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Upper Elementary Snapshots: Anchor Chart Solutions
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A collaborative blog filled with ideas and resources for grades 3, 4, and 5. Wednesday, July 22, 2015. What do you do when you run out of wall space for your anchor charts? How do you display your anchor charts? Do you make new anchor charts every year? I am Deb Hanson from Crafting Connections. And you may or may not already know that I am addicted. To using anchor charts in the classroom! I frequently blog about the ones I create, and I'm constantly pinning great anchor chart ideas I find on Pinterest.
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Upper Elementary Snapshots: Making the Most of Classroom Magazines
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A collaborative blog filled with ideas and resources for grades 3, 4, and 5. Wednesday, January 28, 2015. Making the Most of Classroom Magazines. Each year, I am so excited when our magazines start to arrive. However, they would quickly start piling up, week after week, and I found myself squeezing them in whenever I could. Looking back, I. 1 Use Classroom Magazines to Focus on Text Features. 2 Use Classroom Magazines to Focus on Text Structures. 3 Use Classroom Magazines to Practice Close Reading. Now t...
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Upper Elementary Snapshots: Organizing Student Usernames and Passwords
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A collaborative blog filled with ideas and resources for grades 3, 4, and 5. Wednesday, August 12, 2015. Organizing Student Usernames and Passwords. I forgot my password.I forgot my username.Sound familiar? It can be exhausting, time consuming, frustrating, and annoying. Yes, I said it! It can be annoying! We have stuff to get done, we are on a time frame. You can't forget your username and password! You can download these FREE tech cards HERE. At the beginning, it may seem a bit time consuming. In t...
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Upper Elementary Snapshots: Top Ten Read Alouds for Back to School
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A collaborative blog filled with ideas and resources for grades 3, 4, and 5. Saturday, August 1, 2015. Top Ten Read Alouds for Back to School. So which books do I enjoy? I actually could have written a post with about 50 of them but I narrowed it down to my current top ten:. 1 How I Spent My Summer Vacation. 2 Miss Nelson is Missing. 3 Never Ride Your Elephant to School. 4 What if Everybody Did That? To our classmates. Great book to illustrate this point. 5 You're Finally Here. 7 The Art Lesson. This is ...
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Upper Grades Are Awesome: August 2014
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Friday, August 29, 2014. Best Pencil Sharpener. EVER. So I knew I needed to try one out. The Classroom Friendly Sharpener. Is a hand crank sharpener, but not like the old school ones that were loud and annoying from the old days (like when I was in elementary school in the 80s). It isn't silent, but it's pretty quiet. In about a dozen turns the pencil is sharp. Like, REALLY sharp! A perfect point. Every time. Once the pencil is sharpened the sharpener won't let the pencil continue to be eaten up! From) s...
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The Hazel Owl: I've Been Featured!
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Sunday, February 10, 2013. How exciting is that? Melissa at Common Core and So Much More. Has so kindly featured me in her weekly Sunday Clip Artist Feature! I've known since early January that I would be one of the artists featured and quickly got to work on a very special clip art set. I was so excited the day I found out that I spent all day creating! Since then, the anticipation has been driving me crazy! I've been telling people that this very special set has been burning a hole in my hard drive!
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Spark of Inspiration: November 2014
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Sunday, November 30, 2014. QReative Writing, the QR Code Method. Creative writing- it's one of the few times where kids (and us adults) have free reign to write pretty much whatever we want. BUT I'm pretty sure we've preconditioned so many kids to write like robots that when given opportunities to free-write they don't know what to do. How many times have you heard a student say, "I don't know what to write about.". Below is what she rolled and scanned:. There was not more hot chocolate. This was written...
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A Trendy Teacher: January 2015
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Thursday, January 29, 2015. Personal Learning Networks - Becoming a Networked School. This week I am responding to chapter 4 in Personal Learning Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform Education. By Will Richardson and Rob Mancabelli. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a Networked Classroom? Now, when I think about making the change to a networked classroom I have one thought that continually pops into my mind.the TIME! In this article by SEEN (Southeast Education Network). Netwo...
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Get Connected - I Teach. What's Your Superpower?
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Wednesday, July 2, 2014. Thanks for coming back for Week 3 of my summer blogging series. Missed Weeks 1 and 2? One of the best things about blogging is connecting with other bloggers. Getting connected takes time and needs to happen authentically, but there's one thing you're not doing that can be shutting it down. Are you a . . . . Cue the sad violin music. Generic comment from bloggers. Um, yeah. Bloggy friends are better for that. So, how do you ditch the no reply blogger life? Or follow these steps:.
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