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I swear by Interactive Student Notebooks in Social Studies classes. It is a comprehensive learning tool for all of students' work. Interactive student notes are an organized series of notes...

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Today I am joining in on a blog hop about interactive notebooks! In the beginning I was a reluctant convert to interactive notebooks, but have come full circle! I adore the benefits that our interactive journals provide in my first grade class! This post highlights what I feel are the most important parts of interactive notebooks in the primary age student.

The pictures above came from my monthly interactive math journals.

For more information on interactive notebooks, check out the blogs below by clicking on the graphic!

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Interactive Notebooks and Young Learners - Tunstall's Teaching Tidbits

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Today I am joining in on a blog hop about interactive notebooks! In the beginning I was a reluctant convert to interactive notebooks, but have come full circle! I adore the benefits that our interactive journals provide in my first grade class! This post highlights what I feel are the most important parts of interactive ...

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This post is dedicated to Mor over at A Teacher's Treasure. Last weekend I watched her video on Interactive Student Notebooks (click on the link to check it out for yourself) ... and I was so inspired I knew I couldn't wait to "kick it up a notch" again in my math journals. This was the piece I was missing in my math journals - and before I watched the video I didn't even realize I was missing something. Her interactive student notebooks are based on the right side and left side pages. The students' right side of the notebooks all contain the same information (direct from the teacher). The left side of the notebook contains the students' thinking, knowledge, and reflection on the lesson. She has a terrific resource packed with over 100 templates for "left side of the page thinking". You can see it by clicking (and it's even on sale right now!).

I couldn't wait until September to start using the ideas in her fabulous resource, so we started using her strategies this week. On Monday we were learning about Order of Operations. I took them outside for a fun order of operations hopscotch, then we used the sidewalk chalk to fill the basketball court with problems and solutions. You can read my post about it . So of course, we needed a foldable to go along with our new knowledge. I needed it to be quick and easy because I wanted to spend time discussing our new "left side" thinking. So, quick and easy it was. We used sticky notes and arranged them in a hopscotch pattern (to tie in our outside activity). Underneath each sticky note was the word for each step (under the "B" was brackets). I added a little extra information (including our learning goal) for them to copy, and that was that.

This is the left side of the journals. Students rewrite the learning goal from the right side of the page (in student-friendly language). Then they write "What I Know". We do this before we do the lesson (it's highlighted in green to show that now we can "go" on with the rest of the lesson). After the lesson they write "What I Learned", "Proof" (where I want them to write a problem and solve it), and then a "Reflection" - this one is completely up to them - they can reflect on and show their learning in ANY way they want. This particular student wrote a mnemonic device for memorizing the steps to order of operations.

After our test midweek, we started our next unit. This short unit encompasses angles, triangles, and polygons. We started with angles. I wanted to do a fun, interactive element to our journals, so we made angles using two coloured pieces of construction paper cut into arrows, and attached them to our pages with a brass fastener. I had them glue the bottom arrow to the page, leaving the second arrow free to move into whatever angle needed. We practiced how to measure an angle, then I had them create angles of various degrees. The red colour made it very easy for me to see who had the concept right away, and who needed a little extra assistance.

We added a foldable underneath our interactive angle tool. It was a three fold foldable. We wrote the titles of the angles on the outside. Underneath each flap we had a diagram of the angle, a definition, and examples from the classroom. The students really enjoyed finding the different examples in the classroom.

The students also completed a "left side" for this activity, too. For the reflection, a lot of my students completed a picture of some sort of picture with the different angles labelled. But one of my favourite reflections was this girl who wrote a little song to remember the different angles.

I'm so excited about the evolution of my math journals!!! My mind is already swimming with ideas for next year. Thank-you SO much, Mor!

Happy Sunday!!!

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Math Journal Sundays ... Kicked Up A Notch

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This post is dedicated to Mor over at A Teacher's Treasure. Last weekend I watched her video on Interactive Student Notebooks (click on the link to check it out for yourself) ... and I was so inspired I knew I couldn't wait to "kick it up a notch" again in my math journals.

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Math Notebook Rubric with Print Conventions Included

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Math Notebook Rubric with Print Conventions Included

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I'm working on some YouTube videos about science notebooks and would love for you to check them out!

Teaching Student to do Quality Work

Teaching Output: Sentence Stems

Teaching Output: Personal Connection, Quick Write, & Questions

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NEW: Science Notebooking Videos - The Science Penguin

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I'm working on some YouTube videos about science notebooks and would love for you to check them out! Teaching Student to do Quality Work Teaching Output: Sentence Stems Teaching Output: Personal Connection, Quick Write, & Questions Related PostsStarting Out with Sentence StemsThinking about starting Interactive Science Notebooks?New Year, New Notebook Blog Series: Back to School Science ...

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While hands-on experiences in science are certainly important, we as teachers must remember to provide our students with time to reflect on their experiences.

I've posted before about science journaling { see my posts}, but I have been reflecting on my teaching and want to improve the type of output ideas my students form. Input consists of notes, foldables, data from experiments, and observations during an investigation.

When starting out with science notebook output ideas, I think it's important to teach the different options to your students. This could take many weeks to teach all of the possibilities. After each lab activity, you can take 10 minutes to model a strategy, then allow your students to try the strategy in their notebooks. Before you know it, they will be able to choose these on their own!

Because I'm in a new grade level this year, I got a little behind in teaching output ideas, so I'm still working my way through them with my class. Here are my suggestions for starting out with output ideas in your journal. although you can certainly go in any order you feel comfortable.

Eventually, students will be able to choose the appropriate output ideas that work for them after completing an activity. It's easy to rush to clean up a science experiment and move on, but please remember that students need time to reflect on the activity.

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Input...Output for your Science Notebooks - The Science Penguin

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While hands-on experiences in science are certainly important, we as teachers must remember to provide our students with time to reflect on their experiences. I've posted before about science journaling {see my posts}, but I have been reflecting on my teaching and want to improve the type of output ideas my students form.

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Lower grade output

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Journal Task-there is other grade level examples too.

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3rd Grade Math Journal Gallery contains samples of students' responses to 3rd grade math journal tasks

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4th and 5th Grade Science Bundles for the Texas TEKS

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Hello Texas teacher friends! Most of my classroom experience has been in 4th and 5th grade science. Early on I struggled to find effective materials to not only

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Hello Texas teacher friends! Most of my classroom experience has been in 4th and 5th grade science. Early on I struggled to find effective materials to not only

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Interactive Science Notebook Bulletin Board | Science Notebooking | Pinterest | Science notebooks, Bulletin board and Chart

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Interactive Science Notebook Bulletin Board