Spontaneity Brings Math to Life!
…an idea popped into my head. I walked out of the room, spun around and returned with a silly grin and a cuboid net in my hand. I didn’t say…
…an idea popped into my head. I walked out of the room, spun around and returned with a silly grin and a cuboid net in my hand. I didn’t say…
…you want to get fancy you could mount on construction paper. http://www.wordle.net Karen Esdale-Brown – I melt down the broken classroom crayons into Christmas cookie cutter shapes. Kerri Grooby –…
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…to create a net, measure each side, find the area of each side, and add it all together. Volume Back to the food again! Using the marshmallows (they are cheap…
…You can also use kid-safe social networking sites like Edmodo.com and Kidblog.org to get online discussions going about books. If you want to know more about Literature Circles, check out…
…– Revising and editing written work samples (place work sample on overhead, students put heads together to discuss specific errors in punctuation, spelling, etc.) Grammar – Finding nouns, verbs, etc,…
…files. Here’s what you’ll find inside the file: Smartboard slides for recording and analyzing data (not required for the lesson) Promethean board tips for converting the Smartboard file Student samples of…
…tell me first graders “it’s NOT a race ….(and they finish my sentence in unison ).. It’s a JOURNEY”. Then I finish with “enjoy your journey.” Paula Cull -You can…
…life at school, at home, out with friends, on the Internet, engaged in a sport or hobby, dating, Everything. From childhood to adulthood, we need to make smart choices. Teachers…
…With Fraction Predict and Compare To see this strategy in action, visit my Fractions File Cabinet page and download one of the two Fraction Predict and Compare freebies to try…