Here’s how we’ve been spending the past week in Year 1. 1.Smartie Spellers I’ve been

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Teaching young students to solve addition and subtrction word problems can be tricky. That’s because
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First up, can I give a big thank you to the lovely ladies who have

For many years, classroom reading strategy displays featured cute animal characters that reminded students to
This week in math we were working on non-standard measurement, focusing mostly on length. I
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In December, I wrote a post detailing some of the party games I play on

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