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Hello Everyone! It was a short week, but a productive one! After the three day weekend, my students worked on adjective and adverb clauses, and sentence structure. We also read the short story “Alll Summer in a Day” and discussed figurative language, along with tone and mood. We were able
Welcome back! Yes, I have been quiet lately. It has been a wonderful summer vacation! I have just returned back to southeast Georgia from Seattle, where my beautiful daughter just got married at a lovely beachside park on Puget Sound! 🙂 Here is a photo of my girl and my
Testing is over for our kiddos, and oh,what a relief it is! However, now my sweeties will think school is over, when in actuality we still have four more weeks to go. Ahhhh,. so how do I keep them engaged in learning when their mind is on summer vacation? Well,
Happy Earth Day! I gave all my students bookmarks today to put in their AR books since they were going to be reading a lot after testing. 🙂 Earth-Day-World-Themed-Bookmarks •April 22, 1970 – Senator Nelson from Wisconsin calls for an environmental teach-in or Earth Day after witnessing a large oil spill off
I hope everyone has had a wonderful Easter Weekend! I am on Spring Break this week! Yahoo! No school all week! 🙂 When I go back next week, my kiddos will finish reading Peak, and prepare for the CRCT, the Georgia State test. We will have only two weeks before
Hello Everyone! Please check out the display of our African Endangered Animal Brochures – After reading The White Giraffe by Lauren St. John, my students worked hard on researching endangered species of Africa. They made animal brochures. I made this display of some of their great work using a 97
