STEAM and Halloween. These are two things that my students are over the moon excited about. Do your students get excited when they get to do a STEAM activity? What is not to love about a STEAM activity? You get excited students, and you tons of learning. My students are always over-the-top thrilled when Halloween […]
MATH We start our patterns unit this week! This interactive notebook rocks for going over repeating & growing patterns and function tables. Such a fun unit! We use a resource called M3: Awesome Algebra to enrich the unit. However, my interactive notebook is great for the standards and basics that I know my students need […]
Looking at an elementary classroom without desks At the end of last year I made the plunge and switched from student desks to tables. Our supportive principal gave the options to teachers to trade out their student desks with tables from the county warehouse. My teammates thought I was crazy. The number one question that […]
Have you heard of Aid Through Trade bracelets? I am OBSESSED with these bracelets. You can see me wearing them in my YouTube videos that I made. One of my teacher friends originally told me about them, and I would always admire them when I saw her wearing them. She told me all about their […]
MATH Addition/subtraction: We are finishing up our addition/subtraction unit! I will be teaching estimation with my interactive notebooks, and continuing to review the properties with this math center game. I am also putting in some multiplication math center games to get the kiddos start reviewing those facts- our multiplication/division unit is slowly sneaking up on us! […]
Have you done math journaling in your classroom? This is my first year that I am pushing for math journaling in my classroom. Writing about math is strange and foreign territory to most children- it can require an immense amount of modeling for students to grasp it. In this post, I will explain what I […]
You might remember that I purchased the Erin Condren Teacher Planner a few months ago. Firstly, I LOVE my teacher planner! I am addicted to it and use it constantly, I cannot recommend it enough. I also have an online PlanBook Edu account that I plan with, but the Teacher Planner is perfect to keep […]
Hi, all! I thought it would be fun and hopefully helpful to start writing down some resources that I am using to teach each week. MATH Addition/subtraction: We are starting our addition/subtraction unit this week! Starting with some whole group lessons with our interactive notebooks will help define vocabulary and solidify student understanding. I also […]
Looking for an easy project to do in civics that the kids will love? Create a civilization! After I teach all my required standards of levels of government, branches of government, and rights/responsibilities, we move on to our civilization project. We start off with a read aloud: Westlandia by Paul Fleischman. It is a great […]
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