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Math Notebooking
Hello Everyone!I have had so many questions about how we do our math, so I thought I would show a few things about a typical math time.We start our math day with extensive work on the calendar and...
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OH NO!
Hello Everyone!Oh No! Santa's stuck!! This week we worked hard on discovering the problem in stories. Santa's Stuck by Rhonda Greene is a perfect book to enjoy that discovery. We wrote about that...
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Math Mints
Hello Everyone!!Well, I can't believe I'm posting again this weekend, but we are iced in pretty good here and I'm beginning to get a little cabin fever. We had an ice day (aka snowday) on Friday and...
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A Pinch of "You Know Who!"
Hello Everyone!Next week we will learn through the celebration of a wonderful holiday classic by Dr. Seuss. We will be learning so much through this wonderful story. We celebrate this amazing author...
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Stuffing our Stockings with Blends!
Hello Everyone!A very quick peek into a few minutes of our day today! We've been studying blends for the last few weeks. This week we are spending time reviewing. I wanted to make our wordwork fun,...
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New Year 2014
Hello Everyone!I have had several requests to update my New Year unit for 2014. While doing that, I decided to add a couple of things to go along with where we are in our curriculum. I have added...
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Sharing a Couple of Recaps and a Couple of Units
Hello Everyone!!2014 is almost here! We are staying home, safe and sound in our living room this year! I am so happy!! We had a houseful of love and laughter this past week with both boys and...
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Historical Figures, MLK and Inventors
Hello Everyone!It is so nice to have time to put some finishing touches on a couple of units that we have coming up! Another historical figure we will study after Eleanor Roosevelt is Dr. Martin Luther...
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Out Of Sight But Not Out Of Mind
Hello Everyone!!Well, our two week winter break is almost over. I have to say it was about perfect! Our high school state championship winning football game, then some amazing Christmas family time...
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We're Gonna Knock Your Socks Off!
Hello Everyone!I want to start off sending warm and cozy hugs through the lines to all my friends and family in the arctic vortex! I can't even believe the temperatures some of you are enduring!!! It...
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We Heart Worms!
Hello Everyone!"This is the best day ever!" Don't you love to hear that from your kids?? I heard it over and over again yesterday during our SCI FRI. We've been studying living and nonliving things...
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Winter Olympics!!
Hello Everyone!!They're almost here!! The Winter Olympic Games!! I love watching every part of every event! The dedication and passion that each athlete displays is at times mind-boggling! They are...
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Sweet Geometry! (and geome"trees!")
Hello Everyone!Phew! Busy week of Middle of Year Testing, curriculum meetings, tutoring, faculty meetings, PTA meetings, etc, etc, etc, and oh yeah!...We did do some sweet learning along the way!!! We...
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Author's Audience
Hello Everyone!Just a quick post and share tonight. This coming week we will be working on understanding that writers write for an audience and that our writing changes depending on that audience....
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Equal Shmequal!
Hello Everyone!!If you are working on fractions, you have to read this book!Equal Shmequal by Virginia Kroll is a perfect book to introduce kids to the concepts of equal and unequal, symmetry, same,...
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Terrific Terrariums!
Hello Everyone!Happy Friday! I hope everyone is staying safe and warm! Prayers lifted for those of you in the extreme deep freeze. Please take care! This weather has been crazy!!We had a great week!...
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Celebrating Imaginations and Inventiveness!
Hello Everyone!Next week we will be finishing up our inventors unit in social studies, with a celebration of students' inventions and creations. We will also celebrate imaginations by reading about...
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I Heart Inflectional Endings
Hello Everyone!I am so sorry I haven't posted anything lately...battling a crazy cough and cold. I think I'm finally on the upward swing though! Yahoo!Today we reviewed inflectional endings. During D-5...
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Hooray for the 100th Day!
Hello Everyone!Our awesome week was capped off by our 100th day celebration!! Hooray for the 100th day!! We always celebrate in a big way, all day! From morning work to math tubs to poetry to balloon...
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Historical Figures, George and Abe
Hello Again Everyone!I wanted to quickly share our upcoming Reading/Social Studies Integrated Unit.The next couple of weeks will be focused on some of our presidents. We put together a little unit to...
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