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Video Math Lessons Help Students Self-Assess

Video Math Lessons Help Students Self-Assess

January 19, 2021

One of the most challenging aspects of teaching math is assessing each studentโ€™s level of understanding. It feels like it changes minute by minute- and thereโ€™s no neon ticker scrolling over their heads!ย I was shocked when I realized that the video math lessons I was already making, might actually help with assessment. My biggest fear, when teaching new concepts, is… Read More

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How to Teach Multiplying Fractions

How to Teach Multiplying Fractions

April 26, 2020

It took me years to figure out how to teach multiplying fractions so that students could conceptualize a part of a part. I learned that the traditional algorithm had to take a back seat to drawing and color coding models. When teaching this unit, I’ve found that the most important tool for my students- is sharpened colored pencils. We draw… Read More

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No More Reluctant Writers

No More Reluctant Writers

November 14, 2019

For years, the reluctant writers in my classroom were my biggest stressor when it came to teaching middle school writing. There were so many students in my class that just needed to pick up their pencil and write!! No matter how much I begged, some students just would not write… and if they wouldn’t write, it was hard to get… Read More

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Cooperative Learning: Jigsaw

Cooperative Learning: Jigsaw

August 21, 2019

Are you looking for a cooperative learning structure that will really get your students working together? If so, the jigsaw strategy is for you! Using a jigsaw in your classroom is a great way to teach students to work cooperatively, as they truly rely on each other. Just like all of the pieces of a puzzle are needed to complete… Read More

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Daily ELA Warm Ups

Daily ELA Warm Ups

May 4, 2019

As a middle school ELA teacher, I became aware very quickly that there are NOT enough minutes in a class period to possibly address all of the Common Core State Standards. After experimenting with a variety of different lesson planning and scheduling strategies, I landed on this. Whether you call them warm ups, bell ringers or do nows- those first… Read More

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Fact Fluency and Number Sense in Sixth Grade

Fact Fluency and Number Sense in Sixth Grade

April 17, 2019

A while back I took stock of what we were doing as a math department to improve kids’ math fluency. It seemed that every year we had a chunk of kids who came up to sixth grade with amazing fact fluency. We had another chunk who fought with basic addition and multiplication much like struggling readers fought with multisyllabic words…. Read More

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And last spring I sat a my dining room table sharing a game board through cyberspace over a Google Meet to living rooms and kitchens all around town! How would YOU use this game? โฃ
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This is my mantra when ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€.

Sip some tea and give it a whirl yourself, "they'll all get it. Just not on the same day or in the same way." Breathe out. 

5 ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ƒ๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐…๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐…๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ก๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐†๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ค:
๐Ÿ’ช๐ŸปKids use the cards they need to strengthen conceptual knowledge. Need visuals? Great- thereโ€™s a deck of cards for that. Graduating from visuals? Lovely, grab the other deck and challenge yourself!

๐Ÿง Comparing the fraction values grows fraction sense. Itโ€™s unavoidable.

๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธMath language is natural and embedded. 

โ™Ÿ๏ธThree different games means at home or at school means print once and play all year. 

๐ŸŽฒThe cards themselves make AMAZING manipulatives to whip out during any fraction activity.

๐ŸฅฝNo contact aport. Everyone can have their own set!

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Yesterday I finished making dinner a little too la Yesterday I finished making dinner a little too late and my kids were HANGRY. Even though they had โ€œhelpedโ€ (๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ™„๐Ÿ˜‚) make this favorite dish, there was a lot of whining, some peanut butter toast and maybe someone threatened moving to someplace that only had bananas to eat.. ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ

๐ŸŒˆTonight however, dinner was ready (AKA reheated) at 4:50, topped with a ketchup smile or Mr. 4 and a corn and carrots smile for Mr. 5, and served with KNIVES!!! ๐Ÿฝ

What a difference a day (and an hour) can make!! No one was getting a knife yesterday ๐Ÿ˜‚

Dinner was lentil shepherds pie with broccoli, corn and the most delicious mashed potatoes on top. The secret is warmed lite coconut milk flavored with garlic and salt. SOOOO creamy and no coconut taste, I promise!

We had @dreenaburton โ€˜s super quick chocolate chia pudding for dessert and they pretty much licked their bowls clean.

Whatโ€™s your secret to getting everyone in their happy place for a meal? Knives , the early bird special and smily faces work wonders over here!!

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Tag your teacher besties! I know it may FEEL lik Tag your teacher besties! 

I know it may FEEL like Thursday, but somehow- itโ€™s only Monday๐Ÿ˜ณ

Weโ€™ll be fine, since we have such AMAZING teacher friends to lean on!

๐ŸŒˆWhether itโ€™s the teacher down the hall that always leaves you a copy of something awesome on the way back from the copier...

๐ŸŒˆOr your co-teacher, who makes you feel like you two are running a talk show, not a Google Meet when you (virtually) blast in unannounced...

๐Ÿฆ„THESE are our people!!! And this job would NOT be as fun without them!! 

Have a great week, everyone! Spread some teacher love๐Ÿ˜˜
I love these books even more than I expected. If y I love these books even more than I expected. If you caught my stories when they were delivered a couple of weeks ago, youโ€™ll remember how beautifully the pages are organized. 

For each โ€œbold womanโ€ and โ€œexceptional manโ€ featured, there is one page of informational text paired with a portrait on the facing page. 

