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The Hands-On Teacher: More "WILD" Improvements (with DUCK TAPE!)

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Monday, June 25, 2012. More "WILD" Improvements (with DUCK TAPE! I'm linking up with Ladybug's Teacher Files. For her SUMMER SHOPPING LINKY! You know we all like to shop, but we normally buy a lot of things during the summer that are for our classrooms (or at least I do! Take a look below at my newest purchases! Then, be sure to link up! Show me what you've bought lately! Ok, can I just say, I am LOVIN' the DUCK TAPE I bought today! Why, might you ask? Well, for starters, it's ZEBRA PRINT! I took the cli...

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Fantastic First Grade!: September 2012

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012. Rowdy in Room 300: Composing.Decomposing.Number building FUN! I am loving Rowdy in Room 300: Composing.Decomposing.Number building FUN! Her number booklets are a fun idea and will go great with my current topic of study in my classroom. I have found a lot of other great ideas but I am really loving this and had to share. I hope you find it useful, too. Tuesday, September 25, 2012. I"m linking up with. Also be sure to entire the giveaway at my Teachers Notebook store. I'...

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Teacher without a Classroom!!: Thanksgiving!

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Teacher without a Classroom! These are the journey of an unemployed teacher who has been looking for a classroom for a few years! I'm a graduate student that is looking to expand my skills and knowledge everyday as a substitute teacher. Wednesday, November 23, 2011. I hope everyone out there reading this has a great Thanksgiving! I will be spending it with my family. It's times like these I wonder how other people spend their holidays. Do they eat turkey or tamales? Do they fry rice or make stuffing?

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You Can Make The Sun Shine Anytime!!!: Crazy Contractions!

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Adventures in an alternative elementary education setting. Tuesday, January 3, 2012. We went back to school today and honestly we had a BLAST! I felt so refreshed from the break. I turned my computer off on the 21st and didn't turn it back on until yesterday! The hubby and I went to Colorado to visit his family and friends for Christmas. Along the way we even hit up two hot springs. We LOVE hot springs and go as often as we possibly can! We stayed at the Glenwood Hot Springs Lodge. At Mystic Hot Springs.

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Aloha Kindergarten!: February Poetry Journal

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Sunday, January 29, 2012. Poetry Journals for February are finished! Click the picture below to download the file. For each poem we do a different activity. (counting words, highlighting sight words or vowels, etc. ). We also illustrate the poem, which is their favorite part! I have not started on the March poems yet, if you have a poem that you would like me to include, leave it in a comment below and I'll add it to the collection. :). January 29, 2012 at 4:28 PM. January 29, 2012 at 5:32 PM. Im really ...

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Hello, February! - Teacher by the Beach

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Wednesday, February 3, 2016. Well, hello February! Every beginning of the month, I get their homework folders ready, the covers to their writing journals, poetry journals, and the first poem of the month - which is always the poem to teach them to spell the month. Thankfully, I have parent volunteers to put together the homework folders and writing journals for me. this year. Let's see what next year brings! AND this week we did some super cute predicting using { THIS. Freebie from First Grade Blue Skies.

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Spelling Journals - a Classroom Life Saver - Teacher by the Beach

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Spelling Journals - a Classroom Life Saver. Friday, January 29, 2016. One of my MUST HAVES in my classroom is our Spelling Journal. We use it ALL. THE. TIME. We use to add in our spelling words each week. We also use it whenever we do ANY writing. There are 2 different sections in the spelling journal. Alphabet words - where there are already sight words and commonly misspelled words written in the boxes and plenty of lines to add your own! I've recently added the Half-size version to the files. Div alig...

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Math with Unifix Cubes - Teacher by the Beach

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Math with Unifix Cubes. Sunday, July 24, 2016. One of my favorite math centers to always have out, is a unifix cube math tub! If you want to see how I run my Math Centers, check out { THIS. I keep my cubes in a tub, like this, for my classroom organization. Check out { THIS. Post to see more on how my classroom is organized). I keep a set of bags already labeled in the bucket so I can just grab one and fill it and the kids know which bag (or bags) to use for the center. Some of my favorite activities are.

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Fun with WORMS! - Teacher by the Beach

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Wednesday, March 23, 2016. Worms is one of the kids' FAVORITE units. For real. This is a prime. Example of high interest learning. If you think your kids won't like it because it's gross.or ewwww! You Are. Wrong. All kids love worms. Now, I do have a few that didn't want to touch them. But they loved watching them and looking at them, and watching their friends play with them. I mean, just look at my Autumn. She LOVES worms. Then through out the week, I will read some of these books. Under their writing,...