tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-470879819401610572024-03-18T04:19:33.538-05:00Rock and TeachUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger109125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47087981940161057.post-30528938853127438282017-12-17T13:04:00.000-06:002017-12-17T13:09:22.083-06:00Christmas FreebiesI love the holidays. It's a time to eat be with family, eat & drink yummy things (cookies & hot chocolate are my number one choices), and GIVE & GET presents! WOOT!<br />
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So in the spirit of giving, I have some of my favorite things to GIVE to you!<br />
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First up, a recipe for my favorite cookie bars.<br />
Do you like Nutella?<br />
Do you like S'mores?<br />
Do you like things that taste amazing?<br />
Oh, you do? Well then MAKE THESE -----> <a href="https://theviewfromgreatisland.com/nutella-smores-bars/" target="_blank">Nutella S'Mores Bars</a><br />
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Next, my favorite and EASY homemade hot chocolate.<br />
It takes minutes, y'all.<br />
And is sooooo worth the tiny bit of extra effort.<br />
Make it-----> <a href="https://www.melskitchencafe.com/homemade-hot-chocolate/" target="_blank">Homemade Hot Chocolate</a><br />
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Now, it's time to spread the love! What is more adorable than GNOMES? I can't think of many things. I just made this set for multiplication fact practice featuring some of the cutest-faced gnomes EVER!<br />
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Just click the link ----><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Do-you-KNOME-your-multiplication-facts-3527511" target="_blank"> DO YOU GNOME YOUR FACTS?</a></div>
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After making this set, one of my FAVORITE clipart sellers, <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Creating4-The-Classroom" target="_blank">Creating 4 The Classroom</a> came out with CHRISTMAS GNOME clipart! I knew I had to use them. So I snagged them and made this FUN set of FREEEEEE Christmas gift tags! They're perfect to attach to the holiday gift for your <strike>homies</strike> I mean GNOMIES! </div>
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Just click the link to be taken to the download! <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IutkEvje8cANhRAm8OPWTsBQ9AfO1DCT/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">GNOMIES Christmas Gift Tags</a></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com26tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47087981940161057.post-83423376923257244592017-11-19T08:50:00.000-06:002017-11-19T08:50:40.476-06:00Daily Spiraled Math Skill Review I've posted before about one of my best selling TPT products - Reading Morning Message. It's a 6 week spiraled review of reading skills including main idea, character traits, character changes, making inferences, theme, word meaning, text structures, and figurative language. Each set spirals different skills - check out all 4 editions & holiday editions <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Rock-And-Teach-By-Katie-Texas/Category/-Reading-Morning-Message-201830" target="_blank">here</a>!<br />
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I recently started making a 6 week set for math! It's a great way to review and front load ESSENTIAL math skills. My math teammate and I are LOVING it. I recently went out on maternity leave, but my sub is continuing to use it. I love knowing my kids are hitting important math concepts EVERY DAY wether I'm there or not!<br />
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I have created two editions so far:<br />
<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/MATH-TEST-PREP-STAAR-Math-Spiral-Review-Edition-1-3284676" target="_blank">MATH Daily Message Edition One</a><br />
<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/MATH-TEST-PREP-STAAR-Math-Spiraled-Review-3470244" target="_blank">MATH Daily Message Edition Two </a><br />
I plan on creating a total of 6 to last all school year!<br />
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Here's how the SIX WEEKS of spiraled skills work:<br />
- Every Monday, students work on multiplication<br />
- Every Tuesday, students work on division<br />
- Every Wednesday, students complete a single or multi step word problem<br />
- Every Thursday, students work on decimals in the form of tenths and hundredths<br />
- Every Friday, students work on fractions<br />
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I LOVE reviewing skills my students already know & taking them further. This set is also great for front-loading topics we haven't hit yet. We're about to start our fraction unit, and my students already have a strong foundation on fraction skills we'll be <strike>learning</strike> perfecting.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Would you like to try a free week? Shoot me an email at <span style="color: magenta;">katietexas82@gmail.com</span> & let me know you'd like to try a FREE WEEK of math daily message! </span></div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47087981940161057.post-17564425110032470242017-11-12T16:26:00.000-06:002017-11-12T16:27:25.907-06:00Thanksgiving I love Thanksgiving. Fall is my favorite season for so many reasons - the colors are so warm and comforting, the food is PHENOM (candy on Halloween and home cookin' on Thanksgiving? YES PLEASE), and hellooooo everything pumpkin spice!! This year I've added even ANOTHER reason to love this season, my newest little pumpkin Mackenzie Jo! She was born 10-4 and I am sooooo in love.<br />
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Teachers love Thanksgiving too, because it's a time to TAKE A BREAK & REFRESH. I feel like the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving Break are some of the most exhausting. Our district takes the entire week off, but in the past it hasn't been that way. I LOVE HAVING THE ENTIRE WEEK. So do the teachers in my district because we vote for it every year! Lol.<br />
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I love to incorporate holiday themed lessons into my teaching, but I don't want it to be fluff work. I want fun and meaningful lessons and activities that keeps students engaged but allows them to have fun! That's why I created "<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Thanksgiving-Problem-Solving-Plan-a-Menu-2209032" target="_blank">What's On the Menu</a>".<br />
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With this activity, students plan a Thanksgiving meal by looking at a store ad. Students pick out the foods to be served & calculate costs of multiple servings. They can also create an invite to Thanksgiving Dinner & draw what will be served on a plate. It's SO much fun and my students LOVE IT! They don't even realize they're adding, subtracting and multiplying decimals and using real world problem solving skills! They're just focused on FOOD!<br />
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We always seem to be working on fractions during Thanksgiving time, so I've created a couple fraction activities too - <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fraction-Review-Thanksgiving-Theme-2194254" target="_blank">Pumpkin Pie Fractions</a> & <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Fractions-Mixed-Numbers-Improper-Fractions-Thanksgiving-Theme-2867342" target="_blank">Thanksgiving Fractions</a>. </div>
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If you're looking for a reading activity, I've made a Thanksgiving themed edition of <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/READING-TEST-PREP-STAAR-Reading-Spiraled-Review-Thanksgiving-Edition-3302562" target="_blank">Morning Message</a>. It's a week long review of essential reading skills - Monday focuses on Main Idea, Tuesday is Character Traits, Wednesday is Theme, Thursday is Inferences and Friday is word meaning. </div>
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I hope you'll try out one of these activities! I LOVE FEEDBACK and I would love to see pictures of your students using these sets in action. Have a fabulous Thanksgiving, friends! </div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47087981940161057.post-73050904463987204012017-11-08T17:16:00.000-06:002017-11-08T18:05:44.020-06:00Add some COLOR to your math instruction! Y'all. Do you own a set of LEWO Stacking Blocks yet?? Well YOU SHOULD!<br />
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I love having old games & game boards around the classroom - you can always pair them with some task cards and create an instantly awesome station/ center.<br />
