tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11350949192536227492024-03-05T00:25:56.947-08:00Little In BetweensUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger127125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135094919253622749.post-38604537587525211042014-09-29T15:00:00.000-07:002014-09-29T15:00:03.127-07:00Do you GoNoodle?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-size: large;">I love the power of Google. I remember looking at a bunch of summer posts about the Vegas teacher conferences/meet-ups and almost everyone mentioned GoNoodle. Had never heard of it...and no, I don't live under a rock. Honestly, I'm so out of touch with current music, celebs, and news that I might as well. That's all besides the point. My point is...I Googled GoNoodle and I'm so glad that I did. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">GoNoodle is a website that hosts a variety of brain breaks. Some energizing, some relaxing. All of them super fun. The great part is you get a little class avatar person (I think they have a real name, but I can't think of it at the moment...grr, hate when that happens!) that morphs the more breaks you do. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">Okay, while I was inserting this picture I remembered the little creatures are called Champs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Another plus is that if you're watching a brain break from YouTube, you don't get any of the ads. Those ads can always be tricky in class...you never know what might pop up!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love it. Kids love it. It's a win-win situation. Click <a href="http://gonoodle.com/">here</a> or on the GoNoodle image above to check it out. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last week we started our CAFE lessons. We read <i>Full Moon</i> by Kevin Henkes. Gosh, I love that guy's books!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Anyways, we had a blast finishing off the lesson by making our Check for Understanding hats. My kiddos can wear those as a reminder while they read. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I made a YouTube video of me introducing Check for Understanding. It's currently private, but I'll share it as soon as I figure out how to hide a few tiny faces. Hey, 17 out of 19 kiddos who follow my "DO NOT turn around to look at the camera" directions isn't all that bad! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The following must be read to the tune of "Everybody Talks" by Neon Trees. If you don't know the song then go <a href="http://youtu.be/H_pRyMShJ0k">here</a> first. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't know why this song popped in my head, but it's pretty hilarious how close I got to the chorus. Some parts are a stretch, but give me a break...songwriting is tough work folks, haha. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that was when I Pinned her...</span></div>
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I found that darling Pin from Cara at T<a href="http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com/2012/10/what-weve-been-up-to.html">he First Grade Parade</a>, but realized she found the labels from another blog: <a href="http://pencilsglueandtyingshoes.blogspot.com/2011/09/week-4-done.html">Pencils, Glue, and Tying Shoes</a>. Don't you just love the little rabbit trail (or is it a rabbit hole) that Pins take you on sometimes. Anyways, for some weird reason I couldn't get the Scribd thingy to work so I had to make my own labels. The picture above is our spin on this cutesie labeling activity. </div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135094919253622749.post-17805519786422116652014-09-01T20:35:00.004-07:002014-09-01T20:44:32.220-07:00Ipsy: August<span style="font-size: large;">I cannot believe it's September 1st and I'm just now posting about my August <a href="http://www.ipsy.com/r/ksmd?sid=ipsypoints&cid=general">Ipsy</a> glam bag...so sad :(</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My first Ipsy glam bag arrived in July and you can read about that and what <a href="http://www.ipsy.com/r/ksmd?sid=ipsypoints&cid=general">Ipsy</a> is <a href="http://littleinbetweens.blogspot.com/2014/07/first-ipsy-glam-bag.html">here</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">1. <a href="http://www.elizabethmott.com/shop/tints-and-sass-lip-tint/">Tints & Sass</a>- SO bright red in the bottle (scary!), but actually very pretty when put on and topped with a gloss. Use a light hand because it can get bright. It smells yummy too! Oh, and don't use it with chapped lips...looks gross. Didn't use on my cheeks. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">3. <a href="http://clearcliniclabs.com/product/vanished/">Clear Clinic Spot Treatment</a>- I don't really get a lot of blemishes, so I haven't used this but maybe twice. I didn't notice a huge benefit, but again I'm probably not the best person for opinion on it. </span></div>
