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				 <small class="time">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Posted on Thursday, March /04/2010</small>

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<p><a href="http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/index.html">Busy Teacher&#8217;s Cafe</a> offers a free collection of themes, strategies and printables for reading, writing, language arts and math.</p>
<p>I was most impressed with the reading and writing resources.  For some reason these subjects don&#8217;t normally translate to worksheets very well, but <a href="http://www.busyteacherscafe.com/index.html">Busy Teacher&#8217;s Cafe</a> has done a fine job of creating and collecting really useful goods.</p>
<p>Since the site serves K-6, it&#8217;s also a good place to go if you have kids who are younger,  on IEPs or who have fallen behind for any reason.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not quite as polished as <a href="http://www.superteacherworksheets.com">Super Teacher Worksheets</a>, but there is so much good stuff on the site that it&#8217;s definitely worth checking out.</p>
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				 <small class="time">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Posted on Thursday, March /04/2010</small>

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<a href="http://superteacherworksheets.com/index.html">Super Teacher Worksheets</a> is one of the most complete, high quality collections of well thought-out worksheets that I&#8217;ve come across in a long time.  If that wasn&#8217;t enough, they&#8217;re also <strong><em>free</em></strong>!</p>
<p>Math, reading, writing, grammar, phonics, spelling, science and social studies worksheets are well organized, which means you won&#8217;t be wasting time trying to find what you want.  Each also comes with its own answer key.</p>
<p>Since there are numerous variations for each subject,  it should be easy to find the perfect way to present material to your students.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.totally3rdgrade.com/Flashcards/coins1.pdf">Here is a sample worksheet for counting coins.</a> Clearly, these worksheets aren&#8217;t just thrown together.  There is a lot of meat on these bones.</p>
<p>You simply must go check this out.  Now!</p>
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				 <small class="time">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Posted on Thursday, March /04/2010</small>

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<p>I saw this on CBS&#8217;s Sunday Morning and was very impressed with the concept.  In short, <a href="http://moveyourmoney.info/">Move Your Money</a> is a grassroots movement that punishes large banks for their bad behavior by making it easy for consumers to locate and move their money to smaller, local banks who are more likely to serve them better.</p>
<p>I&#8217;m currently in the process of removing my money from Bank of America.  The service they deliver sucks, their fees are criminal and it seems to be getting worse.  I&#8217;m tired of standing in long lines only to receive mediocre to unacceptable service while some bigshot banking executive spends my money getting a pedicure for his dog.  Since they clearly don&#8217;t give a damn about regular guys like me, I think it&#8217;s time to pull the plug on our (bad) relationship.</p>
<p>If you&#8217;re interested in getting a peek at what options are available in your area, just plug your zip code into the form below.</p>
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				 <small class="time">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Posted on Tuesday, February /23/2010</small>

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<blockquote><p>Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde  Uinervtisy, it deosn&#8217;t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny  iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae.</p>
<p>The  rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm.</p>
<p>Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.</p>
<p>Amzanig huh?</p>
<p>Mbaye ttha&#8217;s why it&#8217;s pbsosile to raed and garde sdetunt peaprs depiste  atciroous selpling mtaiskes!</p></blockquote>
<p>Seriously though, this example creates the illusion that Dolch sight words are more important than spelling or phonetics and <strong>that&#8217;s not quite right</strong>.</p>
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<p><strong>Little known fact:</strong> the second most sought after song available on this website is &#8220;Animals Belong in Class,&#8221; by Teacher and the Rockbots.</p>
<p>This song helps listeners differentiate between mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians and arthropods by calling out descriptive clues about each class and then asking listeners to deduce the correct class.</p>
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<p>Like most music on this site, it comes with <a title="Printable flash cards" href="http://www.totally3rdgrade.com/Flashcards/Animal%20Classification.pdf">printable flash cards</a>, <a href="http://www.totally3rdgrade.com/Worksheets/Sci_Animals_Belong_in__Class.pdf">worksheets</a>, <a href="http://www.totally3rdgrade.com/Cloze Reading/Animal Classification Cloze reading exercise.doc">Cloze reading</a> and <a title="Animal classification vocabulary study" href="http://www.totally3rdgrade.com/animals_belong_in_class_vocabulary.html">vocabulary studies</a>, <a title="Animal classification wiki links" href="http://www.totally3rdgrade.com/animals_belong_in_class_wiki.html">wiki links</a> and a <a title="Animal classification lesson plan" href="http://www.totally3rdgrade.com/lesson_plan_animal_classification.html">lesson plan</a>.</p>
<p>You can check it out more closely by visiting the  <a title="Animal classification resources" href="http://www.totally3rdgrade.com/animals_belong_in_class.html">Animal Classification web page</a> and you can <a href="http://www.totally3rdgrade.com/animals_belong_in_class.html#sales">download or buy the CD by clicking here</a>.</p>
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