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A Few Things to Look Forward To....

During the next few weeks, Shepherd's Shining Stars have a few things to look forward to.    First up is a field trip to our local library. My homeroom and my partner teacher's homeroom are attending a field trip to Belle Terre Library this Friday. Students will have ...

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Reinforcing Poetry through Edmodo

This week my student teacher (who has only been with me for 3 weeks) took on a spontaneous task and with confidence presented a technology lesson with ease. This week we began exploring poetry. So to reinforce the skills being taught during our shared reading time, I asked my ...

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Descriptive Writing

   Once again another wonderful lesson was discovered on the Writing Fix. Students began the day today learning how to stretch or expand their sentences. Here is the modeled lesson that was done with students. Anchor Chart Student Samples  To conclude the ...

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Meeting Drew Brees

Yes, that is me and Drew Brees, the quarterback for the Saints. I saw him waiting for his car at the valet of the casino. Not such a bad ending to the season after all! Wouldn't you sa ...

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Writing Workshop

This week students are analyzing first words and the sentence lengths of their writings. The lesson used this week was taken from the Writing Fix. This lesson was created and posted by Writing Fix's webmaster Corbett Harrison. Here is one student's Brainstorming process using a ...

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Shepherd's Moments

My mom decided that a goal of hers for the New Year would be to take one picture a day. She wants to take these moments or photos and make them into a book. I kept trying to talk her into starting a blog, but she wasn't interested. So, while catching up on some blog reading tonight, I came across Mrs. Ripp's blog. She had the same idea as my mom, but knows the right place to make it happen. Posterous! This site is ...

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Reading and Writing

Writing Our "I can" statement this week was as follows: I can create a three paragraph essay by including the following: a catchy title, include three paragraphs each on a different topic, a closing, 2 adjectives, one compound sentence, and use a dictionary to check my spelling. Students ...

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Revisit, Remind, Review

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas and New Years. I can't believe how fast the holiday break went. I enjoyed my time off spending time with my three boys. We went on a 7 day cruise aboard the Norwegian Spirit and visted Costa Maya, Belize, Roatan and Cozumel. On a positive note may I just say, I love the beach!!! On a negative note- I don't think I would advise anyone to take two 3 1/2 year olds on a cruise. ...

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