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So when I saw the LEWO Rainbow Stacking Blocks, I knew I HAD TO HAVE THEM. I had been meaning to paint a few old Jenga games I had collected and pair them with some task cards BUT could never find the time... Then I saw LEWO had done the messy work for me!<br />
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I wanted a math review game to go along with these blocks, so I created a multi-skill task card set that coordinates with the block colors. The cards cover addition and subtraction (red), multiplication and division (pink), word problems (yellow), decimals and fractions (green), measurement (blue) and geometry (purple). Check it out here ---> <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Test-Prep-Rainbow-Block-Game-Math-Review-3479715" target="_blank">Rainbow Block Game Math Review</a><br />
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The set includes a color option (prints two sided task cards) OR a color saver option. I went with the color saver option and printed on card stock that matches all the blocks! I cannot WAIT to let my kiddos get a hold of this. I have a feeling I'll be needing more than one LEWO game!!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47087981940161057.post-89770647771233027242017-11-05T11:44:00.003-06:002017-11-05T12:23:06.150-06:00Animated TPT Banner Do you have an animated banner in your TPT store? I've tried to make several but they're always a big ol' fail: Either my product link is messed up or my pictures come out WAY smaller than I expected... But that's all changed now that I found this tutorial by Carolyn Wilhelm from the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/How-to-Add-Animated-Photos-to-the-TpT-Quote-Area-2109150" target="_blank">Wise Owl Factory</a>!<br />
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I know it's been FIVE-ever since I last posted... It's been whirlwind year. My awesome fourth graders have done lots of learning, had lots of fun, given me lots of gray hairs, and now we start TEST PREP TIME. Ugh... </div>
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Thankfully, I've gotten together with some AMAZING teacher sellers to bring you a big ol' TEST PREP GIVEAWAY! I'm so excited to be partnering up with these amazing ladies to offer you a giveaway for WRITING, SCIENCE, MATH and READING! Oh, and we're giving away TPT CASH! Woot! </div>
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Test Prep</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">
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Passages 4<sup>th</sup> Grade & 5<sup>th</sup> Grade STAAR Practice</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';"> ($3 value), as well
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Comprehension Passages 4<sup>th</sup> Grade & 5<sup>th</sup> Grade STAAR
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Let's not mention how long it's been since I've posted....<br />
Let's just focus on the fact that I'm back! WOOT!<br />
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Today I'm posting about a company that every teacher knows and loves - <span style="color: blue;">Oriental Trading</span>!!<br />
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Did you know you can create a <span style="color: red;">Teacher Wishlist </span>page? Well, YOU CAN!<br />
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1) Log onto <span style="color: blue;">Oriental Trading</span> (or create an account if you don't already have a log-in)<br />
2) Go to the <a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/teaching-supplies-and-stationery-a1-551419.fltr" target="_blank">Teacher Supply Page</a><br />
2) Go shopping!! Instead of "Adding to Cart" you'll "Add to Wishlist" (as shown below)<br />
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What should you do once you've made your fantastic Wishlist? Share it, of course! </div>
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Share it with your student's parents and guardians!</div>
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My wish list is stocked full of <span style="color: blue;">Oriental Trading</span> fabulousness... </div>
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Let me tell you about my most FAVORITE items I've already gotten. </div>
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First up, <a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/four-square-dry-erase-magnetic-sheets-a2-13658261.fltr?prodCatId=551443" target="_blank">Four Square Dry Erase Magnetic Sheets</a>!!</div>
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These are nothing short of fantastic. My school is doing a big push for vocabulary, and my kiddos are more than happy to get their antonym and synonym on when they use these magnetic sheets! </div>
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The second thing I love-love is <a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/learning-ninja-award-medals-a2-13702217.fltr?Ntt=learning%20ninja" target="_blank">Learning Ninja Award Medals</a>!!</div>
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When a student does something extra fantastic, they get to wear a Learning Ninja Medal around their neck for the day! Of course I hum a little tune while I place it on their head - I like to make a big to-do out of it! You should see their adorable smiling faces when they get "medaled"!! </div>
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Some of the other goodies I put on my wish list are:</div>
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<a href="http://www.orientaltrading.com/show-me-the-evidence-reading-tabs-a2-13733517.fltr?prodCatId=551419%201975" target="_blank">Show me the Evidence Reading Tabs</a></div>
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Whatever you need for your classroom, <span style="color: blue;">OT</span> has it! Bulletin board supplies, classroom management supplies, toys for treasure box, task cards, books... I could go on and on! </div>
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I hope I've convinced you to start up a wishlist! <span style="color: blue;">Oriental Trading</span> is SO affordable (another reason I love <span style="color: blue;">OT</span>!), so go load up your wishlist and share it with all your peeps!! </div>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Disclosure: I was provided products from Oriental Trading for review purposes, but all opinions are mine! :) </span></i></div>
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To make this time a bit less painful for my STAAR teachin' peeps (sorry PARCC), I got together some of my F-A-V-O-R-I-T-E Texas teachers to donate some of my F-A-V-O-R-I-T-E STAAR prep products to bring YOU a big ol' STOMP THE STAAR giveaway!<br />
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If you're looking for some simply fantastic STAAR <b>reading</b> prep products, LOOK NO FURTHER.<br />
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<li>I'm giving away my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/STAAR-Reading-Review-Morning-Message-Edition-3-2482762" target="_blank">Morning Message Set, Edition 3</a></li>
<li>Cassie of Texas Forever is giving away <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/STAAR-Reading-Review-Category-1-Test-Prep-1757115" target="_blank">STAAR Reading Review: Category 1</a></li>
<li>The Little Ladybug Shop is giving away <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/STAAR-Reading-1793996" target="_blank">STAAR Reading Stems</a></li>
<li>Teacher Trap is giving away <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Test-Prep-576688" target="_blank">Reading Test Prep 101 </a></li>
<li>Watson Works is giving away <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/STAAR-WARS-3rd-Grade-Reading-Task-Cards-SET-1-1994009" target="_blank">STAAR Wars Game Task Cards: Set 1</a>*</li>
<li>ELA Everyday is giving away <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/4th-Grade-Reading-STAAR-ingo-Pack-1804351" target="_blank">STAAR-ingo</a>*</li>
<li>Texas Teaching Fanatic is giving away <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Reading-Task-Cards-with-QR-Codes-Mixed-Skills-1201160" target="_blank">Reading Task Cards with QR Code</a>s</li>
<li>Learning to Shine is giving away <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/STAAR-Reading-Vocabulary-Test-5th-Grade-2462455" target="_blank">Reading Vocabulary Tes</a>t </li>
<li>Jennifer Dowell is giving away <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Poetry-Comprehension-Test-Prep-1683363" target="_blank">Poetry Comprehension Test Prep</a></li>
