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It's time for The Primary Pack's 2nd Annual ALL I WANT FOR BLACK FRIDAY Linky! We're so excited to share and giveaway one HUGE bundle of our most wish listed TPT products. We're also sharing with you what's on OUR wish lists, both in the classroom and in our personal lives! Keep reading for details, and be sure to enter the Rafflecopter giveaway at the end! I'll admit -- I LOOOOOVE Black Friday! I'm sure my husband would beg to differ, but I just can't help a good deal! This year it was so hard to decide what's on my Black Friday wish list. My husband and I are taking a Christmas cruise in the Caribbean, so there's a handful of items I'd like to get before we leave. I figured I'd just narrow down for you the 3 places I'll spend most of time shopping for the following items: 1.) Luggage - Never underestimate the value of good luggage. It may sound lame, but our current luggage situation is ROUGH. 2.) Books!!!!!! You better believe I

One of the geography standards for my sixth graders requires them to have a broad understanding of the countries and capital in Europe and the Americas. As I was planning this, I had a few things I needed to figure out:    1. What does a broad understanding look like?    2. Do I start with Europe or the Americas?    3. How can I make this engaging? I decided I'd share with you all a few ideas I'm implementing as I'm teaching this standard. To really kick-off this standard, I made a HUGE hype out of it. I came up with THE GREAT EUROPEAN CHALLENGE and ran around the classroom high-fiving students. And they were all like, "What is WRONG with our teacher?!?!" But whatever. I decided to narrow down the countries in Europe to 24... I figured I'd pick 24 of the major countries & capitals and call that a "broad understanding." We're taking one month to study all of these, and each week we're taking a quick map quiz to see how many we can name. So