Make sure you check out the huge cyber sale going on today and tomorrow on TPT. Using the code SMILE you'll receive 28% off in most stores including mine - Jordan Johnson. I know I'm looking forward to filling up my shopping cart!
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TPT Sale - Today and Tomorrow
Make sure you check out the huge cyber sale going on today and tomorrow on TPT. Using the code SMILE you'll receive 28% off in most stores including mine - Jordan Johnson. I know I'm looking forward to filling up my shopping cart!
TPT Cyber Sale - Monday & Tuesday
My entire TPT Store (Jordan Johnson) will be on sale for 28% off Monday and Tuesday (November 30 and December 1) for TPT's site-wide cyber sale! Be sure to check out my products!
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Favorite Bulletin Board of All Time - Instagram
I have two bulletins outside my classroom in the hall. Last year, I used both to display student work and used ribbon and clothespins to make change-out easy. It was sometimes difficult to always have two new things to display in the hall. I've seen many different variations of the timeline or Instagram bulletin on Pinterest and blogs and decided to take all the ideas and turn it into what worked for me. This might be my favorite bulletin of all time. I did show this during my classroom reveal but it was empty at the time.
Here's what it looks like now:
I know you can't really see the pictures, but for obvious reasons we have to be careful with photos online. We're only allowed to post them on parent sites that have secure log-ins. You'll see I also add a hashtag for each photo to give a tiny explanation as to what was going on.
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Five for Friday - November 6
I'm linking up again with Doodle Bugs Teaching for another Five for Friday. This seems to be the one blog post I'm actually able to get to in a week. This week was crazy with report cards due and it being the start of my husband's team's season. Link up here.
This week we finished up our island projects and map project. This was our 2nd project based learning topic. The kids had so much fun, but it's always a little crazy and a little messy when they start building their islands with the model magic. We had a lot going on. I'm hopeful to share more details of our Map PBL soon on the blog.
We learned how to edit on Tuesday. The first time we edit, I like to model the process with the kids. I write up a story and make lots of mistakes. We go through our process (more on this later) and work together to edit my piece so they can see how to do it. They enjoyed finding my errors and were hard at work editing their own pieces for publication.
This might be one of the sweetest notes I've gotten from a student in a long time. Nicer than infinity is a big compliment! I'll take that. I'll also take being crowned the best teacher! These little notes are great reminders of why we do this job!
We finally used our white board table today. I've been hesitant to do it because I heard that it can be difficult to clean and who wants a dirty table with white board marker all over it. But, today I decided to give it a try. As long as you erase when you're done it wasn't that bad. I then used Expo cleaner on it once we were all finished. The best part of all - the kids thought it was the coolest thing ever! Definitely a student crowd pleaser!
As I know I have mentioned in probably a billion posts, my husband is head coach for Findlay Prep - a basketball team. They had their pre-season scrimmage on Monday and tonight is their opening home game! Crazy how fast the season came up on us! Excited to see them in action and cheer them on! They are an amazing team - very talented!
Hope everyone has a lovely weekend! Have 2 basketball games to keep me busy!
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