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Showing posts with label Middle School Literature. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middle School Literature. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

WORDLESS WEDNESDAY: WONDERFUL WORDS

I am really excited to be linking up with Miss DeCarbo @ Sugar and Spice for my FIRST Wordless Wednesday!

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Every week we learn a new Wednesday Word, a unique vocabulary word to incorporate into conversations and spot in our reading.  As they find these words in their independent reading, they can redeem them for Jolly Ranchers. *cough* BRIBERY *cough*  We LOVE Wednesday Words!!

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(Yes, this student has decided to illustrate each of our Wednesday Words…)

How do you make learning new vocabulary words exciting and applicable?  Share below!!

Friday, March 14, 2014

IT'S OFFICIAL!!

Thanks to the encouragement of the one and only, Holly Ehle, I have decided to start blogging about all of my fabulous, exciting, exhausting, and sometimes catastrophic experiences teaching middle school.

(If you don't follow Holly, start.  She is an incredible Kindergarten teacher, and her blog is full of resources for both KinderTeachers and bloggers. Check it out. Mrs. Ehle's Kindergarten Connections. ...she is also my sanity at school each day and I often wonder what I would do with out her.)

Teaching at a small private school where there is only one class per grade level, has it's perks.  For example, I am able to refer to myself as the BEST 6th grade teacher in the building, without feeling all that guilty.  ...but, I love to brainstorm, share ideas, and "steal" resources from teachers that teach similar content, and that doesn't often happen when you are the only 6th grade teacher in the building...

Get ready, I teach middle school math, literature, writing, and art.  I can't wait to start sharing some of my go-to-places for resources, as well as those things I create on my own. ...and I hope you are willing to share with me as well.