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1. <a href="http://www.sephora.com/24-7-glide-on-eye-pencil-P133707?skuId=1499078">Urban Decay 24/7 Velvet Glide-On Eye Pencil in Plushie</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh. My. Gosh. You guys. I am in love with my August Glam Bag. I haven't used everything yet, but I am so excited about each and every thing I got. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I swatched that Urban Decay eyeliner and woah! The color is amazing. I put a dab of the shimmer lotion on my hand and it gives this really pretty peachy-pinky-goldish glow to your skin. The eyeshadows are SO pigmented, but I haven't played with them yet. Can't wait to!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I totally missed the last two days of the Back to School linkup...waaah! But I had to focus on my darling little first graders. First things first, right.<br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">We had back to school night on Tuesday and I was a sewing machine. And not even for myself...for my dear friend Kara. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ok, this one wasn't from this week, BUT I just had to share and say YUM!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Husband took me to Santa Monica for our anniversary and we hopped over to Beverly Hills so I could visit Sprinkles Cupcakes...I really love cupcakes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">They even have a cupcake ATM...I couldn't believe it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We've been practicing Read to Self this week. We're up to a solid three minutes...woah...that is a for sure change from 3rd grade...slow going, but we'll get there. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We started class points using Mr. Potato Head. They earned the body when they got a compliment from another teacher and the feet when they were working so nicely on their seatwork. They are SO excited about this and so am I!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So during prayer circle a little girl in my class (who is incredibly cute by the way) asks if we'd pray for her family because they're going to the Philippines next week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">My first thought of course is: Great, why haven't I heard about this yet?? Now I have a ton of absent work to prepare. Ugh. <br /><br />But I'm still smiling at her when I ask,</span><span style="font-size: large;"> "Oh, for how long?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Things like that make me SO glad to be in first grade. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hey guys, this has got to be a seriously quick post. My second day with little first graders and I have not been this tired since 6th grade when I stayed up for like 27 hours straight or something ridiculous like that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Okay, so today's Back to School topic is organization. I just want to touch on one thing that I'm trying new this year: BINDERS!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Changing classrooms and grades was a perfect reason to purge the ol' filing cabinet and switch to using binders for my teaching resources. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">So far I love it. Like really love it. There is something about neat little binders all in a row that just melts my heart. aaah. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Honestly, most of my binders are empty...I'm still in the process of gathering materials for my new little ones, but I'm sure they'll fill up quickly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'll go into the process in more detail in another post because I'm wiped. Like really, really wiped. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Check out <a href="http://imbloghoppin.blogspot.com/2014/08/teacher-week-why-organization-free-item.html">Blog Hoppin'</a> for more organizational tips and tricks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Total side note: just watched God's Not Dead with the hubs. Great movie!! In the spirit of the flick I'll leave you with this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">You better up your bandwidth baby because today you get to peek around the place where I spend way too much time. Let the pictures roll... </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large; text-align: left;">It's slightly unfinished, a tad disorganized, always more dusty than I'd like, but it's my little place where I get to do what I do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm so excited to be linking up with Blog Hoppin' Back to School 2014! This is perfect timing since we go back to school tomorrow. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last week I linked up with Falling into First for a Meet the Teacher Blogger link up and it was super fun. I loved getting to know more about you all and it was fun sharing about myself. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm a graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi...I did attend the Gulf Coast campus (the main campus is in Hattiesburg), but was actually living in California when I graduated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the Meet the Teacher Blogger link up I mentioned that my husband and I were living in Mississippi. We were there courtesy of the Air Force. My husband was active duty for 9 1/2 years. During that time he deployed 3 times...the first time was only 4 months after we were married; the second time was when my boy-boy was 5 months old (he made it back for his 1st birthday!); and the last time was when I was pregnant with my little love bug. She was 4 months old when she met her daddy for the first time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hey, hey, hey! I'm Jessica, the mama-teacher-blogger from Little In Betweens. I'm a northern California girl, currently calling California's beautiful central coast my home. I've been teaching 3rd grade at a small Christian school for the last 3 years and I'm now entering my 4th year as a first grade teacher! