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Saturdays are for treats and I LOVE caramel apples

Saturdays are for treats and I LOVE caramel apples! 🍏
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Can you guess which one is my favorite? Swipe to see if you get it right!
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Which one would you pick?

Silent Response Cards are one of my favorite tools

Silent Response Cards are one of my favorite tools to use with a read aloud, especially to practice fact vs. opinion! 📚 Just stop at any point in the text and give students a fact or opinion about a character or the plot. Students hold up the appropriate Response Card for FACT or OPINION and you can easily scan and assess which students have understanding! ✅
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What’s even more fun, is to let students come up and give the class a statement about the text, and then the class decides if it is a fact or an opinion. 😁

Another reading strategy that I love to teach is v

Another reading strategy that I love to teach is visualization. It is such an important strategy for students to to be able to connect to and comprehend a story.
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One of my favorite books for practicing visualizing is OWL MOON! There are so many stopping points that lend themselves perfectly to students closing their eyes and letting those mental images come to life.💚
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What are your favorite books for practicing visualizing? 👀

Oh the Toothpaste Lesson! This is hands-down one o

Oh the Toothpaste Lesson! This is hands-down one of my favorite demonstrations for showing kids that once our words come out of our mouths (the toothpaste tube) they can’t easily be taken back. Even worse, the mean words, or “sticky words,” as I call them, smear onto others’ hearts always leaving a mark.
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Students love participating in this activity and it is a visual that will stick with them for a very long time, if not for the rest of their lives. 💚
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I have full details about this activity on my blog. Just search “The Toothpaste Lesson” on www.InspiredElementary.com.

Starting the week off right with some morning quie

Starting the week off right with some morning quiet time and warm lemon water. 🍋
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Being intentional and disciplined in my morning routine has really helped to set the tone for my day and week ahead. 🙌🏼
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Cheers to another week! 💚

I used to dread planning our weekly meals.🙈 . T

I used to dread planning our weekly meals.🙈
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Then, like any teacher would do, I came up with a procedure to simplify the process! ✅
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I created my veggie + chicken + beef + choice rotation and now it’s a breeze! 🙌🏼
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Best part, my family knows the drill and eagerly offers their input, too. 😁
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P.S. Round Two is a fancy way of saying leftovers 🤣

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