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What's Your Seed Story?
Hello Everyone!We are working hard during our writer's workshop. Our current focus is writing "small moment" stories. If you have read any of Lucy Calkins' books, she encourages kids to write about...
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Pumpkin Munchin
Hello Everyone!This week we are working hard on comparing numbers. This is an important skill as it helps kids develop number sense and build number relationships. We use a ton of counters, base-ten...
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Marvelous Magnets
Hello Everyone,Just a quick post today! Taking my son suit shopping. Yes, it's interview time!! He will soon graduate with a double major, computer science and software engineering! Believe me when...
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Retelling With a "Tell Me Tower"
Hello Everyone!Story retelling is an effective way to improve children's reading comprehension. For our kiddos who are just starting to develop their reading skills, this practice can be extremely...
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Short Vowel Shenanigans
Hello Everyone!!We are working hard this week on reading and writing short vowel words with accuracy, but somebody came and stole all the vowels!! What???? Then they came and mixed up all the letters!!...
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I traveled through some fairy tales and found...
Hello Everyone!We are wrapping up our two week long Reading/Social Studies integrated unit on fairy/folk tales. We have read so many different Cinderella stories from all over the world, compared,...
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Reader's Theater and that Little Old Lady noun verb pack
Hello Everyone!As promised I am back with a couple of little videos showing our mini reader's theater. Oh so fun, simple and sweet! Parents, I took video of all the kids, so stay tuned for future...
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Math in the Patch!
Hello Everyone!This coming week in math we will be introducing estimating using "friendly numbers." Introducing our little learners to this concept helps them make sense of the different things they...
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Veterans Day mini unit
Hello Everyone!Oh My! What a week!! We packed so much in, my head is spinning!! I'll be back in a bit to give you a peek into our amazing week. But for now I just wanted to share a quick mini....
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Friendly Numbers, Number Vines, and Fairy Tale Day!
Hello Everyone!My apologies for the lack of posting this week. Wow!! Still reeling after the amazingly full week! Yes, I did grab a few pics! In math we were learning about estimating using...
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Composing and Decomposing Numbers and Pumpkins!! :)
Hello Everyone!It finally feels like Fall here!! Yippee! I do love some good fall related activities in the classroom! Today in math we worked on different ways to compose 10. Of course we started off...
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Addition Math Tub Activities with a Fall Theme
Hello Everyone!Super Speedy Post tonight...It's Book Club night!! I love my book club gals and look forward to getting together every month. Sadly I didn't get the book finished, but I love to go...
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Counting On!
Hello Everyone!This coming week we will add to our addition strategy tool box by learning about "counting on." My friend and teammate, Mary has such great ideas for teaching different strategies and...
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Sarah Morton's Day and Pilgrims' Matter
Hello Everyone!Just a quick share tonight. We will of course be working on integrating social studies and reading these next two weeks by enjoying the characters in some of our favorite...
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"Tree" mendously Thankful and Samuel Eaton's Day
Hello Everyone!It's that time of year!! We are thankful for so much! I'm not sure why we wait until this month to express our thanks, it seems as though we should be thankful every day! In first grade...
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Retelling Thanksgiving
Hello Everyone!I hope you're having a great weekend! I wanted to share a couple of quick but very special things. First off, we will be doing so many wonderful Thanksgiving related learning activities...
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Turkey Trouble!! Just serve...
Hello Everyone!!One of my favorite books to read this time of year is Turkey Trouble by Wendy Silvano. In the story, the troubled turkey finds different way to disguise himself so as not to get eaten...
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OH! NO! Santa's Stuck Again!
Hello Everyone!I want to share a few quick pics from our very busy week before Thanksgiving and an updated ramped up version of my "Oh No! Santa's Stuck" pack.We had an amazing week with fun...
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Double Mint Math
Hello Everyone!I hope you all had a wonderful week. Mine was filled with cooking, cleaning, laughing, more cooking, some Christmas decorating, and more laughing!! It has been great having company here...
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What will you leave for Santa? And an updated "If You Take a Mouse to the...
Hello Everyone!What a fun day! Yesterday we began a little study on the sweet story, "Santa's Stuck" by Rhonda Greene. We followed that reading with another treasure, "Santa Claus is on a Diet" by...
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