Helping Children Cope with Tragedy

…difficult situations in their lives. She enjoys visiting schools and talking with kids; in fact, she’s done over 800 school visits! You can learn more at her website, www.juliacookonline.com.  …

DonorsChoose: A Jackpot of Classroom Funding!

Free Webinar for Teachers! Click here for the replay! Do you know about DonorsChoose.org? It’s an amazing organization that helps public school teachers in the U.S. get funding for their…

How to Cure the Classroom Library Blues

…who is overdue and who lost books, etc… Best purchase I have made for my classroom! Marcie Stowell – I use Booksource Classroom Organizer. It takes a bit of setup…

What are Cooperative Learning Structures?

…– 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,…

Hands On Geometry – Part II

…them do this activity). This is really fun, since the kids often have to work together to measure the objects (since the lines on the playground are often larger than…

Awesome Facebook Group for Elementary Educators!

…Plickers, STEM projects, and more! Hands-on lesson ideas and management tips How to obtain grants and funding through DonorsChoose.org and other sources How to Join the Upper Elementary Teacher Connection…

Honoring 9/11 – A Delicate Balance

…on Wikipedia.org, and I edited it to create a shorter PDF version to use with students. If you use it with your students, please remember that the details in the…