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Friday, February 26, 2021

Poetry Sisters Write Metaphor Poems

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This month's challenge was to write a metaphor poem using metaphor dice .  This year we are meeting once a month on Zoom to write togeth...
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Friday, January 29, 2021

It's a New Year With My Poetry Sisters!

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It's a new year with a new set of writing challenges with my poetry sisters. Even better than continuing on this writing journey is our ...
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Friday, December 25, 2020

Capping the Year With My Poetry Sisters - Wistful Poetry

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It's our last challenge for 2020, which this time around  was to write to the theme of "Wish I'd Been There," or to an his...
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Friday, November 27, 2020

Poetry Sisters Look Back

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It's another looking back month in our year of hindsight/foresight. I chose to revisit a poem from April 2019.  While I didn't revis...
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Friday, October 30, 2020

Poetry Sisters Write Naani

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This month's challenge was to write a naani with an autumn theme. A naani is a 4-line poem containing between 20-25 syllables. I had a ...
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Friday, September 25, 2020

Poetry Sisters Ponder the Hippo

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The challenge this month was to write to the word ponderous or the image of a hippo. I decided to play around with an old quick write prompt...
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Friday, August 28, 2020

Poetry Sisters Look Back

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This month's challenge was to pick one of our old poems to revise and/or write a new poem in conversation with it. I went back to a post...
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Friday, August 21, 2020

#MTBoSBLaugust - Moo-ve It Multiplication

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Today I'm sharing another multiplication game. This is a variation on a bump game. It has a cow on it, so that's where Moo-ve it com...
Thursday, August 20, 2020

#MTBoSBLaugust - Multiplication Four-in-a-Row

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I have a number of multiplication games that students can play to practice basic facts. I really like Multiplication Four-in-a-Row. Students...
Wednesday, August 19, 2020

#MTBoSBLaugust - Digital Shut the Box

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Have you every played Shut the Box? When my son was young, we used to eat at a little hole-in-the-wall restaurant/bar for breakfast. There w...
Tuesday, August 18, 2020

#MTBoSBLaugust - Subitizing and Recognizing Number Combinations

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In working to develop number sense in our second grade students, we spent time on activities that encouraged students to visualize numbers a...
Monday, August 17, 2020

#MTBoSBLaugust - Race for a Flat

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I think every elementary teacher has played Race for a Flat , that game where students learn to regroup and exchange 10 ones for 1 ten, and ...
Sunday, August 16, 2020

#MTBoSBLaugust - Three-to-Win Games

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 I like games that allow students to practice basic facts in a strategic way. Three to Win is a simple, quick game where students practice b...
Saturday, August 15, 2020

#MTBoSBLaugust - Place Value Games: Closest to 100

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 I like place value games that ask students to think about the value of a digit. One of my favorite games is called Closest to 100. In this ...
Friday, August 14, 2020

#MTBoSBLaugust - Strategy Games: Alquerque

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I love to teach kids to play strategy games. They're great for indoor recess and for encouraging mathematical thinking. They require kid...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

#MTBoSBLaugust - Expanded Notation and Place Value Instruction

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Several years ago I made a set of place value strips to help students think about expanded notation and decomposing numbers. I created three...
Wednesday, August 12, 2020

#MTBoSBLaugust - Thinking About Magnitude and Number Relationships

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A few days ago I found myself down an internet rabbit hole and came across this reply to a tweet about random facts: Of course, this tweet...
Tuesday, August 11, 2020

#MTBoSBLaugust - Why Do We Learn Mathematics?

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I love this TED Talk by Arthur Benjamin on The Magic of Fibonacci Numbers. I particularly like the introduction. Here's how it begins. ...
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Monday, August 10, 2020

#MTBoSBLaugust - The Hundred Board vs. The 0-99 Chart

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In my work with preservice teachers I find myself thinking a lot about the language of math and the models we use. I spent even more time t...