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First Grade Fresh Teaching With Simplicity — One teacher's tips, tricks, and strategies I Love 2 Teach Word Wizard book {printable} Aaaaa! I have missed talking to you all so much!! Like many others, I have been crazy busy with our first week of school. It has been the best--I just love my class!!! But now it is my favorite part of the week...prepping for next week! Sooo...last winter I started using a new spelling and vocabulary system called Word Detectives (you can read more about it by clicking the green link). Now that we are in a new year and not getting a new spelling series we were expecting (yay, freedom!) In previous years, I have given a pre-test to assess my students' spelling levels, then made two or three different spelling groups using the Houghton Mifflin Spelling and Vocabulary series (I really do love those books). It was this weekend I realized I could achieve this, if I used a similar format to Word Detectives! So, here's a breakdown of what we'll be doing for spelling/word study: Each student will get a Word Wizard Workbook (I'm binding them Monday!) And...stay tuned! Word Wizard Book

Middle School Science A few things I am learning about science notebooking: Students take pride in making their notebook neat and usable. Students want to use their notebooks daily. Students appreciate how their notebooks take the place of a textbook. Students want and need to be encouraged to keep their notebooks organized. A few pictures from student notebooks... A very simple Table of Contents: There are some wonderful pre-made ToC available online. This is an example from last year when I still used left side/right side notebooking. A simple circle map after an introduction of the Periodic Table: Density Cube Lab: I decreased the size of the lab sheets to 64%. Write it out: Sometimes, at the end of class, I'll have the students write our their thoughts from the day's lesson. Foldables! Diagrams: Students love to draw and color. Q & A: I like to give my students some essential questions for the day's lesson. Another Thinking Map: Amazing foldable! Color Coding the Periodic Table:

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Classroom DIY: classroom environment Here is an easy, fast, different way to create bulletin board borders -- "Marbleized" Paint! Items to Gather: sentence strips3 colors of paint (white, and two others)paint brushpaper to protect your table from the paint and other supplies you need when painting Instructions: Step 1: Gather all of your materials. When you decide upon your three paint colors, place a glop of each one on some sort of paint tray. Step 2: Lay one sentence strip out on the table in front of you. Step 3: Get some of the white and a bit of the main color on the paintbrush. Step 4: When you need more paint on your brush, grab a little of the next color. Step 5: Try not to actually mix the colors, just mesh them together. Step 6: When you are done with one sentence strip, move it somewhere to dry, and start again. Other Tips/Suggestions: I like to use two main colors that are similar to each other.

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