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This past week has been a whirlwind. In one week I've squeezed in lots of content. I'm going to use my pictures to tell the story instead of my words... Doubles, Near Doubles (sorry, forgot to update photo), and Doubles Rap. Freebie here. I found an image on pinterest that inspired me to chart my facts and led to a phenomenal lesson using race cards to switch our addends. The chart originates from The Good Life. You can see the pin here. Whooo is in the Family {Fact Families} This idea originated from pinterest. Unfortunately, the link was broken. See the image here. It's truly been a HOOT walking into the classroom each day! If you have any idea who originated the idea, leave a link in the comments! Still looking for an activity for Red Ribbon Week? Link here. Loving my sweet girls and our weekly class meeting outside! I used Owlbert since we are learning about owls. As mentioned on Instagram by a teacher follower, this could be used with Stone Soup too! The kids created recipes for their own books and put it in a cauldron. We broke the narratives down into six lessons. Lesson 1: Begin Story Map. Introduced Characters, Setting, and a possible Problem. Work time consisted of Illustrations only. Lesson 2: Complete Story Map. Work time consisted of illustrations on what happens first, next, last. During the first two days, I strive for detailed illustrations with labels. Lesson 3: Introduction. I modeled the introduction (topic sentence) with a class story. Work time consisted of students writing a sentence that includes the character, setting, and possible problem. Lesson 4, 5, and 6 were how to write strong sentences featuring different craft (time cue words, onomatopoeia, etc) for each event. Day 7 is our conferencing day where kids share and fix (if needed) before we publish! I filed away our narratives and hung our opinions! Our lessons are broken down similar to how I taught narrative. We began with sticky notes so that we can organize our reasons correctly. Each piece of the story is broken into different days. I love writer's workshop and blessed that my kids do too! My class absorbs everything I teach! I featured three papers in the narrative genre first. The same kids are featured in the same order for the opinion papers. And below are the same three kids and their papers from Kindergarten. #1 reason I love looping is the ability to analyze our old work and try to push beyond previous expectations! I'm so sorry for the delay but finally loaded both Kindergarten and 1st Grade Homework. Due to the shorten months and holidays, I combined the homework for November and December. The calendars still include a full month of content for both November and December. I plan to have my kids work optionally on the weeks we are on break. So often, I have parents request work for the weeks off. You can decide how you wish to use the file! Link by clicking each image above. I found this gem at Target in the picture frames. I'm displaying a visual writing rubric in the pockets but I can see so many wonderful uses! Can you?

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With Presidents Day just around the corner, you can integrate social studies and math by reviewing money when you talk about the important leaders of our country. I am a big believer in multiple intelligence and am always looking for new ways to reach the different learning styles. The Money Rap (below) has been around for a long time. It's an oldie but goodie. I don't know who wrote it, but if you do, please let me know. Music is such a great way to reach those musical rhythmic learners. You can print the cards on card stock and let volunteers hold the signs up when you sign about that coin in the song. Click HERE to download this for free. I also have some money packets you should check out. (click) Cost: $5 Math & literacy activities (click) Cost: $4 Money fluency center (click) Cost: $1.50 -oi and -ar Sorting Center (click) Cost: $7.50 Get all 3 packets and save money!

Everything in my store at Teachers Pay Teachers is on sale for $1.00 each. Sale ends Monday, July 18th. Stop by and check it out! Just for stopping by... Click the picture below to grab your own copy of Money. It's a book from my classroom library that I use when teaching money. ENJOY!

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Yesterday I shared a little nursery rhyme about mean, mode, and median on my facebook page. I took this one to my class immediately, and it was a hit. I love using mnemonic devices to help us remember different concepts in class, and this one was a perfect fit! I whipped up a little practice sheet to go along with the rhyme, and thought I'd share it with you all here. Just click HERE or on the pic below to download your own copy (there is a coloured and black and white version for you). Enjoy!!!

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Hey All! This week has been already been a busy one. Today’s post is going to be kind of random, so bear with me. First, I want to share the COOLEST website I found with you. If your kids like Jeopardy games, this website is for you. My kids LOVE Jeopardy games. I don’t have them answer in questions, but…

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Hello Everyone, It's time to learn about time! Finally! We've been doing some informal work on telling time throughout the year, but this week we began more formal instruction. I say formal, but I still like to make it fun and multisensory for the kids. We began with an anchor chart (of course) brainstorming things we already knew about clocks and telling time. Then it was time to make a giant clock together. We used hula hoops for the face of the clock and cut out numbers and hands. We arranged all the pieces and practiced telling time to the hour as a group. Then we talked about the minutes in between the numbers on the clock. We added hands to represent the 5 minutes. We then talked about telling time to the half hour. They could see that 30 is half way around the clock! Then the kids had the opportunity to make a clock with their table groups. Each kiddo was responsible for certain parts of the clock. When they got it put together, they could work together to show certain times. During our ELA block we integrated our study of time by practicing a fun Time Chant! For a printable of our telling time activities click here! Or click here! :) Whoa!! Gotta Run!!! Still have house guests!! Have a great night!! Joyfully! Nancy

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I decided to have my 7th grade Pre Algebra students use anchor charts this year. I didn't think I would like them or my kids, but they absolutely love them. It probably has helped that I have added pictures and made them colorful! I feel like I should share that I have used and made with everyone. Pre Algebra ones are hard to find! This is the first one I used this year to introduce Number Sense with must students! I had them copy these into their journals as we did the investigations! They totally loved the angry birds! I started a little theme with them for Number Sense! I am not posting in order as we did them, but since we are done with Number Sense, I am just posting everything at one time! ENJOY! On to our next unit: Ratio and Proportions! I decided to do a Lego theme with this unit! 

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