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">*Winner can choose grade level </span></i><br />
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Morning Message is a PROJECTABLE, daily review of essential reading skills. It's saved as a PowerPoint file, so it's easy to project and flip between days. The ONLY thing to print is the answer sheets!<br />
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Morning-Message-Spiraled-Reading-Skills-Edition-One-2233635" target="_blank">Morning Message, Edition 1</a><a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Morning-Message-Spiraled-Reading-Skills-Edition-One-2233635" target="_blank">'</a>s spiraled reading skills include Topic and Main Idea, Character Traits, Theme, Inferencing, and Context Clues.<br />
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<a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Morning-Message-Spiraled-Reading-Skills-Edition-Two-2283711" target="_blank">Morning Message, Edition 2</a>'s spiraled reading skills include Main Idea and Supporting Details, Character Traits, Cause and Effect, Inferencing, and Context Clues.<br />
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Morning Message, Edition 3's spiraled reading skills <b>will</b> include (<b>it's being finished!</b>) Main Idea and Supporting Details, Analyzing Characters, Cause and Effect, Inferencing and Conclusions, and Context Clues. <b>Edition 3 should be finished in the next week or so!! </b><br />
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Guys. My students LOVE Morning Message. And I pretty much want to jump for joy whenever I hear them present their answers. Just listen to this little smarty pants by playing the video* below!!<br />
<i>*Please note I DID NOT HELP AT ALL WITH THIS RESPONSE! The student used the sentence stem provided on the Morning Message slide to construct his answer.</i><br />
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I start my day off teaching reading to my homeroom. Morning Message is the PERFECT warm-up before my students start their independent reading. My students walk in, get settled, look at the overhead screen for the day's morning message and get started. After announcements, we review everyone's answers. As I said before, my students LOVE to read their responses! The hardest part of reviewing is letting my kiddos know we don't have time to listen to EVERY response because they ALL want to answer!! In my opinion, that is a FABULOUS problem to have! :) </div>
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Recently, <a href="http://www.weareteachers.com/hot-topics/topics-in-education/we-all-teach-reading-and-writing" target="_blank">WeAreTeachers Reading</a> shared my post about "Think Deep Thursday" on Facebook and it went viral! Think Deep Thursday is the inferencing activity that started my Morning Message set. 2,960 shares?!?!? Are you kidding me?! I WAS STOKED!! And I for sure did some jumping for joy... And squealed... There was definitely some squealing!! </div>
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Every Thursday is STILL "Think Deep Thursday" in my classroom, but now it's projectable! No prep! YAY! And all the other days review other essential reading skills. I cannot express in words the feeling I get when I see ALL my learners, high and low, being successful when using Morning Message. But I don't need to - you're a teacher so YOU TOTALLY GET IT! I'm so excited about the feedback I've gotten on TPT, because other teachers are seeing the success with their students as well. WARMS MY HEART, Y'ALL!<br />
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I would LOVE for you to check out Morning Message and use it in your classroom! You can download a <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Morning-Message-Spiraled-Reading-Skills-FREE-WEEK-2233679" target="_blank">FREE WEEK</a> from my TPT store! I'd love to hear what you think! </div>
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And if you LOVE it (I sure hope you do!), check out <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Morning-Message-Spiraled-Reading-Skills-Edition-One-2233635" target="_blank">Edition One</a> and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Morning-Message-Spiraled-Reading-Skills-Edition-Two-2283711" target="_blank">Edition Two</a>, or save some money and get the <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Morning-Message-Edition-1-and-2-BUNDLE-2415069" target="_blank">GROWING BUNDLE</a> which will include soon to be finished Edition Three! </div>
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I hope you had a wonderful weekend! I for sure did, because I attended the Houston TPT & Blogger meet up on Saturday! Big ol' Texas sized thank you to the amazing <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/I-Teach-Whats-Your-Superpower-Megan-Favre" target="_blank">Megan Favre</a> (all the cute clipart used on the pics below is from on of her awesome clipart sets!) and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Ela-Everyday" target="_blank">Sandy O'Brien</a> for setting the shindig up! They are just the sweetest!<br />
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I enjoyed the wealth of knowledge Suzanne from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Krazy-Town" target="_blank">Crazy Town Blog</a> shared. Thank you, lady!! You're a rockstar! </div>
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I loved-loved meeting two of the sweetest ladies EVER - Shannon and Hailey of <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Texas-Teaching-Chicks" target="_blank">Texas Teaching Chicks</a>! They are just the cutest! They collaborate together to make all of their TPT goodies which is just amazing to me! You can tell they have such a fun friendship. And they live soooo close to me! WOOT! I see hang-outs in our future :) </div>
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I also loooooved meeting the sweet Jacqueine Ortize from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/The-Little-Ladybug-Shop" target="_blank">The Little Lady Bug Shop</a> (even though I already felt like I knew her and for sure already loved her!!), Cassi Noack from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Cassi-Noack" target="_blank">Cassi Noack Teach</a> and Marcy Fair from <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Marcys-Mayhem" target="_blank">Marcy's Mayhem</a>! These chicks are a barrel of laughs!! </div>
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In the Lone Star State, fourth grade marks the time our students start being tested on paired texts. That means double the reading, double the connections, and double the thinking. Thanks, STAAR! My nine and ten year olds are TOTES ready for that... *smh*<br />
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No matter my feelings on the subject, my kids are going to be tested on paired texts. So I might as well make them fun, right?! And truthfully, I have seen some majorly awesome thinking coming from my little boos as we've started on our paired text journey.<br />
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To get our paired-texts-comparing-and-contrasting-juices flowing, I started with Venn Diagrams. This is nothing new to our kiddos, right? They know about comparing and contrasting. But did you know how powerful Venn Diagrams are to help students understand COMPLEX ideas? As they are classifying information, they're recognizing complex relationships. As the rockstar teacher you are, make sure you're asking the deeper, higher level questioning as they're getting their Venn on. Some examples of questions/thinking stems to present to your students are: </div>
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There are tons of FREE Venn Diagrams available for download on TPT. And Venn Diagrams don't always have to be circles... Check out all the fabulous F-R-E-E Venn-Like Diagrams from FCRR.org </div>
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- <a href="http://www.fcrr.org/studentactivities/c_010c.pdf" target="_blank">Side by Side Stories</a></div>
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- <a href="http://www.fcrr.org/studentactivities/c_002c.pdf" target="_blank">Character Connections</a> </div>
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- <a href="http://www.fcrr.org/studentactivities/c_021b.pdf" target="_blank">Compare and Contrast</a></div>
