You are an amazing educator and I just admire how you are navigating a combo class. I would be so happy if I was a parent in your classroom. I’m constantly telling the elementary teachers in my organization about your videos. Keep up the good work Mayleen, truly love following your journey and having a little part of me in your classroom 🥰❤️🍎
I teach Pre-K where we start every day with fine motor! One of the favorites last week was a giant piece of styrofoam (packaging from a mirror I recently bought) with toothpicks and pony beads--stick the picks in the foam and make a pattern with pony beads on on the pick. Hammering (crab mallets) and golf tees in a pumpkin. Q-tip dot painting.
Hi Mayleen! I’m so excited for you and your students to use the giant push pins! Another fine motor activity could be pouring! Fill two cups with rice, beans, or colored water and let them pour! (Water is also a good color mixing activity!)
We did apple stamping this week as well. This week we are going to finger paint apples with our thumbs. We are studying trees and that tree project looks like it would be fun. Have a great week
Absolutely love the long vlogs! It gives me something to watch and listen to while annotating peer-reviewed articles! (Currently in college as a psyc. major) ♥
You will love the next one then haha...haven't edited yet but I am guessing I have like 5 hours unedited at least lol.......good luck in your classes!!! 🥰
Always love watching your vlogs Mayleen! Thanks for sharing! I especially liked the picture only books you showed, will definitely try to find some and incorporate into my teaching as well! Hope you have an amazing week again!
I love couples doing couple things. It's so cute. Marriage is a blessing these days. Get married folks and enjoy another person for the rest of your life
You are already doing so much fine motor throughout your exciting days. For your bins, you could add spinning tops, wind up toys, popping bubble wrap, tearing paper strips, flicking marbles, rolling tiny crepe paper balls, joining paper clips, turning double sided counters, stacking maths ones blocks, making shapes/pictures with macaroni, rice or toothpicks, picking up tiny pompoms with tweezers (may be easier), peeling tiny stickers, pegging pegs onto number cards or a line, weaving, unlocking padlocks, twisting nuts and bolts, eyedroppers, doing up and undoing small buttons on clothes
I just have to say that you and your husband are the cutest!!! "They taste like grapes"!!! Oh, and it's okay to buy your own flowers!!! Have a great week!
Hello Mayleen, I was wondering when do you do the fine motor bins/ stem bins? I usually have my students do morning works like building with blocks and play dough but I want to provide more options for them and was thinking this is a good idea. Is this something that they do in small groups or partner team? Thank you and love your vlogs! Such an inspiration for me as a second year teacher in first grade trying to figure out how to navigate this year!
We do them in the morning! So for 10-15 minutes that is how they start their day. Adding in some more options for them would be great! They do it with their groups that I have made for them in centers. So my class is grouped into 4 groups (for me it is based a lot on behavior) and they look to see which bin they do that day. Friday we do puzzles! :) Thank you for this sweet comment!
Hi! I'm from Australia, and I know our adherence to "standards" (not what we call them here, hence the quote marks) is a little different from yours in America. It is very much emphasised that the kids should be met where they're at, rather than focusing on what grade they're in, age-wise. If we have composite (combo) classes, we teach them together and differentiate based on the needs of the kids, rather than their chronological school grade. So after that long-winded diatribe, I'm wondering what you do for kids who are performing markedly outside of the "expected" level for their grade? For example, do you have any Kinders who already know all of their letters and can read some sight words, etc? Do you have 1st graders who are reading beyond sight words? When you do the read-aloud crafts, what if a Kinder would be capable of the 1st grade activity or vice-versa? I'd be interested to know how you tackle these things. Thanks, I really enjoy your content :)
Hi! Yes, I do talk in the next vlog going up about how my students are starting to spread out a little more in terms of their academic knowledge! My groups WILL eventually start mixing, I am sure! My first graders are actually pretty low this year....struggle with writing a basic sentence and even cvc words but I am doing everything I can to help bridge the gap. It's going! The read aloud crafts are actually one of the more flexible times in our day where I do lots of k/1 switching and can VERY easily differentiate! I talk about this in the vlog I am filming from this week as well!! All in all you are very spot-on and that's exactly what I think should happen, too!! 🥰
+Mrs. Call's Campers Mayleen , I like your handwriting on your white board . Keep working with your young friend , one at a time . Thank you for the vlogs and keep handling it like a champ . - Dwight
Hi! I binged watched 3 weeks of volgs this weekend and loved it! Thanks for sharing! This 20 year veteran teacher loved learning new ideas from you! What was the name of the group that sings the simple rap songs, I missed it! Thanks again!
I LOVE your videos and this one is awesome. I thought I heard thesleepyteacher mention that she is your mom. Did I hear that right? She is awesome too! Love her vids!
Is there a way you can link the aid to-do list? I looked for it and couldn’t find it. I have a new para and I think that would really be helpful for both of us. Thanks!
