Vista Print Creations

Summer for many of us is a time to rethink, plan, and organize for the upcoming school year.Over the years I've had a love/hate relationship with Vista Print materials.I love it because I get lots of classroom tools, but I hate it because I always fill up my cart to the max. Vista Print is a online shop to buy business or marketing related material. This could be business cards, stationary, labels, notepads....You name it.Here are some...

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Wordle Fun!

I have been on summer break for a while now, so I won't be blogging about happenings in my classroom because honestly, I want to be able to focus my mind on Summer Fun! Woo-hoo! :) But, there is one idea that I did for my students at the end of the year that they really seemed to enjoy. You may have already heard about Wordles, but if you haven't, you can use them for so many different things in your classroom. I love me some Wordles! What is...

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What Do I Need for INBs?

If you are a teacher looking to implement Interactive Notebooks, you are going to need some supplies.When you care compiling your supplies, you need to know that starting off with a sturdy notebook that will stand up over time.To decorate and use in the sturdy notebook, you are going to need various types of pens, pencils, colored pencils, markers and highlighters.And because you aren't only going to be writing/drawing in your notebook, you will...

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End of the Year, Start of New Traditions

Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 By the time you read this, today will be my last day of school, woo hoo!  Over on my other blog I talked about some tried and true activities that I do every year and how they went yesterday.  However, in this post I want to share a couple new activities for the last day of school that I'll be piloting tomorrow.  Last year I tried having the kids...

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ATUE Freebie Roundup!

I'm forever in awe at the creativity of my fellow bloggers here at All Things Upper Elementary! Seriously, these peeps are the real deal. And if you haven't checked out my friends' free stuff lately, you are missing out. Collectively, the ATUE staff is one lean, mean, fabulous-freebie machine. :) Today, I wanted to do a roundup of some our favorite free items! Every item in this roundup is totally and completely, no-strings-attached freeeeee!1) Framed...

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Classroom changes.....

Ahhhhh summer! A time to rest, relax, gain back some sanity.... over think all the things you need to do for NEXT year!  YIKES!! Yes, I'm not even a week out of school and I'm already stressing out over moving my classroom.  The last weeks of school were pretty hectic and room assignments for next year were given out rather last minute.  So.... this is what my current classroom now looks like...I'm panicking a little on the inside...

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Problem Solving

We usually spend the last week of school doing nothing but problem solving activities during our math time. One of my favorite activities to do with my 6th graders is called Paper Pool which can be found on the Illuminations website. The students would spend a whole week on this project if I let them. I start by going through THIS worksheet, which explains the activity.We go through both examples so that they understand exactly what the rules...

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