Saturday, June 13, 2015

Writing Portfolio Celebration!

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My school has writing portfolios. Each year, favorite narrative, nonfiction and opinion writing pieces are placed in a brown, accordion fol...
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Sunday, June 7, 2015

New Fav Day - Independent Writing Publishing Party!

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I know Colleen Cruz has a new writing book out and I highly recommend that you get it and read it: The Unstoppable Writing Teacher Howeve...
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Saturday, May 30, 2015

Almost June 1st...15 more days of school

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I did write my end of year  LETTER to the students! I did start report card comments. I did start report card grades. I did make a refle...
Saturday, May 23, 2015

PARCC test is over...boring week as a teacher

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At my school, I must proctor the giving of the PARCC test in a 4th grade classroom, while the 4th grade writing teacher gives the test to my...
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Saturday, May 16, 2015

It's May....Finally fitting in a Poetry Unit of Study

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Our Memoir unit ended the last Friday in April. The final On-Demands needed to be completed before PARCC. A week of science writing to suppo...
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Saturday, May 2, 2015

It's May - time for EOY On-Demands

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During the first week of school, I had my 5th graders do On-Demands across three school days. That is what TCRWP call it when you give stude...
Saturday, April 25, 2015

Memoir Publishing Party - SUCCESS!!

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I won't deny that it was wonderful to have Spring Break last week and that it was a little hard to return to school after a week off. ...