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All of the kiddos wanted a “pizza” these fractions 😉⁣
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We had the best time creating our fraction “menus” and pizzas! It was so cool to see my little chefs so excited to practice math 🥰⁣ and all it took was some plastic tablecloths, paper chefs hats, and a little #imagination 🌈
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What has made you feel the joy in teaching lately?⁣
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If you love a good before and after, this might be my most drastic classroom change yet! ⁣
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Last week I moved into my new second grade classroom, and it’s crazy to say, but we’re already done with the first week of school! ⁣
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More classroom pics to come 😘⁣
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Going back to school tomorrow to start setting up my classroom 😱⁣
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In the meantime, I’ve been reflecting back on some of the adventures of this summer. I am truly feeling refreshed and ready to take on a new class of munchkins very soon!⁣
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How about you? When do you go back?⁣
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Made it #gytoxorlando

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Some might say to take the road less traveled, but sometimes it’s fun to take a selfie in a giant bean that many other people have also stood in front of 🤷🏻‍♀️😜
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Am I cultured yet?⁣

Honestly though, it was the coolest thing to see some of my favorite artists from childhood like Monet and van Gogh.

*edit: don’t know why some of the pictures didn’t show up 😭

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🎶 Go Cubs, go! Go Cubs, go! Hey Chicago what do you say? The Cubs are gonna win today! 🎶⁣
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First Cubbies game at Wrigley and last night we got to fly the W!⁣ ❤️💙
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Some of the many landscapes and views of Chicago 💙❤️❤️❤️❤️💙

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What an incredible time in Chicago so far and it’s not even halfway over!

I’m very blessed to have a Chicago local showing me around and sharing his childhood with me ❤️

Check my stories to keep up with all the fun!

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Finally getting around to posting the EPCOT drinks from my birthday last week 🤦🏻‍♀️⁣
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But I have a good reason for it! I have been much more deliberate this summer about spending time mindfully with my family. I haven’t made any new TpT activities or updated my blog, I haven’t created any lesson plans or resources, and I certainly haven’t worried about hybrid learning!⁣
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While all of those things are important, so is taking off my first summer since I started teaching ❤️☀️⁣
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Until I’m ready to start sharing content regularly again, please enjoy these photos of some of the best/most expensive drinks 😂⁣
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Birthday photo dump number one! ⁣⁣
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I had the most incredible time with my love at EPCOT traveling around the world 😉 We visited every country and ate lunch at the Biergarten in Germany. Also pictured is the surprise party my two closest teacher friends set up for me 🥳⁣⁣
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Having a summer birthday it’s always been hard to get friends together, but I loved the gift of spending time with some of the most important people in my life 💕 Here’s to many more years of love and laughter!⁣⁣
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Around the world drink photos to follow 😋⁣
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Some days you’re just trying to survive until the last bell, and other days you’re chasing down chickens in slacks and heels so a kiddo who has never seen live chickens before can pet one 🤷🏻‍♀️⁣

Swipe to see the fun! 🐓😂
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“The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.”

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Big announcement time 🎉

This week I had to say goodbye to room 206 and the wonderful memories that were made there.⁣
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I have been asked to teach second grade next school year. I tried to be positive and think of all the reasons this is a good thing:⁣
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✨I’ve taught kindergarten and fourth grade, so this will be a nice in between⁣
✨Second graders are still cute and not as smelly as the fourth graders after recess 😜⁣
✨I will be on a new team with people I haven’t gotten to work with very much yet⁣
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But let me be honest with you, I’m not excited about it just yet. I’ve been teaching for several years and I have never been on the same team, in the same grade level, in the same classroom even two years in a row. It has always been phrased as a compliment, that I am flexible and skilled enough to go anywhere, but that doesn’t make the huge adjustments and financial burden of buying developmentally appropriate materials any easier.⁣
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And I feel gypped. My first year teaching fourth grade my students got taken away from me a whole quarter early. I cried the day we found we would never be in the same classroom altogether again. And this year with the in-person classes my partner and I taught, we received one to two new students almost weekly as families decided to send their children back to school. Building relationships became nearly impossible when my partner and I were trying to learn five different personalities and their family situations every month while simultaneously trying to catch them up on what they’d missed.⁣
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This isn’t to say I won’t try my absolute best with my new students. I love teaching because of the children, and I know I will love my new second grade babies as much as I loved my kinder and fourth grade ones. In fact, I debated putting up a fake happy post announcing my new grade level, but I feel its important to be honest about the teaching lifestyle in order to support one another and bring about real change in education. The inconsistency and unknowns can be tough, but I still wouldn’t trade this career for the world 💕⁣
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If you teach second grade, what is your favorite thing about it? Looking for the silver lining 🤍⁣ ...

