Task Card Talk: 6 Strategies to Boost Learning

…Up Learning with Task Cards gave me the opportunity to share step-by-step directions and classroom management techniques that will make these strategies work in your classroom. I was thrilled to…

Solving the Hand Raising Problem

…and can wait until the right time to ask questions or make a connection. Matthew Arrua: Use a ruler and tape a red circle and a green circle to either…

Honoring Francie: Share the Love on Caring Classrooms

…engagement projects. Examples include requests for science and math materials, books for literature circles, financial literacy resources, service project materials, art supplies, musical instruments, and so much more! Caring Classrooms…

Gifts for Santa’s Scientists

…with the scientist names on the packages. To make the activity even more challenging, you can ask students to put away all of their study materials and try to match…

Fun with Customary Measurement Conversions

…Some of the activities were ones I had previously developed for my classroom, like the matching game my students are playing in the photo below. Matching games are so simple,…

Using Grocery Flyers To Practice Math Skills

…prep way of reviewing multiple math concepts with grocery flyers. If your mailbox looks anything like mine, it is overflowing with junk mail. One of the biggest culprits is grocery…

Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

…I contacted BrainPOP to obtain their permission, and the end result was Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., a free packet of supplementary materials aligned with CCSS informational text standards…

How to Track Oral Reading Fluency

Fluent readers sound more expressive when they read aloud, and they also comprehend the text far better than those who are not as fluent. This makes perfect sense when you…

Daily Report Homework Solution

…he said he finished all his homework!” Sadly, these students may feel they are telling the truth because they forgot they even HAD homework. The problem with this scenario is…

You Can Put a STOP to Classroom Disruption!

…to keep students on task during cooperative learning lessons. This strategy is for “whole class” management when students are moving about the room or working in teams. It should not…