tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32577101451586983332024-03-12T17:52:40.074-07:00Smiles from Second GradeKatiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175101537710748388noreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257710145158698333.post-40691844831692777342014-07-27T07:23:00.000-07:002014-07-27T07:23:05.710-07:00Back to School Read Alouds & A Giveaway!Happy Sunday! I cannot believe how fast this summer is going. Soon, we will be back to the grind. I love having a great read aloud for the first day of school. Here are some that I've done in the past...<br />
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Oh, the Places You'll Go</div>
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(I've read it on the first day and the last day)</div>
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Here are some others that we read during the first week...</div>
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Sideway Stories from Wayside School</div>
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Splat the Cat: Back to School, Splat!</div>
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I'd love to know what you like to read to your class on the first day or back to school. I'm looking for some new favorites!! Leave a comment below and let me know!</div>
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It's not too late to enter my giveaway! <a href="http://smilesfrom2ndgrade.blogspot.com/2014/07/monday-made-it.html" target="_blank"> Check it out HERE</a>!!</div>
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175101537710748388noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257710145158698333.post-85647136283231338082014-07-22T07:50:00.003-07:002014-07-22T09:45:16.047-07:00Monday Made It! {Giveaway!}I'm here with a Monday Made It!! WOO HOO! I love going through all the projects that everyone posts! This is simple, but a great little student gift for the beginning of the year. <br />
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Here is my creation...<br />
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I made it my own a bit, and I'm happy with the way they came out!<br />
*I'm going to put the glow sticks in when they are already on my student's desks and they don't have to be moved anymore! I don't' want to crack any of them!*</div>
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1. I decided what card stock I wanted to use and used my scrapbook cutter and cut it into strips. I put the paper the long way and cut 2 inch strips.</div>
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5. I created a star to glue on them. I didn't make it grade specific. <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Bright-Year-Stars-Welcome-Back-Gift-1339653" target="_blank">Feel free to download the file here</a>. The font is from Lovin' Lit and the clip art is from Creative Clips.</div>
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6. I used the Mono adhesive to glue the star on, but anything will do!</div>
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7. I tied some ribbon around the top to add a little something. It was just ribbon I had around my house!</div>
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Slowly but surely, I'm getting my brain back in school mode. In honor of my first Monday Made It, I'd love to give away any two units from my TpT store. Enter below!!</div>
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Are you following my blog with Bloglovin? I missed this whole boat last summer when I was laying on my couch with horrible morning sickness! (Why do they call it morning sickness when it lasts all day, anyway!?)</div>
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Next year, I want to do math rotations on a regular basis. I will have a much smaller class next year, so I think it'll be just the time to dive right in. I dabbled with it this year, but we could never find our groove. I'll keep playing around with stations as the year winds down, but next year we will hit the ground running. Since I have that goal, I've been working on a lot of math pack. These are skills my students need through Common Core and to simply increase their Number Sense and fact automaticity.</div>
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It's time for another <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">flash freebie</span>! Grab it for free for the <i><u><b>next hour or so</b></u></i>...but please leave me some feedback and let me know how you like it! Feedback makes me smile!</div>
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I also posted a<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"> freebie</span>. It is a <u><b>Doubles, Doubles + 1 I Have, Who Has game</b></u>. My kids love this game, and I hope yours will too!! Click the preview below to download.</div>
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This mini unit includes task cards, activities, and printables and will be available for only $2! Before I put it in my Teachers pay Teachers shop, I'd love to have a few people proofread it. Proofers will get the finished product for free! Leave a comment with your email address and I'll send the first two people the file!Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175101537710748388noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257710145158698333.post-31683676016858381192013-05-29T14:20:00.001-07:002013-05-29T14:20:27.608-07:00Next Year...Since today is my first official day of summer break, I thought it would be a great day to link up with Kim from Joy in 6th for her next year linky party!<br />
