UPDATES
November 18
November 16
- Uploaded November LESSON PLANS
October 18
- Uploaded revised/new Sep. 1 - Oct. 31 LESSON PLANS
- Uploaded Word "High Interest Word Sheets" for Writer's Workshop and Work on Writing
- Uploaded Guided Reading Group Schedule
- Uploade Updated 2009 - 2010 Schedule
September 7
- Uploaded Sep. 1 - Oct. 3 LESSON PLANS
- Uploaded Apples Science Unit
- Uploaded Seasons Science Unit
- Uploaded Weather Science Unit
- Uploaded "So It Begins..." Get Ready for School to Start Document
August 23
- Uploaded 3 Student Browsing Box Mini Charts: Colors, Shapes, & Numbers
- Where'd You Get That Font? - Lettering Delights - Scuba Bubbles
August 8
- Uploaded 2009 - 2010 Calendar Wall Smart Board Files
August 5
- Uploaded Planning Guides (Scope and Sequence Guides for Curriculum Areas)
July 25
- Revamped VISTA PRINT Page & Added New Vista Print Creation Photos
- Uploaded 2009-2010 Daily/Weekly Class Schedule
- Revamped Writer's Workshop Page & Added Many New Units/Lessons
- Uploaded 2008 - 2009 Lesson Plans
- Where'd You Get That Font? - Lettering Delights - Beach Fun (Not Available Anymore)
July 1
- Added a New COPYRIGHT Page
- Updated Guided Reading Page
- Where'd You Get That Font? - Lettering Delights - Old Glory
June 30
- Uploaded Reader's Workshop FRONTLOADING pictures in three different file formats.
June 29
- 2008 - 2009 Classroom Tour Added (short-N-sweet)!
- See note about SEP and OCT calendar pages for the SMART Board.
June 24
- Added Lots of GOODIES to the FORMS Page
- Uploaded 2009 - 2010 Calendars for Calendar Binders and Calendar Journal Notebooks
May 30
- FYI - Lettering Delight Fans...THEY'RE having a GREAT clearance sale! Click on "clearance" and refine your search to "alphabets". Where'd You Get That Font? - Lettering Delights - Drawings
- Website Updates... Only 8 more days of school left, and so much to do! Website updates and additions will begin again after school lets out. I hope and trust that your final days of school will go smoothly and be full of fond memories!
May 25
- Uploaded June's Calendar Wall Smart Board File
- Uploaded Chapters 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, & 27 Smart Board Files to Compliment our McMillan/McGraw-Hill Mathematics Series
- Where'd You Get That Font? - Lettering Delights - Freedom
May 17
- "Where'd You Get That Font?" - Lettering Delights - Silly Faces
May 2
- Uploaded May's Calendar Wall Smart Board File
April 20
- Uploaded Revised and Completed 2008-2009 Writer's Workshop Scope and Sequence Planning Guide
April 11
- Capitalization Sentence Sort (Smart Board File) for Writer's Workshop CONVENTIONS Mini Lesson
- Uploaded Chapters 18, 19, 20, & 21 Smart Board Files to Compliment our McMillan/McGraw-Hill Mathematics Series
- "Where'd You Get That Font?" - Lettering Delights - Easter Eggs
April 2
- Uploaded April's Calendar Wall Smart Board File
March 1
- Uploaded March's Calendar Wall Smart Board File
- Uploaded Chapters 15, 16, & 17 Smart Board Files to Compliment our McMillan/McGraw-Hill Mathematics Series
- Uploaded "Books I Read Today" and "Books I've Read This Month" and "Words I Worked With Today" Recording Sheets
- "Where'd You Get That Font?" - Lettering Delights - Tropicool
February 7
- Uploaded DNealian Handwriting Notebook File
- Uploaded SMARTboard Fun Notebook File
- Uploaded Martin Luther King JR Poems on Smart Board (one file with both songs/poems): Freedom, Freedom and Dr. King's Dream
February 1
- Uploaded February Poems on Smart Board (one file with all songs/poems): Love Grows One by One, The Three Little Kittens, Rainbow Blizzard, Snow Snow Falling Down, I'm a Little Snowman, A Week in the Snow, Sunflakes, President's Day, and The Groundhog
January 30
- Uploaded Personal Narratives Unit for Writer's Workshop
- "Where'd You Get That Font?" - Lettering Delights - Frosty Friends
January 25
- Uploaded Chapters 13 & 14 Smart Board Files to Compliment our McMillan/McGraw-Hill Mathematics Series
- Uploaded February's Calendar Wall Smart Board File
- Uploaded 3rd Quarter Six Traits (Ideas/Conventions) Rubric Documents (end of page)
January 18
- Uploaded Lesson Plans for December and January (all 2008 Lesson Plans are in one PDF file)
January 17
- Uploaded Semester Two Schedule
January 16
- "Where'd You Get That Font?" - Lettering Delights - Warm Hands
