Browsing Archive: August, 2012

On with the show...

Posted by Cathrin Hehman on Wednesday, August 29, 2012, In : Musings of the OIC (officer in charge) heehee 
Have I told you these kids are awesome? Wow! We have learned how to complete our calendar math page in our math journal. We are three stories into our reading books and we know that stories have characters, a setting and a problem to be solved. Our writing now includes paragraph form as well as having a beginning, middle and end to the stories we write. This week we are continuing to study matter by making apple sauce to observe a change in matter that is created when we apply heat to the sol...
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Break on through to the other side....Yeah

Posted by Catherin Hehman on Saturday, August 25, 2012, In : Whole Brain Teaching 
   Please pardon my Doors reference. I couldn't resist. This was the magical week when second graders leave first grade behind and begin to work towards independence. We worked on following directions quickly and raise your hand to speak more than anything else. These simple rules are part of the big five from Whole Brain Teaching.
   The first day of school my students learned Class! Yes!  I looove the effectiveness of this attention getter.   I can whisper, "Class" and my students will whis...
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Monday, Monday...

Posted by Catherin Hehman on Tuesday, August 14, 2012,
The first Monday of this school year is over. Me, I am celebrating this milestone by watching Whole Brain Teaching videos!!!!
I bet your son or daughter has already told you things are different in Mrs. Hehman's class. Today we learned our vocabulary with Teach-Okay and Mirror and Words. It was awesome! These kids were all smiles and giggles as they learned. I started using Whole Brain Teaching last year little bits at a time but I  found that it was so fun and so powerful that I wanted to jum...
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First Days

Posted by Catherin Hehman on Saturday, August 11, 2012, In : August 
Here we are...the first week is over. These kids are so awesome, I can hardly contain my excitement for this school year.
 We have practiced all of our rules and procedures this week and I think we are ready to hit the ground running on Monday.
 Have a great weekend, Earthlings!
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