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In honor of National Library Week, our elementary librarian hosted a little contest. She gave all of the students and staff at our elementary school the opportunity to guess how many books were in the library. I got the “privilege” of helping her count the votes. Thank goodness I was able to look at votes in my pajamas!! Here’s how…
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I’ve never had a student be malicious toward me on April Fool’s Day, but sometimes I get a tired of little kids “jokes”. “There’s a spider on your head!” “Hey, your shoe’s untied!” If you’re a teacher (particularly of younger grades) you know what I’m talking about! With that being said, I played a bit of a trick on my…
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If you are anything like me, you are starting to freak out about state testing! Ours start on Monday, and we have just a two week testing window. (Did I mention that Easter break – aka a 4-day weekend – just happens to fall in there as well!?!) I feel particularly stressed this year because I will be reading the…
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Have you considered making a teaching portfolio to showcase your success as a teacher? Then check out this guide to making one! This post was most recently updated in January 2019. Looking at some of these pictures, I cringe at my font choices and the types of resources and downloads I was creating. But this post was written in 2012…
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I hold high expectations for each of my students. Sometimes this comes across as me being tough on them, but I love each and every one of them tons!! In order to show it (aside from what I do each day), I try to regularly send them a “positive postcard“. In order to do this I think of something each…
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