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This Small Classroom: the week before Spring Break

To the teachers not yet on Spring Break: stay strong. And just laugh. When appropriate.

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Treasure Island and Fresh Air

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Using My Teacher Voice

Then the realization dawned... I have more than one teacher voice.

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15+ Activities for the Letter M

This week in Kindergarten ESL class, we learned about the letter M. In prepping for the lessons, I came across several fun and educational ideas for reinforcing the letter M that I wanted to share here. 1.) Storybots letter M -- a fun video series available on Youtube.  Warning: these songs will get stuck in… Continue reading 15+ Activities for the Letter M

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Getting Ready for Year 7: school starts tomorrow

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Getting Ready for Year 7: day one vs. day five

Many thanks to my parents for spending at least a couple of these past five days helping get the room ready. A new room means new routines. I tried to reflect that in the set-up, including getting rid of the teacher desk and trying a new student desk arrangement. Bring on the students! (...but next… Continue reading Getting Ready for Year 7: day one vs. day five

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Getting Ready for Year 7: pray first, pray often

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Displaying anchor charts

Quick post to share a new strategy I'm using for displaying anchor charts. These clips are available with other poster strips and hooks at Walmart and Kroger. They can save money overall and are easy on the anchor charts-- especially if no one has gotten around to laminating them yet. 😉

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Bright Hope for Tomorrow: A Teacher’s Sunday Night

It's no great secret.  Ask any teacher what their least favorite time of the week is, and they'll most likely reply "Sunday Evening."  It's the day before the start of a new week and a repeat of writing more lesson plans, grading more papers, observations, testing,  and, heaven-forbid, another fire drill. And for many teachers,… Continue reading Bright Hope for Tomorrow: A Teacher’s Sunday Night

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Like teacher, like student

Giggles: Miss W., M- was looking and looking for his pencil.  He couldn't find it anywhere and it was in his hand the whole time! - 2nd grade