Fancy Ideas for the Everyday Classroom
I am soooo excited to share my AWESOME Halloween Number Sense Review Set. We are getting close to our quarterly student assessment period known as “The Benchmark”. I wanted to create a few fun activities to review different Number Sense Activities for my class to prepare them for this assessment. I tried to cover everything we have done so far… Read More
Keep reading to find out more details! I love to have my students read with a partner but there is a fine line between the students staying on task and wasting 30 minutes of the day. There are many ways to do partner reading but explicit directions and roles for the students are necessary in order for the students to… Read More
Word Problems can be as scary as a monster for your students. I created this set after seeing my students struggle with decoding what a word problem is actually asking. My students had a number line test this past Friday and 8 of the 20 questions were word problems. Most of the problems missed were those… Read More
Rounding has been a struggle for my 30 little 4th graders. We are supposed to be rounding to the millions but after getting some mixed test results back from their unit test, I decided to scale back to concentrate on the skill at hand. I made these Rounding Through the Thousands task cards to help hone in on… Read More
Poetry is a great way to reinforce grammar concepts like parts of speech and punctuation. I have always had my class make poems for different seasons or holidays. This year, I decided to streamline this concept by creating a mini-unit for Fall Poetry. Check it out…. This set includes: -a circle map starter activity to get the students to actively… Read More
I always get to school early. I rather go in early than stay late. So I walk in today and this was what was at my mail box…. and what to my wondering eyes should appear??? BUT a box full Donor Choose books ready for this new school year!!!! I am sooo excited to welcome 50 new books to my… Read More
