A “Smart” Way to Motivate Students
…however! If you don’t have a Smartboard, I have a solution for you. If you’ve read Laura’s Book Mastering Facts Multiplication and Division, this activity can go right along with…
…however! If you don’t have a Smartboard, I have a solution for you. If you’ve read Laura’s Book Mastering Facts Multiplication and Division, this activity can go right along with…
…Katie Johnson Abbott: Tell him to use a notebook to write down anything he wants to say to you. Then at the end of the day, review the notebook and…
…a voice-recording app built in. Parents, older siblings, or grandparents can use that app to record themselves reading picture books, magazine articles, poems, a chapter in a chapter book, etc….
…Chris’s best-selling book, Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids. His writing style is very entertaining and will have you laughing out loud, but there’s a lot of meat in the…
…do or handing me a book or article. A principal would be the perfect person to do this since he or she knows these students, sometimes for years and shaping…
…engagement throughout the learning process, not just at the end. Last fall I created a free Facebook group for teachers who wanted to share ideas for using Plickers, and in…
…Casey shared about the fire that I immediately bought a copy of Lauren’s book, I Survived the Great Chicago Fire. It’s a terrific historical fiction novel for kids, and I…
…are so clear you could easily pick it up 3 minutes before class and be ready to teach the lesson. I love how she has written Day 1 number 1,…
…top. If you have an uneven number of students or if someone is absent, write your own name at the top of one printable and take part in the activity….
…the logic? Bring on the metric system! Every unit is based on tens which corresponds perfectly to our base ten number system. Unfortunately, I don’t think the United States will…
…the same number of candies? Inquiring minds want to know! Questions like these provide a perfect opportunity for a bit of data analysis fun! When I posed these questions to…
…ten model. The next step was to take these items and compare them. We ordered them from least to greatest then placed them on a giant number line. We also…
