Paula's Place Teaching Resources

Literature Circles - an updated pack

I have updated my Literature Circle pack to include the roles of

Plot Profiler, Dream Weaver and Fortune Teller.

This pack and all the others are on sale for 20% off until tomorrow only - flash sale.

Click here for my Literature Circle pack.

Here are some examples of work from this last semester.

The level of conversations from reading and sharing a book in a structured way enables deep questions, thoughts and extended learning bu making connections together.

Dare to Dream

Dare to Dream Challenge

I create products for these reasons - I want to be the best I can be and have my kids be the best they can be.

I compare my work and level of creativity before my journey with Paula's Place and now, the professionalism of my resources alone have motivated more of my students to do better.
As I share with colleagues, see my work pop up in other learning spaces, receive feedback. network with amazing teachers around the world - I know this was the right choice for me.

These girls are hosting the challenges for the next few weeks - check out their blogs...

Plan with me Sunday

This planning linky is bough to you by

Kreative in Kindergarten

and

Keeping up with Mrs Harris

This post is about personal planning. I have an Erin Condren Life Planner and I am obsessive about it.

I have interchangeable covers - you will see more of these next week...

I have a clutch that houses my planner, pens and iPad.

This keeps everything in one place.

I have heaps of stickers that stay in the back of my planner.

My month view helps plan out my month - next week, see the weekly detail.

Where would we be without Washi tape?

Happy planning!

Challenge Week 1 - Make Over

I have made over my Adding to 20 pack.

This was one of my very first posted packs and needed to have a re vamp to match the other products in my store.

Click on the images or here to find out more!

It is on sale for the next 4 days....

It did look like this.

I created it in word and the clip art was not sitting quite right like it can do in PowerPoint.

Now it looks like this.

I re created it in PowerPoint and am much happier at how it looks now.

This girls are hosting the challenges for the next few weeks - check out their blogs...

Weather and lunch with a friend

Hello winter - I am so not ready for you!

What a difference a day makes.

I travelled to Melbourne today on the train to meet up with Chantelle from Miss Jacob's Little Learners.

We had lunch and chatted for hours

We were so busy chatting we didn't take photos.

We will have another lunch mid July and I promise we will have photos.

We talked fonts, borders and what makes our classroom the great place to be.

Talking to a blogger who gets what we do and sees the impact that this has made on making us a better teacher is a real treat to meet.

Leak, soak or drip

Those of you who read my blog regularly will know that I team teach with Stacey this year and together we have 48 Year 3/4 students.

Stacey had planned this science lesson for today where we looked at things that soaked, dripped or leaked in terms of materials.

This was so much fun and Stacey had our kids walking around with clip boards and making predictions and drawing results and doing the start of some technical drawings.

We talked about fair tests and what was the difference on each test and recorded our findings.

A great lesson Stacey!

The impact we can have....

In 1989 - yes you read that right!

I had been teaching for 4 years and this Year 6 I had was phenomenal.

I have enjoyed working with all my grades and we should never have a favourite grade - but this one was/is the same age as my youngest sister.

I was only at the school for this one year - then I moved. many of them went on to the same secondary school.

So over the last 26 years I have often thought of them as my sister has done certain things ie marriage, babies, changing jobs, travelling etc

They were my first grade here in Victoria - my first grade after moving across two states! So maybe I transferred my missing family onto them....

They were all friends and got along really well. (Of course there were issues to solve, hormones to sort out but they were a great grade)

I ran into one of the girls about 15 years ago as we had young children at kinder dance together.

We eyed each other off for a few weeks before realising who we were.

Another girl plays netball with a good friend of mine and we found each other on facebook after commenting on the same post!

Then another two realised I was on facebook and got in touch.

Then Daniel set up a Class of 1989 facebook group and slowly we are finding each other.

They are posting work and comments I made, laughing about things we did and connecting with some who have moved away.

So then there was a discussion about getting together for a dinner.

This photo below shows 5 of my "Grade 6" kids and I having dinner last night.

As a teacher - this is a special photo, how many kids track down a teacher 26 years later!

They still have the lovely traits they had as kids - it was gorgeously bizarre to have a meal, have a drink and a laugh with them.

They joked with me about having my wisdom teeth out and turning up to work to host and led a Family Science night and trying to hide the pain I was in. They laughed when I still didn't order steak, they said we should have ordered a week ago so it could marinate.

One laughed about me 'taping' an Aussie Rugby game instead of an AFL game.

We talked about the Parliament we set up and then re enacted in our Parliament House in Melbourne.

It was great to see what they had been up to and see that they all seem to be happy with their lot on life. They are amazing.