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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,…
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…
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…
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…
Properties of Operations & Algebraic Expressions
I have a few random anchor charts and foldables we have done in math recently that I thought others may be able to grab some ideas from. We are working on properties of operations and using variables in algebraic expressions….
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…