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I've been married to this guy for 12 years...technically on Sat. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Eight and a half years ago I became a mama to this handsome boy</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">And six years ago this little sweet pea came along</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am crazy blessed beyond measure. I love my life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I love nail polish! This Flashing Lilac purple was a summer fav from Loreal. Infatuated with pens. It's weird...unless you're also a teacher and then you're probably obsessed with pens too and pen obsessions seem totally normal. My current favs are these <a href="http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/821572/FORAY-Advanced-Ink-Retractable-Ballpoint-Pens/">bold tip retractable pens from Foray</a>. I got mine at Office Depot. I love spending time with my hubby...our favorite things to do together are eat out and watch movies. I really should be 500 pounds by now. Love munching on sour gummy worms...usually while I'm playing on my Macbook Pro...last year's birthday gift from my love. Rekindling my fascination with all things girly...this is where Sephora comes in. It's a good thing we don't have one in town!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I get my entrepreneurial spirit from my mama. She's always owned beauty salons and just sold her final salon/boutique so she could retire. I'd love to have a little shop of my own some day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Ugh, that was hard. Determined--If I put my mind to it, it is going to happen...no matter what! Understanding--I try to always see things from the other person's perspective. Generous--I like to give to others, not just financially, but of my time too! I like little acts of service. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Seriously, if I get to our inservice <strike>tomorrow</strike> today and there is any mention of an iPad training, someone is losing a limb. No joke. And the blue heart is for my great-grandma, my Meme. I would have her at my party in a heartbeat if I could...just so she could meet my little loveys. She would adore them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Check out the real book <u><a href="http://www.amazon.com/What-Looks-LIke-Crazy-Ordinary/dp/0061710385/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1407828930&sr=8-1&keywords=what+looks+like+crazy+on+an+ordinary+day">What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day</a></u> by Pearl Cleage. It's a good read. My life is not like the girl in the book, but the title fit. And pretty please give me that twitchy nose and let's get some stuff done!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I cannot carry a tune in a bucket, as my Daddy would say, but I would sing the heck out of that song. My daughter loves it and you really can't help but sing when it comes on. Can't you just hear the longing in poor Ariel's voice. That's passion people!! It's <strike>12:28 </strike>12:49 a.m. and I have inservice in the morning. Enough said on the night owl issue. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/A-Turkeys-Plea-408510">A Turkey's Plea</a> is a best seller of mine and a writing lesson that I LOVE to teach. And the <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Primary-Word-Wall-Headers-1373792">Word Wall Headers</a> are a fav right now because I just made them and they came out so sweet-saucy. I love them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Last thing you don't know about me...well, maybe you do, I can't remember...my husband and I were living on the Mississippi Gulf Coast during Hurricane Katrine. Most surreal and heartbreaking experience of my life! </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well now that we know each other so well I might have to change my signature to Hugs and Kisses, haha. Totally kidding. Unless you're Adam Levine reading this, then I'm NOT kidding...wait, unless you're my husband reading this then, honey, I'm totally kidding. I only want to kiss you :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before I get myself in any more trouble go check out <a href="http://fallingintofirst.blogspot.com/2014/08/meet-teacher-linky.html">Falling Into First</a> for some more great Meet the Teacher Blogger links. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I guess the best part of it being Friday is that it's time to link up with <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2014/08/five-for-friday-linky-party-august-8th.html">Doodle Bugs Teaching</a> for another Five for Friday...woot, woot!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I know, I know...I've already mentioned at least fifty times that I got my wisdom teeth pulled on Tuesday. I swear, last time...well, maybe. It was a really big deal for me though. I was TERRIFIED to have it done and have been putting it off for at least a decade! But in all seriousness....