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Tuesday, April 08, 2025

Why Your Students Struggle to Apply Spelling Rules—and What You Can Do About It

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Why Your Students Struggle to Apply Spelling Rules—and What You Can Do About It Support Your Literacy Block with No-Prep Word Sorts If you’...
Monday, January 06, 2025

Teaching Skip Counting to 1st and 2nd Graders: Tips and Fun Activities

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Skip counting is a foundational math skill that helps young mathematicians develop number sense, recognize patterns, and prepare for more ad...
Friday, November 29, 2024

How to Teach Math Word Problems to 1st Graders

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Word problems are a foundational part of early math education. They help students apply math concepts to real-world situations, build critic...
Sunday, October 16, 2022

Using Halloween Dollar Store Finds in Math

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Looking for some fun ways to use all those dollar store Halloween props you've accumulated in your Math and Literacy blocks? Here's ...
Saturday, September 10, 2022

First Day Back to School Get to Know You Activity and Art Silhouette

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Do you  have a go-to back to school art activity that you love so much you do it year after year? Silhouettes is that activity for me! In fa...
Wednesday, August 17, 2022

Weathering and Erosion Books and Freebie

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My Grade 4s are now half-way through our Weathering and Erosion Science Unit and we are digging into many non-fiction books to help us learn...
Thursday, August 11, 2022

9 Fun Activities to Teach Weathering and Erosion

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It took me by surprise my first year of teaching Year 4 when I saw how engaged and into rocks my class was when learning about weathering an...
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I teach Year 4 in Queensland, Australia. Previously I've taught Year 6, 2 and 1. I am also mum to an amazing 23 year old boy. I love hiking, OCR, reading and heading to the beach on hot Summer days.
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