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Behavior Management Tips In The Classroom

    “Don’t Rip Your Hair Out” over behavior management is the theme of my post today.  I wanted to share with you my classroom management procedures that I have set in place within my 2nd grade classroom.   A few years ago, I felt that my classroom management techniques…

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Laminating H.E.A.V.E.N.! Seriously!

Ok..Friends…This post may make me sound a bit cray-cray…but it has to be done!  So about 20 years ago I was a brand-spankin’ new teacher…bright eyed, ready to go, and ready to do everything I did when I played school for all of those years in my basement.  So after…

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Flip-Flap Books DEMYSTIFIED!!!!!

Hi Friends…I’m sure you all know by now that I am obsessed with LOVE making Flip Flap Books!  Not only do I love them, but my students CANNOT get enough of them!  It even got to a point last year where my students were telling me which flip flap books to make…

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Writing Keepsake – First Day & Last Day of School

Hi Everyone…I wanted to share a project that I did with my second graders this year that they L-O-V-E-D!!! This is my Writing Keepsake First & Last Day of School Flip Flap Book®! Check it out below! All About This First & Last Day Writing Keepsake They had so much…

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BLOGLOVIN!!!!

Hi Everyone….I hope everyone is well 🙂 As of tomorrow, Google Reader is a GONER!!!! 🙁 insert sad face here 🙁 But I am already on board with Bloglovin! It is sooooooo easy to set up an account and follow me on bloglovin. Click this Bloglovin button below to follow…

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A Flip-Flap Fascination and an IDEA!!!

  Hi Everyone…. I’m sitting here on the couch with my little one while he sleeps…He gashed his eyebrow open this morning at school and needed 12 stitches!  OUCH!  It was not a pretty sight, but he didn’t even flinch..he is such a trooper!!!  So, while I am sitting here…

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End of the Year Project

Hi Everyone… I don’t know about you…but I am just about ready for the end of school to get here…but I have a waaaaays to go!  We don’t get out until the END of JUNE..yep you read that correctly!  Anywhooooo…why dwell 🙂 So I made a couple of the end…

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End of the Year ACTIVITY

I don’t know about you, but my school year ends at the end of June..But I have been thinking about it for a very long time for about a week or so 😉 and decided I better get on the ball and put together my End of the Year activity.  I have…

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Get to Know Anna DiGilio

  I am stuffed like a turkey..literally 🙂  I love Thanksgiving.. but I am actually still full 🙂  As I was preparing for the twenty people for dinner, I checked my e-mail on my phone and was giggly with excitement to see an e-mail from Realistic Teacher nominating me for…

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Reading, Math, and a Hurricane named Sandy

Well….it has definitely been difficult these last ten days.  We didn’t have any power or a generator so we had to move out of our house for a bit and now we don’t have INTERNET!!!  This might just be even worse than not having any power!!!  What am I going…

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