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Awards and Teacher Feedback |
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Dear Mrs. Smith, |
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Congratulations
Marie! Click on the award above to visit The Teacher's Corner Website! |
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Aloha, Proudly display the
Aloha Award to let others know that your Web site is informative,
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Dear Mrs. Smith,
First of all, let me
start by apologizing for my delay in visiting your classroom website and
considering you for this award. I had a true pleasure visiting your site
and getting to know you, your classroom, and your students. Your
creativity is demonstrated throughout the site in the overall layout,
graphics, and overall information. It is great to see teachers like you
dedicated towards incorporating technology into daily instruction. It is
with great honor that I present you with this Big Apple Award. May you
display it with pride on your site!
P.S. - I would
appreciate it if you could please provide a link back to my site on the
award www.sanchezclass.com. I
have also attached the award to this email for your convenience. Have an
awesome day!
Ms. Sanchez
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Hello & thank you for applying for my website award. I just took a peek at your site and I absolutely LOVED it!! As a fellow teacher who loves tinkering on my own classroom website, I personally know just how much time you have devoted to building your own classroom website and making it the wonderful little place on the web that it is today. So... Congratulations! Because I believe your website is more than deserving, you are a winner of my classroom website award. I have attached the image for you to upload to your site. Please link it back to my site at http://www.mrspacker.com. I will also be adding your link to my Winners page. Shelby |
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Hi Marie, I would be honored to award you the "Excellence in Education- Stellar Site Award"! I was very impressed with your site and have you linked on my teacher links and resources page as a great site to visit. Your generous sharing of ideas and resources inspired me to share even more of my small contributions, such as some of my posters as PDF's, etc. So it is with great gusto that I send you my award! Congratulations and thank you for your contributions to the online teaching community! You will be added to my award winners page. Sincerely, |
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I spent the better part of last night on your wonderful website. I would like to offer you my award to display on your awards page. Please let me know if you choose to display this award and I will include your site in my list of award winning websites. Debbie Barth Congratulations!! Your site
definitely qualifies for the "Bee"utiful Site Award of Excellence. Your
site navigates easily and is designed to be original and creative. Thanks
for making the web a better place. It is evident that you put a great deal
of hard work into your web space. You provide a wonderful resource for your
students, parents and fellow educators.
Best
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Feedback from Fellow Educators |
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Dear Marie, Recently doing a search for ideas on nightly reading for my first grade students, I came across your website-what a wonderful site you have. It has inspired me to create one that is as informative as yours for my parents. May I copy your behavior management program? I would like to put it in place next year. Thanks again for sharing your procedures for others to use as their models.
Barbara |
| Hello Marie, I was tooling around the internet late one night and found your website. It is EXCELLENT and has helped me a great deal.
Thanks so much for your time, |
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Hi! I am a third grade teacher in
Englewood, Florida & I found your website! WOW! It is awesome! Thank you....Kelly Anne
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| Hello Marie, I was tooling around the internet late one night and found your website. It is EXCELLENT and has helped me a great deal.
Thanks so much for your time, |
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I just want to thank you for making an
absolutely wonderful website. I am a 4th year teacher who teaches 2nd and
3rd grade (I have also taught a combined 1st and 2nd grade class). Your
website has helped me find resources and confirmed that I am doing some
things right(by looking at what you are doing!). I already have ideas with
how to improve my class from your site. Thanks! Keri Souderton Charter School |
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Good Morning, I am a teacher at Gates Chili Central School District; I was looking for a math race this morning, and I stumbled upon your site. I just want to say WOW. It's awesome, and I plan on having my students check it out. Thank you so much for the time you put into this and for making it available to the rest of us! Have a good day,
Annemarie |
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Marie, I saw your website through Eduhound. What a wonderful job you did on this! I loved all your links for subject areas! What fun! What a great idea--your STAR books--great organization! I was a long-term sub in 3rd grade 2 years ago and absolutely loved it. I'm currently subbing and working on my Master's in Early Childhood. I can hardly wait to get back in the classroom fulltime!
