Care of Magical Creatures
Of course these opinions, musings, rants and reflections do not express the opinion of my employer. Nor are my posts meant to offend, nor mislead but rather provide a snapshot of my mind at a certain point in time on a topic. These are my opinions and while I stand behind them right now they may change so while you are at it, don't hold that against me either. (Disclaimer thoughts borrowed from Pernille Ripp mrspripp@blogspot.com)
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Top YA Paperbacks for 2012, chosen by YALSA
- Black, Holly and Cecil Castellucci (ed.) Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd. Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. 2010.
- Carroll, Michael. Super Human. Speak. 2010.
- Falkner, Brian. Brain Jack. Ember. 2011.
- Giles, Gail. Shattering Glass. Simon Pulse. 2003.
- Harbison, Paige. Here…
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25 Ways To Make A Book By Hand...
#elemchat #spedchat #makingbooks
I simply love making books with kids. They are great keepsakes for my students.
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”The thing about life is that you must survive. Life is going to be difficult, and dreadful things wiill happen. What you do is move along, get on with it and be tough. Not in the sense of being mean to others, but being tough with yourself and making a deadly effort not to be defeated.
Katherine Hepburn (via wisdomorganic)
Trying.
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Literature Circles: Getting Started - ReadWriteThink
#elemchat #spedchat #literacy
I’m just learning about literature circles and this was very helpful.
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Obsessing over: This book, which I started reading after seeing Selena’s post about it. It’s so good that it puts every other book I’ve read recently to shame.
Working on: Plowing through my inbox and trying to create menus for the next week with these printables.
Thinking about: What food to make for our little Super Bowl party next weekend. Any suggestions?
Anticipating: Using our Padalily the next time we go out! (My cousin Lily created it!)
Listening to: Various baby noises. :)
Drinking: A cup of half-caff.
Wishing: I was wearing this.
And just because:
I am so lonesome for my Cuddle Bug…..no one has any idea how much…..
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See Kels Learn: LA Center #3: Sight Word Tic-Tac-Toe
Sight word tic tac toe. If you are a teacher, you’ll likely find something cool on Tumblr. Tons of lesson plans and center ideas like this one are shared all the time.
Lesson inspired by this one!
For my third center, I created a tic-tac-toe board by taping together nine Ziploc sandwich bags. I wrote sight words on 4x6 notecards and placed them inside the bags. I cut out Xs and Os using the die cut machine.
Because I had three students, I chose to have…
Ohhhhh great idea with vocab….if they can tell the definition of the word (Social Studies vocab for example) they get to place the “X” or “O”.
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I love all of these reunion videos, but when a golden retriever is featured I lose my mind.
Oh wow…..drying my tears….this is awesome. Why aren’t humans as excited as this when they see each other?
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Customize them for your own classroom.
#elemchat #spedchat #games
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14 Printable Games for Young Children
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”Behind every beautiful thing, there’s some kind of pain.
Bob Dylan (via thefreenomad)
(Source: quote-book)
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Excellent new addition to my
Kids Make Music Online LiveBinder!#elemchat #spedchat #music #edtech
“Soundation Studio is the free online music making application that gives everyone the opportunity to make music on the internet. With instant access to music making tools like a loop library, virtual instruments, real time effects, automation, audio recording and editing. You can save, post to web or download your work.”
I had a lot of fun
fooling around withchecking out Soundatio Studio. I love that you can add your own voice to the music you create. It’s free, no registration and nothing to download…can’t beat that.Students can use this to create
- beats for raps
- melodies to put poetry to song
- music for plays or performances
- and more!
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ButtonBeats (my favorite!)
Morton Subotnicks Creating Music
Gullah Music (Great for Black History Month)