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After some hardcore Venn-ing, we continued to explore paired texts with some super fantastic games from <a href="http://teachingtoinspire.com/" target="_blank">Jennifer Findley of Teaching to Inspire</a>. It was such a fun way to introduce the questions students will see with paired texts in a non-test like format. Jennifer's <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Paired-Passages-Reading-Centers-2071270" target="_blank">Paired Passages Reading Centers</a> give you FIVE paired texts with gameboards. We started with a poem and fiction pairing. We read, discussed, and strategy-ed both selections, made some connections between texts, then got our game on. The kids LOVED it!! And I did too- they were flipping between stories, proving answers and DISCUSSING both stories... Which was continuing that complex thinking AND are the exact things they need to do when kicking a paired text's butt! </div>
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The next step I took on our paired text journey was with a straight up paired text. But about some pretty cool dudes - Lebron James and Michael Jordan. Perhaps you've heard of them? My kids sure had!! They were very excited to dig in, and I took this opportunity to introduce our paired text strategies. I am so thankful that my student teaching was in a 5th grade ELA classroom. The strategies I'm sharing are from my cooperating teacher, Kathy Brock. She was an inspiration to me! </div>
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The first paired passage strategy I use is LABEL your passages. First passage gets a 1 and the second passage gets a 2. Pretty easy stuff for the kids to pick up. </div>
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The T-Chart strategy comes in on the questions that deal with passages 1&2. Students need to find proof from BOTH stories. So I bring back the Venn Diagram thinking but in T-chart form because it's easy and quick. Here are the steps:</div>
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These strategies help my kids THINK, PROVE their answers, and GET THE RIGHT ANSWER. And once they have these strategies down, they will be second nature to them. </div>
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There are so many fantastic teacherprenuers on TPT whose products have played a HUGE roll in my our paired text journey. Here are some products that I big puffy heart love. </div>
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- <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/BUNDLE-Readers-Notebook-Response-Pages-HALF-PAGE-SET-1065128" target="_blank">Readers's Notebook Response Pages</a> by The Thinker Builder. I use these response pages for EVERYTHING, not just paired texts. You have got to check out Michael's blog, he's like a reading genius in my opinion!! <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a></div>
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- <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Paired-Passages-Reading-Centers-2071270" target="_blank">Paired Passages Reading Centers</a> by Jennifer Findley. As mentioned above, my kids just LOVE these! Reading and working paired passages ALL THE TIME gets BOOOORING. Liven things up with games! Your kids can still practice their strategies but in a fun and stress-free way. </div>
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- <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Paired-Texts-NBA-Legends-LeBron-James-Michael-Jordan-Nonfiction-Passages-2028322" target="_blank">NBA Legends Paired Texts</a> by Keith Geswein. Keith is Kimberley Geswein's (KG Fonts) hubby, and equally as talented! He offers paired texts on NBA, NFL and Soccer legends. Perfect for those reluctant readers in your class!! And my girls were just as stoked to read about Lebron & Michael as my boys were! </div>
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How do you tackle paired texts in your classroom? I'd love to hear from you! :) </div>
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A few days ago, I looked up from my guided reading group to scan the classroom. I was frustrated to see my independent readers NOT READING. A few of them were actually staring at me. Creepy. I redirected and moved on.<br />
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Fast forward to today. At our school, we do "Books and Breakfast", so after my students complete their <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Morning-Message-Spiraled-Reading-Skills-Edition-One-2233635" target="_blank">Morning Message</a>, they grab some grub (we eat breakfast in the classroom) and they read while they eat. Well.... we used to. Today, I looked up and noticed breakfast eaters, Morning Message-ers, but NO READERS.<br />
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I was freaking out, y'all. My READERS weren't READING. My kiddos went from telling me EVERY DETAIL OF EVERY BOOK to nada. Zilch. Nothing. I went from, "Ohhh, you made ANOTHER connection??? Really? Already?" to "Put your nose in your book!"<br />
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I knew my fourth graders were not enjoying reading.<br />
And I knew I sounded like a JERK telling them to READ, READ, READ when they SO did not want to. I mean, isn't throwing tiny pieces of paper at your neighbor more interesting than that Big Nate book?<br />
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So I asked my kiddos to come up with some ideas to help re-motivate them (not gonna to lie, I may have "planted" some of the ideas).<br />
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My sweet kiddos said, "Bring back the reading logs!" and I thought, <i>I reeeeaaaaally want you to enjoy reading without having to log your time because that makes it feel like something you have to do, not want to do</i>, so I replied with, "OK, let's think of a way we can record our reading."<br />
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My sweet kiddos said, "We could summarize our chapters!" and I thought, <i>Eh, I don't want to read 239 summaries (DON'T JUDGE ME)</i>, so I replied with, "OK, let's come up with a way to quickly summarize what we're reading."<br />
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I'm going to quickly sum up how the rest of our brainstorming session went:<br />
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Me: "What if we write book reviews!!"<br />
Kids: *Intrigued*<br />
Me: "After y'all read, you could summarize your book and rate it so your friends know if they should read it!"<br />
Kids: "We could give our books stars!"<br />
Me: "Sure! How about 3 stars!"<br />
Kids: "Make it 5!"<br />
Me: "Ok! 5 it is! And let's make sure we don't give away the ending... So let's just summarize the beginning and the middle"<br />
Kids: "This sounds fun!"<br />
Me to myself: THANK YOU, LORD! My kids want to read again! And I have a quick way to check what they're reading!<br />
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I'm not going to lie, I haven't tried out the book review thing yet... So I can't swear that it works. I'll definitely update y'all once I try it out. BUT I will say my kids are SO STOKED about reading. Like, so stoked they were ready to write reviews on sticky notes!<br />
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So yeah... I'm pretty excited to show up mañana with these review papers. I think I might shut down the classroom for some major D.E.A.R. time so they can really dig into their books.<br />
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I want YOU to try out these, too! So I've uploaded them for you to use FO' FREE! Because all kiddos should get all jazzed about reading! Just click the pic to be taken to the download!<br />
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If you download, PLEASE let me know how your kiddos like these review papers! They're short and to the point. Book Title, Beginning, Middle and Rating. BOOM.<br />
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Enjoy!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47087981940161057.post-31453530205630507792016-01-17T13:09:00.001-06:002016-01-17T13:28:45.645-06:00Rock and Teach Review: National Geographic Puzzle Explorer App Hey all! Happy Sunday! And to some, happy loooong weekend! We have MLK day off (Monday) and Tuesday is a teacher work day. So next week is only three-days-of-teaching long! I'm definitely going to take advantage of the day off to SLEEP and the work day to CATCH UP on grades, data charts, anchor charts, room redecorating, etc, etc, etc... I'm thinking I may need more than one work day.... EEK! lol<br />
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I'm so excited to review an awesome new FREEEEE app that you can start using in your classroom TOMORROW. Because it's FREE. And AWESOME. Do you have students that like Minecraft? I know mine do... <b>That's why I was SO gosh darn excited about the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/national-geographic-puzzle/id985447986?mt=8" target="_blank">National Geographic Puzzle Explorer App</a>!! </b><br />
