Chevron Obsession & New Word Wall

The summer went by so fast!!! This summer, I really went after relaxing as much as possible and NOT doing anything for work until the second week of August. Needless to say, it was the best summer ever! I am all relaxed and ready for the school year! After searching for projects and pinning them on my Pintrest account all summer long, I decided to get the ball running with a few projects. It was a bit discouraging to find close to NO resources for Bilingual Teachers so translating and having to start things from scratch was the road ahead of me. Sometimes, I wish I could teach in an all English/Regular classroom... only when I see so many amazingly CUTE and at times FREEEEEEE things out there and I have to make things from scratch. But anywho, enough of my rant... I LOVE Bilingual Education! :) 

Word Wall Labels

Word Wall Heading/Title

Back to my projects. Thanks to Mel Stampz's free Chevron Digital Paper I was able to be inspired and begin designing my new and improved Word Wall . I am completely in LOOOOVEEE with the Chevron Digital Paper! Check out my Word Wall labels. It took forever to format everything, but it was totally worth it! I'm sure there's a better and faster way to do it, but I'm definitely a newbie with all this digital stuff. For my word wall heading/title, I decided to make a hanging banner using left over ribbon from my wedding... I've been trying to use up all the ribbon already! Its been 2 years since we got married and I still have a bag filled with ribbon.
                    
 I am definitely obsessed with the chevron paper. I also created some labels for organizational purposes. I was some great ideas to reduce all my paper clutter by using a plastic container. Here's an example from Mrs. Kiser's Classroom Blog. I created my labels using... you guessed it, the chevron digital paper. 

My Labels

Ms. Kiser's Example

  I also created the posters for my Daily 5 Cafe Menu! I printed these as whole pages per letter. I was so happy to have been able to translate successfully.

This will be my 1st year using the board and I am so excited!

 I'm really glad I was able to find a pattern that I can use to decorate my classroom. I think it will make things look organized and consistent with all the colors. I also hope that it is inviting for the students. I can't wait to go to my classroom tomorrow and begin putting everything up. I definitely can't wait to post the pictures! I'd love to hear what y'all think! Oh, and if you are a Bilingual Teacher and would like to use any of these products, please send me a message and I can try and email you the files.

Love,

Mrs. Breaux

Find-It-Shaker!!

So... I know I'm probably late on this discovery, but I have discovered PINTEREST! Oh my goodness!!! There are soooooooo many great ideas on there and I am committed to trying as many as I can!!! :)

One of the ideas that I saw there are these awesome Find-It-Shakers from http://sunnydaysinsecondgrade.blogspot.com/. On her site, I found the directions and a Freebie template for antonymms and synonyms. If I were a Regular Ed teacher, I would be all over it! :)

After telling my husband alllll about it, we went to HEB and got what we needed. He was kind enough to purchase 2 tea different teas (in some amazingly pretty plastic containers) and has promised to drink them as fast as possible so I can use them for my project :). We also bought a 5 lb bag of rice, and a food coloring pack. (We have alcohol in our medecine cabinet.. We will definitely need to replace it)

I got to work! It was so easy... The rice is currently laying in cookie sheets, drying :) I am soooo excited!!! I can't wait to complete the project tomorrow when I get home from school!!!

-Mariana

*True/ Fantasy*

This upcoming 9 weeks we will begin with discussing true & fantasy using Literary text. I sat down and created a sketch/ cheat sheet of what I want my class' anchor chart to look like and what I'm going to write on it. Here's what I have. I'll definitely update how the lesson went and the pictures of our different anchor charts.

3rd Nine Weeks: Anchor Charts, Academic Vocabulary, Graphic Organizers