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Fern’s Freebie Friday ~ Memorial Day Word Search & Answer Key!

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Free Memorial Day Word Search & Answer Key!You and your students will adore this Free Memorial Day Word Search with answer key included. Print and pass out and your ready to go for Morning Work, Centers, Fun Friday, you name it, it will work! Enjoy!More Free Memorial Day Resources:Free Memorial Day Time to the Five Minute Go Fish, Old Maid, Concentration Center GamesMemorial Color for Fun Freebie Click Here to Download the FREE Memorial Day Word Search and Answer Key Now! Follow Fern Smith's board Fern Smith's TeachersPayTeachers Products! on Pinterest.

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It Takes A She: Secret Subject Swap

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Welcome a Secret Subject Swap. This month 7 brave bloggers picked a secret subject for someone else and were assigned a secret subject to interpret in their own style. Today we are all simultaneously divulging our topics and submitting our posts. Read through mine and at the bottom you’ll find links to all of today’s other Secret Subject participants.My subject is: You've been asked to run for City Council. What would your slogan be?It was submitted by: Rena of Wandering Web Designer. I wrote a post, years ago, in which I mentioned that College Boy's close friend's father was our local Congressman....

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Brand New! Outdoor Hour Challenge: Bitterbrush Nature Study

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Our family currently lives in a bitterbrush habitat in Central Oregon. Each spring as the leaves unfold, we are amazed at the shrub’s ability to spring back from its winter deadness. It only needs a bit of coaxing from April sunshine and warm temperatures and once again it fills the spaces beneath the pines and blossoms with its butter yellow flowers. If you watch closely, you’ll see insects, birds, and even a few mammals come to visit the bitterbrush. The bitterbrush provides shelter to the small scurrying creatures that inhabit this landscape. The bitterbrush plant is a vital part of...

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FREE Printable Mother’s Day Coupon Books!

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Things this year are a little different we can’t deny that. And with Mother’s Day this weekend I hope the kids are finding some fun ways to spoil and treat you! One great classic option is with a Mother’s Day Coupon book! Each of these are easy enough you could print them out and have them put them together or send this to Dad and have him on top of it this year! Either way I know I’ll be dropping hints for my kids to get these done so I can cash them in while they’re at home! This one...

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How To Build A Walipini Greenhouse

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We use cellars because they maintain a more constant temperature than structures that are built above-ground. We use greenhouses to extend the growing season because they hold in heat. Well what if you combined a greenhouse and a cellar? You’d have a greenhouse that would allow you to grow plants year-round. This type of greenhouse is called a geothermal, pit or, Walipini greenhouse, and is common in South America. ‘Walipini’ means ‘place of warmth’ in Aymara Indian, and it’s an apt name. Basically, the idea is that once you get below the frost line (3-5 feet below the surface, the...

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