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...]
Make The Most of Your Mornings
I have heard many teachers say “What should the kids be doing when they come in during the mornings?" For me, my kids needed reading, so that is what we do. I know each teacher does things differently, but don’t waste the time that the students are filtering in. I always use this time. The kids are fresh and if you set up good routines at the start of the year, they will be able to jump right in! Stephanie and I like to do a “Makers’ … [Read more...]
Creating Readers
My next few posts are going to focus on some great ways that you can create more reading opportunites in your classroom. We all have been in the position where students are struggling with reading and we don’t want any students to slip through the cracks or to squeak by. In this series I will share with you a variety of ways that I have infused reading into my teaching in ways that help my students get excited about reading and make targeted growth … [Read more...]
Boom Card Choice Boards
We can all agree that this past year has been a wild one! As we digest the good and the bad, I am AMAZED at the ability that all teachers have shown to meet the needs of their students. We have all worked to learn all the different technological options. I keep saying to my coworkers, "If someone had asked you a year ago if you would be teaching virtually or hybrid or even regularly posting in Google Classroom, you would have said they were crazy." Yet, here we … [Read more...]
Engaging ALL Students in Math Review
This week was a tough one. The first week back from Winter Break is always tricky for students (and their teachers...haha). Before break I decided to wait until after vacation to give our module 2 math test. I didn’t want to rush it. So, it was Monday afternoon and math was going downhill fast. Everyone was losing focus and I was starting to sweat. You know when you can see it in their eyes that they are zoning out, but you HAVE to get through what you are … [Read more...]
November in the Classroom
We did it! We survived October! This year, I feel like we deserve a medal for just surviving…What a year it has been and we are only just beginning. We are here in Connecticut, and we are currently using the Hybrid model. We have half our kids on M,T and half on TH,F….Wednesday everyone is virtually teaching/learning. The monkey wrench is that we have some kids who are "voluntarily at home learners" and we are trying to meet their … [Read more...]
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