Caring Classrooms Community on DonorsChoose

…Caring Classrooms page on Facebook where teachers can help and support each other, and where I can make announcements about projects that I’m adding to the page. Would you like

Taming Blurters and Wanderers

…blurts out, “What time is lunch?!” You blurt back, “How many times do I have to tell you to raise your hand to speak! Grow up and act like a…

Penguin Fractions = Fraction Fun!

…fractions. Visual models are important for concept development, so being able to flip a card over and see that the fraction looks like makes them even more effective. As usual,…

Teach Kindness on Pay It Forward Day

…make us feel happier and more in control, and they also help people overcome feelings of loneliness and isolation. Sounds like something the world needs right now! Years ago when…

How to Track Oral Reading Fluency

…not as fluent. Then I showed them how to time each other for one minute as they read aloud, and how to help each other calculate the average number of…

Gearing Up for Next Generation Science

…you will be amazed at the number of engineering concepts that can easily be integrated into history, literature, and math. In literature, students could be challenged to: Design a house…