• Describing Our Classmates!

    Shew!  How is it already May?  I don’t know about you, but I. Am. Swamped.  Seriously!  This year, my teaching partner and I are holding our school’s first ever Fifth Grade Graduation.  We are excited but also wondering how we are going to fit everything in and be prepared by the end of this month. […]

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  • Together We Are Better {Parent Communication}

    Parent communication is key to a successful classroom and effective connections between home and school.  This year, I put my blogging abilities to good use!  My teaching partner and I use Blogger to host a free classroom blog. Each day, we share a quick post telling both our students and parents what the daily homework […]

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  • United States Road Trip!

    My remaining social studies standard for this school year is to cover the states, capitals, and regions of the United States.  Since we are approaching the end of the year and just wrapped up state wide testing, I wanted to plan a few exciting things for the kids! Earlier this week, I told my students […]

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  • Book Clubs!

    This week has been all about high stakes testing!  YUCK!  We only test for a couple of hours in the morning and to relieve the stress from the remainder of the day, my fifth grade teaching partner and I do Book Clubs!  🙂  We try to keep them very simple, yet meaningful for the students. […]

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  • Tricky Word Work Printables!

    Lately, I’ve been selling my Ultimate Tricky Word Work packs like crazy!  I’ve also been getting requests for MORE!  Well for my loyal word work fans, I’m here to share that I am working away at granting your wish.  🙂  This weekend, I laid out templates for printables to accompany all of my long vowel […]

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  • Vacation Planning!

    Does anyone else love doing projects at the end of year?  It’s a little bit of a crazy time of year anyway.  They are counting down the days until summer break.  And you, geez, you are counting down too and eager for the end of the year even more than the kids.  It never fails. […]

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