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My Second Stitch Fix!
Arriving home to my Stitch Fix on the porch is becoming one of my favorite evenings of the month. It's like a mid-week pick-me-up and fashion show all wrapped up in one box! :) These are some of ...
On-Demand Opinion Writing {Motivating Students}
On-demand writing is process of producing written work in response to a prompt or task within a specific time frame. It is used to assess students’ ability to generate coherent, organized, and ...
Augmented Reality!
Happy, happy Friday, friends! Today I am a guest blogger at All Things Upper Elementary and shared about how we use Augmented Reality for book talks. I also included oodles of pictures from our ...
Making Audio QR Codes {A Step-by-step Tutorial}
Hey, friends! I am here to share with you all about how to create and use Audio QR Codes. Last year, Katie King taught me how to make and use traditional QR Codes (with text) attached. You can read ...
Storing & Organizing Hands-On Materials
Being a first-year teacher, there are so many little milestones that you celebrate...the first day you're home by 5:30, the first time you send out a newsletter without a parent response, the first ...
Book Madness: A Tournament of Books
Well friends, I have never been so excited for a sporting event. In fact, this past weekend, I had to employ every bit of knowledge I have about the NCAA tournament (i.e. please read that as ...
Finding Nonfiction Articles for Middle Grades
Today I am sharing with you one of my great frustrations about 5th grade...the lack of resources. We are a curriculum-free school for reading and writing, so in August I walked into a resource-empty ...
Hosting a Classroom Book Raffle
Motivation and enthusiasm for reading matter. One way we build excitement and passion for reading is a classroom Book Raffle! Why a Book Raffle? Launching a book raffle, it's always very ...
My First Stitch Fix
You all know I {love} book shopping....like more than milk chocolate and diet coke on Mondays. It's true. My great love for book shopping, though, is not transferable to other types of shopping such ...
A Few of my Favorite Picture Books
So, true confessions - I buy a lot of books. How do I acquire these books?? Well, that's a story for another post (one coming soon...I promise) to the tune of Scholastic, Bonus Points, 25 for $25 ...
Point of View: 5th Grade Style!
Point of view is more than pronouns and numbers (me, we, they, 1st, 2nd, 3rd person). The true intent of our standards surrounding point of view and perspective is to consider how a narrator’s ...