</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Hung up these cutie patooties today. Another fabulous purchase from the lovely <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Shape-Color-Mini-Posters-with-a-Chevron-Flair-295219">Cara Carroll</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Oh my gosh you guys, I am not a fan of wisdom teeth removal. I mean who is really, that would just be nuts. But seriously, I am so scared of a clot coming out, or getting an infection, or something going wrong. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So far I'm still numb in my lip and chin which is scary. I have incredibly long roots, so they were very close to my nerves. Just what I need...to be a tingly, numb lip and chin person forever...Lord help me. Hopefully it will wear off soon, but the surgeon said it can take a while. I'm getting antsy already!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since my husband has restricted me to being home and in bed resting (I tried to assure him that my legs aren't broken!) I've been working like a maniac on school stuff...one of which is working on some new spelling word sorts. I whipped up 4 new ones in a day. Not bad if I don't say so myself. Hopefully there are no typos...I was slightly medicated after all ;)</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Check them out at TpT by clicking <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Jessica-Giboney">here</a> or on the picture above. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">NOTE: There is no 6 because in the curriculum that I'm working off of week six is a review week. Kind of annoying, I know. Sorry!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In between slurping down smoothies and changing gauze pads, I'm making this moment in bed count by linking up with the gals over at <a href="http://imbloghoppin.blogspot.com/2014/08/show-us-what-you-bought-linky.html">Blog Hoppin'</a> for a</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When Cara Caroll over at <a href="http://thefirstgradeparade.blogspot.com/">The First Grade Parade</a> had her birthday celebration I grabbed these darling activities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On Friday I shared a quick peek at some <a href="http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Primary-Word-Wall-Headers-1373792">word wall headers</a> that I made for my new 1st grade classroom. I am so happy with how they turned out. I got them all cut and laminated today. Happy girl here!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's Monday (late at night, but still Monday!!) and they're up!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Happy Friday!! Linking up with Kacey at <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2014/08/five-for-friday-linky-partyaugust-1.html">Doodle Bugs Teaching</a> for another...</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Head over to <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2014/08/five-for-friday-linky-partyaugust-1.html">Doodle Bugs Teaching</a> and check out all the awesome <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/2014/08/five-for-friday-linky-partyaugust-1.html">Five for Friday</a> links. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Monday morning I drove 2 hours meet my mom so she could take my kiddos for the week. First time they've been away this long and I MISS THEM!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">But...I've been in my classroom every day which is fabulous. Teachers go back on the 12th and students on the 19th, but I'm getting my wisdom teeth pulled on the 5th. Yah, who does that right before school?!? Oh right....I do. What a dummy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Since I'm changing grades that means I'm changing rooms and for some reason teachers at our school love to leave behind all their <strike>crud</strike> lovely teaching resources that they no longer want. This means emptying all the cabinets and sorting through everything before putting all my stuff into the cabinets. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">{can I say that as a California girl?? Oh, sure, what the heck. If spending 3 years on the Mississippi gulf coast, being baptized in that murky water, and living through the experience of Hurricane Katrina doesn't earn me some southern stripes, then I don't know what will!} </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">...I'm linking up with <a href="http://doodlebugsteaching.blogspot.com/">Doodle Bugs Teaching</a> for a Five for Friday Linky Par-tay!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Okay, this Ipsy Glam Bag was the highlight of my week! You can read more about Ipsy <a href="http://littleinbetweens.blogspot.com/2014/07/first-ipsy-glam-bag.html">here</a>. Loving the bronzer and the cherry lip and cheek stain is not as scary as I thought. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Moving to first grade led to this lovely project. Going through all my files and separating out stuff that I can't use with lil firsties. I did a TON of purging...a few things are coming to first...and I'm left with one, 1, uno, yes I said ONE bankers box of 3rd grade files. I don't know how I did that people, but I did it. There was lots of squishing and smooshing involved. