Last shopping trip before Cozumel!

Went shopping with my mom and sister this evening. Our version of a girls night out. And back home by 9 lol. I'm super excited about my purchases! Picked up two new books from B&N and this beautiful blue crossover on clearance at AE that $12 and some change.

So far I've read the first page of The Light Between Oceans and I am hooked. Both books were suggested by two different ladies I tutor with. Kahn is one of the biggest names in common core right now. Great information to 1:1 and flipped classroom. I meeting with my teammate nest week to get from the book Flip Your Classroom. Which one do I bring with me on my cruise? All 3 :)

We had dinner at Fresh Cafe. I had a turkey avocado wrap with a quinoa salad, and lemonade green tea. Deliciousness overload. Highly recommended!

Well, I'm out. About to curl up with one of these fab reads!

My favorite classroom apps

Since I will be trying out a flipped classroom next year, the newest common core craze, I have been spending all my downtime the last few days researching and trying out loads of website and apps in hopes to find a platform that is clean and engaging for my students. Here are a few that I have played with that have met my high standards.

	Parents can now download the ClassDojo App to monitor their child’s behavior throughout the day. I will post more details on how I used this last year. My kids absolutely loved it. Android: Search Google Play or visit www.classdojo.com/android Apple: Search the Apple App Store or visit www.classdojo.com/ios Other devices: visit www.classdojo.com/mobile
	Students take a placement test and then work at their own pace. After I created my teacher account, I enrolled myself as a "student" just to see how it work from their end... and SO COOL.  Choose your device here: http://www.scootpad.com/mobile
	"Edmodo is designed to get students excited about learning in a familiar environment. On Edmodo, teachers can continue classroom discussions online, give polls to check for student understanding, and award badges to individual students based on performance or behavior." It looks just like Facebook! Search your app store.
	Dropbox is great way to have all of your most important teacher files and folders with you at all times! Smartphones, iPads, computers, or anywhere with internet. It's all there. I have it on my home computer and my school laptop just in case I choose to keep my laptop at school. You can also share folders with another Dropbox users or just share a link to it. I use my Public folder to store information for my parents and just have a link to it on my class website. Let me refer you!

Has anyone tried or will be trying flipped classroom? Do you have any suggestions?

Flipped Classroom

Has anyone heard of this? My team will be doing it next year. Well, a modified version of it since we are in 3rd grade and at a first year title one school. I seriously love my teammates. They are fearless when it comes to trying new things.

Something else that will be different is that we will also be doing Specialized Classroom. Just our team. It's like departmentalizing, but we have to stress that it is not departmentalizing. One other teacher and I will divide up the subjects. I'm taking Humanities, that's your reading, writing, and social studies. My partner will be doing STEM (science and math). Sounds familiar, right? Not at all. We plan together. We conference with parents together. Everything goes together.

Lots of changes with the implementation of Common Core. And it's all for the best. I can't wait to start planning this school year.

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