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Happy Sunday! How is everyone doing? I'm hoping that your August is going smoothly as many of you are preparing to return to school or have already been back in the classroom! My plans for the week! Grab a PDF here.  This week I've got plans for beginning digital citizenship with my sixth graders. I use Common Sense Media because not only are they a wealth of reliable information they are also FREE. We like free! Free is good.  I am a Common Sense Certified Digital Educator! What this means is that I've taught their curriculum to my kiddos and I've done so effectively.  I love how simple and direct the lessons are for Common Sense. They are written with the student in mind so that he or she can understand and see the effect of digital citizenship on their lives.  Check out the Course Scope and Sequence HERE.  They've got lessons for K-12.  I'm starting the 6th grade off with Digital Life 101. We talk about the effect of using the Internet in our everyday li...

Hi guys! I can't believe how fast summer went by. I had so many plans and alas, only accomplished a few. But I did rest up and I'm ready for this year! Ready to also launch my Sneak Peek Sunday again! I know I've been slacking for quite some time, but new year new me, right??  Let's get started! This is our first full week and I'm excited to introduce my new sixth grade students to all that Google has to offer! Here's what's up: We've got a new A/B Day schedule which means I teach for longer and I see the same kids only every other day. It's interesting.... I'm also EXTREMELY lucky to work at a school that gives me so much planning time. Good thing too because I'm also kind of in charge of most  all technology at the school and making sure it works!! Well, that which I can make work that is.  Takes up a chunk of time, too.  And I also get to teach Study Skills to 7th grade this year. That's interesting, too because I never had it as a stu...

Hi Guys!! Today I'm going to share a quick post about my math centers. I created this system as I was writing our math curriculum. This past year we decided to write our own math because we felt that using the hodgepodge of materials we were using the previous year was too disjointed and not effective with our kiddos. You can check out my math curriculum HERE . The centers rotation I designed so the kids would get practice with new skills, practice with old skills, practice with fluency skills, and practice with critical thinking skills. I also included an "I'm Through" rotation so the early finishers would have some ideas about what to do when the center game is done.  Each letter in MATH IT stands for something: M: Model It A: Add It T: Think It H: Hone It IT: I'm Through I made labels ( that you can grab for free! ) and attached to some bins. Each center with its materials goes into the bin each week. Placed in my math area and all is ready to go.  The kids kno...

Hi friends! I hope everyone is having a fantastic February! I don't know about your neck of the woods, but the weather here has been INSANE. One day it's 45 degrees, the next it's 89. I'm surprised we don't all have pneumonia or worse. Anyway, because it's winter, and because the groundhog saw his shadow, I wanted to share a little activity I created last year for my firsties. This helped us to sum up our unit on place value and regrouping. Plus it's super adorable! I needed a review activity for our Numbers to 120 unit and I love snowmen! So I made this!  With this activity the kids can create a snowman by choosing a two or three snowball snowman, a scarf, and two or three buttons. Each addition has a value of tens or ones. They add them all together and show the total value of their snowman!  I've included a recording page and a page to hang in the hallway with the snowman.  Click  HERE  to grab this!  I also created a QR code scavenger hunt scoot fo...

Oh my goodness you guys! I cannot believe that my Punchie buddies and I have been blogging together for a whole year! The Primary Punchbowl is turning 1! It is so exciting to share our celebration with you. I am so incredibly fortunate to know each and every one of the amazing Punchbowl ladies. They inspire me all the time and I am always in constant awe of the fabulous-ness of their lives! So in honor of our celebration we are giving you cause for celebration as well with TpT stores on sale, a blog hop to gather some freebies, AND a rafflecopter to enter for a chance to win some more goodies! My entire store is on sale for 20% for three days. Enjoy! How do you celebrate exciting things in the classroom? I love to give kiddos a special treat such as line leader for the day or a giant pixi stik or a bag of candy loot. They love just to have happy birthday sung to them by the whole class! It's a policy of the school that we don't do cupcakes or actual parties so acknowledging t...

Hi guys! Has your fall so far been going by in a very busy blur of pumpkin flavored everything and stuff to do? Mine has and it's insane and awesome! I'm so happy to be back today with my #bloggybestie Kristi from Pelicans and Pipsqueaks for Thoughts on Thursday for this month.  We are talking about Fall in the Classroom today! Why? Because, pumpkins of course.  There are so many way to celebrate fall in the classroom. You can do pumpkin things, turkey things, bat things, leaf things, coffee things-ok, maybe not so much that last one. But you get the idea. I wanted to share with you my favorite ways to celebrate this special time of year! I love to read books about all things fall. A few of my faves include:  The Biggest Pumpkin Ever, by Steven Kroll How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? by Margaret McNamara Apples and Pumpkins, by Anne Rockwell From Seed to Pumpkin, by Wendy Pfeffer Scaredy Cat, Splat, by Rob Scotten Pumpkin Hill, by Elizabeth Spurr and my FAVORITE Spookley the ...