Becky |
| You have an excellent website
with many valuable resources. We are doing a family math presentation at
Minetto and I would like to put your website down as a resource. Is this OK
with you?
Nancy |
| I LOVE your website.
Do you mind if I use some of your information on my website? I am a third
grade teacher as well. Thank you! Teri |
| Thank you so much!
Your website is AMAZING! It must have taken hours and hours to complete!
You inspire me! :o) Teri |
| Hi Marie! My name is Katie and I am a first year first grade teacher. I have got to compliment you on your site... it is awesome and I someday hope to have a classroom site as great as yours!!!! I am loving every minute of it so far! I was trying to download the things that come with your Sub binder but I was having no luck off of the website. I was wondering if you would be willing to attach them to an e-mail for me. I found so many great resources on your website and I cannot wait to adapt them for my first graders! I love your S.T.A.R. books too; I have been looking for one that works in my class and I think I might have found the one to use in the Fall. Thanks for sharing! |
| Hi, Marie! I found your site along one of those “trails” we follow as we diverge from our original search! Don’t you love those “trails”?! You find the neatest things when you just surf! I love your site. I, too, am a teacher and am in the process or recreating our classroom website. I love the way you have done your birthday page, adding a “quiz” at the end. I followed your link to JavaScript, but could not find the application. I also checked under “source” to see if it was named in your html, but could not find it there either. Would you be able to tell me the exact name of the script so that I could find it, or just email the script to me in a Word or Notepad document? I would really appreciate it. I love it when I see teachers doing something different that challenges me to do the same. Thanks for the challenge! I look forward to hearing from you! Have a
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Hi! I am Monica. I teach in Virginia. I am switching to third grade next year. I haven’t been in third grade since I student taught 16 years ago (YIKES). Your website has been so helpful to me. It has made my mind race with ideas. I LOVE teaching as well. I know I was put on this earth to teach. I would love permission to use your S.T.A.R. notebook idea with a few modifications. I teach in a small private school where our children start switching classes and using lockers in 5th grade. It is sometimes overwhelming for the children; forgetting things, losing items, etc. I think your idea would help with this anxiety. Thanks for ALL the help I gained from your website.
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| Mrs. Smith, I love your website. I have created a top list site of classroom websites, and I think your site would be a great addition that I would love to share. f you are interested the web address is http://schooldays.top-site-list.com/ My classroom site address is http://teacherweb.com/AR/SouthsideElementary/MrsTinaDunn/h0.stm Sincerely, |
| Marie, I just had the privilege of looking on your web-page and admiring the work you have put into allowing students, parents, and staff to be part of this journey. What wonderful learning will occur by the effort you have put into this endeavor. You are a truly amazing educator. Thank you for the extra time and effort you put into making learning fun for our students. You are amazing! Lynda |
| I have to
comment on your web page. It is one of the best teacher web sites I have
ever seen. I have downloaded some of your information as I also use the STAR
binder in my classroom. Thank you so much for creating such a useful and
exciting web site!
Brooke-2nd grade special Education Teacher |
| Ms. Smith, I just wanted to let you know that I really appreciated seeing your great ideas on your website. I loved how you organized your S.T.A.R. book. I am planning on using the book this school year and am very excited. I wanted to share a great website with you called donorschoose.org This website is great because you are able to submit mini-proposals for items you may want for your classroom. It literally takes 10 minutes to write what you want and how it will be used. I actually wrote a proposal for S.T.A.R. book materials and it got funded. Check it out. Thanks! Inez |
| Hi Marie, My name is Laura. I am a first year teacher and will begin teaching in the fall. I was looking on your website and loved the STAR books! I know you said you use a three ring binder, but what type of folders to you put inside the three ring binder? If you could let me know that would be wonderful. Thank you so much! Laura |
| Your site is
fantastic! I would really like a copy of your class handbook. I also wanted
to know if you think 2nd graders could do S.T.A.R. binders? I'm going to do
centers for the first time this year, do you have any suggestions. I taught
3rd grade in summer school, so I know a lot of the same ideas work for each
grade level. I've been teaching for 15 years, but I'm always interested in
new ideas. My daughter will graduate in Dec. to begin her teaching career.
