Month: March 2015

  • Math Center PHOTO Overload!!!!

    Recently, I had a few followers ask about what my room and math centers look like.  I LOVE answering these types of questions.  However, this is also really hard to do when I have so many things going on at once.  So, I am going to answer this question by sharing several photos accompanied with […]

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  • Shape Clubs!

    Last week, I wrapped up my unit on shapes.  More specifically, shape hierarchy.  My kids had a good basis for shapes and terminology such as opposite angles and parallel lines but couldn’t connect how some shapes could be classified in more than one category.  I mean, is it just me, or is this a difficult […]

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  • 2015 Teacher Tool Gift Exchange Linky!

    Last weekend, I attended the Spring Blogger Meet up in French Lick, Indiana.  We had over 100 teachers and bloggers in one room.  Let me tell ya, it was amazing!  We were able to share ideas about our teaching and our blogging.  It was so inspirational and rejuvenating! Now, if there is one thing that […]

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  • Easy as Pi! :)

    Do you ever get really ambitious and have a long list of things that you want to do but just don’t have the time to make it actually happen?  I do!  In my head, it is all totally possible.  BUUUUUT, in the end, I just don’t have enough hours in the day.  To make my life […]

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  • Managing Bubble Pages

    Last summer, I posted about my Bubble Pages and I have loved the feedback that I have received from many of you implementing these in your classrooms.  I wanted to share a quick post about a little system that I have implemented in my classroom this year that has saved me SOOOOO much time.  Like […]

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  • Read Across America!

    I’m sure many of you spent last Friday participating in Read Across America with Accelerated Reading.  My fellow fifth grade teacher and I wanted to find a way to create a few incentives and activities that would make students motivated to read while still responding to text.  In lower grades, it is often easy to […]

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