Fancy Ideas for the Everyday Classroom
Our first grammar lesson this year was Nouns. The students remembered that nouns were a Person, Place, Thing or Idea… but when it came to Proper Nouns vs. Common Nouns and Abstract Nouns vs. Concrete Nouns they had trouble differentiating. I made two different Noun Sorts to help reinforce this standard. You can grab them here. This is a great activity… Read More
Have you ever wanted to streamline how you send home student tests, collect parent signatures and have them all ready for reference for Parent Teacher Conferences? Well, I know I was sick of passing out test on random days (aka whenever I got to grading them) and I was also tired of not having test returned. If I send a… Read More
Teaching Place Value is one of the first feats for 4th graders. The concept of numbers to the millions is sometimes a difficult and abstract concept for kids. So for this week’s Made it Monday, I created this bundle to help the students ease into math in an interactive way. This comprehensive Place Value Set is perfect for teaching this difficult… Read More
Today was my first week back and it was great. I am excited about my class and the first three days of going over routines, rules and procedures went well. To introduce my three class rules I used my Thinking about the Rules Activity. Not only was this activity interactive, and engaging but allowed the students to use Thinking Maps…. Read More
Today was my first day back with my new class. It was a great, fast, whirlwind of a day. I am so excited to share my FINISHED classroom! After many days of working on it, organizing all of my belongings and moving furniture in and out, here is the final product. This a reminder of where I started at: This… Read More
Tomorrow is my first day back with students. I have been working NON STOP on my class. I had to hunt down everything from matching desks, to a projector screen and some math TE’s. I have had a lot of help from my new coworkers. I could not have done it with out them. For the 2nd day of the… Read More
