I can feel the love!

Ahh!

Posting this blog for you all to see was a great thing to do!
It has only been posted for two hours and I already feel the love from you all!
I am trying to prep for this week, but I'm so distracted by this blog, that I might as well write some actual content since I can't seem to get anything else done.

So I am done teaching my unit on opinion writing in first grade. The kids did so well with it! Now I have to chart their growth and reflect on their learning - sounds fun right? NO - I can't figure out how to make the charts work.
Anyone know how to make it so bar graph (excel) has a maximum number threshold? For example, I need all of the charts to be out of 4..so the top number on the bar graph needs to be 4 because that is the maximum number of points for the assignment. As of right now, if they got a 2.5.. it makes the maximum number a 3.5..if they got a 3.5..it makes the maximum number 4.5. So it skews the whole chart making it seem like student A's assignment was out of 3.5 and student B's assignment was out of 4.5.
I need help with that so comment below or text me or email me or something.
I NEED TO GET THAT DONE!

Anyways, so I am doing a lot of reflecting on my unit as I'm starting my half day takeover starting tomorrow. I'm not nervous for it or anything, I know there will be good days where the kids are angels and I know there will be bad days where they make me cry. But, hey..story of my life.

My district doesn't allow us to stray from our reading curriculum..so I can't change really anything content wise so I am adding to our existing behavior management system. Right now, we have green(good behavior), yellow(slightly disruptive/slightly good behavior), red(disruptive behavior).. students have clothespins with their names and they can only move down. So I am adding blue above the green and purple above the blue. The blue will be for great behavior, and the purple will be for fabulous behavior. Once a student gets to fabulous behavior, the five minutes before lunch, I will have those students get their clothespin and pin it on me for everyone to see! Students will see it, teachers will see it, everyone will see how wonderful they have been that morning! Once I come back to the classroom, I will put there clothespins back on the chart and they will continue on throughout the day. At the end of the day, my CT will give out slips of paper that have the color they received (this is already implemented - I will just add my two colors to her stack). My ideal is that students who have been showing disruptive behavior will see others names getting clipped to me and yearn to be able to do the same!
I am really trying to stress positive reinforcement!!

It seems like it will get out of hand and quite possibly fall to pieces...but now is my time to do crazy things like this. I'm really excited to introduce them to it tomorrow morning - my kids love it when I do silly things with them, so I hope they like this!

I will take a picture of it after I make it (getting to the school super early tomorrow) and reflect on how it went in tomorrows post!


Maybe I will get some stuff done now that I got this post out of my system!

Loves.