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  • Crystal Smallwood, in her 32nd year in education, is utilizing technology in creative ways as the librarian at Jenkins Independent to promote learning for students who may not have Internet access at […]

    Enterprising Jenkins School Librarian Promotes Learning and Reading

    Crystal Smallwood, in her 32nd year in education, is utilizing technology in creative ways as the librarian at Jenkins Independent to promote learning for students who may not have Internet access at home. https://youtu.be/QZVjsv7M9ho  Crystal credits her parents, who were both...

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  • While being a student in the Paintsville School District, Laura Carroll dreamed of returning home and becoming a teacher in the district.  She is in her fifth year of teaching at Paintsville Elementary having […]

    From Paintsville Student to Teacher

    While being a student in the Paintsville School District, Laura Carroll dreamed of returning home and becoming a teacher in the district.  She is in her fifth year of teaching at Paintsville Elementary having taught 4th/5th split class, 5th...

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  • Students worked with a partner and chose from three cookie recipes. They chose the cookie that wanted to make. They had directions to follow: go shopping for the ingredients, calculate the amount of each ingredient they would need, and how much they would cost to make. We plan a culminating event where students actually bring in their cookie,…Read More

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    • I also collaborated with our talented and gifted teacher during this project. We will work together on the culminating event also.

    • After choosing their recipe, students needed to calculate the total of each ingredient they needed.
      5.NF.1-Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators (including mixed numbers) replacing given fractions with equivalent fractions in such a way as to produce an equivalent sum or difference of fractions with like denominators.
      5.NF.2-Solve…Read More

  • One of the new additions to my room this year has been white boards around the walls!!! Talk about one excited math teacher!!! The past few weeks we have been using the boards during partner work and problem solving. They love working together and I can assess while they are working right in front of me! I love it!!!

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    • This problem solving activity was a review of several skills previously taught.
      5.NBT.5-Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.
      5.NBT.6-Find whole-number quotients of whole numbers with up to four-digit dividends and two-digit divisors, using strategies based on place value.
      5.NBT.7-Add, subtract, multiply, and…Read More

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