Keep Calm and Teach 5th Grade
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I am a 5th grade teacher and blogger from Oregon. I have been teaching since 2007. I love doing yoga, working out, reading, and traveling when I'm not teaching. I'm inspired by fashion and beauty and I love bringing excitement into the lives of my students.
Keep Calm and Teach 5th Grade
7y ago
I feel like I'm constantly searching for high-quality, NGSS aligned science content for my classroom. We're going to start taking the new NGSS aligned science test next year and I've been (slowly) trying to get myself ready for the change next year. I have two resources in my store thus far for the NGSS standards. These resources are quite difficult to make because the NGSS standards require significant interpretation and analysis. However, I have finally finished my second product. Along with my energy flow/ecosystems mini book, I now have a sun, moon, earth flip book. This flip book covers ..read more
Keep Calm and Teach 5th Grade
7y ago
I've been obsessing over flip books lately! I've created at least 8 new flip books in the past 2 months and this quadrilateral flip book is one of my favorites. The hierarchy of 2D shapes (quadrilaterals specifically) always seem to confuse my students. They're pretty good with understanding characteristics of individual shapes but they have a hard time seeing how they all fit together into a hierarchy of similar attributes. I love how this flip book keeps the student focused on the hierarchy of shapes by laying it out sequentially on the flaps. It also helps students as they go through th ..read more