@@MrsCallsCampers thank you! I was watching the new vlog and when you mentioned it again I just looked at all possible ones because I thought that there is no way you would mention it twice and not link it 😁
Hey Mayleen!! I am in LOVE your fine motor bins!!! I personally have a preschooler, so your channel is helping me a lot with afterschool home activities. She’s not attending school due to COVID so I don’t want her falling behind. Any suggestions for resources for her for alphabet and numbers for a 4year old? Also I had a question in regards to sharing material in your school. I teach 5th and our district/campus is restricting our students to share ANY type of materials so typical center or partner work activities are out the window. How is your school handling it and any suggestions for alternative methods to allow for school still to be engaging? I use a lot of tech with my 5th graders and prepping hands on would mean prepping 26 individual activities and that would take forever
Thank you! The fine motor bins are actually one of my favorite things that I have started doing this year!!! I love Tara West and The Moffatt Girls on TpT for resources, so definitely check there, but hands-on games are your best bet! :) We mask and if we have a case we do quarantine close contacts. Dealing with this same situation last year, it's hard because it puts more work on the teacher. 1:1 devices help if teachers have them....whiteboards are also a BIG one that you can do a lot with. I would love to help more but I don't know too many specifics haha!
Hope you love the vlog! 🥰 Leave me a comment and let me know what is most helpful to see! What would you like more detail on next week?
I love how the whole class encourages your behavior friend! Class families are the best!
You are an amazing educator and I just admire how you are navigating a combo class. I would be so happy if I was a parent in your classroom. I’m constantly telling the elementary teachers in my organization about your videos. Keep up the good work Mayleen, truly love following your journey and having a little part of me in your classroom 🥰❤️🍎
Thank you! That means the WORLD! I am trying so so hard. I appreciate the love! Have a beautiful weekend!
I teach Pre-K where we start every day with fine motor! One of the favorites last week was a giant piece of styrofoam (packaging from a mirror I recently bought) with toothpicks and pony beads--stick the picks in the foam and make a pattern with pony beads on on the pick. Hammering (crab mallets) and golf tees in a pumpkin.
Q-tip dot painting.
Keep the ideas coming!!!
Hi Mayleen! I’m so excited for you and your students to use the giant push pins! Another fine motor activity could be pouring! Fill two cups with rice, beans, or colored water and let them pour! (Water is also a good color mixing activity!)
They are LOVING them!!!! thank you again!
We did apple stamping this week as well. This week we are going to finger paint apples with our thumbs. We are studying trees and that tree project looks like it would be fun. Have a great week
I teach 5th grade and my students love when I read to them from a ¨quick read." Some may not admit it, but I know they do!
They FOR SURE do 😉
Your hubby is soooo sweet! The pearls look great on you!
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Absolutely love the long vlogs! It gives me something to watch and listen to while annotating peer-reviewed articles! (Currently in college as a psyc. major) ♥
You will love the next one then haha...haven't edited yet but I am guessing I have like 5 hours unedited at least lol.......good luck in your classes!!! 🥰
@@MrsCallsCampers Oh my! That's going to be a great vlog! 😄 Thank you so much!
Tuesday was my favorite book as a child. The Frogs expressions. 🐸
So good!
Always love watching your vlogs Mayleen! Thanks for sharing! I especially liked the picture only books you showed, will definitely try to find some and incorporate into my teaching as well! Hope you have an amazing week again!
Thank you Ayla!!! Ooooh so glad to hear that :) :) have a great week, too!
I love couples doing couple things. It's so cute. Marriage is a blessing these days. Get married folks and enjoy another person for the rest of your life
You are already doing so much fine motor throughout your exciting days. For your bins, you could add spinning tops, wind up toys, popping bubble wrap, tearing paper strips, flicking marbles, rolling tiny crepe paper balls, joining paper clips, turning double sided counters, stacking maths ones blocks, making shapes/pictures with macaroni, rice or toothpicks, picking up tiny pompoms with tweezers (may be easier), peeling tiny stickers, pegging pegs onto number cards or a line, weaving, unlocking padlocks, twisting nuts and bolts, eyedroppers, doing up and undoing small buttons on clothes
Oh my gosh what a great list thank you!
I just have to say that you and your husband are the cutest!!! "They taste like grapes"!!! Oh, and it's okay to buy your own flowers!!! Have a great week!
hehe thank you so much tracy!
We love moon drop grapes. Just bought some more. We call them goofy grapes. I agree more fun to eat.
🌞Always loving your videos🍃
Happy 4 year anniversary both of you are so cute John don’t be shy Besitos Besitos 🥰🥰
Love your Pearls🌻
thank you!!! hahahaha!! 🥰🥰🥰
The other day I was laminating and wishing I had two machine. Seeing you with two definitely made me feel more sane about that lol
(i actually have four lol no regrets) 😂
Hello Mayleen,
I was wondering when do you do the fine motor bins/ stem bins? I usually have my students do morning works like building with blocks and play dough but I want to provide more options for them and was thinking this is a good idea. Is this something that they do in small groups or partner team?
