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Farrah Shipley
Texas
Kindergarten

Excellent job! This time of year is so hectic! I appreciate your efforts to demonstrate a complete lesson that can be quickly referred to this summer as I prepare for another year. Thank you, Farrah!

Farrah,

WOW! WOW! WOW! That was inspiring!

I tried to leave a comment on your blog but blogspot wasn't working for some reason!?!

I thoroughly enjoyed watching your video. I loved the counting while putting the names on the papers and the "too easy". Your students are very lucky!! Seeing your video makes me even more excited about the possibilities for my classes next year! I know there are so many variations within WBT but if you could create just a basic list of yours or even start a thread on here....think it would be cool to compile those!

Thanks for sharing!!

~Another Day in Paradise~
Jason McKinney

Oh Farrah,

You are my shinning star. I get so much from seeing you in action. I finally found a way for my class to view yours and they are trying to rise to the standards of your students.

I am surprised that when you did "mirror, words" and did a little oops, that your kinders didn't say It's cool. All I have to do is drop a pencil on the floor and my kids give me an it's cool. I really wish you could come see our class and share you expert WBT stuff (we are in school until July and it is cool here)

Super blog (I'll get brave real soon, so keep looking for mine)
Annette

Farrah,

You are amazing and inspiring! I have learned (and continue to learn) how to implement WBT with my students watching you in action.

Karen

looks like blogger isn't doing the comment thing. I just wanted to say you make kinder look easy. your videos are inspiring.

Annette,

I don't know why they didn't say It's cool...mmm...gonna have to watch the video again to see what it was...I think you are referring to the place where they started repeating before I wanted them to...we have such a rhythm to our teaching that they kinda figure out when to repeat without me having to really make it obvious...we have that whole repeat the teacher thing down! LOL! So sometimes when I want them to repeat bigger chunks at a time it takes them a min to figure that out!

Farrah Shipley
WBT
Texas

Hey guys,

Thank you so much for all the wonderful sweet comments! I love to do the videos because that is how I learned! I needed to see it to really understand what it was! But after I got the basics down it was easier to implement all the new toys and such! I am so looking forward to next year and seeing where I can take my next class

Farrah Shipley
WBT
Texas
Kindergarten

Farrah,

I introduced "quiet riot"/switch/normal voices with my students today. I'm thinking it's connected to the volume meter. Can you explain the volume meter?

Karen

Karen,

The "volume-o-meter" is basically what I saw at a conference where you raise and lower your hands to control the volume of the class...however with my kinders they needed a visual. I actually took the idea of making the volume-o-meter on the board from my 1st grade WBT teacher and it worked so much better with my kinders than just the hands moving up and down...it is basically this

Frenzy
Yelling
Normal
Quiet Riot
Silent

And then i have a magnetic pair of lips that moves up and down depending on the noise level I want at that given time! They also know this determines the volume at which they respond to me and teach/okay! I love it love it love it!

Farrah Shipley

As always Farrah you come through like a trooper just in time. The volume meter I was using from the down loads was not specific for my kinder/first.

May I borrow yours?

Explain what you call a frenzy (I think I know). Also what are your expectations for quiet/riot, now remember we have a long way until July 21st until school is over. I also am telling them they will produce a video, now that they have seen you and your students (more on how to help with that later).

Annette

Love it check mine videos out at mrfallis36-mrfallis.blogspot.com/

Jake,

Totally enjoyed your videos. Great job!

Karen

:woohoo:What a great idea! I think I might try that with my third grade class this year.

Heather Hansen
WBT Intern

Just want you to know, Chris Biffle used your video at the conference in Victoria Texas!!! Its awesome! I am so proud of you and your kiddos! I also teach the "low babies" of 4th grade. This last year, due to WBT and alot of prayer, my class was the highest performing class of the grade level! yep, 100% passed, reading, writing, and math with 48% of the class also commended! Thank you WBT!
Good job with those kinders! It is a pleasure to see what your doing!

Thanks for all the amazing comments!!! WBT gets all the credit! Annette...use the meter...I "borrowed" it from another teacher! The frenzy would be equivalent to CRAZY PROFESSOR!

Again ladies...thanks so much for all your support...YOU can do it too!!!


Farrah Shipley
WBT Texas
Co-Director Model Classrooms

I watched and really enjoyed your video on compound words. I'd love to know all the level you have on your volume meter.

Frenzy
Yelling
Normal
Quiet Riot
Silent


Enjoy!

Farrah Shipley
WBT Kindergarten
Co-Director WBT Model Classrooms

I LOVE the idea of the magnetic lips Farrah! I just made a magnetic soccer ball out of an index card... I'm SOOOOOOO doing the lips for my volume-o-meter!!!

Thank-you Mrs. Getty! I what I was going to do to apply the soccer ball....perfect idea!!!

Heather Hansen
WBT Intern
2011/12