Tag Archives: Teaching

My Classroom Door

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Shoes

This morning the outside of my classroom door looked like this: It is awesome and I love it.  The parent organization at my school is apparently pretty amazing and organized to have done this not just to my door, but … Continue reading →

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How do you Plot Your Lions?

Posted on April 27, 2017 by Shoes

In our classroom, we have been working on data collection and graphing.  We have spent time using tally charts, frequency charts, pictographs, picture graphs (also referred to as scaled picture graphs, just to make life more confusing), bar graphs, and … Continue reading →

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Bad Joke

Posted on April 22, 2017 by Shoes

In my classroom, we end our day with about ten minutes of a share, telling, or joke.  There is a sign-up list the students use to maintain some order in the process.  Many of the students lately have gotten into … Continue reading →

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Traveling Sideways

Posted on April 20, 2017 by Shoes

In our classroom today we were suppose to be comparing two different texts with similar themes.  The story today was of a boy named Carlos who started out really wanting a particular breed of dog.  As the story progresses, the … Continue reading →

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AzMERIT with a Side of Chocolate Cake

Posted on April 11, 2017 by Shoes

The next two weeks are AzMERIT weeks in our household. In case you do not live in Arizona and as such are lucky to not know of what I speak, the AzMERIT is a statewide standardized test that is given … Continue reading →

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Stolen Love

Posted on March 9, 2017 by Shoes

During a lunchtime discussion, a coworker of mine started telling us about a problem she was having with a couple students in her room.  Apparently they had been sneaking back into the room at the end of the day as … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – Early Pre-Christmas

Posted on December 18, 2016 by Shoes

Friday was the last day of school for two weeks (hooray!!)  In the classroom, we combined math and art to make these “Merry Math” trees.  As you can see, we have been working on the inverse relationship between multiplication and … Continue reading →

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A Long Time Gone

Posted on December 10, 2016 by Shoes

So… There is something I neglected to write about, something that has significantly affected my life and has been the cause, or partial cause, of my lack of blogging. It happened back in April. It was a one line email … Continue reading →

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Simple Sunday – Poster Making Day

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Shoes

Last Sunday was poster making day at Casa de Shoes on the Wrong Feet.  Carter had an All About Me poster to complete, Cody had his massive tri-fold Science poster to put together, and I had my small tri-fold Informational … Continue reading →

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With Criminal Intent

Posted on December 22, 2015 by Shoes

Last week on my way to work – with a basket full of carefully wrapped presents resting in the passenger seat next to me – I pulled the car over fully intending to commit a crime.  I did it for … Continue reading →

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