What Makes a Parent Love a Teacher

…copy of the Deep Data at a Glance chart. Once you’ve filled out the first round of facts, keep going. Put a shortcut to this document on your desktop and…

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!

…needs to be simplified and they do it correctly, they score two points. If state that it’s already in lowest terms but it’s not, they lose a point. Adding or…

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…