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This app allows kiddos to build puzzle mazes using different types of blocks (very Minecraft-y).<br />
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Thanks to Donors Choose and the most generous donors EVER, my classroom has FOUR iPads. WOOT! Last week I downloaded the app on all of our iPads and let my kiddos explore. The intro gave the students all the information they need to be successful with this app. My tech savvy kiddos had no problem picking up how to solve a puzzle and create a puzzle. </div>
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My favorite part of this app is the pictures and information my students are exposed to while "playing". Included in the FREE download is pictures and facts about the Yucatan Peninsula. Other packages include Antartica, the Himalayas, the Nile River (OMG I LOVE EVERYTHING EGYPT) and the Australian outback! Fabulous, aye mate? </div>
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After the initial exploring, I decided to have the kiddos write down these fantastic facts they came across. We're studying information texts in reading right now, so it was a PERFECT tie in. The kids were so excited to find info their friends hadn't found yet and share with the class... They ate this fact finding activity up and didn't even realize they were getting all educational-y! And LOOK at that picture!! </div>
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<i><span style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">- 48 National Geographic Photo Fact insights from 5 Regions around the World.</span><br style="color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">- FREE Yucatan Region; Purchase the Exploration Package with Antarctica and the Himalayas. Purchase the Expedition Package with the Nile River Valley and the Australian Outback.</span><br style="color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">- Easy to follow multimedia step-by-step maze design Instructions make creation easy and fun.</span><br style="color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #898989; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;">- 20 unique obstacle blocks can be mixed and match to provide thousands of puzzle designs!</span></i></div>
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My Christmas and New Year FLEW by. I remember there being a lot of time with family, friends and food. Like, ALL THE FOOD. And there were naps... So many sweet naps.<br />
Over the holiday, my baby boy turned THIRTEEN! I now have two teenagers in my house. YIKES. We also spent a few days at our family ranch house gettin' our cowboyANDgirl on. All in all, it was a fantastic two weeks!<br />
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Texas Teachers!! I'm excited to talk to y'all today about one of my favorite math resources - Motivation Math workbooks by <a href="https://www.mentoringminds.com/" target="_blank">Mentoring Minds</a>.<br />
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How do you teach math? What I do is teach skills in isolation. I know this not rocket science (lol) but here's an example of how I run the math thangs in my classroom.</div>
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- I would start with identifying and writing decimals.</div>
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- Then we would move on to writing decimals in expanded form and expanded notation.</div>
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- Then we would work on whatever my scope and sequence says to do next... ;)</div>
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Once I feel like our isolated skills are rockin' I break out the Motivation Math workbooks. Guys, these are big ol' fabulous workbooks full of every tested state standard. And thanks to my fabulous admin, each of my students have a Motivation Math workbook. THIS MEANS NO COPYING FOR ME! *insert giant smiling emoji*</div>
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The rigor that jumps out of these books and gets my kiddos' brains a'workin' makes me a happy teacher. If my kiddos rock out their Motivation Math worksheets, I know they have a solid understanding of the skill. If you've never heard of these workbooks, you have GOT to go to the website and request a sample. You WON'T be sorry!<br />
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<b>Here are a few of the reasons I love Motivation Math.</b></div>
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Let's start with the obvious. State standards are listed at the top of each page. WOOT! This means no guess work for me. I can flip through the books and eyeball where I want to go OR I can use the handy-dandy index. I'm a book flipper, though. I like the mystery of it. Anyway, I get to my page, I look up top and it will tell me (R) Readiness (DO THIS PAGE) or (S) Supporting (CHILL FOR A MIN THEN MOVE ON). This also makes writing the day's objective or "I can" statements a breeze!</div>
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Motivation Math ROCKS MY WORLD because they have a build in "I do, We do, You do" model.</div>
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- Each skill starts with an Introduction page. The questions (written as word problems) are open ended which is a PERFECT way to bridge the isolated skills we've worked on into word problems.</div>
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- I use the Assessment page in a variety of ways. I might assign it WITH the Guided Practice page. I might pull it and combine it with a few other skills for a more sizeable test.</div>
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Your students are NOT going to get bored with these questions. The writers of this workbook thought of SO many ways to look at problem. That's why I go back to my previous statement of, "If my kiddos rock out their Motivation Math worksheets, I know they have a solid understanding of the skill."<br />
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One of the MAJOR, MAJOR perks of using Motivation Math is YOU DON'T HAVE TO MAKE COPIES. No copying one sided to two sided. No paper jams. No toner mishaps. No stress. Just, "Turn to page ____," and get your teach on.</div>
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I am SO thankful that my administration has made sure I have a ton of resources on hand to teach my students. I use a lot of them. The ONLY one I use on a regular basis is Motivation Math.<br />
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Do you use <a href="https://www.mentoringminds.com/products/subjects/math.html" target="_blank">Motivation Math</a> in your classroom? What about Motivation <a href="https://www.mentoringminds.com/products/subjects/writing.html" target="_blank">Writing</a>? <a href="https://www.mentoringminds.com/products/subjects/reading.html" target="_blank">Reading</a>? or <a href="https://www.mentoringminds.com/products/subjects/science.html" target="_blank">Science</a>? I'd love to hear your opinions!</div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Correction.. Merry [almost] Christmas BREAK!! Because really... what are YOU most looking forward to?? I'm definitely partial to the two weeks of relaxin'! ;)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It gets them all crazy-like. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">So my tips today focus on keeping your kiddos CHILL so you can remain Merry and Bright! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I know I'm going to leave exhausted every day... But I also know I'm going to make sure my kids are working hard and ENJOYING the last week before the holiday! CHRISTMAS JOY!!</span></div>
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Back in July, my friend Robin texted me about an awesome giveaway happening on Facebook - Alyssha (Teaching and Tapas) was giving away a fourth grade Close Reading Bundle. I pretty much look to Robin as my reading teacher guru. So when she told me I HAD to enter I listened... and I WON! WHAT! I was so excited!<br />
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The first time we used one of the Close Reading texts by Alyssha was in October. On the day before Halloween... I was a wee-bit nervous my kiddos would be cray and get nothing from the lesson (they were in COSTUMES for goodness' sake) but the day was SUPER successful! We started the day reading Stellaluna, then we followed up with a passage from the Informational Close Reading Set on bats. The best part is I had put the kids in their guided reading groups and had given them LEVELED PASSAGES. How is that possible, you ask? Well, Alyssha has an EXTENSION SET that includes the SAME passages but at a lower level. Same questions, same skills, but two levels of text. GENIUS. <br />