Thank you and love your vlogs! Such an inspiration for me as a second year teacher in first grade trying to figure out how to navigate this year!
We do them in the morning! So for 10-15 minutes that is how they start their day. Adding in some more options for them would be great! They do it with their groups that I have made for them in centers. So my class is grouped into 4 groups (for me it is based a lot on behavior) and they look to see which bin they do that day. Friday we do puzzles! :) Thank you for this sweet comment!
My preschoolers loved a walk with Vanessa.
This week looked SO fun!! I def want to use the apple activities and the Koala book!!
PLEASE DO
I really need to do that when making anchor charts.
I love John! You two are the cutest.
always love seeing your comments pop up!
Hi!
I'm from Australia, and I know our adherence to "standards" (not what we call them here, hence the quote marks) is a little different from yours in America. It is very much emphasised that the kids should be met where they're at, rather than focusing on what grade they're in, age-wise. If we have composite (combo) classes, we teach them together and differentiate based on the needs of the kids, rather than their chronological school grade.
So after that long-winded diatribe, I'm wondering what you do for kids who are performing markedly outside of the "expected" level for their grade? For example, do you have any Kinders who already know all of their letters and can read some sight words, etc? Do you have 1st graders who are reading beyond sight words? When you do the read-aloud crafts, what if a Kinder would be capable of the 1st grade activity or vice-versa? I'd be interested to know how you tackle these things.
Thanks, I really enjoy your content :)
Hi! Yes, I do talk in the next vlog going up about how my students are starting to spread out a little more in terms of their academic knowledge! My groups WILL eventually start mixing, I am sure! My first graders are actually pretty low this year....struggle with writing a basic sentence and even cvc words but I am doing everything I can to help bridge the gap. It's going! The read aloud crafts are actually one of the more flexible times in our day where I do lots of k/1 switching and can VERY easily differentiate! I talk about this in the vlog I am filming from this week as well!! All in all you are very spot-on and that's exactly what I think should happen, too!! 🥰
How do you assign the fine motor bins each day? Do the kids choose what bin they want or do you assign?
I have my students in groups and I assign a number to a group each day on the board!
+Mrs. Call's Campers
Mayleen ,
I like your handwriting on your white board .
Keep working with your young friend , one at a time .
Thank you for the vlogs and keep handling it like a champ .
- Dwight
Hello! Can you tell me where the directed drawing writing activities are from?? Thank you 😊
kreative in Kinder!!!
Hi! I binged watched 3 weeks of volgs this weekend and loved it! Thanks for sharing! This 20 year veteran teacher loved learning new ideas from you! What was the name of the group that sings the simple rap songs, I missed it! Thanks again!
Can't tell you how nice it was to read this!!! Blake Rules is the rapper haha!
Is the twist and write ws in your word work bundle?
I need to add it!
I LOVE your videos and this one is awesome. I thought I heard thesleepyteacher mention that she is your mom. Did I hear that right? She is awesome too! Love her vids!
Thanks for watching! We just joke about it haha! She isn't my actual mom 😂😂😂
Where did you get the worksheet you have for the cvc wood block spinners? I have those and was looking for a resource to use with them!
I made it! I need to add it to my word work pack lol
Is there a way you can link the aid to-do list? I looked for it and couldn’t find it. I have a new para and I think that would really be helpful for both of us. Thanks!
It's under "all my links and codes" under free resources! Sorry I missed this comment....it was held for review and never published for some reason.
@@MrsCallsCampers thank you! I was watching the new vlog and when you mentioned it again I just looked at all possible ones because I thought that there is no way you would mention it twice and not link it 😁
Hey Mayleen!! I am in LOVE your fine motor bins!!! I personally have a preschooler, so your channel is helping me a lot with afterschool home activities. She’s not attending school due to COVID so I don’t want her falling behind. Any suggestions for resources for her for alphabet and numbers for a 4year old? Also I had a question in regards to sharing material in your school. I teach 5th and our district/campus is restricting our students to share ANY type of materials so typical center or partner work activities are out the window. How is your school handling it and any suggestions for alternative methods to allow for school still to be engaging? I use a lot of tech with my 5th graders and prepping hands on would mean prepping 26 individual activities and that would take forever
Thank you! The fine motor bins are actually one of my favorite things that I have started doing this year!!! I love Tara West and The Moffatt Girls on TpT for resources, so definitely check there, but hands-on games are your best bet! :) We mask and if we have a case we do quarantine close contacts. Dealing with this same situation last year, it's hard because it puts more work on the teacher. 1:1 devices help if teachers have them....whiteboards are also a BIG one that you can do a lot with. I would love to help more but I don't know too many specifics haha!
Your preschooler doesn't need much to thrive and learn: mama's lap and classic children's literature and the great outdoors!
Is there a classroom tour that I missed? I keep looking back to previous videos, but I don’t see any!
I'll film one this weekend :)
What apps do you use for centers?
I'll share in this week's vlog :)