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Scrabble Tiles for reading and math: students can practice their spelling / vocab words and then find their ‘amount’ based on scrabble tiles: @http://web.me.com/varkgirl/2nd_Grade/Word_Work_files/SCRABBLETILES.pdf. Protiles is a company that will donate scrabble tiles to teachers. They may be different colors, but who cares?

Taking pictures of great lessons – a few of our staff members are using their phones to capture their students working in class. If you have the capability to do this and want to share, I’d love to have them (must have permission slip), as I am making a podcast to share program highlights. Here are a few that have been sent to me: My new, favorite website is [|www.pinterest.com]. Pinterest is a virtual bulletin board that allows you to ‘pin’ things you find on the web (recipes, organizational tips, education ideas). You can also see items that other people have ‘pinned’ and go to the webpage where the idea was shared. There are often free, downloads in the education section. Several ideas for my last math workshop were found on Pinterest. Just for fun, I typed in __ Daily 5 __ and the search produced hundreds of items that teachers have created to share with others.

Wasting Math Journals – although teachers wanted to use math journals with their students, they felt they were wasting much of the composition page each day. A local hardware chain store was able to cut the composition notebooks in half for her class.