Team Table Management

…team, you can number the Team Tubs and store them on a shelf. It really keeps you from having to pass materials out all day long. You can number the…

What Makes a Parent Love a Teacher

…year will be. But all of that pales in comparison to this one thing. The thing you could do in a bare cinderblock room with no electricity and no more…

Taming Blurters and Wanderers

…on. Hear those people yelling at each other over there? It’s Teaching Purgatory’s merry-go-round. Scolding doesn’t change behavior. If chastising a child transformed them into a model student, I’d write…

Teaching Kids to Express Appreciation

…this strategy. Students in teams of three or four will pass cards around in “roundtable” fashion and will write words of gratitude and appreciation on them before returning them to…

Making the Social Studies and Literacy Connection

…Day freebie on TpT during September and on my Social Studies page on Teaching Resources all year round. What’s the Truth? (Sorting Activity) Title: The Constitution of the United States…

Fraction Spinners Make Fractions Fun!

…records his or her fraction. Players compare fractions and decide who has the larger fraction. The person with the larger fraction for that round wins a point. Players continue until…

Hands-on Water Cycle Fun!

One summer I accepted a position at a local school to work with kids during their year round intersession program, and I had the pleasure of teaching science to 5th…