop up to the blue lily pad (Good Job!), the purple lily pad (Great Job!!), and the gold lily pad (outstanding!!!).  Students that are not making good chocies in the classroom will hop their frog to yellow (slow down), orange (think about it), and red (parent contact).  Below you can find my behavior plan that i give out to the parents at the beginning of the year.  I have also added my titles for the color lily pads.

Click Here for my Behavior Plan

Click Here for Hop to the Top Title

Click Here for top lily pad titles

Click Here for bottom lily pad titles

I would love to hear about your behavior plans! :-)

Our F.R.O.G folder Agenda

Below is the link to see the agenda that I use for parent communication in our daily F.R.O.G folders.

Ms. M's Sweet Giveaway

Oh!  I am crossing my fingers that I win Ms. M's Sweet Giveaway!  She is giving away a $15 gift card to Thistle Girl Designs.  You do not want to miss out on this sweet summer giveaway!!  Thank you, Ms. M!



Also, I am super excited because this is my first time adding a button...I hope it works!!

Lesson Plans for Upcoming School Year

So, I have been laid up the past week healing from surgery working away on school stuff for the upcoming school year.  Here is an example of my lesson plans. :-)

Growing Kinders Schedule Link Up

I am so excited to link up to one of my favorite blogs Growing Kinders.  Here is my schedule from last year and of course my wheels are already turning to make changes for the upcoming school year.  I will post my lesson plans to follow up with my schedule soon!

Mother's Day Munchies

Create your own free digital greeting

Easter Bunny Writing/Quotation Marks

My kinder kids have been learning about quotation marks for the past couple of weeks and of course we have been talking about the special visitor that is coming to see us this weekend!  So, this was our writing activity today.

What do you see in the spring?

We love writing about things we see in the spring!  First, we brainstorm all the things we see in the spring on our promethean board.  Then the students fill out the graphic organizer by filling in each petal with something they see in the spring.  I have my kinder kids draw a picture and label the picture.  Then they can use the story paper to write a spring story. 

Rainy Day/Sunny Day Writing

I am excited to be posting my very first file to share with all of you. This is a writing activity that I do in the spring. We compare a rainy day and sunny day and complete the venn diagram together. Then the students write about which one is their favorite day. Then we make a graph using sunshines and raindrops to show our favorite day.

Contact

My contact email is danikteacher2@aol.com

My classroom webpage can be found at the following link:
http://mysite.cherokee.k12.ga.us/personal/danielle_mcarthur/site/default.aspx

About

My boys!!

Preston Age 7

Cason Age 23 months

About me

I am so excited to be starting my own blog.  I have followed several of you for months on here and at TpT and finally have gotten the courage to start my own.  I teach Kindergarten in Georgia and love it!!  I am in my 9th year teaching and all of them have been spent teaching kindergarten.  I am mother to two boys that light up my world.  I look forward to learning how to upload my documents to share with all of you.