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Texas Geography Unit
This past year we’ve been studying Texas history. Here’s the thing, I’m a firm believer in understanding geography to understand history. The geography of a state or country effects how things happen. Why am I telling you this? So you’ll understand why the very first unit of our Texas history lessons was a big long…
Teaching your child how to edit a paper
I distinctly remember in 6th grade sitting across from my reading teacher and working on editing a paper. She told me I had too many “to be words” and I needed to get rid of them. My solution was to delete all of them from the paper. In case you are wondering, she did not…
How to teach reading comprehension
I remember learning how to read passages for the TAKS test. My teacher sat us down with the short five-paragraph story and had us underline important details, character names, and all of the important information. Then we would read the questions about the passage and go back through and reread the passage again looking for…
Washington state unit study
When I was in third grade my school got Weekly Reader newspapers. They were small papers with a theme, one week the theme was Mount Saint Helens and the great volcano eruption. Somehow in my head Mount Saint Helens had just erupted. In reality Mount Saint Helens erupted several years earlier, and they were reporting…
How to write an animal report with free printable
This past week we read about platypus. They’re fascinating creatures that don’t really fit into any of our categories of animals perfectly. It’s got a bill like a duck, it’s body is rather like that of a badger, it’s tail looks like a beaver tail, it lays eggs, but it suckles its’ young (I promise…