This past week, we said goodbye to school and aloha to summer! 🌺☀️👙⁣
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I honestly couldn’t have made it through this year without this beautiful human by my side! We started back in-person in August with me teaching ELA and her teaching Math/Science. We each had 13 kids in our homeroom classes. By the end of the school year, I had 23 kiddos in my morning class and she had 21 kiddos in hers for a total of 44 kiddos we were teaching and serving through face masks each day 😱⁣
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I posted on my story that I know my Insta involvement has been shoddy at best this school year. With everything going on between work, my instructional coaching classes through UF, and my master’s classes through FSU, Instagram dropped to the bottom of my to-do list. However, that doesn’t mean we weren’t having an amazing time in Ms. Burger’s class engaging in our fun AND standards-based lessons! ⁣
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I’m hoping to make up for time lost on here by sharing all of the socially distanced activities we did throughout our in-person school year in the hopes that my experiences can help someone else who is going back in-person this fall.
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Never forget that you are some-bunny!

Happy Monday everyone! Sir Fluffers hopes it was a fabulous one! 🐰🤍⁣
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There are writers Among Us 🧑‍🚀⁣⁣⁣
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With the kiddo’s first standardized writing test just one week away, there is no better time to make writing as engaging as possible!⁣⁣⁣
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I created this Among Us Writing Escape Room about a month ago and the kiddo’s FREAKED OUT when they saw the graphics all over the room! They were so engaged, we split it up into three consecutive days!⁣⁣⁣
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If you’re like me, you had NO IDEA what Among Us is until the kiddos introduced you with phrases like “sus.” I’ll give you the gist: It’s an online strategy game. All of the players are astronauts on a spaceship, but something is going wrong. One of the players is labeled as the imposter “among” the astronauts. The imposter is not an actual astronaut, but a bad guy looking to wreak havoc. The imposter’s goal is to get rid of all the astronauts while the astronauts goal is to figure out who the imposter is before it’s too late.⁣⁣
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(Amazing what you can learn by watching 12-year-olds on YouTube, right?? 😂)⁣⁣⁣
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I created this particular writing game because I was noticing a trend with my fourth graders. As they were rereading their own writing, they weren’t noticing simple grammatical errors. This escape room includes every part of a P.E.EL. style essay, but in each part there is an IMPOSTER 😱 ⁣⁣⁣
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The kiddo’s goal is to figure out what is wrong with each section of the essay, whether grammatical or otherwise. Once they identify the “imposter” they have to solve a puzzle to get the secret code in order to escape the space shuttle!⁣⁣⁣
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The best part: you only have to print, laminate if desired, and go! 🎉⁣⁣⁣
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This activity and all of my other writing games and practice activities are available NOW on my TpT! ⁣⁣✨Links in the bio✨
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Just a little weekend fun with my love!

I am definitely starting to feel the pressure of the upcoming standardized tests. Our writing assessment is just one week away! 😱

Last year was my first year in fourth after teaching kindergarten for a few years, and of course testing didn’t happen, so this is the first year feeling my kid’s stress when I talk about it.

I know my kiddos will do their best and I can’t control the prompt they are give, but it doesn’t mean I don’t worry for some of them under the tremendous amount of pressure we put on our kiddos.

What do my intermediate peeps do to manage the kiddo’s stress and yours?
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As promised, here are the rest of the photos of my Florida swamp transformation for our Florida History Unit!⁣
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I used light green plastic tablecloths from @dollartree to cover the windows to give the room a more dingy “swampy” look, hence why all the photos look kind of green 💚⁣
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The trees were made by one of our incredibly crafty paraprofessionals and the kiddos went on a nature hike with me to help me find all the moss and palm fronds hanging from the ceiling and around the room. ⁣
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I bought candles and small battery-powered lanterns from @amazon so when we start our lessons, we can turn the lights off and just have the green light coming from the window. I also bought fake greenery and pine cones to hang around the window and camo netting to hang from the door. ⁣
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Fake snakes from Amazon, fake water made from blue plastic tablecloths from dollar tree, and fake alligators borrowed from @sprinkleofstem and other teachers around the school completed the look for a total of about $40! ⁣
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My favorite part of a transformation is the look on the kiddos faces when they first walk in the room! Do you have any classroom transformation hacks?⁣
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