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Dividing Fractions Anchor Chart, Game Freebie, and Math Journal

We tackled dividing fractions this week!  I was a little bit apprehensive about it since these are wee little fourth graders working on this tough stuff, but they did GREAT!  Although I follow the CCSS, I thought it was a…
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Perimeter and Area

We finished our perimeter and area unit several weeks ago (right before fractions!), but I never got around to posting some of the engaging activities we did.  This was really a review for my kids, so it was fun to…
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Independent Reading Response Anchor Charts

I’m excited to share these anchor charts with you!  We have been using these for quite some time now, and my students are becoming pros.  A lot of the time, I do have students answering specific questions, but depending on…
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Multiplying Fractions

We finished up adding and subtracting fractions right before the break, and now we are hitting multiplying and dividing fractions.  We began with multiplying fractions, and we did a mega-anchor chart.  I teach 4th grade TAG students, so I am…
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After Break Activity: Learning Never Takes a Break!

Looking for an engaging after break activity to get brains going again? When I ask kids what they did over spring break, I so often hear “nothing.” Horse Hockey!  Even if you didn’t go on an extravagant vacation, you most…
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Novel Preview Quick Write

We began our new (and maybe last of the year) Novel today.  I am so thrilled to share My Side of the Mountain with my students.  My students were also very excited to read it…we have been keeping a theme…
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Task Card Test Prep & Announcement!

Hi there!  First thing is first: IT’S SPRING BREAK over at Casa de Mountain View!  I had big plans for pumping out some TpT goodies, and I have two massive blog posts in the works, but my sweet girls have…
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Tell Me a Story Tuesday: Figurative Language

We’re back!  This week’s Tell Me a Story Tuesday was a quick one, and went along with our current focus: Figurative Language!  We have been focusing on finding figurative language in our reading and also generating some new figurative language….
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Our Latest Fraction Projects!

In all of our spare time in between testing, we have been doing a few fun fraction projects that I thought I would share. The first one was to review adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators.  Most of my…
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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…
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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…
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This is my new favorite ornament project in my cla This is my new favorite ornament project in my classroom! 👏 🎄 We are reading Peter Brown’s new book, The Gift of Words, and creating ornaments with messages of positivity, hope, and joy for the year to come and in celebration of this year! Comment below, and I’ll send you all the info and a link to this absolutely beautiful book. 

✨ While there are Christmas themes in the book, it never mentions Christmas. 🩷 We will leave our adornments on the tree throughout the winter season. 

✨ You can also combine this idea with another I’ve done in the past, where students write a positive compliment to each other students the class and place it into their ornaments. These are a favorite every year, and ours still hang on our personal tree at home (see the last video).
❄️ ⛅️ The shortest day of the year is almo ❄️ ⛅️ The shortest day of the year is almost here! 🥶 Winter Solstice is such a fun concept to teach both before and after winter break. I sure do LOVE a good paired text selection, so I carefully chose three picture books that present winter solstice in three very different ways — realistic fiction, informational text, and through poetry/verse — and I even added in an extra informational text passage and video. ✨ Over the years, it has become the perfect lesson on compiling and synthesizing information from multiple sources! We use this anchor chart to gather the info in one place. 

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We created 14 podcast episodes with 75 minutes of We created 14 podcast episodes with 75 minutes of content highlighting holidays across the globe, and I am LOVING using them with my students. 🌍 

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True story: I had a current student’s sibling fo True story: I had a current student’s sibling four years ago, and my student came in today asking if we were doing that “really fun travel the world math project my sister told me about.” 🥹 

Yes, yes we were, and I just love that his sister still remembers this little blip in her third grade year! 

So it’s true, my kids were GIDDY about starting this one today, and it’s a favorite for me every year, too. 

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It’s my favorite two weeks of the year! Between readers theatre plays, festive math projects, beautiful picture books, and TONS of informational text, it’s just the best!
If you give your students gifts in December, this If you give your students gifts in December, this is the perfect practical and adorable option that they will LOVE! 💕

This year, I added FREE labels for you to print to make your life super easy. 💕🩷 Comment below, and I’ll send you all the links, including the labels to add your name to, print, and go! 👏 

This is the third year I’ve given my students something similar, and the pens and notebooks are always a HUGE hit. 

P.S. I don’t always give out student gifts, and you should never feel like you have to …. but when I do, this is it!
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This week, we started with reading the informational text passage and will continue synthesizing sources and exploring perspectives by using four books about the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree. The books all have similar themes and similar characters, so they lend themselves well to exploring point of view and perspective. 

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🎶 It’s tiiiiime!! 🎶 I absolutely LOVE teac 🎶 It’s tiiiiime!! 🎶 I absolutely LOVE teaching and learning about holidays around the world, and the next three weeks will be filled with synthesizing information from these beautiful books, listening comprehension podcasts, and pen pal letters as we take a deep dive into these celebrations! 👏 

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