#fluencyfun!

It's been a bit since I last posted with all of the end of year 

craziness I'm trying to stay ahead of!  Before I show you 

what we've been up to (besides a multitude of assessments, 

a field trip, our end of year open house, hit or miss 

specials/prep time, report cards,

  IEP and MET meetings, team meetings and after school 

PD's...yikes!) I just wanted to say that

{hashtag}jenjonesisagenius!

 Seriously.

I swooned when I saw her Hashtag Fluency For Digital Natives unit 

but thought maybe my second graders wouldn't "get it".  

Oh boy, was I wrong! Ha!  

When I asked who knew what a hashtag was every 

little hand started waving frantically! I guess that was a pretty 

silly question! I forget how savvy they are sometimes!

 I broke out these little ipads to all kinds of ooohs and ahhhhs! 

As I explained all of the fun things they were going to get 

to do with these my kiddos were practically

drooling! I added all of Jen's brilliant little ways to 

practice fluency to our literacy centers for the week and 

my class FUH-LIPPED!

Honestly, they were in hashtag heaven!

Partners used these timers and took turns to see how many phrases 

they could read before the sand was gone.  They graphed their 

progress each time they played.

Students also sorted "hashcards" (as one of my kiddos 

named them..Ha!)  into piles of YES or NO depending on 

if they could read them correctly. 

My students take home weekly fluency passages so they're 

very familiar with how this works. I used these for partner reading.  

One partner read the phrases while the other followed along 

marking any errors then counting the number read correctly.  

I placed the lists in page protectors and had kids 

use dry erase markers. After both partners had a turn, 

they choral readall of the phrases.

This next game was another HUGE hit! Not only did my kids 

get the biggest kick out of what the hashtags said 

but they LOVE using spinners and highlighters!

Let me back up a minute and tell you that before introducing 

my classto all of this awesomeness I was a tad worried that I would 

undo all of my hard work in getting them to use capitals 

and punctuation each. and. every. time. they wrote a sentence.  

So before I even showed them all of the fun things

we were about to do I showed them this.....

I projected this on my SMARTBoard and made my kids

pinky promise that they would ALWAYS remember these rules!

Feel free to grab this image and use it with Jen's unit.  

(Google Docs is giving me fits so I can't share it as a download 

but you can copy and paste it into a Word doc or Power Point slide 

and print or project it from there.)

My class will be working on a super fun memory book next week

that is a real keeper!  I wanted a memory book of my own 

to keep so I thought it would be fun to make 

a {hashtag}memory book!

I used Powerpoint and shapes to make the little ipads 

then cut and pasted  my favorite pictures.

Well, my kids were already in bliss over all of this 

and then I told them about ourhashtag hop.  Oh. my. gosh!  

They laughed and giggled and thought it was

the greatest thing ever! So we had ourselves a hashtag hop 

and went to town hashtagging all of the fun things 

we did this year!  

I printed out the pages and set them out on all of the desks.
I made sure I had a page for each desk and that each student
appeared 2 or 3 times total. We moved all of the chairs
then students hopped and hashtagged all 

of the pictures.  

 I LOVE how positive and encouraging they are toward each other.  
They had a blast looking back at all of our pictures and remembering 
the fun we've had this year!  

I know we're all swamped right about now, but hang in there 

and have some fun with your kiddos!

#summerisnear

#thebeachiscallingmyname