Raise your hand if as soon as you announce to your students that they’ll be working in partners, they immediately look at their friend like this… Without fail, right? Long long ago {to assure that my kids weren’t always selecting the same partner} I created a set of cards to
We often tell our students to, “Be Kind.” But when I think long and hard about it…What am I doing to help teach my students how to be kind and empathetic? A Harvard Psychologist determined that children can grow up to be kind, empathetic human beings, if they are shown how
November always seems to be the time of year I begin to reflect on all the people and things in my life that I’m grateful for. {I probably should be doing it more frequently but November and Thanksgiving are the perfect excuse to get thinking!} I’ve rounded up my current
There is something about a countdown that really lights a little fire under little people! I wanted to use that motivation to create a game to help students review important Math skills. Cue the Jaws music…it’s time for Shark Attack! Shark Attack is a series of PowerPoint presentations that involve
One of the most frustrating parts of teaching kiddos to read {for me!} are those darn sight words! WHY is the English language so tricky? We drill into our students that these letters make this sound and those letters make that sound. But wait – those rules don’t apply to this
Growing up, I was definitely more of a reader than a math kid. I always had a book nearby to pull out & read when I had a few minutes. It would have never dawned on me to work on math problems, pull out a puzzle or even build something
