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Turn the Music Up Linky Party - *Teaching Maddeness*
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Turn the Music Up Linky Party. Monday, June 25, 2012. Center a href="http:/ www.teachingmaddeness.com/2012/06/turn-music-up-linky-party.html" img border="0" src="http:/ i1150.photobucket.com/albums/o601/madden amanda/Music Linky Party Logo-1.jpg"/ /a /center. Okay, so I LOVE. To play music in my classroom. Whether it's using music to teach concepts or just having background music playing while students work.I love it! I'll share my favorites with you (below), but if you want to join in this linky party.
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July 2015 - *Teaching Maddeness*
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1st Grade Differentiated Spelling. Thursday, July 30, 2015. Just a quick post to let you know that I caved into requests and FINALLY created a 1st grade spelling pack similar to my 2nd grade pack. It's 294 pages of spelling goodies! I've made differentiation EASY with this pack, allowing the teacher to teach whole-group minilessons AND administer all tests at ONCE! You can read a detailed post about my 2nd grade pack HERE. Hope you love it! Assess Me Linky {Yes or No}. Sunday, July 26, 2015. Post 2: A Fo...
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October 2014 - *Teaching Maddeness*
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Budding Bloggers Showcase {Krystyn from Ms. Richards's Musings: Confessions of a Teacher}. Saturday, October 25, 2014. My name is Krystyn Richards. Amanda has graciously allowed me to participate in her Budding Blogging Showcase. I have loved reading the blogs Amanda has posted in the past and I am ecstatic that I have the. Opportunity to be a part of it. My family and I are really into soccer, specially the Seattle Sounders. One of "those" days. I absolutely can't live without Mr Sketch markers and flai...
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November 2014 - *Teaching Maddeness*
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Centers I Can't Live Without. Sunday, November 30, 2014. Have you stocked up for the TpT Cyber Sale yet? Both of our shops are on sale with all products 28% off with code TPTCYBER. One thing from our shops that I can't live without in my own classroom at the moment is our new "Any Time" math centers. Each set includes 10 centers revolving around one unit. Everything you need to hit ALL the standards in that unit PLUS some. And, the best thing? Here are the sets we have available so far. My absolute favor...
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February 2015 - *Teaching Maddeness*
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The Perfect Listening Center {with iPads}. Saturday, February 28, 2015. Do you have iPads in your classroom? Let me show you how I'm using my 5 iPad minis as listening centers in my classroom. I've discovered an organization system that works! I found them on Amazon for $7.99 each. I thought that was a steal! They came with an alternate cord which is a bit longer. I didn't think I would need that for our centers, so I stuffed them all in a ziploc baggie.just in case I need them in the future. Not a happy...
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December 2014 - *Teaching Maddeness*
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Top 10 Insta Pics of 2014. Monday, December 29, 2014. I was so excited to see Natalie over at Teachery Tidbits host an Instagram-centered linky. Seriously, Instagram in my jam. #sorrynotsorry. I may not have time to blog daily, but you can pretty much guarantee that I am posting to Instagram daily.sometimes multiple times. Favorite social media ever! If you're not following me there, what are you waiting for! Find me at http:/ instagram.com/teachingmaddeness/. Straw Dispenser Turned Pencil Dispenser.
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May 2015 - *Teaching Maddeness*
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Weekly Poem Work for 2nd Grade {Week 4 Freebie}. Saturday, May 23, 2015. I just wanted to drop in and make sure you didn't miss this week's FREEBIE! It's a brand new series and to say I'm excited about it is an understatement. :). I LOVE poetry. I've always incorporated poetry into my classroom, but usually I find myself scouring my resources at the last minute to try to find a poem for the week. No more! I'm officially writing my own poems for each of the school year for next year! Written Response: Stu...
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Genre Studies Series: Part 3 {Mysteries} - *Teaching Maddeness*
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Genre Studies Series: Part 3 {Mysteries}. Thursday, July 23, 2015. Other Posts in This Series:. Post 1: The Setup. Post 2: A Foundation with Reading Strategies. Post 4: Informational Texts. I'm super excited to dive into my genre studies with you! If you missed the previous posts in this series, scroll back up a bit and read those first. Once my students have a strong foundation of reading strategies to use as they're reading, we are ready to dive into some fun genres! 1) Mysteries are FUN! 3 The selecti...
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Genre Studies Series {Post 2: A Foundation with Reading Strategies} - *Teaching Maddeness*
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Genre Studies Series {Post 2: A Foundation with Reading Strategies}. Thursday, July 16, 2015. Other Posts in This Series:. Post 1: The Setup. Post 2: A Foundation with Reading Strategies. Post 4: Informational Texts. There are many reading strategies that we could focus on, but here are the ones I choose:. Most of my time is spent on the first four strategies, but we do hit the last two as well. This is the book I originally used as a foundation for building my unit. It's titled Reading Power. Let's take...
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January 2015 - *Teaching Maddeness*
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Maximizing the Minutes {Writing}. Monday, January 26, 2015. Well, well, well.I'm FINALLY back for the third installment in this series! All Posts in This Series:. Maximizing the Minutes in READING. Maximizing the Minutes in MATH. Maximizing the Minutes in WRITING. Maximizing the Minutes in WORD STUDY. Today's post is all about how I maximize the first few minutes of our writing block to squeeze in essential skills to build upon. There are two quickies that make a huge impact. Are perfect for a one-minute...