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My school district is testing late this year, so we have just kicked off our big testing theme. Teachers at my school voted and the winner was... "Show What You Know... Let It Go!"  I always try to do a testing bulletin board in the hallway. The past few years I have had my students create "big brain" portraits (self portraits with huge heads because they are so smart) and then we would write the test taking strategies they were going to use around the outside of their pictures. I loved this project and wanted to do something similar, so... We created "Olaf's Test Taking Tips!"  First, we drew Olaf step by step.. After the students had outlined and colored their Olaf, we brainstormed a list of "Olaf's Test Taking Tips" together. Students then copied the list on their own snowflake paper. When they finished, they glued both their Olaf picture and their test taking tips to a sheet of 12 x 18 paper.  I hope our cute little Olaf pictures brin

I have just recently started blogging and I am really enjoying Farley's Currently link-ups! Be sure to check out her blog Oh' Boy Fourth Grade . What a fun way to share!  I think I am going to purchase her Currently product in her TpT store and dedicate a bulletin board to it next year. What a great way for my students to share about themselves! Well... here is my Currently, April Edition! Listening...so, we have four dogs. They are all my babies, but I have a huge soft spot for our little beagle, Cupcake. When we rescued her she had all sorts of problems- heartworms, a urinary tract infection, she had just lost a litter of puppies, and was scared to death of everything. Bless her heart, she cowered if you looked at her. We got all of her health problems healed up, and then with the help of our other dogs and a lot of patience we got her spirit healed up, too. She is now the life of the party! She sleeps with us, and boy, can she snore!!! Listening to her right now as she is in