I've also found another site that you might be interested in www.mrs.carosclass.com It is excellent, too. My school is a Title l school in Abilene, Texas. After August 27th, when our school year starts back, you can go to our school website by either going to www.abileneisd.org and then going to schools to Bowie to campus website or www.abileneisd.org/schools/bowie.asp to campus website, it was down when I checked it just now, but it will be up and running by August 27th. We also have a lot of good links. Thank you, |
| Dear Mrs.
Smith, I was doing a search on writer's workshop tonight and found your site. WHAT A BLESSING! THANK YOU! I am teaching 2nd grade this year for the first time, and found your site to be so encouraging! I feel like I can do writer's workshop now! I will be teaching with 3 veteran teachers, who seem to have all of their ducks in a line! I feel very pressured to try and do all the "stuff" that they are doing (in reality, I realize that's not going to happen this year!). I appreciate your willingness to share your wonderful ideas AND templates! What a lifesaver! Thank you soooooooooo much! Pam |
| Ms. Smith, My name is Caitlin and I am currently enrolled at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. I am graduating in May with my undergraduate degree in Elementary Education. Anyhow, I came across your website when I was doing some research for my classes and I wanted to let you know how wonderful it is. I love how you have everything arranged and explained in great detail. This is a great resource, especially to me as an upcoming teacher looking for ideas and strategies to begin my own classroom. I have saved your site and hope that you would not mind if I shared it with my classmates. I hope that your new school year is off to a great start, or will have a great start if you have not yet started. Thank you for the work you put into this site and all the excellent ideas and strategies it presents!
Caitlin |
| Dear Ms.
Smith:
I am a new teacher (changing careers) and am teaching 3rd grade (bilingual). I found your website and would like thank you for sharing your experience and ideas! Josephine |
| Hi Ms. Smith, I just came across your wonderful website as I was looking for teaching ideas and I just had to email you to say that I think the S.T.A.R. books are such a fantastic idea. I am an elementary teacher in Ireland (we say primary school teacher) and I think I will start using these with my class as soon as possible. Thanks for sharing your great ideas, your class must love coming to school! Regards, Aoife P.S. can you tell me the name of any website that sells the zippered pouches you use for your S.T.A.R. bucks pouch? Thank you. |
| Dear Ms.
Smith,
I am a 2nd grade teacher on Long Island, and was looking for an easy way to begin a more simple approach to writers workshop. I teach an inclusion class and wanted to have specific guidelines set up and your website is absolutely wonderful. Thank you so much. I hope you don't mind that I borrowed it all! Sincerely, |
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I absolutely love your webpage! I am also a third grade teacher in Highland, IN. I was wondering if you could help me get started. It looks like an easy way to keep the parents and students informed! I know it is not easy to set up, but I am sure once you do that, then adding to it is simple. PLEASE, can you help me set up a fabulous site like yours? Are there templates? How did you set up your home page?-- Holly |
| Ms. Smith, I'm an elementary education student at State University College at Oneonta. I was browsing the Internet to learn more about NYS Standards to help my roommate with a research paper. Your website helped so much that I had to e-mail it to my literacy teacher. I asked her to please show your page on standards when she covers this topic next semester. She loved it and had me present my findings to the class this morning. Aside from explaining NYS Standards, your website offers so much to teachers and teacher candidates. I just wanted to let you know how amazing I found your website to be. I also distributed your website address to my class so they are able to use it in the future. Thank you, |
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Hi Marie, A few weeks ago I came across your website and placed it in my "favorites" listing. I came into school on a Saturday to update my grading for report cards. Of course I take "101 side trips" and one was to view your web site. It's fantastic to say the least! You have a lot of information that has proven helpful to me. Thanks again for sharing such a fabulous web site! Kathy |
| Dear Mrs.