- Uploaded "Penguin" Social Studies Unit
January 4
- Uploaded January's Calendar Wall Smart Board File
- Uploaded Chapters 11 and 12 Smart Board Files to Compliment our McMillan/McGraw-Hill Mathematics Series
December 10
- Uploaded Santa Letters Smart Board File (scroll down to "Letter Writing")
December 7
- Uploaded Chapter 10 Smart Board File to Compliment our McMillan/McGraw-Hill Mathematics Series
November 30
- Linked Several Guided Reading Lesson Plans
- Uploaded Chapter 8 and 9 Smart Board Files to Compliment our McMillan/McGraw-Hill Mathematics Series
November 29
- Uploaded CHRISTMAS and MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Poems for Student Poetry Books and Teacher Poetry Charts
- Uploaded "Me on the Map" Social Studies Unit
November 28
- Finished Formatting Poetry Shared Reading Page
- Uploaded PENGUIN, COINS, COLUMBUS, and FIRE SAFETY Poems for Student Poetry Books and Teacher Poetry Charts
November 27
- Uploaded [REVISED VERSION] of December's Calendar Wall Smart Board File (there was a clerical error on the calendar)
November 22
- Uploaded December's Calendar Wall Smart Board File
November 16
- Uploaded Lesson Plans for October and November (all 2008 Lesson Plans are in one PDF file)
- Uploaded Chapter 5, 6, and 7 Smart Board Files to Compliment our McMillan/McGraw-Hill Mathematics Series
- Uploaded November's Calendar Wall Smart Board File
November 1
- Uploaded Chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4 Smart Board Files to Compliment our McMillan/McGraw-Hill Mathematics Series
- Added Shared Reading Poems: A Wiggly Worm; Wonderful Weather; A Week of Weather; Seasons, Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall; and The Spider.
October 31
- Uploaded November, December, and January's Writer's Workshop Scope and Sequence Planning Guide
- Added a new feature from "Snap Shots" - - hopefully your time spent here will be more efficient...?! :)
October 19
- Fixed the "Site Search" Page (Google Wasn't Working, So I'm Now Using "FreeFind" Site Search)
- Added Several Items to the A Few of My Favorite Things Page
- Uploaded Lesson Plans for weeks of 9/1, 9/8, 9/15, 9/22, 9/29, 10/6, and 10/13
- Uploaded October's Writer's Workshop Scope and Sequence Planning Guide
- Added Book Labels (website visitor submissions): Sports by Stephanie Caprino
- Added Graph of the Day (website visitor submissions): Are You Right or Left Handed? by Carolyn Lehr
August 30
- We moved on the 28th, and haven't had Internet access until just now (11 AM on the 30th). I still don't have my email account set up with my new Internet provider, and so my jessica@jmeacham.com email won't get forwarded properly until I do (it is forwarding to my previous Internet provider email account. Sorry about any inconveniences. I hope to get it all sorted out sometime tomorrow (Sunday). As for website updates....that is on the waaaayyyyy BACK BURNER for now, as I'm very busy unpacking, organizing, and cleaning at the house ON TOP of planning, organizing, and getting ready at school.
August 24
- Uploaded 2008-2009 Semester One Schedule
- Uploaded Question and Answer Unit for Writer's Workshop
August 20
- Uploaded Pattern Story Unit for Writer's Workshop
- I will now be moving toward a download-only version for the Writing Workshop Units/Lessons. The units that are currently online in a webpage-based format will be converted over to a download-only format as time permits.
August 14
- Added Handwriting Practice Booklet in Zaner Bloser Font (thanks Sherri-Lynn H. for converting the fonts!!!)
- Added Visitor Shares: Parent Apple Orientation Labels, Poetry Notebook Labels, Word Workbook Pages, Welcome to... Signs, and Beginning of Year Checklist, Calendar Binder/Journal Cover and Other Inserts, Writing Task Strips for Pocket Chart
- Added Book Labels (website visitor submissions): Judy Blume, Jigsaw Jones, Sky and Space, Fantasy, Science, Seeds and Plants, Sharks, Franklin, Maisy, Picture Riddles, Poetry, Historical Fiction, Folklore, Biography, Reptiles, Animals, Fall, Fire Safety, Non-Fiction
August 10
- Uploaded Planning Guides (Scope and Sequence Guides for Curriculum Areas)
Wow! That was quick! I guess I'm only allowed 100 survey responds with a free membership from Survey Monkey. The survey is now "closed." :) Thanks for responding!
