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"Okay, so also not to long ago I saw on Blog Hoppin' a teacher did a project for younger kids called turkey in disguise (sorry I don't remember the teacher, but she is so smart). So we decided since I saw it too late, to do Gingerbread men in disguise for our Christmas writing prompt. The students are currently working on stories about how they woke up and they found a gingerbread man running for his life and asking for help. In their story they must tell about how they disguised him, what they disguised him as, and how they helped him escape certain peril. They are having such a good time, they begged for extra writing time today. Anyway here are some of the gingerbread men in disguise, these are not all from my class. Our whole fourth grade is doing this project. aren't they adorable, these are just a few. There were way too many to choose from. Hopefully when they are done with the writing piece I can post some of those. I hope you all have an amazing last week before break, and as always thanks for reading! Mrs. B"

This site looks cool - found it in a quick google search for a worksheet to help my kiddos who are still struggling with converting fractions from mixed to improper. Seems like there is a whole bunch of skills here and no sign in required!

variety of sixth grade vocabulary used in a game where you have to determine the correct answer out of three and "dump" the answer into a robot's head.

There is a book that I am using with my reading group regarding this orphan train...I never heard of it. Breaks my heart - I used a youtube to introduce it to the kids. We are in the process of reading it. Two of my three kids in group are very much enjoying learning about it.

Watch this ahead of time, I think it's good - a nice outline/tutorial with some modern influences :) ...like a picture of Judge Judy

Online resources and printable worksheets for fractions. Summary:Activities involving a number line help students understand equivalencies among rational numbers. Main Curriculum Tie: Mathematics Grade 6 Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems. 1.Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities.

The Constitution and Constitution Day: A Beginner's Guide

This looks like the site Karen found, there's also a nice "manual" to histogram facts

LOVE this poster for how to respond to an open ended response...I like boxes and bullets - but this does a nice job pointing out the "evidence" from text, which seems to be an area students struggle in.

Scott Davidson (Ryan Landis' student teacher sent me this link - looks like a lot of resources for short stories, lengthier reading. fluency, writing, puzzles, etc.

A list of links to games for adding/subtracting and multiplying/dividing positive and negative integers

Summary of Differentiated Instruction with a table of strategies

This is a neat idea - have students bring in lyrics to their favorite song - then use the lyrics to figure out the probability of certain words in the song.

Use after 7.2 as a fun extension to finding probability

Here's a great idea for working with "Author's Point of View" - Point of View Comic Strips

Great lessons on story elements including a picture book, resources, and guided notes for each element. There is also a link on here to an online story mapping activities that can have info added by students and then printed out.

Use this site for Judicial Branch - students become a judge in an actual case - see how the Judicial Branch works.