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I've blogged about my adventures with math rotations at the end of the year. I am going to start the year full force but also incorporate more of a guided math style. After some positive feedback, I purchased two guided math books that I hope are going to help!</div>
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I feel like I should give myself some credit and say stronger writing teacher. I think I made great strides in my writing instruction this year. I have to give a big thanks to Susan Moran and her awesome writing packets. This is an area I'm going to work on strengthening over the summer. I also want to make sure I am aligning to the CCSS.</div>
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Please tell me I'm not alone here. No matter how hard I try, I always have a huge stack of papers on the corner of my desk. Some of it is to throw out and some of it is to refile. I get so frustrated with myself, I just need to come up with a better system. I have a lot of binders going on so hopefully that will help me!</div>
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175101537710748388noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257710145158698333.post-15880467667638916142013-05-28T13:58:00.002-07:002013-05-29T10:27:22.459-07:00Summer Bucket List!!I'm linking up with <a href="http://acupcakefortheteacher.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Teri</a>, <a href="http://www.miss-kindergarten.com/" target="_blank">Hadar</a>, and <a href="http://www.amodernteacher.com/" target="_blank">April</a> for their Summer Bucket List linky party!<br />
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Since today was my last official day of school I thought it would be a great day to link up with the Summer Bucket List linky party!</div>
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1. Do some reading for fun! I still have this gem to read!</div>
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Spruce up my clip chart and create a reward bin and binder like <a href="http://acupcakefortheteacher.blogspot.com/2013/05/my-new-behavior-reward-system.html" target="_blank">Cupcake for the Teacher</a>!</div>
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Dont' forget- my <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Smiles-From-Second-Grade" target="_blank">TpT store is still on sale</a>. Don't' forget to grab your favorites at 20% off!</div>
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1. We did some sharing of our writing. Students got in small groups and shared their poetry books and writing portfolios. My students did some awesome writing this year, and they really were so excited to share! Here are some pics!</div>
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5. Since I'm just about done with school, I'm throwing a SALE in my TpT store this weekend. The entire store is 20% off!!! Go stock up for the end of the year or next school year! :)</div>
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<br />Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175101537710748388noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257710145158698333.post-25957002995265501092013-05-21T17:19:00.002-07:002013-05-21T17:19:51.112-07:00Guided Math/Rotations QUESTION!!Hello, friends! I have some questions. As I've mentioned before, I've been slowing trying out math rotations and a guided math feel at the end of the year. I hope to start it up this way right in the beginning of the year. <br />
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I'm linking up with Jess at I {Heart} Recess to share a little a bit about me. How fun!! I'm a budding blogger since I have less that 200 followers. I'm almost at 200...not a follower? I'd love for you to help me get there!</div>
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Yes! <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Smiles-From-Second-Grade" target="_blank">I opened a store in December</a>. I love creating units for my classroom, so I figured I'd open a store! :) Here are some of my favorite and most popular units!!<br />
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We had our class play this week. Each second grade class puts on a play. My class did And the Dish Ran Away with the Spoon. IT.WAS.ADORABLE. It had a lot of humor in it. Some of it my kids got, some was for the parents. I was so happy to see so many parents there to support their kids. I hadn't found a script I was in love with so I did a different play every year. I'm definitely sticking with this play next year and well, probably forever. <a href="http://www.thebestclass.org/files/QuickSiteImages/DishRanAwayWithSpoon.pdf" target="_blank">Check out the script here</a>!</div>
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This is what my borders looked like that beginning of this week! AHHH!!! Please don't judge! I don't know how this happened. I spent all week organizing and tossing. I am SO VERY PROUD of myself!! I forgot to take an after picture- but it rocks. 2 border boxes neatly organized by season/type.</div>
