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Sparking Student Motivation: Fun Informational Passages!

Let me tell you what I LOVE. I LOVE tricking kids into thinking working is super fun. 😛 My kids were begging me last week to learn more and write more. Have you ever heard of such a thing??? I shared with you last week that I am working on getting my students to respond […]

The Sunday Scoop & Visual Plans!

I’m linking up with Teaching Trio today for the Sunday Scoop, and I made my first ever VISUAL PLANS! I’m sharing about this week in my scoop, instead of just today! 🙂 Monday, we have a teacher work day (students are off) for some professional development and to get things in order for the start […]

Five For Friday ROLLER COASTER! {and a Columbus FREEBIE!}

Friends, I have been a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad blogger! 🙁 For this, I am so sorry. I am going to try my very best to blog more because I absolutely love doing it! My life has just been totally, upside down crazy the last few weeks!! I have absolutely felt like I […]

A Peek at My Week!

Holy moly. What a week!! We had parent/teacher conferences last week, and I was also sick at the beginning of the week… so needless to say, it was quite exhausting. This is why I didn’t post a Workshop Wednesday last week… or anything else, for that matter. To get ahead a little bit, I’m going […]

Five For Friday: Weather Edition!

This week, my teaching life revolved around weather! Here are some of the super-fun awesome things we did this week! I used Can It Rain Cats and Dogs? this week for my nonfiction mentor text. My kids were obsessed with it! They wanted me to read the whole thing, but we only read about what […]

Workshop Wednesday: Reading Workshop {Weather Integration}

Welcome to another Workshop Wednesday! Today, I’m going to share with you how my Reading Workshop is going- mainly the mini-lesson portion of it. Can I just tell you, my very own Better Than Basal product I created this summer to go with all of my mentor sentence texts has been a lifesaver!? And I’m […]