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August Poem of the Week | Fluency and Comprehension
$3.49
Help your students to read and comprehend poetry with 4 original poems designed to practice poetry and fluency skills! Each poem is accompanied by thoughtful tasks to help students focus on their oral reading fluency and reading comprehension. What is included with this resource? Double-sided booklets Single page version with additional space for annotating A…

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Literacy Skill of the Week | August Reading Passages
$6.99
Get ready to build literacy skills in a way that’s FUN for students and EASY to prep! This is a monthly resource to teach and review essential reading, writing, and grammar skills in fourth and fifth grades. BUNDLE OPTION: If you’re looking for a bundle for the entire year, CLICK HERE! This resource includes FOUR…

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Literacy Skill of the Week | September Reading Passages
$6.99
Get ready to build literacy skills in a way that’s FUN for students and EASY to prep! This is a monthly resource to teach and review essential reading, writing, and grammar skills in fourth and fifth grades. BUNDLE OPTION: If you’re looking for a bundle for the entire year, CLICK HERE! This resource includes FOUR…

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I’ve been perfecting these End of the Year award

I’ve been perfecting these End of the Year awards since 2011, and with over ✨ 130 ✨ original awards to choose from, there is truly something for everyone!! Drop the word “AWARDS” below, and I’ll send you a link.

This resource includes an auto fill option, a create your own version, a student nomination form, award ceremony slideshow, and more! It truly includes everything you need for a quick and easy but super meaningful EOY award ceremony! 🎉

🍎 YAY!🍏 Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! Com

🍎 YAY!🍏 Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! Comment your last day of school below, and you’ll automatically be entered to win a Task Card essential collection (card stock, binder rings, and the task cards to go with them!) and SIX of my favorite books to use in the classroom. I’ll also send you some of my top suggestions for shopping today’s TA sale! 🎉

🏆 Here are the six books you’ll get…

📚 One Chicken Nugget
📚 Spaghetti and Meatballs for All
📚 Friends Beyond Measure
📚 You Read to Me I’ll Read to You
📚 Who Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up
📚 The Magic Hat Shop

🏆 One winner will also receive….
Mental Math Task Cards
Reading Response Task Cards
… card stock and binder rings to prep them!

Don’t forgot to comment with your last day of school to be entered to win! 🚨

One winner will be chosen at random. This giveaway is not endorsed by Instagram.

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Comment “EARTH” to grab a link to these math a

Comment “EARTH” to grab a link to these math and reading Earth Day Resources! 🌎 There is everything from original podcasts to reader’s theatre tasks to planning and planting new grids of trees! It’s perfect for this week or next. ☀️

Tap the ❤️ if you love morning meeting. 😍 W

Tap the ❤️ if you love morning meeting. 😍 We’ve done this greeting/share a few times over the last several months, and it’s SO simple but has become one of my favorite ways to start our day! ☀️

Each student greets another student, then tosses the large ball to them while sharing the thing that is taking up the most space in their brain. Then, they toss the small Koosh and share something taking up just a little bit of space. Every voice is heard, every child is greeted, and of course, they love the Koosh balls!

I emphasize that the big thing can be something simple — whatever is most on your mind that day. It could be that they are having cheese pizza for lunch or that they have a big test coming up that they can’t stop thinking about. I have heard such a range, and it’s so eye opening and endearing. 🤗

Who is in the middle of state testing?! I just cam

Who is in the middle of state testing?! I just came across this draft from last year, and while I’m not proctoring this year, it’s still so true. 😂 AND all those steps go uncounted since smart watches aren’t allowed during proctoring. 😩😉

I recently saw a video where a teacher was joking that they thought they’d get so much done during state testing, but they kept getting interrupted… This was a totally foreign concept to me because we’ve NEVER been able to do anything other than count ceiling tiles (and pace, of course) while proctoring. What’s it like where you are?!

*Recorded off contract hours. No students were present. No tests were present. 😉

**Yes, that means I paced around my room doing lunges and calf raises and the Karma dance by myself. Yes, it probably looked as weird as you imagine.

🏆 One Chicken Nugget is the official winner!! 🏆 If you had asked me if a math book would win, I wouldn’t have guessed it, but kids in grades K-6 LOVED this book and voted it all the way through to the end! 👏

This book is a play on the classic math tale, “One Grain of Rice,” and tells the story of a monster who can’t get enough chicken nuggets. He takes on a challenge of exponential growth that had EVERY student giggling! 😜

Drop a comment below, and I’ll send you a link to all 16 of the books on our bracket. It took me hours to narrow it down to just 16, and they are all so amazing! 📚

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I almost didn’t share this because it seems so s $I almost didn’t share this because it seems so simple, but my kids LOVED this activity, and I am always looking for ways to get kids talking about math — and it totally beat a worksheet! I put students into groups of 3 and had them complete their 8 tasks collaboratively. I chose cards with a variety of tasks and ways of looking at fractions. They had to talk about the task, process, and answer before writing it down. I heard SO many amazing conversations and so much math vocabulary being used! Then, students walked around and looked at other group’s tasks and placed a star on tasks they believed were correct and gave feedback to groups on sticky notes. Their job was not to make corrections, but simply offer suggestions or mathematical advice if they thought they spotted an error. Error Analysis ✅ Collaboration ✅ Fraction Skill Practice ✅ This would also be an amazing way to review for upcoming state tests! 👏 Comment with the word TASKS if you’d like me to send you some of my favorite task cards to use!$

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