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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"

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.

How cool is this? - shown in Mrs. Hilt's Happenings.

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

Good video to introduce histograms and how to create them.

Good video to explain how to create box and whisker plots.

Good video to explain step graphs and how to read them.

Interesting article on how best to use Khan Academy

This page contains detailed information about the Reading Street curriculum by grade level. Scroll down to view and read about Launching the ELA Block, How the Week is Organized, Correlation Maps, and many other valuable resources.

This link doesn't seem to work for me. Try this one, if you have trouble: http://old.falmouth.k12.ma.us/index.php/home/academics/english-language-arts/ela-elementary/reading-street-documents