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Before, during, and after the file purging and organizing my dining room has been accumulating school projects. One of those being transitioning some things into binders instead of a file cabinet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This is a tiny picture of the chaos going on in that room. I'm pretty sure the weeks prior to school starting is my husbands least favorite time of year. He's super, like really, really super OCD so this mess drives him bonkers. It's safe to say that we haven't had dinner at the dining table in quite some time. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just finished this book and it was ah-mazing!! Like total amazeballs! Blew my mind. Loved it so much I read the whole stinkin' thing in a day and a half...that's 297 pages folks!! Okay so I skimmed a few of them, but still, I was completely hooked. I'm still wrapping my mind around the whole instructional aspect of teaching writing with the traits. I'm sure some future posts will emerge from this current love affair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm pretty happy with my first bag. The moisturizer will be great for my travel bag. The bronzer and eyeshadow are both really pretty...I did a quick swatch on the back of my hand. I didn't try the spot treatment and to be honest I'm a bit scared to try the lip and cheek stain. It's pretty bright red! I'll let you know what I think once I try it. </span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135094919253622749.post-2208971012023146862014-07-22T09:34:00.000-07:002014-07-22T09:34:38.479-07:00Book Talk Tuesday- Wonder<span style="font-size: large;">Oh my gosh, you guys, I am so excited to link up today with Deanna over at Mrs. Jump's Class for a Book Talk Tuesday. </span><br />
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<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Wonder-R-J-Palacio/dp/0375869026/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1406046145&sr=8-1&keywords=wonder" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKewiHR17UsNy0d0q3Ik-cpEJXuVgGB5oUmDiTWpxLCtlEdGtnO5NQBa-PJgguW4vHGqG0wSzjY4f32Lhxr83_n7RMDU9jRrdWy7cfQuBxZ58a2RbY-Z1dnSS1fTzHxKnmXPpU-myTA2Di/s1600/wonder.JPG" height="320" width="240" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">I read Wonder by R.J. Palacio earlier this summer and it is the best book EVER! An instant classic and all time favorite for me. It was so good that I immediately started reading it again until I realized that I better get crackin' on studying for my CTEL exam...boo for long, boring study sessions. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">A great story about compassion, bullying, perseverance, overcoming...aaah, you just have to read it!! I want to use a zillion exclamation marks if that would help get across what an amazing book this is. Every adult and middle schooler should read this. It's incredible. Buy it. Borrow it. Steal it*. Whatever. Just get your hands on this book and read it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you don't absolutely fall in love with this book then you need to grab yourself a new heart**. See that linky button up there with the cute pink heart, yah, go get one of those! Deanna's got a big 'ol heart, I'm sure she can spare some for you.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">*Disclaimer: I was totally kidding about the stealing. Please do not steal and if you do please don't say that Jessica made me do it. That would really be awful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">**Disclaimer #2: If you don't like this book I'm sure there is nothing <i>really</i> wrong with your heart. I'm sure you have a very lovely heart.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135094919253622749.post-53550494966407806082014-07-21T21:29:00.000-07:002014-07-21T21:29:09.106-07:00A Parenting Revelation<span style="font-size: large;">I wouldn't consider myself a helicopter parent, but I certainly have some control issues when it comes to parenting my kiddos. Let's be honest, all teachers probably have a little bit of control freak in them. It's not that I think my kids are perfect by any stretch...I'm usually the first to ask, "What did they do now??" I suppose it's more that I expect them to be. Eeew. That felt horrible to type. Bad mommy. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My husband is much better at this than I am. He has an easier time just letting them be kids, letting them learn the hard way, and being gracious and understanding when they do just that. Ugh...I never thought parenting would be this hard. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieReGsDUkanzuFxkjI95hyphenhyphenuAha8yd4AWbFDM6LjNd6mcX1JbuKAufY9tkgnenmnj2IXOnDQVUh939yvDz9HstnhuOROHjrhsqKPj3wuSZzgzNWzEc8mBU17gBXfBGJJrEBN2fBoNinEpw8/s1600/photo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieReGsDUkanzuFxkjI95hyphenhyphenuAha8yd4AWbFDM6LjNd6mcX1JbuKAufY9tkgnenmnj2IXOnDQVUh939yvDz9HstnhuOROHjrhsqKPj3wuSZzgzNWzEc8mBU17gBXfBGJJrEBN2fBoNinEpw8/s1600/photo.JPG" height="320" width="320" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">The other night by little man and I went on a mommy-son date. It was so sweet and we had the best time together. It was a nice reprieve from the usual battle between us. I love that kid to death, but some days we just DO.NOT. get along. