Parent Teacher Conferences

Here is a short and sweet post for you all:

Parent/teacher conferences can bring on a whole new level of stress when it comes to organizing and preparing. Other than sucking down Starbucks, I have a couple other things that make the process less stressful.

In my conferences, I start with the usual answering any questions the parents have first. We will discuss the child's report card. I always save things the students have completed during the semester to back up my comments and show what each child has been up to. The parents love this! I have a product to organize these steps that will come in a later post.

One thing I always pass out are these conference reminders. It helps the parents, the students, and myself remember when and where the meetings are. I use these throughout the year whenever I set up a meeting with a family. These are great for IEP, MET, and any other meeting!

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How do you all conduct your conferences?

Sunday Funday Freebie

Second grade had a kick start with even and odd numbers this month. I decided to give a Sunday Funday freebie....only it is really like a Monday freebie because I forgot to publish it yesterday night!

We start each math class with our even and odd chant:

0,2,4,6,8 being even is just great! 

1,3,5,7,9 being odd is just fine! 

The kids love it! 

To end the week we did an even and odd sort in our interactive notebook. 

The students went threw and color coded each even number green and each odd number red. 

They then cut out the "even and odd" labels and numbers. In their notebooks, they used one page for even and the adjacent page for odd. 

For my early finishers I challenged them to put each number from least to greatest and challenged them to add groups of the numbers together. 

This lesson for review took about an hour. 

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How do you review and teach even and odd? 

Chalk Board Headings

This year I decided to do a theme in my room. In the past it has just been tons of colors and {let's face it} kinda chaotic looking. Since I have the same kiddos this year as last, I decided to give them a grown up, sophisticated room. This summer I started obsessing over making my room perfect, and I fell in love with how clean and beautiful the chalk board theme looked. {See "Peek into my Room" tab to see the full classroom.}

I ended up buying a pack on TPT for most of my things, but some things were in the pack that I wished were...so I decided to make them myself! :)

I made focus wall headers for reading, math, science, and sight words. I also made mini-headers for things like vocabulary, objectives, spelling, and sight words. They are great to just print, cut, and laminate! The kids even complimented me on them!

Here are what they look like so far:

 

Some other headings in my pack are:

-Vocabulary

-Spelling

-Sight words

-"Our Word Wall" heading

 

What do you think?!...This year has awoken the crafter and creator in me and..not gonna lie...I am lovin' it!

 

What is your classroom theme this year?

 

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