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As we near the end of the year, I always try to do some fun activities with the students. One of these is to focus on what great students I have had all year! (Print and digital ideas are included below!!) TURTLE COMPLIMENTS! Print activity for in person learning – This is an activity we did in college on one…
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There are some conflicting views on when “Screen Free Week” (aka TV Turn Off Week) is. We celebrated it this week in our school, but I have seen other websites that say it runs April 30-May 6, 2012. Either way, this is a fun little activity and I wanted to share it with everyone. It’s called the “Couch Potato Reading…
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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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