Book Study: Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: Chapter 11

April 7, 2015 by ·

We are past halfway done with our book study and I have so enjoyed learning from y’all! Thank you for your participation and joining in to be better at things that we may or may not already be doing. You can link up this with over at What The Teacher Wants.  Music is part of […]

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Peek at My Week & Giveaway!

April 5, 2015 by ·

It’s an Easter miracle! I finished my unit that I was wanting to use this week for Fractured Fairy Tales! I don’t know why but BOTH of my fairy tale units took me foreverrrrr. Nothing like last minute since this week is all fractured fairy tales. Obviously, there are more fractured fairy tales than I […]

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Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites Book Study: Chapters 9 & 10

April 4, 2015 by ·

We are halfway there! Holly over at Mrs. Ehle’s Kindergarten is hosting Chapters 9 & 10 this time so make sure to link your post with her. I’m kind of feeling the same way about chapter 9 that I did about chapter 8…not so hot. I was thinking to myself about how maybe I don’t […]

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Some Big News!

April 3, 2015 by ·

This post has nothing to do with teaching and everything to do with the fact that I’m pregnant. Eeeeekkkkkkkk!!!!!!! We’ve been trying since August, which I know is nothing  compared to some, but felt like an eternity to someone that’s been ready for it! So, if you came to get a teaching idea, come back […]

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Book Study: Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: Chapter 8

March 31, 2015 by ·

I’m not going to lie…I kind of wanted to skip this chapter. This is NOT my strong point when it comes to teacher. As I was reading this, I was thinking, “Do I even do this strategy?!?”. Then, I started reading the instructional activities and the very first strategy is a lesson that I do […]

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Peek at My Week!

March 29, 2015 by ·

It’s a short week here this week and we have a Field Trip! I’m going to be lucky to get half of these plans done! My bookshelf is a little bit of a mix this week. I’ve got fairy tales and some spring books. On short weeks like this, I try to extend a unit […]

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Book Study: Worksheets Don’t Grow Dendrites: Chapter 7

March 28, 2015 by ·

We took a little break from the book study because of spring breaks and just overall craziness this time of the year! We are back and Deanna Jump is hosting the linky party today over on her blog for Chapter 7. In college, the class that I was the MOST excited to take was meteorology. […]

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Sentence Chant

March 26, 2015 by ·

Chants are something that I have been doing with my kids since I’ve been teaching. It all started with the penny chant, “Penny, penny, worth one cent. Copper brown and easily spent.” We all know the coin chants…right? My mentor teacher (from when I was student teaching) did chants all day long. I have been […]

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