Thank you for sharing day 1 AND day 2. I loved how real and raw your videos are. Many videos don’t show what the students are doing. They only show the teacher or they just explain what they did so this was very visually helpful . Your lessons flowed smoothly and were engaging the whole time.
You are great!!! I’m using your videos to help myself. This is my first year teaching kindergarten and I feel so overwhelmed using UFLI because it’s taking a while for things to click with them. Pray for me lol
I really appreciate your effort. Thank you. I need to learn more about this system to start teaching it in my class. I hope will be recording much more and teach us which center activities do we use in our class if we use them. Than you again, good luck!
Kaitlin, thank you so much for being brave with recording and sharing your lessons. I have been using UFLI as an interventionist for a year now. I really love the program. I enjoy seeing how you’re using it in a whole classroom setting. You mentioned in one of your replies that you follow a 30-30-30-30 framework for your literacy block. 30 minutes UFLI, 30 minutes whole group comprehension, 30 minutes writing, 30 minutes small group/interventions. Besides your 30 minutes of UFLI, could you tell us what resources/ programs you are using for those other three blocks? Keep doing what you’re doing because the rest of us are grateful you’re sharing your knowledge. Thank you very much. ❤
Thank you so much for the sweet words! I follow my district’s instructional guides and curriculum! We use Wonders for Comprehension and follow a mix between the suggested lessons for writing in the IGs and Wonders!
Haha! “Big fat check!” My students started saying that after each step was checked off the visual schedule, and it stuck. We celebrate completing each step by saying that. It is silly, but kept them engaged and excited!
Thank you so much for sharing your amazing lessons! Teachers can learn so much from watching your smooth routines and consistent procedures. I am wondering if you divide your class into groups for the UFLI lessons. I only ask because I noticed from your classroom calendar that your video recordings for lessons 15 and lesson 46 were both done in May.
Hi there! No, I teach one lesson a day whole group. For training purposes, I was asked to record an alphabet lesson so I recorded lesson 15 in May also so I could provide a variety of lessons!
Thank you. You're amazing! I have learned a lot from watching your videos. I really like the doorbell sound when you count down with the class. Please tell me what you use for this. Thank you.
I really enjoyed watching your video for lesson 15. My school just started UFLI this year and I am trying to watch videos to help me teach it. Do you have any videos on the earlier lessons?
Hello i have started this program this school year could you tell me if you made those slides or did you find them some where. Thank you i love the lesson.
How do you switch from your document camera to the PowerPoint slides so fast? Also, how are you able to write over the decodable passage? Trying to figure out the tech end of things! Thanks!
This is a Newline board. I use DisplayNote to mirror my laptop to my board. The document camera is also an app/program on my computer. I can quickly toggle between PowerPoint (the slides for the lesson) and my document camera by minimizing PPT and having the document camera open and ready. The Newline allows me to annotate the screen! Hope this helps!
Hi Kaitlin, Thank you for sharing your videos. I teach kindergarten and will be starting to use UFLI this year. Where did you get the awesome cart to store materials? Thank you!
Thank you! I found one! One last question, how did you get your sheets to stick? I laminated mine but I wasn’t sure if I should hot glue them or use tape or just leave it.
The sound wall is definitely necessary and used as a component of each lesson! I have them small on my board but those are the student versions to reference! I also have a full-size sound wall. Unfortunately you cannot see it in these lessons!
I started in October because my manual didn’t arrive until then. I was able to skip some beginning alphabet lessons (as I had previously taught those letters), and jump in when my manual arrived. I very consistently taught 2 lessons a week and made my way through almost the entire Kindergarten scope and sequence!
Kaitlin, I absolutely enjoyed watching your video. You are doing an amazing job! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us. You wrote you consistently taught two lessons a week. Did you mean two complete lessons a week? Did you find you were able to complete each Day 1 and Day 2 lesson within each 30 minute block? I am working with first graders. I find the Day 2 lessons tend to run longer than 30 minutes.
@@kellyrich9502 Day 2 takes time to get the timing right! Remember UFLI does a great job of over planning for you! So if you don’t get through all the words in the word chain in step 6, that’s ok! Stop after 6 minutes and move on to the next step. This allows time for all steps to be completed in 1 30 minute block!
These are from Amazon. I believe they are JoyNote. I had them already but UFLI actually suggests using magnetic letters that are all one color. This year we use black letters from Really Good Stuff!
They are magnetic so once I made all the trays at the beginning of the year, they were ready to go for ever lesson, with little to no wasted time for transition!
