Daily 5 Part 1

I started Daily 5 in 2011 and I feel like I am now comfortable enough to blog about it and how I started out. When I first started Daily 5 I was completely lost, I had no idea where to start or what to do. But then I discovered Pinterest, Oh My Word! I was in Education Heaven!  I found the Daily 5 for Dummies compiled by Jayne Haenel. Click the picture to grab your copy. It has instructions for the first 20 days of the daily 5 with CAFE instructions also. It's an awesome resource and it has truly helped me kick start Daily 5 in my classroom. ***UPDATE: I found a website where you can download it for free, just click here or click on the picture.

Daily 5 asks to incorporate 5 individual anchor charts on how the stations are supposed to look like. You fill out the anchor charts with your students. Once all the anchor charts are filled out it is suggested to keep these anchor charts up throughout the year so students can refer back to them and remember the "rules."

My classroom is in a portable and I have limited space, so having all 5 anchor charts up was taking up so much valuable space. I still plan to fill out my anchor charts in the beginning of the school year because it helps introduce Daily 5 to the students. I love how Mrs. Lemons has her anchor charts ready to be used for this school year. I plan on making mine look just like this. Thanks Mrs. Lemons!!!

After having the anchor charts up for about 3 weeks or so I will exchange all 5 posters for ONE anchor chart. This anchor chart will stay up through out the year saving me wall space. 

Once my students have mastered the rules of daily 5 they are ready to start their stations. I group my students according to their reading levels. My students to do not get to choose which station they would like to work on. I have a system that I use that tells them which station they are to work on. I put Velcro behind the labels and names so I can switch them around when necessary. 

You can download the station labels for free here.

I strongly suggest you start off by reading the Daily 5 book by "The Sisters" during the summer just to get your feet wet and get a better understanding of what Daily 5 is all about. 

HURRY!! Transfer your RSS Feed to Bloglovin

Friends!!!!! We have like 2 weeks left to have access to our Google Reader. Aaaahhhhhhh! But don't sweat it, here is a simple and quick tutorial on how to transfer ALL of the blogs you are subscribed to.

First, create an account at Bloglovin' if you haven't done so.

Second, click here 

http://www.bloglovin.com/import/reader

Once you click on the link above it'll take you here, click on tab shown below...

Once you have clicked on the "Import from Google Reader Tab" it will take you to a screen like this..

And Wallah your done! That's it! Easy huh?!

Here's a glimpse of what you will be seeing in Bloglovin'. 

The RSS feed is so similar to Google Reader. Here is a screen shot of my Google Reader...

And here is Bloglovin's Reader

 Looks the same right? Phew!

Now onto my favorite part about Bloglovin', you can simply click on next or oldest tab to simply go into reading your blog subscriptions. In Google Reader you would have to go back from a blog you were currently reading to Google Reader to read another post from your bloggy friends. 

Currently in....

My summer vacation has started and I am now thinking about what I need to get done for the new school year. My husband thinks I am crazy and suggested for me to just sit back and relax... Which I did and I think I OVER did it. I slept a total of 30 hours y'all. I had a 3 hour awake break between that. Seriously 30 hours! Maybe it's not normal, I'm probably lacking some vitamins or I was just overly exhausted from end of year school procedures. I dunno. Here's my "Currently in June" from oh'boy 4th grade. It's been awhile since I have linked up.