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Our Apologies: 2nd Grade Morning Work Book

We learned the hard way that font designers can create fonts that won’t save as .pdf.   Unfortunately, since we had the font installed on both computers we used to preview, the image looked fine to us and we had no idea that someone else opening the same document wouldn’t see

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Back to School Sale

We are participating in the Back to School Sale at Teachers Pay Teachers. All items (including the morning work book!) will be discounted 10% Sunday and Monday, August 12-13. Use code BTS12 for an extra 10% off (sitewide!) The code BTS12 will also work for 15% off regular price in

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Addie’s Apps: Wee A B See, Numberland and more

We’ve had the opportunity to try out some really great apps recently! Photo courtesy of Wee Society Wee A B See (now called Wee Alphas)– Another animal themed ABC app. But this one? This one is spectacular. The design is AMAZING (something you know I care a lot about, even

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2nd Grade Fluency Homework

Note: This product recently underwent a massive transformation! Read about our new and improved fluency homework in this post. Click here to download a free sampler of the newly redesigned fluency homework. Do you DIBELS? Doesn’t that sound like it should be something fabulous?  Or scandalous!   Not so much when

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mini busy bag exchange

Last fall, I hosted a pretty massive busy bag exchange with 20 of my girlfriends. We did a toddler aged and preschool aged exchange (and most of us participated in both.) Those posts have a ton of ideas and remain our most popular posts on the blog. The busy bags

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New Feature: Addie’s Apps

My recent post about Addie’s favorite apps has been extremely popular. The comments are full of great app suggestions I wanted to try out. So here’s the first installment of our feature Addie’s Apps. Let me tell you about three new apps Addie is trying out. Alien Buddies This is

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shop

Need it instantly? Visit our Teachers Pay Teachers store where you will get the download instantly after purchasing. Not in a hurry? You can purchase from our Etsy shop and we’ll e-mail it to you ASAP, usually within a couple of hours.

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Patriotic Sensory Bin

Better late than never right? I decided late that I wanted to do some patriotic themed activity with Adelaide this month, even though she's too little to understand the holiday. I placed an order for some items from Oriental Trading and the items showed up…. on July 5th. Oops! Oh

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Tic-Tac-Toe Spelling Homework (freebie)

A couple weeks ago I posted about the homework I do with my 2nd graders.  One thing that I send home each week is spelling practice.  The page is set up with a space for the students to write down their 10 spelling words for the week and then there's

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