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Smart Eats: A New Blog Series
Happy Sunday! Doesn’t it always come around much too quickly? I would like to introduce you to my new blog project (if you can call it that). I’m going to admit: this started as something for me! Something that I…
Characters, Characters, and more Characters: How To Teach Character Traits & Character Conflict
We have gone a little character crazy in my room. We went over Character Traits which I talked a little bit about HERE, but we have been going strong learning about characters even more. Here’s how I teach character traits…
Teaching Exponents
We have been busy in math working on exponents! I have an accelerated 5th grade group, so we needed to cover 5th and 6th grade standards on exponents. We haven’t quite gotten to evaluating expressions with them yet, but they…
Getting busy!
We had such a busy week this week, but I feel like we got so much accomplished in such a short time! I wanted to share our week here, if only because I felt like it was so successful. I…
Back to School Math!
Hello! Radio silence, anyone? It can only mean one thing… back to school! We began last week, and it has been go, go, go ever since. I wanted to stop in and share a few of the fun back to…
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8 Anchor Chart Tips & Tricks
It’s no secret that I have a “thing” for anchor charts. My readers know it, my students know it, my colleagues know it, my husband knows it… I can’t help it–they have changed my classroom! They have made my walls…
DIY Pencil Organizer
So, ask my students, and they will tell you that I have a thing about “Pencil Thievery.” Since I work in a unique situation where students come in and out of my room all day long, I have to supply…
Increasing Critical Thinking Part #1 (of ?)
One of my main goals this year is to up the critical thinking skills of my group of talented and gifted kids. They are so “outside the box” so much of the time, but other times they can be painfully…
Teacher Toolbox Organizer…At last!
Tap, Tap, Tap…Is this thing on? I took quite the blogging hiatus at the beginning of summer. Our family spent a week in Disney World, and I have been soaking up all the time I can with my kids. When…
Mother’s Day Freebie
Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! I hope that all of your students treat you well this week, and I also hope that your PTA has something special planned for you. Our celebrations look to be rather caloric, but I’m still very…
3 Words End of the Year Activity
I wanted to share a little activity our school does at the end of each year. As a class, we all watch one of Good Morning America’s 3 Words Videos (I always screen them and make sure I find an…
Top 10 Tips for Building Reading Fluency
We have all heard about the shift that happens, usually between second and third grade, when students (should) go from learning to read to reading to learn. Unfortunately, for some students, their ability to read to learn is stifled by…