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How are there only 5 days of school left? Here's a little freebie that I've created. My kids have had a blast reminiscing on the fab year that we've had. I had to get them to think beyond the ABC countdown that we've been doing! HAHA! <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/ABCs-of-___-Grade-702314" target="_blank">Click on the picture for a freebie!</a> ENJOY!</div>
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It has covers for 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th grade!</div>
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Here we go...I'm sorry for the lack of pictures this week...</div>
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1. Mother's Day Project</div>
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I just love the Mother's Day project that we do! I can't take any credit for it. My teammates have been doing it long before I started teaching with them in second grade. (They rock by the way, I am so lucky to have such an awesome team!!) :) I think this idea is from an old Mailbox magazine. </div>
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We take pictures of the kids holding a very pretty fake bouquet of flowers. Then we have them copy this adorable poem on a cute border paper. It's too cute!</div>
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2. Bulls and Blackhawks Playoffs</div>
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It's a great time of year for sports in Chicago. I'm just loving all the playoff action. The Blackhawks have a really solid team this year and I'm just loving these Bulls games. I don't want to offend anyone (if you are a Heat fan or anything...it's all just fun) but I saw this and it just cracked me up! :) Muhammed pushed Lebron after he Lebron fouled him pretty bad. He was ejected from the game and apologized and said he was embarrassed for his actions...a really great guy. I just thought this was so funny!</div>
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3. Multiplication Fun!</div>
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We wrapped up basic multiplication and division this week. My kids just loved it and felt so grown up! I blogged about it this week <a href="http://smilesfrom2ndgrade.blogspot.com/2013/05/multiplication-and-division-fact.html" target="_blank">here</a>. Here is another little <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzG3peY7TGvEYWxyQnZRaHlZY2s/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">practice sheet </a>for you to download if you'd like. It focuses on 0, 1, 2, 5, and 10s. My kids did great with it!</div>
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5. Sophie Kinsella!!!!</div>
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I have been waiting for her book book and it's out people...it's out!! I got it this week and I am going to crack it open in a little bit. Words cannot even explain how excited I am!! I think she is a hilarious writer, and I just love the British humor!</div>
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In math we have been working on making equal groups for multiplication and division. My kiddos are experts on equal groups and arrays. We are now venturing into multiplication and division fact families. That's as far as we'll go for mult/div in second grade. Let me tell you, my kiddies are all kinds of excited. They feel so grown up working on multiplication. We are having a lot of fun!<br />
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I created this little activity for fact families. It's nothing fancy but was a fun way for my students to practice fact families that wasn't in their workbooks! I made it a <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Multiplication-and-Division-Fact-Family-Cards" target="_blank">freebie</a> </span>on TpT. I hope that you can use it! My kids had a blast. If you enjoy this activity, please leave some feedback! :)<br />
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We will be making these adorable fact family butterflies tomorrow. I can't find the original source, but they are SUPER CUTE! </div>
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<br />Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175101537710748388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257710145158698333.post-28639333816730689092013-05-06T17:54:00.001-07:002013-05-06T17:54:32.840-07:00Happy Teacher Appreciation Week - Flash Freebie!!!Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!! Thank you for all that you do! I know that I am a better teacher from <strike>stalking </strike>reading teacher blogs. Thank you for being awesome and inspiring me to be the best teacher I can be! :)<br />
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I have two units that I finished up today. Here is a unit with plenty of b and d activities. I still have a handful of students who are struggling with b and d, and I think they will really enjoy this. <br />
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-b and d word hunt</div>
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<u>Listening</u>- Does anyone else just L.O.V.E. Mad Men? My husband and I are obsessed although we have been underwhelmed this season! Hoping it starts to get better! :)</div>
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<u>Loving</u>- My husband and I both have a personal day tomorrow. Yes, that = heaven! It's been a very stressful few weeks with some crappy news, so we are both excited. We are going to play tennis in the morning. Heck yea!! I even think I might beat him! ;)</div>