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My favorite part of having the kiddos using these Close Reading texts is the TEXT DEPENDENT QUESTIONS. Why do kids hate to look for text evidence?? Seriously, I can't understand it. I mean, who doesn't like correct answers!! And how do you get them? By looking in the text!! To help combat the "I don't like looking in the text" issue, I made up a text-evidence "rap". It goes like this:<br />
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Me: What do we love?<br />
Kids: Text Evidence!<br />
Me: I can't hear you<br />
Kids: Text Evidence!<br />
Me: Let's find it!<br />
Kids: Text Evidence!<br />
Me: Dig in, y'all!<br />
Kids: Text Evidence!<br />
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This goes on and on and on... We clap, we stomp, and I basically act like a fool to get my kids excited about and looking for TEXT EVIDENCE! The song helps.... but so does the way Alyssha has set up the questions for the passages. She has the KIDS CREATING TEXT DEPENDENT QUESTIONS. If you're looking for rigor for your students, look no further. CREATE is the highest level of Bloom's/ a Depth of Knowledge level 4. Boom!<br />
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For each passage, kids are writing 2-3 text dependent questions. And to make sure they're really using the text, there are instructions to underline the cited text with different colors. Easy to check for me and super meaningful for the kids. Not going to lie - the first time we did this the kid's minds were blown... But two months later they are creating text dependent questions like ROCKSTARS. Me = Proud teacher!<br />
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Along with the text dependent questions, there are a gazillion other skills covered. One page of questions is dedicated to grade level specific skills and the second page is a spiral of grade level skills. Specific skills and spiraled skills?? OMG FABULOUS.<br />
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As you can see, I am LOVING these Close Reading Packs.<br />
And the Extension Packs are rocking my teaching world...<br />
Oh Teaching and Tapas, let me COUNT THE AWESOMENESS!<br />
She has <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/1st-Grade-Close-Reading-Informational-AND-Literature-BUNDLE-100-passages-1525738" target="_blank">1st grade set</a>s, <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/2nd-Grade-Close-Reading-Informational-AND-Literature-BUNDLE-97-passages-1234318" target="_blank">2nd grade sets</a>, <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/3rd-Grade-Close-Reading-Informational-AND-Literature-BUNDLE-97-passages-1355905" target="_blank">3rd grade sets</a>, <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/4th-Grade-Close-Reading-Informational-AND-Literature-BUNDLE-100-passages-1976794" target="_blank">4th grade sets</a>, and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/5th-Grade-Close-Reading-Informational-AND-Literature-BUNDLE-105-passages-2002352" target="_blank">5th grade sets</a>!!<br />
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I know all teachers have a range of reading levels in their room. This year, my kiddos range from an A (kindergarten) to a Q (grade level). I have about 7 on level readers in my class, so they get the texts from the Fourth Grade set. I have about 12 kids on a 2nd or 3rd grade level, so they get the lower Lexile level text from the Extension pack. The 2 students who are on kindergarten levels also get the lower level text, but I read it to them or buddy them with one of my on grade level students.<br />
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Here's what the kids see:<br />
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The texts looks similar and contain the same information. The lower level text is just written at a lower Lexile level.<br />
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Both texts answer the same questions, so the rigor remains. The Extension Pack makes my heart happy because it allows my lower level readers to be successful with grade level skills.<br />
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I know I have made you GREEN with ENVY if you don't own these packs... But don't worry... Because you can WIN a set!! Merry Christmas to you!!<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47087981940161057.post-65105992125808368672015-11-22T12:40:00.001-06:002015-11-22T12:40:48.872-06:00All I want for... BLACK FRIDAY! HAPPY THANKSGIVING BREAK! Are you off for the entire week? I hate to brag but... I AM! WOOT! If you're not, I'm so sorry. May the kids be QUIET, the week FLY BY and you have plenty of REST and GRUB on your days off!<br />
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<b>Today I'm liking up with <a href="http://theprimarypack.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">The Primary Pack </a> for a fun Black Friday linky! </b><br />
I'm not really a Black Friday shopper. I'm a lay in bed and eat leftover Thanksgiving food type of girl. I will do online shopping though. And MAYBE if I've had a lot of coffee, I might stop by Target. Buuuuut... That's not likely. It's more likely I'll eat pumpkin pie for breakfast, a turkey sandwich with a moist maker for lunch (any Friends fans out there?? lol) and then have "Leftovers" with the family on Friday night. "Leftovers" gets a capital letter because it is an official event with my family. We heat up all the leftovers and re-do Thanksgiving - no decorations this time though, and we use paper plates..... And no fancy clothes, just elastic pants... My family is a bunch of FOODIES, y'all! Haha. I can't wait!<br />
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Enough food talk. Back to shopping. My own personal Black Friday list consists of two things. New pots and pans and EVERYTHING HUNGER GAMES. I just KNOW there will be some online shopping deals on pots and pans.... There HAS to be.... Why the need?? You see, I was watching a Bill Nye video the other day with my class. He told me that if the non-stick coating on your pots and pans have cuts in it, when you cook with them all the chemicals that make it a non-stick get released into your food... and like everything else, THAT CAN CAUSE CANCER. I swear, I haven't cooked with my pots and pans since I saw that (well, really, I just haven't cooked because I hate cooking... Take out menus, please?). Anyway, I NEED NEW COOKING THANGS.<br />
Also, I NEED all of the Hunger Games movies. I'm not a big movie person. Like, I'll watch one every once in a while, but there are only a few I can sit down and watch all the time. Over and over. Again and again. Hunger Games is one of them. I LOVE KATNISS. I don't understand why she can't be real so we can be besties....<br />
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For my classroom Black Friday wish list, I have a few FANTASTIC items on it. They should really be on your wish list too (don't worry, I'll link them so you can put them on there).<br />
<b>- </b> <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/If-I-Had-a-Million-Dollars-Project-Financial-Literacy-and-Budgeting-1847648" target="_blank">If I had a Million Dollars Project </a>by 4MulaFun. Jennifer is SO STINKIN' AWESOME. Love her products. Recently, I've let my students do more PBL type of learning' and it has been AMAZING. This is the next project I want to do with my class!<br />
- <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Readers-Notebook-Response-Pages-for-Literature-HALF-PAGE-SET-766284" target="_blank">Reader's Notebook Response Pages</a> by the Thinker Builder. THANK YOU PINTEREST for helping me find Michael. Everything he makes is AWESOME. He completely changed the way I take notes for Guided Reading Groups. I NEED these response pages!! <br />
- <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Science-Labs-1539147" target="_blank">Christmas Labs</a> by the Science Penguin. Why do kids love science? BECAUSE IT'S SO COOL. My kids are going to LOVE me when I bust out with all this awesome Christmas science!<br />
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Now, here are some fun things Christmas items from my TPT store - I'd love for YOU to put on YOUR Black Friday TPT wish list!<br />