Smith, My name is Ashley and I am a recent graduate from St. Joseph's in Patchogue on Long Island, where I earned my teaching degree. I have yet to find a job but to keep up my hopes and to get ideas for when I do finally acquire a job, I look on other teacher's pages. I must say that I was so excited when I came across your page. I loved all of your ideas, especially the S.T.A.R. book. It is so nice to see all of the time you put in to make all of the templates and to personalize all of the children's belongings. Seeing ideas and rooms like yours only makes me more determined to find a job to be a great teacher like you look like you are. Thanks for the great ideas and the inspiration!! Sincerely, |
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Marie, This is the BEST website of helpful information I have EVER seen for teachers. You are AMAZING! I am moving after 12 years of Special Education to Regular Education in the Fall of 2008 (4th Grade) and will definitely pull from your ideas! THANK YOU for sharing everything with others. Have a great rest of your year! Kelly
P.S. If you have any info. on the younger grades B.E.E. portfolio, I have a friend who teaches Kindergarten who would LOVE to hear about it :o) |
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Jennifer |
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morning! I just wanted to tell you how much my fellow second grade teachers
like your spelling dictionary. We would very much like to print a copy or
two for each of our classrooms. However, the A page seems to be missing.
Would you, by chance, be willing to attach a copy of it in an e-mail to me
so that I may print it out? Thank you so very much!
Blair Flynn |
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love your site. You have provided so much information. Thank you so much!
Virginia Garcia |
| Hello, I happened upon your webpage and I wanted to tell you what a fantastic resource it is! I'm moving from a pre-k teaching position to a 3rd grade. Your site has helped me with a few ideas to make the transitions easier. You sound like a fantastic teacher! Thank you for the hard work you put into your site. Cassie |
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I just wanted to let you know I love your website! I teach a 2nd/3rd grade class in Dalton, Georgia and I am always looking for cool ideas to use in our classroom. The STAR program you use for behavior and such, is that a program or something you created on your own? (Love it) Have a great weekend! Mindy |
| Hello Ms.
Smith, I have just spent a great deal of time looking at your wonderful website. All I can say is WOW! I am a 3rd grade teacher as well. Next year will be my 7th year teaching but only my 2nd year in 3rd grade. I just love the systems you have designed for your classroom and was hoping to get your permission to use some of your templates for my own use. I am sure that is why you have linked them on your site, but I always think it's a good idea to ask and then credit the wonderful source. Just reading your site and your hearing about your classroom systems have helped grow me as a teacher. Thank you for the time and energy you put into this, I have really learned a lot. Sincerely, Jenny |
| Mrs. Smith,
I am going into my eighth
year of teaching. This year I will be teaching third grade. In my down
time I search the web for ideas! Your website is amazing! I love your
links and ideas! I would like to use a few of your ideas with a few
tweeking to fit my district. I would like your permission to do so. I hope
to keep in contact, because I would love to have a class website like yours. Michelle |
| I am a third grade teacher in
Missouri. I wanted to let you know I used some of your ideas and wording on
the Star book on my web site. Therefore, i am giving you credit. Thank you. PS Great web site you have |
| Hello, my
name is Sandra and I am a fellow third grade teacher. I will be teaching the
third for the second time this fall. I am definitely nervous and want to do
the best job possible as I feel that it is my duty as their teacher. I have
been online the past few days looking for ideas and inspiration for my
classroom and came upon your website. I am in complete awe! I can only wish
to one day have a "virtual" classroom like yours. I would love to be able to
contact you occasionally and get some feedback from you if possible. Please
let me know if that's okay. Thank you, Sandra |
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Hi, My name is Ginger. I am sure you get lots of emails about your awesome website and your class. I am another admirer. I will be teaching third grade for the first time this year. I am fascinated by all you do, your organization skills, your S.T.A.R. books, the whole to-do. Do you mind telling me what the letters and numbers are on your schedule board (D 1)? Also, do you change your schedule each day on the board to match what activities will take place that day? One more: What exactly do you use for your morning messages? I can’t thank you enough for sharing. You have really alleviated a lot of my worries! Thanks so much, Ginger (Hogansville, GA) |
| Hi! My name
is Leslie, and I just happened to stumble upon your very valuable website! I
am a new teacher who will be teaching a second- and third-grade multi-age
classroom in the fall. I love a lot of your teaching ideas, and I can't even
begin to tell you how wonderful it is for you to share your time-tested
ideas with those of us who are just beginning!
