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Tried It Tuesday: Analyzing Poetry {and pen pals!}

I’m so excited to link up with my BBB Holly for Tried It Tuesday!! Speaking of Holly, you might remember that my class and Gary’s class are pen pals with her class… and my kids have been DYING to get letters back (they wrote the first letter to her class). I wish I could post […]

Must Read Mentor Text: Love That Dog

Happy Sunday!! What did you do with your extra hour this morning? I snuggled on the sofa with my puppies and dozed a little bit more. I was determined to get that “extra hour of sleep” despite the fact my dogs still got up on the old schedule. 😛 I wanted to link up with […]

Sparking Student Motivation: Flashlight Friday!

Time to link up with my BBB Joanne for another motivational activity!! Yesterday, I shared a few things we did over the course of the week. Halloween week is usually always crazy, but my kids had one of their best weeks in a while, behavior-wise, and I am going to attribute it to all the […]

Five For Friday Halloween Style

Our Halloween-type festivities (without ever using the word “Halloween” of course) were SOOOOO much fun! I’m going to share all of our good times, Five For Friday Style! We used The Widow’s Broom for reading activities and our mentor sentence this week. They did a great job imitating the sentence on their own, being sure to include […]

Happy Halloween!! :o) Monster Writing Idea!

I wanted to share a fun activity we did yesterday for writing! It is included in my I Need My Monster TPT Unit! After reading the book, I drew a monster, but didn’t show my kids. Then I wrote a description of him and read it to my students. They drew the monster as I […]

Workshop Wednesday: Important Book and Planet Postcards

You know I can’t resist telling you “it’s HUMP DAAA-EEEEE!” Happy Wednesday! :o) Today for Workshop Wednesday, we are linking up how we integrate content areas into our writing. I’ve had a big focus on Science the last couple of weeks across content because there is just SO much to cover in such a short […]