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5 simple steps to make teaching summary easy!

5 simple steps to make teaching summary easy!

Teaching summarization can be like packing for a week-long vacation to a place where you will have many different activities planned. You want to include

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Improve reading comprehension effortlessly with 20 high-interest passages

Improve reading comprehension effortlessly with 20 high-interest passages

Has your day ever started like this? The bell rings, and in walks the class. Student A raises his hand. “What are we going to

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Don’t pull your hair out trying to teach narrative writing!

Don’t pull your hair out trying to teach narrative writing!

Do you sometimes feel like you might need to pull your hair out trying to teach narrative writing? Has this ever happened to you? You

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October Reading Practice 3rd, 4th, and 5th Graders will Love!

October Reading Practice 3rd, 4th, and 5th Graders will Love!

October poetry reading practice 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders will love—can that even be true? Absolutely! Engaging students with themed activities that capture the season’s

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Sunshine calls and classroom incentives for good behavior

Sunshine calls and classroom incentives for good behavior

Ah, the beginning of the school year. Everyone is nervous; you spend lots of time reviewing procedures and returning to the routine. You are getting

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The Great Locker Fiasco of Room 207 It all started when Mr. Thompson, our science teacher, told us that we were going to have “locker partners” this year. Now, anyone who's been in middle school for more than five minutes knows that locker partners are a disaster waiting to happen. I mean, it’s hard enough keeping my own stuff organized—adding someone else's mess to the equation? No thanks. Of course, I got stuck with the king of chaos, Danny "Dirtbag" Jenkins. The guy who once lost his math homework inside his gym locker and didn’t find it until April. Let’s just say I wasn’t exactly thrilled to be sharing 2 square feet of space with him. I took one look at Danny’s side of the locker and immediately regretted all my life choices. There were three crumpled sandwiches, a sock (just one), and something that might have been a banana two months ago, but now looked like a science experiment gone horribly wrong. After a week, Danny’s mess had somehow invaded my side. It was like the clutter had a life of its own, creeping over to my folders and textbooks like it had declared war. I tried negotiating with him, suggesting we set up "locker zones." Danny just nodded while eating a bag of chips over our history textbook, crumbs raining down like confetti. Things came to a head during third period last Wednesday. I went to grab my biology notes, but instead, I pulled out a half-eaten taco. A taco. Who brings tacos to school and doesn't eat them? That was the final straw. I decided it was time for a locker intervention. “Danny,” I said during lunch, "we need to talk about the taco situation." He just shrugged and said, "Oh yeah, I was wondering where that went.” As if it was completely normal to lose track of a taco. The intervention didn’t go as planned. Instead of cleaning up, Danny brought in more food. By Friday, there were three pizza boxes in the locker. He claimed they were "for emergencies." I don’t know what kind of emergencies involve pepperoni pizza, but I wasn’t about to find out. By the time Monday rolled around, I couldn’t open the locker without something falling out. Folders, gym shoes, an apple that looked suspiciously close to becoming a mutant. I gave up and started keeping my books in my backpack. Danny didn’t seem to mind. In fact, he was impressed that he could now fit his entire lunch AND gym clothes in the locker. As for me? I’m petitioning to switch locker partners. If that doesn’t work, I’ll just have to accept my fate: living life out of a backpack while Danny’s locker slowly transforms into a one-man snack bar. At least I know where to go if I ever forget my lunch.

Teaching kids to budget money

How many times have you heard this from kids? Can we buy that? Teaching kids to budget money can be challenging.  It is easier to

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Fun December activities for elementary students

Fun December activities for elementary students

Do you need some fun December activities for elementary students? Keeping students engaged in December can be a challenge. Kids are excited about upcoming holidays,

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Readers' theater scripts in the classroom

Readers’ theater scripts in the classroom

Are you using readers’ theater scripts in the classroom? I love using readers’ theater or “drama” in the classroom because they are a perfect way

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Math project based learning for the year

Math project based learning for the year

Do you use Math project based learning for the year in your classroom?  I am a big fan of using PBL projects year-round in school.

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What is project-based learning?

What is project-based learning?

What is project-based learning, you ask? This post will show examples of my favorite ways to teach kids without teaching them. It is one of

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