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Spanky and the Gang Revisited

November 27, 2011 · No Comments · Common Core Standards, history, Inquiry-Based Instruction, inspirational, literacy, Literacy in Social Studies

Today I was looking for a blog post I wrote on November 22, 2009.  Several things resonate with me as I read. First, the idea of using primary source documents, the student conversations, students making inferences, and the back channel conversations. I am sitting in a fourth grade classroom sandwiched between two fourthgrade boys at [...]

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Spanky and the Gang

November 22, 2009 · No Comments · inspirational

I am sitting in a fourth grade classroom sandwiched between two fourth grade boys at pod of desks listening to an awesome interactive lecture on the first colonist to America. Eight flat desktop desks are pushed together face to face to make a working group. I am listening and enjoying the visuals Mrs. S was [...]

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