Interactive Notebooks – Let’s Get Started!
…interactive activity to the book. Ask your students to NUMBER their pages in order to be able to use their table of contents effectively. When Do I Use IN In…
…interactive activity to the book. Ask your students to NUMBER their pages in order to be able to use their table of contents effectively. When Do I Use IN In…
…best place to start is with your own thought patterns and attitudes.” You might read those words and think, “I’ll bet she’s never been in a situation like mine.” However,…
…week, I choose a few to feature on Facebook each day, where you’re invited to chime in with your advice. When I see a post that receives a large number…
…of this post if you’d like to try it! The Selfish Crocodile Using the book The Selfish Crocodile by Michael Terry, we can explore concepts such as counting, doubling, graphing,…
Cooperative learning activities are often designed for teams of four students. However, sometimes a team is just too big, especially in math. Sometimes the perfect number of students for a…
…of each card. For example, on the back of the “Quarter of a mile” card, they might write “height of the towers.” After they work through the deck and make…
…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…
…backpacks and noticed when people “cringed”. They loved it! 2. Model classroom discourse! Hearing and using rich language serves a number of purposes–from modeling sophisticated language to showing that…
…Family Science Night is that the evening is hands-on and minds-on. When university professors and scientists in the community agree to present at Family Science Night, this agreement includes a…
…establish Rule 5, “Keep your dear teacher happy.” Step One For a minute or so, five times a day, rehearse the five classroom rules. You call out the rule number;…
…random number generator to determine the winner. The dry erase board set will be shipped directly to the winner’s school, but it will be noted that the set belongs to…
…help me move kids from a visual model for division to an abstract one. That had been what was missing for my sixth graders. They had learned division facts using…
