Fancy Ideas for the Everyday Classroom
Tis’ the season for your students to understand prime, composite, factor trees and multiples! I am very excited to share my new math activity pack with you! Included in this pack: Prime Number Hunt Great for whole group instruction and as an introduction to what whole Color the Gingerbread Independent or partner practice- progress monitoring! Prime or Composite? Perfect for… Read More
With this up and coming week off for Thanksgiving, I have some time to reflect, slow down and re-center myself. While perusing my latest blog roll, which I haven’t done since Halloween YIKES, I stumbled across the Stuffed with Thankful Thoughts, hosted by A Year of Many “Firsts” and I decided to join in on the fun! First of all,… Read More
I have had great success with my Root a Week and Idiom a Day packs. My class has been pointing out idioms to me left and right and using them in their personal writing and speech. The roots have been a great way to introduce difficult vocabulary on a regular basis. Since this format of presenting a new idiom a… Read More
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Now that Halloween is over, we have to start thinking of some Thanksgiving Day Writing activities. Are you tired of narratives about your student’s Favorite “Thanksgiving Day Memories” or are your kids sick of writing about what they are “Thankful For” year in and year out… I don’t know about you, but if I have to hear my… Read More
How is it November already? Well, I got through October, aka the LONGEST month of the school year, besides March. I am excited to dive into November with my class and keep on keeping on! Today I am linking up with my bloggy crush Oh’ Boy 4th Grade, and her always fantabulous Currently! Make sure to link up to… Read More
We just finished double digit multiplication, which was quite a feat. Before we dive into long division (gasp!), we are studying the relationships between multiplication and division problems- that’s right, Fact Families! I’ve created this C-U-T-E Fact Family Neighborhood set to help my students see how numbers are related with multiplication and division. Your students will tour from 2nd Street… Read More
