Fancy Ideas for the Everyday Classroom
The past 2 years I have assigned a California Relief Map project as an at home assignment but with any at home assignment, there is a lot of parent involvement and sometimes too much if you know what I mean. This year I decided to do the project in class with my students thanks to the help and guidance of… Read More
Can you believe it is October? I can’t… especially because it was 100 degrees here today! YUCK! You know it is the beginning of the school year when you haven’t blogged in almost a month, you have several paper cuts and you are 5 days late to the fantabulous Farley’s Currently Linky. So here goes… Listening: In our house, we… Read More
Olivia from Liv and Learn asked if I would create Collaborative Conversation Sticks {for Math} and a one of my Instagram followers asked for me to bundle the ELA and Math Collaborative Conversation Sticks- SO, I DID! These 20 Sentence Stem sticks will provide your students with sentence stems to help them be active participants in group discussions… Read More
Happy Sunday all! I survived my first week of school and in all the Back to School madness I realized that I never shared pictures of my new classroom! So here goes… Awhile back I mentioned that I was moving to a new school. This picture was taken in June, on my last day of work, at my former school. This… Read More
This summer I was reflecting on my teaching practices and I set some professional goals. One of them was to highlight the little things that my students do well on. It is so easy to get wrapped up in everything that occurs in a school day, that I want to make sure to positively reinforce my kiddos frequently. So, I searched Pinterest… Read More
Well folks, it is here… The end of sweet summer. September marks the Back to School season and I am a mixed bag of emotions. I am linking up with the ever clever Farley from Oh Boy Fourth Grade to share my September Currently…. Listening: To beautiful silence…. and crickets. The babies are asleep, the husband is hanging out with… Read More
