About Me
- Fran Richardson
- Welcome to my blog!I'm a teacher of fourth graders in a beautiful, small, rural town. I moved here a few years ago, but I have taught 19 of my 24 years in this same small town that is now my home. My experience is in teaching second, third, and fourth grades with one year in sixth grade. I am always reading, learning, and reflecting on what goes on in my classroom. I love the work that I do with the parents, my fellow teachers, and most all-my students.I hope you will enjoy reading my blog.
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Make and Share Slideshows using iPhoto and Dropbox - Every year I create an end of the year slideshow to show at our final Tasty Tuesday (which I'll be blogging about soon, promise!) Let's start at the start....51 minutes ago
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Sign Up Now for Free at Pillsbury's Not-So-Secret-Club! - * Pillsbury's Not-So-Secret-Club!* *Description:* Sign up for FREE for Pillsbury's newsletter & become a member of Pillsbury’s Not-So-Secret-Club! You’...
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Discover Great Common Core PD - *guest post by Johnna Weller, Ed D.* *guest post by Johnna Weller, Ed D. ** * *Note from Vicki: Johnna from Discovery Education, wrote the recent post 15 ...
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Think for Yourself (Part 3) - Odd Duck by Cecil Castellucci illustrated by Sara Varon :01 First Second, 2013 review copy provided by the publisher Theodora believes that she will neve...10 hours ago
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The Voices Made Me Do It - Last week I had the good fortune to be on the panel that Deborah Heiligman wrote about Tuesday. Preplanning conversations and postmortem drinks at the ve...
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Drop Your Pebble in the Water for Oklahoma - The ripple of a pebble is powerful. I ran across this poem by Joseph Norris {HERE} and thought it reflects the inspiring amount of relief effort going on fo...
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Sidewalk Chalk and Silly Straws! (and FREEBIES) - I can't believe I'm about to type this... Today was the last day of school for the kids! It is absurd how fast this year went by! But those last few...
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What’s On Your Card? - What’s on your business card? Does it say “Teacher” or does it say more? Inspires curiosity. Cultivates dreams. Supports kids. Dreams big. Loves to learn. ...1 day ago
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Plan this field trip NOW!!!! - Today we had the best (and easiest!) field trip ever! In fact, we did not even leave the classroom! Cisco, a certified therapy dog, came to visit all of ...
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Monday Poetry Stretch - Ideograms - This in one of my favorite May Swenson poems. *Cardinal Ideograms* by May Swenson 0 A mouth. Can blow or breathe, be a funnel, or Hello. 1 ...2 days ago
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Five for SATURDAY! - 1. BIG News!! Started this--I am finally ready to think about other grade levels!! (Only took a few months........) I am in the very early stages--hope t...
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Scripture Memory Program - Last summer, my wonderful friend Nicole from One Magnificent Obsession and I met to brainstorm ideas on creating a scripture memory program. We could not ...
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Five For Friday - Test Prep and Angry Birds - You know what I love even better than Friday? Friday before a long weekend ... ahhhhhhhhh ... much needed!!! It's been a long week ... but a fun week ....
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Freebie Friday is Getting Ready for the Summer too! - Summertime and the living is easy! Well it may not be summer for all of us, but it is summer for some! Lucky, lucky, lucky you! Teaching Blog Addict is h...
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Why I Love @TenMarks Education | Reverse Summer Math Learning Loss Grades 1-10 - *Looking for Summer Math Support?* - try TenMarks... with an early bird discount - Summer is right around the corner, and like many other parents...
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TpT Teacher Appreciation Sale! - my entire store will be on sale! super cute sale graphic by Beth from Zip-a-dee Designs. happy teacher appreciation week! C:\Users\TeamTabb\Pictures
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A quick hello. - It's been a while so I thought I would share some of my friends new handmade cards on ETSY. SPARTACUS 3D Handmade Accordion Photo Card Downton Abbey Handm...1 month ago
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Grading Papers in the Fast Lane! - Okay, I am sure you all have many ways to correct and grade student work, but I am all about speed these days! I divide student work into three groups: *1)...
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Major life changes... - It's been a while since I last posted, mostly because I needed to unplug and give some attention to myself and some major life changes that are happening r...3 months ago
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Non-Fiction Know-It-Alls - It's been several months since my last blog post. But, no excuses! Just happy to share again... We just started really getting into non-fiction in my class...
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Buh-Bye 2012! - So I'm just about T-minus seven hours away from the official start of 2013 and I feel compelled to write some sort of reflective genius about the year. Ho...4 months ago
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Auntie Claus Preview and our Polar Express Day! - I wanted to give a sneak peek at our Auntie Claus unit that my friends, Michele and Elana (Lana) and I are finishing up for teacherspayteachers. We are p...
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A Scary Teacher First - Wow, it's been a while! I was hoping that with a sweet, new class and a great new job, I'd feel like blogging a bit more. It seems like I have only enough ...6 months ago
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My Miracle, a Freebie, Proud Momma, & 100s of Box Tops! - A few weeks ago I was in class and we were talking about dimes and quarters when one of my darling EL (not designated, but definitely EL!) student raised h...
