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Pi Day Palooza - A Collection of Ideas for Celebrating Pi Day in the Math...
You may be thinking to yourself that I've lost it. It's May. Why in the world is Sarah posting about Pi Day?!? Well, this post has been on my to do list since late February. And, then you guys all know...
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Factoring Monic Quadratics (when a = 1) Practice Activity
In the Oklahoma math standards, students are first exposed to factoring quadratics in Algebra 1. However, they are only exposed to factoring quadratics where the leading coefficient is 1. These are...
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5 New Things I Tried in my Classroom this Year
Every year I try what feels like a million new things in my classroom. Some are life changing. Others are just meh. I end up doing them one year and decide they weren't worth the effort/upkeep. Part of...
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Square in Square Puzzle
When looking through my camera roll, I recently found some pictures of a weekly magnetic puzzle that never made it up on the blog this school year. Imagine that...The puzzle is called Square-in-Square,...
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Life Lately...
Hi there, strangers. It feels like it's been FOREVER. Life has been a bit on the crazy side, and it seems like blogging is the first thing to go when life loses a sense of normalcy. And, we all know...
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#MTBoSBlaugust: Challenge Accepted
When I saw @druinok's tweet about her yearly #MTBoSBlaugust challenge this morning, I did a bit of a double take. August? How in the world is it August?!? Of course it is August. I had a doctor's...
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8 Sticks Puzzle - Printable Version and Google Slides Version
Yesterday, I bemoaned the loss of my classroom puzzle corner. I've been trying to come up with some ways to keep incorporating puzzles in my classroom in a pandemic-friendly manner. My favorite puzzles...
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Shifting my Perspective
I started writing this as a blog post about how I've been working on cultivating healthy and productive habits in my life since school shut down in March. It turned into a rambling reflection on my...
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Change of Plans
Well, my Blaugust Challenge isn't exactly going to plan. I did really well and blogged for the first three days of August. Then, life happened. And, now it's August 10th. Oops.There's been a bit of a...
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Back to School Prep
This year's back to school prep looks different than normal. If it were a normal school year, I would be spending the last week of summer laminating everything within sight. I would be spending as much...
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Digital Activities Repository
I've been blogging for over nine years now. And, those nine years have been full of resource sharing. Now, it feels like the tables have turned with the pandemic. Instead of me sharing resources with...
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Sharing my Lesson Plan Book
I got a ton of questions when I shared a sneak peek of my lesson plan book for this year. And I was even more shocked when several people asked if I could share the file I created. Why was I...
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Five Tiny Wins
It's Friday. I'm not really sure what day it actually feels like, but it definitely doesn't feel like a Friday. At the same time, I'm sooooooooooo thankful it is Friday because I'm experiencing a level...
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Monday Must Reads: Volume 65
Wow! It's been a long time since I last sat down in April to put together a Monday Must Reads post. I usually take a break from these posts during the summer, but the craziness of this pandemic meant...
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New Puzzle: Only 'Takes' and 'Adds'
I did a lot of thinking this summer about how I wanted to incorporate puzzles into my classroom this year. Over the last few years, puzzles are one of the things I've become known for sharing on my...
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Goals for the 2020-2021 School Year - PANDEMIC STYLE
Earlier this month, I shared the files and inspiration behind my 2020-2021 lesson plan book. One of my new pages for this year is a goals page. I decided I wanted to pick 5 priorities for this school...
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Monday Must Reads: Volume 66
It's Monday! For my school, that means it's a distance learning drill day. We are face-to-face Tuesday through Friday. Each Monday, we have a distance learning day to practice learning digitally in...
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