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Teaching tips and activities for converting fractions, decimals and percents in upper elementary. Includes anchor charts and free task cards.
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Converting Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

Before we left for wonderful winter break (and, oh, how wonderful it was), we spent a week focusing on percentages along with converting fractions, decimals, and percents. Percents seems to be one of those things that students have long heard…
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Holiday Gifts for Students

I finally finished my little holiday gifts for my students!  Occasionally, people will ask why I feel like I should give them something, but the fact of the matter is that these are “my kids!” I am actually going to…
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{EASY} Holiday Food for Bigger Kids

I have big ambitions when it comes to Christmas food and baking.  I have ideas out the wazoo (well, okay, I have pinned ideas like crazy), and I used to bake dozens upon dozens of treats for my husband’s corporate…
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Christmas Time Is Here!

It always seems like the months before Christmas are such a whirlwind.  Add in the fact that my twins turned 2 on Thanksgiving day, and I have no idea where the last 2 months have gone!  I have tons of…
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Scientific Notation Anchor Chart

Just popping in to share my scientific notation anchor chart!  We only spent about a day and a half on this concept, and I feel like pre-teaching about powers of ten and exponents SO MUCH (you can see a post…
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This and That!

This post is going to be all over the place!  There is a little bit of 6th grade math, a little bit of advanced 3rd grade math, and a limited time freebie for you! I’ll start with the math.  On…
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Dividing Decimals Anchor Charts

Just a quick post to share my dividing decimals anchor charts.  I searched and searched for one already out there (I didn’t want to recreate the wheel last night!), but I couldn’t find ANYTHING! Here is what I came up…
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Adding and Subtracting Decimals Activities & Freebies!

I’ve mentioned before that I have the same group of students this year that I had last year, so I am having to recreate the wheel quite a bit this year, as the standards overlap a bit.  One of those…
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Setting the Stage for Novels

Since I’ve had the same groups of kids two years in a row, I’m trying to find new and interesting ways to introduce novels and prepare the students for reading.  Our next novel is The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle,…
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Character Project for ANY Novel!

I mentioned in a this post and this post how we have been just knee deep in character study.  We were reading the novel Rules, which my students absolutely loved!  After all of our talk about characters, character traits, character…
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Smart Eats: More Healthy Snacks and Lunches

Happy Sunday!  I’m a little bit late posting this week as it has been a very busy weekend.  I had fun with my snacks this week, and the theme turned out to be GREEK YOGURT!  I used almost an entire…
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Smart Eats!

Welcome back to week #2 of Smart Eats!  I’d love to hear if any of you tried the recipes I posted last week.  I know we enjoyed having snacks and lunches ready to eat, and even my husband commented on…
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This is one of my favorite back to school activiti This is one of my favorite back to school activities that you can use all year long. 👏 Giant Scrabble has been a staple in my first month of school plans for YEARS, and last year I used the giant letters to play a human-sized version of Tapple, which was a massive hit! 

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🌟 Why does this make such a great back to school experience in the classroom? 🧐 It serves as a GREAT lesson in productive struggle. It’s always amazing to see my students work through both games — and they beg for them to return all year long. 🧩 💡 We also used it as an opportunity to talk about how some students thrive under pressure while it can be intimidating for others. That doesn’t mean anyone is better than another person. 💕🩷

🌟 Details: We don’t REALLY keep score on either of the games. The point is to get them excited about overcoming obstacles and continuing a task that seems impossible or difficult. Most kids aren’t familiar with the games, so some variations and exceptions are allowed.
Like with pretty much every other expectation and Like with pretty much every other expectation and procedure, teaching kids HOW to work in groups is the key to actually getting them to work well in groups. 🩷💖 Comment below, and I’ll send you the one page version of this AND the individual letter descriptors shown here! 

The letters are from @steppintoelementary and SO cute! 🥰
💖 📕 Book Beads have easily become one of my favori 💖 📕 Book Beads have easily become one of my favorite classroom traditions for celebrating reading. 👏 I used this idea for our Battle of the Books teams, so each book was assigned a different colored bead, and once a week, students had a chance to update their necklaces. 

⭐️ Comment below, and I’ll send you ALL the info about implementing it and tons of ideas for applying it to your classroom! 

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We officially have our two new books for fifth gra We officially have our two new books for fifth grade Battle of the Books!! Swipe to see some other favorites on the list and the entire list (from Pikes Peak Battle of the Books — I didn’t curate this amazing list). 

I am already digging into these two new books and hoping I get to teach them this year as novel studies. 🥰 😁 There are 40 books total on the list, and they removed Kokopelli’s Flute and The Cay this year in place of these new additions.
I’d call my “classroom style” a little bit quirky I’d call my “classroom style” a little bit quirky but a whole lot of fun. 😜 But seriously, I have zero classroom style or theme, and I just add what MOVES me in the moment. 

Comment below for all my quirky classroom goodies (the plants are obviously a must), all the school supplies I’m stocking up on for this year (!!!!!), my personal favorites (yeah, that’s a puzzle scoop), and all the things I’ve bought my kids over the years that I’d buy again in a heartbeat (I could play Ticket to Ride all day every day). 💗
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