Aspiring musicians can create and retouch content, while students with little to no musicality can simply find a song they like and use it or add effects.
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AL Bloggy Meet Up! - It's that time of year again!! Time for us to meet up and hang out in Alabama! I sent an email around to the friends who have attended meet ups in the pa...
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Graduation Day and Other Stuff - Today, my oldest niece, Ashley, is graduating from high school. I cannot believe it. She's been mentioned several times on this blog, but most notably for ...
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New Homeschool Planner! - My BYOB: Build Your Own Binder pages are now available in a HOMESCHOOLedition! These pages were specifically designed with the homeschool parent in mind....
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Great apps for ELLs and students with special needs - The slideshow below features some of my favorite free and inexpensive apps that general education teachers can use to support English Language Learners a...
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Summer Job Cards - a Stay Sane Freebie - School is now OUT; summer, bring it on! I just made a set of Summer Job Cards in an effort to: - keep Momma sane - try on the "perfect summer paren...
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Getting Organized! - I don't know about you all, but I generally work and blog from my couch. I know, not the best for posture, but it's comfortable. I decided that I needed to...
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Monsters University {a review} - Last weekend, I had the privilege of seeing a sneak peek of Monsters University at the El Capitan Theatre (which, if you are not from Southern California, ...
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Help Fight Alzheimer's! Get this Donation Pack! - *My Friend Brenda at Primary Inspired has stepped up to the plate to help fight Alzheimer. * My Mom is up the road in a nursing home with Alzheimers/Dem...
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How Do You Follow Your Favorite Blogs? - Google Reader Replacement??? Have you found a replacement for your Google Reader yet? I'm looking....and looking...and looking.... Here's some I've found....
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FUN measuring activity - *Miss MathDork* has this really fun measuring activity - but it's not only fun, it ALSO teaches CONCEPTS, which is SO important in math. Just like my hubby...
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Only A Dot! - Sweet Summertime Kinder Friends, It sure is nice to have the time to get things accomplished in hopes for a stress free year ahead. It's nice to look ...
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Help Fight Alzheimer's! Get this Donation Pack! - This Friday is *THE LONGEST DAY*. . . .it's summer solstice & it's also the day the Alzheimer's Association has set this day aside to honor those living w...
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Let Mr. Potato Head Help You Review! - I L.O.V.E.D. Mr. Potato Head when I was a kid and I still love using him in my classroom today! Search yard sales or order one from Amazon at my affiliate l...
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Simple & Fun Letter Practice - Do your children whine when it is handwriting practice time? Repetitive handwriting practice can get boring fast. So, try a different way practice! If yo...
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Google Reader is Going, Going to be GONE! Easily Transfer to BlogLovin! - Follow my blog with Bloglovin I love to scroll through my google reader to read all of my favorite blogs, so I was really sad to find out that as of Jul...
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Organizing Summer Time at Home - Would your kiddos benefit from a little adult guidance when it comes to summer scheduling? Come on over to love2learn2day and grab a free set of job cards...
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Pen Pal Letters - A few days ago, I mentioned that I would be posting about my summer pen pals. At the end of each school year, I give each student an envelope and invite t...
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Chapter 4: Ask and Analyze - We're already on Chapter 4: Ask and Analyze! This chapter was a good one for me. I especially liked the section on asking yourself the right type of quest...
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New Teacher Tips-Summer Linky Party #2 - I would like to start this out by apologizing to the first class I taught. College DOES NOT teach you how to run a classroom, not even close. I think of ...
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Argentinean flag day - June, 20th is the National Argentinean Flag day and it dates from 1812. It is a triband, composed of three equally wide horizontal bands coloured light blu...
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August/September Morning Work - I can officially mark one item off of my summer to-do list!!!!! My August/September Common Core Differentiated Morning Work is finished. Since we start in mi...
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Put the Tension Back Into Your Classroom? - *Want more great teaching tips and classroom organization ideas? * *Subscribe to the FREE newsletter (right sidebar), add our feed to your RSS reader, or...
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Try it Free Tuesday - Thanks for stopping by Try it Free Tuesday! Each Tuesday, I will be featuring a product or two that you are able to try out for FREE! The products will onl...
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Clean Those Containers - I spent a day rearranging my room and getting it ready for the summer cleaning crew. They literally dump everything outside, and re-wax the floors. One t...