@@kaitlinpbehn is there a specific software that allows you to underline the words and then have it disappear during the Connected Text section of the lesson
@@kaitlinpbehn Thanks! We have Recordex boards and my team loved the features you used during that part of the lesson so we were hopeful we could get something similar. I appreciate the response!
I snipped the “let’s spell together” slide from the slide deck and printed it. I wanted my students to have primary lines to write on. It worked as a makeshift whiteboard with lines.
@@kaitlinpbehn love watching your day 1 and day 2 videos. So it's about 30 mins each day. I am curious how you structure your writing, reading etc. Do you run centres as well? It's a lot of sitting for the kids, but you change up location etc so I notice that really helps them.
Thank you for sharing day 1 AND day 2. I loved how real and raw your videos are. Many videos don’t show what the students are doing. They only show the teacher or they just explain what they did so this was very visually helpful . Your lessons flowed smoothly and were engaging the whole time.
Thank you so much!
You are great!!! I’m using your videos to help myself. This is my first year teaching kindergarten and I feel so overwhelmed using UFLI because it’s taking a while for things to click with them. Pray for me lol
You got this!
The little one waiting to get a white board and practicing his sounds. Awesome!
Thank you for sharing these! I’m just about to start UFLI with my intervention students and this has been so helpful!
I really appreciate your effort. Thank you. I need to learn more about this system to start teaching it in my class. I hope will be recording much more and teach us which center activities do we use in our class if we use them. Than you again, good luck!
Kaitlin, thank you so much for being brave with recording and sharing your lessons. I have been using UFLI as an interventionist for a year now. I really love the program. I enjoy seeing how you’re using it in a whole classroom setting. You mentioned in one of your replies that you follow a 30-30-30-30 framework for your literacy block. 30 minutes UFLI, 30 minutes whole group comprehension, 30 minutes writing, 30 minutes small group/interventions. Besides your 30 minutes of UFLI, could you tell us what resources/ programs you are using for those other three blocks? Keep doing what you’re doing because the rest of us are grateful you’re sharing your knowledge. Thank you very much. ❤
Thank you so much for the sweet words!
I follow my district’s instructional guides and curriculum! We use Wonders for Comprehension and follow a mix between the suggested lessons for writing in the IGs and Wonders!
You are fabulous! Thank you for all your work and for the videos! Please upload more!
Your implementation is great! Such great engagement from the kids..question where is your document camera from?
❤Thank you. I hope you continue. I also learn very much
Thanks for sharing! It's great to see the lesson in action. Great examples of classroom management too! "Big fat ... ? What is the response?
Haha! “Big fat check!” My students started saying that after each step was checked off the visual schedule, and it stuck. We celebrate completing each step by saying that. It is silly, but kept them engaged and excited!
Thank you so much for sharing your amazing lessons! Teachers can learn so much from watching your smooth routines and consistent procedures. I am wondering if you divide your class into groups for the UFLI lessons. I only ask because I noticed from your classroom calendar that your video recordings for lessons 15 and lesson 46 were both done in May.
Hi there! No, I teach one lesson a day whole group. For training purposes, I was asked to record an alphabet lesson so I recorded lesson 15 in May also so I could provide a variety of lessons!
That was some solid teaching. Thanks for sharing.
Love this video! Thank you for sharing. What is that ring tone and where did you get it?
Thank you! It’s a door bell I got off Amazon!
Thank you. You're amazing! I have learned a lot from watching your videos. I really like the doorbell sound when you count down with the class. Please tell me what you use for this. Thank you.
A plug-in doorbell from Amazon! Super cheap and so effective!
I can't find the Lesson 15 Day 1 video! I watched it and wanted to share it with some teachers but I do not see it any more.
I really enjoyed watching your video for lesson 15. My school just started UFLI this year and I am trying to watch videos to help me teach it. Do you have any videos on the earlier lessons?
Thank you! I know you’ll love it. This is the earliest lesson I have with this class!
This is WONDERFUL! Where did you get the printout for magnetic letters on the cookie sheets?! 😊
Thank you! It is available in the Files section on the UFLI Facebook group!
Hello i have started this program this school year could you tell me if you made those slides or did you find them some where.
Thank you i love the lesson.
How do you switch from your document camera to the PowerPoint slides so fast? Also, how are you able to write over the decodable passage? Trying to figure out the tech end of things! Thanks!
This is a Newline board. I use DisplayNote to mirror my laptop to my board. The document camera is also an app/program on my computer. I can quickly toggle between PowerPoint (the slides for the lesson) and my document camera by minimizing PPT and having the document camera open and ready. The Newline allows me to annotate the screen!
