Back to School Bootcamp: Empowering Connection
Hey, K-2 teachers! It’s BACK TO SCHOOL time again!!! Are you a brand new teacher needing help and support to start the new school year? Are you coming back to the classroom after being away for a few years? Or, maybe you are new to kindergarten, first grade, or second grade? Well, guess what??? I’ve created a First Week of School BOOTCAMP called Empowering Connection just for you!
This bootcamp is filled with resources, videos, live trainings and a great support group just for you! Come and join me to begin your journey because registration is NOW OPEN until Sunday, July 28th! The Bootcamp trainings will start Monday, July 29th.
Bootcamp Schedule:
Training #1: Classroom Systems: July 29th at 10:00 CST
Training #2: The First 5 Days of Reader’s Workshop: July 30th at 10:00 CST
Training #3: The First 5 Days of Writer’s Workshop: July 31st at 10:00 CST
Training #4: The First 5 Days of Math Workshop: Aug. 1st at 7:00 CST
Training #5: The First 5 Days of Science: Aug. 2nd at 7:00 CST
Training #6: Building Relationships with Students/Parents: Aug. 3rd at 10:00 CST
Training #7: Launching Literacy Centers: Aug. 4th at 2:00 CST
In this First Week of School BOOTCAMP, you will receive 6 Hours of CPE Credit, Lesson plans with objectives, suggested mentor texts, differentiated interactive notebooks, anchor charts and how to teach the “I Do, We Do, and You Do”, 7 LIVE Training Videos in a Private Facebook Group, access to my Back to School Resources, and a one time payment of $35.00.
Guess what? I’m CPE certified. If you don’t know what CPE stands for it’s Continuing Professional Education. Once you have registered, you will receive an email that will give you directions on how to join the private Facebook Group. So, don’t forget to check your email!
Training #1: Classroom Systems
I don’t know about you, but I’m VERY OCD, so when it comes to classroom systems, I’m your gal! I love to have everything in its place and I also teach my students how to organize and clean up their supplies as well. I love coming into a well-organized and clean classroom every day and I’ll teach you how to do it! You will LOVE my tips and tricks that I’ve established over the years that really help you streamline your classroom so you will have less stress with no mess!
In training #1, I will share how to organize your classroom, your student supplies, student nametags, handing in work, how I organize my mentor texts, and units, rules and procedures for the classroom, cafeteria, and dismissal, and how I organize my materials and supplies for the week.
For this training, you will receive these 6 FREE resources: Student Data Trackers, Thematic Cover Pages, Days of the Week Labels, Library Labels, My Little Book of Exit Tickets, Rules & Procedure Cards, plus a Back to School Editable Slideshow using “Our Class is a Family” theme that you can tweak to make it your own!
Training #2: The First 5 Days of Reader’s Workshop
In training #2, I will share with you the first 5 days of Reader’s Workshop.
Lesson 1: Why Do Readers Read?
Lesson 2: What Does Reading Time Look & Sound Like?
Lesson 3: How Do We Treat Books?
Lesson 4: Can’t Is Buried
Lesson 5: What is Your Schema?
I will show you how to get your ELA block off the ground using the “I Do, We Do, and You Do”, rigor and relevance, mentor texts, anchor charts, interactive notebooks, differentiation, introducing rules and procedures. I explicitly teach you how to use the “gradual release of responsibility” within your lesson. I believe by teaching this way, you will gain successful and independent readers who will love to read!
I will show you how I use my “Schema Notebook” which is my reader’s notebook for reading comprehension and how I hold my students accountable for their work each day. For this training, you will receive a 5 day lesson plan with all of the examples shown in the training.
If you’re interested, here is my YT video of how I do my Schema Notebook.
Training #3: The First 5 Days of Writer’s Workshop
For this training, I will share the first 5 days of how to get your Writer’s Workshop block off the ground.
Lesson 1: Write From Your Heart
Lesson 2: What Does Writing Time Look Like?
Lesson 3: How to Use a Dictionary
Lesson 4: What is an Author and an Illustrator?
