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Error Analysis for Enrichment and Critical Thinking
This year, working with a wide variety of students, many needing either extra help or extra enrichment and extensions, I have been doing a lot of reading about all different levels of need. One of my absolute FAVORITE ideas for…
Adding & Subtracting Fractions
Now that we are done with geometry, we have moved on to fractions. Oh, fractions! Kids come in with the preconceived notion that fractions are Big and Bad and Scary and Hard and Mean. I feel like it’s my job…
Tell Me a Story Tuesday
Welcome back for another installment of Tell Me a Story Tuesday! Today, we did a BIG review of some reading skills with our picture. It’s almost state testing time, so I wanted to incorporate as much as I could. We…
This Quarter’s Novel Project!
We just finished reading the classic novel From The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankwieler. The kids enjoyed it, but I think they enjoyed their final projects more than the actual novel! We tied several common core standards…
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Literal Vs. Inferential Thinking
Last week, we focused on inference and cause and effect. My kids did well with it, but I wanted to make sure my kids understood the difference between literal and inferential questions and observations. So this week, we focused on…
Answering Comprehension Questions
Just a little drive-by posting with an anchor chart that we came up with to remind ourselves of the expectations for answering comprehension questions from our novels. We go over this like crazy at the beginning of the year, but…
Tell Me a Story Tuesday
I am super excited about this new feature on my blog…my sweet hubby helped me name it, and his idea was “Tell Me a Story Tuesday.” And so it is… Here is my vision… In many of my task card…
Valentine’s Day Compliment Bags
When I was student teaching, I had the most FABULOUS co-teacher. She had so many great ideas, and this is one that I have clung to each and every year. Instead of taking the time to be artsy fartsy about…
Free Pre-Reading Task Cards
It’s been a busy, busy week here in Colorado (I feel like that is always how I begin my posts). I do identifications for students in the talented and gifted program at my school, and preliminary test scores came in…
Teaching Angles, Angles, Angles!
We finished up angles the other day, and I thought I would share the teaching angles anchor chart we used and a couple of activities we did. This particular group is a group of 4th grade Talented and Gifted kids,…
‘-dge and -ge Word Ending Intervention (and Freebie) & A Newsletter Surprise!
Where has the time gone!? I have a whole list of blog posts ready to go, but we have been so busy in school with all kinds of fun things that I have also been busy creating new resources to…
Line Study: Take 2!
I posted several months ago about geometry study. This standard is coming around again with another group of students, and this time I have revamped it a little bit. I have the line study cards ready for them, using the…