Hope this helps!
Thank you so much for the demo.
Thank you so much very helpful
Hi Kaitlin, Thank you for sharing your videos. I teach kindergarten and will be starting to use UFLI this year. Where did you get the awesome cart to store materials? Thank you!
Thanks Heidi! It’s from Michael’s!
This was very helpful. I love the paddle whiteboards, what did you use to get the boxes on the back side? Thanks
Thank you! They are tens frames! I got the paddles from Office Depot!
So wonderful ❤
Thank you for sharing your experience with UFLI. Is the sheet you have under the magnetic letters from UFLI as well? i couldn’t find it
I got it off the UFLI Facebook group! I highly recommend joining. It’s so helpful! Search the files for the alphabet mat!
Thank you! I found one! One last question, how did you get your sheets to stick? I laminated mine but I wasn’t sure if I should hot glue them or use tape or just leave it.
Just wondering if the sound wall is necessary I notice you have them posted on regular paper.
The sound wall is definitely necessary and used as a component of each lesson! I have them small on my board but those are the student versions to reference! I also have a full-size sound wall. Unfortunately you cannot see it in these lessons!
Hi! So you use the hand held boards for day 1 and the dry erase papers for day 2?
Thank you for sharing! What grade is this?
Kindergarten!
Thank you for sharing!!
At what point of the school year did you start teaching UFLI? Are you able to consistently follow the scope and sequence each week?
I started in October because my manual didn’t arrive until then. I was able to skip some beginning alphabet lessons (as I had previously taught those letters), and jump in when my manual arrived. I very consistently taught 2 lessons a week and made my way through almost the entire Kindergarten scope and sequence!
Do you have social media? I love watching you teach, I feel like I have so much to learn from you!! I start UFLI in September!@@kaitlinpbehn
Kaitlin, I absolutely enjoyed watching your video. You are doing an amazing job! Thank you for sharing your knowledge with the rest of us. You wrote you consistently taught two lessons a week. Did you mean two complete lessons a week? Did you find you were able to complete each Day 1 and Day 2 lesson within each 30 minute block? I am working with first graders. I find the Day 2 lessons tend to run longer than 30 minutes.
@@kellyrich9502 Day 2 takes time to get the timing right! Remember UFLI does a great job of over planning for you! So if you don’t get through all the words in the word chain in step 6, that’s ok! Stop after 6 minutes and move on to the next step. This allows time for all steps to be completed in 1 30 minute block!
As someone new to UFLI as core, these are SUPER helpful to see in action with real kids!!
Where did you buy your magnetic letters? What brand?
These are from Amazon. I believe they are JoyNote. I had them already but UFLI actually suggests using magnetic letters that are all one color. This year we use black letters from Really Good Stuff!
Do you set up the magnets? Because I struggle setting those magnets up
They are magnetic so once I made all the trays at the beginning of the year, they were ready to go for ever lesson, with little to no wasted time for transition!
Thanks for sharing! What grade is this?
Kindergarten!
What program are you using to write on the sentences during the connected text piece of the lesson?
I’m not sure what you’re asking! What would you like to know?
@@kaitlinpbehn is there a specific software that allows you to underline the words and then have it disappear during the Connected Text section of the lesson
@@MelissaSchultz-w1e my school has NewLine TVs that allow me to write on the board!
@@kaitlinpbehn Thanks! We have Recordex boards and my team loved the features you used during that part of the lesson so we were hopeful we could get something similar. I appreciate the response!
Where did you get the whiteboards
Office Depot!
Can you send the link to the keys spell together. I’m trying to print it
I just snipped it from the PPT and pasted it in a word document!
What are in the sleeves
I snipped the “let’s spell together” slide from the slide deck and printed it.
I wanted my students to have primary lines to write on. It worked as a makeshift whiteboard with lines.
Perfect. We started UFLI last year. And a girl is lost. How do you get to the assessments? How do you implement them?
@@kaitlinpbehn love watching your day 1 and day 2 videos. So it's about 30 mins each day. I am curious how you structure your writing, reading etc. Do you run centres as well? It's a lot of sitting for the kids, but you change up location etc so I notice that really helps them.
@@kerriouellette6309 thank you! I follow a 30-30-30-30 framework. 30 minutes UFLI, 30 minutes Whole Group Reading comprehension, 30 minutes writing, 30 minutes small group/intervention!
@@kaitlinpbehnwhat kinds of things do you do for the 2nd 30 minutes of reading comprehension?
What grade level is this?
Kindergarten
How many students are in your class?
17
Wow thank you
That lil girl took me up top