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Can you believe the end of the year is already upon us? I can barely believe it myself! I wanted to share a fun and engaging idea as an alternative to Summer Review packets. I promise your students (And you!) will love making these a summer review bucket! I started using this idea a few years ago when I was… Read More
The end of the year is always the hardest part of the school year. You’re tired, the kids are crazy. Everyone just seems to want to get to summer. I hated the end of the year. This past year, I decided I was going to change that. I wanted my kids to be engaged (and myself) all the way to… Read More
Stop the summer slide! Spur the summer rise! Guest blog post by Marnie Ginsberg Summer Slide: A Widening of the Achievement Gap Would you be surprised to find out that in many studies research shows that most of the achievement gap is due to the loss of learning that takes place over the summer? Researchers Franzen and Allington write that… Read More
Well… Friday was our last day of school! It was exciting and bittersweet all wrapped up into one ball of craziness! I had a last minute inspiration on Insta from the sweet Ashley from JustReed, so I spent Wednesday night and Thursday morning all in flurry trying to finish these adorable picture and letters for my kiddos! They were so… Read More
Oh My Word!!!!???!! Where has the time gone? It is already the last week of school! I just wanted to pop in and share some of the activities we’ll be doing for the last week of school! We’ll go day by day to keep it organize! Monday! Oh Monday, funday… that’s how that goes right? 😉 First thing Monday morning,… Read More
I think I can… I think I can… I think I can… That’s what I am saying every morning I wake up to go to school these days. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE school. I LOVE my kiddos. But I am ready for summer. 🙂 Thank goodness I’m teaching a fun unit to keep *ME* excited about coming to… Read More