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The day after we went on our date he had a sleepover birthday. I wasn't going to let him stay the night though. I just new he wouldn't be able to handle making the right choices in that kind of scenario. He's too easily influenced by his peers and I just figured I'd save us all the trouble.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Then in church yesterday during worship God revealed something to me that was such a "duh" moment, but also such a beautiful picture of His love towards us. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">God could certainly prevent us from making poor choices if he wanted to, just like I tried to prevent my little Man from making poor choices. God doesn't do that though. He gives us His Word, the Holy Spirit, and other believers in our lives to prepare us to live a life of righteousness before Him. And when we mess up he doesn't become angry and scream and shout...hmmm, I wonder who does that. {crickets}</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">He's just there with arms open wide waiting to shower us in his love, slap a band-aid on our boo-boos, and comfort us through the healing. This is the same kind of love that I should be showing my little loveys. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was almost moved to tears as I let this special revelation just sink into my soul. This was just yesterday and I've already messed up...such is life. I thank God for His grace each and every day!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Well, now that you all know my sucky mom moment (at least one of them...there are many!) let's show some mama love in the comments below. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135094919253622749.post-69919430843692964812014-07-18T20:17:00.000-07:002014-07-18T20:17:34.923-07:00Grab My Button Code GeneratorOkay, if Fab Find Friday isn't already a linky somewhere then it totally needs to be because I have just made an incredibly fab find!!<br />
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I have spent at least 2 stinkin' hours trying to make a "Grab My Button" widget. You know, one of those little code boxes that has a blog button above it. You can copy and paste the person's button onto your blog. Well anyways, none of the code was working. The button would show up, the text box would show up, but there would be no code in the text box. Kind of defeats the purpose of people being able to grab the code if it's not there! Ugh, so frustrating. I swear I looked at at least 6 different tutorials and nada, nothing, zilch.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I'm going to first grade!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">After three years in 3rd grade, I am SO ready. I picked up my curriculum books and, woah, this is going to be a bit of an adjustment. But certainly a welcome one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My first year teaching at my current school was quite a whirlwind. I was hired about 5 days before school started and had A LOT to do to prep. I touched on this in my first blog post you can read <a href="http://littleinbetweens.blogspot.com/2012/06/hanging-from-branches.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Needless to say I didn't do any long range lesson planning. Then, two summers ago as I was preparing to enter my second year I sat down and mapped out what my year would look like. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I kept my planning pretty simple. I only included months down the side and subjects across the top. The only info I plugged into each box was a chapter number and title or topic. This was put into a plastic sleeve and kept in my teacher binder that you can see more about <a href="http://littleinbetweens.blogspot.com/2012/06/mission-teacher-binder.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">As the year progressed I tried to refer back to this sheet and make myself little notes. As you can see in the pic below, anything I checked in blue was finished before Christmas break. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I circled things in green that I wanted to remember to rethink. For some reason those items didn't work as planned. As I began my long range planning for this upcoming year I was able to look back at these plans and make changes accordingly.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">The most difficult thing for me to plug in is history and science. We don't overlap so I try to do my best to split each 9 weeks evenly between the two, but it's hard to show on this particular type of planning sheet. But for the purpose I use it for---to give me a "big picture" idea of the year it words great! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Don't ask. You really don't want to know. Well maybe you do, but then I'd be here typing my little fingers off until the wee hours of the night. Oooops. Too late. It already is the wee hours of the night. Guess I can fill you in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the words of my very wise and witty Mister...well what happened was...