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Monday Made It: First DIY of Summer

Monday Made It with 4th Grade Frolics is back for the summer and I am excited to be joining in when I can! A few months back I was on the lookout for some cute printables that I could get printed on a canvas or an anniversary gift for my

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Five for Friday: Unpacking Edition

As I posted on Wordless Wednesday, my week has been full of packing-moving-unpacking-packing some more-moving some more-etc.  Yes, it is a crazy cycle when you are doing it yourself, hubby is working full time and the houses are 58 miles apart with Dallas inbetween. 🙂 There has been quite a bit

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Wanted! Earn Store Credit from your Work!

Summer is coming and I know that just like any good teacher we all spend time organizing our prior year to get a start on the next school year. So, who wouldn’t like to earn some $$$ while you are reflecting on prior lessons and planning future lessons? How you

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Where did the year go?

Every year about this time I start wondering where did the school year go. It never ceases to amaze me the things that we can fit into the last few weeks, or even days, to keep our students engaged. I’ve been doing some blog and TpT stalking and have found

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Five for Friday: May Edition

It has been quite awhile since I have done a Five For Friday and caught people up on the regular weekly shenanigans around here so I figured it was about time to do some catching up. Sunday we were headed to my aunt’s for Mother’s Day (my mom and aunt

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Interactive Notebooks: What About an Absent Student?

A question that I get asked regularly via email or workshops and session is, “What do you do about students who are absent? How do they follow along with their Interactive Notebooks?” In my classroom I had a file crate with hanging file folders labeled 1-31. In each of these

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Modeling Equality for Algebraic Reasoning

While working on the final Sixth Grade Interactive Notebook Unit on Equation and Inequalities I started thinking about the algebraic reasoning skills that I would, in an ideal world, LOVE for my students to know coming to me. Modeling equality is the first thing that came to me as in

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Linky Party: May Success in Secondary

I love being able to share resources with other Secondary teachers when I am out doing workshops and online. I don’t have time to go and research all of those on my own so this is your time to shine! Rules are pretty simple… You MAY link up an unlimited number of blog posts

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Math in Real Life: Preparing for a Conference

It’s the first Wednesday of May which means it’s time for our monthly linky – Math IS Real Life!!  If you want to see how the linky works, or just want other real world math ideas, check out our Pinterest Board of all the posts so that you can look back and find some

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5 Reasons Why I Haven’t Been Around to Blog

I know it’s been awhile since I have blogged and I promise I’ve some great excuses reasons. Just a little catch up as the crazy busy week continues. Meet Buddy the newest member of our family. He is 3 months old today and so much fun. We rescued him from

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Bundles of Savings through April 29th

The end of the school year is starting to arrive for many of us as every time I open Instagram or Facebook I see teachers who are counting down in some way (mostly counting the Mondays remaining). During this time of the year students are antsy and they want to

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