Well, I still have NOT heard where I will be student teaching and that is so frusturating! I know I need to trust that God has a plan, but it's hard! I promise to be a super help to the teacher. :)
I just love Christmas. Since this is the last holiday season not in the classroom, I am trying my hardest to simply enjoy every moment. Among all the decorating, buying, and wrapping, I am making tons of little cookies, throwing my youngest a birthday party and planning for my grandmother's Christmas visit. Oh yes, I'm also responsible for our family's fancy Christmas Eve dinner and Christmas Day luncheon. No pressure.
Now and then, I turn my head back to school things and I have finished my GIANT book list. The categories I have included are as follows:
Comprehension (C in CAFE)
Accuracy (A in CAFE)
Fluency (F in CAFE)
Expanding vocabulary (E in CAFE)
3 ways to read a book Places to read in the classroom
Taking care of books
Introducing book bins
Beginning of the year
Read to self
Introducing the CAFE board
Read to someone
Predicting
Schema/background knowledge
Making connections strategy
Questioning strategy
Visualizing strategy
Inferring strategy
Synthesizing strategy
Determining importance strategy
Bye for now!
