Special Shout-out Time!
This one goes to Amy at AdventuresinTeaching.net for awarding me the Versatile Blogger Award!  I am very excited to place this on my blog (and even more excited that I'm gaining followers every day)!  Thank you all for staying interested and keep the comments coming.
In keeping with the rules of the Versatile Blogger...here are my 7 random facts.
1.  My husband and I are actually Hatfield and McCoy (not joking).
2.  My father, mother, brother, and myself all have birthdays on major holidays.
3.  My guilty obsession is orange Kool-aid and peanut butter fudge.
4.  Because of #3 I am now addicted to P90x.
5.  I love Big Brother.
6.  I absolutely cannot whistle no matter how hard I try.
7.  I have 6 different colors of contact lenses - just because I think it's fun!







Nominate other bloggers...
1.  Just a Primary Girl
2.  Pocketful of Centers
3.  The Bender Bunch
4.  Leading and Reading
5.  Simply Sweet Teaching

Writing and Common Core

The level of rigor at which students are required to write is quickly changing. They have to be able to write for many audiences and purposes, as well as formats and styles. Many times teachers have little or no resources to teach writing. Here is an idea to provide hundreds of real, meaningful writing opportunities to last the entire year.
1. Give each student a disposable camera the first week of school.
2. Ask them to return it after taking pictures of their friends, family, neighborhood, grocery store, etc...anything (school appropriate)that is part of their everyday life. The point is for the pictures to be nothing extra special or extraordinary.
3. Develop the pictures and place them in sheet protectors in a binder!
4.  Since writing lessons are usually more fluid and may change on a daily basis, consider writing many of your strategy mini-lessons on sticky notes that can be easily manipulated.  If you use the template below you can add your own notes as well.  Some pics may lend themselves to a series of several mini-lessons.

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Newby Blog Hop!

1.  What state do you live in?
I live in Florida

2.  What is your current teaching position?
I am a Curriculum Resource Coordinator.

3.  What is your teaching experience?
I have taught all grades K-5. 

4.  When did you start blogging?
I started blogging two weeks ago!

5.  Share a bloggin tip.
Join a newby linky party!!!

CAFE and Back to School Organization

I love the pics of this classroom and how she organizes CAFE!

Teaching Blog Addict: Back To School Classroom Organization: CAFE BOARD - My new cafe board is still in progress.  One idea that I am really excited about is the magnetic (stove) burner covers fr...

Teaching Blog Addict: Conferring wtih Students During Math (with a freeb...

Guided Math book study...this post is for chapter 7 but if you click on the link you can scroll back to the beginning.

Teaching Blog Addict: Conferring wtih Students During Math (with a freeb...:   I am so excited to be co-hosting Chapter 7 with Beth over at Thinking of Teaching ! Although I've been doing my own version ...

Daily 5

Daily 5 seems to be growing bigger and bigger each day.  There are tons of resources popping up on Pinterest and TpT all the time.  Although this book study is hosted by a Kindergarten teacher, the basics are useful for almost any grade level.  This blog is doing a great job at giving you the quick, straight-forward foundations of Daily 5.

Little Miss Kindergarten - Lessons from the Little Red Schoolhouse!: Daily Five!: I am teaming up with some great Kinder friends for a closer look at the Daily 5. If you are in here is how it works... Each Thursday the ho...

Accelerated Math: Bringing Math To The Next Level

Bringing Math To The Next Level