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- <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Design-a-Christmas-Tree-Christmas-Problem-Solving-2214901" target="_blank">Design a Christmas Tree </a>is HOT OFF THE PRESS! I just created this activity after my students LOVED my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Whats-on-the-Menu-Thanksgiving-Problem-Solving-2209032" target="_blank">Thanksgiving Meal Planning </a>project. In this set, you will get 4 pages of "store ads". Students will shop the store ads and purchase items for their dream Christmas Tree. There's a lot of math included in this set but it's disguised as FUN. The kids won't even know how much learning they're doing! HEHE! I've included some problem solving questions as well. It's only $1.50 right now... GO GET IT!<br />
- <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Math-Review-Winter-Snowman-Glyph-1578460" target="_blank">Snowman Math Glyph</a> is a favorite of my kiddos EVERY YEAR. This is actually the first math glyph I made. All sorts of skills are included in this - what makes this so awesome is each answer has the kiddos coloring their snowman a certain way. My students loved it so much, it's inspired a ton more <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Katie-Texas-Rock-And-Teach/Category/Math-Glpyhs" target="_blank">Math Glyphs</a>!! Go check them all out!<br />
- Looking for a way to give students or coworkers a cute and low cost holiday gift? Go get my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Holiday-Gift-Tags-968097" target="_blank">Holiday Gift Tags!</a> These cute little signs fit on a snack sized baggie. Then pop in a few sweet treats and BOOM, Christmas shopping is done, son!<br />
- My <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Christmas-Activity-Pack-967960" target="_blank">Christmas Activity Pack</a> and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Winter-Activity-Pack-967931" target="_blank">Winter Activity Pack</a> are perfect for your holiday party day to keep the kiddos occupied... ;) SO much fun inside both of them!<br />
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Oooohwee! All this shopping talk is making me EXCITED!<br />
Want to join this link? YOU SHOULD! Get over to the <a href="http://theprimarypack.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Primary Pack</a>'s blog and LINK UP and ENTER to win like, a TON of fabulous items.<br />
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Whatever you do this holiday, I hope it is full of FUN, FRIENDS and FAMILY.<br />
Wishing you tons of Thanksgiving blessings!<br />
xoxo<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The countdown has started!! FOUR days until Thanksgiving Break. YIPEE!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Only problem is as the holidays grow closer, the kiddos start showing their wild[er] side... So I've been trying to come up with QUIET yet PURPOSEFUL and ENGAGING activities. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">This week we started Biographies & Autobiographies. It's pretty easy to find books and selections that are biographies, but I've found it kind of tricky to find autobiographies... So I decided to make my students the authors! </span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">Side note: I did use <u>The Story of Ruby Bridges</u> and <u>Through My Eyes</u> (by Ruby Bridges) to introduce biographies and autobiographies. We used a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the story elements.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Back to my student authors! Each student got an autobiography template. Here's what we did with them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">- On the front, students drew a self portrait. They turned out SO CUTE. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">--->On the inside, there was a blank time line and a map. On the timeline, <span style="color: black;">I had students write the year of their birth, then we filled in dates all of the students shared (start of Pre-K, Kinder, 1st</span><span style="color: black;">, 2nd</span><span style="color: black;">, 3rd</span><span style="color: black;">, 4th</span><span style="color: black;">, </span><span style="color: black;">etc</span><span style="color: black;">). I
then modeled how to sequence specific and important life events and record on the
timeline. Students added a few dates that were meaningful to them. On the map, students marked where they were born, grew up and now live. </span></span><br />
<span style="text-underline: single;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">--->I then had students write an autobiography. I provided them with sentence stems they had to include in their composition. They included:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;"> - </span><span style="color: black;">My
name is…</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;"> - </span><span style="color: black;">I was
born on…. in…</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;"> - </span><span style="color: black;">I
[now] live in….</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;"> - </span><span style="color: black;">I
started ____ grade in…</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="mso-special-format: bullet;"> - </span><span style="color: black;">An
important live event was</span><span style="color: black;">…</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit;">--->My kiddos SERIOUSLY loved making their books. Once the autobiographies were finished, I paired students with a partner. They read each other’s autobiographies and then wrote a short biography on
their partner. I then let them present their biography on their partner to the
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November also means Dia de los Muertos, one of my favorite holidays to teach my students about. This year we started our Day of the Dead learning with (drum roll please) INFERENCING! Have you caught on that we're working on inferencing BIG TIME in my classroom??<br />
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Y'all. I had the best dad in the whole world. I know a lot of people think that about their dad, so you can understand where I'm coming from. He was SO kind, wise, funny, UNIQUE and my number one fan. And I miss him LIKE CRAZY. He passed away last year and not a day goes by I don't think about him. I wanted to share his memory with my students, so for this Dia de los Muertos, I made an altar honoring my sweet daddy.<br />
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I included pictures of my dad and his brothers as children (wearing cowboy hats), a few pictures of my family at our family ranch from my childhood (my dad was holding a cowboy hat in one and a baby longhorn in the other) and a recent photo of the whole fam.<br />
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My food offering included Oreos, M&Ms, and all the leftover chocolate Halloween candy I could find in my house!<br />
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I decorated the altar with battery operated candles, sugar skulls, mini paper picadors and yellow daisies. The finished product made me so happy. I enjoyed creating this tribute to my dad and only cried twice!<br />
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I took the altar to school on Monday and let my students know they'd be making inferences about my dad's life based on what I included on the alter. I gave my students a graphic organizer that had them write down three observations from which they would draw one inference. We focused on the photos and the food.<br />
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For the photos, I asked them to write down who they saw in the photographs (family), the setting (outside, on a farm, by a barn), and the other items they saw (horses, cowboy hats, fence, cow).<br />
Can you guess what their inference was? They inferred my dad was a COWBOY! And gosh, they were right! My dad raised Texas Longhorns. He had a passion for the business and had a beautiful herd. Check out his hard work on his website, <a href="http://assadtexaslonghorns.com/">AssadTexasLonghorns.com</a>!<br />
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For the food, I asked my students to write down three different types of food they saw. Answers included Oreos, M&Ms, Almond Joy's, Whoppers, and Reeses. The students inferred my dad liked CHOCOLATE!!! And boy did he! I shared how my pops would always sneak a tiny corner out of the cake at family get togethers because he just couldn't wait until we cut the dessert! He definitely could have been the poster child for choco-holics!<br />
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Guys - my students were SO into this lesson and when I told them it was in honor of my dad, they had so many sweet questions and connections. I was so impressed with their maturity and respect for my memories and feelings. Have I mentioned how awesome my class is??<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47087981940161057.post-91077912038310026622015-11-01T09:26:00.002-06:002015-11-01T09:31:29.574-06:00November Currently Hey all!<br />