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From Texas With Love - Today there's only time for a quick follow up from earlier in the month when I blogged about the Pay It Forward Exchange I was fortunate to get in on. The ...
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Oregon Bloggers Unite! - Doesn't my blog post heading sound like we're uniting to do something really important or influential? Actually we just met to chat and laugh and have a g...
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Core Smore: Recommendations for Summer Reading - *Teach Like a Pirate is such a great read and it is all about teaching with passion. Hello, kindergarten teachers have been doing this forever. We could ...
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Compliment Jar {Classroom Incentive & Craftivity} - Hi, Cupcakes! I hope everyone had a great weekend! I spent a lot of time with family, which is always a good time! When I wasn't with my folks, I was wo...
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Monday Made It - I am linking up with Tara for my first Monday Made It for the summer. This school year, I am changing grades (from 4th to 5th) and changing subjects (f...
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Choosing the Right Chapter Book - Reading to my girls is my FAVORITE thing to do with them. We usually snuggle up on my bed and read book after book. I treasure our reading time and I try...
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Five for Friday... School is DONE! - I feel like the end of the year carried me away into Never-Never Land, and I am just now crawling back home... Actually, I am not even at home. I am in W...
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Monday Made It 6/17/13 - It's Monday! Starting to become my fave days of the week......over the summer at least:) Lots of awesome link ups last week. I need a new notebook to ...
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Common Core Essentials - I buy a ton of amazing resources from TpT. Seriously, I'd be lost without it, not even speaking just as a seller. But I've found myself running into the s...
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Building Mathematical Comprehension- Chapter 2 -- PART 1 - Okay, I'm back and ready to talk about Chapter 2 of this fabulous book. I'm loving it, aren't you? If every chapter is like the first two we are going to ...
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Red Letter Day - or Week... - Firstly, I apologise. For what? Well, I've been conspicuous by my absence for far too long. It's been a very long 11 days - and very stressful too. Althou...
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I DON'T Like to Move It, Move It - Well, friends (apparently I am speaking to you like you are my class of second graders) - school ended in a whirlwind. Field Day (the first one was rain...
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Feedback is Fantastic for Teachers, Too! - When I create a product for classroom use, I never know if other teachers will like it or find it useful for themselves and their students. OR if they wil...
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Main Idea Freebie - I was going through my hard drive tonight (looking for graphics) when I came across a page I made a while ago for a sub day. We were discussing main idea u...
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I'm going to Vegas....are you? - In less than a month, I will be heading once again to the I Teach K! conference in Las Vegas! I can't tell you how excited I am! (But first I have to get th...
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Five for Friday ... Riding the Crazy Train - I would just like to start by saying how truly unfair I think it is that June is the busiest month ... I have no energy left in June. None. Not a drop. ...
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Fabulous Feedback... - It's been a while so I thought I would link up with Christina at *Bunting, Books, and Bainbridge* to share some feedback on a couple of my activities in m...
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Looky Lou with The Hands-On Teacher In First - This is my last LOOKY LOU for a little while!!! and I am going out with a good one.... Marie is a ROCK STAR 1st grade teacher that is chan...
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Infographic Creation - Infographics are a great way to share data and statistics information visually and are super popular these days. {An inforgraphic is a graphic visual repres...
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Research and Collaboration - Kindergarten Style - Our team has tried very hard to learn as much as we can about the Common Core. It has been a learning curve but also a great way for us to bond as a team...
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Line Up Vinyl Dots Set {1-20} Hot Colors - OK...So by popular request I have decided to add vinyl line up dots to my TPT store (I know a lot of you make your own but I still get tons of request from...
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Simplify Your Homeschool Day - What if you and your children could have more time pursuing your passions? With chasing two active toddlers and homeschooling three older children, I st...
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New theme / Summer Lovin! - Greetings friends. I am so excited to bring you this late blog post because I can! Haha! Yep, I am officially on summer break. I have been out since 2:30 p...
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Teach Like a Pirate ... A Summer Book Study - Aaarrrggghhhhh you ready??? What do you call a pirate who skips class? ...... Captain Hooky! Why does a pirate take so long to learn the alphabe...
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Give Me 5 Strategy - Did I hear, “Give me five”? When my students hear “Give me five”, they automatically know exactly what I am talking about. At the beginning of the year o...
