Growing Potatoes in your classroom

• Post author:Casey
• Post published:July 3, 2015
• Post category:**Student Engagement**/Fall/Food/Seasons/Spring
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My class decided to grow potatoes in our classroom this year leading up to our UTZ potato chip factory. To see a post on how cool the UTZ potato factory…

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Guest Readers for the Classroom

• Post author:Casey
• Post published:July 3, 2015
• Post category:**Student Engagement**/Art/Books/Connecting with your Parents/Just for FUN/Reading
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During the school year, my teammate and I invite guest readers (parents, grandparents, family and community members) to read to the children on each Friday of the week. We use…

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Golden Specials Awards

• Post author:Casey
• Post published:May 13, 2015
• Post category:**Student Engagement**/Art/Behavior Management/Motivation/Specials
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Want to do something specials for the top classes in your school? Our school does specials awards; each specials class (gym, music, art and library) awards some sort of point…

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Test Motivation PowToon Video

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• Post published:March 5, 2015
• Post category:**Student Engagement**/Assistive Technology/Connecting with your students/Formative Assessment/Instructional Technology/Just for FUN/Motivation/Technology/Testing
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Thank you to a fellow educator, Kate Best at my school for making this quick video to help motivate our students before testing! Feel free to use and share! Thanks!…

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Author of the Week!

• Post author:Casey
• Post published:February 7, 2015
• Post category:**Student Engagement**/Communication/Connecting with your world/Instructional Technology/Reading/Technology/Tweeting
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Author of the week! Each Week the students and I pick a new Author of the Week. We use books from our classroom, the children's homes and the library (school…

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Book Recommendation

• Post author:Casey
• Post published:October 4, 2014
• Post category:**Student Engagement**/Books/Communication/Listening Center/Literacy Centers/Organization/Reading/Reading Strategies/Writing/Writing Center
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Want your students to recommend a book to their peer after they are done reading it? I made this great, quick and easy to use book recommendation form for the…

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Beat the Clock

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• Post published:December 12, 2013
• Post category:**Student Engagement**/Math
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Bio Posters

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• Post published:December 2, 2013
• Post category:**Student Engagement**/Social Studies/Writing
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Hatch Live Chicks in the Classroom

• Post author:Casey
• Post published:April 12, 2013
• Post category:**Student Engagement**/Connecting with your students/Science/Seasons/Spring
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Contact a local farm and see if they have a program where they come out and bring incubators with about 40 eggs. It is very simple, all you do is…

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SMELLIES!!

• Post author:Casey
• Post published:November 10, 2012
• Post category:**Student Engagement**/Behavior Management/Connecting with your students/Time Savers
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  Smellies are flavored chapsticks that you rub on a students hand as a reward. It is like an invisible scratch and sniff sticker. If you get the ones that hook…

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