Have you ever noticed that you tend to read the same genre(s) over and over? How can you get your students to choose different types of books if you are not exposing them to different types of books?! It is important for students to experience a variety of texts during the school year. When students are exposed to a variety of genres they have different reading experiences. This will help them find texts that they enjoy reading and therefore read … [Read more...]
Halloween Teacher Costume Fun
Every Monday, we like to ease into the week by doing a "Maker's Monday" activity as morning work. These activities involve being creative and using more than just the reading and math parts of their brains. If you want to read more about Maker's Monday, you can check out a blog post I did on it here. We are always on the look out for fun and easy craft-type activities that dig into the kid's creativity. We came across these really cute activites that have … [Read more...]
October Activities and Resources
I can't believe it is almost October! I just pulled out my October resources to make some copies. Here are a few of my favorite October resources and activities if you want to check them out! These Haunted House Fact Families are a huge hit! My students love them and they make a really cute bulletin board. Students complete the multiplication and division fact families in the windows of the house. Then they color and assemble. If you are looking for addition … [Read more...]
Quick Teacher Hack: Notebooks
So here is a quick teacher tip that I have been using for years and thought you might want to try it! Are you tired of kids flipping pages in their notebooks….flipping….flipping….still unable to find the page that they were working on? Here is a quick and easy hack that works so well in my classroom! Use a piece of ribbon to make a bookmark. At the beginning of the year, I cut a piece of ribbon and tape it into the the back cover. Super simple but it makes a … [Read more...]
Math Fact Fluency
Teacher tip for this week: Get some 10 sided dice! If you don't have 10 sided dice already, you can grab some on Amazon pretty inexpensively. These dice have numbers 0-9 on them and are perfect for so many different activities. This week, we did place value games where students had to roll the die and record a number as a digit of a large number. Some rounds the numbers they rolled had to make the largest number. Other rounds they had to make the smallest … [Read more...]
How to Organize Math Centers
Things in teaching ebb and flow. The new quickly becomes old, and the old becomes new again. One thing that keeps cycling back is the idea of Math Centers or Stations. At my school we have a designated time each day called Math SGI (small group instruction). This is the time each day that our Tier 3 students receive their intervention in the Math Lab. We are not allowed to teach anything new this time and we use this time to meet with our Tier 1 and Tier 2 … [Read more...]
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