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I want to thank EVERYONE for the support and POSITIVITY as I accomplish my summer goals. Specifically, so many readers have congratulated and encouraged my learning to swim. Believe it or not, this online support has meant a great deal to me. Tomorrow
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I thought this was a response worth sharing. I validates why I do the assignment.
Miss A, thank you so much for letting us have another freedom writing journal, the first was very helpful to me because I needed to express myself in writing instead of
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I had my students complete foldables on the the Middle Ages. I told them that they could use whatever information they put in this particular foldable on the test. I did inform them that the foldable itself would be a seperate test grade. Here is a slide
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One day when I was really down about my students and teaching, David popped up and gave me some ideas. He suggested that I try to give my students motivation or inspiration. At first, I thought, “That’s not my job, that’s their mama’s
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I have been busier than a dog with flees!!! I’ve been trying to catch up on paperwork. I feel like I’m drowing in it. Failure reports, lesson plans, parental contacts, conferences. . . it never ends. But, I have learned to organize myself
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After chatting with a colleague online and reading some of your comments about teaching strategies etc, I realized that maybe I’ve been to restrictive with my students. Maybe I haven’t been providing them with the inspiration and motivation
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So, I’m still trying create a classroom that fully engages students. On Wednesday, we made vocabulary foldable for our unit on the early Middle Ages. It was sort of babyish activity for the kids, but I think they really liked it and preferred it
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Remember, I told you a few days ago that I was having my students rewrite children’s songs with our subject matter. Here are two of the student products. I figure I can show them b/c they do not have any of the students names AND the student’s
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I wanted to review how my lesson with my 5th period went today. I gave each of the students a topic and a children’s song title. My instructions were to remix/rewrite the children’s song using the topic assigned. These high school freshman
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I realize that I’ve been venting A LOT lately. I’ve decided in honor of Christmas, I’m going to attempt to be positive at least until Christmas. I don’t want to be that evil person who never has anything to positive to say. So
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Someone asked me about the strategies and activities that I am using in my classroom. Last week, I incorporated the following things into my lessons using the “chunk and chew” strategy—give them information and have them work with it.
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I am at another basketball game; therefore, I get the opportunity to write for my blog. Thanksgiving break has already started!!! I was so excited about the break that I did my Turkey Dance for the students. They loved it! Some of them did it with
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Lisa at alisha9.wordpress.com asked me several questions for reflection in the comments section of one of my posts. This is how I responded via email. I thought it would be good to share these online. 1. Who does the majority of the talking and writing
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Today’s blog post will be using as my reflection/brainstorm in response to a new district mandate and requirement for all teachers. So if it gets confusing, this may be the day you want to skip reading . . . . Background: The district has passed a new
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Cheerleading season has gotten off with a bang—well more like the beginning of a loosing streak. The hardest thing about football is that we don’t win a lot of games. The score right now is 28-0. It’s hard on the kids. . . shoot, it is hard on me. . .
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