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Classroom Economy as Classroom Management
In the last five years, I have tried many classroom management systems. I have tried sticker charts where they purchase items from a classroom store based on their stickers. I have tried creating...
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Modeling Writing with Persuasive Letters
With only two months left of school, I am trying to narrow down what I want I feel is most important to still cover. There are always so many things I feel we never get to. One of my goals is to do...
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Tried it Tuesday: Readworks Novel Units
Since I am all about finding outlets for new ideas and trying new ways of doing things, I love this linky party. I am very excited to link up to Holly's Tried it Tuesday. I think this is such a...
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Workshop Wednesday: Math websites
I am excited to link up for Jivey's Workshop Wednesday for Math sites. (I love her new button by the way.)I teach in a blended learning environment, which means we use a vartiety of actual...
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Mentor Text for Metaphor: Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge
I am linking up with Collaboration Cuties' Mentor Text Linky. April is National Poetry Month, so I love incorporating poetry and figurative language. We just started a Mystery Unit, so I may push more...
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Common Core in the Content Areas: You Wouldn't Want to Be an American Pioneer
Common Core in the Content AreasOn Thursdays, I would like to start offering ideas for the Content Areas (Science and Social Studies) to incorporate the Common Core Standards. These might be reading...
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Be a Better You Giveaway
I should have had a 500 follower giveaway over a month a go and a 1 year blog anniversary almost 2 months ago. In 2013 I decided my word for the year was balance. I am trying to make health and...
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Workshop Wednesday: Point of View
I am here to join up to Jessica's Workshop Wednesday (on Thursday morning). I love that the idea for this week is on Writing Workshop mini-lessons. I really enjoy teaching writing and watching my...
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Common Core in the Content Areas: Biomes and Habitats
My new weekly series is called Common Core in the Content Areas. Eventually if people show enough interest I think it would make a great linky. Jessica at Ideas by Jivey was kind enough to help create...
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Dear Children of the Earth Freebies
I was looking for some ideas for Earth Day. While linking up my biomes book suggestions at Collaboration Cuties, I saw this suggestion to read Dear Children of the Earth by Schim Schimmel at The...
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Online Student Planner through Edmodo
So the last two nights have been super busy, and I have been really tired by the time I finally stop moving. Exercising and eating better is great, but boy is it time consuming.I wanted to link up...
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Be a Better You Giveaway Winner
I will be back later for a more informative post. I took this weekend to just get some rest and enjoy the nice weather. I wanted to announce the winner of my Be a Better You Giveaway. The winner is...
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Biomes of the World Webquest Freebie
Today is Tuesday, which means it is time to link up with Techie Tuesday and Tried It Tuesday. We have been studying biomes. I have been loving loving this unit! My students are reading nonfiction...
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Biomes, Adaptations, and the Magic School Bus. Oh, my!
I realize I have not posted in a week. I came down with a cold last Tuesday night, and since then it has taken all my energy to get through a work day and then go home and nap. I also slept the...
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Mother's Day and Writing Motivation
Just for fun I realized today is my 200th post. Have you ever had one of those days that would have been stressful if so much of it wasn't just funny? That was my day... It did end with happy hour...
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Slept, Read, Shopped, and Got Accepted
So...I have not blogged in almost 3 weeks. I apologize for the absence. I had been in a great routine in the month of April. I was eating great, exercising like 5 days a week, blogging, etc. Then, I...
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Common Core in the Content Areas: Charley the Female Stagecoach Driver
Following our thematic unit on biomes, we spent the last couple weeks of school focusing on Westward Expansion. As the last couple weeks are always hectic and filled with last minute items we forgot...
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Fractured Fairy Tales: Text Suggestions for Little Red Riding Hood
So one of my goals this summer is to finish all of the products that I started this year and only finished about 50-70% of the way through. One of the units I really enjoyed this year was studying...
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Common Core Writing Lesson Ideas: Using Dialogue
I have been trying to sit down and write a blog post for 2 days. Tuesday was my husband's birthday and yesterday we had dinner with out-of-town family. On top of that I am trying to balance work this...
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Planning How to Logically Teach 5th Grade US History
I need to finish my second post on ideas for teaching dialogue. The month of June is already flying by...Today I was working on making Scopes and Sequences for next year for the different subjects I...
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