Interactive Notebooks – Let’s Get Started!
…for teachers! They help us reflect on both our students’ learning styles and our own teaching and planning. They are a great way to analyze our students’ understanding of new…
…for teachers! They help us reflect on both our students’ learning styles and our own teaching and planning. They are a great way to analyze our students’ understanding of new…
Guest blog post by Francie Kugelman Many of you know that Laura Candler and I produced a webinar a few years ago with great ideas on how to get resources…
…easy and fun, and my kids loved looking through all of the scrapbooks from years past. Each student created one page in the scrapbook, and we had a design contest…
…for the rest of the year. Unfortunately, it took me YEARS to figure out how to launch a great school year, and it wasn’t always easy. I knew it was…
…students. So I’d like to share two strategies that worked well for me in the classroom, as well as a new game called Mystery Vocabulary Detectives. Hopefully you’ll find that…
…make sure to show next year’s group at “Back to School Time” all of the exciting things that they will learn in their new grade. This would be a perfect…
…which involves one digit numbers. For third through fifth grade teachers, the Medium and Hard levels involve two digit numbers, and the Expert level involves three digit numbers. You can…
…Beneficial New Challenges Each engineering challenge gives students something new to solve and more than likely, it is a challenge they have never tried before. Critical Thinking Skills Students aren’t…
…the total number of people involved grows exponentially, as illustrated in the chart below. We had a lot of fun keeping track of the people as the story went on,…
…years ago, I discovered a great book to read aloud on September 11th: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers. I want to share a few free resources that I…
…letters for yourself and 7 letters for the class. Write the class letters in huge blocks on the board with the number values clearly shown. Play against the class play…
…her years. Everyone was always amazed at the paintings that Issy would create with very little effort. Issy wanted to draw all the time and would always proudly present members…
