I was out due to the extreme amount of neck pain I had yesterday. Therefore, when I returned to school this morning, I found the students’ work trays brimming with papers waiting to be checked. I sorted them into my file tote folders and started making my way through them about two hours ago. [...]
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“Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.”
– Christopher Morley
Found this quote today & thought it was appropriate for this [...]
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My colleagues and I met during our Common Planning Time today and solidified this year’s Poetry Portfolio Guidelines, which is an adaptation of what my fifth graders did last year. We’re going to have three sections: mentor poems/texts, original poetry writing, and responses to poems that the kids love. I’m pretty happy with [...]
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Poetry Portfolio
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It’s May. National Poetry Month is over. However, that means that I’m just three weeks away from the start of our final unit of study: POETRY!
I decided to take the eight poems I had [...]
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