Anyway, I absolutely loved
a lot of the clip art that you use on your forms, particularly, the ones
found on the parent letter about the S.T.A.R. Book and the Unity poem. Would
you be interested in sharing where you found the images? I would truly
appreciate it! Leslie |
| Two VERY BIG thumbs-up. :) I love this website so much, I don't know where to start in my explanation! |
| #1- I admire
your website very, very much. You are featured at
http://www.teachingvision.org/classrooms.html. Some of you already know
me; however, this is an e-mail to most of the teacher sites I admire. You
may hear a lot that teachers love your website, but it's still great to know
you have touched someone with your efforts. :) #2- Thank you for very much inspiring me to go farther with my website. Victoria Moton Elementary School Brooksville, FL |
| Hi! First,
let me say that I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your site! You have so many great ideas
and I’m tickled that you were willing to share them! I’m a 2nd grade teacher
and I love to check out ideas from other teachers that I might be able to
use in my classroom. I was wondering if you could tell me where you
purchased or how you made your stars for your star studded behavior pocket
chart. I need to try something more positive in my classroom and I love
your idea!
Thanks for your time and thanks again for sharing! |
| Hello, I just wanted to say thanks for posting all your awesome resources on the web. I'm trying to lesson plan for the first few weeks of school and your resources have taken care of must of it! Thank you! Ekta |
| Ms. Smith, I was just hired as a third grade teacher three weeks before school is about to start. This will be my first teaching job. I’m feeling very overwhelmed, but your website really informed and inspired me. I just wanted to let you know that. Thank You for sharing your
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| Marie, I hope this finds you well, I'm sure your probably getting ready for the new school year. As our year has just started I was thinking about how wonderfully you responded to our Flat Stanley Project that my Aunt Dewey passed along. All of our 65 students ooohed and ahhed over the pictures... and so did I. You really went above and beyond for us. Just today I realized that I may not have thanked you. I know that I talked to my aunt about it but I couldn't remember if I had emailed you. Well, better late than never. THANK YOU!! We had so much fun learning about your school and seeing how different it was compared to ours. I have also been checking out your web page. What an inspiration! I love all of the information on China since that is the country we are studying this year. I will probably be using your page this year as a resource! Enjoy the rest of the summer!! Sincerely, Jenna (Dewey's niece) |
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Dear Mrs.
Smith, I just wanted to say thank you for sharing all of your wonderful printables in cyber space. I don't know if your intentions were to help teachers as well as your families but they have helped me tremendously. I have been teaching for 20 years and I somehow stumbled onto your site last year. What a difference some of your ideas have made in my classroom! I felt more prepared and organized than I have ever felt. So with school starting tomorrow and my printables in tow I am feeling really prepared and excited. I just thought I should say a little thank you for being so generous to other teachers. Sincerely, |
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Ms.Smith, I absolutely love your quick word dictionary! I was viewing it on your site, and noticed a few groups of letters missing. Is there a possibility that I could gain a revised copy of this? Your web site is WONDERFUL! Thank you for sharing!! Thank you, |
| Ms. Smith -
I just had to write and tell you how impressed I was with your web site, and
also how helpful the information on Writer's Workshop was to me! I am a 6th
grade teacher at McCracken Middle School in Bluffton, instituting Writer's
Workshop for the first time in my language arts classes. The links, forms,
and templates just made my life infinitely easier! Best wishes to you, and
thank you again. Leslie |
| Hello
Mrs. Smith, I teach 3rd grade and absolutely love your website. I have used several of your ideas and I feel much more organized and able to involve parents more easily. I have a question about the clip art or graphics section.
Michelle Leingang |
| Mrs.
