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The seasonal aisle at my grocery store switched directly from Halloween to Christmas, but I refuse to ignore Thanksgiving!  It’s one of my favorite holidays.  I’ve got a Thanksgiving activity freebie for you!  It’s a color by number that helps kids practice...

Check out my post on the iTeach Second blog about how to use sticky notes to model addition with regrouping.
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I’ve been doing so much “serious” blogging lately that it’s starting to get a little stuffy around here!  It’s time for some teacher humor!
You know when you’re on a roll, checking things off your teacher to-do list like a boss, and then suddenly everything comes to a screeching halt because you can’t find….the GOOD stapler!?!  There’s the other one, but you have to bruise your hand to make...

Reading Strategies
What reading strategies do students need to learn, anyway?  It would be so nice if the standards would just spell it out for us!  Unfortunately, I’ve never seen that.  I’ve racked my brain and made this cheat sheet of the reading strategies I’ve frequently...