During a recent professional development session with a group of teachers we discussed several topics. This post is more of a collection of great ideas that I found rather than my own original thoughts (I feel like I haven't had time for many of those lately)! These pictures totally belong to the awesome teachers who posted them on the their blog (linked above each picture).
http://thinkwonderteach.blogspot.com/2012/04/guest-adventures-in-3rd-grade.html
http://fabulous-fourth.blogspot.com/2012/07/paint-swatchesa-free-and-fabulous.html
http://www.cherylsclassroomtips.com/2008_10_01_archive.html
http://uppergradesareawesome.blogspot.com/2012/07/first-day-of-school.html
http://www.rundesroom.com/2012/02/three-part-math-lessons.html?showComment=1328661423201
These are all pins from Pinterest...