Helping Special Education Teachers Deliver Effective Interventions
I absolutely love math centers. If you’ve followed me for long, you already know that’s old news. A few weeks ago, I created a Christmas “Scavenger Hunt” to review basic computation. My students and I absolutely loved it, and it completely inspired a year round game to play in math centers. So far, I’ve used […]
Today’s post is 100% stolen from my husband. He teaches fourth grade, and has amazing ideas! I am constantly encouraging him to embark on a blogging journey of his own. Buuuut, since he won’t do it, I’ll totally hijack his good ideas! In his classroom, he teaches his entire social studies curriculum during the first […]
This past week, my kids and I have been dividing into the data world! By Friday afternoon, we were ready to practice finding the mean, median, mode, and range of various data sets. I “popped” a bowl of popcorn for each group of students, and handed them a recording page. The recording page required the […]
What do you think of when you hear the word ‘reflect’? I always think back to college. We had to write reflections after everything! It was tiring, and often seemed pointless. Now that I’m livin’ the dream, I realize that reflecting is a critical tool to becoming better each and every day. So how can […]
I don’t know about you, but the holiday season is TIGHT on the budget. I am always looking for ways to win over my kids without spending a small fortune. At our school, our students have 1:1 iPads. My husband said and his fellow fourth grade teaching partner always gave their students an iPad game […]
I’m excited to join the Focused on Fifth gang as we count down ’til the big day, Twelve Days of Christmas style! Today’s theme is all about holiday themed MATH! I absolutely love using holidays to incorporate word problems into instruction and spiral review. I have also loved giving my students the opportunity to create […]
