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Pen Pals!

I heard a rumor online that pen pals will be arranged soon (7am Saturday!!!). I'm ready! My kids loved writing postcards last year so I thought I'd make a couple fun postcards for next year's kiddos. Enjoy!

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Do You Send Postcards to Your New Students?

I'm so, so excited about back to school - and I know I will get my class list soon. The minute I do, I'm going to write my postcards to send to my new students!

Last year I got so many compliments from parents who told me it was the first time their child received actual mail!  I jazzed up my cards a bit this year and made another version that's a bit less cutesy for those who like a simpler design.

Click here to check out my Back To School Postcards!

Winning!

Re-ignited!

Get them here!

I've been using these resources for a while because I didn't find anything just right for my students- so I created them! Well, I'm beginning to make adjustments and put them on TpT! If you're looking for some ELA support, I've uploaded some and will be continuing to add more!

Both the task card sets and the practice/quiz sets include opportunities to create Thinking Maps to organize thinking and cement learning. These have really made a difference in my students' understanding - especially my BIG group of ELL's.  Plus - the sets have a similar structure so students can really focus on content instead of trying to figure out instructions that change each week. LOVE! I hope you find them useful, too!

Vegas: SDE's I Teach 2nd and TpT Conferences

This week has been a whirlwind! I've had the pleasure to meet teachers and bloggers I've stalked followed for a lot of my career - so exciting! And, I have learned and gained so much from the awesome session presenters. I'm about to learn more to make big gains with TpT this year! Here's a picture walk of my week so far...

The rooms at the Venetian were big!!!

There were rainbows...

And storm clouds.

I met the awesome Amy Lemons from Step Into Second Grade - the first blog I followed and my first TpT purchase.

I met Freckles Sinclair from GoNoodle!!!!!

I met super sweet Rachelle Smith, #ForBlognessSake - the one who taught me about Whole30!

And, I didn't gamble in Vegas, but I came away with a fortune!

BTS 2014 Day 3

Gotta say. It's Wednesday and I'm mildly freakin out.  Two more days to set up before our staff PD! Two days people. I don't know if it'll all come together. 

Today was a lot of setting up - writing center, math area, my curriculum binders... 

I have a lot left to do though and time is getting short. 

On the other hand, though, I did make a little TPT math fact tracking tool - can't wait to get that going with the kiddos this year!

Sweetness Division!

Oh division was sweet! 

Kids had a ball and went cookoo-nutso-bananas for the fun activities in this packet! 

It's now on TpT!

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