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I'm linking up with Farley at <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Oh Boy 4th Grade</a> again for a November Currently!<br />
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Yesterday was my birthday, and my family SPOILED me! Brunch, family time, trick-or-treating (and possibly scaring a few trick or treaters) and a new Nespresso machine has made me one happy lady! </div>
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To share the happiness that I'm feeling, I'm throwing a SALE in my <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Katie-Texas-Rock-And-Teach" target="_blank">TPT store</a>! Everything is 20% off and bundles are 50% off! WOOT! Sale ends tomorrow :) </div>
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I have a confession to make... I was not a great math student... At all.<br />
Math was awful for me. A painful subject that I was forced to take for what felt like 87 years....<br />
I think that's why I LOVE teaching it.<br />
I don't EVEREVEREVER want my students to feel like I did. I try to give them a REASON we do the maths. STEPS for the maths. And I try to make my students PROBLEM SOLVERS and MISTAKE FINDERS.<br />
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That's when my "Math Misconceptions" pack was born! I wanted to find a way for students to not only solve a problem and find the correct answer, but to also identify common mistakes that are made.<br />
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So far I've made three sets: <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Math-Misconceptions-Place-Value-1497892" target="_blank">Place Value</a>, <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Math-Misconceptions-Addition-Subtraction-with-Whole-Numbers-Decimals-1497539" target="_blank">Addition and Subtraction with Whole Numbers</a> and <a href="https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Math-Misconceptions-Multiplication-1574881" target="_blank">Multiplication</a>. I have plans to make more but.... there are also like 20 other ideas floating around in my head. So... yeah. Stay tuned?<br />
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Each misconception pack includes 5 math problems. Each problem is solved by 2-3 people - "He", "She" and sometimes "Pup". Each of the characters solve the problem a different way, but only one is right. Students identify the correct person and justify why they're correct. THEN, they identify where the incorrect person/people messed up. It's AWESOME to see my students catch the common mistakes! The discussion these problems stir up is AWESOME. My students can be reluctant to talk about how they solve math problems... but once I got these baby out I couldn't get them to zip it!<br />
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Anyway, here are some pics of my students using the Multiplication Misconceptions. Guys, they LOVED it. They BEGGED to do another... I tried to stay calm, "We'll do another tomorrow, guys" but inside I was JUMPING for JOY!<br />
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SO IMPRESSED by my hard working kiddos!!<br />
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My sweet 4th graders are really having a hard time wrapping their head around inferences. </div>
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Every morning, our school has us write a Morning Message to our kiddos. As they walk in, they grab their breakfast (we eat breakfast in our rooms... so weird, I know) and check out what's on the board. Not going to lie, my first thought when I heard we have to put up a Morning Message was, "Seriously??? One more thing to do??" but I have realized I LOVE morning messages. And by golly, if there's a day I forget to write one my kiddos ask for it!! So I decided to combine inferencing with our morning message. </div>
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I defined an inference, gave the kiddos a scenario, had a bag of evidence and was ready to watch my kids ROCK OUT INFERENCING!! (Side note: Not pictured is the sentence stem, "I can infer that your BFF is _________ because ___________ .)</div>
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I just knew the dirty kleenexes, the Mucus relief medicine (we discussed what mucus was) and the Vitamin C (and the fact that they knew I was sick -they had all been asking me if I was ok the day before when they heard my sick voice - they are ANGELS, y'all) was going to lead to light bulbs in their sweet little brains and inferencing would be a problem of the past!!</div>
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My plan halfway worked. The kids were SO STOKED to check out the inferencing bag. I heard their excited whispers as they wrote down their inference. I heard angels singing from the heavens. I picked up their sticky notes and began reading......... and the angels stopped singing. </div>
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"I can infer that your BFF is nice because she's your friend"</div>
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I went home to my hubby and retold the story. He told me my inference bag contained <i>too much</i> of an inference. HUH. He told me my evidence needed to be WAAAY more obvious. At first I hesitated because UH HELLO, what does he know - he's not a teacher AND it's not like the kid's state test at the end of the year would contain an obvious inference... But I tried it anyway. </div>
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I totally forgot to take a pic, but I grabbed everything orange, black and halloween themed that I could find and put it into a gallon size bag (pumpkin cookie cutters, halloween pencils, a ghost with an orange and black outfit, a black and orange halloween bag). The next day we tried again. The board read, "Yesterday I decorated my house for an upcoming holiday. Make an inference about what holiday I decorated for. STEM: I can infer you decorated for ______ because _______." Kids read it, giggled at the bag, wrote on their sticky note and BOOM! 21/23 made a correct inference. HALLOWEEN! A few kids still weren't getting it but I was making progress! </div>
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Now, EVERY THURSDAY is "Think about it Thursday" and I give my kiddos a scenario that requires them to make an inference. This Thursday I put a receipt and some change in a bag. MY LITTLE BOOS MADE FANTASTIC INFERENCES!</div>
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"I can infer that you went to the store because there's a recet (receipt)."</div>
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"I can infer that you went grocery shopping because there's a recit (receipt) and money."</div>
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23/23 had it, y'all!! WOOOOOT! And now I know we need to work on spelling receipt!! </div>
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I hope you love this idea! Do you think it could be something you use in your classroom? Do you already use something like this in your classroom? Do you have ideas for what else I can include in my bags? Help a teacher out! I'm running low on ideas.... </div>
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I also want to encourage you to do a Morning Message for your kiddos!! They other day we were working on poetry and my message was something like "Sometimes poems have a rhyming pattern. Give me example of rhyming words." It was a TOTALLY last minute message but I was able to see that 3 kids in my class don't know what rhyming words are. It's SUCH an easy way to pinpoint gaps in your kiddos learning!! </div>
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HAPPY TEACHING, PEEPS! </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47087981940161057.post-84581153146202690372015-10-01T21:28:00.003-05:002015-10-01T21:32:11.362-05:00CURRENTLYLinking up with Farley (a fellow Texan - woot!) for an October Currently!<br />
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I haven't done a Currently in years (I'm an awful blogger... EEK) but I saw this October themed one and OMG I HAD TO!<br />
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I love Farley, love Currently-s and LOVE OCTOBER! (and not just because it's my birthday month!<br />
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Be sure to link up with your own currently <a href="http://ohboy3rdgrade.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8