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Jumping Up and Down for Books and Stories

Posted in Uncategorized on May 19, 2012 | 3 Comments »

I’m a walker.  I try to walk 4-6 miles every day. A few days ago I was almost finished with my walk when I passed two little girls with their nanny. The older one (about 4 ½) let out a great big “HI!” with a big smile on her face.  So I stopped and our [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Found Poems

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on May 16, 2012 | 5 Comments »

A few weeks ago the Stenhouse blog did a week of Book Spine Poetry. I loved the idea and started noticing the poems found in the stacks of books I have sitting around my classroom and home. I found this one and thought I would share.         How have you or your [...]

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Playing in 5th Grade

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on May 8, 2012 | 3 Comments »

A few months ago I did a series of posts on Explore , a time for kids to play. I shared how we did this in my kindergarten classroom, and wondered how this might look in the upper grades. Well, two of my amazing colleagues, Devon Parks and Tara Boone, decided to take on the challenge [...]

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Interacting with our Interactive Whiteboard

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on May 6, 2012 | 2 Comments »

“The principle goal of education is to create men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done.” - Jean Piaget (quote taken from Literacy Smarts) I am fortunate to teach in a school where each classroom has a SMARTboard – an interactive white board mounted to the [...]

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Who Nudges You?

Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2012 | 6 Comments »

I always remember Don Graves using the word “nudging.” He talked about nudging students to give them that gentle push to try something new in their writing.  I loved the concept.  It seemed to offer the student a challenge, yet something not too overwhelming. With the gentle nudge, it meant that they were supported in [...]

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STICK-WITH-IT-NESS

Posted in Uncategorized on April 24, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

In this fast-paced world of today, how much are we doing to teach our students about persevering? The idea of endurance, perseverance, and over-coming obstacles certainly seems worth discussing with our young readers, writers, and learners. Don’t we want students to stick with something even when the going gets tough? The fifth graders I work [...]

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Community Writing

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on April 22, 2012 | 2 Comments »

Last week we finished a community writing project that we’ve been working on for several weeks. After completing a unit of study on fairy tales, we decided to write our own version – calling it The Three Gingerbread Kids. I posted the story in a VoiceThread below so we could share it with others. There is [...]

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Three Things

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on April 12, 2012 | 4 Comments »

Last week I was in Asheville for Spring Break, enjoying running the beautiful mountain trails there. I met two women at a bike & outdoor shop bar one evening and we started talking. The women were on a mountain biking vacation from Canada and had left their children and husbands at home. It came up [...]

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Literature Circles Continued

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on April 7, 2012 | 2 Comments »

If you saw my post the other day, you’ll remember that I’ve been thinking a lot about literature circles or book clubs lately.  We can teach children to facilitate their own discussion groups.  I especially like to see these happening in grades 3-8, but I’ve also seen them work well in grade 2. You might [...]

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Wordless Wednesday – Angry Birds

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on April 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »

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