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Telling Time, Writing Letters, and Coming Up? Media Literacy
Hello Everyone!!I hope all the moms out there had a wonderful Mother's Day. I had a fantastic day!! Absolutely spoiled by my own and was able to spoil my sweet mom!!! So Blessed!!I want to share a...
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...As Lovely as a Tree...
Hello Everyone!We had a "tree"mendous day today! We are finishing up our natural resources unit and today turned out to be all about trees! We started off with our Think Outside the Box Thursday...
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The Days of Summer! A send home packet of fun!
Hello Everyone!It's that time of the school year when teachers think about how to make sure that no "summer slump" happens with our precious students. We always try to send home suggestions to parents...
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A Cool Finish with a Personal Finance Touch!
Hello Everyone!Phew!! We are in the final stretch! 9 more days of first grade fun!! In math we are finishing up with a "cool"personal finance unit. It's a unit that includes just about everything...
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Thanks for the Memories!
Hello Everyone!!Feeling so blessed today as we take time to remember all those who put so much on the line for the freedoms we enjoy today. Thank you to all of you and your families! Flags are...
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Writing...The Joy of it all!
Hello Everyone!Do you ever wonder if you truly are teaching? Making a difference? Helping kids be the best they can be?? I am telling you when you really look at the progress kids make through their...
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Joyful Endings
Hello Everyone!!I can't believe how long it has been since my last post. My apologies. The end of the year activities and responsibilities took over and when school finally got out, I absolutely...
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Superhero Unit to the Rescue!
Hello Everyone!!I hope you all are doing well! The last couple of days have been rainy! We need the rain soooo bad, so I'm not complaining! In fact, I love a good rainy day!! It means "Cleaning and...
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Magazine Letters at your Fingertips!
Hello Everyone!First of all, my apologies for not posting lately! We have been having some frustrating internet problems. So I am going to speed through this post while our connection is up! This is...
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Words DO Hurt
Hello Everyone!I am so looking forward to doing our Superhero unit with our new group of Superlearners! As I was thinking about the beginning of the year, I knew I wanted to incorporate the "Wrinkled...
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Writing- It's a Visual Thing!
Hello Everyone!!Happy Monday!! I picked up a random book at Half Price Books the other day, Visual Tools by Roger Essley, a diagnosed dyslexic. The title caught my eye because I am such a visual...
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Interactive Math Notebook
Hello Everyone!My apologies for not posting lately. We had to drive to Chicago to help my widowed father in law move 53 years of "family" to a new apartment. Going through that many years' worth of...
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Lightning Does Strike Twice!
Hello Everyone!I'm going to start of today with a little picture.This is one of the chimneys on my house! Last week we got struck by lightning in the middle of the night!! It totally fried most of our...
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Beginning of Year Forms and Poetry Folder Updated!
Hello Everyone!First of all, thank you for all the sweet comments on my last post. We are slowly but surely getting everything fixed and back together!! Feeling blessed!!Well, school starts in just 2...
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Teacher's Prayer, Promise, and Polish
Hello Everyone!Well, school starts tomorrow for me and for many of you! Today, I want to share with you something just for you! I have shared the Teacher's Promise, and the Star Polisher ideas before,...
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Beginning of the Year Writing Inspiration
Hello Everyone!Well, starting my 33rd year as an educator of young children has been inspiring. I gain strength from these kids every year. They rejuvenate, exhilarate, substantiate,(and just about...
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Great week!
Hello Everyone!We had a very busy 4 day week last week. Why do I always try to cram 5 days of learning into 4 days? You would think I'd have learned my lesson by now!! PHEW! I think my littles are...
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Skipping Into Fall!
Hello Everyone!!Thanks for stopping by our little window on wonder! This past week in math we worked hard on skip counting. Having kids understand what skip counting means, why we need to learn about...
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Falling For Force and Motion- Apple Style
Hello Everyone!Just a quick share tonight!! We are beginning our Science unit on Force and Motion this week. Last year we were doing this unit a bit later in the year---around pumpkin time. Many of...
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It was an "Appeeling" Week!
Hello Everyone!!We had a great week last week! You could say it was quite "Appeeling!!" Many of our learning opportunities had an fun apple twist. We were studying closed syllable short a words,...
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