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  • Checking Station: An Essential Component for Centers

    Whether you follow my blog often or this is your first visit, you need to know one thing about me; I love using centers in my classroom.  Several years ago, I had a checking station that just sort of……invented itself!  In my special education classroom, I supplied all of the classroom supplies, such as markers, […]

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  • Math Review Challenge: An Engaging Kahoot Activity

    Over the summer, I attended a conference designed for integrating technology into daily instruction.  I love learning and discovering new ideas to implement in my classroom.  One of the ideas that I have used often this year is Kahoot!  I even shared the above image on Facebook and Instagram, and had so many people commented […]

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  • Sorting Exit Tickets: A Freebie to Help Differentiate Easily

    Exit Tickets.  I seriously love them.  They have seriously shaped the style and format of my classroom over the last two years.  Rather than write paragraphs about my infatuation with Exit Tickets, below are four advantages that I have discovered through using Exit Tickets. In my heart, I believe that part of making all of […]

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  • Graphic Organizers to Differentiate: A Free Download

    I use graphic organizers all. the. time.  I love them for MANY reasons.  I love that they give students a purpose for reading and help them to hone specific comprehension strategies.  I also love that they help students build skills and confidence that they can later generalize to independent work.  Most of all, I love […]

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  • October Currently!

    Hey friends!  Can you believe that it is already October?  This is my absolute favorite time of the year so….no complaining here!  I’m linking up with Farley to share my October Currently! Currently, I am…. Listening to Scooby Doo!  My three year old daughter is crazy over Scooby right now.  I totally don’t get it […]

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  • Quotients as Fractions, Decimals, and Remainders!

    Each year of teaching is a live and learn process, right?  Last year, when I taught my students how to express quotients as fractions, decimals, and remainders, I taught them one by one.  When we would work on division of whole numbers, I would have them write quotients as remainders.  Soon after, we would cover […]

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