August 9
I am in the process of rethinking how I present my Writing Workshop minilessons. It'd be a work in progress, but before I go and change things, I'd like to hear your thoughts and ideas. Thanks in advance for your responses, I appreciate them!
July 18
- I feel like I am disappointing many of you with not having many updates (new things). I also feel that I need to explain why. WE BOUGHT A HOUSE!!! We started looking on 7.7.08 and put in a bid on 7.12.08 - - and we close on 8.29.08. I now find myself in the midst of a flurry of activity and emotions! I feel very busy, and not at all motivated to do website building. I am sure you might understand my dilemma (house hunting/financing/buying/packing/moving and starting a new school year all within a 7-week time frame is hard to do)!!!
July 14
- Number Operations: Added (1) Calculator Calculations, (2) Domino Addition/Subtraction, & (3) Roll, Add, Race to 100
July 11
- Uploaded Graph of the Day/Week - still a small amount of work to be done, but overall in pretty good shape!
- I'm starting to go through my files for things I haven't added to
the site yet in Reading/Writing Workshop. I'll create the pages
for these added resources, but I thought I'd just begin adding the
downloads first, then create the pages as time permits (probably during
the 2008 - 2009 school year).
- Writer's Workshop: 1/2 Page Writer's Checklist for Students
- Writer's Workshop: Anchor Chart Sign for Procedures and Expectations
- Writer's Workshop: Story Map Brainstorming Sheets
- Writer's Workshop: Writing Papers
- Writer's Workshop: Writing Process Pictures/Titles/Images
- Writer's Workshop: Writing Process Captions
- Writer's Workshop: Writing Process Pictures
- Writer's Workshop: Writing Paper Drawer Labels/Business Card Printables
- Writer's Workshop: Writing to Read 2007 and 2008 by Nellie Edge
- Writer's Workshop: Mrs. Pierre's Status of the Class Teacher Printable - she's from my school!
- Writer's Workshop: Meacham's First 20 Days of Kindergarten Writing
- Writer's Workshop: Weekend News Template
- Writer's Workshop: Kidwriting Parent Guide
- Writer's Workshop: Hat Homework Announcement
- Writer's Workshop: Pattern Story Paper 1, 2, and 3
- Writer's Workshop: Story Paper
- Writer's Workshop: Topics to Write About Title, Pictures, Labels
- Writer's Workshop: News Templates: Bugs, Adventure, Birthday, Friend, House, Love, Music, Nature, Party, Pet, World
- Fixed Broken Link to Student and Teacher Choice Sheets for Centers/Work Stations/Reading and Writing Options/Etc.
July 10
July 8
- Uploaded Blank Guided Reading Plan Template
- Uploaded Sample Guided Reading Plans - Two from Each Level that I Have so Far
- Uploaded A Parent's Guide to Guide to the Reading Levels
- Uploaded Reading Strategies Student Cheat Sheet Download
- Uploaded Reading Strategies Anchor Chart Pictures Download
- Uploaded new 2008 - 2009 Calendar Binder Calendars
- Uploaded new 2008 - 2009 Calendar Notebook Journal Calendars
July 7
- Wow! Thank you all for the warm welcome back! I have truly enjoyed your email messages. I've just about finished responding to the 229 emails I've received in the past 7 days. I have about 27 of them left to respond to in my inbox. Thank you for your patience as I continue to add to the site and "iron out the wrinkles" that I find, or that visitors find. I appreciate reports of broken links, etc, but just remember that not every page on the homepage has been linked yet. Right now, the only pages that really need a lot of work are Guided Reading, Writer's Workshop, Reader's Workshop, and Graph of the Week/Day. I do thank you for being patient. I am a "1-woman-band" when it comes to responding to emails and website building and I can only move so fast. LOL! Again, I appreciate your warmth, kindness, and enthusiasm.
July 1, 2008
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I'm back! :) I've missed website building, but definitely enjoyed my time away. A lot of people have asked me what I've been up to. Well, since last August (2007), I've been meeting with two fantastically, talented ladies from my church and we've been writing Vacation Bible School curriculum. It has been a very rewarding experience. Another project that has been vying for my attention has been my Technology Grant Project. I attended 10 technology classes last August (1/2 day session for each class). Our small (3-person) grant team decided on a project and worked our way through all of the project requirements. I now know a lot more about movie making! :) Additionally, I took a Frameworks Course (7 day-long classes) and moved on up to teaching 1st Grade after having been in Kindergarten for a couple of years. While I feel refreshed after having been away from site building, I also fee very behind! I had no time to update/add to the site. So if you were expecting NEW things right away...I hate to disappoint, but it will take time for me to gather my wits and begin the game of "catch up." It will be a fun journey for me though.... My email is back up and running, so feel free to email any questions, comments, or suggestions! I'll try to respond in a timely manner!
