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THE IMPORTANCE OF SETTING SMART GOALS

I am excited to go to the 5th grade classes soon! I have my tennis balls ready and a great lesson to help them learn why setting goals is so important! I’m starting the students out by having them reflect on their year and thinking about the upcoming year.   From

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GOAL SETTING FOR YOUR FUTURE–8TH GRADE LESSONS

I had the opportunity to spend 3 days in the 8th grade classrooms. Teachers had asked if I could talk to them about perseverance, getting ready for high school, and their future. After debating for several days about what to teach, I finally decided on setting goals, academic success skills,

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FRIENDSHIP BINGO

We have been talking about the qualities of a good friend in Lunch Bunch for the past two weeks, and I wanted to be able to review what we learned that was fun before moving on to another topic. As a result I made this Friendship BINGO game. My kids

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USING MINECRAFT TO HELP BUILD ACADEMIC SUCCESS

I have a student who LOVES Minecraft. OK, make that MANY students who love Minecraft. However, there is one in particular who is struggling with a class and is getting down on the fact that school is sometimes hard. I thought it would be a great idea to help by

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TALKING ABOUT BULLYING–MY 7TH GRADE LESSON

Recently, I showed my 7th grade classes a PowerPoint on bullying.  (Here is the link to request access! 7th Grade Bullying Lesson) I turned it into a movie using Microsoft Movie Maker.  While I wasn’t able to share everything I talked about with the students in this movie, it does

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Memoirs of a Goldfish

I love the book, Memoirs of a Goldfish, by Devin Scillian.  It is a sweet picture-book depicting the life of Goldfish.  Goldfish happily swim around their bowls; however, new things and fish are added every day which crowd his bowl. Goldfish has a variety of feelings, and is surprised that

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GETTING OUT OF YOUR SPACE

When I was in grad school I had a professor who told us about the “Better. Better. Great.” philosophy.  It really struck a chord with me way back when and 20+ years later, I still follow its principles. Better, Better, Great means that each day we should simply try to

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