Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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The Civil Rights Movement, a Journey through Time & Literature
This week we started our unit on the Civil Rights Movement! Here in fifth grade at UT Elementary we work backwards through history, starting with present day and then rewinding back to the causes for the way things are today. This is great for me, because we get to start out the year with incredibly…
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Outdoor School 2015
This was my first year to experience Outdoor School as a teacher, and it was magical. Our students had an incredible time bonding with each other and embarking upon new, unknown territory. It was so fun for me to step a little bit out of my teacher role and to be fun and silly with…
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Books that are BAE
Here they are, the books we have gone crazy for this month! When You Reach Me, Rebecca Stead This is one of our book club books, and we are loving it! Today these four ran up to me after our book club time, yelling “Ms. Green this book is so good!!” They were so excited, and I am so excited…
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We Are ChangeMakers
One of the first things we talked about in social studies this year was what it means to be a peace maker. Our school says the “peace keeper’s pledge” every morning in assembly, but I challenged my students, asking them, what is the difference between a peace keeper and a peace maker? We talked about…
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The Conversations Adults are Afraid to Have
Two and a half weeks into fifth grade, and we have already defined some pretty hard words. Some of the first words added to our dictionaries were institutionalized racism and privilege. These are words that I’m not even really comfortable defining. Honestly, most people aren’t. Last week we watched a Flocabulary video about the week’s current events,…
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A Peek into the Classroom
A peek into our fifth grade classroom after a week of learning
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Preparing for Year One
My first year of teaching starts in two weeks. I am equal parts ecstatic and terrified. I have no idea what I should be doing to prepare, so I went to the two places I could think of: books and Teachers Pay Teachers. Here are some of the resources I’ve been using: The…
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Newsela
It’s the end of the year, the very end of my time permanent substituting, and it feels like we’re just killing time. Early this morning I printed off a whole bunch of geography worksheets to keep them busy. There was some value to them, but really, I needed a time-filler. But this morning during silent…
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