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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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Engaged in Math Class

Engaged in Math Class

February 14, 2019

In the next few posts, I’m going to focus on Differentiating Instruction in the Math Classroom. I will give you three strategies you can use immediately in the lessons you already have planned- to reach all of those kids! I promise not to ask you to do ANYTHING that wastes your time. I promise to only save you time.

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3 Keys to Teaching Fractions

3 Keys to Teaching Fractions

October 23, 2018

If you’re thinking about fractions, you might be a 5th grade teacher… Thanks to the Common Core State Standards, fifth grade now throws the wildest fraction party on the block! I taught 6th grade math back when that was fraction central, and I learned 3 key things along the way. They have been just applicable in the 5th grade classrooms… Read More

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Fractions and Decimals Made Easy

Fractions and Decimals Made Easy

June 19, 2018

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

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Subtraction with Renaming

Subtraction with Renaming

May 17, 2015

We have moved on to subtraction with renaming (2.NBT.7). You might call this regrouping… but really- if we think literally about what’s happening- we’re also giving the values new names! 50+10 is a different name for 60. So, renaming, regrouping… you know what we’re doing! What’s Working I’ve been doing a lot of this work with students in small groups…. Read More

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Concerns About Counting

Concerns About Counting

April 28, 2015

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

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Instagram post 2191858404321372314_6911647902 The BEST part of parent conferences tonight was this:

A fifth grader brought her mom into my intervention room to show her around. She and mom agreed fractions have been hard this year and mom feels guilty for not doing more to practice at home. 
My student picked one anchor chart to explain to mom. It was how to make equivalent fractions. Then she went right up to the white board to demonstrate... like a PRO!

Then she showed mom the fraction games we’ve been playing. I explained to mom that there’s no need to work on anything but fraction sense at home. And ONLY if it’s low stress. She LOVED the games and thought they would have fun playing them.

They left with a deck of fraction cards with visuals and directions for all three of these games. 
The positive energy and confidence coming from this little girl tonight made my heart sing🥰. #iteachfifth #parentconferences 
#familyinvolvement 
#homeschoolmath
Instagram post 2190846700875619015_6911647902 It’s not over yet!!! What’s in your 🛒🛒🛒?? My strategy is this:
I add to my Wish List all the time. Then, when a sale rolls around, I know just where to start! 
All of the Write Solutions favorites are on SALE today! 
Math games, ELA Warm Ups, Differentiated Fraction Flashcard Games... even all of the bundles. 
Happy Shopping!
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Instagram post 2185359982932173123_6911647902 🚨Last Minute Annie ALERT!🚨 If you put off your planning you’re in luck! I put off uploading this, so now YOU get the 🚨50% 🚨off new product deal just in time for the short week! 
This #differentiated choice board focuses on ADDING & SUBTRACTING

Mixed Numbers ➕➖➕➖➕➖➕➖➕ Story problems focus on 👟Running a Turkey Trot
🥫Canned Food Drive
🍁Raking Leaves
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Head over to my WriteSolutions TPT Store (or find my link in bio) and ✔️planning off the list!
Instagram post 2183828913821039161_6911647902 🧠Mental reminder to myself. I had one of those “knot in your stomach” workdays yesterday. I never have those at work. I work with the best people, in a very supportive district, with great kids and families. #spoiledrotten 😬But that knot. It was there- and while I could feel it in my stomach, it was all in my head. 🤷🏼‍♀️This is spot on! I’m leaving this note to myself in a few places. Because really, I get to decide what I hold onto and what I let go. 💆🏼‍♀️And teachers... we have got to LET IT GO- Elsa style- or we will burn ourselves right out🔥🔥🔥. (And that’s NOT good for kids- they needs us!) So, I don’t know who else needed to read this, but here it is!

