End of Year Bulletin Boards

It's June! So many of my students absolutely love to read, and I try to encourage reading all year round, especially during end-of-year testing season. I do allow students to check out during testing season, just at the beginning of the day (our library is used for testing and as the place where students who …

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Keeping Bulletin Boards Together: An Idea (and Poetry Month!)

As a brief interlude to The Great Weeding of 2015-2016, I want to get back to my guiding words for 2016 of Create and Share. Late last week, I was prepping my April bulletin board for Poetry Month. I have pretty good organizational systems in place for keeping my bulletin board documents together in folders …

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Valentine’s Day in Middle School.

Today is a bit of an oops, as in, I probably should have posted this earlier this week when I said I was going to. With a field trip, author visit, and Virginia Readers Choice pizza party, it was a bit on the crazy side. Sticking with my "Create & Share" 2016, I want to …

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