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Look Who's Teaching: 2012-07-15
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Saturday, July 21, 2012. Read-to-Self Accountability and Reader's Response Notebooks. I have decided to give my students a Reader's Response Notebook to help them stay accountable during Read-to-Self. 2nd Grade Shenanigan. Also, Amanda Nickerson's Cultivating Strategic Readers. Has amazing questions that are called "Chat and Go" questions. I used them last year with my reading intervention students. This year, I'm going to have my students respond to them in their Reader's Response Notebooks. I'm hoping ...
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Library Essential - Book Hospital - Learning In Wonderland
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Library Essential - Book Hospital. I got around to making a book hospital and I'm so glad I did. My library consists of hundreds of books. Every so often they start to fall apart. When this happens my kids freak out! They stop everyone around them and come and get me to fix it for them that very second. This will happen no more thanks to this:. It's a book hospital! So when a child finds a book that needs some repairs, they can put it in this bin and I can fix it when there is time. July 30, 2012. I made...
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horizons - imagine, dream, discover: Swords, Shields and Snowflakes
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Saturday, 1 December 2012. Swords, Shields and Snowflakes. We had an alliterative art day this week! We finished our Roman shields, constructed and painted our Roman swords (ready for battle sometime before the end of term! And made snowflakes for the lower Primary Christmas concert and our own classroom. There was a little bit of Math in the form of measuring the swords and hanging the evergreen garlands (e.g. I have four 9 ft garlands - how many feet in total am I hanging? We are the 11th legion! Just ...
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horizons - imagine, dream, discover: For the birds :)
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Sunday, 20 July 2014. For the birds :). I am currently in the middle of a wildlife photographic competition with my sister and aunt - all spawning from my sister's recent trip to Puerto Rico and my current stay in Boston. My aunt in Scotland has joined in :) Have to love the technology that allows this type of fun on face book! Ducks and starlings - could it get more exotic? I need to find more urban wildlife out here! Here are some of our "entries" - just for fun! Starlings in the bath. For the birds :).
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horizons - imagine, dream, discover: Festive Fraction Fun
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Sunday, 2 December 2012. We made these CUTE fraction snowmen as an introductory/review Math lesson on Fractions this week. Since we did it step-by-step the girls had no idea what they were making until we got to the "Whole" head and drew the eyes and nose. Then there were squeals of delight as they realized that they had made. I turned this into a freebie for my TpT store :) You can download it here. 3 December 2012 at 07:55. I love it and am working on it for you! 3 December 2012 at 18:05. Silence for S...
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horizons - imagine, dream, discover: Winter Wonderland
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Sunday, 8 December 2013. We've been turning our classroom into a winter wonderland these last couple of weeks. It's kind of exciting being surrounded by snow scenes in a classroom on a tropical island - and circumstances dictate that we stay away from Santa and elves this year. So here are some of our "learning decorations". 1 We've created Snowman Simile chains. 2 Our Fraction Snowmen are up again - it's interesting to see how different they are each year and it's a great introduction to fractions!
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horizons - imagine, dream, discover: Mystery Writing
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Sunday, 8 February 2015. This was actually a Halloween activity but I was scrolling through all my photos just now and came across the pictures of this writing idea - and remembered how much fun it was. Since I'm on half term break right now - and therefore in planning mode - I thought I'd plan another one of these fun exercises. Sometimes it's hard to make writing fun when there are so many rules. Our Mystery Writing activity made things fun again. Somewhere in the story students had to include the myst...
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horizons - imagine, dream, discover: May 2014
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Sunday, 11 May 2014. I don't know what it is about children and narrative writing! Give my students a descriptive piece and they're awesome; they can compare and contrast quite capably; they're not too bad at persuasive writing - but narrative? None of your business. Yes it is. No it isn't. You're a this, you're a that. I wail in despair, as I stare at three pages of endless dialogue with no punctuation. "Where are the setting details? What does this character look like? Who IS this character? We started...
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horizons - imagine, dream, discover: A New Start
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Sunday, 27 November 2016. And once again, it has been a very long time since I posted anything - so I expect this message will be just for me. After a long two and a half year battle with leukemia, my husband fell asleep on September 20, 2016 - and will someday wake with God. He's at peace and I have many, many wonderful memories of our life together. One day he will see that "unlimited horizon" - the one I think of when I recall C.S. Lewis writing in "The Last Battle". 8220;I have come home at last!
