Daily 5 - Work on Writing

More Daily 5 info! I tried to do more pictures, since I know that's what I personally like looking at :)

I have been introducing each one of the Daily 5 choices slowly,  starting at 1 minute of stamina, then moving to 3 minutes, 5 minutes, and then 10 minutes. It usually takes us a few days to build up to that and I don't introduce a new Daily 5 choice until they have reached 10 minutes. Currently I have introduced Read to Self, Work on Writing and Word Work. This week, since we have learned all three, I will let them choose from all 3 for a few days and I will introduce Listen to Reading later this week.

Here are the different writing tools the students can choose from during Work on Writing:

These tools are right next to the typing paper/dictionaries. I separated these tools from the dry-erase ones so students wouldn't accidentally use markers on dry-erase boards and dry-erase markers on typing paper. 

Goodies:
Write the Room pages are from the fabulous J. Meacham. You can find it under "Write the Room, By Letter, Long Form)

Letter Tracing Pages are from Learning Page. You have to be a member to download the pages BUT it's free to become a member!

Writing tools labels (pdf version) were created using Microsoft Word.  If you want the actual word document you can get that here.

They did such an amazing job with this one! We talked about only writing WORDS/letters on dry-erase boards and typing paper. That was really hard for them to remember but they got it by time we got to 10 minutes of stamina! I am so proud of all of them! Here are some pics of them working.

I was going to group this post with Word Work as well but it's WAY past my bedtime. More to come! :)

Classroom Library baskets and labels

I decided to completely reorganize my classroom library last year and I am so glad I did. The baskets were $1 at Target and they are selling them again right now. I labeled the inside of every book with the same label that is on the book basket so the students know EXACTLY where each book belongs. This was especially helpful because the students "shopped" for books every Monday to put in their individual book boxes for daily 5. These baskets are the perfect size for *most* picture books. The only books that didn't fit just right are Froggy books but they are only bent a tad and I didn't have any problems with them all year.  

I have uploaded the labels below as .pdf files. Be careful when printing directly from .pdf files to the label sheets though because the dimensions come out a little off.

            


Here are the word documents if you need to add/change anything. The fonts I used are Chinacat-thin and tweed. Click to download the free fonts!

Classroom Library Book Basket labels
Book labels

Happy organizing!

My book is ripped!!! It's the end of the world!!!

Or you can calmly remind the screaming child to put the book in the book hospital. I think this idea came from the Daily 5 book but I love it and made a label to put on a basket (Target is selling baskets for $1!).

Math Manipulatives Labels

3/15/18 UPDATE!! 

I'm so sorry it took a few years, but it seems like people are having a hard time downloading the word format with pictures SO...I recreated the original document to now include FIVE pages of math manipulatives, and made it a powerpoint document as well as PDF. If you would like to change it up, the fonts I used are KG Sorry Not Sorry, and KG Always a Good Time. Again, this is a FREEBIE, and you can find it on my Teachers Pay Teachers site here.

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Summer's the best time to get organized! I have 3 pages of labels like the image above. Click on it to download. For some reason the pictures look a little grainy when you are viewing it through Google Docs. The quality is much better when you download it. Please leave a comment and let me know if you would like the word document for these labels so you can change it around and add what you need. The font is called tweed and can be found here. Happy organizing! :)

8/11/13 UPDATE: I have uploaded the .pdf file of the Math Manipulatives to my TPT store for free. Sorry for all the inconvenience! You can find it here.

Update: Here is the link to the Math Manipulatives Labels Word document. I hope it comes out ok.
@Martha-Carol - I have a hard time finding borders I like as well, so the easiest thing to do is create your own! The border you see here is actually just a word document shape. I made a rounded rectangular shape and when you format the object, here's what it looks like:

Hope that helps!