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<u>Thinking</u>- Holy Cow!! How do I only have 3 weeks left of school?! There is so much left to do!! Is anyone else in the same boat?</div>
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<u>Wanting</u>- I'm trying to finish up my end of the year Math Masterpiece centers! Here's hoping it gets done before Tuesday!</div>
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<u>Needing</u>- organize our house- especially our extra bedroom. Between extra school stuff and craft stuff and just stuff..well we need an organization miracle!! someone, please help us!!!</div>
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<u>Summer Bucket List-</u> We use a certain spiral math curriculum that doesn't quite align with the CCSS, so my team and I are working hard to make sure we are ready to go and teach units CCSS next year! Also, I love Debbie Miller (especially Teaching with Intention) and I just need a little of her in my life right now! :)</div>
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175101537710748388noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257710145158698333.post-67753413703730707822013-04-28T07:40:00.000-07:002013-04-28T19:00:43.869-07:003-Digit Addition and Subtraction Fun!!It's finally done!! WOO HOO!! It's also kid-tested and teacher (me) approved!! Here is my 3-digit addition and subtraction packet!! I really hope that you enjoy it. My kids have been having a blast and getting so much fun practice in as well!<br />
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BUZZ! (a class favorite!)</div>
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We will be playing Goodbye, Dragonfly and Tic-Tac-Toe this week. This highly competitive class is going to go crazy over Tic-Tac-Toe!!! I am so excited! :)</div>
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175101537710748388noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257710145158698333.post-52656971088725594572013-04-27T06:31:00.004-07:002013-04-27T06:31:38.159-07:00Five For Friday! (Saturday edition)I'm back with my Five for Friday and excited to link up with <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Doodle Bugs</a>!<br />
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1. We have been rocking math rotations this week. We're still working out the kinks and it's not perfected by any means, but out first attempts this week were just awesome! For fact practice, we played Beat the Calculator. My kids just have so so much fun with this and are killing the calculator. (Which makes one proud teacher!) What an improvement from playing this game even just a few months ago! I made a little score sheet for them. They keep their score sheets now because they are so proud!<br />
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2. We're putting the final touches on our Story of Me (<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Story-Of-Student-Writing-Booklet" target="_blank">freebie from Amy Lemons</a>). We made it into a bigger project than she intended I believe!;) Check out our books!<br />
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4. The weather has finally been beautiful! We had extra recess on Friday as part of our ABC countdown, and it was perfect outside weather. I had a blast playing jumprope, tag, basketball, and doing cartwheels with my little kiddos! Thank you for showing up, spring!<br />
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Have a great weekend! My 3 digit Add/Sub Fun should be up this weekend!! I'm super proud of it. I'll include a freebie as well! Be sure to check back tomorrow! :-)</div>
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Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175101537710748388noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257710145158698333.post-75664660632625326622013-04-23T15:35:00.001-07:002013-04-23T15:35:57.429-07:00Product Swap!!Well, our product swap is a little delayed due to the terrible flooding that devastated my area last week. But, HERE WE ARE....AND I AM EXCITED!!<br />
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I was lucky to be paired up with Aris form Sailing into Second. Have you been to her blog? Are you a follower? If you aren't, stop what you are doing right now, and click over to her blog and become a follower. You won't be sorry. She has some great posts and I love reading about her classroom and ideas!.<br />
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It truly is a great value and I hope you go check it out! Go put them in your cart now for a great way to end the year. Also, it's never to early to stock up for next year! Thank you to my new friend, Aris!! What a great product!!<br />
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<br />Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175101537710748388noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257710145158698333.post-16396610262051249992013-04-21T15:06:00.001-07:002013-04-21T17:10:11.901-07:00Coming Soon...Since I had two unexpected days off last week, I had some time to work ahead and get ready for my math stations/rotations. I'm still undecided on what I want to call them! :) <br />
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Next, I'm working on an end of the year review for math stations. Here's a little sneak peek. It'll be Common Core Aligned to help review the skills we've learned through 2nd grade and it will be some of the same games with a fresh twist and some new games and activities. I'm really pumped about it...</div>
