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One of my colleagues recently showed me how to add borders to things that I have made to make them cute. I have decided they are now teachers pay teachers worthy.

This TPT stuff is a lot of work. But it is fun! Check out my TPT store. Please, Please, Please leave me feedback on how to make my products better.

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Cupcake Effort Rubric



Star Wars Rate Yourself to the Goal Rubric




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Text Talks

There is a really big push in our district to do text talks.

Text talks are when you read a book aloud to the class. You pick out 2 or 3 vocabulary words from the text. I start by using the word in the context of the story. I ask students to see if they can determine the meaning of the word based on the context in which it is used. The students turn and tell their partner their ideas.  Then I give a kid friendly definition of the word. I use many pictures and youtube videos help the students visualize what the word means. I give many examples of the word. The students then apply what they have learned. I usually have them draw a picture of what the word means and write the definition.

The rest of the week we review the word. I have them make personal connections with the word. I have a word association slide where the students turn and talk about the definitions of the words. I also make them go back to their notebooks where they drew their pictures and wrote their definition and I have them write a sentence, using the word correctly.

By the end of the week they have worked with the word everyday. They have applied the word by writing it, drawing it, writing a definition and using it in a sentence. The students have also made personal connections with the words.

Text talks not only help my ESOL students but they help everyone develop a better vocabulary. Text talks also help children of poverty.

I have done many text talks on 2nd grade read aloud books. I will be working this summer to make text talks on 3rd grade read aloud books.

Here is the link to my TPT store for a free download of my text talk for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. Please leave me some feedback and tell me what you think! thanks!

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"Fat Man in a Little Coat"

I want to start by saying I love the school I work at. I commute 30 minutes to and from work. I wouldn't want to work anywhere else.  We have a great school. Parent's transfer their kids to our school from other districts and schools. My own child is supposed to go to another district, but I wouldn't have her at any other school.

Although it is flattering that so many parents want their children at our school it is also a problem. Our school is overflowing with kids! For the past two years I have shared a large room. Last year I co-taught with another teacher. We had 50 kids, 2 teachers in one large room. It was great. The sense of family and togetherness we had was amazing. The students weren't just her students or mine, they were ours and I still consider them to me ours. Yeah, having 50 kids transitioning was loud sometimes. STEM and other project based learning was difficult and noisy (controlled chaos most days) but, I wouldn't have had it any other way. Co-teaching is a great experience. I would encourage anyone who is adventurous to try it!

That was in 2nd grade. I got the opportunity to loop up with my 2nd grade students. I now teach 3rd grade, and I am still in the large classroom. This year I am in here with another teacher and we have a wall. We don't have the same community as we did last year. It has been different but it has not been bad.

So, as I pack my things to leave this large classroom, because I have done my time back here, I just thought I would reflect a little.

Mrs. Engle!

Oh man! It has been a WHILE since I have last posted! A lot has happened since my last post.

 For one, I am no longer Ms. Vestal, I am now Mrs. Engle! My boyfriend of 8 years and I finally decided to get married. No, he didn't get down on one knee and propose. No, he didn't ask my dad. But, we did find cheap tickets to Vegas during an after Thanksgiving sale!



It was the fairy tale wedding I had always dreamed of! Joe planned EVERYTHING!! He picked where we stayed, ate and what we did! There was absolutely no stress! When I started looking into different places to get married in Vegas most of the places looked pretty hokey. I had a friend who had gotten married outside at the Welcome to Las Vegas sign. I told Joe that is kind of what I wanted to do. By the time I had told him that is what I wanted, he had already booked it! Great minds think alike! My only request was that we got pictures.

I bought my dress at David's Bridal two weeks before we flew out. It was the first dress I tried on. They shipped my dress right to my hotel, once again, no worries.





I found a great company that came to the hotel to do my hair and make-up. They made me look AMAZING! No worries with this company.
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The limo came right up to our hotel and took us out to the sign. Our wedding official was so fun. He was the guy who married Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton. (yeah, remember when that happened?!?!?) Hopefully Joe and my love story will turn out better than theirs did. He had also lived in Arkansas for a short period of time, so we called the Hogs! (If you aren't from Arkansas, you wouldn't understand)





The rest of the night we drove around Las Vegas and the photographer took pictures of us. It was the most fun I've had. It was a day I'll never forget. Best day of my life! No worries, no stress!



 

Enjoy some of these pictures!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You can't have one without the King!!!