Poem Predictions Freebie & K-2 Reading Interventions

Happy Sunday!

As promised, here's a great poetry prediction activity you can use in your classroom!  If you grab it, let me know!  :)

I used this on Friday with my K-2 intervention group.  We have 8 intervention groups that run for 30-minutes every morning.  They are combined K-2 so we can pool our teacher resources.  We have a group doing Road to the Code, K PALS, 1st Grade PALS, sight words, word attach strategies, low fluency, high fluency, and I teach a CAFE inspired comprehension group for high readers.  I have three K and about 30 1st and 2nd graders in my group.  We work on deeper comprehension strategies and it has been so fun.  We used to do our groups by just splitting the kids up according to their DIBELS results, so this is our attempt at a truly RTI structured intervention program.  We've been doing it for about 2 months now and really liking it.

So, my group started by just talking about books.  We played a LOT of "Fiction Go Fish" and I loooooved walking around and hearing kiddos talk about what we had read together.

Then we mastered the "somebody-wanted-but-so" summary and now we're working on making and supporting predictions.

Anyway... on with the freebie.  It is 6 "what am I" poems and a recording sheet for students to write their guesses and support them with proof from each poem.  I did it as a "Scoot" type activity where I put the kids into 6 groups, each group went to a poem, read the poem, wrote their guess/proof, and then "scooted" to the next poem on my signal.  It was fun and interesting for me to see the difference in the thinking between the three grade levels!  My K kiddos didn't quite get the "proof" thing, but the 1st and 2nd graders did well on that!  Not having taught K before, being with the three littles that are in my intervention group has been fun!

Ok!  No more rambling- here is the file:

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Alright- enjoy the freebie!  I'd love a happy note if you enjoy it!  How do you do interventions in your school?  As this is our first go at cross grade level interventions, I'm sure we'll be tweaking it for next year.  I'd love to know what you think!  How do you make sure you're moving kids and keeping your groups fluid?

Thanks!  Have a great Sunday!  Only for more days until SPRING BREAK for me!!!!!!

Properties of Matter Stuff

**Just a note! If you purchased the "magnets flippy" from my Teacher's Notebook store, please go in and re-download it from your account. When I printed it tonight, the fridge didn't print correctly so I have fixed it and uploaded the corrected file! Sorry!!!**

I've been pinning away all night and have found some GREAT resources for my unit on characteristics of matter which was supposed to begin today but, since it was the first day back and all, that didn't happen.

BUT tomorrow... it WILL happen!

We're going to start off the day sorting bags of stuff. Just random stuff. Then talking about why we sorted it the way we sorted it.

Which will lead into a fun activity where we'll get to chew gum. In. School. As shock rings out across the classroom, they'll be documenting the properties of the gum using their senses.

Next, some fun videos from United Streaming.

Then... this:
How totally fun!

Followed by some in-depth discussion and exploration of properties of matter including solids and liquids and all sorts of adjectives... rough, hard, smooth, soft, bouyant, etc...

We're going to make hands to help us remember texture words. On each finger will be one of the following: the word BUMPY with some beans, ROUGH with sandpaper, SMOOTH with waxed paper, SOFT with cotton, and HARD with macaroni. This was also from Pinterest, but now I can't find it and I forgot to pin it.

A big 1st grade topic is magnets, so we'll be making this Pinterest inspired project:

For which I made this freebie to share... thanks for the start, Mrs. Richardson! My kiddos will have to draw their own "thing" in the last box and then glue it to the appropriate area- magnetic or not magnetic.
Of course we'll do the magnet flippy book... (see note at the top of blog if you've purchased this file from my store)

and solids, liquids, and gases flippy too!
And to wrap it up, we'll be taking our assessment by playing a "SCOOT" style test game where students identify characteristics of an object, jot a word on a piece of paper, and then move at the signal to the next desk. You can grab it for free!
This will all lead in well to the 2nd grade idea of mixtures and solutions.

Phew! That was a lot of science! I hope you enjoy the freebies and... thanks, Pinterest, for the great ideas tonight!