Back to School Season is here! Click to see my favorite first week of school activity.
You only have 76,775 minutes with the students in your class each year. That seems like a lot of time, but school days are busy and pass quickly. Because of this, you should choose purposeful activities to pack the most learning and growth into every school day as possible. Number talks are a powerful way…
I use groups a lot in my classroom. I try to ensure that my kids get up and moving as often as possible, instead of sitting in their desks working all day. I use both homogeneous & heterogeneous groups in my classroom depending on my lesson. But, for classroom activities where students will be engaging…
Our biggest goal as math teachers is to help our students become critical thinkers and problem solvers. I help my third graders develop critical thinking skills by using multi-step word problems in my math class every day. Think about when you use math in your daily life When you need to find how much fencing…
I have always been a little bit of a nerd. One example of that is I LOVE reading professional books in the summer time. The time off gives me time to un-wind and then begin thinking about the changes I want to make as an educator. The book I am currently reading is called Disrupting…
I am fortunate to work in a district with a 1:1 technology program. Each student in our district has a Chromebook to utilize for instructional purposes. There are a million things students can do on their Chromebooks. iReady, mClass, xtramath, Google Docs, prodigy, SumDog. Need I continue?! But, there’s just one problem. My students are…
I spend the last few (15-20) minutes of my day reading to my students every school day. You can see my previous post here about the reasons why upper elementary students NEED a daily read aloud time. I am very choosy about the books I read with my students. I love a classic like Charlotte’s…
Read aloud isn’t just for lower elementary! Big kids need daily read aloud too!
Here is my two cents on the NB process & my advice for anyone who is thinking of signing up.