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School Supplies You Didn’t Know You Needed, Until Now!

July 28, 2016 by Teach-A-Roo Leave a Comment

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I get so excited during the summer when the Back to School sales start. I think it goes back to my childhood when my folks would take me to get my school supplies. We went to a store called Smitty’s and I would get to pick out a new pencil box, crayons, and a fresh […]

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Filed Under: Back to School, Beginning of Year, Centers, Language Arts, Management, Organization Tagged With: Amazon, back to school, centers, classroom organization

Making Test Prep SNOW much fun!

May 4, 2015 by Teach-A-Roo 1 Comment

So, here in the desert it doesn’t snow. In fact, quite a few of my students have NEVER even seen snow. Imagine their surprise when I told them we were going to have a snowball fight in our classroom… HA! To motivate my kiddos during our last stretch of test prep, whenever we were finished […]

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Filed Under: Language Arts, Management, Math, Teacher Tips, Test Prep Tagged With: classroom management, Test Prep

Dirt Pudding

April 17, 2015 by Teach-A-Roo Leave a Comment

Have you ever made dirt pudding? This is another fun activity to do around Earth Day,  or anytime you want to have your kids practice using some functional text. We recently finished a unit on functional text. Students need practice in reading recipes and following written directions. This would be a great culminating activity and […]

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Filed Under: ELA Standards, Language, Language Arts, Writer's Workshop, Writing Tagged With: Earth Day, Functional Text, Writing

Stone Soup!

September 6, 2014 by Teach-A-Roo 1 Comment

This was a really fun week for me at school. My class did a little ELA unit using the story Stone Soup. I used the Reading A-Z version for the students, and then read aloud the classic Marcia Brown version. We compared and contrasted the folktales with an anchor chart: For writing, I used this […]

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Filed Under: Books I Love, ELA Standards, Fables, Language Arts, Picture Books, Uncategorized Tagged With: ELA, literature study, picture books

Accountable Talk in Close Reading (Notice and Note)

June 11, 2014 by Teach-A-Roo Leave a Comment

Hi friends!  We are back with another installment of our summer book study of Notice and Note- Strategies for Close Reading. Today we are working on pages 27-38. (This is where it gets meaty!) It is all about implementing accountable talk strategies during close reading. Question 5- What is the role of talk? This session […]

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Filed Under: Close Reading, ELA Standards, Language Arts, Reading Tagged With: Close Reading, Reading

Up, Up and Away!

March 17, 2012 by Teach-A-Roo Leave a Comment

Looking for a great unit for teaching flight?  I just uploaded my new “Up, Up, and Away!” unit to Teachers Pay Teachers! It is chock FULL of fun, engaging activities for teaching all bout kites, hot air balloons, and other things that fly!  It also has beautiful images of some of my favorite things!   I have […]

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Filed Under: Centers, Common Core, Language, Language Arts, Math, Science Tagged With: centers, common core, hot air balloons, kites, thematic unit

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