Miss Rylee's Educational Journey

Lesson Plan Presentation: I absolutely Love when my fellow classmates and I are able to present our creative lesson plans. This is something I actually look forward to each class. I truly enjoy listening and Learning about all the creativity that they have all put together. We have been together in class after class and have heard each other speak on our lesson plans a lot. It always amazes me that no lesson plan is ever the same. I'm starting this journey of education I felt a little unconfident. I felt as though my lesson plans will never be good enough, my creativity never creative enough, and my love for teaching never enough. I am so blessed to have such an awesome group of men and women that all work together and support each other even if we are all at different points in our education. With that being said I wholeheartedly enjoyed our lesson plans last class, and cannot wait to hear more. After listening to these presentations I always feel inspired to research more g...

About Me Poem Rylee Sassy, Silly, Stubborn, Strong Sibling of Ashlee and Gracee Lover of Dogs and Outdoors Who Fears Roller Coasters Who Needs Loved Who Gives Her Whole Heart Who Would Like to See The White Sandy Beaches Again Resident of Missouri Gooding

Teaching Vocabulary: Teaching vocabulary is very important in the classroom setting and can be done many different ways. When teaching vocabulary you can be as creative as you would like and really get your students active in the processes. I think teaching vocabulary should be fun for us as the teacher as well as the students! Here is 5 ways that I would like to implement teaching vocabulary into my classroom!  1. Playing Games: There are many games that we can play to help students learn vocabulary!  2. Vocabulary Journals: These journals can be kept all year round and can be something for students to look back on to help them!  3. Mini Lessons: I personally like mini lessons they are a great way to teach a lesson in a small amount of time! Here is a neat one that gets students involved!  4. Pocket Charts are another great way to help students learn vocabulary. You could be teaching sight words or even creating sentences with vocabulary students alread...

W o r d W a l l s When thinking of word walls I can not imagine a classroom with out them! I also can not imagine all the hard work that goes into making a word wall and changing it all the time! I stumble across some portable word walls on Pinterest and was like, game changer!!I think it is important to put time into your bulletin boards and really think about how useful they will be to students. If you have a board that is just thrown up and plain jane than let's be honest students aren't going to use it. Also, if you put a lot of work into a bulletin board and you are proud of it but it is not purposeful then your hard work was for nothing! This is where a portable word wall comes in to play! It is functional, its a space saver, it is hands on and engaging, students will love it! Below are some pictures a portable word wall and I have linked the blog post from Kindergarten Korner by Casey!                     ...

Hello, Welcome to Miss. Rylee's Educational Journey Blog! I'm super excited to have some new faces here at the blog, its been awhile. I will start with a little introduction about myself and my life, let's get started!  I grew up in a small town in Northeast Missouri near the Mark Twain Lake. As you can imagine I spent a lot of time outdoors, swimming, boating, kayaking and much more! When I moved out the day after High School graduation, I spent the summer with my sister at The Lake of The Ozark's working at a summer camp, then moved to Columbia to start a new chapter in my life...college!  After two years of living in Columbia I bumped into the man of my dreams and best friend that I get to marry this October (go away corona). We have a black lab named Winston who just turned 3 today, and loves water!! We all love to spend time outdoors wether it is going back to Mark Twain lake and boating or exploring his family farm.  Here we are still today, so close t...

1. What was the most difficult part of designing the unit plan for you? The hardest part for me was coming up with a fun assessment at the end of our lesson plans that assessed over everything without giving my first graders a test. 2. What is the most significant learning you had about unit design? At first I thought everything was so messy but when it was all said and done everything looked super organized and set the tone for my lesson plans. 3. What felt inauthentic to you about unit design? I felt that the unit design was pretty cut and dry, it was organized but I also felt that I was just repeating everything that was in my lesson plans already. 4. Do you feel like you would ever actually teach this unit?  Why or why not Yes, I would love to teach this unit to actual first graders! I think that it would be a very fun unit plan and my first graders would love it! I also think it may be a lot of work because one of our lessons takes us on a field trip to the...

I really enjoyed watching the videos that were provided on Teaching like a Champion strategies. I then started to reaches all 49 strategies of Lemov: Teach like a Champion. There were three different strategies that I picked out that I believe were really good strategies that I would personally use in my own classroom. #31 Binder Control : This is having enough respect and care for the work you put into your classroom to make a system in which you can store, organize, and recall what students are learning. I think it is so important to be creative and organized as a teacher. This will make teacher’s life easier and students’ lives less stressful. #41 Threshold: When students cross the threshold into the classroom I would want to greet them good morning, ask them about their night. At this time I would see if students have anything in their back packs for me. I would also remind them of some expectations or give them directions. This sets the tone and reinforces the first step...