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<br />Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175101537710748388noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257710145158698333.post-55302698378602089642013-04-20T17:00:00.000-07:002013-04-20T17:00:03.390-07:00Product Swap...Almost!!I was matched up with Aris from Sailing in Second Grade for the product swap! I have a great product from her store to review, but due to all the flooding in my area and no school on Thursday and Friday- I'm not quite ready to post about it. I want to have tons of pictures to show off her fabulous unit! Hopefully we'll be posting our great product swap on Tuesday!<br />
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I'll be reviewing her Spring Math and Literacy Centers!</div>
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1. Rain, rain, go away!! We've had so much rain. This includes some pretty crazy storms. This led to Flood Day 2...no school again today! While it's nice to have a four day weekend to catch up on some things, it'll stink going back to school the week after Memorial Day. Like I said yesterday, my school is right by a river and it's just a mess. The river isn't even expected to crest until Sunday. Hopefully we are done with rain for a while...<br />
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2. Our ABC countdown was suppose to start on Thursday. Since we didn't have school yesterday or today, Monday will be the big day. My kiddos are beyond EXCITED!! <a href="http://smilesfrom2ndgrade.blogspot.com/2013/04/five-for-friday-and-freebie-on-saturday.html" target="_blank">Click here to see our version of the ABC end of the year countdown.</a><br />
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3. I'm trying to go through my closet and purge clothes that I don't wear. (See, trying to make the most of being stuck around the house!) If I haven't worn it in a while- it's out! I also really want to organize all my shirts by color...but I don't think I'm that motivated yet today! <br />
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4. I'm going to start math stations/rotations on Monday! I'm not sure what I want to call it yet :) I blogged about it a few days ago. I'm pretty stoked and ready to take the dive! :) A huge thanks to Krystyn from <a href="http://msrichardsmusings.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Ms. Richard's Musings</a> for being so willing to help me with my questions. My goal is to try and work out the kinks so that next year I feel ready to go right at the beginning of the year! Are you going to look into starting math rotations? Here are a few blogs that I found very helpful...</div>
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5. Having some extra time off has given me a chance to get some of my TpT units finished and posted. Check it out here! It's on sale for the weekend!!! Don't miss out on this great deal!</div>
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<br />Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175101537710748388noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257710145158698333.post-52045111253769252812013-04-18T12:44:00.001-07:002013-04-18T12:44:32.235-07:00Flood Day...Well, we have been hit like crazy with storms last week and this week. Yesterday and today we had such heavy storms and most schools in the area were closed today, because so many roads were impassible. The town I live in was declared a state of emergency as were a few others around here. <br />
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<br />Katiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10175101537710748388noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3257710145158698333.post-19643548077314679242013-04-17T18:18:00.002-07:002013-04-17T18:18:54.960-07:00Love These!!! I had a few of these dry erase pockets from the dollar section. I used them when students were working in centers since I only had a few. Well...I hit up Amazon and I found a pack of 25 of them (in bright fun colors!) for a decent price! Of course I got free shipping on them!! I am in love! :-) <br />
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I love the little mini eraser two packs. They are perfect for individual use of whiteboards. My students are obsessed with them! They are even magnetic which adds an extra fun element for my kiddos! I found some in the beginning of the year. I just last week found more. I was so excited and now have a full class set and then some. I have found that they hold up really well! :)<br />
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Here are a few dollar products from my store! Check them out!</div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Irregular-Past-Tense-Verb-Scavenger-Hunt" target="_blank">Irregular Past Tense Verb Scavenger Hunt </a></div>
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(One of my most popular items!!)</div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Elapsed-Time-Scoot" target="_blank">Elapsed Time SCOOT Game</a></div>
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<a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/We-Love-Pronouns-Pronoun-Scoot-Game" target="_blank">We Love Pronouns SCOOT Game</a></div>
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