There are so many neat ideas floating around the internet! However, there are just as many neat ideas floating around our own schools! Last year I walked around our campus at various times and just took pictures. I love the things I saw! This second grade teacher took a large sheet of paper, traced a large number two,…
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Using Music to Prompt Writing
A few years ago I was lucky enough to attend a symposium with a wide variety of teaching ideas being shared. While I learned a great deal in my few days there, my favorite part was definitely the writing portion that centered around using music. I was a Kindergarten teacher at the time, and I walked into this session where…
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End of Year Ideas to Showcase Student Work
Many schools seem to do some type of year end wrap up. Nearly every elementary school I’ve been at has done this in some fashion or another. One school ran an Academic Fair, another called it a Project Fair, and some simply call it an Open House. Regardless, there are some neat things that teachers are doing for these events!…
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Using Online Textbooks
I am pretty excited about today’s guest speaker – my husband Andrew! He teaches junior high and high school Social Studies at the same school district I work for. We’ve been here three full years now, and he LOVES that they have fully embraced technology by going with 1:1 ipads at his end of the building. (Yes, you read that…
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What Being an Administrator Meant to Me
As many of you are aware, I was an elementary principal for a year. It was a fabulous year, and one that I am very grateful to have experienced! However, life has a way of throwing us curve balls. I found myself expecting my first child and knew in my heart that I needed to stay home to raise my…
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