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Father's Day - Friends~I have been hunting around for some Father's Day ideas for my kiddos to make for my hubby. There are so many cute ideas and crafts out there! Che...
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Classroom Set-Up {then & now} - I was reading a post from Erica Boher and had to laugh out loud at a comment one of her pictures got on Pinterest. The pinner said "Perfect 1st grade clas...
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Teaching Addition and Subtraction Together - Are you struggling with how to successfully teach addition and subtraction at the same time, while ensuring that students reach mastery of the basic fact...
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Accessible Mathematics – I Got The Power! - I had mentioned this book Accessible Mathematics: Ten Instructional Shifts That Raise Student Achievement in a previous post and I had also mentioned tha...
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Teach Like a Pirate Book Study - Introducing the Teach Like a Pirate Book Study. Chapter 1 on Passion will begin on June 11 with Mary from: [image: Guided Math] I'll be highlighting Cha...
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June Newsletter!!! (Several Exclusive Freebies!) - Happy Sunday night, friends! I wanted to stop by and give a quick reminder about the June newsletter. It's hitting inboxes tomorrow morning around 7a...
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End-of-the-Year Student Gifts and Momentos - Can you smell that? It's skin frying in the heat of summer. Can you hear that? The pool and beach are calling my name. As my first year of teaching comes t...
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June Currently - It's a new month and time to link up with Oh' Boy 4th Grade for her June Currently. 1. Everyone has raved about Dexter, but I never watched it. My husba...
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Google Tools For Teachers: Easy Technology To Help Make Your Life Better! - This post will introduce you to an entire suite of educational tools offered by Google. *http://bit.ly/17cdbDs* Google Apps for Education (GAFE) Google Dr...
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ISTE 2013 Exhibit Hall Passes - VocabularySpellingCity has 20 free passes to the ISTE Exhibit Hall to give away. If you are traveling with friends or family members who are not planning...
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Summer Early Literacy Calendars - The school year will be coming to a close for me next month! As I look at the progress my students have made, I can't help but think about how important...
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The Importance of Perseverance - In my many years in the classroom, I had the opportunity to observe all types of personalities in young children. Each child came with her own basic pers...
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Many Thoughts and Prayers... - I am sure I am joined by many who send out thoughts and prayers to the victims of the tornado in More, Oklahoma. Times like this often cause us to pull tog...
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retell literacy center activity - Cookie's Week - Something I love about my literacy centers is the choice offered to students and the ability for students to differentiate their own learning. We have acti...
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Class Party Time and a FREEBIE! - We have 3 days of school left and our class party is on Monday! The kids are so excited and I am too! I have done so many themes each year and my favorite...
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Why I Love @TenMarks Education | Reverse Summer Math Learning Loss Grades 1-10 - *Looking for Summer Math Support?* - try TenMarks... with an early bird discount - Summer is right around the corner, and like many other parents...
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Stinky Choices and Growing Kindness - If you are reading this, THANK YOU for sticking around. I cannot believe it has been so long since my last post. I think I just was in a funk. I am going t...
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How to Teach About Electricity Review - Here is my review of How to Teach Electricity for Ages 8-13 by Susan Kilbride. I have reviewed her books in the past and this is her newest book now on ...
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Alphabet Matching Game - Everyone knows that I love playing memory, or concentration with my kids. Today, I would like to share a very helpful tip when it comes to teaching the al...
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Easter Scrambled Syllables - Easter Scrambled Syllables may be used in your pocket chart center. There are 32 words in this packet. Each word is coded with a number at the top left. ...
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Sub Tub! - Now... I could've sworn I already posted this a few weeks ago, but I looked back and couldn't find the post!!!! This is a MUST share! Before I left on mate...
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Non- Fiction Book Fun With Facts ... - Hi everyone. I know that it has been so long since I did a real post about what has been happening in my classroom and I would really like to thank you ...
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Response To Text / Tracking our Thinking - Hello out there bloggy buddies! It's been a long time! Life over at the Lutton house has been busy and rather exciting. Since I've talked to you last: 1. ...
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I have a blog? What? - I promise that I still read your blogs and love so many of the great ideas that you've shared. I wish I had more time to work on mine. Maybe I'll find time...
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