mcgraw hill wonders kindergarten sight word list

The University of Toledo has a great endorsement program that allows you to add on a school counseling degree to a previous counseling license. Although I am not currently practicing at a mental health agency, my community counseling degree gave me a great foundation in counseling.īecause I wanted to stay in the schools full-time (for now!), I decided to pursue my school counseling license. I did everything from play therapy with children, individual counseling with adults, group counseling with at-risk teenagers, and even some marital counseling-nothing like providing marital counseling when you are a 20-something single counselor! Throughout my coursework, I specialized in play therapy and art therapy and would like to become a Registered Play Therapist one of these days. When I completed my internship, I was able to work with many populations. My master's degree is in community counseling and I am a Licensed Professional Counselor in the state of Ohio. I've always been interested in the mental health field, so I decided to pursue graduate coursework in counseling.

I spent 6 years teaching second grade, 1 year in first grade, and 1 year teaching a pre-primary class at a Montessori school. I received my bachelor's degree in early childhood education and am licensed to teach pre-school through third grade.

In case you are wondering, my educational background is a combination of teaching and counseling. I had already built rapport with students and staff and had a good handle on our school culture, so I was able to start the new job with a solid foundation. I guess it's not that early!), but I couldn't pass up the opportunity of being able to be a school counselor in a community that I love. I never expected to leave the classroom this early in my career (it feels strange writing that since I'm in year 10 of education. I've taught 2nd grade at my school for the past six years, and when our veteran school counselor announced her retirement, I decided to apply for the job. One major advantage I had for the new position was the ability to stay at the same school where I've been teaching. It was basically like being a first year teacher all over again. I am excited to officially announce that I am now an elementary school counselor! Did you notice the title of this blog post? That's right, after after 8 years as a classroom teacher, I stepped out of the classroom and into a new position. I decided to take an extended blogging vacation during the 2015-2016 school year because I made an exciting career change. It's been a few months a school year since I've been here. Wait until you see the looks on your students' faces when they see their photos! Here are a few of my favorites from previous years. Then, you quickly line up their chin, eyes, and smile with the sensors and the app transforms your students into darling 100 year olds! It's priceless. If you are looking for a fun project, you have to check out the Aging Booth App (it's free)! Basically, you can use your iPhone or iPad to snap of photo of each student. next week, we are finally going to reach the 100th day of school! For the last few years, I've been doing a technology project with my 2nd graders to help us celebrate the 100th Day. Last school year, I think we missed 13 or 14 days, so I guess 7 isn't too bad.īack to the point. Here in the Toledo area, we received the lovely gift of 12 inches of snow last week ((in one day))! Awesome. Have you reached the 100th day of school yet? If so, perhaps you live somewhere warmer than Ohio. You can download the FREE checklist by clicking on the image below. Using the template, I worked with my friend, Amanda, to create a scope and sequence that showed the CCSS that were truly being focused on each week. My friend and colleague, Mary, created a template to use to map out Wonders for 4th grade. Clearly, that's not going to work for us! Like usual, I decided to create my own resource to meet my needs. Unit 1, Week 1 lists 44 standards for the WEEK (12 of which don't pertain to 2nd grade). The best McGraw-Hill could do was tell me to use the online Weekly Planner resource to pull up the weekly standards. (Because my district uses standards based grading, it is important for us to see the scope and sequence of the standards we are teaching and assessing).

Scope and Sequence: I emailed the folks at McGraw-Hill multiple times to see if they could provide a matrix that indicates which CCSS are being focused on each week. In my 8 years of teaching, this will be the first year I've had a reading curriculum that addresses Previously, we were using a variety of series and resources to meet our students' needs. My school district recently adopted McGraw-Hill Wonders as our new K-6 reading series.

Mcgraw hill wonders kindergarten sight word list