My first linky party this summer! And summer is almost over!! My baby, or my youngest of my 4 boys, turned 16 months yesterday! Time is flying by. I found out on Tuesday of this week that I will be teaching 5th grade this year. Time to ...
After 10 years of teaching 4th grade, I found out on Monday that I will begin this school year as the 5th grade ELA teacher. I have lots of mixed emotions about the change. I am going to surely miss working closely with my 4th grade team, although we will still ...
Finally, after days of scouring blogs, articles, twitter chats and teacher Facebook pages I have my first day of school lesson plan completed. That was a lot of work for the first day considering I still have the rest of the week to plan for, lol! I learned a lot though, and found ...
Chapter 6 of Word Nerds is "Celebrate to Validate". As I left off on my last post on how I would bump up my vocabulary instruction in my classroom here, I didn't mention what my plan was going to be on Day 5. Little did I know that Chapter 6 was all ...
The 10th Anniversary of Hurricane Katrina is August 29th. It is quickly approaching and soon the news, radio, TV and other media will be "flooded" (pun on words here) with memories of that day. Ten years ago, my husband and I who were recently ...
Here are my Top 5 Picks for the New School Year: 1. First up is the Pipe Cleaner Challenge. Divide your students up into teams and give them the following supplies seen in the picture, a few sheets of tin foil and pipe cleaners and let them construct. This ...
Yep, that's me! This summer my husband and I took a 10 day vacation to London and Paris. While in London we ventured to Greenwich where I stood on the Prime Meridian. The Prime Meridian is our Earth's main line of longitude at 0 degrees and separates our earth into the eastern ...
Reflecting back at this past school year, vocabulary instruction is definitely a skill I would like to bump up in my classroom. Our admin asked us at the beginning of last school year to focus on teaching Tier II words, such as paraphrase, develop, describe, ...
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