I wish you all the calm and peace you can find❤️❤️
Instagram post 2180281140718836574_6911647902 You never REALLY know what how they *think* about fractions until:
🅰️You ask them to order them from least to greatest
🅱️ You listen to them defend the order to their partner 🆎 A&B🤣🤣🤣 Yup! I had some 😳 moments today! But they were followed by 💡💡💡. We played all of my Differentiated Flashcard Games in fifth grade today and something awesome happened. ☑️While playing “Clothesline,” one student happened to flip over 5 unit fractions to order. He ordered them totally wrong. And he explained to his partner that he looked at the denominator to do it ... (blah, blah) 😳I stood there (kind of in disbelief, but also thinking- teachable moment coming!!!) thinking, hey- there are VISUALS on those cards!!! ☑️Most importantly, his partner said, yeah- but look at the pictures. 😉 (Way to coach, kid!) 🤩🚨The real magic came when this student, who had been wrong, changed the order of his cards and said “oh, so like- when there’s more pieces, they are smaller.” 🍕🍕🍕 💡💡💡💡💡💡💡 🐄🐄🐄Here’s the thing: YOU can tell kids about the “rules” of fractions until the cows come home🐄🐄🐄 🧠They need to MAKE the connections themselves. 🗣They need to talk about it to really make meaning. 🧠Brain research tells us we need lots of NOVEL experiences with new concepts to really learn. 📆So... 6 or 7 weeks into fractions, this guy had the right experience to make that HUGE conceptual LEAP. Be ready for it. Tomorrow might be the day for 3 of your students!! What are you doing to create the conditions for learning?? #brainbasedlearning #differentiatedinstruction #mathintervention
Instagram post 2176181948635214755_6911647902 Leaving sub plans?? Me too! I just determined the best thing to leave as emergency sub plans for one particular class, is stations of math games. 📞So... after I got the call that one of my kids had a fever today, I finally finished putting this sub tub together. It was easy enough- and I put it together on my prep today. ⚽️I used games we already know how to play: Slides & Ladders, Fraction Top It (War), Fraction Memory, and Clothesline Comparisons. All of these are available in my Writesolutions TPT Store. 🎡(Link in profile for a FREE 7 table Slides & Ladders) 🧰All of the games include playing cards, student directions, teacher notes and recording sheets. ✏️I put everything needed for a game in a Manila envelope with directions on the outside so that everything is SUPER simple. 🤷🏼‍♀️Who needs extra stress when someone is sick?? 🚧What’s your go-to sub plan?? #mathteachersrock
Instagram post 2175851070788768412_6911647902 I’m REALLY in love with this book! I got it through my preschooler’s @scholasticbookclubs order. 🌜🚜We read #goodnightconstructionsite way too much over here and I doubted anything could compare. 📔But this book, Three Cheers For Kid McGear, absolutely is in the same league. 🌈I was so impressed today when reading it with my boys. My oldest remarked, “that wasn’t very kind,” when Kid McGear was excluded from the group. 🌈This story has such a great message about the littlest truck having so so much to offer, despite the initial judgements of her peers.

#littlereaders
Instagram post 2174440094030043552_6911647902 I had an amazing weekend with friends, laughing more in two days- than I probably have in a month. 🧐So, what about THAT?? 🧐 🗓This week, I am prioritizing laughter. 
Yup, there’ll be 🗂IEPs and ☎️parent phone calls and a 🧮math assessment to modify, and 🥪lunches to make and kids to wrestle into bed... and that stuff will probably all happen. 🌈But it’ll happen with much more ease if I’m my best self. 🔍So, this week- I’m going to pay attention to the who, what and where of my biggest laughs. 
If I laugh so hard I cry, I’ll take note! ✏️And I’ll surround myself with more of that! I’m pretty sure everyone will benefit. What are you going to do to be more like a 6 year old this week?!?!
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High school adds laundry room to help struggling students, combat absences

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After an Arizona principal found out his students were skipping school because they didn't have clean clothes, he decided to tackle the problem by adding a laundry room.
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Smartphones, tablets causing mental health issues in kids as young as two

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Smartphones and tablets are causing issues for kids as young as two years old.
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Boy invites entire kindergarten class to his adoption hearing — and it’s adorable

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A Michigan kindergartner brought his entire class to witness his adoption hearing Thursday in an adorable courtroom scene marking Kent County’s 23rd annual Adoption Day. The county’s official Facebook page posted a photo of the young boy, identified only as Michael, sitting next to his foster pa...
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Enough With Donuts With Dads and Muffins With Moms—Let's Make All School Events Inclusive - School Leaders Now

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Getting the community together can be a great way to develop positive school culture, but let's try to have more inclusive school events.
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The BEST part of parent conferences tonight was this:

A fifth grader brought her mom into my intervention room to show her around.

She and mom agreed fractions have been hard this year and mom said she feels guilty for not doing more to practice at home.

😍My student picked one anchor chart to explain to mom. It was how to make equivalent fractions. Then she went right up to the white board to demonstrate... like a PRO!🥳

🎲♟Then she showed mom the fraction games we’ve been playing. I explained to mom that there’s no need to work on anything but fraction sense at home. And ONLY if it’s low stress. She LOVED ❤️❤️❤️ the games and thought they would have fun playing them as a family.

They left with a deck of fraction cards with visuals and directions for all three of these games.
The positive energy and confidence coming from this little girl tonight made my heart sing🥰.

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