Smith I first want to thank you for everything you have provided me with on your website as a first year teacher. I have modified many of your ideas for my class. You have many helpful tools and I appreciate the fact that you are willing to share it on the web. I am originally from Western New York in Allegany County. Your website really caught my eye when I saw Red Creek because my step father attended Red Creek Central school. I just recently finished my master's in literacy and moved to Rowan County North Carolina where I am teaching third grade. Your website has really helped me with learning how to manage my class and run some of my lessons, but I am still struggling with some aspects. Although I know many teachers could offer me good advise at my school, I really like the way you manage your classroom, the ideas you have about teaching, and the organization I can see you have from information provided on your website. If you have any free time to answer questions I have noticed that we are using the same reading series and I would love to know how you run your literacy block. Although we are not a reading first school we still use the Houghton Mufflin series. I am also struggling with managing writer's workshop smoothly. I have used all of the resources you provided on your website, but I still wonder what students should be doing when they finish early. Do you have them write about the next topic on their list? What do you do so that students are not interupting you while you are conferencing with other students? Do you give them a lesson on how to peer conference? I guess I struggle to see a clear picture of what writer's workshop should look like. I completely understand if you do not have the time to write back. Most importantly I wanted to say thank you for sharing your ideas. You show the work of a truly wonderful teacher and a teacher I want to work to become. Thank You- |
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I still like to visit class sites created by smart teachers and I am a retired teacher. I suppose it is because I had one for so many years as a teacher. Enjoyed my visit! Susan |
| I just
wanted to thank you for all of your hard work and sharing it with others. I
teach third grade in Endicott, NY. I will be using lots of your resources. Thanks a bunch, Lauralee |
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Marie, I have just spent well over an hour perusing your website!!! It is wonderful!! I am a teacher in Dallas, TX. I taught for 31 years, retired and worked as an educational consultant...but couldn't STAND being out of the teacher role, so I'm back this year!!! I'm teaching in a private school and loving every minute of being "back home" in the classroom again!! Thank you so very much for such a wonderful website!! Elizabeth |
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Just wanted to drop a note to
let you know I LOVE your site! I just finished my first year of teaching and
would have loved to have your site before I started. All of your stuff is so
easy to follow and having pictures and links helps a new teacher so much. I
have sent your site address to my 3rd grade team and hope they will want to
use some of it too! I will be implementing the writers workshop this fall for the first time in this grade and cannot wait to try out all of the neat tools you have put together. Thank you again from another Mrs. Smith Dana |
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Hi, My name is Karen and I found your page (http://www2.rccsd.org/MSmith/ScienceFireSafety.htm) while researching some fire safety information. I'm a science teacher and we're always trying to educate the students about chemical and fire safety. Your page had a lot of information so I wanted to say thanks for putting it together! I also wanted to pass along a great page that I think you should add to your resource list: http://www.guardianinsurance.com.au/ArticleLibrary/Ultimate-Guide-Fire-Safety.aspx It's got a huge list of tips and links about fire safety geared towards kids. Thanks again :) Best, Karen |
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Hi Marie, My name is Katie and I am currently working with my collaboration teacher, Holly. I just wanted to thank you for your wonderful website. I used the S.T.A.R. Books and love that whole process. You are an amazing teacher. We are now going to tackle a Student Handbook. Thank you for your wonderful ideas! Enjoy the rest of your summer- Katie and Holly |
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Hi, I don't mean to be a bother but I wanted to provide some feedback on your page: (http://www2.rccsd.org/MSmith/Math.htm) It provides excellent information and I've incorporated it into a couple Elementary Math lesson plans as a reference for my students to utilize- thank you. I came across another page during my research and wanted to point it out because I thought you may want to take advantage of it as an addition to your page: (http://www.barcodesinc.com/articles/math-logic-problems.htm) Its a very resourceful/informative page for not only elementary students, but people of all ages which I appreciated. Just wanted to pass it along. Kathy |
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I just wanted to take a
moment to thank you for the inspiration your class web page has given me as
a teacher. You are obviously a wonderful teacher and I have so enjoyed
looking at the way you organize your room with such purpose. I am teaching
3rd grade for the first time this year and I have been encouraged and very
inspired by the way you run your classroom.
Keep up the great work,
your students are blessed to have such an awesome teacher. |
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