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Fluttering Through the Grades

Freebie Blog Hop…Minute Madness

Hey Friends!  We're super excited to link up with tons of fab bloggers today for  International Blog Hopping Day hosted by Teaching Blog Addict Who knew there was such a thing, but every day that starts with S and rhymes with Bummer (but is quite the opposite) is a holiday to us!  So, Happy International Blog Hopping Day!  Enjoy all the freebies and other hops!  Crystal over at Kreative in Kinder  is getting the freebie party ... VIEW POST

Field Trip Writing Record Freebie

One last field trip before we journey into the lazy days of summer...  We took our learning on the road for a day and became one with some other wild animals.  Hey, if you can't beat them, join them...right? Our annual trek to the zoo is an absolute whirlwind of animalness!  This trip takes us on an hour long bus ride with one mission ~ Don't lose anyone!  Bring learning to life for our little friends.  Fortunately, we had a little help keeping an eye on everyone. We got to watch the ... VIEW POST

Earth Week Extravaganza…

We've been spinning through the week celebrating our Earth, Earth, and more Earth. We've recovered nicely from our 2 mile walking field trip to the local supermarket, and moved onto more eco teacher friendly activities. We had an on-site field trip about 20 feet from our classroom today ~ We ran there! :) When we arrived {out of breath ~ us, not them} we were in awe to find the Wyland Clean Water Mobile Learning Experience.  It was 45 minutes of pure hands-on Eco-ness, as we learned ... VIEW POST

Earth Week Wildness

We feel like we hit the floor running Monday morning and are just stopping to grab a quick breath.  Only not like marathon or 10k running...No, more like one of those cartoon characters whose feet just keep spinning and spinning in place, never really getting anywhere kind of running.   After Friday's "Southern California Typhoon" (as we're calling it) hit our school, sweeping all control from our precious classroom, we had no idea what we would be walking back into come Monday morning, but we ... VIEW POST

Message Center Class Letter Writing

Around this time of the school year, we find that friendships can be tested from time to time. It seems, one minute we’re the best of friends, and the next we "Don’t ever want to be your friend ever, EVER again!”.  It’s hard to keep up sometimes...Can't we all just get along?! To help our students remember that friends make the world go 'round, we’ve introduced beginning letter writing with our “Message Center” routine. We keep a permanent Message Center station set up in our class. It has ... VIEW POST

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