Thank you to Teaching with Blonde Ambition for honoring me with the “One Lovely Blog” award! Her blog is super awesome and is definitely worth checking out! There are a few simple rules to receiving this award: 1) Follow the person that…
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Mother’s Day is always fun to celebrate in the classroom. This year I decided that mothers might enjoy reading about some memories that their children hold dear to their hearts. My students wrote a few pages about memories with their…
Read More »As we continue our Geometry unit, I find that making lessons hands on is extremely beneficial. I have been using a lot of cooperative learning in my classroom, and students have had the opportunity to brainstorm ideas and work together…
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As part of our Charlotte’s Web unit, we did a mini lesson and reflected on the importance of writing possessive nouns correctly. After our lesson, students had to opportunity to work in pairs and transform sentences into possessive nouns. I…
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I’m trying to figure out fun ways to teach my students about the states of matter. We’re creating a states of matter book and conducting different experiments; however, something that I thought would be interesting for students to complete was…
Read More »I loved the lesson I completed recently with my kiddos on Making Inferences. We are reading Charlotte’s Web and we made inferences throughout chapters 4 through 7. We started off the lesson discussing the basics of making inferences and watching an…
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Solving word problems can be very tricky! It’s important to give students step to solve problems. In our classroom we use a simple strategy titled, “Give Me Five!” It’s modeled after some other word problem solving strategies, but I tailored…
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After discussing the famous saying, “April showers bring May flowers,” students were introduced to rainbows. We discussed why rainbows appear and the order of the colors of the rainbow. To celebrate the existence of rainbows we also read the story…
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You can check out my TpT store for a free download of my Literature Circle Printables. Here are some pictures of how I use the printables as guided practice. 🙂
Read More »I wanted to try a new way of showing students’ progress towards mastering their multiplication facts. Last year I made a board with ice cream cones, and every time students mastered a new fact they received a new ice cream…
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