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It's a Lifestyle - I have noticed that everything I do is not a career or an event or even an activity/ chore.... it's a LIFESTYLE. The problem is making sure my lifestyle c...8 months ago
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Calling all teachers!!!! - Alright, this is kind of a poll... I'm about to *finally *open my TpT store, but I'd like to know from y'all what kinds of things you'd like to see first a...9 months ago
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Tennessee's Teacher Evaluation - What a mess! http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/07/education/tennessees-rules-on-teacher-evaluations-bring-frustration.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&smid=fb-share1 year ago
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Five Friday Freebies - Week 22 - f you are not a TN member, membership is FREE. Here is a link to register so you will be able to download. *Teacher Notebook Registration *Click on log in...
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Connecting Children With Nature: Learning About Trees - Our playground is surrounded by an abundance of beautiful trees, which always seem to captivate my very curious kindergartners. Who would have guessed that a...1 year ago
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New Weblog - I have a new weblog at http://love4thgrade.blogspot.com . To save myself $100.00 a year, I am going to stick with just that weblog and close this one the e...1 year ago
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First WAS Fab...Second will be Super! - Thanks to all followers of this BLOG. I will be moving to second grade and will no longer post to this BLOG. I will, however, leave it active for viewing a...1 year ago
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Summer Book Club (for students!) - Our recent post on Teaching Blog Addict has me thinking.... I know I can't wait to read over the summer, but what about my students? How can I help preven...1 year ago
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New Year - New Plans - It's been a whirlwind end to 2010. My school was in the middle of a Quality Review when I received a call to take a position at another school. It was such...2 years ago
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Thursday, July 7, 2011
The TOP TEN of ME
10) I am an only child who thinks we often get a bum rap. I wasn’t allowed to do any more than other kids. In fact, sometimes I was permitted to do less! I have always been used to being alone, but I never felt lonely until my parents both got older, became, ill, and I took care of them. Thank the Lord I have friends and work with a great many people who have become my extended family who supported me through all those hard times.
9) I f The Voice or American Idol ever knew how great I sounded in the shower… I’m just saying.
8) I LOVE the water and have always lived around it: ponds, a creek, the ocean, or pool.
7) I LOVE to read Southern fiction especially if one or more of the characters is a little odd i.e. crazy. Call it “realistic mysticism” if you must, but as Julia Sugarbaker once said, “This is the South. We put our crazy people on the front porch.”
6) My favorite book is Charlotte’s Web . My third grade teacher Mrs. Tyler read it aloud to us, and we didn’t do tons of activities and worksheets or take a test on it: we just drew pictures or put out heads down after lunch and listened. I loved it so much I wanted my own copy for my birthday, and when I turned 9, that was the book that my Daddy and I sat on the porch of a beach house in the evenings for an entire week as he read it aloud. That week is a gorgeous memory.
5) If I didn’t teach, I would want to do something else creative even if it didn’t always pay the bills. I imagine the Bohemian life of an artist or writer.
4) My secret fantasy life would be if I could take off and go live somewhere like Diane Lane in Under The Tuscan Sun or Russell Crowe in A Good Year.
3) I hate to see anything or anyone suffer.
2) When I was in school, I thought I was a pretty cool, well-rounded person with a lot of varied interests and activities. One day after I was out of school about ten years, I was picking up my father from track practice, and one of the high school girls my father coached asked me what I was like in high school. I was traveling down memory lane when she suddenly declared, “In other words, you were a NERD?!”
1) I LOVE MOVIES and will watch my favorites like Out of Africa, Gladiator, or Star Wars ( I told you I was a NERD) over and over again.
9) I f The Voice or American Idol ever knew how great I sounded in the shower… I’m just saying.
8) I LOVE the water and have always lived around it: ponds, a creek, the ocean, or pool.
7) I LOVE to read Southern fiction especially if one or more of the characters is a little odd i.e. crazy. Call it “realistic mysticism” if you must, but as Julia Sugarbaker once said, “This is the South. We put our crazy people on the front porch.”
6) My favorite book is Charlotte’s Web . My third grade teacher Mrs. Tyler read it aloud to us, and we didn’t do tons of activities and worksheets or take a test on it: we just drew pictures or put out heads down after lunch and listened. I loved it so much I wanted my own copy for my birthday, and when I turned 9, that was the book that my Daddy and I sat on the porch of a beach house in the evenings for an entire week as he read it aloud. That week is a gorgeous memory.
5) If I didn’t teach, I would want to do something else creative even if it didn’t always pay the bills. I imagine the Bohemian life of an artist or writer.
4) My secret fantasy life would be if I could take off and go live somewhere like Diane Lane in Under The Tuscan Sun or Russell Crowe in A Good Year.
3) I hate to see anything or anyone suffer.
2) When I was in school, I thought I was a pretty cool, well-rounded person with a lot of varied interests and activities. One day after I was out of school about ten years, I was picking up my father from track practice, and one of the high school girls my father coached asked me what I was like in high school. I was traveling down memory lane when she suddenly declared, “In other words, you were a NERD?!”
1) I LOVE MOVIES and will watch my favorites like Out of Africa, Gladiator, or Star Wars ( I told you I was a NERD) over and over again.
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