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Five For Friday

2/20/2015

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Hi everyone! Greg and I are going to share the Five For Friday post this week and give you a peek into what we've been up to!
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Urban got his second set of ear tubes on President's Day. I was pleasantly surprised at how much better he did this time! The procedure was very quick, and by 9AM he was ready to eat a donut! We spent the rest of the day cuddling on the couch watching Caillou, since he had become pretty moody from the anesthesia and developed a fever. By the next morning he was back to his old self again!
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Greg here. I’ve been making a big push away from content and towards skills-based instruction. Whether it be assessments or thinking activities, content has been backseat to how I’m asking students to develop ideas and thoughts. I ask students to create original arguments about the content, but always have a difficult time showing them what that looks like. The above idea came to me early one morning this week (you know, those mornings where you wake up with ideas already sprinting through your head), so I pulled it together rather quick. Please feel free to download and use it with your own students. Let me know if you think modifications would help.
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I ask students to analyze information in a wide variety of ways, so they looked at me funny when I assigned sketchnotes this week. For those of you that haven’t heard of sketchnotes, it’s an interesting way that students visually connect pieces of content to (hopefully) demonstrate a deeper understanding. The students were a bit hesitant, but the end results turned out quite well! 
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I was given the opportunity to be a guest blogger for GoNoodle this week! I wrote about an opinion writing challenge we did using GoNoodle brain breaks! My first graders loved it! You can check out my post here, and you can get the freebie here!
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Fellow blogger Kristin from My Carolina Classroom is celebrating her Blogiversary! Be sure to check out her blog and enter to win one of these awesome bundles packed full of fantastic products! Our Primary Sources Football Edition is part of the 3-5 Bundle!

Thanks for stopping by, and be sure to check out what everyone else was up to this week!
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Mrs. Harris link
2/22/2015 12:32:24 pm

I love your skills based instruction. It's like a version of standards based grading that is doable within the traditional confines of a county wide grading policy. I'm already racking my brain with how I can make it work within my courses!

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Cate O'Donnell link
2/22/2015 03:39:32 pm

Those sketch notes look so fun!

You guys must have really interesting conversations at home! You see kids at the beginnings and ends of their school years!

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