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We made it, guys! We MADE it! Aren’t you just so thankful that Halloween fell on a Saturday this year?! Can I get an AMEN! It was quite a week in the Applicious classroom! So much so, that I had to take 2 days to recover from all our ghoulish fun last week! Here’s a peek at what we did!… Read More
Have you ever read a book and just thought…“You are perfect! You will be my favorite.” I knew you would understand that feeling! #bookloversunite! Well… I had that exact moment with the book, Crankenstein by Samantha Berger. Here are a few Crankenstein activities we completed this past week! You can check out this book on Amazon by clicking here or on… Read More
Do you have a favorite book series you just look forward to sharing with your students year after year? I most certainly do! The “Mr. Putter and Tabby” Series by Cynthia Rylant is seriously one of my favorite series! I love this series so much, I even pushed it into with a little author study I did my thirds last… Read More
Can you believe it is almost the end of the year? Where has the time gone??? Well… things have def not slowed down for this Applicious Teacher! Here’s what we’ve been up to the for the past few weeks! First up… Similes! I’m a huge believer in inspiring students to write using authors’ samples. That’s why I LOVE this book… Read More
Yeah! FSA is over! We finished our last 2 sessions of our state testing this week. My kiddos were pretty fried… but I didn’t want to lose speed in our last 9 weeks of 3rd grade. I knew that this week would need a special kind of book to keep my kiddos engaged… Charlotte’s Web! (affiliate link) (You can check… Read More
If you teach in a Common Core (or fake CC state like I do) then you are very familiar with the idea of “responding to text” and “close reads”. These ideas seem to be fixtures on my lesson plans and although we’ve been slowly working on a routine with these two practices, we really didn’t hit a breakthrough with text… Read More
