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Early Literacy Resources
In the past few years, I have been working with teachers a lot on DIBELS assessments and then what to do with the information that they gather from their findings. I thought I’d share with you...
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Olympics Fun
I always love the years that the Olympics come around because they are such a great learning opportunity for children, the world over. This summer’s Olympic games will be completed before we head back...
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Spelling Activities
I am loving this blog post from Mrs. Bainbridge’s Class where she shares her monthly spelling choice sheets. These are great and adaptable to anyone’s spelling list. They may be a bit “cute” for older...
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Experiment in Book Blogging
I am that mean mommy that makes my kids read every day all summer long. I know. It’s just not fair. In order to help turn summer reading into a bit of an adventure, I set my nine-year old twins, David...
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Proverbs and Such
We are in the midst of a unit on the Revolutionary War with my fifth grade students. We are making cross curricular connections and blending our social students and english/language arts time. I’ve...
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Holiday Card Exchange Project
Are you looking for a great way to celebrate the holidays with your students, while making a variety of curricular and cultural connections? Check out PROJECTS BY JEN. Jen’s projects are always well...
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Tra-Digital Revolutionary War Heroes
My students have been studying the American Revolution for the last few weeks, and we’ve had a blast. As we are wrapping things up, each student chose a historical figure from the war era to do more...
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NY TimesMachine
Are you looking for primary sources for your students to use? Are you stumped at finding new places to get non-fiction historical text for your students? Do you need news articles for comparison and...
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Learn Zillion
Do you feel like no matter how much you accomplish, you always have a zillion things to do? You do, but I’ve recently been checking out a great way to help with that. Learn Zillion! There are tons of...
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4 Pics, 1 Word
Are you playing 4 Pics, 1 Word yet? It’s a free app available for iOS and Android, and the whole idea is to generate one word that would apply to all four of the pictures. I will admit it. I’m...
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Teaching Idioms?
Check out this awesome comic from a recent Sunday newspaper! I can’t wait to share this with my students. I’ll be interested to see how many of them “get it.”
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Little Bird Tales – Whoa!
I started playing around tonight with Little Bird Tales. Whoa! This is so awesome. I started one based on some photos that I took today while my fifth graders were working on science labs on chemical...
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Starting Your Own Blog
I am certainly no expert at blogging. I go in spurts. I don’t write my own coding. I use the fonts, styles, and themes from the platforms that I use. I don’t even have my own domain. But, I will shout...
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Blogging Challenge Encouragement
Are you taking the Blogging Challenge? And follow along with others who have taken the challenge…
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BC8: Book with an Impact
You Haven’t Taught Until They Have Learned I don’t look up to many celebrities. I’m not easily swayed by the famous. There are few people in the world of sports that I truly consider to be “heroes.”...
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BC13: A Book I Love
I love an alphabet book. As an upper grades teacher, we often get steered away from ABC books as being too juvenile. When this series of books came out a few years ago, I was blown away by their...
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BC18: Favorite Books
You can tell I was in a reading state of mind when I posted the blogging challenge for January! As I am planning ahead to a heroes biography unit in the coming month, the book Freedom on the Menu came...
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Blogging Challenge – Phase Two
Here it is, phase two of the Blogging Challenge for 2014. If you would like the Word form, you can get it from Google Docs. Feel free to modify, but I do ask that you give me credit for the original...
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