The Power of Audio Books

…Shiloh, and I allowed students in those groups to listen while reading their books each day. To manage the problem of multiple users needing the same audio player, I figured…

Google Classroom Management Tips

…definitely put some information here to save yourself time. Keep Your Google Classroom Feed Clean The Google Classroom feed can become very busy and overwhelming if you are assigning multiple

Gifts for Santa’s Scientists

…are so clear you could easily pick it up 3 minutes before class and be ready to teach the lesson. I love how she has written Day 1 number 1,…

Fun with Customary Measurement Conversions

…the logic? Bring on the metric system! Every unit is based on tens which corresponds perfectly to our base ten number system. Unfortunately, I don’t think the United States will…

Honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

…events in Dr. King’s life and his impact on the civil rights movement in a way that’s very easy to understand. BrainPOP.com has a number of resources to go along…

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…

Daily Report Homework Solution

…on Friday for a certain number of Satisfactory ratings, this report works very well to stop problems in their tracks. You can download this Daily Report by clicking above. It’s…

A Dozen Fun Ways to Wrap Up the School Year

…Learning Games I’m amazed at the number of free and inexpensive online learning games available. If you have a computer in your classroom, you have access to all sorts 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…