Iโ€™ve finally decided how Iโ€™ll use these. Iโ€™m going to do a jigsaw. Iโ€™ll provide the same pages (about one person) to 3 students in a class. This will mean 7-8 different readings will be distributed in class. Students will independently read and annotate their text for:

๐Ÿ““New/interesting vocabulary
๐Ÿ˜ณSurprising/shocking info
โœ๏ธEvidence of leadership
๐Ÿ’กTalent or Genius
๐Ÿ‘€Connections to self/ world/history

Students will get into expert groups to discuss their notes. Via Google Meet, breakout groups will get together to discuss the text that they ALL read. Theyโ€™ll add to their notes!

Jigsaw Time: New breakout groups will form with students who all read different texts. Theyโ€™ll each share and as a small group theyโ€™ll discuss. 

Exit Ticket: How was your personโ€™s experience similar to or different from another person in your Jugsaw group? I will share this question before they get into their groups do they know their focus.

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Only teachers get it. Only teachers do it all day. Only teachers get it. Only teachers do it all day. (If you are a parent at home- I see you teaching๐Ÿ‘€)

The level of patience teachers greet their homeroom with at 7:45AM is pretty amazing. Sometimes when Iโ€™m in the hall in the morning greeting kids I can feel it. This almost superhuman positive energy ball rolling through the building. 

And I think, how can anyone have a bad day here? This place is amazing! And by 2:45... just enough of that energy remains to get those kids onto the right busses, and collapse at desks to prepare for tomorrow. 

And I thinks itโ€™s this. This directions thing. Itโ€™s a real energy suck. Hey kids, hereโ€™s what weโ€™re going to do! Iโ€™m so excited about it that I wrote it here on the board too. Letโ€™s read it together. Johnny, will you tell us in your own words what weโ€™ll be doing? Hey, Alice!! Take a look in Google Classroom, can you see where I posted the directions? Great! If you click on them, a voice memo I made will read them to you! Isnโ€™t that great?? Letโ€™s get started. 

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๐Ÿคฆ๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธAnd then the hand. Sometimes itโ€™s after everyoneโ€™s been โ€œworkingโ€ for a while. Sometimes itโ€™s right away. It doesnโ€™t matter. 

๐ŸŒˆTag a teacher who gives directions well! โค๏ธ This isnโ€™t the year we will fix this. ๐Ÿ™„ But we can be kinder to ourselves about it! ๐Ÿฆ„
๐Ÿฆ„Do you wish you could sit RIGHT next to that s ๐Ÿฆ„Do you wish you could sit RIGHT next to that student and walk him through a few division problems?

๐Ÿ’กThatโ€™s one of the reasons I created Guide Me Math Video Lessons. Some students are ready to zoom forward, while some need to see that problem a few more times. 

๐Ÿ“The idea is students work out a problem on their own and then watch the solution strategy video as a way to check their work. 

๐ŸฅณAnd a whole lot more happens!!
1. Students are exposed to rich vocabulary. 
2. Students rewatch the confusing parts until they feel confident... privately!
3. Students stop themselves from practicing solving problems the WRONG way.

๐Ÿ‘€Go take a look at all the topics in my Write Solutions TPT store. This Partial Quotients Division Guide Me Pack is brand new. 

๐ŸŽ™Tell me in the comments what topic you need next! ๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿผ

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Tired of hearing โ€œMommmm can I have another snac Tired of hearing โ€œMommmm can I have another snack???โ€ (Right after you fed them!!!)

My kids eat oatmeal or cold cereal every morning and the secret to the cold cereal filling them up is hidden WAY at the bottom.

Can you guess what it is?

Itโ€™s oats! Good old, Old Fashioned Rolled Oats! 

My two sweet little, fast growing,  bottomless pits stay full the LONGEST after breakfast.

Whatโ€™s you best quick meal hack to keep your kids full and not begging for snack after snack after snack?!?!

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This is my mantra when ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€.Sip some tea and give it a whirl yourself, "they'll all get it. Just not on the same day or in the same way." Breathe out. 5 ๐‘๐ž๐š๐ฌ๐จ๐ง๐ฌ ๐ƒ๐ข๐Ÿ๐Ÿ๐ž๐ซ๐ž๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐š๐ญ๐ž๐ ๐…๐ซ๐š๐œ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง ๐…๐ฅ๐š๐ฌ๐ก๐œ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐†๐š๐ฆ๐ž๐ฌ ๐–๐จ๐ซ๐ค:๐Ÿ’ช๐ŸปKids use the cards they need to strengthen conceptual knowledge. Need visuals? Great- thereโ€™s a deck of cards for that. Graduating from visuals? Lovely, grab the other deck and challenge yourself!๐Ÿง Comparing the fraction values grows fraction sense. Itโ€™s unavoidable.๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธMath language is natural and embedded. โ™Ÿ๏ธThree different games means at home or at school means print once and play all year. ๐ŸŽฒThe cards themselves make AMAZING manipulatives to whip out during any fraction activity.๐ŸฅฝNo contact aport. Everyone can have their own set!Head to my Write Solutions TPT store and grab your pack! #writesolutions#igconnect4edu#iteachtoo#tpt#5thgrade#5thgradeteacher#grade5#iteach5th#iteach5thgrade#iteach5 #fractionsarefun #homeschoolmath #differentiation #mathintervention #interventionist #upperelementary #mathgames #learninggame ...

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