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My Teacher’s Secret Life

My Teacher’s Secret Life

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I was perusing Pinterest a couple of weeks ago and saw this really cute idea for a writing assignment from Confession of a Teaching Junkie.  She made a really cute writing assignment based on the book, My Teacher’s Secret Life by Stephen Krensky. This book is about a kid who thinks that all of the teacher’s live at school and wonders… Read More

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  • Whole Class Journals: Get your kids writing across all genres for the entire year with my 5 sets of Whole Class Journals. The students will love this weekly activity for center time and it is amazing to see the growth in their writing over the year.
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  • Classroom Managment Tip: V.I.P Boxes for a positive behavior incentive or reward.
  • Coordinate Grid Fun
  • Growth Mindset and Cactus: making classroom goals
  • The Day the Pencils Quit: A fancy idea that solves that pesky pencil problem we all have in our class by having the students creatively write from the perspective of the disgruntled pencil! Modeled after the amazing book, The Day the Crayons Quit
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  • Punctuation Matters: An engaging lesson that goes over the importance of correct punctuation while making your class giggle!
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