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Hello all! I will be on vacation the rest of this week. I’m heading east to visit my family. Please check back next week! Thanks, Darlena Read More...
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Disclosure: I am a big fan of Rafe’s. In fact, I wrote him a letter after I’d read his three books a year or two ago, which resulted in a phone conversation and some emails with him. He comes off as a tad arrogant in this book (although, to his credit, Read More...
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At my school, the sixth grade team has recently begun separating students into leveled math groups. All the students take a pretest on the same math test, and then are sent to whichever class matched their test scores. So if a student did very poorly Read More...
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In sixth grade, students learn about the cultures of ancient history, including China, Mesopotamia, and Egypt. They also jump forward a bit to Greece, Rome, Islam, and medieval Europe. At my school, all the sixth grade teachers share the textbooks for Read More...
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In sixth grade, students spend the year learning world history. The textbooks my school uses are fantastic, but historical fiction also does a great job bringing the times to life, so I decided to spend this summer trying to find some fiction and nonfiction Read More...
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Via Wikipedia I was literally THRILLED last week when I read that Harvard and MIT are teaming up to offer free online courses this fall . (Until I remembered that I will probably be drowning in the fall due to it being my first year teaching and all…) Read More...
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In my experience, it’s rare to find books that actually teach teachers how to teach. It seems we’re either naturals or we pick things up from observing other teachers. Most likely, however, we stumble upon some move or wording that works, much like a Read More...
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Via Wikipedia Well, apparently my state has mandated that we teach nutrition on a more regular basis. We’ve been given all new nutrition curricular materials. I think that’s a great idea, but I’m wondering why nutrition is taught every day when many schools Read More...
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Since I wrote a lesson idea last Tuesday , I decided to write about a current issue today. I know, I know: I’m getting craaazy with the schedule here. Bear with me–the insanity is nearly over. Via Wikipedia Americans are notoriously unilingual (like embarassingly Read More...
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Since I wrote a lesson idea last Tuesday , I decided to write about a current issue today. I know, I know: I’m getting craaazy with the schedule here. Bear with me–the insanity is nearly over. Via Wikipedia Americans are notoriously unilingual (like embarassingly Read More...
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Wow. Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson is a tour de force. Two complaints: 1) The book stops in the middle of the story, so you really need to have the sequel, Forge , on hand to read when you’re done with Chains . 2) The book is very violent, and so probably Read More...
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I came across a fantastic site the other day that has activties for the first day of school. I’ve been planning all the things that need to be taught the first week, but I wasn’t sure how to spend the first bit of the morning because at my school, some Read More...
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One book recommended in The Cornerstone was Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us . Now, I’ve read Alfie Kohn’s Punished by Rewards , and I’m familiar with the whole intrinsic/extrinsic motivation debate, but I’m VERY curious as to how intrinsic Read More...
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So I was happily watching a science video for the third time in a row this week (I was subbing for the science teacher), when I noticed a fourth grader sobbing and clutching his hand in the back of the room. Somehow, another student “accidently” stabbed Read More...
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* lots of activities for beginning multiplication > I am going to introduce multiplication; any advice on how – > a good, easy way? > kali, 11/08/00 Use oodles of manipulatives. Use them over and over and over again. It is impossible to do too much work Read More...
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