</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started a teaching blog. I loved my teaching blog. No, I adored my teaching blog. I had so much fun posting, creating, sharing, collaborating, and learning. I would eat, breathe, and sleep my lovely little teaching blog. Every brain cell focused on teaching and blogging.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I started to forget that I had other responsibilities outside of my classroom and away from my computer screen. I started to forget that there were two little hearts and one quite bigger heart that needed me too...and needed me more! Like my pal Scooby would say, "ruh roh!"</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So being the crazy "all-in or nothin'" girl that I am...I walked away from my little space on the web and threw in the towel. But that made me sad. I missed posting, creating, sharing, collaborating, and learning. I felt like a better teacher when I was doing those things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Boundaries</b>. Gotta have them and actually respect them. I cannot spend a gazillion hours a week on the computer blogging which means I have to learn to say no. This means I can't join every linky party on earth or participate in every last giveaway. Ugh. That's a hard one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Balance.</b> I cannot be in teacher mode 100% of the time. After all, I'm not just a teacher. I'm a Christ follower, a wife, a mother, a friend, and yes I am a teacher, but it's all of those things <i>together</i> that contribute to who I am.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">>>Side note: This lesson is where my new blog name comes from: Little In Betweens. It's actually the same as a personal blog I had briefly many years ago. I came up with the name from the idea that in the midst of doing all the BIG stuff in life, we have all these amazing little moments in between and it's usually in those small moments where we find the most joy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope to continue posting about all the fun teaching stuff I'm doing, but I also hope to include a lot more about my journey finding joy in those little moments. Right now I'm totally finding buckets full of joy in watching nail, hair, and makeup tutorials on YouTube. It's currently a sick obsession and it's a pricy one too! I mean, come one, who can watch a beautiful 20 year old do this fab makeup and then not go buy all of it. I'm ridiculous, I know. Let's just set up a no judging zone and we'll all be fine...ha!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Be me.</b> Whew, that took me a really long time to come up with something that started with a B. Did y'all catch that...boundaries, balance, be me. Oh yah, so clever.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Okay, so, be me. There are a lot of fancy blogs out there, a lot of amazing folks on TpT, and it piles on the pressure. Well, for me it does. Remember the crazy "all-in or nothin'" girl. I have a hard time keeping things reigned in. I can be a (excuse the expression) balls to the walls kind of person...I start something and it rapidly takes over my life, I jump in to the nth degree. Hence the whole purpose of this- I'm just now realizing- extremely long post. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If I can remember to just be me: no pressure, no ridiculous expectations, no beating myself up over the little things. If I can just have fun and find joy in the journey then I think I'll be just fine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you're still reading this...wow, you have some amazing endurance. Thanks for sticking in with me. Just one last quick thing then I'm outta here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">My URL for my blog will change tomorrow night...well technically tonight (Thursday) I guess. I think that means if you've been a follower of teachonalimb.blogspot.com you will need to RE-FOLLOW me once the URL changes (should be something along the lines of littleinbetweens.blogspot.com...crossing my fingers it will be available just like that). Pretty sure this is like blog suicide for most people, but I'm just looking at it as a fresh start.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I hope you'll continue to join me in the journey.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135094919253622749.post-33231309155321119492013-10-19T11:38:00.000-07:002013-10-19T11:38:25.757-07:00Five for Fraturday<div class="separator" style="clear: both;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">I was SO excited to link up for my first ever Five for Friday and then....I had too much fun Friday night at a <a href="http://www.liasophia.com/" target="_blank">Lia Sophia</a> jewelry party that I didn't make it home until it had turned into Saturday. Oops. I needed that though. Yesterday marked the end of the 1st quarter and it was time to woooosah!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">We used Thinking Maps (a brace and flow map) to work on problem solving in math. The brace map helped us separate our word problem into the important parts. The flow map helped us think about the steps we'd have to go through to solve. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Guess who had a ridiculous amount of fun at the <a href="http://liasophia.com/" target="_blank">Lia Sophia</a> party and decided to become a Lia Sophia Advisor? Yep! It was me!! Can't wait to get my starter kit and all the jewelry. So fun.