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School’s been out for a little less then a week… Now that I’ve slept for about five days straight, I’m energized enough to share our last few weeks of activities with you! In math, our focus was on one of my favorite math concepts from third grade: Arrays! Not just arrays, but using arrays to show repeated addition and later multiplication…. Read More
Have you ever had one of those weeks where you can’t seem to get ahead? I’ve felt like I’ve been living in those weeks forever at this point! We’re already in the 4th week of school! LOL! I can’t blame it on the beginning of the school year anymore… Can I? But through it all, I try to focus on… Read More
Last week, I blogged about how excited I was to be teaching geometry with no curriculum provided (I was being serious!) Well…we have just finished up our shapes and are moving on to fractions! Now that we are geometry pros, we’re moving in to partitioning shapes. To introduce this concept, I read, “The Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Fractions Book” Click the… Read More
This year, I’ve really put an emphasis on math. Since we have an extended math block, I’ve added math centers to my day. {You can read more about my math center time here} My math center tubs Can I tell you? I totally see a difference in my students’ number sense! They are adding AND subtracting LARGE numbers in their… Read More
WOW! Is it really only Tuesday of a four day work week? My eyes are telling me it’s 10 o’ clock on a Friday night… But I just had to stop in and share a few things! First, off…have I ever told you how much I <3 three day weekends? It was like a little reward to sticking it out… Read More
Wow! What a week! My 2nd graders and I have been up to so much this week, I thought it was only proper to link up with Doodlebugs for… So here are five randoms from my week! Persuasive Writings If you read my post earlier this week, then you know that we’ve been using, “Click, Clack, Moo” as our close… Read More
I just need one more day between Sat and Sun... we could call it Funday! Anyone else?
It could be the pregnancy hormones, but I'm tearing up just reading the first few lines!
Autistic boy fails school exams – teacher sends him home with powerful letter that goes viral
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