Lesson 5: Creating Mental Images
These lesson plans include objectives, how to teach using the “I Do, We Do, and You Do”, rigor and relevance, mentor texts, anchor charts, interactive notebooks, differentiation, and introducing rules and procedures. Many teachers struggle with teaching writing, but this is my strength. My students love writing and they ask to write all day long! I will give you lots of tips and tricks to hook your students into writer’s workshop. For this training, you will receive a 5-day lesson plan including all the examples shown in the training.
Check out my YT video of my students during writing time:
Training #4: The First 5 Days of Math Workshop
During this training, I will show you how to get your math block off the ground with these lessons:
Lesson 1: How Do We Get Home?
Lesson 2: What is a Mathematician?
Lesson 3: What is Math Workshop?
Lesson 4: What is Math Workshop?
Lesson 5: What is Math Workshop?
These lesson plans include objectives, suggested mentor texts, anchor charts, how-to-use components of your math curriculum, quick and easy transitions, exit tickets, differentiation, introducing your stations, rigor and relevance, and introducing rules and procedures. Math Workshop can be so fun and engaging for your students! I cannot wait to teach you how to start! For this training, you will receive a 5 day lesson plan with all the examples from the training.
Here’s a quick YT Video of how I do my transitions during my Math Workshop.
Training #5: The First 5 Days of Science
In this training, I will share ideas for the first 5 days of introducing your Science Unit:
Lesson 1: What is Science?
Lesson 2: What is the Scientific Method?
Lesson 3: What is a Scientist?
Lesson 4: What Are Science Tools?
Lesson 5: What Are Science Tools?
These lessons include objectives, rigor and relevance, suggested mentor texts, differentiated interactive notebooks, science investigation and experiments, writing craftivities, anchor charts, and how to set up your theme center, and science center. This unit is all about introducing science, what is a scientist, and the scientific method using an easy and simple experiment! For this training, you will receive a 5-day lesson plan with all the examples shown in the training.
Here is what my Theme Center looks like for my first science unit:
Training #6: Building Relationships with Students and Parents
Training #6 is Building Relationships With Students and Parents- effective morning meeting ideas using mentor texts, activities, and games, how to introduce rules and procedures with a social contract, teaching conflict/resolution, how to utilize a star student and peer facilitator, effective parent communication and relationships, and how to have an impactful first impression at Meet the Teacher Night.
In this training, you will receive these 4 resources: Show Me The Money Behavior Management using Bonus Bucks, School Supply Labels for Meet the Teacher Night, Transportation Tags, and Editable Classroom Forms for Students, Parents and Teachers!
Here is a picture of what my Social Contract looks like:
Training #7: Launching Literacy Centers
I’m so excited about this last training- I know it’s going to blow your socks off! In this training, I’m going to teach you how I launch my 20 Literacy Centers from day 1 and all the rules and procedures I teach my class for each center. You are going to get 2 Free Literacy Center resources that include: center icons, center templates and “I CAN” cards to go with each center.
I will share how I keep my students accountable at their centers using a center template and folder, how I have them turn in their pages for bonus bucks, how I organize my centers, how I manage the rotations, and which centers I switch out weekly, monthly or not at all. You will get an inside peek at my 20 Literacy Centers and come away with many tips and strategies to launch in your new classroom!
My 20 Literacy Centers are: Library, Poetry, Big Books, Geography, Art, Writing, Word Work, Kitchen, Calendar, Read/Write the Room, Felt Board, Technology, Author Study, Math, Listening, Finger Puppets, Construction/STEM, Drama, Science and Theme.
I cannot wait to share all of these trainings with you! Hope to see you in my private Facebook Group!
Click HERE to check out my BOOTCAMP details. Remember, you only have 3 more days to sign up for my Bootcamp so hurry, you don’t want to miss out on all of these awesome trainings and resources! If you’re interested in checking out my blog post about my day in first grade, click HERE.
Until next time, let’s take your classroom to the next level!