</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135094919253622749.post-14788611980609030892013-10-16T06:30:00.000-07:002014-08-06T14:29:00.229-07:00Mega Management: Bathroom Policy<span style="font-size: large;">Pre school starting I left my Mega Management series lingering with a promise of a bathroom policy post. Here it is folks...it's potty time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I don't know about you, but our day is jam packed with all kinds of fabulous learning {wink!}...when kiddos walk out the door to use the restroom they can be assured that they are missing something important. Our school has a buddy policy which means now two students are missing something important. Ugh!</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">First, each student is given 4 bathroom passes. They're little slips of paper with their class numbers on them. These must be surrendered each time a student leaves the class to use the restroom. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Students are not allowed to use the restroom for 20 minutes after a recess/break. This is not up for discussion unless I see that glimmer of panic in their eye. You teachers know what I'm talking about. It's the "I REALLY gotta go" face. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When students leave, they log themselves out in a little notebook by the door and put one of these cuties on their desk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If students use all of their passes they can still go to the restroom, but they owe me time on the bench at recess. This usually deters their "need" to go. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">At the end of the week students are given a Jag Buck (our K-3 school wide economy system) for each pass that is not used. They even get a bonus buck if they still have all 4! </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">And that's a wrap. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Its' a simple system, but it has worked well for me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">If you've missed any posts you can check them out here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://teachonalimb.blogspot.com/2013/07/mega-management-series-kickoff.html" target="_blank">Post 1: Series Kickoff. Why Classroom Management</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://teachonalimb.blogspot.com/2013/07/mega-management-entering-classroom.html" target="_blank">Post 2: Entering the Classroom</a></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://teachonalimb.blogspot.com/2013/07/mega-management-turning-in-homework.html" target="_blank">Post 3: Turning in Homework</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://teachonalimb.blogspot.com/2013/08/mega-management-transitions.html" target="_blank">Post 4: Transitions </a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://teachonalimb.blogspot.com/2013/08/mega-management-lining-up.html" target="_blank">Post 5: Lining Up </a></span></span></span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1135094919253622749.post-24330333311104350862013-10-14T19:35:00.000-07:002013-10-14T19:35:43.758-07:00Newsela...Bringing current events to your classroom!<a href="http://newsela-test-files-f331e.s3.amazonaws.com/images/logo-beta.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Newsela" border="0" src="http://newsela-test-files-f331e.s3.amazonaws.com/images/logo-beta.png" /></a><span style="font-size: large;">At the beginning of October we had a professional development day where our technology teacher (who did a fab post for me that you can read <a href="http://teachonalimb.blogspot.com/2013/06/humans-in-digital-age-exploring-role-of.html" target="_blank">here</a>) shared some great resources for teachers. One of my favorites that he shared was Newsela. It's a website that is currently in the beta phase, but it looks like it will be amazing. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">So what is it? It's a website where you can create a class for your students to login to. You can assign newspaper articles that have been rewritten for various Lexiles, some as low as 3rd grade. You have the ability to bring current events to your class at an appropriate reading level. Many articles also have quizzes that students can take to monitor comprehension. It's a great way to easily incorporate differentiation. Your students can all read the same article, but at their own reading level. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Newsela is excited about bringing articles down to the 2nd grade level in the near future. I'm thrilled about that, because the 4th grade level (which I find is most often the lowest lexile band) is just a tad out of reach for several of my students. I'm excited to use it as a whole group reading activity until the Lexiles are lower. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">When you sign up during the beta phase you're able to place 10 votes on suggestions that you'd want to make to the site. Of course, the one getting the most votes is "Keep it free!" It looks as though this site plans to be fee-based in the future, which might keep this amazing resource out of many classrooms. Go sign up, check it out, and vote to keep it free. </span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3