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Meggie11
Board:
Books, Guided Reading & Literature
02-07-2013, 08:17 PM
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Parent Communication Ideas
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Meggie11
Parent Communication Ideas
Our school district switched over to standards-based report cards a couple years ago. We also have adopted a mastery based learning philosophy. While we've made great strides in communicating exactly...
Board:
Primary Grades (K-2)
02-07-2013, 06:58 PM
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Providing Feedback to Parents
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Meggie11
Providing Feedback to Parents
Our school district switched over to standards-based report cards a couple years ago. We also have adopted a mastery based learning philosophy. While we've made great strides in communicating...
Board:
Fifth Grade
09-25-2011, 08:23 AM
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Pumping Up your Grammar Instruction
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Meggie11
Pumping Up your Grammar Instruction
Just like math facts, so many skills in grammar simply need to be memorized. Because of this, I have found that I struggle to make my grammar lessons engaging.
What kinds of things do you do to...
Board:
Fifth Grade
08-29-2011, 07:11 PM
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Rounding Idea?
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Meggie11
Rounding Idea?
Does anyone have a great visual, song, anecdote, or saying that helps student remember the rounding rules?
Board:
Fifth Grade
08-27-2011, 08:22 AM
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Math Centers! HELP!
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Meggie11
Take a look at your math program...
The first few years that I used math centers I worked so hard to create all the center activitiies. Then a new colleague showed me how to tweak things that were already created in our math program. ...
Board:
Fifth Grade
08-13-2011, 08:03 AM
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Students' Goal Setting
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Meggie11
Students' Goal Setting
How do you teach your fifth graders to make realistic goals? How do you help the students monitor their own progress towards their goal? What do you do when a student has reached their goal?
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Board:
Fifth Grade
08-13-2011, 07:58 AM
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Book Basket Labels
Posted By
Meggie11
Beth Newingham
Check out Beth's website (just do a google search, her website will be at the top). Although her book basket tags are geared towards her third graders, I still used a majority of the cute tags that...
Board:
Fifth Grade
06-14-2011, 10:21 AM
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Class Theme Song
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Meggie11
Class Theme Song
For next year's fifth grade class, I wanted to use a line from a fun song for our class theme. I love the idea of something that will evoke the ideas of reaching potential, working hard, or feeling...
Board:
Bulletin Boards & Classroom Themes
06-11-2011, 04:33 PM
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Class Theme Song
Posted By
Meggie11
Class Theme Song
For next year's fifth grade class, I wanted to use a line from a fun song for our class theme. I love the idea of something that will evoke the ideas of reaching potential, working hard, or feeling...
Board:
Fifth Grade
06-04-2011, 08:26 PM
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2
Singapore Math?
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Meggie11
Singapore Math?
I'm interested in finding some materials to supplement my current math curriculum. Do any of you use Singapore Math? I haven't been able to find too many clear explanations and examples online. ...
Board:
Fifth Grade
05-31-2011, 04:44 PM
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Homework: to be or not to be?
Posted By
Meggie11
Trouble with math homework
This year I built in a 25 minute block at the end of the school day that is flexible time. Most kids use this time to finish up any class work, get started on projects, do enrichment activities,...
Board:
Fifth Grade
12-30-2010, 11:05 AM
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Character Ed/Bullying
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Meggie11
Character Ed/Bullying
With so much content that needs to be covered in my core subjects, I have not integrated much character education this year. There have not been any big problems in my class with bullying...
Board:
Fifth Grade
12-30-2010, 11:01 AM
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How do you start your day?
Posted By
Meggie11
Daily Work from Evan Moor
I use a daily workbook from Evan Moor. This year I discovered the Daily Science workbook. In this book, the students focus on a science question for the entire week. Some of the past questions...
Board:
Fifth Grade
12-12-2010, 11:25 PM
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Deordorant Letter
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Meggie11
Deordorant Letter
There is a young lady in my class that consistently has serious body odor. Thankfully, the kids in my class have been very nice to her. I would like to send out a letter to all the students'...
Board:
Fifth Grade
11-23-2010, 08:46 AM
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Inferences, Theme, Drawing Conclusions
Posted By
Meggie11
Love 'em!
I LOVE all of these ideas. Thank you for your help!
"Yesteach", do you remember what the name of the picture book that Keith used in his workshop?
Board:
Fifth Grade
11-20-2010, 04:33 PM
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Inferences, Theme, Drawing Conclusions
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Meggie11
Inferences, Theme, Drawing Conclusions
After completing many different reading assessments with my class, I have found that almost all my students need a lot of practice in the higher level comprehension skills of inferring, figuring out...
Board:
Fifth Grade
11-20-2010, 04:24 PM
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Long Division
Posted By
Meggie11
DMSB Chain Game
When I teach long division I the acronym: DMSB- dad, mom, sister, brother-- or divide, multiply, subtract, bring down. After a few days of practicing this we play the chain game. In this game I...
Board:
Fifth Grade
11-04-2010, 11:59 AM
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Time for kids or Scholastic News?
Posted By
Meggie11
Tfk
I have not tried Scholastic (since I've been so satisfied with TFK). Time for Kids is great because the articles are recent, written at an understandble, approrpriate level, and the online resources...
Board:
Fifth Grade
09-19-2010, 09:43 PM
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how to teach summarizing
Posted By
Meggie11
Lomonico, could you explain more?
Lomonico could you explain exactly how you get the kids doing perfect summarization. I want to that with my kiddos too!
When you go around and check their notes, how do you check them in a timely...
Board:
Fifth Grade
09-19-2010, 09:12 AM
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Birthdays
Posted By
Meggie11
A Pack of Sugar Free Gum and a Homework Pass
My students get to chew gum on their birthdays. I give them a pack of trident and my permission to chew it in my class. They must spit it out whenever we leave the classroom though. Wrapped on the...
Board:
Fifth Grade
09-19-2010, 06:41 AM
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4
Best Writing Prompt
Posted By
Meggie11
Scar Stories
Students love to write about themselves! I had the students write a story about how their received a scar. Every student, even my recultant, writers were excited to describe how they fell off their...
Board:
Fifth Grade
09-19-2010, 06:37 AM
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how to teach summarizing
Posted By
Meggie11
Textbooks
When teaching summarizing for non-fiction text, I use our social studies and science textbooks. It's like a two for one deal.
Board:
Fifth Grade
09-19-2010, 06:35 AM
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2
Anchor Activity Folders fo Math
Posted By
Meggie11
Set a goal for each student
In our school we do something similar, but we call it Enrichment. The project and games they complete come from evert content area. On the cover page for each month, we include a "menu" of the...
Board:
Classroom Management
08-09-2010, 02:02 PM
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2
Intervention/Enrichment Block
Posted By
Meggie11
Intervention/Enrichment Block
Our school is trying to develop an intervention/enrichment block in order to meet the needs of all our learners. Luckily, our school has a lot of freedom in the way we want this time to look in each...
Board:
Fifth Grade
08-09-2010, 02:01 PM
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1
Intervention/Enrichment Block
Posted By
Meggie11
Intervention/Enrichment Block
Our school is trying to develop an intervention/enrichment block in order to meet the needs of all our learners. Luckily, our school has a lot of freedom in the way we want this time to look in each...
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