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Shapes Mini Lesson

Can you say snow day? Yeah, yeah, yeah!!! Since we were home today, I wanted to share one of our math lessons that we did last week. We have been talking about 2D and 3D shapes in our room. I wanted to do a small review mini lesson since I

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Go Girl Scouts!!!!!

Who doesn’t like girl scouts cookies??? My daughter Aniston, on the right, has been a busy bee selling away this year with her brownie troop. Here she is all dressed up like my favorite cookie. Can you guess which one it is??  They look so cute holding their signs. I told

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Show and Tell Friday

               17 first graders + 2 ferrets = FUN FRIDAY We had such a great show and tell this week. One of our students brought her favorite pets for her show and tell. We welcomed Scamper and Boomer to our room. They were the main attraction. They fit right in

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BRRRR!! and Compound Word Activity!!

Well, I have to admit, I have had a wonderful time off. Being home with the family, my birthday, blogger meetup. It doesn’t get much better than that. Well, how about one more snow day!!!!! Brrrr! it is freezing. I’ve never been so glad to have gas heat!!!While I am

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Nashville Blogger Meetup!!

WE had such a wonderful time Saturday with our blogger friends. We ate and talked, ate, and shopped, and then ate some more!! Did I mention we ATE???? We had a blast. It was great to meet up and talk with other teachers, listen to stories and share yours as well.

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Christmas Bulletin Boards

You all know how we love making tissue paper bulletin boards– here is Misty’s latest addition to her tissues boards.  A Christmas tree made from brown tissue paper and 2 shades of green tissue paper and put the students names on circle ornaments and she also put some silver circles

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Thanksgiving Freebie

The Thanksgiving season is approaching us and it has us start thinking about what is important in our lives and the things we are most thankful for. Mine is my family… What are you thankful for this season?? I have my little firsties do a writing project each year about

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Pumpkin Taste Testing Freebie

Pumpkins here-pumpkins there- pumpkins, pumpkins everywhere. Hey everyone we had a busy week last week, but it was SO MUCH FUN. Let’s take a look back at our fun-filled events. We have been talking all about pumpkins – the life cycle of a pumpkin- and stages-we even carved a pumpkin and the

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Rice Crispy Pumpkin Treats

For the past 3 years I have been making these super easy cute  pumpkin treats for my niece’s and nephew’s classes at school and this year I finally got to make them for my little boy’s kindergarten class.  These are really fun to make and a great activity for the

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ZooBoo Fun!!

We had the best time this weekend. We went to ZooBoo at the Memphis zoo. We had such a great time.                            They had a hayride, not-so scary haunted trail, trick or treat stations to get candy, camel rides, creatures of the night exhibit, and so much more. We had a

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Parent Teacher Conference Freebie

This is my favorite time of the year. The season starts to change. Not too hot and not too cold. Halloween is just around the corner. My son loves Halloween. I think it’s because his birthday is October 27. He will be 11 years old this year. I love this

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Nouns

When your looking for nouns and you have no activity to do,                  you can always go to                    “Noun Town” I wanted to share some nouns activities that we did this week in our classroom. I love teaching nouns because you can do so much with this lesson. I can’t

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Halloween Bulletin Board

Hey Ya’ll, It’s Fall!! I wanted to share a cute board that we did last year for Halloween. Tissue paper is in this year and it is cheap and easy to use. Two of my favorite things to say when your talking about decorating, especially for your classroom.      For this

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Counting by 2’s,5’s and 10’s

My students just love this video. We watch it throughout the year. I wanted to share it with you so your kiddos could enjoy it too. A great way for them to remember skip counting. This is a great resource and addition to your collection.                                                                 

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Classroom Ideas!

 I wanted to share our blog post that we did when we did a blog swap with Ms. Amy in Teaching In Blue Jeans. We had a blast doing this and wanted to share our post with you. I know everyone  is getting ready for back to school or maybe you have already started like we have.

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