Dear Teachers: Literacy Lessons in the Outdoor Classroom

Dear Teachers: Literacy Lessons in the Outdoor Classroom

Dear Teachers,

It was a gorgeous spring day when I took my students to our outdoor classroom to practice writing complete sentences detailing our observations. Just as I started to discuss the order of adjectives, I was interrupted by a cheeky squirrel leaping from one tree to the next, chittering away as if scolding us…

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Becky Hallowell
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Becky Hallowell

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