Student learning is no accident!
If teaching fifth and sixth graders has taught me anything, it’s that fractions and decimals can be ABSTRACT and TRICKY… and that kids have to be developmentally ready to perform operations on them. The good news is- the standards aren’t encouraging us to get kids to add, subtract, multiply and divide 5/32 and 16/71! We make equivalent fractions as a… Read More
You know that buzz of collaboration and learning that you hope for everyday? It happens when we play this game. Every. Single. Time. If you like Boggle, you’ll love this game. Word Wrangle is a fun classroom word game inspired by my love of Boggle and also my love of quiet. Once upon a time, I bought SIX Boggle games… Read More
You finally have your own classroom!!! No more shuffling around on a cart, lugging your whole life with you every period of the day… no more “borrowing” other teachers’ classrooms and hoping you left them as neat as you found them. Now What Now, you’re ready to make this new space work for you. One of the biggest challenges to… Read More
In my second grade classroom, I’ve recently identified a troubling gap in my students’ learning… Counting. I know how important counting is… and we have been counting all year. We count while we wait in line, we count backwards and forwards, by 2s, 3s, 5s, 10s and more. We start in the hundreds, we start in the teens… So, why… Read More
The view from down here. “It all falls on the classroom teacher, it always does” she reminded me. This was my mother. A retired elementary school teacher, who had made it the long haul. In the classroom for her entire career, advocating for kids, mentoring new teachers- reminding me when I express frustration in the system that, I shouldn’t be… Read More
What better way to develop an Environment of Respect and Rapport than by developing a 1:1 relationship with each student??Watch Rick connect with students about their reading during conferences. What does he do/ say that develops an environment of respect and rapport? What does Rick communicate to his students with his verbal and non-verbal language? I’ve seen similar successes with… Read More
The Powerful Effects of Drawing on Learning
The Powerful Effects of Drawing on Learning
The science is clear: Drawing beats out reading and writing to help students remember concepts.Let me guess:
There are still a few stragglers who don’t quite know ALL their facts. And you can’t possibly spend a ton of class time on it, because they SHOULD know them?
Head over to my blog for a great solution to THAT problem.
But first, do you think your kids would know their tables a little better if they practiced with these?? Go grab just the tables or need- or a whole bundle in my TPT store!!
Shoutout to all the #preschoolteachers who actually TEACH amazing little humans WHILE making parents feel like their kids made these adorable crafts🥰😘
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Looking for a great warm up/ bellringer/ do now to kick off your ELA class today? Have a Thoughtful Thursday! #ntchat #elateachers #middleschool #walktomoons #kindness #charactereducation #writesolutions #warmups #iteachenglish #iteachtoo
